{"id":2389,"date":"2007-04-25T21:58:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T02:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2007-04-25T21:58:54","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T02:58:54","slug":"i-need-rehab-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2389","title":{"rendered":"I Need Rehab (Defined)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>DVD Addiction is a fairly common problem in today&#8217;s society. The DVD addict is easily able to feed his or her addiction because of the ridiculously short distance between said addict and the DVD retailer (hereafter referred to as &#8220;the dealer&#8221;). The DVD junkie is attracted to &#8220;the dealer&#8221; primarily because or his\/her love of film, but also lured with promises of &#8220;special features&#8221; and &#8220;technological advances&#8221;. The addict initially only wants a few films for his\/her small collection; but in due time he\/she will return to &#8220;the dealer&#8221; for more &#8220;hits&#8221; (such as &#8220;The Godfather Trilogy&#8221; and &#8220;Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs&#8221;) and is soon hooked. Telltale signs of the addict include frequent bitching about pan and scan, habitual visits to Best Buy on Tuesdays (&#8220;new release day&#8221;, in street slang) and an unhealthy longing for a 100 inch widescreen HDTV and a massive Dolby Digital\/DTS decoder and speaker setup with 6.1 EX and ES capability. Late in the addiction, the sanity of the addict will deteriorate; he\/she will make illogical purchases of bad films like &#8220;Bring It On&#8221; because &#8220;the 1.85\/1 Anamorphic transfer is sparkling and it has some nice extras&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There are amazingly no rehab clinics yet available for these sad and pathetic beings. The only way to stop a DVD addict from self destruction is to change the nature of the addiction by giving them something less addicting for a short while (like &#8220;crack&#8221; or heroin). Once the addict is fully recovered, ease them back into the realm of consumer electronics slowly; addiction recovery can be a painful thing! Eventually, visit a well known &#8220;dealer&#8221; with the former addict on a Tuesday; if he\/she does not go into a psychotic frenzy and start grabbing DVDs off the shelves, you should feel proud and congratulate yourself for saving the world from the clutches of another DVD addict.<\/em><br \/>\n[via Franke and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node_id=1246257\"><strong>Everything2<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DVD Addiction is a fairly common problem in today&#8217;s society. The DVD addict is easily able to feed his or her addiction because of the ridiculously short distance between said addict and the DVD retailer (hereafter referred to as &#8220;the dealer&#8221;). The DVD junkie is attracted to &#8220;the dealer&#8221; primarily because or his\/her love of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-Cx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}