Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) is PISSING ME OFF

I can understand why OSN is spending probably millions of dollars giving out new receivers and dishes and subcontracting out satellite technicians.  They want people to stop stealing their signal.  In a few months, their technology will be outdated and people will start stealing their signals again.  In the meantime, you can't watch OSN until  you get the F-ing receiver and the F-ing dish.

I have had OSN technicians come to my house 2 times now.  They're here now.  They've been here for 3 hours - trying to figure out the system of my building.

WHY DOES EVERYTHING IN KUWAIT HAVE TO BE SO DIFFICULT????

They first told me that I would need a new dish.  Fine.  Bring the F-ing dish.  They brought it today.  Now, they are telling me that they can't configure their system to the system of the house because they can't figure out what goes where.

"Call the technician who installed the system"
I call my landlady.  She says she will call their guy.  ETA?  No idea. (as usual - it's Kuwait).

OSN dudes, "When the other technician comes, call us.  We'll come back."
oooooooh, I have lived in Kuwait long enough to know that game - really well.  I don't think so.  Fix it NOW.

So, I tell them to drop a cable from the top of the building (I give up).  If the land lady wants to change it, she can change it when her guy finally shows up - sometime around Christmas or maybe New Years (whichever is more inconvenient for me, I'm sure.)  She's going to be totally pissed off when she sees it.  Good.

I've been here for 2 years and I still can't even get a land line in my apartment.  Apparently, the house isn't registered with the place that issues civil IDs or some bullshit like that.  RRRRRRRRRRRRRR.  If I could get a land line, I could get DSL.  If I could get DSL, I wouldn't f-ing bother with OSN at all because they PISS ME OFF.

Oh, I told them to drill a hole through the window.  Now they are breaking the window frame instead.  What a bunch of A-holes!

So, they start to walk out with the new receiver and I DON'T HAVE ANY TV.  I don't think so.  'Put it back.'  I'm not going to be without television.  Dudes - you are supposed to FIX IT not appear and destroy.

October 13, 2010 OSN Saga Update

So last night, the nice Lebanese Satellite Dude (LSD) from the building owner's side came and looked at my set-up (TV/sat).  It was the ONLY time my Kuwaiti landlady has ever visited me inside the apartment in 2 years and wouldn't ya know it - The Man is sitting on the sofa in serwal (them thar long underwear pants that them thar Kuwaitis wear) and my big USA t-shirt.  Nice sat dude  looked at The Man and said (Arabic), "I'm sure I know you from somewhere.  I'm sure a police station...."  tee hee.  He didn't elaborate.  LSD went upstairs, wiggled a wire, and shazayam - TV again.  Then, he said, "Tell them disec 2 and Nilesat."   (Would someone please explain a "disec" to me.  WTF is that??)

So, OSN dudes came back this morning (3 days later) with the receiver under their arm, I told them 'disec 2 and Nilesat' and I got, "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!  Disec 2"  (whateverthefuck that means!).  Looked like their internal lightbulbs had switched on (albeit a 25 watter).   and shasayam - New OSN decoder works.

Nobody had to break a window.  Nobody had to throw a cable 5 floors from the roof.  Nobody died.

They were walking out the door with MY Humax decoder (which I bought in Hawalli), thinking that I wouldn't notice.  'Excuse me - not so fast...' and grabbed it back. They feigned innocence - as IF.    If its not an OSN receiver that you got from OSN, you don't give it to them.  They'll take it somewhere and sell it to the next guy.  I don't think so.