Slingbox Gives Us Subservient Manslave

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Remember that Slingbox concept from so-long-ago-that-it’s-not-even-worth-the-recall? Apparently it’s still around, and in an effort to rekindle public interest in the whole control-your-TV concept, they’ve given us a stiff, somewhat unwilling human version of subservient chicken.

The options for what he can do are limited and, because he seems so unhappy about life, continuing to force him to Macarena and Frug stems from a quality of sadism and not actual voyeuristic interest.

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