tv is utter crap

[jim.cox]

Just had knee surgery and have to stay at a girlfriend’s house as I have 3 flights of stairs to my apartment. Friend has a TV. I have never owned a TV in my life and I NEVER WILL. If it is possible, they have managed to dredge up even worse diabolical crap, than I last remember, for viewers.

Jesus wept – the stuff is an insult to one’s intelligence. Be buggered if I know how people can just sit here and ingest that shite. I have been at the computer (when possible) with back to the TV – however I wish I was deafer than what I am already! Lol.

My sympathies to you...

Get yourself a wee DVD player and at least you have choice of content

Plus if you ask CooneyR nicely he might lend you a great DVD he has of hooning around Northern Scanadavia by a guy called NorrLand

[idb]

Can't say I agree with you all on this I'm afraid.
Why, just last night, a fascinating programme called "Family Forensics" came on.
The premise was that the father came home and announced to his family that they were all to move out of the house immediately where they would be limousined to a fancy hotel for two days.
They weren't allowed to take anything with them at all.

Whole they were away a crack forensics team moved in and went over the house from top to bottom.
They were to build up a profile of the family and the individuals within it and especially they were to '...find some secrets...'.

Now you just don't get better tv than that!!!!
Unfortunately I had to go to bed after five minutes because I had an itchy knee.

[Mikkel]

Thats what the History channel, Discovery and Nat Geo are for, to learn something useless from the box instead of dumbing down the brain cells on tripe...

Once... it was like that. Now 10 out of 9 programs on those channels follow a very strict template with breaks to air commercial for other programs based on the same template.

And what I can't fucking stand about it these days is the amount of forced enthusiam and sensationalism they manage to stuff in there. It's no longer a sober educational programme... no, it's hype, pretense and "what if"s.

National Geographic might still be a bit better - but haven't seen it for a couple of years. Discovery has certainly gone down the drain.

[BarBender]

Long live the Food Channel!