its true, i saw it on TV!!!!!!!

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http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/psychic_witness/psychic_witness.html

The channel is TLC, and if you check their website, it doesn't seem to mention that its supposed to stand for The Learning Channel (or at least it did at one time).

The show on right after this one was "Mostly True Stories", seemed to be pretty much the same crap.

They had people doing interviews, who apparently were connected to the crimes in the show. For example lead police detectives, family members.....
Paid actors?

This is just another speed bump on the road to not being a moron (moran?).............maybe we should just give up.:faint:
 
Huntster said:
I don't watch TV.
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Who asked you? Maybe you should...you obviously have plenty of free time for threads that you have absolutely no interest in reading, and nothing to add to (troll). Any reply to this post from you will prove my point even further.

The Learning Channel and The Discovery Channel have definitely gone woo in recent years, so much so that their credibility with me on their "real" shows and documentaries is now in question. Most disheartening.
 
Huntster said:
I don't watch TV.
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I don't milk rats. What's your point?

Nevermind. I know. You think it makes you superior to people who do in some strange way. It doesn't. And going out of your way to say so makes you pretentious.

People who claim they don't watch television are like people who claim they don't masturbate: they do it far more than they are admitting to.
 
Glite said:
http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/psychic_witness/psychic_witness.html

The channel is TLC, and if you check their website, it doesn't seem to mention that its supposed to stand for The Learning Channel (or at least it did at one time).

The show on right after this one was "Mostly True Stories", seemed to be pretty much the same crap.

They had people doing interviews, who apparently were connected to the crimes in the show. For example lead police detectives, family members.....
Paid actors?

This is just another speed bump on the road to not being a moron (moran?).............maybe we should just give up.:faint:
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Actually, 'Mostly True Stories' should be written with a question mark. It's one of the brighter spots in their wasteland, though I think they're only doing re-runs. The full title is Urban Legends: Mostly True Stories? (At least, if it's the one I'm thinking of) and they do a pretty good job of showing why Urban Legends persist, and actually answering whether or not they could be true.

They aren't as direct as Mythbusters, but the episodes I saw were pretty decent.
 
Huntster said:
I don't watch TV.
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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television
CHAPEL HILL, NC–Area resident Jonathan Green does not own a television, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers–as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.

"I'm not an elitist," Green said. "It's just that I'd much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen."
 
I don't watch TV either cos the ads tend to make me angry. DVDs, however, are great.

Not that I have anything to add here either.
 
Huntster said:
I don't watch TV.
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I love TV. I'm sorry that you're too self-righteous to do the same, but it takes all types to make a forum. But this has been beaten to death by now...

Mongrel said:
Yeah, over here in the UK the "Discovery: Science" channel seems to be a non-stop flood of Paranormal claims, crop circle investigations and wacky Ancient civilisation theories. :(
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That's funny cuz over here Discovery Science seems to be the least woo-oriented of stations. They seem to actually play shows that are about discoveries, in science. No paranormal crap. There's been a new show on from Canada called "How's It Made?" that shows film clips of every-day products being assembled by assembly-line machines. I was especially delighted by Discovery Science last fall when they aired 13 weeks of Cosmos, every Tuesday.

TLC is undoubtedly the worst. It's irresponsible for them to play the shows that they do and then have the audacity to include the word "Learning" in their name.

The plain old Discovery Channel has some shows recently that I've found to be actually entertaining, in a good way. There was one show (can't remember the name of it offhand) that looked like a woo show but then turned out to be quite the opposite. I seem to remember the series first airing early last year. There was one about crop circles, another about the moonlanding hoax and one involving Nostradamus, but I can't remember any others. I think Penn and Teller (and possibly Randi) were on one or more?

The format of the show was such that it started out playing to a woo-mentality. It wasn't until after the first or second commercial that you discovered that they were going to present some objectivity and leave the viewer to make their own decision by the end.
 
one of the things i was unable to find out was who was making the show "psychic witness". my belief would be the psychics who are interviewed on the show, because i remember reading that the nostradamus show was made by one of the "experts" interviewed on the show.
 
Glite said:
The channel is TLC, and if you check their website, it doesn't seem to mention that its supposed to stand for The Learning Channel (or at least it did at one time).
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Their name is still officially The Learning Channel, I think, but they long ago stopped advertising themselves that way. They now only refer to themselves as TLC.
 
Krash said:
That's funny cuz over here Discovery Science seems to be the least woo-oriented of stations. They seem to actually play shows that are about discoveries, in science. No paranormal crap. There's been a new show on from Canada called "How's It Made?" that shows film clips of every-day products being assembled by assembly-line machines. I was especially delighted by Discovery Science last fall when they aired 13 weeks of Cosmos, every Tuesday.
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Discovery Science has become my "default" channel: if there's nothing else on, I can usually find something interesting there. "SurvivorMan" rocks.

My only beef with them is that they show ads by "Dr." James Chapele who claims to have a cure for diabetes. He's a chiropractor and a naturapath. Pure woo.
 
I used to have Sky TV here in the UK, and the only channels worth watching were the History Channel and the Discovery Channel. The History channel should be christened "The All-Hitler Channel - all Hitler, all the time!" Like wise the Discovery Channel has become something of a figure of fun...

"I watch hours of the Discovery Channel, just ask me anything about sharks or Nazi's."

No matter what channel it is, they all end up pandering to the lowest common denominator in the end.
 
tsg said:
"SurvivorMan" rocks.
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I LOVE SurvivorMan. You can always tell when it's on, because the phrase "Oh, that poor man!" is uttered about once a minute.

I don't think I've learned anything useful about surviving if I am abducted by a camera crew and dumped in the woods, but watching the guy suffer these various indignities, and occasionally overcome them, is bizarrely compelling.
 
UrsulaV said:
I LOVE SurvivorMan. You can always tell when it's on, because the phrase "Oh, that poor man!" is uttered about once a minute.

I don't think I've learned anything useful about surviving if I am abducted by a camera crew and dumped in the woods, but watching the guy suffer these various indignities, and occasionally overcome them, is bizarrely compelling.
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I have learned:
numerous ways to start a fire
how to make/close a tent flap without cutting it
how to make a needle and thread in the desert
never to go anywhere without my Leatherman

How much of it is useful is a different question....
 
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