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

[Mongrel]

Krash - Over here the 'How it's made' series is shown on the plain old Discovery Channel, every couple of months they have an entire day devoted to it Plain Discovery also gets the Celebrity 'aren't machines great' programmes; Bruce Dickinson on Planes, Mark Williams plays with Steam Engines and tours Britain explaining the Industrial Revolution, Chris Barrie loooks through the history of vehicles etc..

Oh, and as for the History Channel, whenever I flick past it's nearly always WWII and occasionaly the Ermine Street Guard

 

[Soapy Sam]

I don't watch TV.-Huntster

Who asked you? Maybe you should...schplurg


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.-tsg

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television- Harrykeogh

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.-Krash

Yeah, but, you are aware that there's an invention called television, and on this invention they show shows, right?-LordoftheLeftHand


Hmm- This seems a pretty scathing bunch of responses to the simple statement "I don't watch TV". Is there some reason for this?

 

[gnome]

Hmm- This seems a pretty scathing bunch of responses to the simple statement "I don't watch TV". Is there some reason for this?

Damn right, not watching TV is un-American he's probably a closet commie

 

[valis]

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.

This reminds me of something similar that a friend and I observed. She was a fan of The Miami Dolphins (American football) and also enjoyed opera. When she discussed opera people would be impressed with her intelect; when she discussed the Dolphins people considered it average blue collar slob recreation. Yet both involved knowing a bunch of useless crap (opera plots, football rules) that had no application except in enjoying a specilized spectator activity.

Why would one make you superior and the other not?

 

[tsg]

I don't watch TV.-Huntster

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.-tsg



Hmm- This seems a pretty scathing bunch of responses to the simple statement "I don't watch TV". Is there some reason for this?

Yes. And I thought I was pretty clear why.

Imagine you're in your favorite pub having a drink with a friend, idly talking about a television show you saw the other night, when a guy you don't know from two seats away butts into the conversation to blurt out "I don't watch TV". What possible reason could he have for doing this except to say "I'm better than you". I don't know about you but I find it incredibly offensive.

The short answer is: No less reason than he had for barging into a conversation that he, by his own admission, couldn't possibly have anything to add to.

 

[Z]

Well, I don't watch TV anymore, either. I do, however, own innumerable DVDs and watch them quite often - when I'm not busy playing computer games and posting at JREF.

As a rule, I make it a point never to buy a DVD of something I haven't watched. As such, that means I just don't watch modern crap TV - cable or otherwise. Does that make me superior? I don't really think so. In fact, my inability to adapt to changing times and styles should be seen as a point of inferiority - not superiority.

I do watch TV shows, however - we own multiple episodes of "The Lucy Show", "The Andy Griffith Show", "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Petticoat Junction", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", and "Saturday Night Live".

I'll subscribe to cable again if/when they'll let me pick and choose my individual channels.

Huntster, however, is probably too busy burying his nose in Catholic propaganda and Bigfoot wooery to figure out how to turn on that thar new-fangled telly-vishun set (but can post to an Internet forum?---Shaddup, you!)

 

[sat556]

There it is! I was looking for a link to this Psychic Witness thing last night after I saw it. I hadn't realised it was on TLC though. Teach me to pay attention to the channel I choose I suppose.
The woman on there first was called Rosemary Kerr IIRC and the way the program went on about her I figured there had to be something about this on line, but I couldn't find a thing! Maybe my rubbish Googling? Who knows.
The program was so biased towards this all being real I found myself getting more and more frustrated so that I didn't watch the second part. The woman in the first half even tape recorded the interview with this Kerr, yet did we hear it? Did we hell. We got snippets that happened to fit what was being mentioned. I would have loved to hear the whole thing, just to see exactly how accurate she was/n't. Zero objectivity in that show, I will not be watching again. it's no fun watching woo crap if you can't pull it to bits is it?
I also think that Discovery Science is fab, it's Discovery Civilisation that's full of woo, although they do show Critical Eye amongst it all.

 

[dogbite666]

I don't watch TV.

good for you!

 

[phildonnia]

Well I got the worst of both worlds. I don't have cable, so I'm missing out on all this TLC and Hitler channel stuff, but I watch crap on the air, so I can't claim the cultural high ground.