Posted on 04/12/2011 7:58:33 PM PDT by Doc Savage
I can’t believe this thread has gone this far without Frantzie’s rant against Saudi Arabian television.
Shows about hoarders are great motivation. My husband watched a couple of episodes with his mouth hanging open - he’d read about such things but he never imagined what it was really like. He’s always been something of a packrat. Shortly afterward, I suggested we put on a garage sale and I couldn’t believe the stuff he wanted to put out, stuff I never thought he’d let go. Those shows really got his attention.
Me too! I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve chosen a movie only to find out it’s about vampires. Like anything else that does well (Twilight) it will be/is copied ad nauseum.
I knew something was way wrong with television programming when noticed I was choosing a science channel above anything else on, then muting the sound and alternated reading the lips of the astrophysicists and geologists, and reading old sci-fi on my Kindle during the commercials. Life is indeed strange...
The only Dracula I’ve ever liked (besides the very first Bela Legosi - it’s a classic) is the Louis Jourdan! version that was a BBC special in the 70’s.
You can rent it from netflix but it’s not on streaming.
Terrible special effects, but very close to the book. Dracula was not a misunderstood sexy conflicted guy, he was a deceptive representative of pure evil who must be defeated.
If it had a theme, it was spiritual warfare. There are comments on the nature of faith and the soul, and Jesus Christ. Full of lines like the following:
Count: You think to defeat me with a cross?
Abraham Van Helsing: We guard ourselves from your touch.
Count Dracula: Using a cross as a talisman. A symbol of torture, and of humiliation.
Abraham Van Helsing: A symbol of trial, and trouble... by which our Christian Faith is tested.
I canceled my cable near the beginning of the month. I was waiting for them to shut it off but I got a full bill last Friday to pay for the next month in advance. I guess the company’s understanding of what “cut off my cable” means and mine differ. I’m interested to see how I react to being without tv in my life. Personally, I think I might snap but I’m going to give it a shot anyway. :)
Back when “Branded” was on “Mad” magazine did an excellent spoof of it.
Ditto!
LOL, me too
I never understood people, in the past, who didn't own a tv - I grew up in a heavy tv watching family - hours and hours.
Thing is, nowadays everything you could ever want to see or know (if you have high speed) is on the internet - now most everyone in my family (except Dad) is constantly on the internet in our respective homes- watching movies - tv shows without commercials - information - news - science - mechanical - how to.
I have books on how-to fix things and sets of Encyclopedias but haven't cracked those books in years - probably over a decade - because of the internet.
There's phone books we should throw out and those darn tv's - all 3 of them in the house....they are pretty much turned on for background noise in rooms (lousy radio signals) where the computer isn't
Should just wifi the whole house :>)
That's nice. I find it totally useless. If you spend a little time on FR every day, you already know everything and more that goes on FOX. There is absolutely nothing on that channel that cannot be obtained easily either from here or from listening to a little AM radio during the day. If there are any truly newsworthy clips (doubtful), they'll be posted here and on YOUTUBE.
When was the last time FOX had something on that you absolutely needed to see? We all know they are the worst at breaking news. Opinion? I've already got my own. I don't need help.
I like to spend any free time I have reading articles here on FR, or if I want I watch a movie. But truly, my goal is to not have a lot of "free" time. Free time to me is wasted time. I like to work. And then I like to rest up so I can work some more. To me, entertainment is overrated. I like to be the one doing things, not the one watching someone else do things. Ideally, by the time I get home (after 9pm), I'm spent. I'll brush my teeth, wash up, read a little and go to bed.
I just imagine what I'll think when I'm dying. Will I regret not watching more tv? Why waste time on fiction when reality is all around you? But that's just me. I do enjoy a good movie.
I am kinda that way too. Before bedtime I will never leave the kitchen with dirty pots and pans around and I pick up everything in the bedroom, clothes towels etc. I never thought of the “finding the body angle” but that may be it.
I had heard there were people who hoarded junk but I had no idea they were as sick as the program showed them to be. Also they have no shame. If your bathroom was full of used adult diapers because your water had been turned off and you could not flush your toilet, don’t you think you could figure out a solution to the problem? Yes, that was on one episode of Hoarders. It was stomach turning.
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