Post by: Wildalaska on March 03, 2005, 07:09:23 PM
but like I havent looked at a sitcom or one of the dramas of comedies or other crap that pasees itself off as entertainement in god knows how long.
Maybe Im strange, but to me the quality of programming has deteriorated...even Discovery Channel is leaning left (and I'm a moderate)
Wonder how they make any money, or are the bulk of americans just TV wATCHING IDIOTS...
cOME ON CONFESS TV watechers..
WildholdingbackhisextrmerudenessAlaska
Post by: Oleg Volk on March 03, 2005, 07:10:59 PM
Post by: Black92LX on March 03, 2005, 07:17:14 PM
Post by: Wildalaska on March 03, 2005, 07:21:11 PM
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I just watch forum mem...err, fish swimming round and round in a bowl.
Nice...why does that giimme a visual of that 50s sci fi flick Dr Cyclops....bunch of shrunken humans in a fish bowl, the giant sized mad scientist with the forceps, no o god hes tryiing to fish me out noooooooooooooooooooo
Notice though how even the miniature 50s chick being chased by the mad monster scientist has one of those 50 rocketship bras, know what I mean :twisted:
WildheyilikethisplaceAlaska
Post by: Taurus on March 03, 2005, 07:26:53 PM
Post by: Schuey2002 on March 03, 2005, 07:28:09 PM
Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Hi-Def.. Yummy!
Schuey_abouttobuyaHitachi51F150_2k2
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Edit: To prove that I watch "Le Tube", you can turn on any major new network and watch Martha pull a Midnight Run from prison..
Post by: spinr on March 03, 2005, 08:11:52 PM
Yep, I admit it. But I'm none the worse for it, really.
Yes, a lot of what's on is stupid and senseless, but it can be very entertaining.
It is what you make of it. For me it's nothing more than simple entertainment.; a break from reality.
True, though, that many Americans put too much belief, faith, what-have-you into television.
Post by: Guest on March 03, 2005, 08:12:00 PM
I used my '79 model 13" Sony with Rabbit Ears to watch a movie , a video - usually something related to School or Educational for me.
I dropped the TV and it broke. No plans to replace it any time soon.
Folks couldn't understand why I didn't pay for the TV when in the hospital, recovering at home...Commercials drive me nuts. More commercials than the actual show.
Even before my time was more filled than now attending College - I didn't watch it. I take IT classes, I use the computer and Internet for classes and everything else - including communicating with folks.
I used to keep my phone ringer off too. Folks would email me to get off dial up ISP. I don't really have a personal phone number now - so that little problem is even more less so.
I'd rather read, listen to the radio , music I like and use the PC and Internet.
Post by: Unisaw on March 03, 2005, 08:20:58 PM
Post by: spacemanspiff on March 03, 2005, 08:22:03 PM
some of the shows i enjoy are:
carnivale
arrested development
family guy
futurama
mail call
screen savers
king of the hill
that 70s show
law & order svu
reno 911
cops
the shield
24
to name but a few. i'm really only interested in following carnivale at the moment. most other times i just have the tv on cause theres not much else to do.
Post by: Wildalaska on March 03, 2005, 08:25:55 PM
WildgimmeyerTVAlaska
Post by: tarrigoni on March 03, 2005, 08:30:46 PM
I really liked Combat Missions the one season it was on.
Post by: Skunkabilly on March 03, 2005, 08:34:21 PM
Post by: Hawk on March 03, 2005, 08:34:59 PM
If I hear of something I'd probably like a buy the DVD's and watch without ads a year or two after everybody else.
The RT thread on favorite Firefly episode sent me googling after Firefly - hadn't previously heard of it.
Post by: spacemanspiff on March 03, 2005, 08:35:10 PM
Post by: S_O_Laban on March 03, 2005, 08:38:34 PM
Post by: Old Fud on March 03, 2005, 09:04:37 PM
First, I quit watching any of the major networks.
Then I quit watching any series -- didn't want to get locked to a schedule.
Then I only watched movies and occasional special events.
It just occurred to me that the only time I've had it on for the last 3 months was to watch a DVD.
Yet I got comcast -- I'm paying close to $90 a month for the "privilege" of extended basic TV plus a purty good computer hookup.
I may re-think my priorities and my economics over the next few months.
Fud
Post by: bratch on March 03, 2005, 09:19:39 PM
Post by: tarrigoni on March 03, 2005, 09:22:34 PM
Why can't you watch king of the hill? It's on FOX, isn't it?
Post by: Cool Hand Luke 22:36 on March 03, 2005, 09:49:09 PM
Post by: DustinD on March 04, 2005, 12:46:34 AM
Post by: Greg L on March 04, 2005, 01:34:16 AM
).We do have Tivo (which I wholeheartedly recommend for anyone who does watch tv) which is nice as it allows us to watch what we want when we want to. I never watch the shows during their "live" time slot. This way I can just blast through the commercials & a half hour show only takes 20 min. Plus I can pause if the dogs need to go out or the phone rings or nature calls. The only downside is that I've gotten so used to it (or watching/listening to video/audio clips on the internet) that when I'm listening to the radio I often find myself reaching for the remote to rewind what was just said as I missed it the first time
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Post by: one45auto on March 04, 2005, 03:25:51 AM
Post by: MaterDei on March 04, 2005, 04:32:05 AM
We still own a 13" TV but we only use it for watching movies together as a family or for educational type viewing (we homeschool). We don't have an antenna, dish, or cable.
Post by: mtnbkr on March 04, 2005, 05:32:27 AM
If I'm at my parents' house or at the Inlaws' house, I'll watch History or Animal Planet, but I'm not buying cable just for those two stations.
Chris
Post by: jamz on March 04, 2005, 05:51:42 AM
I try to regularly watch the Simpsons and football, but that's about it. Altough I did get a free Tivo and free service, so I record Mythbusters and even watch in now and then.
-James
Post by: outfieldjack on March 04, 2005, 06:02:31 AM
Post by: Dave Markowitz on March 04, 2005, 06:10:40 AM
I rot my brain on the Intarweb instead!
Post by: Stetson on March 04, 2005, 06:40:03 AM
CSI - All 3
Law and Order SVU
Mythbusters
There are other things my wife likes, but I couldnt tell you the name of them. I usually read when shes watching those.
Post by: Pebcac on March 04, 2005, 06:49:53 AM
CSI, Law & Order, Lost, Scrubs, and probably the new L&O: Trial by Jury. I'll watch AFV and The Simpsons if I catch them, but I don't bother to record them on the DVR. That's it for the broadcast networks. I also like the History channel and so forth, and I'm really digging the HBO series The Wire--but I'm watching that on DVD. I'm not about to pay for HBO every month.
I read a ton, too. If I had to pick--TV or books--the tube would go bye-bye.
Post by: Nightfall_MVII on March 04, 2005, 08:19:44 AM
All I watch (if I remember that it is on) is Modern Marvels, Mail Call, and Mythbusters. Thats it. I may actually watch one of these a week.
Post by: roo_ster on March 04, 2005, 09:45:06 AM
We have rabbit ears and get one channel clearly, another sorta clearly, and the rest are snow.
My wife watches a little and the only thing I watch is "Extreme Home Makeovers" with my wife. It is "This Old House" with an emotional hook.
I thought about re-hooking up the TV cable, but they want $40/mo for basic cable. No way, hoser.
We do have broadband cable for the home network. I can get my C-SPAN fix through that.
Post by: client32 on March 04, 2005, 10:29:00 AM
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No, but wish I could watch King of the Hill.
Move here, you would be very close to living King of the Hill.
Post by: Standing Wolf on March 04, 2005, 10:43:51 AM
Post by: crt360 on March 04, 2005, 10:55:56 AM
If I lived out in the country where I could just step out the back door and shoot something, I imagine I would watch TV a whole lot less.
Post by: Myself on March 04, 2005, 11:04:16 AM
Post by: Typhoon on March 04, 2005, 11:14:25 AM
I live at the bottom of a big hill, so when I moved in I had to get cable just to see much of anything. I justified it to myself that, at the very least, if I had to witness the end of the world, I could see it on C-SPAN and not the networks (and their silly commentary)&
Now isnt that a happy thought to end your Friday!!! Just your little ray of sunshine. Oh, wait, it is raining in Los Angeles again& :evil:
Post by: Sawdust on March 04, 2005, 11:42:31 AM
Lost
24
CSI LV
All in HD.
But I don't let the TV rule my schedule, as I have a DVR to record everything and then watch at my leisure sans commercials.
Sawdust
Post by: Jake on March 04, 2005, 01:14:17 PM
Post by: Schuey2002 on March 04, 2005, 01:33:17 PM
Hahahaha.
My niece and nephew are the same way. My sister will buy a DVD at Wally World and her kids will watch that thing over and over and over for days on end. I'll bet you anything that if I dropped everything and swung by her house right now, Finding Nemo would wrapping up, only to be started up again a minute later.
Post by: gbelleh on March 04, 2005, 05:27:33 PM
Mainly History Channel, Science Channel, South Park, Conan O'Brien, Myth Busters, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, What's New Scooby Doo, etc.
Sometimes I end up watching interesting shows that TiVo records on its own that I never would have watched otherwise. I'm trying to cut back!
Post by: lee n. field on March 04, 2005, 06:48:49 PM
I really don't watch TV. Most of it is either stupid, or vile, and a horrible waste of my precious time.
Post by: Wedge on March 05, 2005, 03:15:41 AM
Football season I sit in front of the TV for like 8 hours straight only to get up to get food or hit the john.
Post by: Darkmind on March 05, 2005, 11:59:05 PM
Post by: QuickDraw on March 06, 2005, 08:56:35 AM
I've been thinking about canceling.
I went about 2 years without TV,
read alot more books.
For what I pay for the service,I shouldn't have any commercials!!
QuickDraw
Post by: Mabs2 on March 06, 2005, 09:24:30 AM
At my dad's we watch TV, mostly movies.
But I'd rather pour over sites like WorldGuns.ru, and THR.
Post by: P5 Guy on April 13, 2005, 03:17:46 PM
Post by: brimic on April 13, 2005, 03:35:45 PM
Post by: theCZ on April 13, 2005, 04:35:55 PM
Reno 911
The Ali G Show
The Office (I watched the US version once and bought the UK season 1 on good reviews)
Trigun
Helsing
It saves me a lot of time. Oh, I do watch 5 minutes of news before I go to work in the mornings.
Post by: Modifiedbrowning on April 13, 2005, 05:28:43 PM
Post by: BryanP on April 13, 2005, 05:29:00 PM
Arrested Development
Scrubs
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
King of the Hill
I also record various things on The History Channel and watch them at my leisure. That's how I finally saw Band of Brothers.
Post by: ...has left the building. on April 13, 2005, 05:55:57 PM
BUT...I'm a flim-o-phile. I own over 130 DVDs and I watch probably at least 3 movies per week on average either from my collection, with my Blockbuster movie pass, or at the theatre.
Post by: Sean Smith on April 14, 2005, 04:42:44 AM
Post by: SpookyPistolero on April 14, 2005, 04:52:25 AM
However, if I didn't have cable internet I might freak. I use it for quite a lot these days, between spending way too much time around here and THR, research, news and email....yeesh...
Post by: SpookyPistolero on April 14, 2005, 04:53:26 AM
Post by: MaterDei on April 14, 2005, 04:56:40 AM
WA asked who REALLY doesn't watch T.V. I don't think any of us don't watch T.V. I, like many of you, watch T.V. very little. I don't have T.V. in my house. I did go to my father's house for the Super Bowl, that was the last time I watched T.V.
Post by: Tallpine on April 14, 2005, 06:18:26 AM
I never bought a TV after leaving home >30 yrs ago, even after getting married. We home-schooled our daughters through 8th grade and they got along fine for years without a TV.
In 1990, someone gave us a TV, and since the Gulf War was happening at that time we used it a lot to watch the news for a while. Even watched some of the "better" shows and old movies. The kicker came when we were watching The Sound of Music one Sunday afternoon, and the commercials were about some awful R rated movie that was going to be on at 11pm. Our girls were terrified because of course they only show the worst parts (nudity and violence) on the previews. After that we put the thing in the closet and didn't bother to take it with us when we moved to MT.
A year or two ago, at the insistence of my wife and daughters, we did buy one of those TV/VCR single units. We only use it to watch videos and we are starting to acquire a fair collection by getting the ones on sale for about $5. I must admit a fondness for the old John Wayne movies and stuff like that
It is kind of nice to watch movies on long winter evenings and cold snowy days, but this time of year I would just rather do something outside instead.We live way out in the hills so there is no TV reception at all and no cable service. The only way we could get it is with a satellite dish, which I have no desire to have.
Post by: wmenorr67 on April 14, 2005, 08:02:29 AM
NASCAR, football, college basketball, little bit of baseball, Law and Order (all of them), wrastling (WWE), NCIS, JAG (last one on the 29th) 
, American Chopper. FOX Newschannel. Too much sometime.
Post by: Antibubba on April 14, 2005, 12:00:02 PM
: I really don't miss it much. And I have more time for THR and books.
Post by: Standing Wolf on April 14, 2005, 05:21:48 PM
(I didn't realise this is a resurrected thread.)
Post by: jefnvk on April 14, 2005, 05:50:02 PM
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I mean, I watch some sports hit a movie, the history channel...
Me too, me too.Jefdangmeandwildgotsomethingincommonnvk
Post by: HForrest on April 14, 2005, 07:40:20 PM
Post by: Kingcreek on April 14, 2005, 07:49:12 PM
I won't let another one into the house.
I stop to visit my mother a couple times a week and I can't stand to be in the room with the TV on. she lives alone (widowed) and has it on at all times.
Mindless crap.
Post by: atek3 on October 23, 2005, 07:20:21 PM
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Post by: matis on October 23, 2005, 08:28:47 PM
Who knew? I used to go through phases. Get fed up with the cr@p on TV and sell it. 2-3 years later, I'd miss it and buy another one (they were black & white, 12 inchers IIRC). Then the cycle would repeat.
Until my daughter's 8th grade, we allowed TV only from tapes. We home-schooled her and didn't want the TV undoing what we were trying to instill. WE bought the tapes.
Now I have a 13 incher in my office and in the bedroom and a 25 incher in the LR. I'll buy HDTV when they come down to $2-300. I read the other day that the analog signal will be broadcast until around Dec '08 or Jan '09. I'll worry then.
For awhile my GFs son had us fixed up with some cable and I liked the history channel and loved watching the Airplane Channel -- love watching footage of WWII fighters and bombers and sech-like.
But she stopped paying and I wasn't going to pay for TV. So her son fixed us up with a roof antenna, wired to all the TVs in the house. hardly anything I want to watch, though, except the 6:30pm news. I like to swear at the TV, like my father did at the radio.
But she joined some DVD club for $9.95 month. She chooses movies from a list, they mail them; she mails them back afterwards.
Yesterday I watched THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL and really enjoyed it. They have old movies -- classics that the local Blockbusters don't. I watched a few Steve McQueen movies, some Sam Peckinpah. Got Straw-dogs on order.
Don't like much of todays stuff, though. They're shot through with the cultural rot and they are the main transmitter.
I just don't like todays movies, TV or the culture they're embedded in.
Guess that makes me a dinosaur or a Dodo bird.
I'm a very happy one, though.
matis
Post by: esheato on October 23, 2005, 08:40:52 PM
My problem is when I have TV, I don't move from the couch. Literally, I know I want to do things, but I won't get up to do them.
Since I quit TV I'm much more active (reading, outdoors stuff, travel, etc).
I was going crazy for the first couple weeks, but you find things to do. I still find myself zoning out when I watch it at my families.
Ed
Post by: El Tejon on October 24, 2005, 03:34:13 AM
I do watch television on the treadmill at the gym. They have those treadmills with the built in televisions--really cool. I usually put on CNN or The Hitler, er, History Channel, or CMT (have you seen these C&W chicks like that Faith Hill chick. Whoa! I hate that alleged "music" but my goodness see her, that will get the heartrate going!!!).
My mother tapes "Closer to Home" and send it to me. It's about this DPA in Indy. She calls and asks me how accurate it is. Yes, that's part of my exciting bachelor life. My parents need to travel more!:D
Post by: Guest on October 24, 2005, 07:57:18 AM
My mom has turned into a remote control junkie - and thermostat tweaker.
Turn off that damn TV preacher you are sleeping to. I came to check on you or fix some piddly ass major catastrophe, like the batteries for the remote for the bedroom TV are out.
I can mention it is 100*F and that night it is "supposed to cool off some". That means with dual blaring TV Preachers you are supposed to turn the thermostate to heat. Maybe you are supposed to scramble eggs on the kitchen table...I dunno.
I "was" going to visit with a classmate once, I had the notes, and the idea of studying was the reason for me being there. I left 5 minutes later. " You figure it out, here are the notes, I cannot hear myself think in here".
Explained why they always bitched about not having an outfit ready to wear, getting something cooked to eat before 11pm - meaning they felt bad, couldn't sleep, and had nothing to pack a lunch with the next day.
They knew all sorts of stuff like who was married to who in Hollywood, who was getting divorced, and other valuable bits of information. Had no idea who Caesar was, only a history class...not important I guess.
Post by: Strings on October 24, 2005, 12:00:04 PM
Wow... I agree with the pink shoe guy... > : )
Post by: Agent P on October 24, 2005, 12:38:33 PM
Desperate Housewives, Seinfeld (unless baseball is on then I watch Sex in the City), Crossing Jordan, NCIS (haven't seen any of season 2 yet, dance class interfers), The Office, and 24.
There was an interesting program on PBS not long ago about Helen of Troy, and last night was a da Vinci show. They were building his hang glider and a huge crossbow. I like the shows where they build a trebuchet or catapult, usually in Scotland, and hurl stones at a wall.
Post by: grampster on October 24, 2005, 01:10:27 PM
Post by: Guest on October 24, 2005, 01:10:46 PM
One day I watched a show on the history of fasteners which was pretty interesting. I'm a nerd like that.
Post by: grampster on October 24, 2005, 02:34:02 PM
Ahh, I don't watch much TV. A little news now and again for comedy relief. The weather channel to remind me that being cold in Michigan for 11 1/2 months is better than getting blown into the next county down south. Once in a great while a sitcom so that I can see what people are doing in the real world. And then a police procedural from time to time so I know that the Falcon of Justice still prevails.
I like to read and bloviate on the boards. Then I squeeze a little politics in on the side. Being active in one's community is fun when one has a sack of burrs that can be placed strategicaly in order to deflate a little ego and the puncture the cliquishness that happens in rural areas.
Post by: Standing Wolf on October 24, 2005, 02:47:17 PM
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Post by: Guest on October 24, 2005, 04:02:38 PM
TV kills braincells faster than any substance know to man. Reality tv?? Utter *expletive deleted*it. I wanna kill braincells, i spend some quality time with my good friend Mr. Daniels
Post by: Guest on October 24, 2005, 04:49:07 PM
Talk about killing brain cells!!
All I want to do is get something to eat, visit. study with classmates, or use the computers in there. I can eat and drink while reading online texts in there, I cannot in the IT lab.
At my former college we had this as well. They also had - get this - some rooms down a hallway so instructors and students could watch Soap Operas. Seriously, different rooms tuned to different ones. Folks actually arranged schedules around Soap Operas. Oh...they also had recorded various Reality shows in case you missed one.
I once "was" considering a particular instructor for a class. I was going to meet them and visit in regard to the following semester. When I found out they were in one of these rooms watching a soap...hence the reason they 'forgot' our scheduled meeting...
I chose another instructor and it worked out better - oh so much better. Been nice to have had day classes as originally thought...night ones worked out to be serious instructors, and students, who understood the value of an education.
Smartest thing was changing Colleges.
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on October 24, 2005, 05:17:43 PM
Post by: Art Eatman on October 25, 2005, 05:16:04 AM
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Post by: w turner on October 25, 2005, 08:32:45 AM
Besides, using rabbit ears, I can get all the major networks plus PBS. PBS is great, kinda like a poor man's Discovery/Animal Planet/History Channel. I miss some of the more educational channels, miss CMT something fierce as it is great to have it playing in the background when helping out with the inside housework. Most of the series I can't see I can get on DVD and we are seriously considering NetFlix so I can watch old seasons of The Shield and Deadwood.
We watch quite a bit of TV, but I am usually reading a book and hitting the MUTE button when commericals come on. Really helps with my ADD.....lol.
We like most of the newer series........all three CSI-although New York is taking some getting used to and David Caruso is REALLy starting to get on my nerves, House is great just to see what he will do/say next, Lost is tied with Alias as my wife's favorite show, ER is a good fill in while folding laundry. Fall weekends are college football time. I actually sit down to watch while Alabama is playing, everybody else is background noise as are pro games on sunday.
W
Post by: lee n. field on October 25, 2005, 02:02:19 PM
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Who really doesnt watch TV?
I really don't watch TV. Very darn little of it.
Post by: Stickjockey on October 26, 2005, 10:15:24 AM
News makes Mrs. Stick look like Eddie from the Iron Maiden album covers, and she starts cussing at the set; scares Hell out of Stick Jr.
I do reccommend Netflix if you watch movies at all, or want to get some of the series.
Post by: Strings on October 26, 2005, 01:58:53 PM
WHY am I suddenly thinking of Bill Cosby's description of his wife having a coniption fit?
Post by: Stickjockey on October 27, 2005, 01:53:14 PM
We just read that review of B. Boxer's new novel (no stereotyping there, eh, Ms. Lefty?); she's desperately trying to prevent herself from putting a butcher knife through the monitor.
Post by: Strings on October 27, 2005, 06:22:26 PM
Tell the Missus I said hi! She sounds a LOT like Spoon (who doesn't read much of the legal stuff here, because we can't afford a new moniter every week or so)...