My friend is right, tv is so bad right now it's like an art form

EyeballGrowth · 07.23.2006, 02:14 PM

Fucking SERIOUSLY. I wanna fucking rip my eyes out it's so bad. Right now my sister is watching a show on VH1 called " Show us your tats! " A half hour of television dedicated to celebrity tattoos. I really wish the US still did public tarring and featherings.

Пятхъдесят Шест · 07.23.2006, 02:15 PM

Appreantly, you are watching TV.

screamingskull · 07.23.2006, 02:16 PM

if i have kids im going to bring them up without tv. id love to raise them in a commune. thats would be amazing.
Tv has a bad effect on children its scientificly proven.

Пятхъдесят Шест · 07.23.2006, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by screamingskull

if i have kids im going to bring them up without tv. id love to raise them in a commune. thats would be amazing.
Tv has a bad effect on children its scientificly proven.

You could always move to Utah.

finding nobody · 07.23.2006, 02:18 PM

it's gotten really bad. i use to watch alot of tv before i had internet

but now i just rot my brain while at this place

Daycare Nation · 07.23.2006, 02:19 PM

I haven't watched TV since about 1994, except when I'm at my mom's.

screamingskull · 07.23.2006, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by ?????????? ????

You could always move to Utah.

are there lots of communes in utah?
i plan to move to the states when im older, but i want to be a proper hippie and have hippie kids with strange but beautiful names.

schizophrenicroom · 07.23.2006, 02:20 PM

most of tv is a trench in our cultural landscape, i agree, but there are some good, thought-provoking shows. battlestar galactica didn't have the strongest second season (it was divided into 2.0 and 2.5, most of 2.5 blew) but there's always topics they bring up that i sit and think about afterwards. lost could be a friggin' college class with all the analyzing you have to do to remember what the hell happened the last time they actually showed an episode. for sheer entertainment, the office is brilliant comedy and is THE best comedic show ("sitcom" is a horrible word) to come along in basically forever.

there's no excuse for vh1 or mtv, though. it's just horrible.

screamingskull- the commune thing is a neat idea. i'm too in love with big cities to ever do it, however.

Daycare Nation · 07.23.2006, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by screamingskull

are there lots of communes in utah?
i plan to move to the states when im older, but i want to be a proper hippie and have hippie kids with strange but beautiful names.

I think the Utah comment was a joke...That is where fundamentalist Mormons control everything and you can't even drink beer at a restaurant or buy it in some cities.

LifeDistortion · 07.23.2006, 02:24 PM

All the shows I like get cancelled, and all the shows that get hyped up by everyone almost never lives up to its hype.

screamingskull · 07.23.2006, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Daycare Nation

I think the Utah comment was a joke...That is where fundamentalist Mormons control everything and you can't even drink beer at a restaurant or buy it in some cities.

like a dry county?, that sucks. there are communes in the uk i could go to.

as for tv the only tv i will be watching tonight will be 'lost in translation' on Film4

Пятхъдесят Шест · 07.23.2006, 02:25 PM

Parts of Utah are almost as ass backwards as Kansas. They are very sincere about what they believe though.

You can become the 15th wife of a preacher in rural Utah and live on a commune. Is that hippie enough for you?

screamingskull · 07.23.2006, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ?????????? ????

You can become the 15th wife of a preacher in rural Utah and live on a commune. Is that hippie enough for you?

No, i want to live in a tent and eat strange food and take strange drugs and go to strange experimental shows and have friends called 'coyote' and 'moonbeam'.

finding nobody · 07.23.2006, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by screamingskull

No, i want to live in a tent and eat strange food and take strange drugs and go to strange experimental shows and have friends called 'coyote' and 'moonbeam'.

screamingskull · 07.23.2006, 02:35 PM

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more like this

Hip Priest · 07.23.2006, 02:45 PM

On the one hand, there have been some of my favourite new TV made in the past decade eg Life of Mammals, The Mighty Boosh, Lost; and also the continuation of existing favourites eg Time Team, Horizon,.

On the other hand, channels such as ITV seem to cosist entirely of 'bring a barrel' programming (ie if you bring a barrel, they'll happily scrape the bottom of it). THere's a lot more tosh around, but is that not merely because there are so many more channels, with so much more airtime to be filled?

It's possible to detect cause for optimism, though; in the UK we've had more good comedy in the past ten years than we've had for a long time, news coverage has improved and there have been some excellent TV dramas (eg almost anything Stephen Poliakoff writes, especially the twin peaks of Shooting the PAst and Perfect Strangers which rank in the highest pantheon of productions). Even Channel 5 are no longer a pile of shit: their recent series The Buildings that MAde Britain (or something similar) was excellent, as are their art documentaries.

And a special mention for Jonthan Meades, who when he presents Abroad In Britain manages to combime insight and humour splendidly.

Daycare Nation · 07.23.2006, 02:48 PM

Screamingskull, I think you want to live in America 40 years ago.

But yeah, communes sound cool. Politically speaking, I am closest to being an anarcho-communist, or some other form of Libertarian Socialism.

youthoftomorrow · 07.23.2006, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест

Parts of Utah are almost as ass backwards as Kansas. They are very sincere about what they believe though.

don't knock Kansas, man. i grew up there.

krastian · 07.23.2006, 03:19 PM

Six Feet Under we need you.

atari 2600 · 07.23.2006, 03:32 PM

The Sopranos
Huff
The Office
Late Night With David Letterman
The Shield
Weeds
Penn & Teller: Bulllshit!
Rescue Me
Entourage
NUMB3RS

07.23.2006, 02:14 PM	#1
EyeballGrowth the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 992	Fucking SERIOUSLY. I wanna fucking rip my eyes out it's so bad. Right now my sister is watching a show on VH1 called " Show us your tats! " A half hour of television dedicated to celebrity tattoos. I really wish the US still did public tarring and featherings.
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Пятхъдесят Шест invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Omaha, Nebraska, USA Posts: 3,063	Appreantly, you are watching TV.
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screamingskull invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: england Posts: 5,580	if i have kids im going to bring them up without tv. id love to raise them in a commune. thats would be amazing. Tv has a bad effect on children its scientificly proven.
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finding nobody invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,275	it's gotten really bad. i use to watch alot of tv before i had internet but now i just rot my brain while at this place
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Daycare Nation expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,904	I haven't watched TV since about 1994, except when I'm at my mom's. __________________ That dragon ain't the love sweet love.
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07.23.2006, 02:20 PM	#8
schizophrenicroom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: behind you Posts: 10,807	most of tv is a trench in our cultural landscape, i agree, but there are some good, thought-provoking shows. battlestar galactica didn't have the strongest second season (it was divided into 2.0 and 2.5, most of 2.5 blew) but there's always topics they bring up that i sit and think about afterwards. lost could be a friggin' college class with all the analyzing you have to do to remember what the hell happened the last time they actually showed an episode. for sheer entertainment, the office is brilliant comedy and is THE best comedic show ("sitcom" is a horrible word) to come along in basically forever. there's no excuse for vh1 or mtv, though. it's just horrible. screamingskull- the commune thing is a neat idea. i'm too in love with big cities to ever do it, however. __________________ fuck i'm frustrated, freaking out something fierce, would you help me? i'm hungry and i stuffer and i startle, i struggle and i stammer til i'm up to my ears in miserable quote unquote "art"
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LifeDistortion expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CA Posts: 2,457	All the shows I like get cancelled, and all the shows that get hyped up by everyone almost never lives up to its hype.
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07.23.2006, 02:25 PM	#12
Пятхъдесят Шест invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Omaha, Nebraska, USA Posts: 3,063	Parts of Utah are almost as ass backwards as Kansas. They are very sincere about what they believe though. You can become the 15th wife of a preacher in rural Utah and live on a commune. Is that hippie enough for you?
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Hip Priest invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Birkenhead Posts: 9,397	On the one hand, there have been some of my favourite new TV made in the past decade eg Life of Mammals, The Mighty Boosh, Lost; and also the continuation of existing favourites eg Time Team, Horizon,. On the other hand, channels such as ITV seem to cosist entirely of 'bring a barrel' programming (ie if you bring a barrel, they'll happily scrape the bottom of it). THere's a lot more tosh around, but is that not merely because there are so many more channels, with so much more airtime to be filled? It's possible to detect cause for optimism, though; in the UK we've had more good comedy in the past ten years than we've had for a long time, news coverage has improved and there have been some excellent TV dramas (eg almost anything Stephen Poliakoff writes, especially the twin peaks of Shooting the PAst and Perfect Strangers which rank in the highest pantheon of productions). Even Channel 5 are no longer a pile of shit: their recent series The Buildings that MAde Britain (or something similar) was excellent, as are their art documentaries. And a special mention for Jonthan Meades, who when he presents Abroad In Britain manages to combime insight and humour splendidly. __________________ Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. http://www.flickr.com/photos/outsidethecamp/
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Daycare Nation expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,904	Screamingskull, I think you want to live in America 40 years ago. But yeah, communes sound cool. Politically speaking, I am closest to being an anarcho-communist, or some other form of Libertarian Socialism. __________________ That dragon ain't the love sweet love.
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krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	Six Feet Under we need you. __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,213	The Sopranos Huff The Office Late Night With David Letterman The Shield Weeds Penn & Teller: Bulllshit! Rescue Me Entourage NUMB3RS
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