CHAT A few observations about TV while channel surfing

[psychrn]

I wanted to share a few thoughts I have had recently; nothing profound, mind you

- William Devane, in his commercials for buying gold as a hedge against inflation, really cracks me up. There is one where he says about buying gold "I even like the feel of it"; I almost LOL when he says it.

- Sanjay Gupta, CNN "Medical Expert", has the most disturbing facial expressions, I can't even look at him sometimes, I have to switch channels. His facial expressions are unnerving.

- The number of mixed-race ads has exponentially increased. The number of ads with light skinned, kinky haired children has dramatically increased. Coiled hair children must be in exceptionally high demand.

That is all.

 

[Normallguy]

Doesn't sound like I'm missing anything important.
Have not watched in over 10 yrs.

 

[Groucho]

Thanks for taking one for the team.

 

[night driver]

Anyone who has not held a piece of honest gold money has no clue as to what Devane is talking about.

It certainly DOES feel (special) different.

 

[David Nettleton]

Almost one-half of a program now consists of commercials on msm. Also, remember the complaints of jacked up volume of commercials three or four years ago? FCC started getting enough complaints and ordered the tv stations to keep the volume of commercials down. This past year I have noticed that the commercial volume is way way up again.

 

[lauri60]

Got rid of our TV 20 years ago, don't miss it. If I want to see something bad enough, can usually find it online some where.

 

[cyberiot]

Anyone who has not held a piece of honest gold money has no clue as to what Devane is talking about.

It certainly DOES feel (special) different.

So does silver--it warms quickly in the hand and feels almost alive. Sounds different, too--drop a copper-sammich dime and a silver dime on the kitchen counter. One makes a clunk, and the other makes music.

 

[Red Baron]

Almost one-half of a program now consists of commercials on msm. Also, remember the complaints of jacked up volume of commercials three or four years ago? FCC started getting enough complaints and ordered the tv stations to keep the volume of commercials down. This past year I have noticed that the commercial volume is way way up again.

Just for the mind-numbing quantity of commercials, I tune in to almost no commercial TV or radio now.

Plus the sound quality of TV and radio is universally abysmal now. Commercial producers use a lot of "compression" to get the maximum continuous volume. Computers now can eliminate pauses in music and speech. This also results in speeding up the commercial by about 10% allowing them to add more "information" in a given time.

 

[bev]

Almost one-half of a program now consists of commercials on msm. Also, remember the complaints of jacked up volume of commercials three or four years ago? FCC started getting enough complaints and ordered the tv stations to keep the volume of commercials down. This past year I have noticed that the commercial volume is way way up again.

Yep, DH and I have to hit the mute button as soon as the show breaks for a commercial. It’s infuriating. And we generally are watching something other than msm, like Hulu mostly.

Also seeing more commercials with Spanish speakers.

 

[zeker]

I speak to a lot of folks when I am at the hwy selling my wares

I tell them, I live in a small cabin without running water or tv

I point to the homemade knives and tell them

"if I had a tv.. none of these knives would be here"

tv sucks the brain rite outta ya

 

[texkat72]

One of the things that bothers me most, these days is that I can’t understand a word some actors are speaking. They obviously do not go to diction classes anymore. Yes, I’m getting older and can’t hear as good, but I can watch old black and white and early color tv and understand every word.
And don’t EVEN get me started on the sound effects and music! Waaaaayyyy louder than the talking.

 

[greysage]

Seeing an ad with only White people in it now is almost shocking when I see it. Saw a boat brochure, only had white people, no curly haired light darkies. My first thought was like, wow that’s refreshing, and then, some advertising person will be out of work for not having half Whites or poc displayed.

 

[Melodi]

What I find the most appalling is something I think Americans are probably so used to (if they watch regular TV) that they no longer even notice and that is the insane commercials for branded, prescription drugs.

That was just getting started when I got married and moved overseas 26 years ago but now it is just so over-the-top it isn't even comical anymore.

We get to see these anytime there's a major disaster in the US (like the California fires or the recent hurricane) and local news stations and networks "allow" those of us over here to watch their news feeds.

I suspect the new technology that ends pauses between words and sentences make these even worse, but they really are pretty disgusting and I can't see how they would convince anyone to "ask their doctor" about anything."

Oh and those adverts that were not for drugs or hospital clinics tended to be for pay-day loans or "improve your credit score."

I'm not sure exactly what message this sends, but it looks odd when you live someplace where most of the commercials on TV are still at least for actual products like a washing machine, Kerry Gold Butter, or the latest car.

The UK (and Ireland to a degree) used to be full of adverts for "get a pre-approved loan" to re-do your kitchen always featured real stereotypes of "working class" people; those adverts mostly went away when the governments cracked down on super-predatory lending, too many bankruptcies from loans at 1000 percent interest type stuff.

 

[Melodi]

Seeing an ad with only White people in it now is almost shocking when I see it. Saw a boat brochure, only had white people, no curly haired light darkies. My first thought was like, wow that’s refreshing, and then, some advertising person will be out of work for not having half Whites or poc displayed.

I mentioned in another thread, I'd noticed a trend on UK TV (which is most of what we get here) for nearly EVERY single commercial to have a mix-raced family and by that, I mean black father, white mother, and mix-raced kids.

Even though if you were going to do a real representation of people in the UK, you would get families from different backgrounds (especially "Asian" both Hindu and Muslim) not a few Chinese, black people with Island accents and African ones (as well as educated British English), along with folks from Wales, Scotland, Yorkshire, Ulster etc with regional accents.

You would also get not a few Chinese, and probably more if they can get out of Hong Kong and take up the offer of UK citizenship.

And after several hundred years of the empire, you do have lots of mixed marriages, and those can and a good advertiser would show them. But they are not all Black Husband/White Wife - they are often Asian wife/husband White or Black husband/wife; Chinese husband/White or Black Wife, etc.

Then there was the military that got in serious kimchi when they did a recruiting poster that was so "woke" it had NO White people on it at all - in a recruiting poster for the British Army!

 

[twobarkingdogs]

TV like anything else is a tool which you have to use to your advantage.

There are lots of good shows to watch you just need to hunt them out.

If you just keep the TV on 24x7 and watch live whatever they want to feed you then you will see stuff programmed to the lowest of society.

I haven't seen a commercial in years. The streamers have a lot of good shows available and you can watch the show in the flow it was meant to be seen and not just 1 episode a week. I'm currently watching a show called Away about a space mission to Mars. Only 2 episodes in but so far its very well down, focuses a little to much on family drama and not science but it is what it is. After I finish this show I plan on watching The Man in the High Castle

Again I use TV as a tool to keep myself entertained. Like a library will have both good books and bad tv is the same way. Just watch the good

tbd

 

[Illini Warrior]

if you aren't aware - there's "complaint" filing companies in operation - watching just about everything broadcasted >>> and the minority advocate organizations are HUGE customers - that mentioned boat ad with only white people portrayed >>> BURIED WITH COMPLAINTS FILED

 

[abby normal]

The new Jake from State Farm is doing commercials with pro football players. Jake's arms are bigger than the pro athletes! Dude's got some muscles , lol. It's almost obscene.

Some commercials are amusing but most are not... the commercials for the HIV prep meds are the ickiest thing I've ever seen. We are so doomed.

 

[chumly2071]

Anyone who has not held a piece of honest gold money has no clue as to what Devane is talking about.

It certainly DOES feel (special) different.

I get close enough with my lead ingots when casting projectiles for reloading... Close enough on the periodic chart, anyway...

 

[Catnip]

Just for the mind-numbing quantity of commercials, I tune in to almost no commercial TV or radio now.

Plus the sound quality of TV and radio is universally abysmal now. Commercial producers use a lot of "compression" to get the maximum continuous volume. Computers now can eliminate pauses in music and speech. This also results in speeding up the commercial by about 10% allowing them to add more "information" in a given time.

Commercials are also getting more stupid and the stupid ones are the ones that play the most. For instance, the one where the woman turns on the kitchen faucet and water spurts everywhere. It comes on thousands of times a day. I have never bought any of the products advertised on TV.

 

[ioujc]

I didn't have TV for over twenty years. Then had to tolerate it when the scum buckets lived here>>>>

Now, has been almost 3 years again of peace and quiet.

If I NEED to watch something, I can usually get it on line somehow.....

Have all I need and want with my computer and can watch movies and enjoy documentaries...

 

[Randy in Arizona]

Doesn't sound like I'm missing anything important.
Have not watched in over 10 yrs.

In the early to mid 80s I lived in a 'fringe' TV area.
Picture quality was so horrible I could not bear to watch it.
Even now I will watch movies on the 'tube but not regular broadcast Bravo Sierra!



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[PghPanther]

TV is full of non-Whites and mystery meats.........and Whites all happy with their Hispanic, Black and Asian friends or neighbors..............it is a kumbaya indoctrination that should be apparent to any White person that grew up in the 50 and 60s that we will soon be Brazil 2.0 with the hunt for clean running water and working sewage as a reality someday.

The thing that brother me the most is the race mixed idea................if some people want to do that then let them.......but don't promote it..............

Nothing is more saddening to me that a White woman with that marvelous and rare northern European heritage of blond hair and blue eyes losing that pedigree with that kinky hair and African facial feature mixed race off springs not to mention a drop in mean IQ for most of them..............

And it was all done covertly without ever asking the legacy citizens of this country of what future of their own choosing they wanted.

 

[Walrus Whisperer]

Seeing an ad with only White people in it now is almost shocking when I see it. Saw a boat brochure, only had white people, no curly haired light darkies. My first thought was like, wow that’s refreshing, and then, some advertising person will be out of work for not having half Whites or poc displayed.

The company knows which side it's bread is buttered on.

 

[Illini Warrior]

when TV does show a black family - when was the last time you saw a "Good Times" commercial or TV family for that matter? - that TV show even tho now dated is a whole lot closer to reality - the Jeffersons spin off of that same era got laughs because of the black on white insults and not the reality ....

 

[Walrus Whisperer]

Seeing an ad with only White people in it now is almost shocking when I see it. Saw a boat brochure, only had white people, no curly haired light darkies. My first thought was like, wow that’s refreshing, and then, some advertising person will be out of work for not having half Whites or poc displayed.

The company knows which side it's bread is buttered on. Once in awhile, I go thru the available channels on over air tv, the local channels, news/weather ALL have ads filled with black people. The other shows have very little ads, old westerns and such. Food channel & travel shows, is nothing but obvious gays. I only turn it on for news(such as it is) if I'm looking for mostly weather. The news here is fairly well covered by the radio. Sometimes not.
I'm gonna be at my sister's election nite. All nite, if I have to. They have cable.

 

[Carl2]

The mission of television is indoctrination. We quit watching TV 36 years ago. Rarely, I will listen to BBC or NHK-Tokyo news on the 19" TV I use as a PC monitor while working on something in that room, but I learned as a 12-year-old shortwave listener that all "news" broadcasts distort the truth.

 

[Knight_Loring]

- Sanjay Gupta, CNN "Medical Expert", has the most disturbing facial expressions, I can't even look at him sometimes, I have to switch channels. His facial expressions are unnerving.


That is all.

CNN? You watch CNN?
No Way that channel will be landed on in my home.
Larry Elder watches CNN so I don't have to.

 

[Knight_Loring]

Some commercials are amusing but most are not... the commercials for the HIV prep meds are the ickiest thing I've ever seen. We are so doomed.

Discovey is the drug.... that commercial is very sickening.
Yeah, We are doomed.

Who actually dreamed up that commercial and thought it was a good idea? Horrible!

 

[Yogizorch]

I prefer to live in the past when it comes to my entertainment. I prefer to stream shows 40 or 50 years old instead of the "programming" put out today. I'm just glad I can still get The Carol Burnet show or Barney Miller or Taxi or Red Skelton or The Dean Martin show or any of the myriad of good clean entertainment from the 60's 70's or 80's. The same goes for my musical entertainment also. Oh, well, back to The Lone Ranger.

 

[Walrus Whisperer]

CNN? You watch CNN?
No Way that channel will be landed on in my home.
Larry Elder watches CNN so I don't have to.

There's a REASON it's called "communist news network"!

 

[Walrus Whisperer]

I prefer to live in the past when it comes to my entertainment. I prefer to stream shows 40 or 50 years old instead of the "programming" put out today. I'm just glad I can still get The Carol Burnet show or Barney Miller or Taxi or Red Skelton or The Dean Martin show or any of the myriad of good clean entertainment from the 60's 70's or 80's. The same goes for my musical entertainment also. Oh, well, back to The Lone Ranger.

I am presently watching the whole series of "Touched By An Angel". No subtitles, dang.

 

[Redleg]

I getting to the point of watching TV is worthless. Just like stopped buying local news paper that is very liberal. I would have cancel years earlier but the wife liked to read it to help with her English but she had enough of the liberal crap to want to stop reading it. I get my information and entertainment from the web that I don't really watch TV. Wife likes to keep Fox news on for background noise when working around house.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

At one time, I would keep FOX News on in the background with the sound off. I did that in case there was breaking news about something. Once I found Tb2k, that stopped. Most of the time, Tb2k has the breaking news stories before FOX does.

 

[Red Baron]

At one time, I would keep FOX News on in the background with the sound off. I did that in case there was breaking news about something. Once I found Tb2k, that stopped. Most of the time, Tb2k has the breaking news stories before FOX does.

Leaving the TV on in the background was a response to 9/11. Many of us were waiting for the next horrible shoe to drop in the wake of the attack. That habit seems to dying off now for all of the reasons you mentioned.

My mother is an avid space flight enthusiast and watched all of the shuttle launches and landings. She called me from Florida when Columbia broke up on reentry. She said that the shuttle was out of communications for an extended period of time and the landing director had said live on the NASA feed to "close the doors" at the control center.

I agreed with her that something was very wrong. There is no such thing as being "late" during a reentry. A reentry is a simple function of ballistics and trajectory.

I had my local Fox broadcast affiliate running in the background but only normal programming was on.

So I called the station's "news tip" phone line and related what mother had seen on the NASA feed.

It took the Milwaukee Fox affiliate 20 minutes to go live with the Columbia disaster.

I don't bother to leave the TV on anymore.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

Leaving the TV on in the background was a response to 9/11. Many of us were waiting for the next horrible shoe to drop in the wake of the attack. That habit seems to dying off now for all of the reasons you mentioned.

My mother is an avid space flight enthusiast and watched all of the shuttle launches and landings. She called me from Florida when Columbia broke up on reentry. She said that the shuttle was out of communications for an extended period of time and the landing director had said live on the NASA feed to "close the doors" at the control center.

I agreed with her that something was very wrong. There is no such thing as being "late" during a reentry. A reentry is a simple function of ballistics and trajectory.

I had my local Fox broadcast affiliate running in the background but only normal programming was on.

So I called the station's "news tip" phone line and related what mother had seen on the NASA feed.

It took the Milwaukee Fox affiliate 20 minutes to go live with the Columbia disaster.

I don't bother to leave the TV on anymore.

Me, either. Why waste electricity on having the TV on all day when I can come here to get all the news I want as soon as it happens?

 

[Bps1691]

Anyone who has not held a piece of honest gold money has no clue as to what Devane is talking about.

It certainly DOES feel (special) different.

Even as a kid I loved the feel of a Silver Dollar and still do. I've always been a silver tard because I've never been able to convince myself (or have the money) to buy any gold.

Real money feels good, even old silver half dollars.

 

[Red Baron]

Me, either. Why waste electricity on having the TV on all day when I can come here to get all the news I want as soon as it happens?

Even better.

Folks here are very adept at identifying and analyzing developing trends.

Something the MSM is abysmal at.

 

[Melodi]

I want to point out for the record that I nearly married a man of mixed race (white/Native American/Black) and I have absolutely no problem with mix-raced families of any color combination or even religious grouping.

But I did find it very strange that suddenly, about five or six years ago, increasingly nearly every family shown on UK TV (or at least Sky or Sky News channel commercials) was a mixed-race with black father, white mother, and mix-raced kiddos.

I've done some studying of both sales and propaganda so I knew they had to be part of an agenda, and there have always since we moved here been more "mix-raced" couples that there USED to be on US TV. I remember the first time I saw a commercial with a black husband, white wife slow dancing about 25 years ago, and trying to explain to a British friend why you would "almost never" see that on US TV at least no in the deep South where my Mother lived (1995 or so).

I also have no problem with the mix-races of groups of friends or classrooms of children, I've lived in places like that (including Berkeley CA) they exist, it isn't everywhere as people tend to self-segregate a lot but such places exist.

Though they tend to be divided by factors other than race, in Ireland until recently it was all about socio-economic class - with punks in Limerick and unwed Baby Mommas in Dublin looking and acting just like inner-city "guts"[I love spell check sometimes I wrote Yutes] in the USA except they were/are white and it isn't any pretty getting mugged by some puke named Paddy that it is someone named D Something.

Today we have more black people and minorities than we used to but a lot of them are African Evangelicals or Brazilians who have introduced the concept of "Carnival" to Ireland (which is fun, if we ever get to celebrate it again).

 

[Bps1691]

What I find the most appalling is something I think Americans are probably so used to (if they watch regular TV) that they no longer even notice and that is the insane commercials for branded, prescription drugs.

That was just getting started when I got married and moved overseas 26 years ago but now it is just so over-the-top it isn't even comical anymore.

We get to see these anytime there's a major disaster in the US (like the California fires or the recent hurricane) and local news stations and networks "allow" those of us over here to watch their news feeds.

I suspect the new technology that ends pauses between words and sentences make these even worse, but they really are pretty disgusting and I can't see how they would convince anyone to "ask their doctor" about anything."

Oh and those adverts that were not for drugs or hospital clinics tended to be for pay-day loans or "improve your credit score."

I'm not sure exactly what message this sends, but it looks odd when you live someplace where most of the commercials on TV are still at least for actual products like a washing machine, Kerry Gold Butter, or the latest car.

The UK (and Ireland to a degree) used to be full of adverts for "get a pre-approved loan" to re-do your kitchen always featured real stereotypes of "working class" people; those adverts mostly went away when the governments cracked down on super-predatory lending, too many bankruptcies from loans at 1000 percent interest type stuff.

If you listen to the "new drug ads", it's amazing at the end when they list the possible side affects at super speed ... after hearing the list of nasty stuff I'm amazed that anyone would take the dam stuff unless they were dying and had no other choice.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

Even better.

Folks here are very adept at identifying and analyzing developing trends.

Something the MSM is abysmal at.

Yes, so true.