CHAT A few observations about TV while channel surfing

[Melodi]

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.

On another thread, I described this as "sounding like Alvin and the Chipmunks on a really bad day..." and yeah it confuses the heck out of non-US residents, especially the first time they run into again.

Again, these days we get some of that over here, but usually not as extreme and not quite as annoying.

 

[Tristan]

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.

The content provided via TV is called Programming for a reason.

That's not intended as [snark], either.

(that it works as [snark] is just a two-fer! lol)

 

[bev]

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.

My favorite is the one about Peyronie’s disease, with the vegetables.

 

[bev]

One more thing ...

When is the last time any of you heard an adult refer to another adult as “husband” or “wife?” It’s always “partner” now.

 

[nomifyle]

When I was raising my sons we had friends that were mixed race. The son looked more like his mother, not what skin but not black, could pass as hispanic. The daughter looked like her dad who was from Jamacia, she blended well the the blacks in New Orleans. The daughter went to an all girl black catholic high school and was ridiculed for having a white mother., black racist much. The son turned out gay and has white partners. the daughter married a nice looking black man (nice looking by white standards. They have three children, the oldest boy looks like his uncle, the youngest boy is black as the ace of spades but quite handsome. The girl looks black and to me is just short of ugly, maybe she will grow into her looks, like her mother did.

The mother and father divorced, ultimately they each remarried, the white mother to a fellow from Honduras and the black father to a black woman (who as far as I can tell is racist as hell).

As for as the OP I noticed all the stated combinations in commericals several years ago. I do not watch broadcast news or tv programs, not even the local weather, I can get that on line.

I have come to loathe Fox news, if I've got anything going on in the back ground its OAN. On occasion I click on Fox business to check what is going on in the the stock market, and some times Lou Dobbs. However, its gotten to where I simply cannot stand to listen to or watch an entire news program. I had been tuning in to Tucker Carleson, but even him I just can't just sit and listen to the whole hour.

Not only does tv suck the life out of you but so does the internet. But I go straight for the internet when I wake up like I use to the newspaper, which I stopped getting years and years ago.

God is good all the time

Judy

 

[The Snack Artist]

I spoke to my 29 year old offspring about all the coal burning going on tv these days. Her answer, "Dad, they are NOT marketing to you. Quit getting angry about it. They know you aren't going to buy their product." After that, I was still not ok with seeing it but DVRed more so I could zip through the offensive stuff. I never knew a coal burner as they were off limits to my friends and I after they were with a black guy. The reverse? No freakin way!

 

[The Snack Artist]

On another thread, I described this as "sounding like Alvin and the Chipmunks on a really bad day..." and yeah it confuses the heck out of non-US residents, especially the first time they run into again.

Again, these days we get some of that over here, but usually not as extreme and not quite as annoying.

I saw one where your anus actually falls off. It's called "Rectal Prolapse!"

 

[Border Collie Dad]

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.

TV is a salesman for pharma

 

[TammyinWI]

I spotted a commercial for Grammarly that has a clock in it with a day, date, and time: Friday December 11, but the time I do not remember.

This one here is not the same one that I saw the other night, but this one has a clock too, with that day and date, and the time shown is 10 after 10.

Because Grammarly is an "AI powered writing enhancer," I was wondering if it means anything. 12/11 is a Friday this year.

Lead and Connect | Find the Words | Grammarly (run-time 1 minute)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S4ey7WAns8

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S4ey7WAns8

 

[MinnesotaSmith]

There are lots of good shows to watch you just need to hunt them out.
I'm currently watching a show called Away about a space mission to Mars. After I finish this show I plan on watching The Man in the High Castle

Whayever you do, don't post any images from the TMITHC TV series here on TB. I posted one, and got in serious trouble with the Admin.

 

[Dobbin]

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

This would be me.

Owner says I'm a "computer-holic."

"You really should get out more and do 'horse stuff' Dobbin."

I like that too - but...

Tim Conway is SOOOO funny.

Horselaugh.

Dobbin

 

[Dobbin]

This one here is not the same one that I saw the other night, but this one has a clock too, with that day and date, and the time shown is 10 after 10.

Owner says when you go to a clock shop, if the clocks are not "in motion" they're set at 20 minutes after eight. This arranges the hands for "best viewing."

Dobbin

 

[Faroe]

Haven't watched TV in decades. Never wanted one in my own house.

Nevertheless, YouTube, at this point, is just as bad. I also suspect that TV "programs" on multiple levels, not just via the obvious woke messaging, jarring visual cuts and sound. No reason to think YT isn't going the same way. I still watch YT for the useful content, but am growing wary of the obvious risk.

 

[tech020]

At last count, we have 7 tv's with only the two of us. Usually only 2 of them are in use. The others are in guest bedrooms which might get used occasionally and in my den/office, and the wife's sewing room. All have a Roku or Amazon stick as we do not watch network or local TV. I watch a lot of Utube videos, the wife likes all the British series and even some english dubbed Russian historical series. I actually watch our local outlet for MeTV which has all the old series. I must not have watched much tv in the 60's or 70's because those are all "new" to me.

 

[lonestar09]

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.

I dont think there are enough mixed race commercials. There are a whole list of different groups I can think of that I haven't seen yet

 

[Profit of Doom]

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.

Same can be done to programs. Think of the bucks from squeezing a couple of extra spots in an hour.

 

[Profit of Doom]

I dont think there are enough mixed race commercials. There are a whole list of different groups I can think of that I haven't seen yet

I have noticed a great lack of Transpecies Jewish Eskimos.

 

[ShadowMan]

Prefer internet and/or cable channels with no commercials or recording the show we want to watch and then fast forward past all the commercials. SICK OF COMMERCIALS!! SICK OF THE PROPAGANDA B.S.!! SICK OF ALL THE RACIAL CRAP!! Don't watch any of the stupid shows on MSM.....it's all brain dead crap! Sitcom's?....nothing comical or funny about them. Sick of all the LGBTABCXYZ garbage on FRICKEN EVERYTHING!!

 

[rafter]

To hell with the news shows this weekend. Paramount channel is running the Yellowstone marathon.

 

[rob0126]

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.

That warmness might be the silver reacting to germs on your skin. Its a powerful germ killer.

 

[Red Baron]

The only time I watch broadcast television is when I am puttering around in the kitchen.

It is completely flabbergasting now regarding the sheer volume of commercials, station self promotions, and "teases" that there are. Where is the actual content?

Today, I unpacked four bags of groceries, made a cup of coffee on the Keurig, sorted a few pieces of mail, and exchanged a text message with my daughter.

Total time? About eight minutes or so.

It was a fusillade of commercials, "coming next", and promoting what a commitment Nitwitness News 12 had to saving mankind from the Daleks.

No wonder the nation has the attention span and discernment of a gnat . .

 

[Profit of Doom]

To hell with the news shows this weekend. Paramount channel is running the Yellowstone marathon.

We’re in!

 

[Troke]

I watch Westerns (40+ yr old) and Tucker.

I watch the Westerns for a lack of reality.

Hero and Thug are facing off in the street, big shoot out coming and guess what, crowd standing around watching.

In the real life, everybody would be running for cover.

Hero is shooting it out from the store, thugs outside. Well, a Colt .45 slug will go right through most walls, other than log. Hero would not last long.

Grt Grand uncle who homesteaded in cattle country about 1905 said that average cowboy was too lazy to keep his weapons clean. They were usually rusted in the holster and the tanned leather belt corroded the cartridges unless they were cleaned periodically which many did not do.

Thus if you met somebody with clean weapon and shiny cartridges

He was a dude that just got equipped

Or

He was somebody you did not want to mess with.

I worked cattle with a hand that participated in the last open range roundup on those parts. Told me hands preferred the Colt. 45 'because it always worked". He was 14 yrs hold, had a horse and saddle and worked with the big boys in the roundup. Thought he was on top of the world. Thinking back, it was pure misery.

Women crossing the desert don't wear hats. Have a nice coiffure that stays in place for three days of Hell out on the desert, no hat. Right.

 

[bartp40]

Gold was $500 in the early 90s. Look at it today.

 

[rafter]

I watch Westerns (40+ yr old) and Tucker.

I watch the Westerns for a lack of reality.

Hero and Thug are facing off in the street, big shoot out coming and guess what, crowd standing around watching.

In the real life, everybody would be running for cover.

Hero is shooting it out from the store, thugs outside. Well, a Colt .45 slug will go right through most walls, other than log. Hero would not last long.

Grt Grand uncle who homesteaded in cattle country about 1905 said that average cowboy was too lazy to keep his weapons clean. They were usually rusted in the holster and the tanned leather belt corroded the cartridges unless they were cleaned periodically which many did not do.

Thus if you met somebody with clean weapon and shiny cartridges

He was a dude that just got equipped

Or

He was somebody you did not want to mess with.

I worked cattle with a hand that participated in the last open range roundup on those parts. Told me hands preferred the Colt. 45 'because it always worked". He was 14 yrs hold, had a horse and saddle and worked with the big boys in the roundup. Thought he was on top of the world. Thinking back, it was pure misery.

Women crossing the desert don't wear hats. Have a nice coiffure that stays in place for three days of Hell out on the desert, no hat. Right.

And Colt 45 replicas are what we use in cowboy mounted shooting. They are still pretty awesome.

 

[rafter]

Gold was $500 in the early 90s. Look at it today.

IIRC around 9/11 it was $250

 

[TammyinWI]

Owner says when you go to a clock shop, if the clocks are not "in motion" they're set at 20 minutes after eight. This arranges the hands for "best viewing."

Dobbin

Interesting. Please tell your owner that makes good sense.

In this case, the example i posted, it is upside down then, so the least pleasant? Or maybe it is just as pleasant, because there is something to that.

I had to repost that video. It was not showing just now, when this morning when I posted it, it was. Hopefully it stays put this time.

 

[SpokaneMan]

I was just watching some old Johnny Carson and Carol Burnett shows on PlutoTV today. And I was actually repulsed at a commercial that came on. It showed two black females that were sharing bites of food. Then they hugged. And then they broke out with the ice cream and shared bites again. Then holly hell balls they started making out. This was an E-Harmony commercial. I was glad there were no whites in this one.

 

[PghPanther]

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.

He's smooth..........not impressive at all............for a Black guy to have big arms that are smooth is not impressive at all......out of shape.....

 

[naegling62]

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.

Yep, there is an inordinate amount of white men with black wives and lesbians mowing the lawn.