That people that don't really know about something shouldn't talk too much about it because they expose their base ignorance.
I mean so many people are proud to say the don't watch TV. That they are too good for reality shows. That sitcoms bore them and that TV sucks. It is a badge of honor for the intelligentsia like an Obama bumper sticker and hair under their arms. But if they want to reach out and not seem like stuffy douchebags they might condescend to talk and opine about something they know jack shit about.
It would be as if I started talking about tarts as if I am a lawyer. They are always saying that some thing people are doing is a potential tart. And not the good type like a blueberry one or the other meaning like the waitress who will blow you in the coat check room during your office Christmas party. It is some legal thingy that I don't know anything about so I won't pretend to know what it is all about.
As a great man once said:
You have to know your limitations.
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Have I ever dumped on your taste in TV?
No of course not. But many people take it as a badge of honor that do not watch TV. Which is fine for them but I love TV. The more mindless the better.
If it is your badge of honor not to watch TV, great. Go read The Atlantic, The New Republic, or The New Yorker and pretend you are so fucking superior. I can see those pretenious fucks coming a mile away. They smell like dead elephant ass.
Now don't get me wrong, I generally don't find too much worthwhile in the Atlanitc or TNR, but I do like The New Yorker occasionally (even beyond the comics). I read it at the dentist's or doctor's office (it beats Highlights).
But TV can be kickass entertainment.
I am going to start watching old TV shows on my iphone via Netflix at the doctor's office. Just because.
Ten to fifteen years ago, when I first cut my TV watching way down (to make room in my life for reading more books), I had this attitude. Not so much a badge of honor, but that it was "better" or more useful or more constructive for me to spend my time that way.
Over the years I've "evolved" into this attitude: I simply prefer reading a good book to sitting in front of the TV. I don't watch "no TV," but often, when I start to watch a program, 15 minutes in and I start longing for ... the book I'm reading. Usually, I get up and go read it instead.
On the other hand, many of the shows you mentioned recently, well ... bleeechh. I admit it, you would have to pay me to watch those shows.
I was once subjected to the Kardashians in the ER waiting area. I kept thinking - they must take their clothes off at some point because ... why else would this be a TV show? I still haven't figured it out.
but often, when I start to watch a program, 15 minutes in and I start longing for ... the book I'm reading
I kind of go back and forth. If I'm really into a book, I tend to want to do nothing but read. Then I finish the book and go back to tv!
You have to know your limitations.
If I weren't at work, I would link to the 'women know your limits' skit.
I like my tv time. After work, there's usually a workout, dinner, then a few nights a week, a meeting, so there's not actually even that much time for it. If I find myself getting bored, I pick up my iPad and start poking around.
We usually record or TIVO the show we like to watch. Generally things like Leverage, House, NCIS, White Collar and that sort of stuff.
I really like the Sci Fi shows like Battlestar Galactica. I started watching Terra Nova, but after a while I got tired of the formula plots and unrealistic things(if you can have un-realism in a science fiction type show). "Come on....who would do this!....go wandering around in the jungle full of dinosaurs...at NIGHT.... for no good reason??"
Reality shows...not so much interested. Although I do like the remodeling and restaurant crashers. And now those storage wars shows. Although I feel really bad for the people whose things they are bidding on and trashing. I wonder what happened to the people who used to rent the storage bin.
So sad....to lose all your possessions and then they become props in a reality show. "Oh...man there was my stuff :-( ....."
Keep waiting for Justified to return!
So sad....to lose all your possessions and then they become props in a reality show
I don't feel sad because I figure they mostly lost it because they stopped paying the bill on the storage room and were also too lazy to move it. They couldn't have cared all that much about the stuff in that case.
I like all kinds of TV. We tivo everything because we are always working late and have to watch late at night when we can't sleep.
Justified looks great this season. All of the promos have Raylon and Boyd working together in a gunfight of some sort. I don't know if they are just teasing us but I hope it works out that way.
The thing about Terra Nova is that it is a nice family show. Plus my wife is crazy for the Jurassic Park movies so she has to watch anything with dinosaurs in it.
The best part about Storage Wars is that it reminds me to pay the bill for my storage unit.
Troop--i have to take issue with your denigrations about people who dont own TVs--I am in that category, but I dont think it means I am superior--its just that i dodge the outrageous fees for cable--at the end of the day, I am a cheapskate--My lady friend does have a TV but we rely on roku--great music and great downloads.
I guess I have to come to grips that I a just an old fart--alas
but I do appreciate your willingness to bring up TRV stuff
I love storage wars, I love antiques and collectables and finding them in a storage locker full of junk is so exciting! If I had my life to do over I would chuck the nursing and be an antique dealer.
I'm introducing the Flower and the Boy to "The Rockford Files".
The Flower likes the funny parts. She can watch something like "Bones" because it'll have humor, where "Law and Order" won't.
The Boy is a "Maverick" fan so "Rockford" comes pretty easily.
I love me some TV. Nothing beats watching the Nazi getting whacked. Then there's How It's Made, which gives me inspiration on how to build stuff. And, my best show is where Christie Brinkley tries to sell the Chuck Norris' workout contraption. The best scene is where she launches herself up with her feet, big smiles, up and down, up and down, up and down. She looks so playfull. God, I love that woman.
@ Shanna
Yahbut...still who knows why they didn't pay the rent. It could have been something unexpectedly bad. Death, divorce.....jail?
I always am amazed though when some pricy item turns up. Why didn't they sell it? They could have paid the rent for a year or longer.
I know I guy who worked on that show. They "salt" some of the boxes and recreate stuff that happened off camera.
There is not a lot of reality in reality TV.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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