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Message 1391710 - Posted: 17 Jul 2013, 18:58:56 UTC

After some of the offerings of recent times I wondered low low television programming could go. But now I think the answer has arrived. Honey Boo Boo with a scratch and sniff stink card is premiering soon in the USA
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Message 1391716 - Posted: 17 Jul 2013, 19:06:37 UTC - in response to Message 1391710.  

After some of the offerings of recent times I wondered low low television programming could go. But now I think the answer has arrived. Honey Boo Boo with a scratch and sniff stink card is premiering soon in the USA

Damn you, I had successfully forgotten about that.

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Message 1391842 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 0:41:51 UTC - in response to Message 1391710.  

After some of the offerings of recent times I wondered low low television programming could go. But now I think the answer has arrived. Honey Boo Boo with a scratch and sniff stink card is premiering soon in the USA


Yeah they've hit rock bottom.


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Message 1391864 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 4:09:14 UTC

I don't wanna' know!
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Message 1391866 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 4:10:28 UTC - in response to Message 1391842.  

And the sooner that the world's loosers get over reality TV the happier I'll be I can tell ya's.

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Message 1391881 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 5:04:27 UTC - in response to Message 1391842.  

After some of the offerings of recent times I wondered low low television programming could go. But now I think the answer has arrived. Honey Boo Boo with a scratch and sniff stink card is premiering soon in the USA


Yeah they've hit rock bottom.

I fear the elevator has barely left the penthouse on the way to the sub-sub-basement.

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Message 1391888 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 6:19:52 UTC

Another reason about all the TV I watch is the morning and evening LOCAL (not national) news and the ocasional baseball or football game. And CNBC business news in the background during the day if I'm in the house. I boycott both MSNBC and Fox political shows due to the high level of bovine excrement.

May the fleas of 1000 camels infest the underwear of all responsible for realitiy TV shows and talent search shows.
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Message 1391891 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 6:39:53 UTC

Reality shows are a farce. I gave up on them after the first survivor show. That old navy seal could have killed all of them in a heart beat while they slept. But when you can vote somebody off because they are percieved as a threat is BS.

The show should have just dumped them on the island and let the weakest beg to quit when they reached the breaking point. Last man standing wins.

Commercial TV is getting more stupid as time goes on. One reason I watch History, Discovery, and the Military channel. And then not all of those shows are great either.
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Message 1391926 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 10:00:14 UTC
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I hardly ever watch TV. Such a waste of time! Although I love to watch a good movie every now and then...
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Message 1391931 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 10:35:33 UTC

At this point i'd like to feel smug, thinking that no British TV channel would broadcast such tat.
Then i remembered Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter, Geordie Shore, TOWIE, the list goes on...

Seems there's no bottom floor in hell.
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Message 1392005 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 15:22:06 UTC - in response to Message 1391888.  

May the fleas of 1000 camels infest the underwear of all responsible for realitiy TV shows and talent search shows.

^Each.

I have never watched Survivor, Apprentice, or any of the talent searches. I watched Amazing Race a few times, but didn't get into it. The only one I liked was The Mole, and only when it was celebrities. Oh, and I think I watched the first episode of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! It was even worse than I expected.

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Message 1392009 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 15:28:57 UTC - in response to Message 1391931.  

Seems there's no bottom floor in hell.


Let us pray that we never find out for sure.
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Message 1392040 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 16:16:34 UTC - in response to Message 1392009.  

Seems there's no bottom floor in hell.


Let us pray that we never find out for sure.


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Message 1392047 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 16:36:10 UTC

I have not had a working television here at home for probably 10 years or more. Don't miss it. I'm always online here or elsewhere, and can get all the news I need locally and nationally via the net.
When I go to Lori's on the weekends, we are usually renting DVDs to watch. Maybe a couple of network thingys like Falling Skies or Once Upon a Time. Most of the other crap I can do without. And the only reality of 'reality shows' is they make me wanna puke.
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Message 1392126 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 18:36:58 UTC

Cops! is a reality show.

All the others are combo soap opera game show.

May the mosquitoes of the tundra suck all the network executives dry of blood.

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Message 1392181 - Posted: 18 Jul 2013, 23:09:02 UTC - in response to Message 1392126.  

Cops! is a reality show.

All the others are combo soap opera game show.

May the mosquitoes of the tundra suck all the network executives dry of blood.



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I've never heard that one before... I like it!


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Message 1392201 - Posted: 19 Jul 2013, 0:22:06 UTC

I don't even like the cooking elimination-type shows. The only cooking contest show I like is Iron Chef, because of which I suffer through Next Iron Chef just to know how the new ones got to be iron chefs.

Sunday night, I caught a couple episodes of Naked and Afraid on Discovery Channel. Its reality is questionable. Maybe it's just the editing, but it seems like once a particular struggle has been conquered, it never comes up again. They only have to kill something and eat it once and then they are never starving again for the rest of their 3 weeks. In one, the woman conveniently found clothes washed up on the beach. Water bottles too. So convenient, it made me wonder if the producers planted the stuff for her to find.

However, if that guy really did get a nasty sun burn on his personal parts, then he has my full sympathy.

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Message 1392258 - Posted: 19 Jul 2013, 3:48:51 UTC - in response to Message 1392181.  

May the mosquitoes of the tundra suck all the network executives dry of blood.



+1

I've never heard that one before... I like it!


Original. (c) 2013 Gary Charpentier.

Anyone who has seen the mosquitoes go after a caribou knows that is much worse than a pack of fleas.

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Message 1392266 - Posted: 19 Jul 2013, 3:59:29 UTC - in response to Message 1392258.  
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May the mosquitoes of the tundra suck all the network executives dry of blood.



+1

I've never heard that one before... I like it!


Original. (c) 2013 Gary Charpentier.

Anyone who has seen the mosquitoes go after a caribou knows that is much worse than a pack of fleas.

Fortunately this area is devoid of both, caribou too.

Though Digital TV is nice and sharp here, all 10 channels of it, all of it local to the Los Angeles area.
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Message 1392268 - Posted: 19 Jul 2013, 4:04:08 UTC - in response to Message 1392258.  

Anyone who has seen the mosquitoes go after
a caribou knows that is much worse than a pack of fleas.


Been there, done that. Got the tea shirt.......
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