They use to say television rots the brain, but now it’s clear that television just rots.
No truth on truth social
That’s why they had to call it that.
Funny, but true
The USA FREEDOM Act violates US citizens freedoms and civil liberties.
The “democratic” republic of NK has never been democratic.
Fox News had the motto “Fair and Balanced” for like 20 years, despite being a conservative state propaganda machine.
Turns out you can just lie without consequences!
The Learning Channel changed their name to TLC when they stopped carrying educational content.
Which stands for Totally Lacking Content
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
r/I’m14andThisIsTRUE
Not being 14 doesn’t make it not true
Deep.
This is now classic stoner chat.
This dude took it for a spin over a decade ago…
So I’m supposed to know about an article that was written a decade ago. It’s a joke, relax.
Cable is dying and they will do whatever it takes to keep it afloat until the last second
I can’t remember the last time I had a cable subscription. It’s been a while.
The last time I had cable was the year of 9/11. And that was only because I plugged in a stray cable on a whim and found that my upstairs apartment tapped into the the cable from the downstairs apartment.
Honestly, with internet, I never saw the point. And internet only cost $10-25/mo back then. Ofc, by about 2012 or so they became wise to that being the trend and started jacking the internet bill rates. And now internet costs the same as cable used to cost, or more, depending.
But I don’t think anyone ever did a GenX is Killing Cable TV headline.
And internet only cost $10-25/mo back then.
True, but minimum wage was like $5 an hour, and broadband connections were like 1.5 Mbps. My current broadband connection is almost a gigabit.
I think that’s around the same time I cut the cord. I moved shortly after 9/11 and didn’t see the point in subscribing. I left my (CRT) TV behind too rather than waste space in the truck for it. I haven’t owned a TV since.
Oh god, I can. Remember TiVo?
I used to have a TiVo
I really miss the TiVo sound effects. And hacking them to add bigger drives.
I’ve heard it said, lawyers and police create criminals, doctors create sick people, politicians create corruption.
Don’t know how true a sentiment that is, but I can see some true aspects to it.
It’s only anecdotal, but it seems to me whenever the cops show up it gets worse.
There used to be
True, greed killed it.
Pure ignorance helped a lot.
All those examples (except MTV) is David Zaslav hard at work. So glad he’s in charge of WB now!
So… No brothers I guess?
No Turner on the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS)
Discovery is full of shows all about people looking for things but not discovering them.
It is frustrating. I still haven’t found that damn Grail yet.
One does have to know the airspeed velocity of an unlaiden swallow.
European or African?
If you think of Discovery like how Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, it does seem fitting. A bunch of bullshit that later lead to genocide and scorched earth. This seems fitting for what they’ve done to HBO and all the other IP they’ve gobbled up and destroyed.
Last time I watched anything like that, probably on netflix, they where looking for pirate gold and actually found it … buried in a military munitions burial area they couldn’t reasonably or legally excavate.
The cowards
Yea what pussies.
Manchurian gold?
Homestead Rescue is cool. That’s about it.
Don’t even get me started about the Body Shop.
No bodies I suppose. The old bait and switch.
Olive oil is made of olives… at least in Italy it is. Anyway, what about baby oil? Better not think about it.
In Africa because of the large number of languages they put pictures of what’s in the package on the label. Gerber baby food had some issues when it first sold in Africa.
Ouch! That was pretty brutal. Goes to show that you have to understand the market you’re trying to operate in.
I just wanted a couple of them for my own reasons and now I have a lifetime ban from the place.
Username checks out
History channel has Forged in Fire where, for about 30 seconds per episode, they give a quick lesson about the historic weapon the contestants will make.
But yeah, TV is bullshit. Fuck commercials.
I always appreciated that in shows like Pawn Stars and American Pickers, yeah the main point is entertainment, but they actually made an effort to explain the objects and history around them.
Kinda wish they didn’t need to fake the premise of the show so hard to do the history lesson though.
Really we just need more antiques roadshow.
There’s little to no British content on BBC America.