I think it's the law
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At the moment you should consider yourself lucky! A friend of mine was moaning about the same thing, he lives in Detroit, and says that all there is at the moment is Repeats, Infomercials, Realism TV and Imports. The Writers strike is starting to bite, and something like 25% of US citizens are sleeping and reading more! (So, no bad thing there then)! :) Fortunately, here in UK we have no problem with TV! The Best in the world! (Except for the Soaps, Big Brother, etc!) And no writers strike! :-D
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Dalek Dave wrote:
and something like 25% of US citizens are sleeping and reading more!
But not using their exercise equipment. I blame TV for the death of politics.
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At the moment you should consider yourself lucky! A friend of mine was moaning about the same thing, he lives in Detroit, and says that all there is at the moment is Repeats, Infomercials, Realism TV and Imports. The Writers strike is starting to bite, and something like 25% of US citizens are sleeping and reading more! (So, no bad thing there then)! :) Fortunately, here in UK we have no problem with TV! The Best in the world! (Except for the Soaps, Big Brother, etc!) And no writers strike! :-D
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Dalek Dave wrote:
and something like 25% of US citizens are sleeping and reading more!
Sounds like it could be a good thing. Perhaps some of those people will learn that life can exist without TV. I was just trying to fill in some time, but overall, I've been reading an excellent book called 1491, about civilisation in the Americas before Europeans arrived.
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With all this excerise equipment why is the USA so fat ?
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buying exercise equipment doesn't make you thin.
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buying exercise equipment doesn't make you thin.
except for your bank account.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
and something like 25% of US citizens are sleeping and reading more!
Sounds like it could be a good thing. Perhaps some of those people will learn that life can exist without TV. I was just trying to fill in some time, but overall, I've been reading an excellent book called 1491, about civilisation in the Americas before Europeans arrived.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
Perhaps some of those people will learn that life can exist without TV.
It's been really nice not trying to keep up with the TV schedule. I don't so much (I just record everything and watch it whenever I have time) but my girlfriend always made it a point to keep up with the new episodes on during the week. Because of the writer's strike, we've finally done many of the household tasks that were sitting waiting to be done, spent more time together, I've spent more time reading... it's nice actually. Lots of people I know say the same thing. Who knows, maybe it'll have some long term beneficial effects. Although in all probability, once the shows come back on, people will just go right back to their TV's and forget all about that annoying time in 2007-2008 when they actually popped their head out of the crapfest that is American TV....
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein
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Christian Graus wrote:
Perhaps some of those people will learn that life can exist without TV.
It's been really nice not trying to keep up with the TV schedule. I don't so much (I just record everything and watch it whenever I have time) but my girlfriend always made it a point to keep up with the new episodes on during the week. Because of the writer's strike, we've finally done many of the household tasks that were sitting waiting to be done, spent more time together, I've spent more time reading... it's nice actually. Lots of people I know say the same thing. Who knows, maybe it'll have some long term beneficial effects. Although in all probability, once the shows come back on, people will just go right back to their TV's and forget all about that annoying time in 2007-2008 when they actually popped their head out of the crapfest that is American TV....
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein
It sounds like the episode of Family Guy
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It sounds like the episode of Family Guy
StevenWalsh wrote:
It sounds like the episode of Family Guy
Or The Simpsons, who did it about 10 years earlier :)
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It seems that no matter what time I turn on the TV in the US, there's at least two channels selling exercise equipment, and one showing an episode of Jag.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
one showing an episode of Jag
Ahh, so they finally ran out of Law & Order episodes ;P In Germany/Austria, at any given time, you will find Knight Rider showing on a channel. :laugh:
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Christian Graus wrote:
one showing an episode of Jag
Ahh, so they finally ran out of Law & Order episodes ;P In Germany/Austria, at any given time, you will find Knight Rider showing on a channel. :laugh:
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 1 out nowWow - that's far worse...
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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It seems that no matter what time I turn on the TV in the US, there's at least two channels selling exercise equipment, and one showing an episode of Jag.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Uh, yeah, don't do that.
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With all this excerise equipment why is the USA so fat ?
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because we sit on the couch, eat our Bon-Bons and watch the exercise infomercials :-D
Steve
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It seems that no matter what time I turn on the TV in the US, there's at least two channels selling exercise equipment, and one showing an episode of Jag.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
or the "Law & Order" (original, SVU & CI) or CSI (Las Vegas, Miami, NYC) franchises
Steve
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or the "Law & Order" (original, SVU & CI) or CSI (Las Vegas, Miami, NYC) franchises
Steve
Steve Mayfield wrote:
or the "Law & Order" (original, SVU & CI) or CSI (Las Vegas, Miami, NYC) franchises
I was just about to say that! About a month ago, I was laid up in the hospital with pneumonia for about 12 days. The good news is that their television system had a decent variety of cable channels (including Sci-Fi, which shocked me). The bad news is that one can tolerate only so much "Law & Order" and "CSI" (of all varieties) before wishing the nurses would inject cyanide into my IV drip... and I normally like these shows. X|
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Christian Graus wrote:
one showing an episode of Jag
Ahh, so they finally ran out of Law & Order episodes ;P In Germany/Austria, at any given time, you will find Knight Rider showing on a channel. :laugh:
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It seems that no matter what time I turn on the TV in the US, there's at least two channels selling exercise equipment, and one showing an episode of Jag.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
and rights-managed, too! Shouldn't they be happy if anyone wants to copy that?
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Dalek Dave wrote:
and something like 25% of US citizens are sleeping and reading more!
But not using their exercise equipment. I blame TV for the death of politics.
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Frank Kerrigan wrote:
I blame TV for the death of politics.
I beg to differ... If politics werent so boring, TV wouldnt seem so good. On the other hand, not many people would know about just how boring politics are if there was no TV... I think they worked together on this one lol
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Christian Graus wrote:
one showing an episode of Jag
Ahh, so they finally ran out of Law & Order episodes ;P In Germany/Austria, at any given time, you will find Knight Rider showing on a channel. :laugh:
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Wow - that's far worse...
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )