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Virtually Real: Reality Programming
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Posts: 5050 (04/22/08 1:48 PM) Shaggy Bunch of Idiots Cheese |
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Posts: 5051 (04/22/08 1:50 PM) Shaggy Bunch of Idiots Cheese |
I used to watch Fear Factor sometimes, but do something else during the disgusting food eating segments. Bleh. I literally get nauseated watching that stuff.
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Posts: 7987 (04/24/08 1:32 PM) Fishy Cheese |
Well, what a surprise, Craig finally got booted off Hell's Kitchen.
 How LobotomyBoy managed to last this long, I'll never know; he
couldn't do a damned thing right in the kitchen and no matter how many times he was asked how long it would be until his piece of the dish was finished, he
never answered--unless you count screaming "Right now!", at which point he'd plate whatever he had in hand no matter how far from being done it
might be. I mean geez, if you can't even boil pasta, you clearly don't belong in a kitchen.
I was right about Jen coming to the fore as the most competent in the women's kitchen, but given how soon it happened, she's ovbiously heading for a fall. Not that these "reality" shows follow a script, or anything.... |
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Posts: 183 (04/29/08 5:54 PM) Swiss Cheese |
Is anyone else watching Carrier on PBS? I caught the first two hours and I couldn't stop thinking about Daisy Duke the entire time.
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Posts: 26820 (04/29/08 11:25 PM) Reporter Cheese |
I haven't seen it -- is it a documentary about life on an aircraft carrier? It's amazing to me how gigantic those things are.
I missed Hell's Kitchen! I was all set to watch and the whole picture was breaking up like crazy. That darn digital signal. |
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Posts: 5163 (04/30/08 9:17 AM) Indecisive Cheese |
I was interested in Carrier, but it's what, 10 hours? I can't make that kind of tv commitment right now. I'd probably Netflix it or catch
a marathon, though.
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Posts: 8040 (04/30/08 1:49 PM) Fishy Cheese |
You can also watch it online here: http://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/ Plus, there's lots of extra online stuff, as usual for these PBS shows.
I'm very interested--fascinated by aircraft carriers in a way that no other type of ship grabs my attention--but am in the throes of planning a wine tasting for 275 people so have no time to watch it this week. I might be able to catch it on the other PBS station in the area, which sometimes comes in better anyway, but if not I'll watch online or grab it off Netflix. I also want to see The Truth about Cancer, but I can't even find that on the local PBS listings so I guess I'll be watching that online, too.
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Posts: 184 (04/30/08 1:53 PM) Swiss Cheese |
Yeah, Carrier has sort of taken over my evenings. It's like having a part-time job. Why does PBS do that?
I'm really enjoying it. I have to admit I had my back up at first because it was a little, uh, rah-rah-Yankee-Doodle-Dandy for my taste. But, it settles into telling the story of sailors (the majority of whom are either teenagers or not far out of their teens) pretty quickly. The vast majority of the sailors are likely to inspire you to start baking cookies and knitting socks for "our boys and girls over there" though there was a guy on last night that I seriously wanted to see walk the plank. He was an avowed racsist who wanted to be booted out of the Navy so he could join the Marines. Good luck, buddy. Interesting note: the production company is Icon Pictures and Mel Gibson is an executive producer. When I realized this my warning bells sounded but so far the documentary has dealt with gender issues and homosexuality with sensitivity. |
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Posts: 26836 (04/30/08 2:06 PM) Reporter Cheese |
I wrote an article once that involved me having to visit a destroyer (the U.S.S. Cole, which later had a big hole blown in it when it was on deployment in the
Middle East.) I remember thinking at that time -- and I was in my early or mid-20s at that time -- that the sailors all looked to be about 12 years old.
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Posts: 185 (04/30/08 2:27 PM) Swiss Cheese |
It is amazing that this floating city of kids actually works. That it is so organized is mind blowing. Seriously, by all laws of human nature and
physics it should be a madhouse of the seas!
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Posts: 2820 (04/30/08 9:36 PM) SpongeBob SquareCheese |
I didn't know about Carrier, but I'm glad you mentioned it, Ethnic. I've set it to record all the future episodes on my DVR now.
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Posts: 10885 (05/01/08 9:45 AM) Bishop Cheese |
I am 90% sure that a couple from my hometown was featured in Wife Swap last night.
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Posts: 3988 (05/01/08 1:31 PM) Choose Your Own Cheese |
Drop by and offer the mom some meds, will you? She had a pretty bad case of OCD. (I haven't been watching Wife Swap lately, because it's
become pretty trite and I have other TV commitments, but I happened to catch it last night.)
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Posts: 10890 (05/01/08 2:22 PM) Bishop Cheese |
I don't live in Harvard anymore (and sadly, don't get out there as much as I would like).
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Posts: 8050 (05/03/08 11:36 AM) Fishy Cheese |
He was an avowed racsist who wanted to be booted out of the Navy so he could join the Marines.Riiight, because the Marines are just dying to snap up people with less than honorable discharges from other branches of the service.
It is amazing that this floating city of kids actually works.One of the things about naval history that fascinates me is that these "kids" would be old sailors in the era of sail, back when kids sailed as cabin boys at 8 or 9 and as midshipmen--officers, in command of men older than their fathers--at 12 or younger. David Farragut, the first Admiral of the Navy, was commissioned at 9, sailed at 10, and had command of his first prize ship at 12. |
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Posts: 271 (05/06/08 12:18 AM) Mozzarella Cheese |
I've become completely addicted to two shows. One is called Platinum Weddings, where you can see the $1.5 million four-day Indian festival of ceremonies,
or the wedding on which the price tag for just the food for the cocktail hour was $35,000.
The other is How Clean is Your House, where two awesome women travel around Great Britain and do things like sniff couches and say "Aggie, it smells like bum!" God, I love these ladies. |
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Posts: 5477 (05/06/08 2:14 AM) Sinner Cheese |
I love the How Clean Is Your House Ladies. They are cheeky!
I caught the first 2 hours of Carrier tonight on PBS. I'm definitely going to have to make time this upcoming weekend to watch it the rest of it online. One of the things that had me rolling with laughter was when the Marine pilots were talking about being on the lookout for TFOAs and someone in the production crew asks what that stands for and the pilot says "Things Falling Off Aircraft." I just love how the military just makes an acronym for everything! |
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Posts: 8068 (05/06/08 1:54 PM) Fishy Cheese |
Would that it were limited to the military; one of my nonprofit clients could beat them at it with half the alphabet tied behind their backs.
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Posts: 5997 (05/06/08 3:04 PM) Cheeeeese Gromit! |
My extremely large corporation employer is pretty extreme with the acronyms too.
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Posts: 7930 (05/06/08 3:29 PM) Breezy Cheese |
one of my nonprofit clients could beat them at it with half the alphabet tied behind their backs.Totally. I don't think it's possible to have a conversation here without throwing letters (or code numbers) into it. I always feel bad for new employees when they get this deer in headlights look because they can't understand what we're talking about. It's like, oh yeah, now i need to translate what i just said. (Whoops, this isn't the working thread?) Berk is currently hooked on the History Channel's Ax-men. There was a marathon on Sunday. I personally can't get into it; i think it must be a guy thing. I also don't see what it has to do with history. Seems like it would fit better on Discovery (it's very Deadliest Catch-ish), TLC, or even Spike. |
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Posts: 5192 (05/06/08 4:42 PM) Indecisive Cheese |
When I started my government job, people kept using this one acronym. It took me a week or so before I realized it was shorthand for a certain dictionary.
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