Odahi wrote:Well, if you want to restore your faith in humanity, I would NOT recommend the "Maury" show. It's generally the DNA results, as Bimbette searches for her Baby Daddy among the football team, basketball team, and the denizens of the local bars. One poor soul has had FIFTEEN DNA tests to try to find the father of her child. She has "alcohol issues." Also promiscuity issues. I've only seen bits and pieces of it, but Mrs. O and the step-daughter like to watch together and make comments about the Bimbettes. Step-daughter says it makes her feel better about HER life.
That's the basic function of radio call-in/help shows too.
Two minutes' listening to society's f***ups on something like Dr. Laura or worse, and suicidal people would drop the razor, and run for President.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
That show would literally have me go "Urge to kill: Rising"
Obnoxious assholes in Manufacturing? That part's realistic- but with one notable exception*, they're all a bunch of hacks.
*Rick Petko - watched him pound out a gas tank from sheet, and he didn't get into fights, or act like a jackass for the camera.. Just did his job and went home
HTRN, I would tell you that you are an evil fucker, but you probably get that a lot ~ Netpackrat
Describing what HTRN does as "antics" is like describing the wreck of the Titanic as "a minor boating incident" ~ First Shirt
Odahi wrote:Well, if you want to restore your faith in humanity, I would NOT recommend the "Maury" show. It's generally the DNA results, as Bimbette searches for her Baby Daddy among the football team, basketball team, and the denizens of the local bars. One poor soul has had FIFTEEN DNA tests to try to find the father of her child. She has "alcohol issues." Also promiscuity issues. I've only seen bits and pieces of it, but Mrs. O and the step-daughter like to watch together and make comments about the Bimbettes. Step-daughter says it makes her feel better about HER life.
Same idea at heart as 'Cops'. Turning dysfunction into spectacle for the enjoyment of an audience is an old tradition. Those bimbettes are just modern-day carnival geeks (original meaning), with about as much dignity.
It's interesting, though to see the effects of our bizarre modern Cult of 'Compassion'.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
Odahi wrote:Step-daughter says it makes her feel better about HER life.
Same reason I used to watch Jerry Springer - every time I used to feel down about being an unemployed bachelor with no money, I'd turn it on and the little voice in my head would whisper, "At least you're not these people!"
HTRN, I would tell you that you are an evil fucker, but you probably get that a lot ~ Netpackrat
Describing what HTRN does as "antics" is like describing the wreck of the Titanic as "a minor boating incident" ~ First Shirt
Highspeed wrote:We had been watching something called LA Ink, about this partially sexy female tattooist with fake plastic tits.
Given this why would you be surprised to discover that she is a total airhead? Yes there are some girls who rock the bimbo look and are reasonably, even highly intelligent. But most of the time the packaging matches the inside.
Television and the film industry got off track arround 1960 or 65 and now seems go in a direction that lines up with Marx and populist bullshit , with rare exceptions. And as usual you characters seemed to have noticed as well.
I try to be kind to groups of people in my act, but I'm from Pennsylvania, so I talk a lot of shit about the Amish, because it never gets back to them.
- the late comedian John Pinette
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
It's generally the DNA results, as Bimbette searches for her Baby Daddy among the football team, basketball team, and the denizens of the local bars. One poor soul has had FIFTEEN DNA tests to try to find the father of her child. She has "alcohol issues." Also promiscuity issues. I've only seen bits and pieces of it, but Mrs. O and the step-daughter like to watch together and make comments about the Bimbettes. Step-daughter says it makes her feel better about HER life.
