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bjarvisI just don't get 'reality' TV shows. I find them as entertaining as vacuuming the living room, yet I seem to be the only person left not held in thrall by Survivor, The Apprentice or Project Runway.
Ridiculous assignments given by self-righteous superiors to minor league bitchy queens. I see that at work daily... why would anyone want to watch it on TV on their own time?
Ridiculous assignments given by self-righteous superiors to minor league bitchy queens. I see that at work daily... why would anyone want to watch it on TV on their own time?
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Date: 2006-07-13 03:53 am (UTC)formersweet friend. ;{)}no subject
Date: 2006-07-13 07:11 am (UTC)Project Runway is all kinds of awesome. I think it's because, as you say, it's about the act of creation. There's also something to be said for having people-who-happen-to-be-gay as characters, which is unfortunately something of a novelty.
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Date: 2006-07-13 02:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-13 04:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-13 04:29 am (UTC)Never did see what all the fuss is about...
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Date: 2006-07-13 05:27 am (UTC)things we don't get
Date: 2006-07-13 02:33 pm (UTC)I mean, I understand how it works, what I don't get is why. It's human fetch (the human hits the ball, the human fetches the ball, lather/rinse/repeat). It's tidying up -- you take the little ball and put it in the little hole.
(and I really don't get golf on teevee)
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Date: 2006-07-13 02:41 pm (UTC)Re: things we don't get
Date: 2006-07-13 04:32 pm (UTC)Golf is just an excuse for men to get away from their wives and walk around for a while. Think about it - how many gay golfers do you know?
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Date: 2006-07-13 05:31 pm (UTC)You took golf. For University credit. Towards a post-secondary degree. Golf.
Did your academic institution also offer underwater basketweaving for academic credit?
well that's amusing enough, in a "my dog ate my homework" way, though presumably you had witnesses to this untoward event.
only one, but his golfball exploded in mid air and I don't think he golfs now. Acksherly, the "getting away from the little woman" explanation does make some kind of sense.
But it doesnt explain Golf TV.
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Date: 2006-07-13 07:43 pm (UTC)My Dad watches a lot of golf on TV, but I think that's just his code for "taking a nap" since he watches most of it with his eyes closed.
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Date: 2006-07-13 08:16 pm (UTC)oooh, how swashbuckling! did you get to wear tights and a tricorn hat too? Are there photos, with/without the Errol Flynn costume? Enquiring minds need to know!
I don't question the logic of your choices, by any means.
"The Scots, who invented bagpipes and called it 'music', and who invented haggis and called it 'food', also invented golf and called it 'fun'."
(Golf TV has the same soporific effect on me)
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Date: 2006-07-13 09:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-13 05:46 am (UTC)What I really don't get about the whoel reality show thing is that people actually think that they are real, and don't understand the power of editing!
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Date: 2006-07-13 07:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-13 09:25 am (UTC)(returns to reading drama-queen LJ entries on flist)
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Date: 2006-07-13 11:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-13 11:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-13 12:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-13 12:52 pm (UTC)Clearly there IS a market for them, though -- did you latch on to the brouhaha here in the Great White North of late? CBC, in some attempt to attract a larger audience over the summer, is broadcasting some reality/talent search show (name unremembered at the moment), and in order to be able to simulcast it on summer evenings is moving The National, the flagship news broadcast of Mother Corp (er, that the CBC for non-Canajun readers) an hour later. The evening news, bumped later to make way for a reality show. There have been many heads (mine included) shaking over this one [ "is nothing sacred???"]
Anyhoo, there is some Canadian content here -- the host is to be George Strombolopolous, who has a one-hour show daily on CBC Newsworld which comments on the nooz-du-jour, presently on summer hiatus.
Just this morning, the political cartoon in the Trawna Star comments on Strombo -- and another recent, tragic story that you reported earlier this week. (not sure how long that URL is good for).
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Date: 2006-07-13 03:42 pm (UTC)Nashville Star. I do watch that.
I would rather have root canal than watch Survivor or American Idol.
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Date: 2006-07-13 04:33 pm (UTC)Seriously, I watched about five minutes of "Survivor" once. There was a bunch of people sitting around a fire bitching about each other. I ended up hoping none of them got off the island.
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Date: 2006-07-13 04:44 pm (UTC)Alex will watch "Drawn Together" sometimes. Since it's animated, we really can't have it on if Keely is up, since it would catch her attention.
Especially since it's on 2 hours earlier here.