Television is getting rediculous

[skrewt]

Television shows and commercials are getting really crazy with their claims and assertions.

I saw an ad for hybrid cars asking, "what's your carbon footprint?", totally lame attempt to try to get people to accept personal responsibility for global warming.

Thetruth.com anti cigarette ads making their wild apples to oranges comparisons and outrageously embellished statements.

Now I saw an ad for a tv show called "Honey we're killing the kids" about child obesity.

No wonder people don't pay attention anymore, all this "sky is falling" crap just makes 'em tune out.

[acmanko]

all you have to do is change the channel, or go outside and smoke.

[RoBoTeq]

I haven't watched commercial television in years. My main reason is that I am just too fagged out. Every show has fags in it. Every family has some fag guy or some lesbo daughter. I'm sorry, but it just got way too far from my reality.

[ozone drone]

Television ...... what a waste. The way it has helped ruin our country and society is sickening and it's subtle too. Glorifies sleazy people, casual sex and violence. How many commercials have you seen where the Husband/Father is portrayed as an imbecile who has to be shown how to do anything properly by smugly assured wives and smart assed , know-it-all kids?

[Collin]

Reality sucks.
Deal with it.

[seatonheating]

Originally posted by RoBoTeq
I haven't watched commercial television in years. My main reason is that I am just too fagged out. Every show has fags in it. Every family has some fag guy or some lesbo daughter. I'm sorry, but it just got way too far from my reality.

And here I thought Christians weren't supposed to be judgmental...hmmmm.

[royc]

Originally posted by RoBoTeq
I haven't watched commercial television in years. My main reason is that I am just too fagged out. Every show has fags in it. Every family has some fag guy or some lesbo daughter. I'm sorry, but it just got way too far from my reality.

ROFLMAO...I'm sorry Robo I know to you thats a serious issue, but when I read that post I couldnt help but laugh, in a good way. Look I totaly understand your phobia. We all have a certain amount of phopic problems, some are light and some are in the extreme. I have a good friend of mine who has a fear of spiders, we used to work together, and I dont have to tell you when one does HVAC work, there are going to be spiders. Everytime we opened a condensing unit we both murmered under our breath..."mmmm spiders", and we both would have a good laugh.

The reason I know where you comming from is, at one time in my younger years I was a bit homophopic, cause I had a bad experience once with an ******* that tried to aproach me. It scared the **** out of me. But as I got older I realized that there are sickos on both ends of the spectrum, whether they are homosexual or heterosexual.

Roy

[RoBoTeq]

I have no idea where anyone thinks that just because someone believes that Jesus was God incarnate and became their Lord and Saviour that that person is not judgemental or have any other human flaws that other humans have.

I am definitely not homophobic. I don't fear homosexuals; I'm just sick and tired of hearing about them all the time.

So your a fag! Do your thing in private just like I do my thing in private. That way we can have a beer together without me having to hear all about how "normal" what you like to do is.

Here's a little hint, homos; it is not normal to constantly talk about your sex life or lifestyle choice. Just shut up and live the way you want...without imposing your lifestyle on me.

[ikey]

Originally posted by RoBoTeq
My main reason is that I am just too fagged out. Every show has fags in it.

Come on Robo, you don't really believe that. And if there is a fag in a show, you can surely handle that for the sake of humor. Alot of sitcoms may have an occasional fag in it. If you let this deter you from some laughs, your either super homophobic, or a super recluse. Or use that as an excuse not to pay for satellite or cable. Don't let anyone or anything ever prevent you from laughing. Sometimes it's at the expense of the fag. surely you can appreciate that.

To this day there has not been a confirmed report of a fag jumping out of a television at any hvac guys.

Is this an attempt to distract all those "goodman" bashers?

[bootlen]

Originally posted by RoBoTeq

So your a fag!


I wondered about that after reading his post.

[deanmech]

Most of TV sucks, I think. Night time soap operas that I don't have time for. "Reality" shows that are very unreal. I do like some of the educational PBS shows, the Simpsons is pretty funny & 24 is kind of cool, plus some news, & (of course) the Weather Channel, but not much else..........

[-80guru]

Reality TV, what an oxymoron. I am in robo's corner on the homophobe thing. I'm not afraid of them, just don't agree with their lifestyle. Now i'm intolerant....YEP. And for those who don't agree with my intolerance, well then you are a "intoleraphobe".

[ikey]

Dean, livin the wild life eh?

& (of course) the Weather Channel

Hope you have tivo for all that action on that channel!

[RoBoTeq]

I like some things on the Comedy Channel. I also switch around to the History channels, the Discovery Channel and the Cartoon Channel, but rarely tune in to the commercial stations. HBO is horrendous! There is just nothing that they come up with that intrigues me.

[ikey]

HBO is only on my monthly bill for boxing. and that is so far and few between that it's getting close to meeting the chopping block. Earl and the office are never missed here and nothing like following my Spurs or my Cowboys. other than that not much tele on here.

[skrewt]

Originally posted by seatonheating

Originally posted by RoBoTeq
I haven't watched commercial television in years. My main reason is that I am just too fagged out. Every show has fags in it. Every family has some fag guy or some lesbo daughter. I'm sorry, but it just got way too far from my reality.

And here I thought Christians weren't supposed to be judgmental...hmmmm.

Everyone is judgemental and prejudice.
It is part of our base survival instinct.

Everytime you choose not to sit next to the stinky guy on the bus or cross the street to avoid a group of teens wearing gang colors, you judge and prejudge.

If nobody ever judged anybody, you'd have drug addicts shooting up in your living room right now, instead of just the hippie libs.

[royc]

Yea I have to agree, television is a wasteland. As I said in another post, I get so tired of going thru the channels and seeing someone with a gun in their hands, cars and buildings blowing up in totaly unreal fire infernos. Or Queer as Folks or the L word, or two naked bodys pumeling in bed with a weak storyline as a sidedish.

Yes once in a while there is some interesting stuff on. How they build those large bridges, or the super large ships and equipment. How about the guy that does all those dirty jobs, geez..that actually shows the lame claim that we need an open border, cause there are jobs americans wouldnt do.

O yes, the commercials..one interesting thing about commercials, is what the sellers of such merchandise think the mentality of the average consumer is. They must have the finger on the heartbeat of america, otherwise how could they afford those commercials, somebody must be buying all that crap. O yes, look at the new $3000 superlarge television screen, with HDTV to boot. Just what I need, to watch the same old junk, with better definition, no thanks, I got better things to do with that $3000.

O how about those interesting HGTV shows, if I see another show, talking about the wonderfull world of a paint roller, I'm going to puke. There must be some dull minded idiots out there if they think watching paint dry, is worth wasting a half hour on. Maybe its those sexy chicks that roll that paint, the motto is if its dull, just stick a little sex in it, sex always sells.

And once in a while I turn the tv on late at night, maybe I can catch a second showing of that fight I missed. I click across the channels seeing which one may have the fight, I stop...what the heck, I dont remember buying a XXX channel? You watch it for a bit, and low and behold, its a fake sex movie. Two naked bodys with a boob show, dry humping each other, what will they think of next...a fake reality show?...o I forgot, they already have done that one.

Television...what a waste.

Roy

[rob10]

The History Channel, American Movie Channel, The Sci Fi Channel. The rest SUCK!!

[wolfstrike]

television is garbage, i replaced it with internet. (interactive TV).

i told my cable company i wanted computer only , no TV, they almost didn't want to do it and they charged me 10 bucks more for internet.



(oh! and i'm still waiting for my anti-gravitational bubble car TV told me i'd get in the year 2000)

[dannyp19]

Originally posted by RoBoTeq
Every family has some fag guy or some lesbo daughter.




Oh come on we know thats true! If you dont they havent come out of the closet yet!

[RoBoTeq]

Originally posted by dannyp19

Originally posted by RoBoTeq
Every family has some fag guy or some lesbo daughter.




Oh come on we know thats true! If you dont they havent come out of the closet yet!

Yea...right! And 90% of historical persons were also fags :D

Lets see now, Abraham Lincoln was a fag because he wrote to another man that he is anticipating the time they can share a bed. That is the basis of fag groups making claims that Abe was a homo. The fact is that men regularly shared beds in that time period. It was an intiment manly relationship to be able to share a bed with another man...with absolutel no hint of homosexual behaviour. Unfortunately, we men now must be more reserved of our emotions towards one another because of the homo patrols ready to "out" us if we display normal manly sentiments toward one another.

[James 3528]

It is not so much about what he does not have to look at but the programming the producers are doing to young children's minds. It is like the corner child molester you had to worry about is on every TV channel in your living room aid at your kid.

I don't think he cares that much about you watching the History channel.

geez some of you are really thick.

[acmanko]

The problem with your rationale is to many people worry to much about what children see and do. If parents really worried about the kids they (Kids) would be studying till bedtime and not watching TV at all

[James 3528]

Then maybe get them up at 4 in the morning a milk the cows and walk 5 miles to school.

[skrewt]

Originally posted by acmanko
The problem with your rationale is to many people worry to much about what children see and do. If parents really worried about the kids they (Kids) would be studying till bedtime and not watching TV at all

I don't really monitor my children's TV watching that much. I have no problem with violence on TV.
I have real problems with explicit sex, especially when they start into the deviant fetish stuff.
You really have to watch your kids when they are about 10 to 18 because that is when they are developing their attitudes about sex and are very curious. Who needs them watching shows that joke about fecal fetishes at this time of their lives. I don't need those images bouncing around my kids brain while they're developing sexually and mentally.

The real point of this thread was that agenda TV has gotten so outrageous in their "facts" that it is going to backfire like the "Reefer Madness" film clip did years ago.
Someone screaming "The end is near" on a street corner is virtually ignored.
If you have an important message to educate people about don't get outrageous.
A show called "Honey we're killing the kids", is simply ludacris. It's like saying, "If you let your kids get fat, you might as well drown them now".
Pointlessly over the top.

[dannyp19]

Ive had my TV disconnected since Feb. this year. Since then, my wife has lost 12 lbs. and I've gotten more work done around the house than ever before. Im not in a bad mood as much because I havent watched the news.


I always tell people that the worst thing for your health (mental and physical) is TV and Air Conditioning!


Ive never had a TV in the bedroom! The bedroom is for sleeping and sex!

I just started up an A/C yesterday at a rental house that 1 window shaker. The woman that lived there said all she was going to do for the next 2 weeks was set the t-stat at 70 and sit on her ass and watch TV!

He He... another month or so and she will gain 10 pounds and her mind will be mush! All thanks to me putting in A/C and our cable provider. Hey...at least Im making a good living! Almost feel like a drug dealer.

[bigbaldito]

You guys need to get a Tivo or Dvr reciever. That way you can record only what you want to watch and fast foward through the commercials. Imagine no commercial forever.

[RoBoTeq]

Originally posted by bigbaldito
You guys need to get a Tivo or Dvr reciever. That way you can record only what you want to watch and fast foward through the commercials. Imagine no commercial forever.

Some of the commercials are more interesting then most of commercial TV. At least the commercials are not telling me all about fags.

[Shophound]

Originally posted by RoBoTeq
[B Unfortunately, we men now must be more reserved of our emotions towards one another because of the homo patrols ready to "out" us if we display normal manly sentiments toward one another. [/B]

Hmmm...I was under the impression that men were more reserved emotionally to act as a counterweight to the emotional flux of the opposite sex.

:D

"Homo patrols"... LOL!

I'm guessing Santa Claus is gay, also. :D