Home schooling? You know, it's not just for scary religious people anymore.

Buffy ,'Beneath You'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


lisah - Feb 06, 2011 6:08:14 pm PST #21478 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

There's never ever going to be another 1984 Apple commercial

Really, not that Pepsi commercial? Evidently, men like to think about sex and women like to think about feelings! It's REVOLUTIONARY!


Amy - Feb 06, 2011 6:13:09 pm PST #21479 of 30001
Because books.

I don't have to watch the game to watch "Superbowl commercials" now. Which I think has had an effect on the commercials.

Oh, I agree. I just hadn't thought about how advertisers can actually pay for a shorter spot now, and know that a good longer version is going to get seen anyway. That must make the networks nervous.


Cass - Feb 06, 2011 6:19:56 pm PST #21480 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Evidently, men like to think about sex and women like to think about feelings! It's REVOLUTIONARY!

Some really annoying commercial I keep seeing is talking about how you should be able to get the channels you want and not the ones you don't. Examples include no kids programming and no shopping channels cause you're a dude.

EFFFFFF UUUUUUUUU! I just want to be able to get Speed Channel. And now? I will not be giving you my monies. Because I have ovaries and want the sporty vroom shit but not your seriously offensiveness.

I want to watch vampires, race cars, science stuff, archeology and various Brit shows. Where is the package for me, man?


billytea - Feb 06, 2011 6:23:02 pm PST #21481 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I want:

  • Nature programs with actual informational content.
  • Music channels that play actual music.

That's about it, really.


Cass - Feb 06, 2011 6:30:18 pm PST #21482 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I just wish I could pay per channel. I'd honestly pay a lot for Speed Channel.

The fact that I can't watch Formula One anywhere or any way else keeps me stuck on cable. I'd happily pay $20 per F1 race.

Nature programs with actual informational content.

Those are the best!


billytea - Feb 06, 2011 6:38:14 pm PST #21483 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Those are the best!

We now have a channel, Nat Geo Wild, which does just this. (Our Animal Planet is still a step up from yours, insofar as yours is overrun with America's Funniest Pet Videos and we have at least opted to be overrun with Animal Cops: Detroit. Neither, however, holds a candle to Nat Geo Wild.) Nonetheless, at present I'm just as likely to take advantage of the strong Aussie dollar and buy an Attenborough from Amazon UK.

We also have seven Actual Music channels. There's also MTV, but that's all Real World and such like.


Kat - Feb 06, 2011 6:38:36 pm PST #21484 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Which is why I am deeply relieved and happy right now, even though my team wasn't anywhere near the championship, because our arch-enemy was, and they lost. Ha!

Liese, sometime how similar we are scares me!


Cass - Feb 06, 2011 6:48:57 pm PST #21485 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I want a channel called Things David Attenborough Would Narrate and another called Things Neil DeGrasse Tyson Would Narrate and one more called Things Bob Varsha Would Narrate (vroom cars). Everything else I can get online. If you don't talk about mass migrations, supernova or why Ferrari f duct system is different, I don't need you on my tv, I can get you elsewhere if I care.


Connie Neil - Feb 06, 2011 6:58:19 pm PST #21486 of 30001
brillig

Taxes are done! Yay Turbo Tax! I never would have thought of all those deductions, and the federal refund will nearly cover all the outstanding IRS bill.


Steph L. - Feb 06, 2011 7:21:53 pm PST #21487 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Yikes, this Superbowl is close. There will be no fingernails left in Wisconsin or Pittsburgh.

Or in any of the homes across the country that are united in their Steeler hate.

IOW, SUCK IT, ROETHLISBERGER.