Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

[Callisto]

Me too, but I still need to upgrade my cable and get Discovery HD and Animal Planet HD. ; ;

Meerkat Manor is my other favorite show lol...

[Feba]

Their 'myth busting' is "well we couldn't put anything together to get it to work so it must not."

Eh-- I'd agree with you for their earlier episodes, but if you watch their more recent ones they've been better at not leaving holes in their testing, or at least going back and reexamining things when their fans point out problems in it. You don't need to be a scientist to do scientific experiments, though, and arguing against them on the basis of their vocation is like condemning anyone that writes a book without a degree in English/Literature, or someone that preaches without having studied theology.

[Skoal]

I like Survivorman.

[Jarre]

I still find their show entertaining, also the one redhead is a bonus.
However, the absolute shit of Discovery shows, Blue Planet on a HD TV is insane!

Blue planet was made by the king of Nature documentaries Sir David Attenborough and BBC nature. He has made many of these series and is a person calssed as a british hero for all his work. If you liek Blue plannet then make sure you watch trails of life, another one of his epics and Planet earth. I have all his DVD boxsets and jsut to chill watching these on a big screen tv is absolutely (god i hate having to quote americanisms, but here goes) awesome.

[Callisto]

Hmm I'll look into those...

On a completely different subject since I'm in ADD mode...anyone ever play Maniac Mansion for NES?

[Jarre]

Heres a bit about David attenborough and all the series he has made, all worth watching if you enjoy nature.

[Mhurron]

Eh-- I'd agree with you for their earlier episodes, but if you watch their more recent ones they've been better at not leaving holes in their testing, or at least going back and reexamining things when their fans point out problems in it. You don't need to be a scientist to do scientific experiments, though, and arguing against them on the basis of their vocation is like condemning anyone that writes a book without a degree in English/Literature, or someone that preaches without having studied theology.

If they wrote a book about literature then yes, if they don't have qualifications related to English I'm going to look at that book as a waste of paper. Anyone that holds themselves up as an authority or reference on anything better have something to back that stance up.

Similarly if you're going to have a TV show that pretends to be a Science show and it's hosts have no qualifications then that show is not worth my time and should not be billed as a science show.

Also pulling things off like having a Phony Ph.D as an authority simply adds to the show being a waste of time and only on to appeal to the same drooling masses that Survivor and it's ilk does.

[Mhurron]

On the subject of documentaries, I miss the old Nova. I still remember sitting and watching the Voyager related 3 hour (or however long it was) special.

Unrelated - I also miss the Muppet show.

[Jarre]

Oh dear you mentioned the Muppets sorry just had to do this.....

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW7lHC9C1hQ&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]

On the documentary side, I do love the space docs on the planets, voyager etc.

[Callisto]

Also pulling things off like having a Phony Ph.D as an authority simply adds to the show being a waste of time and only on to appeal to the same drooling masses that Survivor and it's ilk does.

Whoa there, tiger. Lumping in together people who find Mythbusters entertaining with 'reality show' viewers isn't exactly fair, lol. I may have killed some brain cells in my days but I'm not completely fucking retarded.

[Ziero]

Yeah it was good with Clive Anderson, Tony Slattery was just bizzaar, in teh first 2 series they even had Peter cook, Stephen Fry and Rory bremner on it. I remember when it was on the radio first!!
In the american version you'd never get Ryan stiles doing an impression of a horny dog with his arm as its dick and humping colins leg, that was fine on the uk version but would have been banned on the US one!
The producers of teh US one just censored everything inc ase it hurt someones feelings, here it was so what its comedy!!

Actually, it was more that it was aimed at a differernt target demographic then the types of censors affect what gets on TV. Here, it was meant to be a more 'family friendly' show as it's aired by the ABC networks, which are a susidiary of Disney. This is most prominantly seen in the fact that, over here, Who's Line is it Anyway is most often aired on the "ABC Family" network. Drew Carry on his own, much like many other 'family sitcom' comedians, are much funnier when they're not leashed to 'family programing'. But again, this is less to do with censorship and worrying about hurting people's feelings in the US and more to do with targeting a broad age group of viewers.

I mean, we are the nation that brings you South Park after all...and very few shows push the censors like that one.

Though the original british version was much much funnier.

[Akashimo]

Ok, the nice talk failed. Time for plan B.
We're gonna have to remove the non-believers

This is mhurron's near future, maybe murphie if his path does not change.

[Jarre]

mmmmm Taru on a stick me Galka like....

[LyonheartLakshmi]

On a completely different subject since I'm in ADD mode...anyone ever play Maniac Mansion for NES?

YES!

[Neomage]

I like Survivorman.

As do I. I think this, Mythbusters and How It's Made as my top three shows. I really don't like Man v.s. wild though.