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I agree;
With less choice, the quality was also higher, I think, but we all watched the same shows and either liked them or not. IN the days of 3 channels it was relatively rare in my household to have two shows on simultaneously that we wanted to watch.
Now I flick through the channels and the only shows that register are those I have heard of somehow.
If a new show is on satellite & I haven't seen some preview or review, I will tend to skip right past it (unless the title includes words that cannot be repeated here!)
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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Your "history" is pretty much the same as mine, except that I wasn't in the country when the fifth channel was added, and it wasn't news where I was, so I was surprised to find it when I got back.
The trouble I have nopw is that I either have to record everything then find Chinese subtitles that fit (or amend them to fit), or download versions that already have the subtitles.
That restricts what I can watch by a lot -- i.e. news, current affairs, etc. are now all read on the Interweb, rather than watched in TV-show format, and Almost No Reality TV!!! (May the Lord be Praised!)
Like you say, though, I don't get to hear about many new programs -- except the crappiest ones, which are always over-advertised -- e.g. I only just found out that a SHIELD show will be starting soon (I was a Man from UNCLE, complete with ID card, badge, and secret decoder, when I was five, so this has to be my kind of show!)
I'm probably wrong, but it feels to me that the content of TV was a lot better when there were only three channels; there was almost always something worth watching -- and when there wasn't, we'd just do something else.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... and funnily enough more accurate.
speramus in juniperus
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Damn!
Quick!
Where can I get a Lightning S cable!
GOOGLE HELP ME!!!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mac and Windows have been stealing ideas from each other from the start.
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djj55 wrote: Mac and Windows have been stealing ideas from each other Xerox from the start.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I could not remember if it was Xerox or Sun.
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djj55 wrote: I could not remember if it was Xerox or Sun.
Answer: Xerox Star
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CBadger wrote: O the irony indeed!
Why?
If you want to do something then taking advice from someone who screwed it up seems like a good idea to me.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: taking advice from someone who screwed it up seems like a good idea to me.
Ok you got me there, that is a really good point indeed!
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CBadger wrote: Any thoughts?
Yes. What if Oxygen is really a poison that takes about 75 years to take affect? Or to continue todays theme, What if Oxygen makes our voices deep and Helium just restores it to it's normal levels? Either way I think I'm going to stop inhaling it.
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They really do sell some good sh!t in Havant these days...
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Just work in Havant, live on Hayling and buy my sh*t in Pompey.
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What if this is not a discussion but a statement. What if you are are under the impression that you can think and freedom is merely a way to keep us imprisoned in this sudo reality and in fact we can do much more than this matrix allows and allows us to think we can do!?
What if you are not buying any sh*t in pompey but really are just finally breaking free from your holocaust dream enthralling shell of a vessel?
Freedom to the .... *weird light goes off and brightens whole room with an eiry feeling of a slimy object reaching into your brain*
O look it a perfectly normal day without any realisation of what is truely going on for this is reality and the truth and no hidden reality whatsoever. ZZZzzzZZZzzz
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CBadger wrote: this sudo reality
Reality runs on Unix?
(Or did you mean "pseudo reality"?)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
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Hmmm... that explains why
pseudo apt-get update
isn't working for me today.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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Richard Deeming wrote: (Or did you mean "pseudo reality"?)
So why on earth would I mean pseudo?
Richard Deeming wrote: Reality runs on Unix?
It runs on 1's and 0's. And that is all i can say *FLASH*
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PB 369,783 wrote: What if Oxygen is really a poison
Yes, it is[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey[^]
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Anyone watching this?
I'm hopelessly addicted even more so now I'm being drip-fed the last few episodes week by week like in the olden days. (I watched the first 4 and a half series on Netflix at my leisure).
I know there's a debate on Netflix changing our viewing habits because they put a whole series out there in one go, but I have to say the old way is better. You get to stew the last episode over for a whole week and the anticipation to the next one builds. You lose all this when the next episode is there instantly.
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PB 369,783 wrote: I know there's a debate on Netflix changing our viewing habits because they put a whole series out there in one go, but I have to say the old way is better. You get to stew the last episode over for a whole week and the anticipation to the next one builds. You lose all this when the next episode is there instantly.
I agree. That's why I prefer my DVR to Netflix.
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I tend not to watch many of these big dramas, but I did get hooked on The Wire which was shown in the UK on consecutive nights.
I recorded these, and tended to watch them back 2 or 3 at a time.
There are other things that I have recorded and then not got around to watching until the whole series has been recorded, not through any deliberate ploy, just having the time and / or inclination to set down and watch.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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The only UK show I watch is MI-5. Back in the day, I used to watch The Professionals (CI5) and this is just as great.
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