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[Peter Irving]

drawkcabi is the cheap thrill snark value?

Would Chris chandler count?

Edited by Peter Irving, 14 November 2009 - 12:21 AM.

[drawkcabi]

Peter Irving, on Nov 14 2009, 00.11, said:

drawkcabi is the cheap thrill snark value?

Would Chris chandler count?

Actually the cheap thrill is what others would get by watching horror movies which I don't really care for. But I like to watch the Nostradamus or 2012 or whatever documentaries, especially late at night, and let my mind go to a place where I think "what if it's true?" and just let myself get freaked out about it.

Once it's over though the reality of how much bullshit it all was immediately sets right in whether I want it to or not.

But that's why it's a guilty pleasure for me cause it is so stupid and fake but it's fun to trick myself into getting carried away with it for a little while.

[Peter Irving]

so you put yourself into the mind of a person who really does believe nostradamus was talking about Hitler when he referred to the Hissler overflowing?

[drawkcabi]

Peter Irving, on Nov 14 2009, 00.46, said:

so you put yourself into the mind of a person who really does believe nostradamus was talking about Hitler when he referred to the Hissler overflowing?

I try to but there's always a voice in the back of my head going "Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.." but I try to counter it with "what if, what if, what if...?"

It really only works halfway decently late at night.

ETA: When I was a kid I saw that Nostradamus movie hosted by Orson Welles that had him predictig nuclear war by the end of the 1990's and it scared me shitless. Maybe I'm trying to recapture that old thrill.

Edited by Drawkcabi, 14 November 2009 - 12:54 AM.

[Peter Irving]

you know you talking about trying to convince yourself that they're right reminds me of this character in Robert Anton Wilson Book , The Universe Next door. Who does something similar but with the Readers Digest.

[Datepalm]

Kat, on Nov 14 2009, 01.14, said:

I like Lady Gaga, and I don't even feel all that guilty about it.

Me too. I could wax about the deconstruction of adolescent pop star sexuality, but I just think she has catchy songs.

Also those BBC Prime shows about remaking junk or houses or real estate or gardens. But not cooking.

[Rexor]

To be honest, I've gotten beyond the point where I consider anything I like a "guilty pleasure". If I like it, I like it...no shame or guilt in any of that.

[Brude]

Drawkcabi, on Nov 14 2009, 00.37, said:

Actually the cheap thrill is what others would get by watching horror movies which I don't really care for. But I like to watch the Nostradamus or 2012 or whatever documentaries, especially late at night, and let my mind go to a place where I think "what if it's true?" and just let myself get freaked out about it.

Yeah, that's right there with my UFO Hunters thing (they often run them back-to-back with that stuff).  The great thing about UFO Hunters is the dynamic they have set up on that show.  Basically, they've got three points of view from the three main investigators:

1. The Guy in the Hat - This guy is the editor for one of the UFO magazines, always wears a hat with the UFO Hunters logo and mirrored sunglasses and basically believes everything anyone tells him, without question.  Somebody says, "I saw such-and-such" and he immediately assumes they are credible and are telling the truth and even starts inventing even more convoluted scenarios for their sighting than the witnesses were willing to speculate about.  He's hilarious!

2.  The Guy Who Wants to Believe - this guy is sort of like me, but a bit more gullible.  Really wants it all to be true, but tries very hard to remain objective and scientific about his investigations.  Still, he often goes along with believing some stuff that has little foundation in the evidence.  He believes about 50% of what he sees, maybe.

3. The Skeptic - This guy is a scientist, PhD and all that, and when he joined the show in (I think) season 2, he was a complete skeptic and pretty much thought the other two guys on the show were nuts for believing any of it.  Interestingly, over the course of two seasons he has become much more open minded to the fact that SOMETHING is going on.  He's not at the point where he'll say there are aliens visiting us, but he does now think that at the very least the government is testing things that are WAY beyond any technology that the general public knows about.  At the most, he's I think now open to the notion that maybe - just maybe - these things are from somewhere else.  One time when the group was shown photos of a deformed fetal calf in the Cattle Mutilation episode, this guy actually freaked out and thought that maybe something really sinister and alien was happening.  It took the The Guy Who Wants to Believe to bring him back to earth on that one and suggest that it could just be a random deformity (it was especially weird looking, though).  I think in that case it had to do with The Skeptic being confronted with something pretty far out in a field he wasn't too familiar with (biology).

Between the three of them they pretty well cover all points of view.

Edited by Brude, 14 November 2009 - 01:52 AM.

[Walter Paisley]

I watch a lot of those "Ghost Hunters" type shows just to see which one of them will be buried alive/locked in a morgue freezer/strapped to a gurney. It's usually the fat guy on the team, but whoever it is, they'll be "attacked" and get to yell some variation of "WHO ARE YOU! WHAT DO YOU WANT! SHOW YOURSELF!!!".

Also fun is when they bring out the device that converts "energy' into one syllable words like go, sad, or bad via a Microsoft Sam voice.

[Isis]

The Dog Whisperer.  I can generally only get away with this one when Mr Isis is out of the house.

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Also fun is when they bring out the device that converts "energy' into one syllable words like go, sad, or bad via a Microsoft Sam voice.

:lol:  That sounds completely scientific.  Now tell me exactly which show it is so that I can see it myself.

[Walter Paisley]

I'm pretty sure it was GHOST ADVENTURES on the Sci-Fi Channel (or SyFy :o as they call themselves now). This is a show where in one episode the main Ghost Hunter gets bored with bumbling about in some condemned building so FOR NO DISCERNIBLE REASON they decide to just film his attempts to pick up a snake he finds in some adjacent field.

I even think they mocked that episode on THE SOUP.

[Isis]

That sounds cringe-inducingly awful: I must see it.

[Insert Edit]

Ro_, on Nov 14 2009, 04.29, said:

I don't really feel guilty about any media I enjoy, but I do try to keep www.youporn.com to myself. :P


Oh, actually, my guilty pleasure is burping at my kitten and watching his face when he smells it. HILARITY!

29 posts until porn is mentioned?  Heh.

[Analu]

arizonahotrock, on Nov 13 2009, 20.33, said:

To be honest, I've gotten beyond the point where I consider anything I like a "guilty pleasure". If I like it, I like it...no shame or guilt in any of that.

That's pretty much how I feel.

When I have the TV to myself and just want something in the background, I always have it on the Food Network, which gets me some flak but I feel no guilt over. I've cockroached some pretty sweet recipes this way.

Living with 4 girls (including my daughters), always have a bunch of iCarly, Hannah Montana stuff on the DVR, and I am a little ashamed to admit that once they walked in on me watching iCarly by myself. Hey, there was literally nothing us on. I swear

[Tears of Lys]

Isis, on Nov 14 2009, 07.55, said:

The Dog Whisperer. I can generally only get away with this one when Mr Isis is out of the house.

You shouldn't feel guilty about that one at all.  Well, at least I don't.  I've picked up some good tips on that show, actually.

Do you ever catch Victoria Stilwell?

Walter Paisley, on Nov 14 2009, 11.55, said:

I'm pretty sure it was GHOST ADVENTURES on the Sci-Fi Channel (or SyFy :o as they call themselves now). This is a show where in one episode the main Ghost Hunter gets bored with bumbling about in some condemned building so FOR NO DISCERNIBLE REASON they decide to just film his attempts to pick up a snake he finds in some adjacent field.

I even think they mocked that episode on THE SOUP.

And rightly so.  How they can make an entire series about "bumbling about in a condemned building" and people ACTUALLY WATCH IT is mind boggling.  

But I shouldn't laugh and point, really.  I've not even mentioned some of the crap I've been sucked into.

[Isis]

Tears of Lys, on Nov 14 2009, 19.51, said:

You shouldn't feel guilty about that one at all.  Well, at least I don't.  I've picked up some good tips on that show, actually.

The key here is that I've never owned a dog - I'm just unendingly fascinated by the way he communicates with the animals on the show.  It looks like magic!  Of course, if you watch it long enough it all makes perfect, logical sense and isn't magical at all.  And maybe I have a bit of thing for alpha males too. :blush:

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Do you ever catch Victoria Stilwell?

Is that the English woman ('It's me or the dog' or something like that) whose answer to every single behavioural problem is to distract the dogs with treats?  If so, then yes, but I'm not a fan.  Give me Cesar instead!

[Ser Howsmelly]

E! channel. Though there are some levels that I will not stoop to ( that I have mentioned on other threads ) such as fake reality shows and shows involving Denise Richards and Pamela Anderson.
I know that a lot of it is recycling gossip that is construed from other people's uninformed opinions (re: THS) but anyway... My faves..

- Running in Heels
- Sunset Tan
- The Soup
- OG Girls of Playboy Mansion
- Chelsea Lately is slowly growing on me but I do think that she is ugly and not really that funny. Or original.

Discovery Channel

- Man v Wild
- No Reservations
- Little People, Big World
- Jon n Kate
- Project Runway

man i'm tragic....

[Tears of Lys]

Isis, on Nov 15 2009, 04.43, said:

The key here is that I've never owned a dog - I'm just unendingly fascinated by the way he communicates with the animals on the show. It looks like magic! Of course, if you watch it long enough it all makes perfect, logical sense and isn't magical at all. And maybe I have a bit of thing for alpha males too. :blush:

Is that the English woman ('It's me or the dog' or something like that) whose answer to every single behavioural problem is to distract the dogs with treats? If so, then yes, but I'm not a fan. Give me Cesar instead!

Yes!  She never explains how to train a dog who's NOT influenced by treats.  My folks have one who is as picky as a cat.  And she seems to get a lot of people on her show whose pets shit all over their houses, which is fairly amusing.

Cesar "rehabilitates dogs, but trains people" as he says.  I got a thing for his pit bull "Daddy."  :love:  Daddy's dog-handling skills are legendary.

[Jaxom 1974]

Ro_, on Nov 14 2009, 03.29, said:

I don't really feel guilty about any media I enjoy, but I do try to keep www.youporn.com to myself. :P

How dare you keep that to yourself!  :P

Guiltily, I admit to enjoying Brothers and Sisters and I'm actually a little fascinated by The Little Couple...