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na§tee
02-14-2006, 04:33 AM
sky digital was always a bad idea. that's what i said at the beginning, but i take it back now.
when my flat just had four channels we would perhaps watch 95% channel4 goodness - good news, good documentaries, good trash, even. since sky entered our lives we now just have 500 more channels of absolute horseshit. we sit in our own filth [smeared plates of olive oil after eating salad, mostly] watching total, unashamed, trash.

as a trio our taste for trash differs quite wildly:
i am a sucker for e! news reports and all those "top 40 fucking gorgeous bodies over 40" shows. america's next top model. etc. i think this is not too much of a guilty pleasure.
sarah, however, is a bit of a disaster queen. i think i must have watched every single aircrash investigation. if it's a horrific accident and it's covered on tv, we've seen it. she's also one for [and i have to admit i like it too] documentaries about children with massive facial disfigurements or mutant babies or women with 500 pound tumours, etc. also everything on the reality channel like the world eating championships; now there's a show...
scott tries to disguise his trash under a thin veil of education. it'll veer from "when the good times/pets go bad.... 13!!" to documentaries about chernobyl but you know he's only watching it to see what radiation does to your body. that, and other historical documentaries which on one hand educate but on the other reveal the horrific things that have happened in the past in gory detail - nazi experiments etc.

i think we have a problem, rupert.
take it away so i can go back to watching channel4 news and richard and judy and that's it!
i have to go to america to see what trash awaits me there, methinks...

jackrock
02-14-2006, 04:35 AM
im a little confused, but i like the discovery channel, daily planet, the deadliest catch, dirty jobs, s'all good.

Gareth
02-14-2006, 12:59 PM
take it away so i can go back to watching...richard and judy and that's it!

richard and judy? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Judy_richard1.jpg)
not the greatest news reading team in the history of new zealand??
e! is always good times but my god i hate tara reid wild on.

burbboi
02-14-2006, 01:00 PM
Mythbusters!

Gareth
02-14-2006, 01:02 PM
yeah man that's my shit but it's definitely not trash tv.
kari byron (y)

burbboi
02-14-2006, 01:06 PM
oh crap, i misunderstood. Ok, trash....Passions or any other soap opera for that matter. Complete junk. I mean majic monkeys?

beastieangel01
02-14-2006, 01:19 PM
I think most people have a trash tv guilty pleasure.

I don't go out of my way to watch most things but if I happen to be sitting in front of the tv, I like to watch: discovery channel (mythbusters! or crazy shows about killer ants and stuff), discovery channel health (crazy abnormal body parts, growth, etc), I'll watch Room Raiders haha, America's Next Top Model... yeah. So it happens.

jabumbo
02-14-2006, 01:30 PM
yeah man that's my shit but it's definitely not trash tv.
kari byron (y)


hell yeah man

na§tee
02-15-2006, 03:10 AM
gareth's been all over this isht before.. i've been bemoaning it in emails recently, too, so i thought i would share it in a thread! :)

mythbusters.. sounds.. interesting. please elaborate.

tara reid falling over and being very drunk (and ugly, right?) is very amusing, too. 100 biggest celebrity OOOOOOPS!

watched a new aircrash investigation last night.. we thought we were gonna get some blasphemous voicebox recordings but alas, we didn't. just egyptian actors trying to do "zero gravity" as "moving very slowly with a pained face" on the plane.

Gareth
02-15-2006, 03:34 AM
mythbusters is a show on discovery where a team of mythbusters take a myth, re-enact it, and try to prove whether or not it is feasible.
like...for example, they had a jaws special where one of the tests was whether you could blow up a shark by shooting a high pressure canister that is lodged in its mouf with a big-ass gun.
it's fun cos they build cool shit and blow it up - the elements of a great tv show.

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html