Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[Obsidian7]

I've been seeing double numbers on the clock recently. Maybe the Universe has been trying to send out a good luck message?

Earlier, I learned that my noisy neighbour was seen leaving home with suitcases in May. One of my neighbours doesn't think he'll be back. It doesn't mean the absolute end but I'm hoping that it's a good sign. Because... I literally looked at the clock again after hearing that information. The time shown was my house number twice.

 

[Delta Vega]

To me unless you’re a certain kind of singer (Bob Dylan type, Gil Scot Heron type, etc), the aesthetics of the lyrics do more for the overall song than the story itself.

It’s not just about rhyming. Also alliteration, meter, visual evocativeness, etc.

There’s a lot of Beatles songs which if you just follow the story it’s a generic ’Guy likes girl’ story, but the poetic value makes it special.

Well. I ain't no Dylan or Scott Heron, so I'll just make do, ha ha

 

[cooleddie74]

Either rain or don't, but stop teasing us all with the ten-minute downpour that doesn't burn off all the mugginess and humidity. Ten minutes of rain followed by another day of choking humidity doesn't really help make the air more comfortable to feel on our skin.

Give us a long storm to cool things off or don't even bother. We need lots of moisture and a few minutes of rain just doesn't do it.

 

[Kor]

And some neighbor kids are still shooting off fireworks.

Kor

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

in two weeks time i've been hitching a ride on this planet for 52 laps around the sun,
watching nearly 19.000 sunsets...
over 450.000 hours have gone by
and i have been asleep for 15 years

 

[Jim Klag]

Can someone explain to me the premise of a TV show called Zombie House Flipping?

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Can someone explain to me the premise of a TV show called Zombie House Flipping?

That's a real thing?

 

[Jim Klag]

That's a real thing?

Yep. I think it was on A&E.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Yep. I think it was on A&E.

I remember when A&E used to stand for Arts and Entertainment.

 

[Discofan]

I remember when A&E used to stand for Arts and Entertainment.

O tempora o mores!

 

[Jim Klag]

O tempora o mores!

The times they are a-changin'.

 

[Discofan]

The times they are a-changin'.

Not for the better in this case.

 

[Jim Klag]

Here you go guys. It was definitely A&E.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5480646/

 

[Avro Arrow]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5480646/

So it's just a "flip this house" show, but it focuses on foreclosed and abandoned houses? Certainly not my cup of tea, but those type of shows seem to be popular, for some reason. I don't think it's a sign of the End Times™, or anything.

To be honest, I'm not really a fan of any type of "reality" show, whether flipping houses, surviving on an island somewhere, home renos, looking for valuable items in people's junk, or someone helping people clean their home. (A show about cleaning? Don't I get enough of that in my day-to-day life? ) But to each their own. I don't suspect that everyone likes the same types of shows that I like, either. (Although I would guess that the percentage of people who like the same types of shows I like would be much higher on this board, versus the population at large! )

 

[Jim Klag]

To be honest, I'm not really a fan of any type of "reality" show, whether flipping houses, surviving on an island somewhere, home renos, looking for valuable items in people's junk, or someone helping people clean their home. (A show about cleaning? Don't I get enough of that in my day-to-day life? ) But to each their own. I don't suspect that everyone likes the same types of shows that I like, either. (Although I would guess that the percentage of people who like the same types of shows I like would be much higher on this board, versus the population at large

I agree 100% about reality shows except for cooking shows. There are a few of those I like to watch.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I remain convinced that there is no such thing as true "reality TV", and that all shows which brand themselves as such are 100% scripted and pre-planned, just like any other show out there.

"Reality TV" is no more real than professional wrestling. It's all fake - ALL of it.

 

[Butters]

There are some reality shows that I like, although thinking about it, they’re probably not reality TV.

Life Below Zero
Shed and Buried

 

[Obsidian7]

I remain convinced that there is no such thing as true "reality TV", and that all shows which brand themselves as such are 100% scripted and pre-planned, just like any other show out there.

"Reality TV" is no more real than professional wrestling. It's all fake - ALL of it.

Uh oh... That old chestnut. Pro wrestling is predetermined. At least, the match result. Aside from a few planned 'high spots', most of the in ring action is done on the fly. It's like improv.

The physicality/athleticism is real. Landing spine first onto the ring apron (the hardest part of the ring) can't be faked. The wrestlers protect each other the best way they can but the risk of injury is real. Recently a wrestler had to get twelve staples to the back of the head due to an unprotected chairshot. (Which is stupid and dangerous given the new research on concussion injury.) Thankfully there was no concussion but the lip of the backrest caught him.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I remain convinced that there is no such thing as true "reality TV", and that all shows which brand themselves as such are 100% scripted and pre-planned, just like any other show out there.

"Reality TV" is no more real than professional wrestling. It's all fake - ALL of it.

Most of the 'reality shows' are heavily edited but they're not fully scripted. Like, I've heard they occasionally have them re-shoot dramatically crossing a finish line or things like that. But they don't change the results.

I also find it much more plausible that they got a bunch of people to hang out in a house or in an island for a month or two than they covered up a massive conspiracy for 20 years without a single person leaking the truth. That's a big part of what makes them so cheap to produce, you don't have to pay someone much who's just begging to be on TV.

Plus if they were scripted they'd be scripted better.

 

[Discofan]

We have all the material we need to clone a woolly mammoth, a species that has been extinct for 3,600 years!! There are still a few obstacles but we are progressively overcoming them. Experts think that we could have a baby mammoth in less than ten years. How cool is that?