Guilty Pleasures
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So, do you have any shows that would qualify? You don't have to say what it is. I'm not telling you mine! I just want to get it off my chest that I'm currently watching the absolute worst television possible. The kind of shit that'd give dutchy an aneurysm, if it ever got out that you watch it you'd lose friends, at least several on Facebook anyway. It's that bad, it's everything you're supposed to hate about American culture, and I keep watching it.
Ah, I feel better. --thanks.
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I think The Big Bang Theory applies here. It hasn't been good in years. Maybe never has been. Has been surpassed by the more genuine Silicon Valley. And yet; here I am.
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When I was recovering from a pretty radical cancer operation 8 years ago and stuck in bed and around the house for several weeks I got hooked on Friends. I watched every episode of every season.
I'm really really sorry though.
I'm really really sorry though.
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I generally hate reality TV, but I have been known to watch the occasional episode of The Only Way is Essex, Made in Chelsea and Celebs Go Dating.
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Rum wrote:When I was recovering from a pretty radical cancer operation 8 years ago and stuck in bed and around the house for several weeks I got hooked on Friends. I watched every episode of every season.
I'm really really sorry though.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Tipping Point.
It's on every weekday when I'm cooking tea. I didn't mean to watch it, honestly. It's that machine...kinda hypnotic...hard to not look at. Before I knew it, I was watching it most days.
I'm so ashamed...
It's on every weekday when I'm cooking tea. I didn't mean to watch it, honestly. It's that machine...kinda hypnotic...hard to not look at. Before I knew it, I was watching it most days.
I'm so ashamed...
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Battlebots.
The best robot gladiatorial fighting there is.
The best robot gladiatorial fighting there is.
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yeah, Friends was my guilty pleasure. I think that was the last one too. I only watch quality TV shows now. Actually, maybe some movies qualify. Thinking about it, maybe Fast and the Furious. Although, I watched number 7 the other night, and it was the most ridiculous movie I've ever seen. Levels of over-the-top that will be hard to match for years to come. I actually couldn't finish watching it it was so utterly ridiculous.Rum wrote:When I was recovering from a pretty radical cancer operation 8 years ago and stuck in bed and around the house for several weeks I got hooked on Friends. I watched every episode of every season.
I'm really really sorry though.
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I like a good, shit Jason Statham movie (has he made any other kind?). He is such a bad actor - worse than Segal and Van Damm. You can judge how crap the film is by how long it takes him to take his shirt off - must be in the contract - the earlier he strips to the waste the shittier the film. He proudly boast that he does all his own stunts and thinks other actors are pussies for using stuntmen. Many have said that he should stick to the action and use stuntactors for the dialogue. Cruel, but fair.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Worse than van Damme and Seagul? No way. He's no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Cate Blanchet. But he's not as bad as those other two. Have you seen Crank? He's good in that, although, a lot of the humour is generated by great directing and screenplay.
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I enjoy what the South Africans (including my ex-wife) call 'skop, skiet en donder' , literally kick, shoot and thunder.. Basically mindless action films where you don't have to think, just sit back and enjoy the ridiculous action. I guess that's my guilty pleasure.
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pErvinalia wrote:I enjoy what the South Africans (including my ex-wife) call 'skop, skiet en donder' , literally kick, shoot and thunder.. Basically mindless action films where you don't have to think, just sit back and enjoy the ridiculous action. I guess that's my guilty pleasure.
I'd always thought of you more as a 'snot en trane' sort of chap.
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Number 96, a soap opera produced on a shoestring budget about the lives and interactions of the people living in a block of flats. Between 1972 and 1977 the makers recorded 176 episodes per year on one inch videotape, over half of it in black and white because we had no colour TV in Australia at the time. The episodes were broadcast early in the evening and caused the Australian censorship board a lot of work because of the frequent scenes featuring full frontal nudity by the amply equipped Abigail Rogan who played the role of Bev Houghton. Less controversial was the openly gay lawyer in one of the flats. He was one of the few members of the ensemble who remained in the show from the first to the last episode. Neither the script nor the viewing public made homosexuality as such an issue.
Low-budget soap opera it was, but I never thought of it as a guilty pleasure. It was very much ahead of its time. Nobody overseas had the nerve to broadcast it. It was just too hot to handle. And I would not have lost any friends about watching it. They would have watched it themselves. The ratings were astronomical, at least in the first couple of years. I got bored and stopped watching well before ratings dropped because while the characters were reasonably well fleshed out for a soapie, they never changed in time.
Low-budget soap opera it was, but I never thought of it as a guilty pleasure. It was very much ahead of its time. Nobody overseas had the nerve to broadcast it. It was just too hot to handle. And I would not have lost any friends about watching it. They would have watched it themselves. The ratings were astronomical, at least in the first couple of years. I got bored and stopped watching well before ratings dropped because while the characters were reasonably well fleshed out for a soapie, they never changed in time.
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