BS: Television

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jan 16 - 09:54 PM

"I have experience, a great beard, and I know how to look after people"

Excuse me If I'm mistaken, but you wouldn't by any chance be God.. would you ???????

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Jan 16 - 09:46 PM

I'll settle for an antisocial woman then. Jaysus, at my age and in my condition I can't be choosy.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,hiloniyut
Date: 31 Jan 16 - 08:30 PM

 Social woman heaven forfend

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Jan 16 - 06:40 PM

You never know. I have experience, a great beard, and I know how to look after people...

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jan 16 - 06:21 PM

Can't see that ever happening for a while, Steve Shaw ( - ;

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: gillymor
Date: 31 Jan 16 - 11:33 AM

Lots of good stuff is available online, Mozart in the Jungle in particular and PBS has archived all kinds of shows like Nova and American Experience.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Jan 16 - 08:38 AM

Compare, that's all, JUST COMPARE, your state of mind, (if you can even remember what that is), with a peaceful walk in the woods, or a natural setting....then when you return to the house, flip on your T.V., and note the difference.

Just to please you, goofus. Well, not really I was going anyway. Still, I did 7.5 miles this morning up to Lund's tower and back through Cowling and Lyndhurst woods. State of mind. Relaxed. Happy. Peaceful.

Had a bite to eat then watched the next episode of Jessica Jones. State of mind. Relaxed. Happy. Peaceful. Pretty much like it always is except when I have to put up with some of the complete bollocks on here.

You know nothing about me. State of mind or otherwise. But that does not stop you from making it up. There are words for people that do that. Not sure if fool or idiot is the most apt.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Jan 16 - 07:59 AM

Would be ok for me, in my case, to request that I be overlaid by a social woman?

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,hiloniyut
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 10:49 PM

This forfends what one may call the natural development of the natural man so overlaid with social man.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 10:05 PM

Do you think that looking at your computer screen in like watching T.V.??

Enjoy!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 06:46 PM

What do they call it in America ? "circle jerk ???"

the TV set would have to be in the middle, but not everyone would be able to watch it
unless the circle was constantly on the move rotating ?

But maybe that's not so unusual in America ????

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 05:47 PM

'Guest: "Don't know, thanks for the invite, but sitting next to another guy would be a little too uncomfortable ?"

Why?
Frigid?

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 04:52 PM

Anyway, where the bloody hell is Musket when you want to crow about Sheffield Wednesday's abject dismissal from the Cup by a lower league team? I can't get no bloody satisfaction...

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 04:24 PM

"Well you sound pretty well knowledgeable about it..care to share your experiences!"

Don't know, thanks for the invite, but sitting next to another guy would be a little too uncomfortable ?

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 03:33 PM

Guest, (with obviously understandable reasons), Well you sound pretty well knowledgeable about it..care to share your experiences!

Backwoodsman: "More completely unintelligible gobblygook...(blah blah blah)"

Well, being a 'backwoodsman' I'm sure your comment reflects a certain politically induced dementia, not knowing what I'm talking about!!

I'm sure my post, which seems to have 'disturbed' the local gang of trolls is actually pretty clear. If you have any ability to think and reason, I'm sure you know exactly what I've suggested.
So while you're playing 'dumb' I'm surprised you haven't awakened Greg F. from his under-the-bridge slumber....because 'Guest', Backwoodsman' and 'Dave the Gnutt' are getting absolutely NO traction, pretending to be stupid...Fair enough??

No take your walk in the woods, and avoid suspicious looking bridges.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 02:08 PM

Perhaps you are over romanticising the state of being instinctive in nature.
Many folks can be very instinctive in front of porn on the TV

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 01:59 PM

More completely unintelligible gobbledygook. Whatever it is he's on, can I have some please?

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 01:20 PM

An almost 'nice' try to twist what I posted, but nonetheless a stupid post, Dave....so, I'll accommodate your lack of comprehension one more time.

Compare, that's all, JUST COMPARE, your state of mind, (if you can even remember what that is), with a peaceful walk in the woods, or a natural setting....then when you return to the house, flip on your T.V., and note the difference.

That's ALL...no need to ASS-ume anything beyond that!

Simple....and I'm not attacking you, though you may wish to ASS-ume otherwise!!

There are INSTINCTS, natural to humans, (and most all living creatures on the planet), whose natural instincts are made more prevalent in nature, than those, INDUCED by artificial stimulation.

Why should that be so hard to grasp???

As a side note: This is SUPPOSED to be a forum in which MUSICIANS give their views, and thoughts about various subjects. As a musician, you'd THINK(?) that you'd appreciate the THOUGHT(?) about someone reminding you, as a MUSICIAN, to stay in touch with our inherent instincts, instead of instantly turning a useful SUGGESTION, into some twisted, politically based SPIN SESSION.
OK??

Is that simple enough for you??
If not, see if you can ask a friend to help you understand it...or maybe you can ask your T.V.....

...or maybe take a quiet, peaceful walk in the woods, or a natural setting, and take some time to REFLECT!!

...you might even have a new tune pop into your head.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 11:44 AM

Musket, no, sorry. I had to let the monkey go. He had starting reading goofus's posts and was pissing himself laughing all the time...

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 11:42 AM

From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity - PM
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 03:03 PM

...Apparently you must watch a LOT of T.V....enough to not be able to read and comprehend something simple, as suggested in my post...and then you try to interpret it into something else that I was NOT alluding to... Notice the difference in the peace, and depth of thought, vs jumping into the world of make believe??...

Ahhhh, OK. were you referring to this "peace and depth of thought"

Just THINK(for a change) on how much you think you know.
IE, the peace that you induce with the confrontational "think for a change"?

Or was it the depth of thought that lets you state
how much you think you know...that you got from television, and the accumulation of fictionalized 'facts'!
In other words your assumption that other people all get their information from the TV?

Or maybe it was the fact that you seem to believe that no one who watches TV does anything else? As in
just for an experiment: Go out into the woods, or somewhere in nature, take a long walk,

The whole post was, in summary, the complete and utter shite I had it pegged as in the first place.

I'll tell you what. I'll agree to 'read and comprehend' what you write when you
a) Learn to address people you do not know in a reasonable manner
b) Stop making stupid assumptions and
c) Educate yourself in the correct use of the English language.

If you find that too complicated for your tiny mind I'll make it simple. Fuck off and don't come back until you know how to behave in decent company.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 06:30 AM

Huh. Man U splutter on... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 06:21 AM

Hi Steve

Sorry for hiccup.

Yes it was a great goal. OK just a wee smidgen offside, must have been almost impossible to see that real time.

In fact the third goal too was ever so slightly off side....but hey we need all the luck we can get.

Not a bad game to watch but certainly not a classic.

Right result for us though...

Cheers

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 30 Jan 16 - 06:15 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 04:59 PM

Hey, MikeL2, another blinding goal from Rooney tonight. Except that the bugger was offside! We deserve better. :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 03:32 PM

... or in other words..

if there's nothing good to watch on the telly, settle back and have a good wank...

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 03:31 PM

Post in wrong reality for that matter...

Hey Dave! Does your monkey butler do agency work in his spare time? I can only pay peanuts like, but the fringe benefits are ok. I'm used to flinging shit so he could fit right in.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 03:03 PM

Dave the Gnutt: "Talking of big bollocks reminded to me address GfS's usual shite. I walk in the countryside. A lot. Where I go there is often no mobile signal anyway. I still enjoy the TV. More than ever now due to the plethora of choice via network devices. For some reason or another there are nutters like goofus who think that people who watch TV cannot do anything else."

Apparently you must watch a LOT of T.V....enough to not be able to read and comprehend something simple, as suggested in my post...and then you try to interpret it into something else that I was NOT alluding to..(happens all the time with political party minds). What I suggested was to, "... then go home and turn on the tube.
Notice the difference in the peace, and depth of thought, vs jumping into the world of make believe??"

I'm sure you can COMPARE, can't you????....or have you been reduced mentally, of not comprehending either the post, a suggestion, or something that the 'party', didn't indoctrinate you for????

Never mind. Go back to your T.V. and become an expert at being mind numb....and only aware of what reality you've become PROGRAMMED to!!

GfS

P.S. Besides, being 'mind numb' makes for BORING, unimaginative, regurgitated 'music'(?).

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 12:29 PM

That decision was a horror. The pity is that a goal at that juncture must have had a terrible psychological effect on Everton. When a similar outrage happened to Liverpool the day before, at least the "goal" didn't turn the game. The players and the fans deserve better than these lousy decisions. They pay bloody good money to watch what should be well-run matches and the game is richer than Croesus. Let's have the technology.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 11:12 AM

Hi Michael

<"All these narrative ads, which seem to consist of a series of random and arbitrary 'happenings' & images, to me frequently add up to no comprehensible content whatever; often I can't even make out what·the·hell product is being 'advertised'!">

Couldn't agree more. I am so glad you posted this: I thought it was only me that had this problem. Thought dementia was setting in.

Cheers

Mike

Ps did anyone see Man City's goal against Everton ??? Oh dear Lines man !!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 08:18 AM

Agreed about the Egypt series. It was compelling, and that stuff doesn't usually grab me unless I go/have been there. I've recorded Richard Fortey's series about islands. Must find a spare three hours to watch it!

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 06:49 AM

I don't watch a great deal of television but the recent airing of Immortal Egypt with Professor Joann Fletcher presenting was superb. Her enthusiasm for the subject is brilliant and possibly contagious. I can't be bothered with soaps, have no interest in the "property porn" am a good enough chef to be able to ignore the cooking shows, (although I do sometimes watch James Martin, again his enthusiasm is worth it) Football and Rugby Sport I will sometimes watch, however if crickets on it is difficult to get me away from the screen.

I dislike television in pubs with a passion. I've never quite figured out how a licensee can have television and a radio or jukebox playing at the same time. Beggars belief in my book. Frankly I can do without either of them. Jukeboxes being the spawn of the devil.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 06:30 AM

Musket - My regret remains not owning a monkey butler.

I thought everyone had one nowadays? How do you live without... :-)

Talking of big bollocks reminded to me address GfS's usual shite. I walk in the countryside. A lot. Where I go there is often no mobile signal anyway. I still enjoy the TV. More than ever now due to the plethora of choice via network devices. For some reason or another there are nutters like goofus who think that people who watch TV cannot do anything else.

On mainstream TV I am enjoying -

Endeavour (Just finished. Not going to watch 'Vera')
Jericho
Winterwatch
Midsummer Murders
Death in Paradise

On the net enjoying
Netflix 'Jessica Jones'.
Amazon 'Vikings'
Kodi via Raspberry Pi, any film that takes my fancy and
YouTube 'Have Gun Will Travel' :-)

Still find time to read, play music, enjoy the Grandkids, Walk, work, sleep and all sorts of other things:-)

Enjoy anything and everything - You only live once!

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 04:42 AM

Wilma's mouth tackles Fred and Barney's big bollocks

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 04:01 AM

I'm a non-fiction man on the whole, in spite of the bollix that I post here at times

There's an intergalactic lawman by the name of Officer Bolix (wonderfully played by Werner Klemperer) who crops up in Irwin Allen's seminal 60s TV sci-fi Lost in Space (series one, episode 26 (!) : All that Glitters). Just the one L, but the cast have great fun pronouncing it as if it has two throughout.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,theleveller
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 03:51 AM

"Smartarse ad-agency pundits are taking over the world. Let us UNITE TO DEFEAT THEM, I say..."

I'd like to help but I've pretty much retired from the business.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,theleveller
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 03:47 AM

I've found that not posting very often on Mudcat gives me more time to watch telly - and for all the other things I love, such as reading, writing, walking and volunteering for the Woodland Trust.

Back in the day, I used to watch television mainly for the commercials, which were mostly far superior to the programmes. Hardly surprising when you consider that it's where some great directors like Alan Parker, Ridley and Tony Scott, Nic Roeg, Richard Loncraine and others learned their craft - to say nothing of the superb British film technicians, editors and sound recordists. Nowadays most of the commercials are rubbish, with one or two gems, and the programmes have also deteriorated (is there a correlation?). Even so, amongst the interminable drivel of reality and talent shows, there are still some programmes I wouldn't want to have missed. It's part of being the well-rounded and well-adjusted person that I am :0

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Lapid
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 03:16 AM

"The couch potato marathon gold medal goes to Britain"

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 03:05 AM

Back in the '70s, when children's telly was a couple of hours at teatime, there was a programme called "Why don't you turn off your television set and go and do something less boring instead." I think that was the title. It featured ideas of things to do (other than stand on street corners or lob bricks through the youth club window.)

There's irony for you.

Michael. I wouldn't worry. Probably not marketed at your particular sector...

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 02:51 AM

Just THINK(for a change) on how much you think you know...that you got from television, and the accumulation of fictionalized 'facts'!..whether it be movies or fictionalized 'news'.

just for an experiment: Go out into the woods, or somewhere in nature, take a long walk, after leaving your cell phones at home, or any other device of artificial stimulation, then go home and turn on the tube.
Notice the difference in the peace, and depth of thought, vs jumping into the world of make believe??

'...and now a word from our sponsors...'

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 29 Jan 16 - 12:41 AM

Steve: Something we do have in common, however much we may differ on some issues, is this inability to fill in the holes in the plots of so much tv drama. I genuinely think it isn't just us, it's writers vainly struggling for too much mystifying originality of effect who are to blame.

Which reminds me of a beef I have with contemp commercial channels:-

All these narrative ads, which seem to consist of a series of random and arbitrary 'happenings' & images, to me frequently add up to no comprehensible content whatever; often I can't even make out what·the·hell product is being 'advertised'!

Smartarse ad-agency pundits are taking over the world. Let us UNITE TO DEFEAT THEM, I say... Tho quite how I'm none too sure.

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Jan 16 - 06:00 PM

Nah, it's Taunton and Bude.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Will Fly
Date: 28 Jan 16 - 05:56 PM

Apparently large swathes of the north west of England are soon going to be amalgamated to form a new county called "Developershire".This new regional designation finally acknowledges that most of the region belongs to developers and most of the local authorities exist purely to service developers' needs, accede to their demands and give them every assistance in their schemes to concrete over as much as possible.

Hah! I thought that was West Sussex...

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 28 Jan 16 - 05:49 PM

"Lancashire is the Somewhere where things used to be; it is these new non-creations like Greater This'n'That & Somethingside & Wotsit·West ..."

News just in!

Apparently large swathes of the north west of England are soon going to be amalgamated to form a new county called "Developershire".This new regional designation finally acknowledges that most of the region belongs to developers and most of the local authorities exist purely to service developers' needs, accede to their demands and give them every assistance in their schemes to concrete over as much as possible.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Jan 16 - 05:32 PM

I can't follow plots and Mrs Steve rips my head off if I keep having to ask what's going on. The films I love are all the Pink Panthers, Butch Cassidy, all the Naked Guns, Airplane! And Blazing Saddles. I always watch 2001 when it comes on the telly though I haven't a clue what it's all about. I never read novels. I'm a non-fiction man on the whole, in spite of the bollix that I post here at times. ;-) Mind you, I get a fair bit of fiction on this website!

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 28 Jan 16 - 03:44 PM

Keith. Can I have royalty payments for you using "treasure trove?"

My regret remains not owning a monkey butler.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 28 Jan 16 - 02:12 PM

MGM - that was me asking [forgot to type my name again]...

Despite my adult life of lefty liberal progressive social / cultural politics..

I still love cowboy, war, and space movies...

Can't help it, I'm a product of a 1960s council estate TV enthralled childhood...

[apparently us lefties are allowed to admit to enjoying some sci fi ...???]

Thanks, there are films on your list that have passed out of my memory
that i can check out again.....



..anyway, I'll say a mixture of encyclopaedias, wide ranging TV viewing, and American super hero comics
all gave me the breadth of knowledge and interests & immagination to pass the 11 plus and 'move up' to grammar school...

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 28 Jan 16 - 01:57 PM

Leenia - In the UK at least, BBC4 has been trialling "Slow TV "...

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 28 Jan 16 - 01:46 PM

Fair cop, Steve. Enjoy your petty triumph over a simple typo -- you don't enjoy that many, now do you! Expect this'n'll make your year!

〠≈M≈〠

teeheeheeheeheeheeheehee......................................

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 28 Jan 16 - 01:46 PM

Leenia,
Obviously Keith didn't read a word of MY post. Well, why would he? I'm female,

I promise you I meant no offence Leenia, and I am so sorry if I did offend.
I was belatedly replying to the op and not to yourself in any way.

If you can be selective there is a treasure trove of delights available for almost no cost. I think we should embrace it. I do.

I am so sorry that you can not enjoy it as others do. I hope things can be improved for you. There are many ways of accessing the content some of which may be less difficult for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Television
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Jan 16 - 01:25 PM

It's STRANGELOVE, Michael. Just like it's Mr Ban and MOSLEY. Heheh.