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PuTTY riot
Nov 16, 2002

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

is Lifetime the channel with all the shows of men committing horrible crimes on women? that one always weirded me out

lifetime is more like made for tv movies but i think they do get into a little bit of murder porn. ID is p much all murder porn tho

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infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

is Lifetime the channel with all the shows of men committing horrible crimes on women? that one always weirded me out

also W network

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Beast of Bourbon posted:

also it's so weird that they have high def footage from 'security cameras' and other places that would be impossible to get to without hours of set up virtually everywhere they go, including all the places that their tour guide, who is 'not in on it' leads them to.

in that shows case you can hear (i assume) a producer say "oh, we're actually gonna go meet up with this guy at his apartment" instead of stay at x hotel or whatever in some cases, and while that could obviously be set up very easily but i dont see how that would be incredibly complicated to do without having the host know about it. you would get a second camera crew over to the location first while another follows the host and then have someone call the producer when they're ready or something i guess

an idiot abroad uses a ton of archive footage anyway, its in the credits and obviously the budget wouldnt allow for some of the shots (like having a helicopter tail an airplane etc). i would assume similar shows do the same

i'm completely willing to accept that its all set up in advance though. its just comparitively well done compared to something like the bachelor

black man 3
Oct 29, 2014

by XyloJW
Instead of gassing the Jews, Hitler should have gassed the Muslims

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

infernal machines posted:

is that where that comes from?

every time i see some idiot doing that they're talking at the top of their lungs, i just figure they're borderline retarded and don't understand how to use a phone.

it seems i am correct

i have no idea why someone would use speakerphone so close to their face if they werent intending for other people to listen but people actually do this in public and its baffling

PuTTY riot
Nov 16, 2002


Christopher Lee Cornell -- also known as Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah -- was arrested by the FBI for the attempted killing of a U.S. government officer and for possession of a firearm in furtherance of attempted crime of violence.

hmm

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

black man 3 posted:

Instead of gassing the Jews, Hitler should have gassed this thread

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Beeftweeter posted:

i'm completely willing to accept that its all set up in advance though. its just comparitively well done compared to something like the bachelor

that's because ricky gervais, stephen merchant, and karl pilkington are very good at what they do

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

infernal machines posted:

that's because ricky gervais, stephen merchant, and karl pilkington are very good at what they do

i wouldnt go that far "the invention of lying" was pretty awful

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
ricky gervais isn't funny but he definitely is good at his job at convincing people he's funny

i never understood the appeal of an idiot abroad anyway, what's funny or interesting about "boring man goes to different places, complains the whole time"

michael palin actually wanted to be in the places he went

black man 3
Oct 29, 2014

by XyloJW

Stymie posted:

ricky gervais isn't funny but he definitely is good at his job at convincing people he's funny

i never understood the appeal of an idiot abroad anyway, what's funny or interesting about "boring man goes to different places, complains the whole time"

michael palin actually wanted to be in the places he went

I think the appeal is little Briton gets increasingly and unfairly frustrated with the fact that the people sending him to do a 'documentary' are actually sending him into the worst hostels and guesthouses in the worst parts of the world to see how he reacts

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
and watching a small racist englishman get cranky is funny for anyone who's never encountered english tourists

black man 3
Oct 29, 2014

by XyloJW
None of what that guy goes to see is actually interesting at all on a cultural level, it's 100% a show designed to gently caress him over abroad

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
and to be clear ricky gervais, stephen merchant, and karl pilkington are good at making money from tv shows, shows that are often well produced. that's what they do

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
yeah i understand the concept, it's not funny or interesting

it has the shape and mannerisms of something funny or interesting which is apparently enough to fool people, hence ricky gervais' career

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005


lol

tv is so bad

black man 3
Oct 29, 2014

by XyloJW
I thought the office UK was funny and the office USA was unfunny

PuTTY riot
Nov 16, 2002

Stymie posted:

yeah i understand the concept, it's not funny or interesting

it has the shape and mannerisms of something funny or interesting which is apparently enough to fool people, hence ricky gervais' career

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

black man 3 posted:

None of what that guy goes to see is actually interesting at all on a cultural level, it's 100% a show designed to gently caress him over abroad

some of the smaller south pacific islands were pretty cool but yeah this is why its funny

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

infernal machines posted:

is that where that comes from?

every time i see some idiot doing that they're talking at the top of their lungs, i just figure they're borderline retarded and don't understand how to use a phone.

it seems i am correct

they just do it that way on reality tv so the camera can hear both sides of the conversation.

people not on reality tv do it to imitate their pop culture idols. if kim kardashian uses her phone this way, it must be cool.

i doubt the celebrities would have ever started doing it if they didn't have to for the show, but then again people also use their iphones as boom boxes on the subway, so who knows

Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jan 15, 2015

du -hast
Mar 12, 2003

BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT GENTOO

black man 3 posted:

Instead of gassing the Jews, Hitler should have gassed the Muslims

:vince:

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Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

PuTTY riot posted:

it used to be court tv


and spike tv was the nashville network

TLC used to be Appalachian Community Service Network

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