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ummmm, okay?

Perhaps you could also give me some insight on your opinions about the controversial subjects of "airplane food" and "how men are different from women" in 100 words or less. You sound like you have a lot of clever insights.

Which society was that exactly... the one where women didn't get to vote? The one where people owned other people? The one where some people had to drink from separate water fountains? The one where unmarried pregnant women got sent to monasteries? The one where draining your blood was a cure for everything? The one that made the Cold War? The one that voted in voodoo economics? The one that made "Hee-Haw" a hit? The one that laughed at the sex jokes in The Merchant of Venice? The one that made "Reefer Madness" and "Mr. Bungle" movies? Oh wait, you must mean the one where troublesome women were lobotomized. No? Maybe the one where the mentally ill were sterilized? How about the one where soldiers were deliberately exposed to toxic agents for testing? Or the "greatest generation", which detonated the only nuclear weapons ever used on human beings? Oh wait, you probably mean the one that rounded up all the Japanese-Americans into camps because they looked different. I guess that was the same society, my bad. Or maybe the one that let the Macarthy Hearings ruin people's lives? Or the one that dressed up in white sheets and lynched American citizens because of their skin color? Or, perhaps the most heinous society of all, how about the one that made "Because I Love You" by Stevie B a hit?

Yeah, society is much worse today than it used to be. God damned reality television.

dear jb: until further notice, you are my new hero.

dear orange peel: welcome to songfight. it's great you feel the need to participate in the message board. i wonder whether there's a television-related message board out there that has a small tangential section on songwriting competitions so i can go leave comments there.......

yeah, well all that bad stuff might be true but you know, america is one nation under god. indivisible. with liberty and justice for all.

god blessed america. don't you forget it.

I, too, dislike "reality tv", but jb's point is well taken.
However, I think that "reality tv" is designed to bring out the worst parts of human nature, i.e. the very same parts that brought about the monstrosities that jb talks about - these are the same parts you see on rtv.
And this is why I don't like it.
Now, Mr. Let's-Post-One-Message, write us a song since you don't want to watch TV. People will listen to it.
-bill

arguably the 10 most annoying people on television:

katie couric
that rachel dreck chick from food network
that cojo guy
donald trump
jim belushi
jane pauley
judge judy
jimmy kimmel
pat obrien
star jones

10 people from TV i'd like to have over for dinner

jon stewart
conan obrien
matt groening
alton brown
ed bradley
john madden
evangeline lille (eye candy)
masaharu morimoto (he's cooking)
vincent d'onofrio
poppy montgomery (more eye candy)

jack shite wrote:yeah, well all that bad stuff might be true but you know, america is one nation under god. indivisible. with liberty and justice for all.

Acknowledgement is the first step on the road to recovery. Pretty much all those things I mentioned aren't true any more, so please don't misinterpret my point.

JB

jack shite wrote:God blessed america. don't you forget it.

God blessed England first.

orangepeel420 wrote:colossal waste of one's mind and time.

Ha ha.. He said "420."

Kamakura wrote:

jack shite wrote:God blessed america. don't you forget it.

God blessed England first.

just because God blessed the Queen, doesn't mean he included the rest of England.

Phil. Redmon. wrote:

orangepeel420 wrote:colossal waste of one's mind and time.

Ha ha.. He said "420."

Nowt wrong with being a 420, and nowt wrong with a bit of TV either. Both at the same time is also, on occasion, rather wonderful...

Check out 'Saving Grace'.

jesus, you guys are brutal ^_^

Kamakura wrote:

Phil. Redmon. wrote:

orangepeel420 wrote:colossal waste of one's mind and time.

Ha ha.. He said "420."

Nowt wrong with being a 420, and nowt wrong with a bit of TV either. Both at the same time is also, on occasion, rather wonderful...

Check out 'Saving Grace'.

I'm feeling old again. What does '420' mean?

Oh, and Kamakura, if you happen to see my future King down at the shops or something, wish him and his beautiful bride-to-be all the best from his Australian subjects - she seems much nicer and more Queenly than that mad, skinny tart he used to shag.

Caravan Ray wrote:I'm feeling old again. What does '420' mean?

it's when the big hand is on the 4 and the little hand is also on the 4.
in some countries it might be referred to as '16.20'
militarily speaking it would be more accurately called '16.33'.

none of these are the answer you are looking for, though.
perhaps this could be more enlightening for you.

Caravan Ray wrote:Oh, and Kamakura, if you happen to see my future King down at the shops or something, wish him and his beautiful bride-to-be all the best from his Australian subjects.

Will do, they're due here for tea a bit later.
Don't tell anyone else, but they are going to be singing backing vocals, and I hear she's a dab hand with castanets.

jack shite wrote:arguably the 10 most annoying people on television:

you forgot Simon (American Idol)

10 people from TV i'd like to have over for dinner

jon stewart
conan obrien
matt groening
alton brown
ed bradley
john madden
evangeline lille (eye candy)
masaharu morimoto (he's cooking)
vincent d'onofrio
poppy montgomery (more eye candy)

Add Aaron Brown (CNN) to the second list and I'm coming over and we'll all watch L&O CI.

jb wrote:A bunch of horrible stuff

WHAT CHANNEL IS THAT SHOW ON?

and i read somewhere that they are going to bring Chris Noth to L&OCI. probably as insurance in case VD flips out or something. if he leaves the show though, i'll quit watching. he IS that show.

Kamakura wrote:

jack shite wrote:God blessed america. don't you forget it.

God blessed England first.

Whack fol the diddle all the die-dol-day

the sober irishman wrote:

jb wrote:A bunch of horrible stuff

WHAT CHANNEL IS THAT SHOW ON?

The History Channel

jack shite wrote:and i read somewhere that they are going to bring Chris Noth to L&OCI. probably as insurance in case VD flips out or something. if he leaves the show though, i'll quit watching. he IS that show.

Yeah, I didn't mind the transition during the x-files... I would have kept watching too, I thought they were good.

But CI... no, you're right... he really sells that show for me too.