Travel channel and Food network switch content sometimes
Don’t even get me started about the Body Shop.
No bodies I suppose. The old bait and switch.
Olive oil is made of olives… at least in Italy it is. Anyway, what about baby oil? Better not think about it.
In Africa because of the large number of languages they put pictures of what’s in the package on the label. Gerber baby food had some issues when it first sold in Africa.
Ouch! That was pretty brutal. Goes to show that you have to understand the market you’re trying to operate in.
I just wanted a couple of them for my own reasons and now I have a lifetime ban from the place.
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No truth on truth social
Also antisocial behavior!
Funny, but true
The USA FREEDOM Act violates US citizens freedoms and civil liberties.
The “democratic” republic of NK has never been democratic.
Fox News had the motto “Fair and Balanced” for like 20 years, despite being a conservative state propaganda machine.
Turns out you can just lie without consequences!
That’s why they had to call it that.
Discovery is full of shows all about people looking for things but not discovering them.
Homestead Rescue is cool. That’s about it.
Last time I watched anything like that, probably on netflix, they where looking for pirate gold and actually found it … buried in a military munitions burial area they couldn’t reasonably or legally excavate.
no need to finish that then
The cowards
Yea what pussies.
Manchurian gold?
Pirate Gold of Adak Island probably worth a watch even though I spoiled the ending
If you think of Discovery like how Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, it does seem fitting. A bunch of bullshit that later lead to genocide and scorched earth. This seems fitting for what they’ve done to HBO and all the other IP they’ve gobbled up and destroyed.
It is frustrating. I still haven’t found that damn Grail yet.
One does have to know the airspeed velocity of an unlaiden swallow.
European or African?
History channel has Forged in Fire where, for about 30 seconds per episode, they give a quick lesson about the historic weapon the contestants will make.
But yeah, TV is bullshit. Fuck commercials.
I always appreciated that in shows like Pawn Stars and American Pickers, yeah the main point is entertainment, but they actually made an effort to explain the objects and history around them.
Kinda wish they didn’t need to fake the premise of the show so hard to do the history lesson though.
Really we just need more antiques roadshow.
All those examples (except MTV) is David Zaslav hard at work. So glad he’s in charge of WB now!
Murdoch bought Fox News and History Channel around the same time.
So… No brothers I guess?
I was 100% watching MTV the other day and they legitimately played some music
Thought I was hallucinating
Are you sure it wasn’t just the bumpers to rediculousness?
Are you sure you weren’t smoking something
Because around 20 years ago these networks figured out that they can make just as much money pumping out cheap and crappy reality shows as they can by creating expensive and difficult to produce quality programming.
Capitalism at its best
capiTALiSm bREeDS INnOvATIon
And it worked before streaming came around. Now cable subscriptions are in free fall and they don’t know what to do.
Don’t forget Animal Planet, which hosts shows about tree houses and mermaids now.
that one pisses me off the most, not to mention that pitbulls and parolees or whatever the fuck its supposed to be. I swear its on every day.
Ah, but is there Sy in Syfy?
No. No there isn’t.
I’m sorry but I just call that the syphilis channel because that’s what pops into my head when I read syfy.
I will never understand that stupid name change…
For branding. Sci-fi is generic and can’t be trademarked. While SyFy can be trademarked
Yeah. I think they were trying to be edgy. Or maybe some guy named Sy Fy did the name change while everyone else was on break.
And there are no Indians in Indiana.
To the tune of Home Again In Indiana:
There are no Indians, in In-diana Most were removed, through treaties And the Del-a-ware, had no care went to Miss-ou-ri, with ease The Shaw-nee screwed, the Mi-am-i With the treaty, of, Fort Wayne William Hen-ry Harr-i-son versus Te-cumseh The In-dian’s loss, became, whitey’s gain Now there are no Indians in In-diana
PBS is the only television worth a damn. Incidentally, it is replete with history, documentaries, non-editorial news, music, and science.
Shout-out the PBS passport. $5 a month and I get all the antiques roadshow I can handle.
It’s the tv version of NPR
Their YouTube channels are also top notch. Spacetime, Storied, Eons, Terra, Origins, Be Smart… all gold.
Man I love Spacetime and Eons. I have watched almost all of spacetime. I wish there were a spacetime hardcore where they threw as much math at me as possible. Awesome channels
That’s why they want to get rid of it
So true. PBS has always been a reliable place to find something decent to watch when all else fails I feel. Not to mention no commercials! or very little if any.
There’s no foxes on Fox News either.
Yeah, because they own the rights to the name. If only I ran Fox News… damn them.
Today on Fox News
This one is taking a nap in the snow. Was it a good nap? Did they have nice dreams? We’ll investigate!
Nor news
Someone should make a channel called boredom.
I think that’s Hallmark.
Jesus I just snorted coke out my nose.🤣
My wife loves that damn channel. But I swear to god if I have to watch another Father Christmas movie I’ll hurl. Fuck Father Christmas. Wait… I might watch “Fucking Father Christmas”
- Rudolph, the Red-rocket Reindeer
- Santa Clause versus the Martians’ Buttholes
- Blueball Christmas
- The Polar Express Gets Run on Mrs. Clause
- It’s a Wonderful Schlong
- Miracle on 69th Street
- my favorite - uncut and uncensored incest Folgers commercials
All of those channels were idealistic and naive. The reality of capitalism destroyed them.
Capitalism just takes advantage of human nature. That’s why it has clearly been the most successful system, at least as a starting point, for the overall well being of a nation.
The issue with these channels is that most people just don’t give a fuck about the information. They want to be entertained. Capitalism is just good system that enabled that to be figured out.
Your issue is not with capitalism, but human nature.
That’s a bingo!
So it’s a most or nothing situation? They need to be maximally broadly appealing? That sounds like capitalism to me.
I don’t care if only a certain percentage of people are into these channels. That should be just fine. It is just fine. And I’m not here to guilt anyone because they don’t like watching history shows or whatever else.
The economic model failed the audience of the original versions of these channels. It’s not society as a whole that failed the producers of the channels.
They need to be maximally broadly appealing? That sounds like capitalism to me.
“broadly appealing” means “human nature.” This is my point. Capitalism is just a good system to figure this out. You want stuff that appeals to you, as do I. But that stuff is boring to most other people. Most people like this drivel, unfortunately. You just want a system that caters to you, and your niche interests (ones we likely share, BTW). You just want the stuff you want on what is available to the broad public. . . .But why is that fair to the majority?
And you know what? With things like youtube, podcasts, and streaming (all thanks to capitalism, BTW), all of that is available to you. Just not on inappropriately named cable stations. Why do you care? Do you even get cable? Who does anymore? Even my pre-boomer dad has cut the cord.
Don’t get me wrong. Capitalism certainly has it’s faults. There are certain things, like policing, fire protection, and health care, that simply don’t fit into the mold of capitalism well. Even as a well off American, I’m all for strong socialism for many things, like what we see in Europe.
I just find the concept that “these aren’t the original intent of the channels. . .what a failure of capitalism!” to be kind of funny. Who really cares?
