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Title: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: unique on March 04, 2008, 06:21:46 PM
I've always considered myself a normal kind of guy, politically conservative, socially kind of liberal, maybe a little (a lot) to the side of mainstream.  Working in our basement shop today, late morning I decided to take a break from a tedious cabinet project and watch fifteen minutes of television.  Turned on the TV and Jerry Springer was on.  I've never seen the show before, but have seen the promos and heard a little about it.  Starts out with some young guy standing there without his shirt on, why he didn't have his shirt on, I haven't a clue.  Story is he's living with his girl friend while still married to his wife, telling them both he loves them.  Okay, nothing new here.  He's also dating his cousin, who can't figure out if she's straight or lesbian.  Okay, from what I'd heard that's what the show is all about.  Then there's the guy whose missing the lower part of his body, from the waist down,  walking  on his hands, wandering around the set, and the women in the audience who are lifting their blouses, exposing themselves to the camera (blurred out) and audience.  Then people from the audience start coming up on stage dancing, and there's the guy wearing only his underwear...
It's like a scene out of a bad “end of the world” sci-fi movie.
For years now, I've gone with the  theory “if you can't solve it with five, what makes you think you can solve it with fifteen”, and for the “The end of the world as we know it” people, I just couldn't see it.
Maybe I've been wrong, maybe I need a bigger gun.
Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: justbill on March 04, 2008, 06:35:44 PM
The guy on Springer is probably an Obama supporter. 'nuff said.
Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: DDMac on March 04, 2008, 07:07:19 PM
Where are the suicide bombers when you really need'em??? Now THAT would be great TV!!

JUST..... kidding...,

Mac.
Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: tombogan03884 on March 04, 2008, 07:40:14 PM
JUST..... kidding...,

Mac.


Yeah, right, After they did the Springer show maybe they could do an encore at the state of the union address
My Dad used to say that you could get some of these a-holes to pay to watch someone throw rocks at bottles.

Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: Teresa Heilevang on March 06, 2008, 10:03:05 AM
Jerry Springer AND his program....  :P
The lowest level of life form  with the lowest class of human beings that TV has to offer.
I think that at some time , everyone has flipped it on and I think sat there dumbfounded for a minute or 2 wondering if there really IS this caliber of idiots living and breathing around us.  :o

I can not imagine even being able to watch it for more than 5 minutes. (http://www.rightnation.us/forums/style_emoticons/default/hairpull.gif)
Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: Outlaw on March 06, 2008, 10:36:33 AM
I think you guys are talking about some of my family members. Let me call em and find out ::)

I'm back..It was just a distant cousin that married his little sister. His mother got jealous and shot them both. Hell, there goes the family name. :-[
Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: Hazcat on March 06, 2008, 10:50:06 AM
I think you guys are talking about some of my family members. Let me call em and find out ::)

I'm back..It was just a distant cousin that married his little sister. His mother got jealous and shot them both. Hell, there goes the family name. :-[

In your case I'd rather be an "outlaw" than an "In Law". ;)
Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: Teresa Heilevang on March 06, 2008, 11:11:39 AM
hahahahahaha... Lord, I love you guys.. LOL
 I can be having a pressurized  s**t hole of a day and one of you comes up with something every time that will make me laugh out loud.
((And I always thought my sense of humor was unique.. WRONG~~ ))   ;D
Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: Hazcat on March 06, 2008, 11:13:18 AM
We but live to serve and please, Ma'am! ;D
Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: HAWKFISH on March 06, 2008, 11:22:29 AM
Unique, yeah the world is changing for better in some and for worse in others. I would certainly recommend these days however, that you have fiften rounds to solve it.. Heck.. or how about thirty? lol.. Seriously though, when the "thugs and bad guys" start walking down the street and stop by your house, wouldn't you rather have the fifteen or more???...  The way things are these days?   The cops, the bad guys, and the governement all have fifteen or more, you might as well too...  ::)
Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: leatherman92 on March 06, 2008, 07:16:56 PM
must be ;D
The guy on Springer is probably an Obama supporter. 'nuff said.
Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: jerry on March 06, 2008, 08:25:16 PM
The sad part is that most of them just keep on breeding.
Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: gunman1911 on March 06, 2008, 10:59:36 PM
I seen Jerry Springer once and that was one to many times!
Title: Re: Maybe I've been wrong
Post by: SlickRob on March 06, 2008, 11:11:15 PM
  In my youth I read a LOT of science fiction.  Some of the stories would detail what was going for entertainment at the time the stories were set in.  It was a way to show just how "sick" the future societies were going to be.

  I noticed a few years ago that the stuff that is actually on now is worse than anything those stories portrayed. 

  I weep for the future. :'(