Has TV gone off the deep end - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Raider Ronnie · 08-15-2014, 10:50 AM

Is Robin Williams still dead ?
I can't be sure with the lack of TV coverage.
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FishermanTim · 08-15-2014, 11:07 AM

We as a society, have allowed our entertainment to dictate what we watch instead of us dictate what they will show.
I do not watch anything on tv except sports, old westerns, old "family shows", some of what the History Channel considers "history-related", some of the antique shows, a couple of comedies and of course sports.

If I watch a murder mystery, it's an old one.
If I watch a crime drama, it's old as well.
Heck, I even look for old classic movies when I have the time to watch it.

As for any of these celebriality / trainwreck /tiny people / baby's momma-daddy tramp shows / glorified medical abnormality shows / basic insult-my-intelligence shows, they can all just go to hell!

I want to be entertained, to be challenged by wisdom and knowledge, not insulted by vulgarity and violence for cash and immorality for fame's sake (ie. kardashians, linsay lohen, anyone on E and MTV).

We are truly doomed as a species if our intelligence is dictated by the lowest IQs in the world, ie... the entertainment industry!!!

MakoMike · 08-15-2014, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by FishermanTim

We as a society, have allowed our entertainment to dictate what we watch instead of us dictate what they will show.
I do not watch anything on tv except sports, old westerns, old "family shows", some of what the History Channel considers "history-related", some of the antique shows, a couple of comedies and of course sports.

If I watch a murder mystery, it's an old one.
If I watch a crime drama, it's old as well.
Heck, I even look for old classic movies when I have the time to watch it.

As for any of these celebriality / trainwreck /tiny people / baby's momma-daddy tramp shows / glorified medical abnormality shows / basic insult-my-intelligence shows, they can all just go to hell!

I want to be entertained, to be challenged by wisdom and knowledge, not insulted by vulgarity and violence for cash and immorality for fame's sake (ie. kardashians, linsay lohen, anyone on E and MTV).

We are truly doomed as a species if our intelligence is dictated by the lowest IQs in the world, ie... the entertainment industry!!!

Whatsamatter wit you? You don't like titties?

piemma · 08-15-2014, 03:19 PM

The first time Clammer was on my boat he dropped his shorts and Mooned me, he-who-cannot-be-mentioned and everybody at Oakland Beach.

YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT A REALITY SHOW!!

FishermanTim · 08-19-2014, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by MakoMike

Whatsamatter wit you? You don't like titties?

Oh, I likes 'em....I likes 'em a hole bunch!

Unfortunately the head attached to them is usually unbearable!

Kind of like putting a Wallmart reel on an expensive rod.

Jimbo · 08-19-2014, 04:39 PM

I just returned from a week and a half at the family compound in West Dennis. My house is the oldest (around 125) and least upgraded. No phone, no cable, no wireless. there isn't a three prong electrical outlet in the whole house. My brother and his daughter were out from Seattle area and going through absolute withdrawal. I said, "Hey, you guys like NatGeo? The History Channel?, American Pickers?" "Oh yea, that's cool, we like that." "Well in the front room there's a ton of National Geographic magazines from the 60's to the 80's, Yankee magazines, Life magazines there's even Boy's Life and Ranger Rick from when we were kids, as well as old books (is there anything better than the smell of a musty old book), history books, old historic novels on the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, paperback novels, romance novels for the beach crowd. There's closets full of old stuff to pull out and look at and try on or tey and figure out what something is." I didn't miss TV or my computer one bit. Couldn't contain myself when I got back to the world, but for 10 days I was E-less except for the daily update to the family to let them know I hadn't hurt myself in any way and my blood pressure had even dropped to acceptable levels (but I also attribute that to my daily swim in the soothing, healing waters of Bass River). Yea, long winded way of agreeing, "What the heck's up with TV these days?"

Raven · 08-23-2014, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by FishermanTim

We are truly doomed as a species if our intelligence is dictated by the lowest IQs in the world, ie... the entertainment industry!!!

actually the GOVERNMENT holds that Title

Fly Rod · 08-15-2014, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie

Is Robin Williams still dead ?
I can't be sure with the lack of TV coverage.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Lack of TV coverage...UUUUUUU RRRRRRR kidding.......

all day now its about him having early stage of Parkinson's....Yes, he was an icon of comedy...enough is enough

FishermanTim · 08-15-2014, 11:22 AM

Don't get me started on what today's news stations consider news.
Heck, for that matter, what the news anchors consider lead stories and how they cover (and re-cover, and re-re-cover them over and over and over again)!!!

Raider Ronnie · 08-15-2014, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Fly Rod

Lack of TV coverage...UUUUUUU RRRRRRR kidding.......

all day now its about him having early stage of Parkinson's....Yes, he was an icon of comedy...enough is enough

With all the cap going on in the world this is what we will see 24/7 for another month.
I liked Robin Williams as much as anyone else but the guy didn't pass away like most news channels try to put it. He killed himself. His choice.
Go on fb and read all the people saying how sad they are he's dead.
Christ. How many people are going to kill themselves because they are depressed that he killed himself.
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Got Stripers · 08-15-2014, 12:53 PM

If I can't find American Pickers, then a good fallback lately is buying the beach, as with retirement around the corner its fun to see what property on or near the beach and some good fishing is going for.

Even the movies they re-run are re-runs that were on last week, last month, last year and they are all chick flics. I have a strong sensitive side, I cried the last time I saw clammer beat the crap out of a squeaky reel, but come on put something else on for crying out loud.

I don't mind a good sci-fi flic once in a while, but snakes on planes, or giant crocodiles chomping down yummy prom dates doesn't cut it. Give me Blade Runner or even the original Planet of the Apes and I'm in; sorry watching William Shatner rescue humpback whales isn't good sci-fi.

Dribble, dribble, mindless dribble.