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Monstrous Dooklord posted:be honest, who has cable that their parents aren't paying for - who is paying $100 a month in 2016 to have commercials screamed at them for 20 minutes of a 30 minute show?? Cable companies are desperate things right now.
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Apr 13, 2016 21:37
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my youtube channel was getting more than that a day at one point
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Apr 13, 2016 21:39
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:my youtube channel was getting more than that a day at one point
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Apr 13, 2016 21:42
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I've been watching this YouTube channel where this dude cooks recipes from the 1700's with period equipment. The ratio of professionalism to historicity is better than anything that's been on History Channel in living memory. It's also super obvious the videos are just advertisements for his online store for history autists, but that's a hell of a lot better a business model than any other YouTube superstar. Also pretend I made a joke linking Balls Deep with Going Deep with David Rees.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:44
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raditts posted:Of all the channels to bemoan the death of cable, you pick loving H2
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Apr 13, 2016 22:58
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ArmZ posted:i want to start a cable channel that is just reruns of wings (the airplane docu not the sitcom), the secret life of machines, connections, and pre-2000 ww2 documentaries. The Breitling Channel featuring John Travolta
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Apr 13, 2016 22:59
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It's because we get to see less of Giorgos' beautiful head of hair that I would like to make love to.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:59
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GORDON posted:Makes me wonder if we are on step 3 of our march to, "Ow, My Balls!" son, we've been in Idiocracy territory for a few years now
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Apr 13, 2016 23:34
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I haven't paid for cable or satellite since 2008.
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Apr 13, 2016 23:40
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Unbelievably Fat Man posted:I've been watching this YouTube channel where this dude cooks recipes from the 1700's with period equipment. The ratio of professionalism to historicity is better than anything that's been on History Channel in living memory. That YouTube channel sounds cool. Post a link
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Apr 13, 2016 23:53
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Cthulu Carl posted:Maybe. I remember watching a bunch of Bible shows on A&E before we got the internet because they had paintings with naked chicks and if my parents walked in, they'd be all "awww, our son is such a good Christian" while I quickly acted like I wasn't cranking it under the blanket. the history channel actually had good documentaries about biblical archeology back in the day. like there was one about sodom and gemmorah where they went into the desert and talked about likely candidates such as Bab eh-drah and Numera; they showed evidence of fires and destruction and even showed a bunch of skeletons of people who died in the conflagration. they even had some voiceover lady in a formal voice reading relevant bible passages and saying poo poo like "so he was put to the sword" or "they fell to the ban" and it was totally fukken wicked  and this is coming from an atheist they were straight-up documentaries with no gimmicks that is what I will miss with H2 passing
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Apr 14, 2016 00:06
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Even loving Animal Planet isn't about animals anymore, they got that stupid loving treehouse show on all the time. Travel Channel last I checked is still at least somewhat true to its roots, though Anthony Bordain went to CNN (what the gently caress?). Speaking of, CNN has started running shows that aren't even news- Parts Unknown, Someone's Gotta Do It, that Morgan Spurlock show.
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Apr 14, 2016 02:56
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SickZip posted:That YouTube channel sounds cool. Post a link I'm sure it's this dude, I like his stuff too. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxr2d4As312LulcajAkKJYw
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Apr 14, 2016 02:59
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 Does this new channel have "Ow My Balls"?
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Apr 14, 2016 03:13
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Bad touch by the bloodhound gang sure does have a different meaning these days.
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Apr 14, 2016 03:14
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kith_groupie posted:It's genius - get all the 18-30 year olds that don't have internet with enough disposable income to buy cable. Cable costs like 80 dollars a month and good Internet is like 50
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Apr 14, 2016 03:34
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City of Tampa posted:I'm sure it's this dude, I like his stuff too. I'm watching a video on meat pies and it's legitimately been the most historic thing I've watched in awhile, anymore youtube channel recommendations? I really like why would you eat that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=show?whywouldyoueatthat
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Apr 14, 2016 04:21
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Burying Ancient Aliens because they don't want us to know.
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Apr 14, 2016 04:43
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Monstrous Dooklord posted:be honest, who has cable that their parents aren't paying for - who is paying $100 a month in 2016 to have commercials screamed at them for 20 minutes of a 30 minute show?? Where I am, the price difference between Cable Internet and Cable Internet + Cable TV is within a dollar. I'm pretty sure it's priced that way so that they can bulk up their subscription numbers for selling ads.
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Apr 14, 2016 05:48
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Dave_Indeed posted:
It has "Balls Deep" apparently; that's close enough to satisfy the prophecy of Mike Judge.
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Apr 14, 2016 06:38
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Business Gorillas posted:Cable costs like 80 dollars a month and good Internet is like 50 Holy poo poo I'm glad I moved out of America then before I had to start paying for my own stuff. (I lied, it's 60 euros here for the bundle, I checked. I got it confused with my phone plan which is 40 euros a month). Anyone else remember History's Lost and Found on the History Channel? Were they'd track one artifact through history and tell you about it? I loved that show, and at the time I even thought it was maybe a little exploitative and kitchy. Sometimes they'd even have "the history of sexy sex" sort of documentaries - boy howdy, they'd come on after 10pm/9pm central and they were....not hot at all, but informative about like, the prostitutes of antiquity. I think it was TLC that used to have a series of ghost shows, but not like now where it's a bunch of idiots with night vision. Instead it was just dramatic reenactments of either the thing that made the ghost in the first place, like this Scottish guy playing the bagpipes to warn a ship at sea and then he got his hands cut off for it and bled to death and now he's a bag-piping ghost, or encounters with the ghost. The last one has stuck with me for loving ever - the woman stayed in a old manor house in England somewhere and this old woman ghost popped in to look at her at night and to show us, the audience, they had the grimmest looking old woman suddenly loom in over the camera to spooky music. loving good times. It's hard to find good shows about ghosts nowadays.
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I really liked the Naked Archaeologist. What channel was that on? Good thing I snagged all the seasons on torrent.
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Smithsonian Channel is like what the History Channel could have been, without all the aliens and prom midgets. I haven't had cable in forever but that was a good channel. With plenty of docs on Netflix. 
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ArmZ posted:i want to start a cable channel that is just reruns of wings (the airplane docu not the sitcom), the secret life of machines, connections, and pre-2000 ww2 documentaries. I can tell you and I are around the same age. The dirty little secret is that secret life of machines and connections were BBC, alot of their documentaries are good quality, American stations just re broad cast them in the 90's. Its basically cheaper to produce lovely reality shows and game shows then pay licensing fees. A&E was cool with biography and American Castles I honestly think I learned a few things about the robber barons and gilded age by seeing the crazy houses those people built. Ancient secrets of the bible was fun too, they often showed it or parts of it on history sadly I think it was chopped up to deal with a theme like Armageddon. The tacked on fake out history did was rather amusing, they had a Biblical scholar come on and say that the book of revelations was basically in a weird style to fly under the radar of the authorities and was really talking about stuff relative to the time it was written. Then Boom cut to a preacher with a thick southern accent say "NOPE ITS ALL LITERAL" the end. loving Pussys. I also remember as a kid looking at PBS and seeing really old documentaries about the greek and romans it was mostly voice overs while showing models of cities and pieces of art. with steaming and time shifting I dont think we will ever have a "educational" channel again but there was something nice about being able to see something different on discovery. Like you turn it one and boom its a nature documentary, then an episode of wings about aviation. Or a medical show. and everything had a certain level of quality. I think some goon in some thread said there is potential for entertainment with a history themed channel just troll the university and have post grads pitch all the weird freaky things in history. Hell drunken history shows that their is interest and it isnt boring.
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Apr 14, 2016 11:35
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Balls Deep is cool, everything else on the channel is mostly pointless or straight up garbage. Weediquette seems like it's trying to be deep, but every show is going somewhere, looking at their weed, and then the host going "So in wrap up, I guess weed really is a force for change." gently caress That's Delicious is an hour of jersey shore dirtbags and a fat guy going "I like food, it's like (insert two completely unrelated phrases) on my tongue." Flophouse is a bunch of bad comedians who couldn't even get a spot on an open-mic night doing their schtick in a literal flophouse. States of Undress is okay. Checking out the weird side of fashion in 3rd-world shitholes.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:States of Undress is okay. Checking out the weird side of fashion in 3rd-world shitholes. This sounds like a perfect distillation of vice. Shallowness mixed with poverty tourism and zero actual knowledge or redeeming value
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Mange Mite posted:This sounds like a perfect distillation of vice. Shallowness mixed with poverty tourism and zero actual knowledge or redeeming value It's hosted by clueless model as well.
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Apr 14, 2016 12:42
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I hate vice so god drat much
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Apr 14, 2016 14:44
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I wish a History channel would do something every day like 'Japan Day' or 'Agentina Day' and devote most of the day telling the history of the place upto present day.
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states of undress is mostly bad bc it features moments like the host walking through a literal slum of street children and saying "fashion is so important here, everyone cares a lot about looking good." although there was a funny moment when she interviewed an islamic fundamentalist and he said that he wants to give her to an afghan man so he can cut off her nose
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Apr 14, 2016 19:51
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Justin Tyme posted:Even loving Animal Planet isn't about animals anymore, they got that stupid loving treehouse show on all the time. I've been watching the poo poo out of the Travel Channel lately. Something about the trifecta of Mysteries of the Museum, Bizarre Foods (and the half dozen spin-offs still all hosted by Andrew Zimmern), and Expedition Unknown is incredibly my jam. Especially Expedition Unknown because I can't get enough of Josh Gates making an rear end of himself in third world marketplaces while acting like he's going to find the True Cross, or Yamashita's Gold, or Suleiman's Heart.
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Apr 14, 2016 20:02
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History is in the process of reformatting itself towards historical dramas. Might be for the better.
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Apr 14, 2016 20:08
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natetimm posted:Where do I get the job to be the paid stooge who posts positive comments for lovely decisions? Yeah holy lol those are fake
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Apr 14, 2016 22:25
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Manifest posted:History is in the process of reformatting itself towards historical dramas. Might be for the better. See that's not unreasonable since it's actually history. Though would it kill them to get an actual historian or two onboard the production teams?
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:gently caress That's Delicious is an hour of jersey shore dirtbags and a fat guy going "I like food, it's like (insert two completely unrelated phrases) on my tongue." Ive only watched one episode because i happen to like the fat guy but lol if this isnt the most wrong thing to say about it. the channel can suck my balls though, vice is dogshit
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Apr 14, 2016 22:46
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some of it is good but the rest, is bad
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Apr 14, 2016 22:48
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ColoradoCleric posted:I'm watching a video on meat pies and it's legitimately been the most historic thing I've watched in awhile, anymore youtube channel recommendations? the standing pie videos are actually pretty drat interesting and weird here's another good channel that I found recently (i think somewhere here), it's a dude that buys and eats really old military rations. apparently this is a whole genre and multiple people do it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA
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natetimm posted:Where do I get the job to be the paid stooge who posts positive comments for lovely decisions? Move to China. That's a legitimate career there.
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Mandatory cable channel packages will be illegal in Canada by the end of the year. You will be able to pick only the channels you want. If USA does that these useless channels will disappear by the end of 2017.
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