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How Do They Do It? is a poor man's How it's Made, even if it has a higher budget and travels farther to do its segments.  Maybe part of the reason I like it so much is that it's often about local companies. When they showed how manholes are produced, one of the examples was for the town of Dorval, which is close by. 
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lordblytzkrieg posted:Pretty much everything on discovery channel is worth watching. My tivo is filled with Mythbusters, It Takes a Thief, Deadliest Catch, Dirty Jobs, and more. I can't stand that retarded "Criss Angel Mindfreak" show or "A Haunting". I do enjoy "Mayday", though. 
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Apr 5, 2007 19:57
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LordOfThePants posted:I thought that Mindfreak show was on A&E? The Discovery Channel runs it here on Saturdays in Canada. v  v
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Apr 6, 2007 04:06
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Don't forget that he's an expert marksman when armed with a painball gun.
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Apr 6, 2007 18:58
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smackfu posted:This show could be so good with a good host. An American Idol reject is not it. The entire show is done in a voice-over (except for the first season which was hosted by Mark Tewksbury), so it's not like people are missing out on something by watching it in english.
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Apr 6, 2007 21:01
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Unhealthy Caller is so uncomfortable that it's awesome.
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Jun 25, 2007 22:30
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Faikon posted:Shark Week is the bane of the discovery channel. The same shows are shown every year, and they were never interesting to me in the first place. Especially since so many of them have been produced independently from one another that their content overlaps.
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Aug 4, 2007 04:25
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McGravin posted:Recharging a lead-acid battery with wine? Maybe. Definitely interesting to see. Plugging a radio into a cactus and using it to triangulate a missile? I don't think so. It's a treasure trove! Whether they confirm it or not, I'll always believe that you could use a weighted handkerchief and a hollow ski pole to shoot out a distress signal when caught in an avalanche.
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Sep 12, 2007 06:12
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Whatever happened to those shows where teams would have to design and construct machines to complete a specific task with the crap lying around in a junk yard? That was fun. 
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Jan 5, 2008 09:58
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They've changed VA people more than once. The first season had Mark Tewksbury (as well as introducing the segments in front of the camera). For a couple seasons, the voice-over was done by the weather person at the local CTV station here.
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Jan 6, 2008 09:33
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Hey, at least you guys don't have Criss Angel  MINDFREAK on Discovery in the US.
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Jan 18, 2008 00:54
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Senor Tron posted:I find the debate around it really interesting because it shows just how much of our own pre-conceived notions we bring into any situation. Despite the question being worded very specifically most people read it incorrectly at first because it is outside what we would usually experience. Exam questions try to be as sneaky as possible. Those specifics just cloud the situation. 
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Feb 1, 2008 04:11
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CaptainCrunch posted:Yeah, but based on the Israeli special I saw last night, he has this weird inflection he puts in everything he says. It sounds like he's winding up to gently caress whatever weapon he's talking about. In the episodes I've seen, he sounds like he's getting off on the script he's narrating.
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Mar 21, 2008 01:14
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Oneiros posted:Well, it's sort of odd to think about the plane being pressurized (though technically it is). A better way to put it perhaps is that the interior of the plane is never allowed to depressurize to the point where it would be in equilibrium with the exterior at cruising altitude. Sea-level air pressure (1 atmo) is not maintained because of the stress that would cause to the hull, but a difference of approximately +6-7 psi over the exterior is maintained at cruising altitude. IRQ posted:Well with a hole that big at any real speed the plane would just tear apart anyway. There was an episode of Mayday that touched on this. Aloha Flight 243 was a commuter flight between two Hawaiian islands. The trip was only about 30 minutes long, so the plane flying it could take many trips a day. By the time of its explosive decompression, it had done over 89 thousand trips, and the cumulative stress from the pressure changes were part of what caused an 18-foot long chunk of the fuselage to break away. 
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Apr 10, 2008 04:46
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Captain Novolin posted:He also did horses. I think that was the first episode I ever saw, too. I remember that one- when they finally got to the point where he tried inseminating the filly, they blurred out the entire back end of the horse. All the preview clips of the procedure they'd been airing up to that point showed everything, though.
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May 14, 2008 07:41
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The networks are a bit less stuffy in Canada (I saw a comic say 'lovely' on the CBC in the 8:30 timeslot today) but we still wouldn't have been blessed with Trailer Park Boys if it wasn't for specialty cable.
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Aug 2, 2008 06:45
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Martytoof posted:Well what if Mike actually went TO the factories and narrated it in person How It's Made is a Montreal production and you had best not forget it.
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Aug 6, 2008 04:50
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-Atom- posted:I'll never understand why Adam and Jamie, and then Tori, Grant and Kari have to pretend like they just came up with the idea of what myth they'll be doing at the beginning of the show. They are all horrible actors and it just never made sense to me. I was watching a rerun recently where they were doing to paper-folding myth, which was pretty blatant in the "we're already filmed the myth segment we're about to introduce" department. Kari's hair switched from one style during the intro the something completely different during the myth and then back when they were doing the recap.
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Sep 4, 2008 06:56
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They had a ninja on that
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Oct 18, 2008 09:27
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Jedi posted:Everyone knows that it's wrong to mindlessly slaughter animals for entertainment. But they were on a scientific expedition and it was the reason they were there. I could've done without the PETA-don't-sue-us bullshit every 5 minutes. It's funny that they're so worried about the Shark but had no problem showing Mike rip off the legs from live crab.
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Dec 22, 2008 19:24
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Burning_Monk posted:Crab legs regenerate! In this case they didn't have the chance to regrow since their torsos were then dumped in a huge-rear end pressure cooker. edit: on the plus side, I now know that cheap crab paste is mostly comprised of ground up shell
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Captain Novolin posted:I hate you guys and your non-schizophrenic new episodes. I'm also looking forward to waiting a month for new Deadliest Catch episodes after you get them. Discovery Canada Hey, those episodes of Chris Angel: Mindfreak don't come cheap.
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