The Ranting Room

chopper wrote: When I'm flicking through the channels on cable, trying to find something vaguely worth watching, I'm frequently reminded of the Bruce Springsteen song "57 channels and nothing on". Except it's a lot more than 57 now.

..and a far cry from the days when you had merely '13 channels of sh!t on the TV to choose from'

I still have just five channels. I've not yet bought a set top box, and I refuse to pay a monthly fee for SKY. Murdoch can kiss my &rse. I have literally trawled through all the channels on SKY and found nothing I wanted to watch, apart from a documentary on the bouncing bomb, which I'd seen before, and re-runs of 'Only fools and Horses'

I'll go digital when I have to. I dont watch enough TV to warrent spending any additional money on it.

When I'm flicking through the channels on cable, trying to find something vaguely worth watching, I'm frequently reminded of the Bruce Springsteen song "57 channels and nothing on".

Hold on, you don't have a jacuzzi and a diary room?

I thought ALL British houses had them fitted as law...

The 2005 Big Brother act says:

1. All houses are to be fitted with a large and comfortable chair.  This chair can only be fitted in a broom cupboard (or a room of equivalent size), which will thus be renamed "The Diary Room".
2. All houses are to be fitted with a jacuzzi in the back garden (no sheds allowed though), come rain or shine.  The jacuzzi will be large enough to fit 6 very lithe and bikini clad beach "babes" with bleached hair and an I.Q. of 56 (combined). N.B. Beach Babes are not supplied and are optional.
3. All houses are to be fitted with a loud megaphone, so Davina McCall or Demot O'Leary can throw you out after a 'phone vote.  N.B. you are not, under any circumstances, allowed to take any of your prized possessions with you, when you are asked to leave the house

I have all of the above.  You'll be thrown in jail if you don't.



Which is ironic, as jail is probably more hospitable than the Big Busted-women house.

mystic fred wrote:   on the subject of TV there are too many of the same old tired formats -   Big Brother - a freak show of child-like demented selfish racists - rather watch wet paint dry. - agreed Absolutely - bunch of talentless "If I'm really wacky here, I may get a career in TV" wannabees - NO! You'll be mauled by the tabloids & ruin any chance of ever being taken seriously in your life again - EVER!   A Place in the sun - leave the safe English suburbs to buy a broken down old ruin in Spain amid acres of dusty scrubland, miles from anywhere, no clean water and no electricity, the locals hate those f**king gringos buying their land anyway. if you have a heart attack forget it - a Doctor might come next month, and a builder might finish it next century.  insult your friends by charging them to stay there as only friends and family would be stupid enough to pay for that hell-hole. - worse than this, is Location, Location, Location... urgh! Aspirational TV - despise the lot of it!   Cash in the Attic - sell all your family's expensive heirlooms for pennies to waste on something really stupid, and that other one with the red and blue teams buying worthless junk at a boot sale and failing to make a profit at auction - all the boot sale sellers buy them at auction in the first place, stoopid! - Flog It!, David Dickinson's Crap, Car Booty and more..., I completely agree.  See my earlier rant. As a result of these shows, you can guarantee you can't sell anything at a boot sale without hearing the required stock phrase "what's your best price?" - IT'S A CHIPPED MUG FOR 20p YOU HEAD!   DIY programmes - don't see them much anymore but some posh fop used to wreck people's homes with his horribly tacky ideas - wasting money and reducing value of said property. - I happen to like the Nick Knowles one, because the Electrician is a complete waste of space and almost always causes power cuts, electic shocks and the like. ...and he quite looks like my uncle too - don't so much mind this one, as it can be quite funny   Vet clinics - watch ruthless vets drain worried caring pet owners'  bank accounts. - can you guess what it is yet?  Yes that's right, it's a squashed hamster! And what's the dead hamster got in common with a pelican? A large bill! Incidentally, cameraman, don't forget to zoom in quick on the owners at the first sign of tears!

I haven't found my favorite show on Discovery Channel (Man vs. Wild) in a long while. If they canceled it....!

mystic fred wrote:   on the subject of TV there are too many of the same old tired formats -   Big Brother - a freak show of child-like demented selfish racists - rather watch wet paint dry. - agreed   A Place in the sun - leave the safe English suburbs to buy a broken down old ruin in Spain amid acres of dusty scrubland, miles from anywhere, no clean water and no electricity, the locals hate those f**king gringos buying their land anyway. if you have a heart attack forget it - a Doctor might come next month, and a builder might finish it next century.  insult your friends by charging them to stay there as only friends and family would be stupid enough to pay for that hell-hole. - worse than this, is Location, Location, Location... urgh!   Cash in the Attic - sell all your family's expensive heirlooms for pennies to waste on something really stupid, and that other one with the red and blue teams buying worthless junk at a boot sale and failing to make a profit at auction - all the boot sale sellers buy them at auction in the first place, stoopid! - Flog It!, David Dickinson's Crap, Car Booty and more..., I completely agree.  See my earlier rant.   DIY programmes - don't see them much anymore but some posh fop used to wreck people's homes with his horribly tacky ideas - wasting money and reducing value of said property. - I happen to like the Nick Knowles one, because the Electrician is a complete waste of space and almost always causes power cuts, electic shocks and the like.   Vet clinics - watch ruthless vets drain worried caring pet owners'  bank accounts. - can you guess what it is yet?  Yes that's right, it's a squashed hamster!   Good rock music shows - hardly exist these days. - very true as well   rant over

Plus you forgot the worst one, how could you?!

Ready, Steady, Cook!

I detest that program more than any other.  Dreadful.

I dont like:Ruffians,  reggaeton  ,liver   ,tv propaganda like as seen on tv   o r  too long commercials   ,talk many times every day  the same political topics with the people in reunions,.    .tv programs where the people fight and shout,other is the howard stern show....mosquitoes ......messages of the president.

Jim Garten wrote: Ah yes - back in the 1970s, council tenants in the UK could buy their properties, but generally were happy to continue renting... then along comes The Milk Snatcher (anyone remember that nickname??), decides that house ownership isn't so much an option, but a duty, gets the wobbling classes on side via the red top tabloids and all of a sudden, everybody is buying their council houses for pence!

^ have you noticed when flying into London Heathrow, how many bdy houses have sding enormous fkoff swimming pools in south suburbia?

darqdean wrote: NaturalScience wrote: Sorry for being an ignorant colonial, but what are council tenants and council houses? Council housing is essentially state-owned houses, often grouped together on a large estate (termed, not surprisingly, a council estate), but they usually owned and managed by the local council (town government if you like). Council tenants are people who rent such houses. In the 1980's Maggie effectively sold these off to sitting tenants are well below market value - which appeared to be great value for money - except the houses had little re-sale value because of the stigma attached to them.

Thanks.  There's very little government-owned housing over here, and what little there also has a stigma attached.  "Government housing" has a very, very negative connotation here, as it is mostly very poor, urban developments that are not well maintained.