its true, i saw it on TV!!!!!!!

[Glite]

http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/psychic_witness/psychic_witness.html

The channel is TLC, and if you check their website, it doesn't seem to mention that its supposed to stand for The Learning Channel (or at least it did at one time).

The show on right after this one was "Mostly True Stories", seemed to be pretty much the same crap.

They had people doing interviews, who apparently were connected to the crimes in the show. For example lead police detectives, family members.....
Paid actors?

This is just another speed bump on the road to not being a moron (moran?).............maybe we should just give up.:faint:

[Huntster]

I don't watch TV.

[schplurg]

I don't watch TV.Who asked you? Maybe you should...you obviously have plenty of free time for threads that you have absolutely no interest in reading, and nothing to add to (troll). Any reply to this post from you will prove my point even further.

The Learning Channel and The Discovery Channel have definitely gone woo in recent years, so much so that their credibility with me on their "real" shows and documentaries is now in question. Most disheartening.

[Mongrel]

Yeah, over here in the UK the "Discovery: Science" channel seems to be a non-stop flood of Paranormal claims, crop circle investigations and wacky Ancient civilisation theories. :(

[tsg]

I don't watch TV.

I don't milk rats. What's your point?

Nevermind. I know. You think it makes you superior to people who do in some strange way. It doesn't. And going out of your way to say so makes you pretentious.

People who claim they don't watch television are like people who claim they don't masturbate: they do it far more than they are admitting to.

[Stormraven]

http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/psychic_witness/psychic_witness.html

The channel is TLC, and if you check their website, it doesn't seem to mention that its supposed to stand for The Learning Channel (or at least it did at one time).

The show on right after this one was "Mostly True Stories", seemed to be pretty much the same crap.

They had people doing interviews, who apparently were connected to the crimes in the show. For example lead police detectives, family members.....
Paid actors?

This is just another speed bump on the road to not being a moron (moran?).............maybe we should just give up.:faint:

Actually, 'Mostly True Stories' should be written with a question mark. It's one of the brighter spots in their wasteland, though I think they're only doing re-runs. The full title is Urban Legends: Mostly True Stories? (At least, if it's the one I'm thinking of) and they do a pretty good job of showing why Urban Legends persist, and actually answering whether or not they could be true.

They aren't as direct as Mythbusters, but the episodes I saw were pretty decent.

[HarryKeogh]

I don't watch TV.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television
CHAPEL HILL, NC–Area resident Jonathan Green does not own a television, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers–as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.

"I'm not an elitist," Green said. "It's just that I'd much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen."

[dogjones]

I don't watch TV either cos the ads tend to make me angry. DVDs, however, are great.

Not that I have anything to add here either.

[Krash]

I don't watch TV.
I love TV. I'm sorry that you're too self-righteous to do the same, but it takes all types to make a forum. But this has been beaten to death by now...

Yeah, over here in the UK the "Discovery: Science" channel seems to be a non-stop flood of Paranormal claims, crop circle investigations and wacky Ancient civilisation theories. :(

That's funny cuz over here Discovery Science seems to be the least woo-oriented of stations. They seem to actually play shows that are about discoveries, in science. No paranormal crap. There's been a new show on from Canada called "How's It Made?" that shows film clips of every-day products being assembled by assembly-line machines. I was especially delighted by Discovery Science last fall when they aired 13 weeks of Cosmos, every Tuesday.

TLC is undoubtedly the worst. It's irresponsible for them to play the shows that they do and then have the audacity to include the word "Learning" in their name.

The plain old Discovery Channel has some shows recently that I've found to be actually entertaining, in a good way. There was one show (can't remember the name of it offhand) that looked like a woo show but then turned out to be quite the opposite. I seem to remember the series first airing early last year. There was one about crop circles, another about the moonlanding hoax and one involving Nostradamus, but I can't remember any others. I think Penn and Teller (and possibly Randi) were on one or more?

The format of the show was such that it started out playing to a woo-mentality. It wasn't until after the first or second commercial that you discovered that they were going to present some objectivity and leave the viewer to make their own decision by the end.

[Glite]

one of the things i was unable to find out was who was making the show "psychic witness". my belief would be the psychics who are interviewed on the show, because i remember reading that the nostradamus show was made by one of the "experts" interviewed on the show.

[Garrette]

The channel is TLC, and if you check their website, it doesn't seem to mention that its supposed to stand for The Learning Channel (or at least it did at one time). Their name is still officially The Learning Channel, I think, but they long ago stopped advertising themselves that way. They now only refer to themselves as TLC.

[tsg]

That's funny cuz over here Discovery Science seems to be the least woo-oriented of stations. They seem to actually play shows that are about discoveries, in science. No paranormal crap. There's been a new show on from Canada called "How's It Made?" that shows film clips of every-day products being assembled by assembly-line machines. I was especially delighted by Discovery Science last fall when they aired 13 weeks of Cosmos, every Tuesday.

Discovery Science has become my "default" channel: if there's nothing else on, I can usually find something interesting there. "SurvivorMan" rocks.

My only beef with them is that they show ads by "Dr." James Chapele who claims to have a cure for diabetes. He's a chiropractor and a naturapath. Pure woo.

[Kenny 10 Bellys]

I used to have Sky TV here in the UK, and the only channels worth watching were the History Channel and the Discovery Channel. The History channel should be christened "The All-Hitler Channel - all Hitler, all the time!" Like wise the Discovery Channel has become something of a figure of fun...

"I watch hours of the Discovery Channel, just ask me anything about sharks or Nazi's."

No matter what channel it is, they all end up pandering to the lowest common denominator in the end.

[Tanja]

The History channel should be christened "The All-Hitler Channel - all Hitler, all the time!"

I call it the Hitler channel as well. There is hardly anything else on.

[UrsulaV]

"SurvivorMan" rocks.

I LOVE SurvivorMan. You can always tell when it's on, because the phrase "Oh, that poor man!" is uttered about once a minute.

I don't think I've learned anything useful about surviving if I am abducted by a camera crew and dumped in the woods, but watching the guy suffer these various indignities, and occasionally overcome them, is bizarrely compelling.

[tsg]

I LOVE SurvivorMan. You can always tell when it's on, because the phrase "Oh, that poor man!" is uttered about once a minute.

I don't think I've learned anything useful about surviving if I am abducted by a camera crew and dumped in the woods, but watching the guy suffer these various indignities, and occasionally overcome them, is bizarrely compelling.

I have learned:
numerous ways to start a fire
how to make/close a tent flap without cutting it
how to make a needle and thread in the desert
never to go anywhere without my Leatherman

How much of it is useful is a different question....

[LordoftheLeftHand]

I call it the Hitler channel as well. There is hardly anything else on.

Funny! I call it the Nazi channel (or sometimes the WWII channel).

LLH

[LordoftheLeftHand]

I don't watch TV.

Yeah, but, you are aware that there's an invention called television, and on this invention they show shows, right?

LLH

[HarryKeogh]

Yeah, but, you are aware that there's an invention called television, and on this invention they show shows, right?

LLH

you don't have a jeri curl afro do you?

[LordoftheLeftHand]

you don't have a jeri curl afro do you?

Yeah, but I only wear it when I give foot massages.

LLH

[Mongrel]

Krash - Over here the 'How it's made' series is shown on the plain old Discovery Channel, every couple of months they have an entire day devoted to it :) Plain Discovery also gets the Celebrity 'aren't machines great' programmes; Bruce Dickinson on Planes, Mark Williams plays with Steam Engines and tours Britain explaining the Industrial Revolution, Chris Barrie loooks through the history of vehicles etc..

Oh, and as for the History Channel, whenever I flick past it's nearly always WWII and occasionaly the Ermine Street Guard (http://www.esg.ndirect.co.uk/)

[Soapy Sam]

I don't watch TV.-Huntster

Who asked you? Maybe you should...schplurg


You think it makes you superior to people who do in some strange way. It doesn't. And going out of your way to say so makes you pretentious.-tsg

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television- Harrykeogh

I love TV. I'm sorry that you're too self-righteous to do the same, but it takes all types to make a forum.-Krash

Yeah, but, you are aware that there's an invention called television, and on this invention they show shows, right?-LordoftheLeftHand


Hmm- This seems a pretty scathing bunch of responses to the simple statement "I don't watch TV". Is there some reason for this?

[gnome]

Hmm- This seems a pretty scathing bunch of responses to the simple statement "I don't watch TV". Is there some reason for this?

Damn right, not watching TV is un-American :) he's probably a closet commie

[valis]

I don't milk rats. What's your point?

Nevermind. I know. You think it makes you superior to people who do in some strange way. It doesn't. And going out of your way to say so makes you pretentious.


This reminds me of something similar that a friend and I observed. She was a fan of The Miami Dolphins (American football) and also enjoyed opera. When she discussed opera people would be impressed with her intelect; when she discussed the Dolphins people considered it average blue collar slob recreation. Yet both involved knowing a bunch of useless crap (opera plots, football rules) that had no application except in enjoying a specilized spectator activity.

Why would one make you superior and the other not?

[tsg]

I don't watch TV.-Huntster

You think it makes you superior to people who do in some strange way. It doesn't. And going out of your way to say so makes you pretentious.-tsg



Hmm- This seems a pretty scathing bunch of responses to the simple statement "I don't watch TV". Is there some reason for this?

Yes. And I thought I was pretty clear why.

Imagine you're in your favorite pub having a drink with a friend, idly talking about a television show you saw the other night, when a guy you don't know from two seats away butts into the conversation to blurt out "I don't watch TV". What possible reason could he have for doing this except to say "I'm better than you". I don't know about you but I find it incredibly offensive.

The short answer is: No less reason than he had for barging into a conversation that he, by his own admission, couldn't possibly have anything to add to.

[Z]

Well, I don't watch TV anymore, either. I do, however, own innumerable DVDs and watch them quite often - when I'm not busy playing computer games and posting at JREF.

As a rule, I make it a point never to buy a DVD of something I haven't watched. As such, that means I just don't watch modern crap TV - cable or otherwise. Does that make me superior? I don't really think so. In fact, my inability to adapt to changing times and styles should be seen as a point of inferiority - not superiority.

I do watch TV shows, however - we own multiple episodes of "The Lucy Show", "The Andy Griffith Show", "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Petticoat Junction", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", and "Saturday Night Live". :D

I'll subscribe to cable again if/when they'll let me pick and choose my individual channels.

Huntster, however, is probably too busy burying his nose in Catholic propaganda and Bigfoot wooery to figure out how to turn on that thar new-fangled telly-vishun set (but can post to an Internet forum?---Shaddup, you!)

[sat556]

There it is! I was looking for a link to this Psychic Witness thing last night after I saw it. I hadn't realised it was on TLC though. Teach me to pay attention to the channel I choose I suppose.
The woman on there first was called Rosemary Kerr IIRC and the way the program went on about her I figured there had to be something about this on line, but I couldn't find a thing! Maybe my rubbish Googling? Who knows.
The program was so biased towards this all being real I found myself getting more and more frustrated so that I didn't watch the second part. The woman in the first half even tape recorded the interview with this Kerr, yet did we hear it? Did we hell. We got snippets that happened to fit what was being mentioned. I would have loved to hear the whole thing, just to see exactly how accurate she was/n't. Zero objectivity in that show, I will not be watching again. it's no fun watching woo crap if you can't pull it to bits is it? :D
I also think that Discovery Science is fab, it's Discovery Civilisation that's full of woo, although they do show Critical Eye amongst it all.

[dogbite666]

I don't watch TV.

good for you!

[phildonnia]

Well I got the worst of both worlds. I don't have cable, so I'm missing out on all this TLC and Hitler channel stuff, but I watch crap on the air, so I can't claim the cultural high ground.