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Wed 12/11/03 at 22:04
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"Beware all ye who enter" should be the warning to anyone dumb enough to watch daytime television.

I work shifts, which basically means that I'm at home until 2pm some days. This has allowed me time to soak in the waters of strange soaps, chat shows and DIY programmes that seem to appeal to middle aged mothers and Jerry Springer fans.

Kilroy seems to be a show where the audience get angry, but never 'that' angry. Kilroy himself is just annoying, he smiles and looks all understanding, when really you know he's thinking 'I'd love to punch that stupid old lady right in the face'.

On the other end of the scale, Trisha Goddard gives you stories to melt your heart. No, they're actually, more like stories to make you physically sick wondering how 2 stupid people and their mother ever escaped the notice of scientists looking for the missing link. It really is pathetic that these people have to be on television to air their problems, problems usually solved by a restraining order or lobotomy in many cases.

This Morning sees Fern Britton host a show that went rapidly down a fast hill after Richard and Judy left for Channel 4. They try so hard to make a go of it, but it ends up looking like something from the 80's, all it needs is a stuffed puppet and jolly cook and they'd have all the ingredients there. The guests all seem to know it too, half of them looking too tired to care anyway.

Cash in the Attic - what's all this about. Sounds like a trip to some Ebay seller's house. "We've run out of cash" say the owners of one house. "Maybe that's because you have so much junk" say the BBC and help flog it off to gulible people. Great. Next we'll be watching programmes about setting up Car Boot Sale.

Then we move to ITV and watch Today with Des and Mel. Whoever paired Des O'conner and Melanie Sykes should be given a medal. They just don't know what to do with each other, he's old enough to be her grandad and she winces at his jokes, but somehow it works! Guests range from B-list actors to rock climbers and you can see the punchlines coming a mile off. Still, it's the best entertainment so far and Mel is easy on the eye, if you know what I mean.

And that's just a dip in the ocean of fishy television that makes up the morning schedule. It's entertaining in the most basic way and great for masochists. They should show these programmes in prison and hide the remote control, the crime rate would go down a lot quicker.

Here's to the next morning line up, I think I'll watch the Fimbles and Stingray.
Fri 14/11/03 at 22:23
"I love yo... lamp."
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Yes daytime TV is hell on earth. Thank goodness for the Internet!
Fri 14/11/03 at 21:05
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Was that consoles plural!? When I was a lad all I had was a paper bag, with controller buttons drawn onto it with my own dirt filled hands! Todays youth...
Thu 13/11/03 at 19:40
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Perhaps I'm testing myself for one of those Japanese endurance shows by taking in as much daytime TV as possible? I don't know. It's on, I'm home. Still, glad I have my consoles to...er...console me.
Thu 13/11/03 at 14:00
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Why do you lower yourself like this pb? Is a loving family not enough!?
Thu 13/11/03 at 10:04
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Trisha is just SO bad, i just cant stand it.

This Morning actually has more viewers now than when richard and judy were presenting.
Thu 13/11/03 at 02:19
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*shakes head*
Thu 13/11/03 at 01:42
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Trisha rules.
Thu 13/11/03 at 00:12
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" My daughter slapped my best friend, and ripped her head off"
"My best friend now wants to kill me"


Trsiha: Let's take a lie detector test!
Wed 12/11/03 at 23:41
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pb wrote:
>
> On the other end of the scale, Trisha Goddard gives you stories to
> melt your heart. No, they're actually, more like stories to make you
> physically sick wondering how 2 stupid people and their mother ever
> escaped the notice of scientists looking for the missing link. It
> really is pathetic that these people have to be on television to air
> their problems, problems usually solved by a restraining order or
> lobotomy in many cases.

Can't stand to watch it. Even if its on one of the T.Vs in work. Straightr off even though I never watch them. Just the though is enough.

I stay clear of normal daytime T.V. Stick it on Toonami and kill my brain cells that way. The pretty colors make it more fun.
Wed 12/11/03 at 22:04
Moderator
"possibly impossible"
Posts: 24,985
"Beware all ye who enter" should be the warning to anyone dumb enough to watch daytime television.

I work shifts, which basically means that I'm at home until 2pm some days. This has allowed me time to soak in the waters of strange soaps, chat shows and DIY programmes that seem to appeal to middle aged mothers and Jerry Springer fans.

Kilroy seems to be a show where the audience get angry, but never 'that' angry. Kilroy himself is just annoying, he smiles and looks all understanding, when really you know he's thinking 'I'd love to punch that stupid old lady right in the face'.

On the other end of the scale, Trisha Goddard gives you stories to melt your heart. No, they're actually, more like stories to make you physically sick wondering how 2 stupid people and their mother ever escaped the notice of scientists looking for the missing link. It really is pathetic that these people have to be on television to air their problems, problems usually solved by a restraining order or lobotomy in many cases.

This Morning sees Fern Britton host a show that went rapidly down a fast hill after Richard and Judy left for Channel 4. They try so hard to make a go of it, but it ends up looking like something from the 80's, all it needs is a stuffed puppet and jolly cook and they'd have all the ingredients there. The guests all seem to know it too, half of them looking too tired to care anyway.

Cash in the Attic - what's all this about. Sounds like a trip to some Ebay seller's house. "We've run out of cash" say the owners of one house. "Maybe that's because you have so much junk" say the BBC and help flog it off to gulible people. Great. Next we'll be watching programmes about setting up Car Boot Sale.

Then we move to ITV and watch Today with Des and Mel. Whoever paired Des O'conner and Melanie Sykes should be given a medal. They just don't know what to do with each other, he's old enough to be her grandad and she winces at his jokes, but somehow it works! Guests range from B-list actors to rock climbers and you can see the punchlines coming a mile off. Still, it's the best entertainment so far and Mel is easy on the eye, if you know what I mean.

And that's just a dip in the ocean of fishy television that makes up the morning schedule. It's entertaining in the most basic way and great for masochists. They should show these programmes in prison and hide the remote control, the crime rate would go down a lot quicker.

Here's to the next morning line up, I think I'll watch the Fimbles and Stingray.

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