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Old 05-12-2012, 01:03 AM
 
Location: SW France
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Good morning peevers.

For the first time this month it is a gorgeous morning.

I've been spending a few minutes on YouTube having started watching a clip- actually, it's easier to show you;


Garrett McNamara rides 90 Foot Wave! (Full Video) New World Record - YouTube

Anyway, as is the way with YouTube you can find so many different related clips and this led to my seeing something which wasn't very pleasant.

That got me thinking about why people seem to like to watch horrible or scary movies and so on. Some of the advertisments of upcoming programmes that get shown on the TV seem to me to be pretty tasteless.

So, my fellow peevers, the POTD is;

Tasteless or horrible things shown on TV.
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Old 05-12-2012, 01:21 AM
 
Location: The Wild Wild West
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Tasteless or horrible things shown on TV.

Soap operas and most reality shows.
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Old 05-12-2012, 01:58 AM
 
Location: SW France
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I'm with you on that nitram!
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Old 05-12-2012, 03:56 AM
 
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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Good morning peevers.

For the first time this month it is a gorgeous morning.

I've been spending a few minutes on YouTube having started watching a clip- actually, it's easier to show you;


Garrett McNamara rides 90 Foot Wave! (Full Video) New World Record - YouTube

Anyway, as is the way with YouTube you can find so many different related clips and this led to my seeing something which wasn't very pleasant.

That got me thinking about why people seem to like to watch horrible or scary movies and so on. Some of the advertisments of upcoming programmes that get shown on the TV seem to me to be pretty tasteless.

So, my fellow peevers, the POTD is;

Tasteless or horrible things shown on TV.
Yeah ... I never understood the appeal of scary movies and gory stuff on TV ... I get no delight from seeing victims suffering. In fact, I believe that a lot of the senseless crime we've been seeing in the news these days (especially ones committed by minors) is somehow linked to the increasingly graphic content on TV and in movies.
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Old 05-12-2012, 05:41 AM
 
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Tasteless or horrible things shown on TV.

Anne Robinson.
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Old 05-12-2012, 06:14 AM
 
Location: Hermoso y tranquilo Panamá
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Tasteless or horrible things shown on TV.

Soap operas and most reality shows.
Isn't that the truth - have no idea why anyone would watch garbage like that. Like "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" what trash - and then there's the show itself
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Old 05-12-2012, 06:52 AM
 
Location: SC Foothills
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Tasteless or horrible things shown on TV.
Yeah there's a lot of trash on TV that I don't watch like all the vampire shows and that new show "Grimm"....it looks really creepy. I'll stick with the few sitcoms that I watch and dramas like "Person of Interest", that's a good one. TV just ain't what it used to be.
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Old 05-12-2012, 07:38 AM
 
Location: Orlando, Florida
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The only time it really annoys me is when they advertise scary/horror movies on television while
my young grandson is watching.

Enjoyed the 'surf' video Jezer. I used to surf, but never like this. It takes a lot of guts to face a wave that high.
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Old 05-12-2012, 07:45 AM
 
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Reading through many pages of a forum topic,then when its time to add your comments on the issue you discover the topic has been locked.
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Old 05-12-2012, 10:05 AM
 
Location: The Circle City. Sometimes NE of Bagdad.
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The current batch of proposed reality shows is getting out of hand.
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