TV viewing habits

I wouldn't like to a be a tv programmer and have to insert ads and make up the schedule everyday.

Who's got time to follow all that?

But I do know that, for some tv is a ritual. Like at 7pm it will be Shortland Street, five nights a week. It's just passed its 30th birthday. At the time, nobody in NZ thought it would ever last, as a local soap opera had never been done before.

For some people the little people on the tv screen in their living room are more real to them than their own families lol

But I reckon there is enough drama in my own life to deal with than have to watch other peoples! Our cat used to jump on the tv to get our attention, she'd rather everyone watched her than the tv.
My wife and oldest daughter watch a great deal of "reality" TV. I don't get it. Life has enough drama without having to deal with other people's drama. Like I said before, I do not really watch a great deal of TV programs. I do watch program like MythBusters, How It's Made, Dirty Jobs, and The Walking Deal. Aside from the Walking Deal, the other three programs are re-runs. I watch them over and over again. They never get old.
 
when I was really young (maybe 10), I brought a stray cat home. That very same night, the cat scratched my face up pretty good. from that day forward, I have not been a cat person.
I think you were very unlucky with that cat. I have always had dogs and cats, but have never owned one that did that.
In all animals you can get a naughty one. I think that stray you rescued may have been frightened and could quite possibly have been feral not just stray.
Not a very pleasant experience for you.
 
I think you were very unlucky with that cat. I have always had dogs and cats, but have never owned one that did that.
In all animals you can get a naughty one. I think that stray you rescued may have been frightened and could quite possibly have been feral not just stray.
Not a very pleasant experience for you.
I like big dogs. We have a 70 pounder, but he is getting old.
 
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I haven't watched tv in a while. Just netflix docos, on singers mostly - Nina Simone, Britney Spears, Shania Twain
I like good travel docos like Michael Portillo, Joanna Lumley going places, and Coast. BBC did a good series of Coast that went round the coast of New Zealand.
 
I am currently watching "The Kingdom." The film is set in Saudi Arabia and is based on the 1996 bombing of the Khobar housing complex, also on the 2004 Khobar massacre and the two 2003 bombings of four compounds in Riyadh.

Before that, I started to watch what I thought would be a good zombie movie. It turned out to be about a female who went around totally nude, with a chainsaw, doing a really bad job of killing zombies. Made about 10 minutes of that and could not take it anymore.

Before that, I watched the story of Jeremiah and before that the story of Saul's trip to Damascus.

Yes, I have spent the afternoon watching the tube, with a short break to finish mowing the backyard and reviewing two reports. The wife went to lunch with "the girls," so I had to find something to do after church.

rtm
 
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I watch a variety. Scifi, fantasy and I also like film noir and some old series' like Perry Mason and others. A friend got me a Roku last Christmas so for about 25 percent of what some pay for cable I have a lot of choices.
 
I have a real one next to my desk, but it is a freshwater tank. Us to have a saltwater tank, but something went wrong, and all the live things died. :(
What fish do you have in it? Is it a lot to maintain? I've never had an aquarium. I had a turtle for a couple of weeks but it ran away.
We had cats and I think cats and fish aquariums are probably not a good combo??
 
What fish do you have in it? Is it a lot to maintain? I've never had an aquarium. I had a turtle for a couple of weeks but it ran away.
We had cats and I think cats and fish aquariums are probably not a good combo??
We have swordfish. Freshwater tanks are not complicated and are not as pretty as saltwater tanks. Those are really hard to maintain. We still do not know what caused all the fish and coral to die basically overnight. :(
 
We have swordfish. Freshwater tanks are not complicated and are not as pretty as saltwater tanks. Those are really hard to maintain. We still do not know what caused all the fish and coral to die basically overnight. :(
could have been anything- household cleaning chemicals, something went acid in the water?
I like going to the aquarium (one in Auckland is called Kelly Tarlton's) but hardly get the chance. Although I usually see live crayfish at the Chinese restaurant haha
 
We have swordfish. Freshwater tanks are not complicated and are not as pretty as saltwater tanks. Those are really hard to maintain. We still do not know what caused all the fish and coral to die basically overnight. :(
Sorry I ate Swordfish once they are real tasty!
I once had sharks but they are the fins off my angel fish😫
I have heard that salt water fish are hard to maintain. I think it’s the balance that has to be just right each day.
 
Sorry I ate Swordfish once they are real tasty!
I once had sharks but they are the fins off my angel fish😫
I have heard that salt water fish are hard to maintain. I think it’s the balance that has to be just right each day.
Yes, you are right, it is the balance. In is a constant task and we apparently blew it.

The swordfish I am talking about are about an inch long. Would not made much of a meal. Probably should have called them swordtail.

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could have been anything- household cleaning chemicals, something went acid in the water?
I like going to the aquarium (one in Auckland is called Kelly Tarlton's) but hardly get the chance. Although I usually see live crayfish at the Chinese restaurant haha
It was an issue with the balance of the water. I like going to the Miami seaquarium too, but it has become very political. There are always large crows of protesters holding up signs and yelling to release the mammals back to the wild. It's a silly request, as releasing a domesticated animal back into the wild pretty much causes them to die. Not to mention that one adult ticket is $49.95 (86.10 for you guys). None of the water fountains work, so you have to by their 8oz bottle for almost $10.00.

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