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Jul. 19th, 2017
In serious telly minority
Jul. 19th, 2017 11:45 amI know it's probably my fault that I just can't watch American sitcoms. Try as I may, I just don't find them funny at all. I don't know what kind of audience they are meant for, but I'm most certainly not part of that group. I find these shows stupid, infantile, boring, annoying, verbose, un-lifelike and their protagonists are people I would never want to even meet in my life.
Unfortunately, both Hungarian and German channels are flooded with this crap. Pro7, once a channel with sarcastic, self-produced programmes, currently runs Two And A Half Men (my personal pet hate), The Big Bang Theory, Two Broke Girls, How I Met Your Mother and at least half a dozen other shows of the same irk. Now, it is possible that I miss a gene that would make me endure them, but that doesn't play any role for the results.
Come to think, I don't find American comedy movies all that funny, either. In fact, I find them boring, annoying... see the list above. Or American romantic movies that are so kitchy that they make holes in my teeth. I used to like action films while they still had a plot and contained anything else but people being killed onscreen in the dozens. And sci-fi movies, when they still had more than just overblown special effects.
Thank God for the German channel tele5. It only runs advertising for the entire morning, but at least in the afternoon there are sci-fi re-runs: Star Trek, mostly, but also Stargate and Andromeda at times.
Sorry for the rant. If, unlike me, you do like American sitcoms and movies, more power to you. I just wish we had a little more alternatives to choose from.
Unfortunately, both Hungarian and German channels are flooded with this crap. Pro7, once a channel with sarcastic, self-produced programmes, currently runs Two And A Half Men (my personal pet hate), The Big Bang Theory, Two Broke Girls, How I Met Your Mother and at least half a dozen other shows of the same irk. Now, it is possible that I miss a gene that would make me endure them, but that doesn't play any role for the results.
Come to think, I don't find American comedy movies all that funny, either. In fact, I find them boring, annoying... see the list above. Or American romantic movies that are so kitchy that they make holes in my teeth. I used to like action films while they still had a plot and contained anything else but people being killed onscreen in the dozens. And sci-fi movies, when they still had more than just overblown special effects.
Thank God for the German channel tele5. It only runs advertising for the entire morning, but at least in the afternoon there are sci-fi re-runs: Star Trek, mostly, but also Stargate and Andromeda at times.
Sorry for the rant. If, unlike me, you do like American sitcoms and movies, more power to you. I just wish we had a little more alternatives to choose from.
More crafting
Jul. 19th, 2017 11:50 amWow, I don't post for a week or so, and then I got on the roll and can't stop!
Anyway, I've finished the baby journal for the lady who helps us clean the flat (she's younger than me, actually, but is becoming a grandmother in September), and thought I'd show you the result:
It will be a boy, or so they say, so I chose mostly blue. It's just the front cover, I still need to put in some titles in the inside, but that won't be particularly decorated, so I thought this would be enough to show.
Anyway, I've finished the baby journal for the lady who helps us clean the flat (she's younger than me, actually, but is becoming a grandmother in September), and thought I'd show you the result:
It will be a boy, or so they say, so I chose mostly blue. It's just the front cover, I still need to put in some titles in the inside, but that won't be particularly decorated, so I thought this would be enough to show.