Sometimes you're in Korea, and when you call them up, on this, they can't understand your foreign babblings and they won't bring out the teevee. Not to mention that even if you do find a teevee, all the shows you expect to broadcast don't broadcast that broadly, and instead you get local soap operas where people either yell or cry a lot.
I missed a lot of teevee in those days.
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This is the first time I've seen anyone use "oh my heck" since I lived in Utah
All the Mormons said it because God forbid they use an actual swear word and it sounded so goofy
a young man i work with (not mormon, but christian) refuses to swear, and will occasionally use "Frack" in place of fuck... including such gems as "frack you" and "what the frack." Ironically, in the end, he's turning out to be more of a dickhead than his lack of cursing would lead one to presume.
you're in europe and all the good teevee shows will maybe just MAYBE arrive on your local televisions in like a year or so
your english is too good to watch these shows dubbed over in a crappy translation that loses half of the good jokes or references
you would gladly pay good, solid euromoney to hulu or the networks or WHOEVER to watch the shows legally on the internet
but no
OH NO
there is some copyright bullshit and some licencing bullshit and many other shits that have been shat from bulls going on
so you are faced with a dilemma
do you wait for a year for the most current episode of lost, the one all the internet is talking about RIGHT NOW, to be shown on your local teevee with dubbing and horrible translation that makes hurley's jokes mysteriously not funny?
I used to live with a guy who torrented TV shows constantly.
One time he jammed up our internets and completely ruined a night of Left 4 Dead for me and I later found out he was torrenting every episode of Will and Grace.
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Monkey Ball WarriorA collection of mediocre hatsSeattle, WARegistered Userregular
edited October 2010
This is what Netflix is for.
In exchange for some money and not watching things when they first come out, you get to watch them almost as fast as you like (or even as fast as you like if it's streamable) and you don't have to deal with commercials (assuming you use a computer to get around the ever-increasing on-disk ads/trailers).
For me, commercials are a deal breaker. I can't stand regular television anymore.
I understand some people use DVRs to emulate this effect, but that's still something like $40 a month for the cable/satellite subscription. No way I'm paying that much for television.
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KageraImitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered Userregular
edited October 2010
I WOULD get rid of TV.
But DirecTV was all like 'hey dudes if you get NFL Sunday Ticket we'll throw in all the HBOs and the SHOWTIMES and the SKINEMAX for free for 5 months!'
And I was like 'okay!'
I mean, I guess I could buy Dexter on DVD or just wait until it eventually gets to Netflix or something but I don't wanna. Also not everything gets to Netflix like sports or Entourage.
Burn Notice, Dexter, Venture Brothers, and Breaking Bad are all years behind in the UK.
years
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
edited October 2010
I can sort of understand Tycho not wanting TV - if I had kids, I wouldn't really want them watching TV under their own power. They'd need to come to me for TV, and I'd be like "You want to watch TV? OK, here's Sesame Street, or Bill Nye. You want cartoons? Here's BTAS or Rocco's Modern Life."
The only thing I really would want TV for right now is Mad Men. Also HBO for when Game of Thrones comes out.
Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
edited October 2010
If Netflix keeps getting day-after access to television shows I care about, I can see myself not paying for cable
But as it is, I get high speed internet from the cable company, so I might as well pay the extra cash for the ability to watch new episodes of Mythbusters and shows on AMC and stuff
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edited October 2010
I wish television companies didn't have such a phobia of taking my money in exchange for digital television episodes.
My money's pretty good, guys. It is not infected with smallpox. There might be some trace amounts of cocaine in there, but that could just be an urban legend. Now sell me Mad Men in a timely manner so I can cancel my stupid cable subscription.
Burn Notice, Dexter, Venture Brothers, and Breaking Bad are all years behind in the UK.
years
breaking bad is on in the UK?
I just hit up BBC Iplayer once a week and watch whatever is good on there. QI, Mock the week, have I got news for you... They usually have a good film or two on there, and recently that new show with Alan davies in it, whites, is pretty good.
I think most shows that have been discussed on these forums have aired at some point in Sweden. My current favourite is "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
Some of them survive here, and others don't. Unfortunately Two and a Half men did and it airs every day
This is the first time I've seen anyone use "oh my heck" since I lived in Utah
All the Mormons said it because God forbid they use an actual swear word and it sounded so goofy
a young man i work with (not mormon, but christian) refuses to swear, and will occasionally use "Frack" in place of fuck... including such gems as "frack you" and "what the frack." Ironically, in the end, he's turning out to be more of a dickhead than his lack of cursing would lead one to presume.
If Netflix keeps getting day-after access to television shows I care about, I can see myself not paying for cable
But as it is, I get high speed internet from the cable company, so I might as well pay the extra cash for the ability to watch new episodes of Mythbusters and shows on AMC and stuff
Netflix gets day after access?
I must have been living in a hole in the ground?
I must need to stream more netflix.
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my opinion is 'eh'
as it is always on and always good
If we're lucky some people will admit to doing it and get infracted.
All the Mormons said it because God forbid they use an actual swear word and it sounded so goofy
I missed a lot of teevee in those days.
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You watch a random iteration of Law & Order.
That is the show that is always on. Either bravo is playing a marathon, or USA, or TNT, or TBS, or NBC.
There will always be law, and there will always be order. And it will always be mediocre.
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It is true!
a young man i work with (not mormon, but christian) refuses to swear, and will occasionally use "Frack" in place of fuck... including such gems as "frack you" and "what the frack." Ironically, in the end, he's turning out to be more of a dickhead than his lack of cursing would lead one to presume.
your english is too good to watch these shows dubbed over in a crappy translation that loses half of the good jokes or references
you would gladly pay good, solid euromoney to hulu or the networks or WHOEVER to watch the shows legally on the internet
but no
OH NO
there is some copyright bullshit and some licencing bullshit and many other shits that have been shat from bulls going on
so you are faced with a dilemma
do you wait for a year for the most current episode of lost, the one all the internet is talking about RIGHT NOW, to be shown on your local teevee with dubbing and horrible translation that makes hurley's jokes mysteriously not funny?
or do you go to the torrents?
those are the difficulties of being a euroman
One time he jammed up our internets and completely ruined a night of Left 4 Dead for me and I later found out he was torrenting every episode of Will and Grace.
In exchange for some money and not watching things when they first come out, you get to watch them almost as fast as you like (or even as fast as you like if it's streamable) and you don't have to deal with commercials (assuming you use a computer to get around the ever-increasing on-disk ads/trailers).
For me, commercials are a deal breaker. I can't stand regular television anymore.
I understand some people use DVRs to emulate this effect, but that's still something like $40 a month for the cable/satellite subscription. No way I'm paying that much for television.
But DirecTV was all like 'hey dudes if you get NFL Sunday Ticket we'll throw in all the HBOs and the SHOWTIMES and the SKINEMAX for free for 5 months!'
And I was like 'okay!'
I mean, I guess I could buy Dexter on DVD or just wait until it eventually gets to Netflix or something but I don't wanna. Also not everything gets to Netflix like sports or Entourage.
Dubbing foreign shows is just silly, that's what subtitles is for
There are so many ways to get divx on a TV nowdays it is not hard.
Satans..... hints.....
The default television show is Law and Order
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Two and a half men are shown 33 times.
Satans..... hints.....
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The only thing I really would want TV for right now is Mad Men. Also HBO for when Game of Thrones comes out.
But as it is, I get high speed internet from the cable company, so I might as well pay the extra cash for the ability to watch new episodes of Mythbusters and shows on AMC and stuff
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My money's pretty good, guys. It is not infected with smallpox. There might be some trace amounts of cocaine in there, but that could just be an urban legend. Now sell me Mad Men in a timely manner so I can cancel my stupid cable subscription.
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breaking bad is on in the UK?
I just hit up BBC Iplayer once a week and watch whatever is good on there. QI, Mock the week, have I got news for you... They usually have a good film or two on there, and recently that new show with Alan davies in it, whites, is pretty good.
Some of them survive here, and others don't. Unfortunately Two and a Half men did and it airs every day
"It's like, look at 'em man. They're just white trash getting busted on TV."
He's probably just really into BSG.
Netflix gets day after access?
I must have been living in a hole in the ground?
I must need to stream more netflix.