What are you watching?
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I should probably try out Netflix. Seem like there's a lot of stuff on it.
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It's great. I didn't have anything but Netflix for years and I had two kids in the house. I only ever got Dish back because my parents moved in and they wanted it.
I just convinced my mom to let me get rid of again. I suspect she's only letting it go because I told her she was going to have to start paying for it because anything we watch is on Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu. Why should I pay 100.00 a month for tv I rarely watch? And she watches less than I do.I am considering adding HBO to my Roku channels since I'm getting rid of Dish, though. I think it's around 10.00 a month.
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We get one alphabet channel on the antenna plus a few others like Antenna TV etc. plus I pay 10.00 a month for the netflix. It's plenty, even for the tv watcher (not me).
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I've been sick this week and binge watched a show on Netflix. It's called The Last Something or other (I can't even remember - maybe King?
) but it was about Vikings and I love me some Vikings. I didn't think the main cator was very good and some parts are pretty hokey but I was entertained in my NyQuil induced state.
) but it was about Vikings and I love me some Vikings. I didn't think the main cator was very good and some parts are pretty hokey but I was entertained in my NyQuil induced state.
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Roll Tide!
The wife and I are re-watching shows as of late. We re-watched Breaking Bad over the last few weeks and now we are in Season 6 of Weeds.
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The Magicians on Netflix. it's kinda like a college Harry Potter series. The lead guy is annoying, though. He constantly acts confused and disoriented. The actor is either on drugs or overplaying the part.
I got rid of Dish Network. YAY! When I called, the man asked why I was cancelling service and I told him because we didn't want it anymore. Apparently, that wasn't a good enough answer because he kept asking why...Why... WHy....WHY I was cancelling? He was very dramatic. We went round and round for 10 minutes until I finally told him that I wasn't going to tell him why, lol.
I got rid of Dish Network. YAY! When I called, the man asked why I was cancelling service and I told him because we didn't want it anymore. Apparently, that wasn't a good enough answer because he kept asking why...Why... WHy....WHY I was cancelling? He was very dramatic. We went round and round for 10 minutes until I finally told him that I wasn't going to tell him why, lol.
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The Magicians on Netflix. it's kinda like a college Harry Potter series. The lead guy is annoying, though. He constantly acts confused and disoriented. The actor is either on drugs or overplaying the part.
I got rid of Dish Network. YAY! When I called, the man asked why I was cancelling service and I told him because we didn't want it anymore. Apparently, that wasn't a good enough answer because he kept asking why...Why... WHy....WHY I was cancelling? He was very dramatic. We went round and round for 10 minutes until I finally told him that I wasn't going to tell him why, lol.
You spent 10 full minutes on the phone with a TV sales person? Dunno whether to hand it to you for tolerance or stupidity. I'm out in under 60 seconds with such things, making it plain as day that the call is recorded, this is what I want, and have a pleasant day.
That nonsense aside, I binge-watched a Netflix series called "Travelers". I never watch TV series as they all suck IMO, but for some odd reason I decided to do so this one time. The description sounded somewhat stupid and figured I'd be done in under one episode. Au contraire. I will not say it was spectacular, but it was pretty good. It raises a lot of interesting questions about the notions of time travel, and all that sort of thing. I won't give any spoilers, so if you're that interested, go watch. I will alert you that the first episode starts off slowly, but by the end there was just enough for me to say "what the hell" and go to the next. It gets better. The implications of it all are actually handled very well in terms of the tech, cause and effect, etc. I think that is what I liked about it. All manner of interesting questions arise.
I still despise television and I still want a divorce for having brought the devil back into the house.
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I was actually calling them whilst I was waiting for everyone else to get ready to go and had time to kill. Plus, he was entertaining and I was having fun trolling him. I thought it was so bizarre that he was so flippin' dramatic. And he went on to say that I had never been late on one one payment so I must've enjoyed the service. Lol, it was on autopay. My prompt payments had nothing to do with my satisfaction with their service. Mr Animal wants to watch that one. Honestly, I only care about one or two shows (Vikings and People of Earth). I only ever watch anything else if I'm sick or if Mr Animal makes me. He thinks we're doing something together if we're watching tv.
I don't really consider tv watching doing something together. I don't mind the Netflix but I don't want the cable back in the house. I never had cable until I married Mr Animal and then he got mad at me because I had it cut off after getting mad at Comcast for charging us for a premium channel we weren't getting. We argued about it for years but I won because he knew it was not good for the kids. That was my argument - it's for the children, lol. When my parents moved in, I got it back for my dad. He had a stroke and liked watching the old shows and keeping up with the news. He also became obsessed with that bald guy on the Weather Channel for some reason. Anyway, my contract was up and my mom rarely watches it so it's not a big deal. My kids watch it less than I do and I think that has to with the fact that we never really sat around in front of the tv much. Number one son watches something about once a month and number two son watches two shows a week - Gotham and Lucifer with Mr Animal. On a side note, I (and other moms) noticed that my kids never asked for anything in stores - like toys and crap like that. They liked legos but they weren't into everything that came down the pike like their friends. I contribute that to the fact that they didn't sit around watching commercials all day.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures at the satellite company, mesupposes.
Methinks he will not be disappointed. There are one or two fundamental technical issues that come up, one of them endlessly important to credibility in a sense, but most people will not pick up on it. It would be subtle to the average man, but I will not raise it now unless you want to know what it is specifically, perhaps to look for it yourselves. Otherwise, I liked it. The mix of characters and the realities of what is purported to have happened is interesting and in some ways thought provoking. Whoever conceived this one did their work well, and the writers are mostly good at what they do. There are a few lines that do not fit, but they are few and fairly far between. Of course, you have to take into account that I am a bit anal about plausibility and am a pretty strict adherent of the Clarke school of scifi, whose central principle states that good science fiction must be reasonably rooted in what was at least at one time known as plausible. That is why Star Trek is generally such painfully terrible scifi. "Earl Grey, hot." <swirly noises and whispy-light> and VOYLUH! doesn't cut it with me for ten seconds because it's too much like pulling a giant hare out you 3-week old infants left nostril. Besides, Gene Roddenberry's apparent understanding of human nature was less than bupkis.
[Mr Animal] thinks we're doing something together if we're watching tv.
With plenty of people I've known, sex isn't even doing something together. How do I know this? Lets just say I'm one of those people to whom everyone seems to want to tell all their most intimate life details. Wifey is even worse... she should be charging by the hour, we'd have the mortgage paid in a week... or less.
Truly and verily I say thou art brilliant, in a slinkily eville way.
If Crisco was involved, that's fine by me, but please please please don't tell us about it.
Reported to CPS.
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