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28 December 2009

Shocking television. I just signed up for a little bit of cable tv, only about 20 channels, but [More:]if you have a digital tv you get some extras scattered around the rest of the dial (if that is even the right word to use these days). Mostly it's the high-def versions of the other basic cable channels, NBC, ABC, PBS, etc. And then there's a couple other things like PBS World and Create, which are nice. And then there's a channel that babbles endlessly about on-demand movies, I guess to try and make me go get a digital box. And then there are one or two channels that show either a random channel that I don't normally get, like History or G4 or something, again I guess to try to lure me in to buy more channels, or they show a recent movie, like Julie Julia or whatever that Meryl Streep one is called. Only last night, when I was flipping channels, one of these channels was showing . . . well, I hardly like to say, but you can probably guess, it starts with a P and ends with an N and involves body parts that you don't normally see on tv. Right there in my living room on a Sunday night! Good heavens! There go my virgin eyes . . .
Back in the day, New York City cable had a thing called "Channel J" which was softcore porn and advertisements for escort services. It brought you The Robin Byrd Show and Midnight Blue hosted by Al Goldstein.

Al used to do a segment called "Fuck You" where he ranted about something that had pissed him off that week - such as cabdrivers or deli countermen who dispensed skimpy portions. It concluded with his giving the camera the finger and saying, "[Thing that pissed me off this week], fuck you." This tradition lives on chez Beese when we see a news story about the LDS Church tightening its stranglehold on civic life or Orrin Hatch reminding us he's still alive.
posted by Joe Beese 28 December | 09:55
well, I hardly like to say, but you can probably guess, it starts with a P and ends with an N and involves body parts that you don't normally see on tv. Right there in my living room on a Sunday night! Good heavens! There go my virgin eyes . . .

wait till you see this 'internet' thing all the kids are into...
posted by jonmc 28 December | 10:20
involves body parts that you don't normally see on tv.


Thyroid Glands, right? When's the last time you saw a good thyroid on TV?
posted by danf 28 December | 10:46
Protozoan? Peppercorn? Prestidigitation?
posted by Wolfdog 28 December | 11:00
I can't believe Time Warner Cable really meant to show me peppercorn as a free promotion.
posted by JanetLand 28 December | 11:02
Hot hot hot persimmon channel.
posted by Wolfdog 28 December | 11:06
A man, a PlaN, a canal, boomchicka wah wah.
posted by taz 28 December | 11:12
if you want thyroid glands, turn to the Food Channel . they have thyroid gland all the time, except they call them Sweetbreads
posted by rollick 28 December | 11:59
Public information? And yes, eating too many donuts will do that to your arteries.
posted by cillit bang 28 December | 12:02
"You know Fox turned into a hardcore porn channel so gradually we didn't even notice."
posted by The Whelk 28 December | 12:52
Best. Simpsons. Quote. EVER.
posted by oneswellfoop 28 December | 13:31
JanetLand turned on the TV and saw... brown chicken brown cow!
posted by halonine 28 December | 14:16
PrawN?
posted by lysdexic 28 December | 15:42
Someone at the waxer's getting a Panamanian?

Wait, what?
posted by Elsa 28 December | 15:46
Someone at the waxer's getting a Panamanian Pomeranian.
posted by Wolfdog 28 December | 16:17
My virgin eyes were lost on that aforementioned Robin Byrd show due to insomnia ad a bad channel-surfing habit when I was a student. All I remember was stumbling into some bizarro porn show advert, where some street walker (in a badly lit studio that looked like they had borrowed the set from sesame street), was about to get arrested by studly-cop and, well ....then they asked you to call a phone number or pay for a channel or whatever - I was quite shocked to see that on TV. Not the porn talk show whatever that was, the bad ads, I'm scarred for life, I'm telling ya.

I had totally repressed that memory until Beese said the name.
posted by dabitch 28 December | 19:13
Bunnies! OMG! || I am no longer sick...

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