Murder/suicide in progress .... (not really, just raging)

[tripperfunster]

I love my hubby. He is funny, smart, cute and very sweet and thoughtful. He is a fantastic father, a considerate husband and a good son to his mother.

He also watches the SHITTIEST TELEVISION PROGRAMS EVER. OMG!
Now, I don't really feel like I have the right to complain (much) because I'm not technically watching. I'm sitting at the dining room table, on my laptop, drawing or surfing etc. Meanwhile he switches from shitty to boring to sports to dull and then back to shitty and boring and sports again.

Canadian Pickers (which is more annoying and boring even that American Pickers which is really saying something.)
Storage Wars -- any one will do. The old one, Texas, NY, doesn't matter. Kicker is, he's already SEEN most of them.
Pawn Stars. *flails* The people on this show make me want to kill myself, they are so ... irritating.
Basketball/hockey/football etc. Don't really care, but meh. Boring.
Antiques' Roadshow. Probably the best of the bunch, but really pretty boring, esp when you've seen half of them already.
Old, old OLD movies. I am going to assume that the job of EDITOR only came to be after the 70's were half over. Why is every black and white movie four hours long? And boring?

Each of these programs gets three to ten minutes of his attention, then the changes the channel for about about three minutes of various things on other channels, some boring some not. I preferr the boring ones, because it is torture to see a mere three minutes of something that is actually interesting.

I understand that channel surfing is a guy thing, and he's watching stupid, boring shows because he is using the mindless crap to just unwind after a hard day, but that doesn't stop me from curling my toes in frustration.

That is all. Carry on. :D

Comments

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

Okay, Storage Wars can be addicting, because of the mystery and the outrageousness of it, but I do feel my brain shrinking after a few episodes.

I *love* Pawn Stars. I like stuff, learning about the history of it, and the surprise at how much some of this stuff is worth.

I find I can't watch too many episodes of American Pickers (I'm assuming Canadian Pickers is similar) because the abundance of *stuff* sometimes activates an intense feeling of hatred. So, apparently I have a "stuff meter." It can be this amount of stuff and not that amount of stuff.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I enjoy the history part of Pawn Stars, but the PEOPLE drive me to drink.

All of the 'hijinx' is sooo manufactered, I can't stand it.

American/Canadian pickers is EXACTLY the same show, but just with different people. Same shit, different country. Trufax.

I love hoarders, I guess you wouldn't like it.

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Hoarders scares me, as does Intervention (which I only started to watch because RDJ said that was his favorite show, and after hysterically sobbing through two episodes, I decided that was all I could handle). Hoarders scares me in particular because I could have been a hoarder if I didn't drastically reform my ways. Now I'm a reformed hoarder, but still with some hoarder tendencies, like feeling extremely bad when I have to throw something out that has some remote semblance to sentiment.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

See? That's exactly WHY I like hoarders. I could easily see that happening to me as well. Not dead kittens and adult diapers on the kitchen table, but my stuff gets out of hand, and I have to do a major clean-sweep or drown under it all. Hoarders makes me feel like I'm actually pretty normal!

As for Intervention, it's certainly not something I'd want to see every day, but it IS fascinating and compelling and ... real! Unlike so many of those other 'reality' shows.