Posted on 12/08/2025 11:29:26 AM PST by fwdude
Which is roughly half as many as SHOULD disappear from television.
But you are certainly right about commercials (and "modern" shows)
What is the secret message in the Little Mermaid?
Try “Seinfeld”.
Still one of the funniest TV shows ever. Every once in awhile there will be a clip of one episodes on YouTube. They are still funny. George “opposites” day is one I just saw recently.
I never watched Downton Abbey, but I always presumed that the gay element reflected the notorious squishiness of parts of the aristocratic class in England.
While I’ve never dived into it, I have read occasional references to serious students of the matter that a lot of this was due to the absentee father thing that became so prevalent among the families of the landed gentry and nobility in England during the heyday of the empire. Many thousands of young men of elite social status spent years abroad on various empire building and colonial administrative duties. Many of them never came home, due more to disease than combat, although there were plenty of military deaths in combat as well. And many of their sons were sent off to be raised in the great boarding schools, which were largely prep schools to feed the imperial enterprise. A gay subculture got established.
Not having studied the matter, the other notorious example that comes to mind is ancient Sparta, where boys were separated from their parents at age seven and placed in barracks for relentless and often brutal training. A life in barracks in a same sex environment ... well, it has an effect.
What I mean is with a de-scrambler. You can't just get the signal with a raw antenna, at least not in my area.
And the de-scramblers do a crappy job.
“Downton Abbey, which pushed a queer character on the very first episode.”
That’s true. The up-side is the fact that he wasn’t portrayed as a good and sympathetic human being, except for a couple of very small instances. He was a bad dude.
The last network TV show I watched every week was 24. And no other ones before that since the early-to-mid 80s.
Any movie or TV series with a sexual deviate, a mixed race couple, or a black person in an anachronistic role who shows up in the first three minutes, I turn it off and make a note not to watch the rest of the series.
Not because I have any personal animus toward any of those groups but because I WONT BE preached to by the entertainment industry.
We started watching a new comedy Christmas movie on TV last night with Michelle Pfeiffer. It looked promising ... until the lesbian couple showed up. We changed channels.
Tell me what sport you're watching that has athletes in it who wouldn't put you at fear for your life if you invited them over to your house for a cook-out?
“They are less than one percent of the population so why should over half the shows highlight them???”
Much like something that has been discussed here often — commercials with 80% black actors.
I actually called Huggies this morning and asked the guy if only black babies wear diapers. He replied that all babies wear diapers. LOL! He thought I was serious.
I know how to handle your issue.
See post #68.
I watch old 5x4 film noir & other movies, TV like Perry Mason & Alfred Hitchcock, news nets & hockey.
I see LGB whatever on the news nets and I can change to another one if I want to.
Hockey generally has few of the umm Amish. And golf.
What is the secret message in the Little Mermaid?
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I’m pretty sure the reference is to the phallus in the castle. Think where’s Waldo.
What is the secret message in the Little Mermaid?
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I’m pretty sure the reference is to the phallus in the castle. Think where’s Waldo.
It's basically a high-end soap opera, set in Edwardian England. Excellent for costume, set, scenery and historical accuracy. The homosexual character is actually an under-butler. Not an upper-class toff. And he starts the show as an antagonist and under-handed schemer, although he improves laster.
its just one of many plot lines, and by our sick 2025 standards, not egregious or pornographic.
“The number one TV show in 2024 was Yellowstone.“
Surfed into it, tried to watch but straight off the bat I couldn’t get past that angry old cigarette smoking feminist slag whose situations and lines were extremely tired lefty setups circa 1972. Couldn’t believe I was seeing something so shopworn and tired in 2025. I wondered how old was the writer of that leftist political tripe. Probably not even a gleam in 1972.
Outstanding
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