Posted on 12/08/2020 5:21:33 AM PST by Gopher Broke
I'm actually kinda okay with that one. :)
I have to ask yet one more time... What did Sodom and Gammorah have on us that they were wiped out and we are still standing? I don’t see any difference.
Old Ritz ad: “Everything’s better when it’s sitting on a Ritz.”
Old joke: Guy goes to doctor with bowel discomfort. Doc says to put some Ritz crackers in the toilet bowl before taking a dump. Guys says “Why?” Doc says “Everything’s better when it’s shitting on a Ritz.”
Towne Club
HGTV used to be a nice channel. My wife and I started watching it back when the channel first aired in the 90's. We had a C-Band dish, and the channel was free for awhile during its testing phase. I wish I could remember all the shows we used to watch back then.
When it was still called Home and Garden Television, they had much more varied programming than they do now. Many of the shows were only about gardening, which is practically nonexistent on the channel now. One of the best shows in HGTV history was "A Gardener's Diary" in which gardener Erica Glazener would travel around the country visiting homes with impressive gardens. There was a nice show with a guy named Paul James called "Gardening By the Yard". He basically went over the ins and outs of backyard gardening and lawn maintenance.
There was a crafts show called The Carol Duvall show. Carol was sort of a nice grandmother type who would have on artists or craftspeople from various companies to show new products and techniques. My wife loved it. They would also have seasonal specials on. Fortunately I made a VHS (since transferred to DVD) of one called "Celebrating Autumn", in which several locations in the country with spectacular Autumn displays were highlighted.
At some point, they completely jumped the shark, and several of the shows we liked were abruptly canceled. More gay designer types started showing up. The seasonal specials were gone. No gardening. Now all they seem to have are variations on House Hunters and all sorts of house-flipper shows.
And their pork, especially the thin cutlets, are the best I've ever had. I bread them and can't stop eating them.
Hmmm, wonder who those Keebler elves work for?
Well, who makes the house brands?
I haven’t quit TV, not by a long shot, but as it becomes more violently homosexual and propagandized, I am slowly weaning off TV and going back to reading books.
There are enough books for 100 lifetimes of reading. Books have no commercial. Older books often espouse classic American values completely absent the current SJW agenda.
As long as my eyes hold out, it looks like I am going to be gravitating more fully toward reading and away from TV. And I can read anywhere in the daytime where I have light and dry weather. Heck, I can sit in a Starbucks and read with a thunderstorm raging outside.
Saw the commercial
I was flabbergasted. Is this how far and fast our nation has fallen? My fife and I got into an argument about it.
Took ritz box to garbage.
The medium is dead and can only get as filthy as vaudeville did during its decline when the "talkies" began putting them out of business. Television producers work with marketing firms who know that anyone who has stuck around this long will tolerate anything.
2013 was the first year that digital advertising surpassed broadcast television.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/internet-surpasses-broadcasting-advertising-revenue-first-time
2019 was the first year digital advertising surpassed all traditional forms of advertising.
https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/tv-ad-spending-drops-as-digital-surpasses-traditional-in-2019
2020 was the first year that YouTube advertising alone surpassed television advertising.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/youtube-surpasses-cable-tv-in-ad-revenue
I know quite a few people who quit buying Ritz crackers once they learned they are now made in Mexico. They don’t taste much different, but are more likely to be undercooked, hence break into pieces more easily. I noticed that factor a long time ago, but didn’t realize it was because Ritz crackers are baked in Mexico.
Crumbling confidence: Some of America’s favorite snacks now made in Mexico
The latest Harry and David’s (or whoever that gift pack company is) has a “through the ages” commercial. Showing the character as a kid in the ‘30s or whatever sneaking a candy, then as 20ish, then as an adult with kids, and then today as a grandpa on a video chat showing the grandkid opening the gift pack. With the grandkid’s interracial, gay partner next to him.
I am getting so disgusted with this. I hate to think of what God’s punishment will be, but I serious worry about a Sodom-type event here.
Darn, I had just bought some. Looks like Town House crackers next time.
No. These propagandists want you to believe that the garbage they spew represents American viewers' opinions but television viewership continues to fall as people walk away from the propaganda monopoly.
I'm sure their sales will rocket after this.
It is not personal. They are just trying to complete the mission from the Communist Manifesto, which is to destroy the Dad-Mom-Children nuclear family upon which all moral, functioning societies rest.
The New World Order will not be denied, and must completely destroy Western Civilization in order to complete their plan of world domination so they control all business, trade, banking, and finanance. They can’t have the US or Europe monkeying up the works.
It is not personal. It is just a master plan to destroy America, and so far it is workign like a charm. I continue to thank the Lord I was not born in the 1950s and not more recently. With any luck, I will be dead sooner than later and not have to endure the worst of things.
I am a sucker for Hallmark Christmas movies. They are sappy and formulaic, but they used to be safe. In 2018 they became fully work. Now in 2020, every Hallmark Christmas movie features at least a reference to homosexuals, if not featuring a homosexual couple among the minor characters.
I only watch Hallmark Christmas movies made before 2018.
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