https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7iSILfWm2Y
― da croupier, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Yes!
I remember when I was a kid being completely mystified by the girl down the street saying her family didn't have cable, and I was like... yeah, you do. Apparently she was under the impression only premium channels were cable.
When I was a kid we had the local affiliates for ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and in the late 80s/early 90s, FOX. I think sometime after then some mostly-infomercial crap that barely came in was on some higher channel with occasional syndicated reruns.
― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
every kid in my elementary school who had cable had divorced parents and conspicuously new backpacks or video games because their dads were overcompensating. also they were apparently raised by Nickelodeon reruns of the brady bunch or something
― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
wow you've got some serious lingering resentments there
― da croupier, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
perhaps you should talk to flavorwire about it
― da croupier, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
I think you're confusing resentment with a superiority complex, which I probably do have on these things
Also, my parents managed to get satellite tv two months before I went to college. I think they figured they needed something to pass the time without me yammering all the time.
― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, October 7, 2014 12:42 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yea me too. my parents finally got cable/satellite maybe 5 years ago
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
there was a brief period when "much music" or something came in through lousy reception, but that didn't last long
It's a shame that this author seems like a tool, as his is a book I'd otherwise love to read (a la the MTV oral history from a couple years back).
I can't even envision an '80s childhood without Nickelodeon. Y'all have my deepest sympathies.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
We didn't have much, but at least we had cable.
dunno what this tool is watching but in most of the Disney/Nick shows I've seen, whenever there's an Indian character his race is 90 percent of the punchlines
― Chimp Arsons, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
we had reagan and white flight
― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Last Saturday: http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-first-weekend-in-america-with-no-saturday-m-1642441646
The one broadcast holdout all this time? CW.
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1458788!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/nick22f-4-web.jpg
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
xp tbf, there's an entire 24 hour NETWORK for saturday morning cartoons in Boomerang
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
on cable tv
― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
yeah i don't really get people freaking out about the lack of saturday morning cartoons. it's stopping because they're more accessible than ever elsewhere. it's like freaking out about there not being a Sunday Matinee on Fox or something.
Plus, she was a girl, and many of the people who are writing these blogs and editing these pieces are women — which is fine, it’s just the way that it is, and a lot of the publishing world is women...
You might not like this or care, but it’s very hard to be a man in the publishing world. No one talks about that. My agent: woman. My editor: woman. My publicist: woman. The most successful genre is young adult novels — 85% of which are written by women. That discussion doesn’t really come up when it’s the other way around. It is 2014 now. It’s not 1995. Political correctness needs to change.
There are worlds where white guys get shit, too. I’m starting to do stand-up comedy now and it’s hard to go up there and talk about how hard it is to be a guy. People don’t wanna hear it! A girl can go up there and talk all she wants about how hard it is to be a girl, and she gets applauded. These are obviously some of my own personal views and aren’t as important, but I’m bringing up this stuff because it’s all very malleable, it’s very flexible.
there's no context where this would be excusable, but i have a hard time imagining it being spoken in any other context than a crowded bar at night
― da croupier, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
My agent: woman. My editor: woman. My publicist: woman
This reminds me of some recent Doug Ford quote where he said he wasn't antisemitic because his doctor, dentist, and lawyer are all jews
― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
it's just so "guy at a party you wish you hadn't started a conversation with"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
this guy really does sound like a future failed standup comedian, just based on his topics of choice.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
"My agent: dropping me today. My editor: dropping me today. My publicist: dropping me today."
― da croupier, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
Oh, neither of my kids watch anything "live" - much less anything on a broadcast network. The news above to me was just something akin to finding out that there wasn't any broadcast network news at 5:30 anymore.
Bet that stand-up act is hilarious. Just let me know when he gets to The Comedy Store.
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
this was amazing to read, like this guy gets a book published and has a chance to talk about it and it was like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yizpWta-5Uw
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
Oh, neither of my kids watch anything "live" - much less anything on a broadcast network.
^^^
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
I don't know anything about this Clarissa show, but I don't understand why the lead had to be a girl. Couldn't it have been written by men and star a boy? Seems kind of contrived.
Clarissa Mansplains It All
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
kudos
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
this guy really does not get the reasoning behind giving interviews when you have a new thing out you want people to maybe have a look at
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
maybe he just really misunderstands his target audience and thinks that it's all white people who don't understand why these minorities keep appearing on their tv screens
― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
we had illegal cable
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Tuesday, October 7, 2014 12:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Lol this reminds me of the time the cable guy came over to fix something
Thinking that this was the time to be slick I convinced my dad to give him $10 hoping that he would 'get the hint' and hook us up
My dad (who doesn't speak English) gave him the $10 and didn't say anything and the cable guy was like "uh, thanks" and it was awkward for like 5 minutes
Didn't get the free cable : \
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
Do cable guys still do the weird hookup thing anymore? My wife is always the one who's home when they install it and all I know is we sure as hell don't have HBO.
― how's life, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
they control what channels you get at their main control center, now, so you're kind of screwed. back in the day, they'd put a filter on the line to block out the premium channels. if you lived in an apartment building (or *cough* college dorms) it was possible that they didn't secure the utility room and you could just go remove the filter
― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
my parents live too far out in the woods for us to get cable ;_;
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
Never had cable. My mom woulf have gotten cable the day she bought me Jordan's, lol.At friend's houses I never really "got" Pete n pete. But I also didn't really get into alt rock or flannel. I thought Clarissa was dope, though
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
never even heard of pete 'n' pete before this /morbs
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
me neither.
never had cable. really only wanted it so I could see Yo! MTV Raps, which I would have to go over to friends' houses to watch
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
I watched rap videos after adjusting rabbit ears to tune in The Box
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
i started getting cable in 1990 i believe, we also stole it. for years and years and years!
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
THe only Nick shows I remember people talking about were like, Doug, and that one where the girl can turn into water
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Still weirds me out when I go to other cities and see that CBS/ABC/NBC etc. are all on different channel numbers
That's fucked up man
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
i have any number of local celebrity newscaster anecdotes that are now sadly moot"but you don't understand, HE WAS WEARING A SNOWBIRD T-SHIRT AT THE MALL!"
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
had a weird thing as a tween where i hated kids shows with people in them. only really liked cartoons. i just found kid actors and sets of homes and schools really fucked up and condescending, idk.
now i'm kind of animation-averse. but i guess my attitude toward that kind of show is the same, now that i think of it.
― goole, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
We didn't even get UHF as far out in the woods we were. One kid in junior high had the big satellite dish taking up his entire front yard and would come in talking about the cartoon with the spikey-haired boy that the Little Rock Fox affiliate played on Ch. 38.
Only Nickelodeon programming I ever watched was Pinwheel at my grandmother's house in Memphis. (She'd tune it over to that so I would calm down after discovering that there was a Channel 5, what the hell is a Channel 5?)
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
Channel 2 was PBS.Channel 3 was for the Atari or VCR.
Any other way and you lived in Soviet Russia, for all I knew.
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
i have fond memories of watching nickelodeon (a lot) as a kid but i suspect most of that nostalgia would be ruined by actually rewatching most of those shows, except some of the animated stuff.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
Did we ever figure out if Nickelodeon is racist?
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
yeah, this thread took a weird turn
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
i just found kid actors and sets of homes and schools really fucked up and condescending, idk.
yes, i hated that shit. same goes for disney channel shit that i sometimes saw at friends houses. just seemed so distant from what i experienced as a kid that i had a hard time understanding why kids liked those shows
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-You-afraid-of-the-dark.jpg
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
Well, the Canadians really did never tip.
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/TDqPowg3xZo/hqdefault.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
was supposed to be an image from my fave nick show are you afraid of the dark xp ^^