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Dear Discover Channel, I hate you

Dear Discover Channel, it would seem after all these years our relationship is heading for the garbage.  Really, it is you, not me.  I have been sooo faithful, never missing shark week (even making sure it was DVR'd when the Army would make me go places where I couldn't watch it).  I fully educated my children in the deeply held importance of Shark Week, and, in time, made sure my grandchildren were equally educated and appreciated the experience.  

How do you repay my loyalty and fidelity?  By showing bullshit fiction in the lineup and making it look like it should be real Shark Week programming.  This is the second year Discover Channel.  I gave you a chance last year and you just stomped on my heart again.  A 38 foot shark named Submarine? He pushes a man out to sea so he can eat him later? Um, yeah, no.

The good news is that National Geographic is once again having a Shark Week of its' own running concurrently with yours and it has no fictional crap.  Discover Channel, you suck.

Re: Dear Discover Channel, I hate you

  • SHARK ALIENS!!!

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    I'm the fuck
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  • CMGragainCMGragain member
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    edited August 2014
    Try watching the new "Outlander" series.  It looks interesting.
    DH is gone this week, and I don't have to watch any of his crappy "reality" TV shows.  Yay!

    http://www.starz.com/originals/outlander


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  • @CMGragain - You'll have to tell us how it is.  It doesn't start here (Canada) for another couple elf weeks.  I have read those books several million time over and I'm so excited to see how it is.  

  • CMGragain said:
    Try watching the new "Outlander" series.  It looks interesting.
    DH is gone this week, and I don't have to watch any of his crappy "reality" TV shows.  Yay!

    http://www.starz.com/originals/outlander



    Please let me know how this goes.  I have a friend who did a bit of work on it and said it looked as though it was going to be good.
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  • yeah, definitely want to know, although I'll have to wait until it's released on blu-ray/dvd-no cable-unless it happens to be on while I'm at a shack job in the bush
  • I was really disappointed that Naked and Afraid wasn't on last night. I know it's Shark Week and all, but give me my one hour of N&A! 
  • I was really disappointed that Naked and Afraid wasn't on last night. I know it's Shark Week and all, but give me my one hour of N&A! 

    I was gravely disappointed by this as well. However, Fast n Loud comes back next week and I am VERY excited about that.
  • Unpopular Opinion: I really enjoyed the Submarine "documentary". I don't care if it was fake; it was entertaining.
  • Ugh Shark Week...anybody heard about Sharknado?? Is that even for real?!
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  • No Sharknado couldn't be farther from the truth!
  • @cupcait927 mmmm richard rawlings so hot

                                                                     

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  • Chapter 1:  She got naked, he didn't.  :-(  
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  • OP- I totally completely agree. I went 3.5 years without cable. We got it for the world cup. I was afraid that I'd become hooked and have trouble parting with it. But NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE. I realized that all these "educational" channels like Discovery and especially TLC are just trash. Absolute trash. It made me sick!
    beethery said:
    SHARK ALIENS!!!

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    LOL- comment on the above photo. Just got back from vacationing with some of my husband's family. One of his cousins starts going into how aliens built the pyramids, stone hedge, etc. Never one to turn down a debate, I started engaging him on the topic. I was able to poke a lot of holes in his argument and explain away a lot of the explainable. At the end of the discussion he asked me if I've watched any of Giorgio Tsoukalos's documentaries. I didn't recognize the name at the time and I told him I didn't. He replied, "You should man, it will change the way you think about this stuff."

    Only after the fact I realized that Giorgio Tsoukalos is the Ancient Aliens guy. Do you know what his degree is in? Sports Information! Do you know what he did before he started this cockamamie show? He was a bodybuilder promoter! I shared this with my husband and we just laughed! The stuff this guy is making people believe is so pathetic. From the whole "what if" stuff to simple scientific errors, like the idea that granite can only be polished using diamonds. Errr! Wrong! Granite is a 7 on the mohl scale, meaning any item that is an 8, 9 and yes a 10 like diamonds can polish it. 
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  • kmmssg said:
    No Sharknado couldn't be farther from the truth!
    Hehe yes I know it's not real but I mean is that whole idea even for real? I'm sorry but it looks SO stupid!
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  • It's actually an entertaining movie. If you can turn off half of your brain cells.
  • kmmssg said:
    No Sharknado couldn't be farther from the truth!
    Hehe yes I know it's not real but I mean is that whole idea even for real? I'm sorry but it looks SO stupid!
    That was kind of the point. To make a movie that is so ridiculously stupid and dumb and impossible that people will flock to watch such nonsense.

  • Submarine infuriated me. What the crap. Now Paul Walker is on one of the specials and it's making me sad :( So many of my favorite celebrities have died this past year...
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  • It's actually an entertaining movie. If you can turn off half of your brain cells.
    I loved Sharknado. It was so bad it was good, like Tremors.
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