It's About Freedom of CHOICE!

from JoeUser Forums

In a recent article, one blogger derided those who watch "desperate housewives".

Now don't get me wrong, I don't watch the show. In fact, when given the choice last night to watch Rosie O'Donnell as a retard or "desperate housewives", I reached into my cheesy film vault for a 1973 cheesy vampire movie starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and featuring the best wardrobe since "Starsky & Hutch".

But the point is, I HAD that choice. And I MADE that choice.

"Desperate Housewives" is among those shows on television that has ZERO appeal to me; I watched one show early on just to see if it was as distasteful as I thought it would be (it was), and haven't watched the show since. But for those who do watch it, for whatever reasons, I would not begin to suggest that I take away from your freedom of choice. As long as you don't take away my cheesy movies, I'll stay away from your TV choices, deal?

Aaaah, it's great to be an American!

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hey!  That vampire movie is not cheesy!  It waas one of the most sexual Vampire movies ever made!  I saw it as a teen and decided then and there I wanted to be a vampire!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Nope, sorry. I know better than you do what you should be watching so from now on you will only watch those entertainment items which I deem to be worthy of attention. Got it? Good.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I saw it as a teen and decided then and there I wanted to be a vampire!


I'm telling Buffy.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Why aren't you posting this on her article?

-A.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

I'm telling Buffy.

Dont bother.  I was too geeky for them!

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Dont bother. I was too geeky for them!


Too geeky for them to slay?
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

Too geeky for them to slay?

To make me a Vampire!  I liked garlic too much!

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
I luv desperate houswives. In fact, I wish I could get my hands on Texas Whaine's big threads. Squeeze, squeeze. drop the zero, tex and get with the Big JoeBob hero.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
To make me a Vampire!


Why would they want to make anyone a vampire?
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

Why would they want to make anyone a vampire?

Watch the movie!  It is actually quite good.  I think it is Dracula, Today.  But very good, and they make a lot of vampirettes!

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Very good post. I wholeheartedly agree. If people do not like what is on TV they should change the channel. Nicely put.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
I liked garlic too much!


I can tell!
Watch the movie! It is actually quite good. I think it is Dracula, Today. But very good, and they make a lot of vampirettes!


What does that have to do with Buffy?

To get on topic, I agree. Does that mean you're against the FCC issuing fines?

At least Desperate Housewives isn't a "reality" show.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top

To get on topic, I agree. Does that mean you're against the FCC issuing fines?

At least Desperate Housewives isn't a "reality" show.

You have to do that!

No, it means Choice!  Watch what you want to!  nothing more, nothing less.

Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yup, freedom of choice. The same choice that I exercised when I got rid of television completely. I did this before "Desperate Housewives" aired, but from what I hear, it is just the sort of trash that was among my reasons for trashing TV completely.

(((((((Although, my freedom of choice does tell me that Teri Hatcher is one Hottie!!)))) ;~D
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oui, but one man's trash is another (wo)man's treasure. The show may be trashy at times, but it's dang funny! 'Course I watched Friends for 10 years, so I'm hopeless.

-A.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
Television isn't a sickness, it is a symptom. If people didn't watch the ignorant filth, it wouldn't last past the pilot episode. The slogging, robotic water-cooler drones have to have something to twitter about, and they seem to pick stuff on their level.

The problem is these brainless zombies make every decision based upon hype, and what Entertainment Tonight tells them is good.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
The slogging, robotic water-cooler drones have to have something to twitter about, and they seem to pick stuff on their level.


Then apparantely their level has dropped considerably in the last several years. Shows like Fear Factor, Survivor, the one with Shannen Doherty in which people are exposed to phony dangerous situations, etc. The decline of shows which stimulate the imagination. It's TV. How real can a reality show be?
And that damn gossip monger Joan Rivers.
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
"It's TV. How real can a reality show be?"


If many of the people who go on these shows tell the truth, not very real at all. I really don't think the viewing public would tolerate REAL reality TV, beyond Cops and all the "World's Most" video shows that seem to draw the rubberneckers with no energy to go and seek out real tragedy to witness.

People make fun of star wars/trek nerds, but damn, at the very least they look forward with a speculative, even positive eye. "Cool" seems to be watching the people you most hate in society eat bugs for cash. I'd just as soon be a nerd.
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just guessing, but I guess reality shows are cheaper to produce because they don't have actors. Or scripts. Or do they? Cutbacks to reduce cost are happening everywhere.
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top

'Course I watched Friends for 10 years, so I'm hopeless.

There is a 10 step program for people like you!

Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top

Why aren't you posting this on her article?

I did post a response in this general direction on her article. I posted this separately as well, because it addresses the larger point of the push to censorship that seems so prevalent in today's society.

On JU alone, I am becoming VERY concerned with the number of "ban" blogs that have been produced. These opinions are fine, except they ignore some of the basic tenets upon which our country was founded.