# Dear Discovery Channel **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 4, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469 "2001-06-04T02:25:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/21 "2001-06-05T05:34:33Z")
Oh, please. I’m such a meanie. Using proper grammar should be a habit. “I’m so lazy; I can’t even take the time to type some commas. I’ve got too much stuff to do to let some punctuation stand in my way!” When I said, “Do you wish to continue this argument? If not, I will let this rest. If so, then, you know what to do,” I was not “insinuating that [you] have no business defending [yourself].” I was asking if the hijack should end there, or if we should keep arguing about this. This does seem rather silly in retrospect, and I apologize for hijacking (although, I am probably going to get my ass kicked for “trying to back out of this argument”). > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by aha_ > **You threw the first personal insults. Do you deny that? If not, then tell me what would you do if it were the other way around and I had taken it on myself to insult you?** I don’t deny the fact that I was the first to insult you. If you had insulted me first, I probably wouldn’t have taken it too personally. I admit it was childish, and that’s probably what I would have thought of you. > [@](#): > > **That I must use substandard English at my job, therefore cheating the kids in my school of a proper education. Bet you didn’t know that I am a music teacher did you? My kids are more interested in playing their instruments and using correct music notation than they are in “proper English.” Not to say that they don’t get both from me.** Proper English is required to teach any subject effectively because you must communicate new concepts within the boundaries of the language students already know. “My math teacher doesn’t speak English very well, although it’s her first language. That’s totally okay, however, because she’s teaching me math and not grammar.” > [@](#): > > **1. Your first generalization, believe it or not I agree with.** If you agree with the fact that “one who has committed his/her life to education should know and use proper English grammar,” then why do you continue to not do so? If you wished to prove your point that you are actually able to form grammatically correct sentences, then you should have done so in your responses to me. Also, you called me “immature.” However, you then sunk to my same “immature” level with these little gems: \*\*Oh shit it’s the grammar monitor. …some of us will be waiting for you to fuck up so we can feel grammatically superior too. Fuckin A I know what to do.\*\* To **Techchick68** : Yes, I actually could be more picky. I could point out that you should have said, "This is the Pit\*\*,\*\* not a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/22 "2001-06-05T05:37:59Z")
… I’ve got this really great salsa recipe … ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/23 "2001-06-05T05:47:27Z")
Lexicon: > [@](#): > > you don’t know your subjunctive clause from your dangling participle. But I do know a dangling partiNipple when I see one and Techie has agreed to show me hers. We are playing nude minesweeper very soon,so eat your heart out you bastard. Jack you fucker. Don’t you know this was a setup between fireunderpantsboobs and me ( or would that be FUPB and I) aww well fuck it…Anyway we put this little show together just to get you guys all stirred up and excited about a possible fight. So ahahahahah the joke is on you!!! Right Fireunderpantsboob??? Shit I gotta quit posting drunk. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/24 "2001-06-05T05:57:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aha \* > \*\*Jack you fucker. Don’t you know this was a setup between fireunderpantsboobs and me ( or would that be FUPB and I) aww well fuck it…Anyway we put this little show together just to get you guys all stirred up and excited about a possible fight. So ahahahahah the joke is on you!!! > > Right Fireunderpantsboob??? > > Shit I gotta quit posting drunk. \*\* Sorry to get you excited over the fight, **Jack** , but **aha** is right. No fight here, none at all. 😃 I apologise, **aha** for attacking you. I shouldn’t have hijacked your thread over such a minor thing. (Yeah, yeah, I’m a wuss. I can’t take the heat, so I should stay out of the Pit. I sincerely apologize, though.) [sub]I’m so weak :)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/25 "2001-06-05T05:58:57Z")
Here, have another beer aha. 😉 \< yeeeehaw \> ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/26 "2001-06-05T13:46:20Z")
> [@](#): > > I apologise, aha for attacking you. I shouldn’t have hijacked your thread over such a minor thing. (Yeah, yeah, I’m a wuss. I can’t take the heat, so I should stay out of the Pit. I sincerely apologize, though.) Apology accepted (or is that excepted?) Sorry I just couldn’t resist. FUPB,Lexicon,Jack,Techie ( especially techie) Group hug? ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/27 "2001-06-05T16:37:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aha \* > **Apology accepted (or is that excepted?)** Here we go again! (cue cheesy music and freeze frame) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tabeitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@Tabeitha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabeitha)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/28 "2001-06-05T16:50:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EJsGirl \* > \*\*Oh, I don’t know- there’s something refreshing about channel-surfing and stumbling upon… aaaauuuugggghhhh! Was that open-heart surgery? A knee replacement? A hysterectomy? I’m gonna go barf now… > > Please, TLC, stop showing this shit! It is of no value to anyone! I want my surgeon to learn about this stuff in school, not on expanded basic cable! > > \*\* I love the operation show!! I find it highly entertaining. Of course I was the class clown in Biology that made sure my little slab of bacon had fun while he was being carved up. ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/29 "2001-06-05T19:16:20Z")
I like a lot of the programming on Discovery, TLC, and Animal Planet (I think they’re all the same company, no?), but some of it just craps my pants. The Loch Ness Day is one such example, and I also hate the “World’s Worst In-Car Videography of a Guy Pissing on the Roadside” shows. Some infotainment I just don’t find useful, like the inside prisons shows, or the “how my drawling family found out firsthand that tornadas really do sound like freight trains and lived to tell about it” types. Other stuff, I actually enjoy, like the hospital shows, space or archeaological explorations, and histories. And I must admit I’m a Junkyard Wars junkie. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/30 "2001-06-05T20:04:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EJsGirl \* > **Please, TLC, stop showing this shit! It is of no value to anyone! I want my surgeon to learn about this stuff in school, not on expanded basic cable!** I like watching surgery shows, because I’d like to think that I will be a surgeon in the future. It lets me see how hectic it is in the OR, and how icky someone’s insides might be. I can experience it and possibly change my mind before it’s too late. Also, those shows do provide me with facts that helped me kick ass in my anatomy/physiology class. ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/31 "2001-06-05T20:09:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tabeitha \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by EJsGirl \* > > \*\*Oh, I don’t know- there’s something refreshing about channel-surfing and stumbling upon… aaaauuuugggghhhh! Was that open-heart surgery? A knee replacement? A hysterectomy? I’m gonna go barf now… > > \*\* > > I love the operation show!! I find it highly entertaining. \*\* Gotta second Tabeitha, here. The Operation rocks! The hysterectomy episode was especially informative. Movie studios spend millions trying to simulate that kind of gore. My favorite are the thoracic surgeries. “Today, we’re going to replace this obese alcoholic man’s cirrhotic liver with one from a teen-aged car crash victim. And since he’s such a big fella, we’re going to need the extra-long rubber gloves today. Bring in the flensing knives!” ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/32 "2001-06-05T20:19:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by aha \* > > **Apology accepted (or is that excepted?)** > > Here we go again! (cue cheesy music and freeze frame) 😃 \*\* Cheesy music…you mean they are playing “The Five Americans”??? :flees: ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/33 "2001-06-05T20:29:27Z")
> [@](#): > > But I do know a dangling partiNipple when I see one and Techie has agreed to show me hers. We are playing nude minesweeper very soon,so eat your heart out you bastard. Well, if you’re going to be visiting techchick soon, you can visit me, too, because we live in the same city! 😛 Nyeah-nyeah! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/34 "2001-06-05T22:14:35Z")
The creepiest part of the surgery show is when you see surgery that you have had done. (It happened to me once. I had to watch, ya know, but…eww.) Though it was interesting, in a twisted way. But WHY do they run it around suppertime? ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/35 "2001-06-05T22:18:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Odieman \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by aha \* > > > **Apology accepted (or is that excepted?)** > > > > Here we go again! (cue cheesy music and freeze frame) 😃 \*\* > > Cheesy music…you mean they are playing “The Five Americans”??? :flees: \*\* Odieman come here…_Slap_ Ok Lex but you’re buying the drinks! ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/36 "2001-06-06T01:00:15Z")
Fine by me, as long as you drink the hard stuff and don’t fuck around with beer and shit like that. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469/37 "2001-06-06T02:41:44Z")
_Originally posted by **aha:** _ > [@](#): > > **But I do know a dangling partiNipple when I see one…{followed by lurid Techchick-oriented imagery, as if there could be any other kind}** Might I point out that “Dangling Party Nipples” would make a great name for a rock band. Thank you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-discovery-channel/67469.md?page=1)