Pet owners have sunk to a new low. Apparently, two German sheppard dogs fell so deeply in love that their owners just had to see them married. They held a ceremony with flowers, a gown for the female dog and a tux for the male. Then the newly wed couple was wisked off to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon.
Can you believe this shit?! It’s not bad enough that these particular pet owners are retarded enough to actually orchestrate this kind of stunt, but what’s worse is that the media feels it’s important enough to report. What the fuck is wrong with these people?! It’s no fucking wonder the media is viewed with such contempt lately. We know that the world is fool of attention seeking idiots. We know that occassionally, due to sudden and unfortunate declines in violent crimes and lack of airplane crashes, slow news days will occure. But do we need to hear about Bob, Sue and their equally brain dead neighbours putting together a marriage ceremony for their pets? Is this something that teaches or informs the average viewer, or is this something that simply builds contempt for the media in general and Bob and Sue in particular?
Yeah, I recall enjoying that film as well.
To answer your question - it does not hurt me, it annoys me and I’ll tell you why… I don’t spend a lot of time in front of the TV. With two little kids there is very little opportunity to watch a TV program in peace. Every once in a blue moon, when I do get an hour to myself to catch up on current events, I don’t want to have my time wasted with moronic nonsense like the love life of a couple of dogs and the lunatic stunts of their half-wit owners.
I would change the channel but my youngest has figured out that he can take the back cover off the remote and remove the batteries. It’s a universal remote so I have to reprogram it every time he does that. I’d get up and change it manually but I’m just too damn idle.
that’s cool, just feeling slightly beligerant today. I guess I should stay away from the Pit if I’m sick of folks bitching all the time. Stems from being surrounded by co-workers that have nothing positive to contribute to conversations besides a complaint or an observational bitch. FUCK OFF.
two things I’m kinda tired of…so all this anger and TV…I take my leisure seriously. Local news, can’t stand them…“Why everything around you is dangerous to you and your children…tonight at 11”. Sensacionalist a-holes.
I long for the days of simple mind numbing entertainment, hence the Ponch moniker.
My dad (the journalist) tells me that these stories are called “baggers”, as in they are pulled out of the bag if there isn’t enough news to fill out the program.
Check that. These stories mean that in a world full of war, chaos, financial mismanagement, corporate and government incompetence, brutality, corruption, scientific discovery, and personal triumph, there was not one single piece of interesting information that could have filled out that hour.
The only time I enjoy these ‘morons doing moronic shit’ stories is when the plan goes horribly wrong. Like if the dogs would have went rabid and ate the owners during the honeymoon, that would have been funny. Otherwise, who fucking cares?
While I’m at it, any ‘animal doing something cute’ story can get printed on linoleum and shoved right back up the reporter’s ass. It’s a waste of time, quit showing that shit on the news.
…if your gonna continue to watch TV news. Somewhere along the way they discoverd that headlines like “The Internet can kill your dog!!!” and “Fluffly the squirell entertained school children today” are what gets ratings. And ratings are the only point to TV news’s entire existance. You are the product. The new’s job is to deliver you to commercials. Thats it.
The sad thing is that TV News is where most Americans get their information about the world. Even otherwise intellegent people often say “I don’t watch TV, except for the news.” It is the greatest sham in history, and these people claim to be “informed”
Call up a decent newspaper and get a subsciption. Now.
I disagree. What gets ratings are the high speed chase through the city streets dead body found neighbor goes wack and kills 5 celeb of the hour arrested blankity blank linked to deaths and what you can do to protect your family.
If it bleeds, it leads. I don’t approve of it, but I can understand it. But the fluff pieces make it worse for some reason I cannot yet fathom.