Thread: History Gone?

Originally Posted by Iceberg

kinda to bring this thread back (since it does relate to History Channel)

I dont know if folks have seen the new season of "Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy" but it seems like this season likes to push the envelope on gross (to me at least)
Last year it was the "weird things about America" like ice fishing and the worlds largest truck stop or the demo derby
This season all 3 episodes have had warnings at the beginning.
1st episode had things like how to gut a moose and stuff like that. Literally they gut a moose
Last week was how to neuter a Tiger in all its graphic glory and they show the vet doing it

Thank god for a DVR so I can just skip that

Wow...... They have crossed over to the dark side.

I take BIG objection to the harming of sentient creatures.
ESPECIALLY when it's done for entertainment purposes!

Seriously, I hate mice, they are vermin. But to kill an animal and do it on film to "entertain" people is despicable.
A moose? I sure hope that someone was ~starving to death~ and had no other option but to eat the moose or die.
If one is literally starving and has no other choice but to kill for food, that is justifiable but only as long as it's done in a humane way.
And MAYBE the tiger had a legitimate medical need to have that procedure done but why must it be presented on TV to "entertain" people?

And people that find that sort of thing entertaining, are not right in the head.

To kill, simply because it makes one feel good to kill, is extremely wrong. The taking of a life for pleasure, there is no justification for that.

I'm glad I'm missing the new season. At one point I had actually started to like the show and the guy. But now they are crossing the line to the dark side.
I don't want to see "gross" and I certainly will not watch shows where they kill or harm animals.

The History channel wasn't that big of a loss for me. I do miss American Restoration, American Pickers and Pawn Stars though.

This world is morally bankrupt..

The Moose was killed by Poachers and left. The game rangers were gutting it to take to a local food shelter. I picked an inopportune time to check it out and caught the butchering of the moose.

American Pickers and American Restoration have had some of their best episodes lately. You will have to buy another episode if you like Danni going out pickin as she is going out again in tonights episode, so Frank can go to his high school reunion.

The channel used to have many more programs that actually dealt with HISTORY. Like WWII, WWI, settling of the west, the gold rushes, building the AlCan highway, dinosaurs, inventions and eras, ancient cities and cultures, the Romans, etc. You pretty much have to get up early in the morning to grab that stuff off this channel anymore (history in the classroom).

I have been watching much more PBS for quite a long time now, just because they offer actual history programs and such. Educational programs.

RADAR

Originally Posted by osu1991

The Moose was killed by Poachers and left. The game rangers were gutting it to take to a local food shelter. I picked an inopportune time to check it out and caught the butchering of the moose.

exactly. Its not like they killed it on air

Originally Posted by osu1991

American Pickers and American Restoration have had some of their best episodes lately. You will have to buy another episode if you like Danni going out pickin as she is going out again in tonights episode, so Frank can go to his high school reunion.

Yes I agree very good episodes. Getting better and better.

Oh and BTW I am back with Dish with the Welcome Pack to feed my History Channel addiction Was going to fire back up one of my old 311's but I got a great deal on a 625 so had to go with it. Probably will pick up a 211 soon though so I can HD and no DVR fee.

Lately, I watch only American Pickers and American Restoration. When the guys from AR moved from their small place to the new building I was wondering if the black mesh BUD on one of the buildings always in view was going with them. They moved everything else from their "boneyard".

You see that in nearly every wide shot they do outside. I've always wondered if that was Rick's or on someone else's property.

First thing I noticed was that they took the bud with them and it is up. Now I wonder if it is just for looks, since they work on old things, and a lot of the population see the buds as old antiquated items.

Originally Posted by ke4est

First thing I noticed was that they took the bud with them and it is up. Now I wonder if it is just for looks, since they work on old things, and a lot of the population see the buds as old antiquated items.

I saw that too. It sure is up!