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Off Topic => General Off Topic => Topic started by: Tibe on April 24, 2013, 09:48:18 pm

Title: History Channel
Post by: Tibe on April 24, 2013, 09:48:18 pm
What the fuck happened? It showed history and other simply cool shows. Now 80% of the time it shows this "Ancient aliens" and "UFO hunters" bullcrap where some assholes speak this  nonsensical farfetched bullshit of how every single thing in life is and always was aliens. Put everybody in those shows in a bloody looneyhouse and start showing history again damn it, or atleast something interesting.....
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Armpit_Sweat on April 24, 2013, 10:43:24 pm
Quote from: TiberiusX on April 24, 2013, 09:48:18 pm
What the fuck happened? It showed history and other simply cool shows. Now 80% of the time it shows this "Ancient aliens" and "UFO hunters" bullcrap where some assholes speak this  nonsensical farfetched bullshit of how every single thing in life is and always was aliens. Put everybody in those shows in a bloody looneyhouse and start showing history again damn it, or atleast something interesting.....

Obvious alien is obvious.  :rolleyes:

You do them circles on the corn fields, build pyramids, mess with presidential elections, and now trying to hide the truth from common folks on CRPG forum?! Oh no you don't!

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Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Christo on April 24, 2013, 10:44:42 pm
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Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Necrorave on April 24, 2013, 10:45:34 pm
Quote from: TiberiusX on April 24, 2013, 09:48:18 pm
What the fuck happened? It showed history and other simply cool shows. Now 80% of the time it shows this "Ancient aliens" and "UFO hunters" bullcrap where some assholes speak this  nonsensical farfetched bullshit of how every single thing in life is and always was aliens. Put everybody in those shows in a bloody looneyhouse and start showing history again damn it, or atleast something interesting.....

Lets not forget hillbilly hand fishing and Pawn Stars

HAHA ITS FUNNY CAUSE ITS SIMILAR TO PORN

National Geographic is the new History channel though.  Hint hint*
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Cyber on April 25, 2013, 02:30:12 am
Ancient aliens is awesome though, I learned a lot from that show.
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Casimir on April 25, 2013, 06:01:08 am
i lost faith in the history channel about 5 years ago...
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Tibe on April 25, 2013, 02:54:47 pm
I especially call bullshit at when those morons say that angel drawings represented flying aliens. That "ancient men where not stupid, they drawed what they saw, but couldnt explain". Seriuslly, if man drawed what he saw, than why hasnt any of these scrolls or drawings shown a flying saucer or something. Ancient age people must have been pretty fucking stupid and blind if they saw a flying saucer, a completely white, naked and hairless tall motherfuckers with gigantic heads and to show others what they saw they fucking drawed bearded dudes with birdwings and white tunics. Seems pretty legit to me!
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Overdriven on April 25, 2013, 02:56:32 pm
I always found it irksome. To many American documentaries dramatising absolutely everything with minimal historical content and an annoyingly accented narrator to boot.
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Tibe on April 25, 2013, 02:59:02 pm
I kinda like Pawn stars and those restorationshows. Thou yea, they are way over dramatised and overacted, they still have quite a bit entertainmentvalue imo. And Discovery has something with Morgan Freeman....oh God, fucking awesome. Speak more mr Freeman. Even if you spoke crap I would buy your every word.
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Overdriven on April 25, 2013, 03:06:51 pm
Quote from: TiberiusX on April 25, 2013, 02:59:02 pm
I kinda like Pawn stars and those restorationshows. Thou yea, they are way over dramatised and overacted, they still have quite a bit entertainmentvalue imo. And Discovery has something with Morgan Freeman....oh God, fucking awesome. Speak more mr Freeman. Even if you spoke crap I would buy your every word.

I don't know I never found the entertainment value. I always find that history documentaries that try to show you the history with re-enactment just look stupid. Too many times I've seen 'battle' scenes with blurry whizzy around camera and crappy battle sounds to disguise the fact they just went to their nearest reenactors group and asked them to pretend to hit each other with swords. If I wanted to watch battle scenes I'd watch Gladiator, Alexander ect ect. The same can be said of pretty much every form of it in any documentary. The low budget just ruins the actual historical fact part. I'd rather listen to someone talking at me with a little enthusiasm than that.

It's why I prefer British documentaries. They tend to focus more on telling you stuff than dramatisation. Except for a few recent experiments by the BBC that didn't go down terribly well.

And on that note I'd suggest a series called 'Coast' that explores the history of Britain by travelling along the extensive coastline. They focus on the facts and the history and visit people who still practice certain techniques and traditions. But there's no dramatisation or anything because it's not needed. Their enthusiasm for the subjects they cover is all that's needed. Neil Oliver, the main presenter, is absolutely fantastic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_(TV_series)
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on April 25, 2013, 04:27:24 pm
Welcome to 10 years ago.  History International still played some history programs up til a few years ago, but I haven't had cable in a few years (can't justify paying for it when I would hardly ever watch tv, can get my fix from netflix and torrents)

Discovery channel has been doing this more and more over the years as well.

Nat Geo is probably one of my more preferred channels for non-fiction
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: [ptx] on April 25, 2013, 04:33:25 pm
Quote from: CrazyCracka420 on April 25, 2013, 04:27:24 pm
Welcome to 10 years ago.
Estonians, man.
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Latvian on April 25, 2013, 04:41:18 pm
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Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Tibe on April 25, 2013, 04:44:31 pm
Quote from: [ptx] on April 25, 2013, 04:33:25 pm
Estonians, man.

Go crawl back under your potato.
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Rumblood on April 25, 2013, 08:00:04 pm
I can agree, however in defense of Pawn Stars, they do focus on older historical type items and the guys like to explain the history behind them.
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Oberyn on April 25, 2013, 10:04:32 pm
The period right before it went full freefall into conspiracy lunacy, the History Channel might as well have been called the WW2 and einstein channel. 1/2 shows at least centered on one facet or another of chocolate chip cookie Germany, the war or einstein. At least it was mostly historically accurate, unlike the current featured "experts" and baseless speculation given with a "it could be possible" wink. 
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Lizard_man on April 25, 2013, 10:43:20 pm
The History channel is the new MTV, enough said...
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: EponiCo on April 26, 2013, 01:35:07 am
Quote from: TiberiusX on April 25, 2013, 02:54:47 pm
I especially call bullshit at when those morons say that angel drawings represented flying aliens. That "ancient men where not stupid, they drawed what they saw, but couldnt explain". Seriuslly, if man drawed what he saw, than why hasnt any of these scrolls or drawings shown a flying saucer or something. Ancient age people must have been pretty fucking stupid and blind if they saw a flying saucer, a completely white, naked and hairless tall motherfuckers with gigantic heads and to show others what they saw they fucking drawed bearded dudes with birdwings and white tunics. Seems pretty legit to me!

Actually ancient people never depicted angels as shapely men (and nowadays mostly women) with wings.
One form of angel is described as wheel with hundrets of eyes descending from the heaven in flames. Humanoid (but if that means "looks like a human" or "it has hands and a head", we don't know) angels used them as transport.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophanim
Then there's a lot of really odd ones, the only common theme seems to be that they have wing like appendages, which they use to cover themselves. Because they wanted to bring messages, but apparently everyone that saw their real form was driven mad.

The stories changed a lot over time, and apparently people don't remember the uncomfortable stuff. So we kind of remembered humanoid and wings, and that was kind of pretty so it's what's left.
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Lizard_man on April 26, 2013, 02:41:51 am
Ezekiel's wheel...

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Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 26, 2013, 12:24:16 pm
In case you haven't watched it, South Park did a good job at making a parody on History Channels current 'progress'

http://www.watchcartoononline.com/south-park-season-15-episode-13-a-history-channel-thanksgiving

I used to watch around 2hrs of History Channel every day, both HD and normal one for quite some time, stopped watching it now due to all the Universe and constipation stuff
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on April 26, 2013, 04:07:53 pm
Quote from: IR_Kuoin on April 26, 2013, 12:24:16 pm
In case you haven't watched it, South Park did a good job at making a parody on History Channels current 'progress'

http://www.watchcartoononline.com/south-park-season-15-episode-13-a-history-channel-thanksgiving

I used to watch around 2hrs of History Channel every day, both HD and normal one for quite some time, stopped watching it now due to all the Universe and constipation stuff

Or better yet, right from the southparkstudios website...

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e13-a-history-channel-thanksgiving
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Zlisch_The_Butcher on April 26, 2013, 04:45:38 pm
Quote from: CrazyCracka420 on April 26, 2013, 04:07:53 pm
Or better yet, right from the southparkstudios website...

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e13-a-history-channel-thanksgiving
Euros can't enter that site, just saying.
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 26, 2013, 08:34:55 pm
Quote from: CrazyCracka420 on April 26, 2013, 04:07:53 pm
Or better yet, right from the southparkstudios website...

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e13-a-history-channel-thanksgiving

Every country in Eu has their own southparkstudios (almost). And they are often 2 seasons behind :P
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Tibe on April 26, 2013, 08:50:09 pm
Quote from: IR_Kuoin on April 26, 2013, 12:24:16 pm
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Lol. Thanks. This is the exact bullcrap they show. :D Couldnt have parodied it any better myself.
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Anal Bleeding on April 29, 2013, 03:53:53 am
h1tl3r channel rules.
Title: Re: History Channel
Post by: Gnjus on April 29, 2013, 08:01:29 am
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