I rarely agree with Chuck Grassley

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/grassley-reignites-feud-with-history-channel/ar-BBHw78a?li=BBnb7Kz

They should go back to calling it the Hitler channel so at least the nazi cracker in our White House can enjoy watching it.

It would be like going to a college history class and the professor has the students playing video games. When asked what does playing video games have to do with history, the answer would be obvious......because my students are dumb asz students who make late night comedians who stop them on the street to ask a question seem funny, when their ignorance is hardly funny. You start a history channel to show history, and only intelligent people watch, so some corporate guy goes......screw history........give them pawn stars, which you would have to be moronic to believe any of the values they put on things. I liked the old history channel.......with all due respect to Bob, the picker shows always show how they are going to sell some piece of chit to someone for a lot of money, but for the life of me I have never met those buyers.......it is one big scam which feeds on people's greed that they are going to find a million dollars in their attic, when all the history channel has become is a conduit for greed.

We have have become an ignorant nation. I saw my grandsons last night begging to use their ipads which their parents have put limitations. They tuned out everything and it was not reading about history. When I was in fourth grade I began reading multiple newspapers, but now I would have my nose in an IPAD and not have a clue about the world, the nation, or what came before. I am just appalled by some of the conversation I have had with people who do not know geography, history, and science. This nation put education as the highest priority when I was a kid, and the baby boomers excesses and instant gratification have in a generation turned our nation into mush heads.

Ok Unabomber. I don't like the trend either... but there's likely an adaptation or evolution that you can't fathom.

I know pickers. They often have a screw loose and just cannot stop buying. They then horde their purchases like they are growing in value. Family members suggest they remove some of the clutter, but they are watching these damn programs like they are going to hit the jackpot.

I mean Bob was a good example. He sure bought a great many items, but other than his jukeboxes which he sold in St. Charles to wealthy yuppies, I think after he passed he had all these items in storage, and without a doubt the entire amount probably sold for about what he purchased the items. I mean I see that addiction among gamblers who are going to hit it big, rather than just enjoying the recreational aspect of a casino........greed reinforced by TV which shows you each week people getting something for nothing and not having to work. It reminds of the poker players who say they are making a living off playing 1-2 cash games. Hilarious and impossible in the same breath.

Bs... you're just equating value w money... while ignoring that the things he collected holding value from 40-50 years ago cheated inflation. Bob had a story about every item and derived great joy in telling.

Try spending that idiota gringo.

2seaoat wrote:It would be like going to a college history class and the professor has the students playing video games.  When asked what does playing video games have to do with history, the answer would be obvious......because my students are dumb asz students who make late night comedians who stop them on the street to ask a question seem funny, when their ignorance is hardly funny.  You start a history channel to show history, and only intelligent people watch, so some corporate guy goes......screw history........give them pawn stars, which you would have to be moronic to believe any of the values they put on things.  I liked the old history channel.......with all due respect to Bob, the picker shows always show how they are going to sell some piece of chit to someone for a lot of money, but for the life of me I have never met those buyers.......it is one big scam which feeds on people's greed that they are going to find a million dollars in their attic, when all the history channel has become is a conduit for greed.

2seaoat wrote:We have have become an ignorant nation. I saw my grandsons last night begging to use their ipads which their parents have put limitations. They tuned out everything and it was not reading about history. When I was in fourth grade I began reading multiple newspapers, but now I would have my nose in an IPAD and not have a clue about the world, the nation, or what came before. I am just appalled by some of the conversation I have had with people who do not know geography, history, and science. This nation put education as the highest priority when I was a kid, and the baby boomers excesses and instant gratification have in a generation turned our nation into mush heads.

Do you realize what you're saying? It's the same crap your parents said about your generation and their parents said about them, ad infinitum! It's practically a cliche. DUH!

Every generation goes through the same shit--oops! excuse me, I meant to write chit or maybe it was asz because that means it okay, I didn't say a bad word, I just made the listener say it in his or her head. Thank you, Jesus for giving me a way out!--and you, a modestly well-educated adult, are too lame to realize it.

Just because you were reading newspaper at nine or ten doesn't mean that's the standard others should be judged by. I was also a furious consumer of printed media--daily papers, weekly and monthly magazines, quarterly journals etc.--but, in case you haven't noticed: TIMES HAVE FUCKING CHANGED! I now get almost hourly news info on my phone or tablet and, when I get home and sit down to my desktop, I CAN FIND ALMOST ANYTHING ABOUT ALMOST ANY SUBJECT.

Wise up, POP!

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum.

Augustus De Morgan

Bob had a story about every item and derived great joy in telling.


He did, but the hording was not about telling stories. It was about what makes program directors for the History Channel schedule, picking, pawn shops, or on other channels storage wars......buying junk for nothing, and selling it for this illusive huge profit. They finally called out storage wars where they had to admit they seeded storage lockers to show more profits which further fed the insatiable drive to get something for nothing. The stories to me are just one more young guy at a poker table talking about a hand they played and made big money......the history channel is making money off greed.

2seaoat wrote:the history channel is making money off greed.

Shocked! SHOCKED!

I now get almost hourly news info on my phone or tablet and, when I get home and sit down to my desktop, I CAN FIND ALMOST ANYTHING ABOUT ALMOST ANY SUBJECT.


That explains a great deal.

2seaoat wrote:I now get almost hourly news info on my phone or tablet and, when I get home and sit down to my desktop, I CAN FIND ALMOST ANYTHING ABOUT ALMOST ANY SUBJECT.


That explains a great deal.

Typical cheesy comment from you. Deflect and misdirect instead of dealing with the issue at hand: The Generational Rift. With that idiotic "when I was your age" bullshit, you make things worse instead of better. Wise up!

Wise up!

I will. You figure an hour on the internet will help.

2seaoat wrote: Wise up!

I will. You figure an hour on the internet will help.

What do you have against using the internet? It's like having the Library of Congress at your fingertips. Sure, there's lots of misinformation and disinformation but anyone with reasonable powers of discernment can tell the difference between the ocean of bathwater and the precious molecules of baby.

Maybe you're just resentful because back then it took you hours or even days to find what can be found in minutes nowadays. You're chock full of the same old geezer bullshit about how much better it was in YOUR day.

Didn't you hate it when you were a kid, listening to the old duffers going on about how "kids nowadays" have it too easy, they don't even know what a spark-adjuster is? This whole internet/worldwide web thing is the informational equivalent of the telegraph back in the 1880s or radio in the 1920s or TV in the 50s.

Oh, that's right, I forgot. You're a conservative reactionary Republican at heart and don't deal well with change--despite that fact that change is the very essence of life.

And you're cranky because your "medical" reefer supply ran out and you can't get a refill until Tuesday.

2seaoat wrote:...all the history channel has become is a conduit for greed.

DON'T WATCH IT THEN.  DUH!

Sure, there's lots of misinformation and disinformation

yes there is

2seaoat wrote:Sure, there's lots of misinformation and disinformation

yes there is

So what? You're not smart enough to sort it out?

Maybe this'll help:

Fake news has a long history in America. Benjamin Franklin intentionally published stories alleging that the British paid Native Americans to scalp men, women and children in the rebellious colonies. During the contentious election of 1800, Federalist newspapers tried to keep people from voting for Thomas Jefferson by running fake stories of his death.
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/history_fake_news

Note the source.