New Year&#39;s Shows Are Dumb

@porwest (90860)

• United States

1 Jan

If my wife didn't have them on the tube, I'd not be watching them either. lol

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Gayle Harrelson

@2ndchances24 (8929)

• Cloverdale, Indiana

1 Jan

@porwest I don't know why not there pretty interesting to learn how things are made or done. That's all I've been watching today.

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@porwest (90860)

• United States

3 Jan

@2ndchances24 I think we're talking about two different things suddenly. lol

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471500)

• Switzerland

1 Jan

We stopped years ago to watch the New Year's Eve shows. Every year the same boring stuff.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471500)

• Switzerland

4 Jan

@porwest

I stopped watching TV several years ago.

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@porwest (90860)

• United States

4 Jan

Yeah. And corny and silly. Not worth watching. I wish my wife would tune them out. lol

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@porwest (90860)

• United States

6 Jan

@LadyDuck I haven't completely stopped watching it, but I watch much less than ever and it has been that way for a while. I might watch two or three hours of it in the evening, but that's about it.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (68000)

• United States

1 Jan

Honestly, there’s no original members in Lynyrd Skynyrd, so it automatically starts three notches down. I don’t have cable or an antenna, so I didn’t watch any of the shows…not that I would’ve watched if I did have cable or an antenna.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (68000)

• United States

3 Jan

@porwest — I know. I saw a Blood, Sweat & Tears tribute band opening for Neil Sedaka…called Blood, Sweat & Tears. No original members in the band to be found. Some people sued over name usage…when I saw Leslie West, he was “Leslie West and Mountain” instead of using Mountain’s name. There was some legal agreement who had to be in the band for it to be called “Jefferson Airplane” vs. “Jefferson Starship” vs. “Starship.” And, of course, the group we all know and love as the Oak Ridge Bous has no original members from its beginning in the 1940s as a gospel quartet…

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@porwest (90860)

• United States

3 Jan

@FourWalls I get that it's a money grab and the name is a "brand" of sorts. But yeah, it's all smoke and mirrors and artificial to me. Even to call Queen Queen to me is a bit "off." Even if original band members are in it, but it's just some guy who's not Freddie Mercury, who WAS Queen in my eyes more than any of the other guys, singing his songs.

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@porwest (90860)

• United States

3 Jan

When bands do this I don't even think they should be called "the band." Maybe just call them a triibutre band or something?

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (79858)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

3 Jan

I don't watch any of them. When I sometimes search for some of the TV shows I used to watch and enjoy many moons ago and watch a series I am astounded at how silly they really were and I wonder Whatever did I enjoy or was it just a way to spend time?

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (79858)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

4 Jan

@porwest well, some of the old shows certainly top what is on TV today,

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@porwest (90860)

• United States

7 Jan

@RasmaSandra I happen to think most of them do. lol

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@porwest (90860)

• United States

4 Jan

I find a lot of the older shows corny for sure, and not as corny as I remember them. I still prefer them over most of the new stuff.

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Jessica

@JESSY3236 (19949)

• United States

2 Jan

I don't really like them either. But I watch them if my boyfriend is here. He left on Dec. 28th so I didn't have to watch them. I actually went to bed early.

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@porwest (90860)

• United States

3 Jan

Left? Where did he go?

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Mildred Tabitha

@mildredtabitha (16126)

• Nairobi, Kenya

1 Jan

Maybe you don't like the show because you are a man

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Mildred Tabitha

@mildredtabitha (16126)

• Nairobi, Kenya

3 Jan

@porwest it has everything to do with it because you said your wife likes the show then you went on to criticize the show

it's because men don't like what women like

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@porwest (90860)

• United States

4 Jan

@mildredtabitha lol. I guess there could be some truth to that.

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@porwest (90860)

• United States

3 Jan

I am not sure why that would have anything to do with it, but who knows? lol

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Marlina

@marlina (154131)

• Canada

1 Jan

I can't stand those shows.

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@porwest (90860)

• United States

1 Jan

I seem to not be alone based on the comments here so far. I imagine many people do like them which is why they put them on. But yeah...I just don't like them. I feel so dumbed down after just even a few minutes of them. lol

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Jeff Moffitt

@moffittjc (121582)

• Gainesville, Florida

2 Jan

It helps us feel good about ourselves despite the fact that we (as humans) are pretty sh*tty creatures.

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (119619)

• United States

1 Jan

I don’t watch them

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