Post #127,281
11/22/03 6:40:17 PM
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Multitasking
Unless I put in a DVD or tape, I never just sit there *watching* TV - I'm usually doing something on the computer that is morally righteous and edifying. Right now I'll still trying to get SP4 installed on the Nachi-culture AKA win2k while a program on model rocketry plays on Discovery (FUN!).
(Thanks a lot Peter - I was HAPPY with Windows 98 on those few times I need to be in Windows, and you SHAMED me into going back to 2k, and now I've wasted 2 days fritzing with it!)
-drl
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Post #127,289
11/22/03 7:34:12 PM
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Re: Multitasking
Oh me too. I sit in here with the computer and the birdie all day when I'm working on stuff, and have the news, or Dr. Phil on in the background. I also rarely am glued to my soap opera because I know the people so well I can follow it from listening. So I'm almost ALWAYS eating a meal, or reading the paper, or doing something on the computer, or working on a project, or cleaning or something during most TV.
When John and I watch the things we watch together, or read papers, fix up cards, make calendars, or do whatever else I have to do while we do that as a rule. Sometimes though we actually sit down and watch a movie and do I nothing else, but that's rare.
And even when I put a DVD or video in, like Titanic, it still runs in the background unless I have never seen it before.
Of course there are always exceptions, like a particularly interesting news issue or show, but it's rare, because I almost always multitask.
Nightowl >8#
"The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be."
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Post #127,303
11/22/03 11:09:01 PM
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Re: Multitasking
Dr. Phil eh - my theory is that Oprah and her bitch Dr. Phil are brainwashing the women of America with their "men are pigs" message and collectivist-insipid-Bradburyan-F451 mantras. The Family, with the occasional police chase as a break-in to the non-stop stream of drivel from those two.
Oprah is a monster, and Phil is her bitch.
-drl
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Post #127,312
11/22/03 11:38:15 PM
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Re: Multitasking
Dr. Phil eh - my theory is that Oprah and her bitch Dr. Phil are brainwashing the women of America with their "men are pigs" message and collectivist-insipid-Bradburyan-F451 mantras. The Family, with the occasional police chase as a break-in to the non-stop stream of drivel from those two. I don't like Ophrah, and I never watched her. I discovered Dr. Phil from a friend, and he has actually given really good advice about certain things like grief, relationships and family issues, all of which have really helped me. He never says Men are pigs, or puts men or women down, so I don't know what Ophrah did, but I could care less what she did, I never liked her. Not every show helps me, for example, I have no need to lose weight, on the contrary, but some of the things he tells the weight loss people do help at times. So I tape him every day and watch him live when I can. :) Nightowl >8# "The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be."
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Post #127,314
11/22/03 11:43:49 PM
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Re: Multitasking
I've seen Dr. Phil - the receptionist at my last job always put him on in the lobby - he's as big a monster as Oprah. His message is - whatever your instincts are are wrong - follow the collective! Be like everyone else, a selfish, stupid, insipid asshole! He's despicable, almost as bad as Rush.
-drl
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Post #127,315
11/22/03 11:46:25 PM
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Re: Multitasking
I've seen Dr. Phil - the receptionist at my last job always put him on in the lobby - he's as big a monster as Oprah. His message is - whatever your instincts are are wrong - follow the collective! Be like everyone else, a selfish, stupid, insipid asshole! He's despicable, almost as bad as Rush. Well everyone is entitled to their own opinions, and you're certainly entitled to feel about him however you like. I know for a fact that I do NOT EVER follow the crowd or conform to the "collective" so I know he does not influence me in that manner. I revel in being unique and different. He just gives good, hard advice sometimes that works for me. Nightowl >8# "The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be."
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Post #127,322
11/23/03 12:39:13 AM
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Re: Multitasking
It's NOT "good advice" - he plays on your guilt to make you behave the way HE thinks is right. And if you think he is cool, then I guarantee you that you are just like the rest of his people - brainwashed.
There is still hope - pay attention next time - he's a devil with a silver tongue. He prays on people who lack confidence or are plagued with guilt. An emotional parasite. I wouldn't even shake his limp-wristed hand.
-drl
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Post #127,351
11/23/03 2:39:56 PM
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Views on Dr. Phil ( was Re: Multitasking)
It's NOT "good advice" - he plays on your guilt to make you behave the way HE thinks is right. And if you think he is cool, then I guarantee you that you are just like the rest of his people - brainwashed. First of all, I stopped letting guilt manipulate me some time ago, except in a few rare exceptions, or cases where I'm actually guilty. I'm not brainwashed, and I didn't say he was cool either. I said sometimes he gives good advice. When he gave advice on dealing with grief, it was some of the best advice I received on that issue. The last person who brainwashed me was my ex-fiance, he convinced me that I would never deserve better than him, and could never be even good enough for him. Fortunately, I woke up... and realized he was full of bull. I haven't let anyone brainwash me since, and don't intend to start with Dr. Phil. I never said everything he said was good, or everything he said was helpful. I believe in listening to information and taking from it what is good and helpful and ignoring what isn't, in all mediums. There is still hope - pay attention next time - he's a devil with a silver tongue. He prays on people who lack confidence or are plagued with guilt. An emotional parasite. I wouldn't even shake his limp-wristed hand. Only the devil is the devil. People can do work of the devil, but I haven't seen Dr. Phil do that... now there are some others I can't say that about. The people who go to him go by choice, and he helps them tremendously, so I've seen, because they manage to go away and fix things and he revisits them later and they are better. As I stated before, you don't have to like him, and I don't like everything about him, but each is entitled to their own opinion, and I respect that you have yours. But please don't tell me what's going on with me, "i.e. you're being brainwashed,", because trust me, you don't know enough about me to know that. And I'm most certainly not "his people." The only people I am is one of God's people, a Christian, and one of American's people, I suppose, but I'm not "his people" as in Dr. Phil's people.... sorry, I'm not THAT fascinated by the man by a long shot. :) Nightowl >8# "The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be."
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Post #127,361
11/23/03 5:29:00 PM
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Re: Views on Dr. Phil ( was Re: Multitasking)
It's my moral duty to oppose Dr. Phil and Commander "Men are Pigs" Oprah and to intervene on behalf of their female brainwashing victims, in the good name of Men everywhere. I've done my duty.
-drl
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Post #127,363
11/23/03 5:57:54 PM
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Yabut.. might's well tilt at --
massive bloviating on every imaginable topic: a pastime not peculiar to Murican meeja - merely honed, shellacked
[you Can polish a turd, if you shellac it first]
and Perfected on Murican meeja as -steady diet- while, nowhere else in the world comes at all close to 99%.
(Though the -still a minority- Brit-slime appears to be every bit as toxic, with the added capability of using language well, in pursuit of the tawdry and specious).
I mean..
Where. Does. One. Begin. in a sea of offal?
Ashton
I see screaming neurons..
each afraid that it shall never be heeded by Mind Central - in one lifetime.
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Post #127,375
11/23/03 10:26:22 PM
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Re: Yabut.. might's well tilt at --
Ah, I take it you don't like Dr. Phil either, huh Ashton? ;)
Nightowl >8#
"The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be."
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Post #127,377
11/23/03 11:02:54 PM
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Dr. Phil
I don't understand how Dr. Phil can be mean-spirited at the people we is supposed to help and still have a show. It just turns me off of his show. I didn't like him on Opera either, he must have had blackmail material to be on her show or something.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #127,378
11/23/03 11:10:53 PM
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Re: Dr. Phil
Well, I always saw him as a kind of reality check. Kinda like my friend Jan, hehehe. I call her when I want the straight facts and no pussy footing around, and that's what I think I like most about Dr. Phil. He's straight to the point, whether it be mean spirited or not, some people just call it tough love talk, or straight talk.
Nightowl >8#
"The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be."
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Post #127,380
11/23/03 11:17:43 PM
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Well I don't like it
it is more important to be nice, he could find nice ways of saying things but he does not. Makes him a big a**hole in my opinion.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #127,385
11/24/03 3:52:08 AM
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Re: Dr. Phil
Anyone who takes advantage of people who are laid low by guilt and lack of confidence is a right absolute bastard. I'm an excellent judge of (male) character, if nothing else.
Like Springer, he parades these pathetic people in front of the world, for the tittilation of bored housewives - but not only does he fuck with the people who are willing to submit to his "treatment", be undermines countless households by planting imaginary bugs in the ears of susceptible homebound women, all for ratings.
Three things you can be certain of - cameras don't belong in courtrooms, church does not belong in public school, and head shrinkers don't belong on afternoon TV where helpless, ego-crushed women can be further undermined by them.
-drl
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Post #127,340
11/23/03 1:04:01 PM
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OT: did you watch both rocket showS
I taped them for my son. He laughed his ass off when they launched a Porta-Potty.
lincoln
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