Thread: Lifestyle TV shows... good or bad?

Was only about 9-10 at the time and one of our rural clods had a globe that didn't work, therefore, as logic dictates, must be the power as the glass was not broken.
It was a common practice to put your tongue on a battery to see if it was OK, so this bucolic buffoon applied the same logic to the socket with the aid of his equally simple wife.
My father was the local walloper at the time and this was in a rural part of the UK where electrickery was fairly new to some, having used gas for most things such as lighting, heat, suicide etc
Needless to say the the circuit was well and truly alive and this dolt (and I still remember this vividly) hit the ceiling and was thrown across the room, he through a series of convulsions and colour changes before finally returning to some degree of normality.

Originally Posted by ozwinner

Thats gold Iain, what the hell was he checking for? :confused:

Al

Why brains of course, , (he didn't find any )

Mick

Originally Posted by Waldo

G'day Mailbu,

I'm all for yummy bimbos in tight shorts telling me what to do, but for the rest of it, a big resounding...

Nup!

I quite like the yummy HIMBOS as well. knocking up adirondack seats and pergolas with the greatest of ease.
And when your done you can whip up the easy dish prepared on the cooking segment as well.Down the drill and pick up the blender

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

With so much safety being built in to cars, horses all but gone as a means of transport, and innoculation against all common diseases, there is little left to ensure that only the fittest survive.

The whole human gene pool is slowly being diluted, allowing more and more complete idiots to survive, and worse, to breed. :eek:

Fortunately nature is a wonderful thing, and in order to balance out the process, the lifestyle television format evolved. Such is the process of natural selection, that only those whose genome is no longer of use to mankind are attracted to view these programmes, and the least useful humans to try to copy the outcomes, oblivious to the dangers to themselves and others.

Don't stand in their way, that is akin to interfering with the evolutionary process.

P

I was going to say something about the difficulty of protecting foolish people from themselves - and then I read Midge's post. Encapsulates what I was thinking beautifully.

3 things that I can’t stand those lifestyle shows

1.They always tell you that it costs only 10,000 (material only) for the renovation and increases the house value by $50,000+.
2.That handy man shows you how to make a coffee table in 15 minutes
3.That little darling shows you how to decorate a dinning table with ribbons OR fill the whole house with hundreds of cushions, millions of candles, mirrors, pictures frames………………..

The cooking shows are very good to get me drooling before I go to Maccas for my evening meal.

The DIY shows are good for ruminating and planning little ventures that never come to pass, They also assist in relieving insomnia as you plan and plan after hitting the sack, with the good thing being that after a good night's sleep, you can't remember the plans, so you can start all over again the next evening.

Then there are the entertaining soft DIY shows that provide some interesting ideas that again can assist in relieving insomnia.

I'll stick to talking to the trees, wood whispering sounds to intimate.

Regards
Greg

Must disagree that there is a general improvement in IQ's and the like.
Have none of you seen any of the Darwin Awards that have been given out over the last ten years.
Like Ian's experience as a child observing the tongue-testing, these morons are able to show extraordinary stupidity AND live.:eek:
Maybe medical science has a lot to answer for, saving patients who in the past would be dead (and the future gene pool protected from them).

Originally Posted by Wongo

2.That handy man shows you how to make a coffee table in 15 minutes

C'mon Wongo, fair go - didn't you see the one he made that doubled as an indoor dog house? What a fantastic idea!!!!

I eagerly await the episode where they show how to dovetail wet treated pine sleepers using a chainsaw.
True DIY cabinet making

as a carpenter in darwin i've had severl small job offers from people that "can" remeber there late evening dreaming
it's stats with a phone call , "wanna quote my pergola ? got all the matirial's ,should only take a day "

so ya drive across town to have a look .
theres a pile of 4x2's ( leftovers from bulding sites ) thay have been stored out in the weather and not even stacked properly ( asorted drill bits ,propellers and bomerangs ) old rusty iron full of nail holes or cover sheets in every differnt colour

so you talk about footings "nar just berry the posts in the dirt ive seen it on tv "
have you got a plan , " ner just 8 posts leantoo off the house "
what about counsel aproval " what thay dont know wont hert them "
"those 4x2 untreated f5 firewood wont span far" only has to come out to here ( 4.2m span )

so i tell them i'll work out a quote , then ring them back saying im to busy

building crap like thay should be punnishable by law in cyclone / turmite infested areas

and having tv shows made down south showing how to build pargolars with out a warning message across the screen stating that" some areas you cannot build like this,consult your councel " ,sould leave the tv produces open to law sutes

but yes the tight shorted tank toped bimbo's are nice to watch

It frustrates me watching these things, and have now given up. Problem is the wife watches them still and in between drooling over the odd garden guru (you know the one...), she obviously believes the spruke! "Why don't you whip me up a terraced garden/water feature/covered swing seat, just like they did, shouldn't take long and you've got so much timber stashed away?" Pity that all the timber is mixed, and under a metre long, there is a drought on, retaining walls are expensive and we haven't got council approval... One memorable occasion she had enough of my reasoned refusals and decided to pave a section of the backyard herself. We had a pallet of pavers awaiting excavations, crusher dust and sand etc, but all that preliminary stuff is for the birds isn't it!?:eek: Came home one day to find metres of pavers neatly layed out over the kikuya and because of the effort involved I didn't have the heart to pull them all up...straight away...and no doubt start an argument. So I spent the next 6 months trying to mow and poison the grass as it grew jungle-like through the pavers!! All because of a seed implanted by a bleedin' TV show.
What really siths me is that costing thing, using mature plants for landscaping and the combined labour of 4 or 5 professionals (and more than likely others off-camera), the price given is for smaller plants and no incluson for labour. Makes it almost seem achievable, but not all of us a filthy rich!!
As for the H&S thing, is it only recently these guys started wearing PPE?

Cheers,

Originally Posted by Andy Mac

combined labour of 4 or 5 professionals (and more than likely others off-camera)

As per my discussion with the bloke at the hardware a few weeks ago, he commented that there were 35 people that came into the hardware. He didn't say what the job roles were, but I presume there would have been a handfull of pro's, an assortment of labourers and probably a good collection of camera ops, sound crew, drivers etc, who would double as labourers as the needs arise. That was just the ones that turned up in the hardware. I wish I had 35 people on call to get my house projects done!

I've been quietly watching the great comments in this thread and it seems a 'mixed bag' on the good or the bad of it. Everyone has an opinion and I respect that... thanks to all for the feedback

I noticed that the yummy bimbo seems to win most of the votes though

Originally Posted by Malibu

I noticed that the yummy bimbo seems to win most of the votes though

Which end of the hammer is live????

I, for one, don't watch these sorts of shows and think to myself that I can do what is being acomplished on the show. I do however glean what I can. I take ideas that I can 'modify', to my skill level and to the tools I have.

I look at these shows the same as I think about smoking cigarettes. Look at them all you like but no on is holding a gun to your head to submit to its pleasures. So when things are out of hand don't come winging to me as I dont care.

Pete