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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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When I was a kid, I had to grow up fast..... My homelife was less than perfect and the parentals were for the most part not a part of my life. Dad, while being basicaly a good dad as he provided well for the family was a workaholic and for the most part absent from day-to-day homelife... Mom, well, she was there but not... spending the bulk of her time fitting into the local social scene and as a by produce doing her best to prove the validity of the volstead act.
As i grew older.... well.... there were other problems as many of you are aware and I don't want to go through all that now....
The point is that I didn't realy have a childhood or much of an adolesence...
The other day Kevy and I were with friends and Kevy offhandedly mentioned that I watch a great deal of kids developmental and educationsl TV....
I realy had never thought about it.... But I do.... As I am writing this I am listening to Berenstain Bears and looking forward to seeing Arthur....
Now, granted these programs expouse many basic philosophical issues pertainant to positive social skills and growth.... As this aspect directly reflects on my chosen field I just never thought about any alterior motives (even subconscious SP) when watching them....
So..... I have to ask.... Is this strange for a 50 something to be so involved with this sort of program choice?
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Also...... Do any other of you watch these?
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Hey Marc,
Well you did perhaps miss a lot of life back then where other kids were coming home from school and watching all those programs on tv. I still get a bit emotional when I read about that time in your life and realize it could have happened to me too. I know that I was actually guilty of doing a lot of what you had never actually done with anyone and of course it made me feel a lot worse knowing what went on in your teen years.
I think perhaps you are watching these shows to try to capture some of that lost time in your life and I sure see nothing wrong with that. I hope it doesnt make you feel any worse about it. Well I admit that I used to watch the show on cable which was called Nickelodian or something like that and used to be about skits done by these kids. I think it was Canadian or something and the boys were cute so I used to watch it. I think my reasons were a bit unlike the ones you have now for watching these kids shows.
Actually though some of those kids shows are pretty good and have moral lessons in them and everything. I like most of the movies which show justice being done in a simple way where the bad guys get punished and the good guys win..........it always makes me feel better. I know I am not stupid enough to really think it always does that in real life, but then why dream at all then?
Ken
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Guys???? I watch sponge Bob Square Pants. Why? cause it is one of the funniest shows I have ever seen. I can flat understand why it is one of the top kid shows on tv. When you miss something, I think you tend to migrate to the thing you missed. Not because it makes you a child again, but because your looking for the uncomplicated life you missed, the love you should have gotten. Thats why I tend to Like and drift more to older guys. I never had a dad and the men in my life have not been caring and loving. I realize what is going on, but i cant change it or stop it. Its not the age thing so much as the outlook on life, the maturity, that love is more than a good screw in the sack.
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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Marc wrote:
> So..... I have to ask.... Is this strange for a 50 something to be so involved with this sort of program choice?
There is nothing wrong or strange about watching these shows.
Now if you start watching the Teletubbies.......
(\\__/) And if you don't believe The sun will rise
(='.'=) Stand alone and greet The coming night
(")_(") In the last remaining light. (C. Cornell)
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Well, I'll be 19 soon... And I will tell you that I am absolutly addicted to Arthur. Somedays when i am at home (no TV at school) I could catch three episodes in a row if i remembered to change the channel...
Who knows I mean my grandpa is like in his 80's and always watches Mr. Rogers everyday and loves it. I don't think its bad just prefrence.
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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really? I HATE sponge bob, hes so i don't know squeeky. I just can't listen to him. I loved watching Doug though untill they took him off the air. Damn Nick for getting rid of the good shows
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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I think Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is the best British film to come out for years. I don't even pretend that it's in some way highbrow to justify my interest.
As a film-maker, I do much admire its narrative construction, the witty dialogue, the direction, the production design and the stop-motion animation techniques it uses, but the main reason I like it is that it's just so much fun!
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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I agree with you completely, and I also enjoyed 'Chicken Run' - though you needed to be familiar with 'The Great Escape' and a bunch of other WWII movies to appreciate all the humour.
But I also enjoyed Postman Pat, which also has multi-level humour if you look for it - and I enjoyed a lot of the other programmes and films my kids watched as they grew up. 'Danny, Champion of the World' and 'The Goonies' stand out in my memory, and if I found them in today's schedules, I'd certainly watch them again.
If you ask either my son (24) or my daughter (22) which film most impressed them in their early teenage years, the answer - unequivocally - would be 'Stand by Me', closely followed by 'The Lost Boys'.
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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