I'm on a mission

[MichaelHarris]

Its late, I have a big gulp, and I haven't found anything good on tv yet. I decided to go for my 300th post. GIve me something good to discuss/debate.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Tell me about the kind of TV you'd rather watch

[MichaelHarris]

7. Well

right now City Confidential. Did ya know the guy who narrates that recently died?

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Not only did I not know that,

I have no idea what that show is, nor did I even know it had a narrator.

What's it about?

[MichaelHarris]

14. City Confidential rocks

the way they do the show. They start with a history of the city then end with some horrific crime. Truely entertaining TV. Its not truely TV unless someone gets killed.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. What city? Who is "they"?

Meaning no offense, but when explaing stuff to people, it's best to use specific examples and nouns.

[MichaelHarris]

17. ohhh

City Confidential is a series about crimes on the Biography channel. The way they produce it is pretty good. Its an hour long show with the first 30 min spent talking about the history of whatever town there doing that week. The last 30 minutes is the crime. Right now the town is Gatlinburg Tenn.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. You still haven't explained

who is "they" and what is "the crime". I realize that "the crime" changes from episode to episode, but what crime? Is it a real thing? A made-up thing? Is this science-fiction? A Western? Is it real history? (I would assume it's real, given that it's biography)

But come one - use nouns.

[MichaelHarris]

21. yes

its a real crime. The crime is ummm actually the info button says, "mottley crew slays 2 innocent people in Tenn tourist town"

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Alright, so, if *I* had been asked this question, this is how I might have

answered. I don't know if this is right, so let me know, but this is how a complete answer would look (well, only partly, since there's a lot of info you haven't offered yet, so it's not complete, but it's more complete than what you've offered so far in any one answer):

"City Confidential is a series on the Biography channel. Each week the producers choose a murder that happened in the US. They spend the first half of the show giving a history of the town in which that murder that occurred, and in the second half they offer the story of the murder itself."

But, you see, I still don't know: do they only offer the facts on hand, or do they try to come to a conclusion as to who committed the crime? Or do they only pick crimes that have been solved? Or only crimes that were never solved? Do they only choose murders committed recently? Or do they go back to the 1800s, 1700s, or 1600s?

[MichaelHarris]

25. ahhhhh

I see your point. If i had been smart enough I could use the excuse that the short, incomplete answers would help me get to 300. I didn't think of that. Good idea though. Actually they use 20th century crimes that have been solved. They use the real participants, investigators, and journalists for interviews. they draw very few conclusions as to motive, in some instances even provide interviews with the convicted. Its very fact based in the crime portion and colorful in the description on the history portion.

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. Thank you!

I have gained knowledge, finally!

Sorry, but I'm big into communication and pedagogy, and your answers, whie factual and not misleading, were really, really, really frustrating...

So thank you for answering with a complete answer!

[MichaelHarris]

28. I had hoped

to get to 300 posts in another thread but everyone stopped posting.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1340404

I was afraid it was going to become a war, I think the internet term is a flame war. I'm very passionate about religious conservatism and its consequences.

[MichaelHarris]

29. your reply

made me think about something. My posts don't get read alot and maybe your tips and insight will come in helpful. I should put more thought into my posts and provide more information. Might make better reading.

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. That could be!

And I read the other thread, about the insane woman killing her kids. Sad story indeed.

[MichaelHarris]

8. Well

right now City Confidential. Did ya know the guy who narrates that recently died?

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. And let me say - double posting is a great way to get your post count up!

Well done!! :party:

[MichaelHarris]

13. damn damn me to hell

I did that? Its a conspiracy I tell you. God told me to double post. Hallibutan did it and charged me for the post. It is an intellegence failure. I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Any of those excuses work?

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. All of them work!

Or you could have used the republican "gonna bring integrity and transparency back to the White House" argument of "I'm not willing to talk about that."

[MichaelHarris]

18. or

I'm the unification president who became the war president

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. LOL!

that's a good one, too!

"I'm a uniter, not a divider, and you can tell this because I've united the world against us."

[MichaelHarris]

22. LOL

I was trying to remember the uniter thing. Thats like the funniest political a pres has said in a long time. The uniter who succeeded in dividing in less than 2 weeks

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. Well, shit, anyone with a partial brain should have known he was lying

through his teeth about "uniting". republcian fuckers, they don't want uniting, at least not in the sense of consensus. They want death to everyone who disagrees with them.

Evil fucks.

And as you say, the Dipshit Insider-Trading Mega-Fool In Chief wasted no time at all in alienating the world against us, and them, after 9-11 when the world was back on our side, the Asshole Coke-Sniffing Pretzel-Wrestling Idiot In Chief squandered all that good will in a matter of weeks as well.

What a pussbucket assmunching beer-swilling ignorant FUCK he is.

[MichaelHarris]

27. hahahahhaaa

How true. The other day someone here posted a link to some freeper forum thing. I went to it and all I saw was this hate filled tripe. Most posts were about dumbocrates and stuff and how they were so much smarter. I saw more misspelled words, and bad grammar than I've ever seen. They had absolutely no arguments that ended in any form of intelligent thought, in fact most ended in stuff like "they must die". I challenge any freeper troll, or whatever they're called to read any of my editorials and debate them without resorting to, "Dem's must die".

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. It's really sad the number of times the freepers mention killing

and/or praying for death or harm to come to others.

We might spew a lot of vitriol here at DU, but I never came across anyone saying, "Hey - let's go republican hunting - I got my shotgun!" or "America won't be safe until every republican has been killed or penned up" or "Have you shot an America-hating republican today?"

We have anger, but I guess we're of a higher order in that our anger turns into action for good.

Their anger just seethes and festers and eventually comes out as hatred and violence (probably rarely physical voilence, but certainly verbal or emotional violence; or physical violence in terms of driving their SUVs erratically, hitting their kids or wives, smoking cigars at high school football games and telling people to go screw themselves (in the name of Jesus) when they complain, etc.).

I also find it interesting that we never hear of liberals ganging up to beat up/kill/drag behind a truck a conservative, or making death threats to a conservative. It's always conservative to liberal.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. What flavor Big Gulp?

[MichaelHarris]

5. Nectur of the Gods

Coke of course

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. If you're desperate for 300 posts, how come you haven't answered

the first two posts yet?

[MichaelHarris]

4. Opps

sorry I was looking up stuff for a fellow DUer. Riannan back me up here

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. LOL! That's okay

just giving you more chances to post.

Though you completely and utterly skipped the first question, posed by me, I notice.

[MichaelHarris]

9. LOL

I was goofin and answering them backwards

[MichaelHarris]

12. On a side note

my aquarium is looking like a holding pit at DOW chemical. Maybe Sunday will be a good day to clean it.