God Awful Show
So people in their 40s know nothing about preventing identity theft, using mobile devices or social media? Ok.
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That was confusing to me as well. Identity theft has been around long before the internet.
shareOne of those brilliant shows where someone tells not even a mildly funny joke and the audience BURSTS!!!!! into crazed laughter.
"Jesus, does anyone?"
What always amuses me is that millennials didn't grow up with social media or smart phones any more than any generation before them. Smart phones came out 9 years ago. The younger M's were already mid-teens. Most weren't even very young during the MySpace era. I had a smart phone before my cousins in their 20's did. I remember showing them how to put music on an MP3 player. Yet they're always the ones portrayed as being so much more tech/social media/smart phone savvy while everyone else is ignorant and out-of-touch. They haven't had much more exposure to it than the generations before. I just think it's way too pre-mature for M's to have that label. That stereotype is for Gen Z (iGen).
In real life I see older people glued to their smart phones just as much as younger people. Especially noticeable when you sit down in a restaurant.
My mom constantly say stuff like my generation was "born with a cell phone in their hand" and grew up in the internet. I was born in 1989 and I didn't know a person my age with a cell phone until I was in middle school (and these would have been flip phones obviously) and I didn't start going on the internet on a regular basis until I was in high school. I know a ton of Gen X and baby boomers who play with their phones all day long. It's generation Z who doesn't remember a time without social media or smart phones.
shareThat is by comparison. I first saw a color screen computer is when I was in college. I graduated in 1994, windows 95 came out a year later. I insisted using a nokia phone until about 5 years ago. I use an iphone now and I don't use most of the social apps. I have a facebook account and I rarely use it.
Yes, I am really not that different from Jack, and the sad thing is that I worked in IT. I can relate to this show and I can understand you millennials don't understand my generation. You were like what is the difference? You are not much older.
A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist - Sir Humphrey Appleby
But usually it is about dumpster divers, not your date. The danger of internet dating is that you never met your date before, unlike conventional dates where you at least met the person before you date and at least have a basic impression.
I do understand people over 40s not using dating apps.
A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist - Sir Humphrey Appleby
It's not about people in their 40's. Even the much older boss knew better. No, it was about this adventure columnist that has been a man of the world for ages trekking all over the world now coming back in. Not being in one place very long, it makes sense he wouldn't go for social networking or dating apps let alone worry about identity theft beyond his wallet being stolen. He had no problem meeting people or doing things in his fictitious real life.
For this character it makes sense. For a 40 year old that lives a normal life... of course it makes no sense. Same for these young people seeming to have no normal social skills living in a big city and hiding behind their screens. It makes sense that they are idiots when it comes to being social outside of their circle and physically look ill prepared to do any physical activity.
For this character it makes sense. For a 40 year old that lives a normal life... of course it makes no sense. Same for these young people seeming to have no normal social skills living in a big city and hiding behind their screens. It makes sense that they are idiots when it comes to being social outside of their circle and physically look ill prepared to do any physical activity.
Except for one question, how did he communicate with the magazine and send in his pictures and details of his adventures all that time? ESP??? Seriously, that part is totally ridiculous. If he is a writer and a traveler, he needs to find a way to get his work back to the magazine, and the magazine itself would demand that he has technology that will allow him to get his work back to them in a reasonable amount of time. So no, it is not believable for this character.
"Life is short, eat dessert first."
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Think about who took his photos, he has a photographer. There are support staff handling that kind of things.
A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist - Sir Humphrey Appleby
Except for one question, how did he communicate with the magazine and send in his pictures and details of his adventures all that time? ESP???
He had someone else to do it for him. He would not have been there entirely by himself. He would have a photographer at least, and probably someone in charge of his supplies and what lodging and transportation he would need. share
How did nature and adventure journalists do those things for the century before computer technology? You're reporting on a trip up a mountain or the speckled dodo bird, it's not exactly time sensitive reporting (except deadlines of course).
shareIf he is a writer and a traveler, he needs to find a way to get his work back to the magazine,
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This show is just absolute brilliance.
Let's make one thing perfectly clear Bernard, Sir Humphrey is not god!
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Wow, so bad. Joel McHale comes off as an arrogant prick. So not funny.
shareJust watched the first episode. I know especially comedy shows have weak starters often, but this feels like a huge disappointment from the first seconds. They have 3 good actors on the team with Fry, McHale and Mintz-Plasse, and they come up with this? Generally I am astonished how often they try to bring back the conventional sitcom relying mainly on back-and-forth wordplays and jokes. Even in that department The Great Indoors looks poorly. For example, the unfortunately cancelled "The Grinder" showed how to bring fresh air to old formulas.
shareYou can't even compare this show to the Grinder because this is a 3-camera sitcom with a laugh track. I feel like there's no place for these kinds of comedies anymore, who requires laughter to know there's a joke?
It feels like this show was made by and for old people, about how they view generation x and millenials. Neither representation feels very accurate, everyone is a walking exaggeration of their worst qualities.
I thought "God Awful Show" covered it. No need for conversation.
I watch alotta TV...but that doesn't mean I don't have a job.