>> ^spawnflagger:

yippy-kai-yay Mr. Falcor!


Where would be without low quality American TV release version of action movies.

>> ^Trancecoach:
As an American, I need translation (or at least subtitles) for British humor.
It just isn't funny.


Yeah I've noticed that about American TV. An African or a Russian speaking in perfectly understandable English with a slight accent, and the American news channels slap subtitles on it. It seems quite derogatory to be honest.

Mind you I used to translate episodes of Rab C. Nesbitt to friends when I moved south to England. Hilarious is hilarious no matter how thick the accent!

Subtitles would have helped, because every time he's on American tv he gets talked over incessantly.

I'm a 51 year old American and I despise television. I have noticed that people don't get any smarter, there is a never-ending audience for all this stupidity. One example that comes to mind is Oprah Winfrey (I have never seen a single show but have heard plenty about her) being suckered in by that guy that wrote "A Million Little Pieces". She said she was up all night, reading his riveting story about drug abuse. And all her fans bought into it and made him rich. Then it turns out to be largely fiction. Oprah is so worldly and wise, so what could possibly be so riveting about yet another drug abuse tale? Turn on VH1, every child star, rock star, TV star, porn star has a similar story, so what. It all exemplifies just how stupid you have to be to watch TV and follow pop culture. The phrase "reality show" sums up everything contemptible about American TV. I half expect to find an old Mad Magazine in a drawer, with a spoof back in the 70s saying television of the future will be so bad that they will resort to ratings spectacles of putting former child stars in a boxing ring with each other.
I could go on but you get the point. I would have to be held hostage before I would watch The View, Dancing with the stars, American Idol, The Apprentice, Friends, Wheel of Fortune, America's Most Wanted, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
Thanks for letting me rant.

As a Canadian I've always found US television standards bizarre to say the least.

Last night I watched Criminal Minds, twice they showed graphic scenes of bare-handed strangulation.

And yet, it's illegal to show breasts on American TV. Because THAT will corrupt people. Yeah... Better they go off on a killing spree than have some sex? Weird society.

I hate this trend in American TV to let everyone talk simultaneously. While on one hand, it's good for ratings, it's terrible for actual meaningful discourse.

It was really more of a joke than a serious suggestion for a male equivalent. Probably not the best approach, given the lack of intonations in text. Although it could have worked if stopping a video partway through worked.

Truth was, I only recently watched the show, and so it was still fresh in my mind. It -stayed- fresh not because of the act, but because the act was in a TV show. Like I said, it rather forcibly reminded me that it wasn't an -American- TV show, which is something the accents alone couldn't do.
>> ^dag:

Nice try, but there sure is a helluva lot more hitting in that one. I'm with Berticus.>> ^Stormsinger:
Took my best shot at supplying your request here:
Male equivalent?>> ^berticus:
i'll upvote this when you sift a male equivalent

This is definitely the fastest I'd ever been so forcefully reminded that I was not watching an American TV show. Not to mention making a very clear statement that this season wasn't going to be much like the first.

@Mazex: Your mother is spending her social security on bottles of water, instead of the actual medication she needs. How does that make you feel? Is it "all her fault"? Does she deserve to be taken advantage of because she's dumb enough to waste her money on water?

And then there was the example of blueberry man from a year ago. That was colloidal silver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa2OpNTX9Ck

>> ^Skeeve:

Colloidal solutions of silver, what this guy is selling, have never demonstrated the proposed curative effects in clinical studies, and have actually resulted in toxicity in a number of cases. There is no evidence that silver does anything medically except kill things (including the people who take it in large enough doses).

>> ^Throbbin:
These guys are screened before they ever get on the show, so someone at CBC thought it would be a hoot to get him on the air. While I don't mind the dressing down they gave him, I think it's sad that even CBC - the holy grail of quality public broadcasting IMHO - would think to let this guy on the air, presumably for ratings.
All that aside, has anyone investigated the potential medicinal effects of silver? Reason says there's a 99% chance this guy is nuts. But anyone who has noticed the massive attention being paid to Vitamin D recently as the Vitamin that can cure anything in the 'Professional" medical community should also understand that if someone made those claims about Vitamin D 20 years ago, they'd be labelled a snake oil salesman too.
Maybe he's just ahead of his time. Still, you don't claim it cures cancer. Not cool.


Perhaps they expected half the crazy, not the full crazy he ended up delivering? I think it's ok to occasionally point out to the naive that "this is crazy" in case people aren't realizing it. Psuedo-educational.

Totally agree, why on earth give a nut like this a platform? Sure he looks ridiculous but he's ridiculous before he gets there. Will it stop him suckering people? Sadly I don't think so.

>> ^Throbbin:
These guys are screened before they ever get on the show, so someone at CBC thought it would be a hoot to get him on the air. While I don't mind the dressing down they gave him, I think it's sad that even CBC - the holy grail of quality public broadcasting IMHO - would think to let this guy on the air, presumably for ratings.

Silver definitely has some medically useful effects, but nowhere near what this guy claims. In fact most heavy metals have an anti-biotic effect (called an oligodynamic effect). The reason why silver is used is because it is the least toxic to mammals. Specifically, silver ions irreversibly damage key enzyme systems in cells and in doing so kill most microorganisms. This is why you can find bandages and medical equipment that incorporates silver.

Colloidal solutions of silver, what this guy is selling, have never demonstrated the proposed curative effects in clinical studies, and have actually resulted in toxicity in a number of cases. There is no evidence that silver does anything medically except kill things (including the people who take it in large enough doses).

>> ^Throbbin:
All that aside, has anyone investigated the potential medicinal effects of silver? Reason says there's a 99% chance this guy is nuts. But anyone who has noticed the massive attention being paid to Vitamin D recently as the Vitamin that can cure anything in the 'Professional" medical community should also understand that if someone made those claims about Vitamin D 20 years ago, they'd be labelled a snake oil salesman too.

>> ^Throbbin:
These guys are screened before they ever get on the show, so someone at CBC thought it would be a hoot to get him on the air. While I don't mind the dressing down they gave him, I think it's sad that even CBC - the holy grail of quality public broadcasting IMHO - would think to let this guy on the air, presumably for ratings.
All that aside, has anyone investigated the potential medicinal effects of silver? Reason says there's a 99% chance this guy is nuts. But anyone who has noticed the massive attention being paid to Vitamin D recently as the Vitamin that can cure anything in the 'Professional" medical community should also understand that if someone made those claims about Vitamin D 20 years ago, they'd be labelled a snake oil salesman too.
Maybe he's just ahead of his time. Still, you don't claim it cures cancer. Not cool.


Yah silver Has gr8 potential as anti bacterial and When u combine small particles of silver in kitchen tops and work services / medical serfices it can have a real impact.

Silver is more of a preventative for anti bacterial its not a cure and I believe it only stops bacteria starting in a given place so if its already in a place and u pore silver on something its not going to make much difference.

Also interms of the human body we are dependent on bacteria so if u had a substance that nuked all the bacteria and u took it you would probably get very ill and die.


there is allso this new spray that is ment to come on the market in the next year or so that coats stuff in a thin film of glass but its such that bacteria or organic matter cannot stick to it so u could wipe stuff with water to make it mostly sterile. but again it wont cure people its just preventative making items esear to steralize.

>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^westy:
Well whats more bull shit is that they only give a dam when he says it cures cancer , because everyone gose mental over cancer up untill cancer its all la-di-da.
also he is only as much bull shit as religions but i bet they dont give a shit if a chirch person came in trying to sell some rleigouse thing or raising money for a lochal chirch that would be ok.

They weren't going to back the product beforehand, you can see that all of them are giggling at how stupid the product is.
Claims such as "Pain from cuts goes away in less then a minute!" is stupid, because they usually do anyway.
He really is just selling water, and for minor things like that, it's no harm no foul, you spend 20 bucks, it's not a life altering situation. Refuse him nicely and leave him on his way.
However, once he started making claims like it was able to cure more terminal things like cancer, and he's been SELLING it as a remedy for cancer, then shit gets serious.
If people truly buy his product thinking that spraying it down your throat a couple times daily is going to cure their cancer, and do that rather then get a real form of treatment, then that man is selling people their death.



but ultimately its the same thing if your making a claim that something dose something which it dose not or you make a claim without any evidence. its just circumstance that it happens to bridge over to other things. besides at the start he says it cures everything.

Instantly from the offset if sum one makes a claim that seems out of the ordinary/remarkable then they are going to need good evidence to back it up i mean they obviously let him on the show in the first place so the TV producers wanted to out him and id be suprized if the investors didn't get any heads up at all.

Its really trendy for people on TV to get up tight and really reactive about cancer despite the fact that there are many other things to die from and illnesses that suck.

I dont evan see the need for them to get all emotive they should have just said right away , u dont have anny evidence good by

as i say i bet if they had a religious person come in that was selling christian stuff or pray materials then they would quite likely be fine with it.