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Post by Antigone68104 on May 8, 2015 17:38:16 GMT
MythBusters is one of the Critics' Choice nominees for "Best Reality Series". The full list is here.
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Post by silverdragon on May 9, 2015 6:06:41 GMT
Its up against Deadliest Catch.....
Damn.
Can I vote twice please?....
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Post by the light works on May 10, 2015 0:23:11 GMT
Its up against Deadliest Catch..... Damn. Can I vote twice please?.... I don't need to. |
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Post by OziRiS on May 10, 2015 11:12:02 GMT
Adam should be on the list for "Best Reality Series Host". Or Adam and Jamie as a team of hosts. But if there can only be one nominee, it should be Adam. I'm sure Jamie wouldn't have a problem with that.
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Post by the light works on May 10, 2015 13:43:44 GMT
Adam should be on the list for "Best Reality Series Host". Or Adam and Jamie as a team of hosts. But if there can only be one nominee, it should be Adam. I'm sure Jamie wouldn't have a problem with that. they could draw straws for it. then people could vote on whether Jamie's rendering was better than Adam's creative interpretation. |
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Post by OziRiS on May 10, 2015 19:01:18 GMT
Adam should be on the list for "Best Reality Series Host". Or Adam and Jamie as a team of hosts. But if there can only be one nominee, it should be Adam. I'm sure Jamie wouldn't have a problem with that. they could draw straws for it. then people could vote on whether Jamie's rendering was better than Adam's creative interpretation. I don't really care what they do. I just care that Phil Keoghan has been nominated but neither Adam nor Jamie has. I kind of get the other people on that list. They all do good work, each in their own way (especially James Lipton and Anthony Bourdain). I may not like all of them personally, but I can understand why other people might. But Phil Keoghan over either one of the Mythbusters? That I don't understand. |
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Post by the light works on May 11, 2015 3:28:19 GMT
they could draw straws for it. then people could vote on whether Jamie's rendering was better than Adam's creative interpretation. I don't really care what they do. I just care that Phil Keoghan has been nominated but neither Adam nor Jamie has. I kind of get the other people on that list. They all do good work, each in their own way (especially James Lipton and Anthony Bourdain). I may not like all of them personally, but I can understand why other people might. But Phil Keoghan over either one of the Mythbusters? That I don't understand. not even sure who that is. |
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Post by OziRiS on May 11, 2015 16:44:43 GMT
I don't really care what they do. I just care that Phil Keoghan has been nominated but neither Adam nor Jamie has. I kind of get the other people on that list. They all do good work, each in their own way (especially James Lipton and Anthony Bourdain). I may not like all of them personally, but I can understand why other people might. But Phil Keoghan over either one of the Mythbusters? That I don't understand. not even sure who that is. If you've never seen The Amazing Race, you wouldn't know him. Lex might though. He's from New Zealand |
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Post by the light works on May 12, 2015 6:13:03 GMT
not even sure who that is. If you've never seen The Amazing Race, you wouldn't know him. Lex might though. He's from New Zealand ah, Mrs TLW watches that. |
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Post by silverdragon on May 12, 2015 6:28:20 GMT
Amazing Race... so, in a nut shell, teams race round the world completing a number of challenges to not get eliminated.
Never heard of it before.
Not sure its of any interest to me now either....
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Post by Antigone68104 on Jun 2, 2015 22:55:54 GMT
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Post by OziRiS on Jun 3, 2015 0:04:59 GMT
While Shark Tank is certainly a better reality show than many others, I can't for the life of me figure out how it beat out Mythbusters!
Yes, I get that it's interesting to see people's innovative new ideas and to hear what accomplished investors think of them and why, but apart from there being new products each week, it's basically the same show every time.
Someone comes in, pitches their idea, asks for an amount of money to be invested in it, listens to the investors as they ask questions and give feedback and they either walk away with an investor backing them or they don't and that's it.
How that show has managed to stay on the air for 6 seasons is beyond me.
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 3, 2015 6:48:15 GMT
Shark tank sounds a little too much like Dragons Den, UK series.
And watching a bunch of really hopeless silly ideas just in case something good comes along?..
Nope, I dont watch that.
Now and again, you get something good.
But 10 hrs for ONE good idea maybe?..
Thankfully, I have better things to do with my life.
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Post by OziRiS on Jun 3, 2015 8:37:52 GMT
Shark tank sounds a little too much like Dragons Den, UK series. And watching a bunch of really hopeless silly ideas just in case something good comes along?.. Nope, I dont watch that. Now and again, you get something good. But 10 hrs for ONE good idea maybe?.. Thankfully, I have better things to do with my life. Exactly. I watched one of the more recent shows yesterday, just to get a feel for what it was before deciding whether or not it seemed fair that MB had lost to them. Out of the four ideas people had come up with for that show, only one was genuinely interesting. That was the guy who invented the SynDaver that we know from previous episodes of MB, asking for an investor to put in $3 million for further research, development and marketing. That was interesting to me, partly because I already know the SynDaver from MB and think it's generally a cool idea, partly because it's an educational tool that can save lives, both directly by limiting the use of animal testing and indirectly by providing better training for medical personel. Hell, if I had that kind of money, I'd gladly invest in it myself. The other entries were an online interior decoration site, some sort of spray-on sunscreen booth and someone 3-D printing your head from an uploaded photo and putting it on a superhero action figure you could then buy for yourself. None of those ideas were very good. The only thing about them that was even remotely interesting was hearing the investors comment on their business models and such, but that was only interesting from the point of view of "what should one think through before starting a business?" I can't imagine that would keep being interesting after 2-3 episodes. Not unless you're trying to start your own business and find investors for it and you're taking notes... |
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 3, 2015 9:28:14 GMT
In that case, watch every single variant of that type of show, and find out of someone else has had an idea and how that was received.
For me, I had someone suggest that I "share" my workshop.
Erm... let me see, how does "NO!" sound?...
Making money out of someone elses tools?... 24hr access to part of my house?...
I replied that as its not a registered workplace, I just cant get insurance to cover them, and as my tools are well past the divider of dangerous, I wasnt willing to allow access to anyone unsupervised.
As it, it stays locked when I aint about to stop my own Kids messing about in there....
They know where the key is, and emergency access to tools is permitted, but that has to be some emergency....
They otherwise respect the "idea" of a locked door.
Sure, if you have an idea for a business plan, talk to people.
Talk to as many people as you can.
you MUST talk to as many people as you can as to if they would use, not you will use wont you and when can we start?...
The ones that say No to it are the most important....
In our local area, we had a "Party planner"
This (twerp) got into the knowing our kids were due an 18th, and has started nagging my Wife that she is the best person to organise their event?....
Now go back to where I said "Had"
My wife is not the first person to say "NO!" to her, but she wouldnt listen.
She was absolute adamant she was the best....
She managed one event that went badly, and got out of hand.
You are only as good as your last event, maybe she had had one or two minor successes, but bad news travels fast?...
She has now moved away from the area to take her Idea somewhere where maybe they will appreciate her better?...
I think he forwarding address is still the moving company, because I dont know anyone who will appreciate a almost embarrassing lack of ability to organise to all extents a pizza-up in a brewery.
The bad event?.. a bunch of kids about 12 yrs old and she organized a Clown to entertain.
A Clown how had previously never been to anything older than 8yr olds....
Clowns are for YOUNG kids?.
Other failed ideas I know, The window cleaner who was scared of heights that only did Bungalows, but would do the insides as well..
Met this one in the pub, he promised to do all the glasswork, mirrors and all, at a reasonable price, to me...
On the ground floor, obviously.
When I told him it was already covered and would be done next week, he started asking who was doing it, and he could undercut them whoever it was.
I do it myself?...
Well in that case, you (me) havnt got time for that in a busy pub, you should have someone else doing it for you, it looks better like that, get it done by a pro....
After about 10 mins of him trying to persuade me I asked him to either leave it alone, or just leave.
The one who tried to get out on his own as a cheaper driving instructor, by teaching your kids (me) to drive in your car...
When I pointed out that after I had paid to insure the car and the cost of petrol, it worked out more expensive that the AA school of motoring, he sort of got embarrassed, but said "well they will be driving you car afterwards anyway isnt it better that they get used to it?.."
When I pointed out that my car was so important to me, they had exactly zero chance of "borrowing" it anyway, he gave up and stopped pitching his idea.
We also had a visit by "door security". (In the pub again...)
"We do all the doors in the town centre"
Well, although I am only 10 mins stagger when very drunk away from Town Centre, I have never needed door security....
"You never know when you may need us"
They left, I did some enquiries, they lied, they did ONE place in the town centre, but had been pestering other places that didnt have door security to get some.
They ran into the "firm" that was doing much of the other needed door security in the town centre, the firm everyone respected, because they DID keep it clean, and their boss and this new guy had a little chat....
It didnt end well.
Not Nasty, but he left town shortly afterwards?...
Business ideas can be good, they can be crazy, but people have to WANT what you are selling.
I had one in the pub who wanted to supply all the pies I sold.
When I informed then I was happy with the ones I had, that wasnt good enough, they can make better pies, give them a months trial to see.
Well, that to me is a way of forcing their trade on me, and no, I still want interested, if it cost me anything.
I wonder if their whole business plan was getting pubs to do a months trial, one by one, untill they either found one that worked, or ran out of pubs to sell their pies to?...
It wasnt that the pies were bad, in fact, the one free one they gave me to try (With a card if you change your mind call us...) was quite good.
Its just that a pie that costs £1.50 at that time would have cost £2.50 if I had bought it from them....
People wanted a quick bar snack, pie chips and peas or beans (Or even both) for under a £5 was what they wanted.
To cut my profit margin by a quid made it not worth doing for me, to put it up to the customer to £6 or above would loose me custom.
The pies I sold were a reputable make (Hollands) so to go to an unknown, too risky.
I also had people who would keep asking me if it was all right to sell "stuff" in my pub.
I have no objection to one customer selling his lawnmower to a friend whilst on the premises, or the fact that one of my customers worked in a garage and sometimes people would ask him for advice, or even discuss an upcoming appointment, no problem, these are all my customers, and as long as they are buying beer?... I had no problems with that, they all have their own offices on their own premises?..
but someone running a business on my premises?... that wasnt even for my own customers?..
....no.
Apart from the legality of a Public House having other registered businesses on the premisses......
Oh, your NOT a registered business?...
Your NOT a regular customer?...
How does (beep) off sound to you?..
What you suggest is illegal.
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Post by the light works on Jun 3, 2015 15:58:58 GMT
I've had twice now an out of town company has called me offering to set up alarm service in my place of business for only a dollar a day.
it took two times telling the last one if I wanted an alarm system I would talk to my friends who were in the business for him to get the point. I think next time I will tell the caller that I've already installed as much security as I want. what kind of call center idiot assumes a contractor does not already have insider contacts?
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Post by OziRiS on Jun 3, 2015 18:51:06 GMT
I've had twice now an out of town company has called me offering to set up alarm service in my place of business for only a dollar a day. it took two times telling the last one if I wanted an alarm system I would talk to my friends who were in the business for him to get the point. I think next time I will tell the caller that I've already installed as much security as I want. what kind of call center idiot assumes a contractor does not already have insider contacts? Just tell 'em you have a genetically engineered, super intelligent rottweiler with martial arts training and a meth addiction. Either that, or just go, "How did you get this number?! Nevermind... We have your location. One of our teams will be there to pick you up for debriefing in 5 minutes. Stay put." and then hang up. |
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Post by Cybermortis on Jun 3, 2015 19:47:06 GMT
The very best way I've heard of dealing with unwanted calls, although in this case it was a heavy breather rather than a company, was an old friend who was working in our house.
He answered the call with 'Hello {town name} police station, how can I help you?'
The calls stopped.
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Post by the light works on Jun 4, 2015 0:56:47 GMT
The very best way I've heard of dealing with unwanted calls, although in this case it was a heavy breather rather than a company, was an old friend who was working in our house. He answered the call with 'Hello {town name} police station, how can I help you?' The calls stopped. I am actually tempted to get a 900 number and start referring people to that as a purchasing number. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 4, 2015 6:50:27 GMT
The way I have been taught, do not argue, just put the phone on the side, and let them talk to the plant.
After 10 mins, they will have hung up.
Gawds know what they make of this trick.
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