Well, today is the first Sunday in a long time in which there will be no Football on tv. I'm ok with that. It's getting me ready for the season of no football. Anyway, next Sunday is the Superbowl, and with Seattle in it, it's gonna be sweet.
Speaking of TV. I've been watching Dutch, German, and French television lately, occasionally.
My observation?
It's like ours except, well except it's more graphic.
I watched the end of a home makeover show in the Netherlands last Sunday. Then right after that was a show on having a baby. Kind of like the Discovery Channel here in Canada.
I was watching a few moments of it, in Dutch of course, when all of a sudden the camera, which was focused on the birthing mom's face, swung around to the other end of things. I was all, whoa, whoa, whoa there camera guy. I was suddenly all uncomfortable with all this baby being born stuff!
It is interesting to catch the view from a different cultural perspective. (Uh, not the birthing thing, but the view of local culture thing).
The glasses we see life through can sometimes get old and jaded. Watch local television from another country or culture, and the perspective changes.
Warning: As I said, some of it can be graphic. (As in nudity and night time karaoke) So just beware.
German TV tends to be the oddest. After about 9.00 you get soft pron chat line adverts for a couple of minutes every 1/4 hour. At 10.30 that changes to a couple of minutes of program after what seems to be 1/4 hour soft pron chat line adverts. Not all channels, but enough to make one a little twitchy.
ReplyDeleteI noticed some of that too.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever watched plain old CBC late at night...now there is some odd stuff on that channel, including some soft core porn. Yuck!
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Cheers,
Arizona