And German television is boring - bored, bored, bored. I know why my shelf is full of DVDs. And why I'm a member of this forum.

Hope you're feeling better, Davina. If not, how about a mug of lime blossom tea and sweating it out over night? If it's threatens to become a flu here's my husband's recipe: take a bath, drink a bottle of hot beer and sweat it out in bed. The advantage is you get slightly drowsy although the beer tastes horrible. But it worked on me.   

German TV? So it's my turn now?
Boring.
Just these days I was really angry about those so-called crime stories on German tv.......... and there are so much better ones they could show! (Any suggestions? Hm?  )
They always claim they want to have the young audience - while broadcasting shows for grandma and grandpa!

All the best for Davina. I've been freezing a lot today, so......................

tobeornot221b wrote:

SusiGo wrote:

And German television is boring - bored, bored, bored. I know why my shelf is full of DVDs. And why I'm a member of this forum.

I'm absolutely with you, Susi!
The only reason I've been rather quiet on this forum for the last few days is that I'm pretty deeply absorbed in reading "Performance in a Leading Role". Meanwhile I've reached the twenty something percent mark on my Kindle. And I'm annoyed with myself that I start getting tired although I would rather continue my reading.
(Sleeping is boring!)

Get well soon, Davina. Tell the horses to look after the dogs and vice versa.

Woo! I think "Performance" may be my favorite fanfic ever. I usually avoid AUs but that one sucked me in. You've picked a good one!

Davina wrote:

.... I know everything cannot be high-brow but it seems a shame for instance that some people take years to work their way up in an industry, for that is what entertainment is, for others to jump into a glorified 'talent show' and leapfrog them. ....

That's right, Davina, but most of those people are off the screen again after few months. Which again can be of course quite dramatic for them. I feel they have been "misused" and that makes me sad, too.

The same over here. They are exploited for some months, often make fools of themselves and then they fall into a deep, deep hole. Or they appear again in other cheap shows where they have to cook or go to the jungle camp and eat animals' testicles or whatever. Disgusting, really. I must admit my daughter and I watched the Heidi Klum show where she's looking for "Germany's next topmodel" - none of the girls became really successful.

Maybe there is a certain danger in these shows. However, when I was 16 or 17 I had such a phase myself where I got very thin and ate almost nothing (which today would be totally impossible for me). We had no modelling shows then but of course there were the images in the fashion magazines. On the other hand the girls I know who suffered or suffer from e.g. anorexia all have problems on a private level. A good friend of mine suffered from anorexia and nearly died. She got better when she moved away from her family and today is a mother of eight. Still slim, though.

Tonight, I intend to add to the viewer numbers of TGG at 8.15 p.m. here on German TV.
I never watched "Tatort". Except for the famous episode "Reifeprüfung" back in the Seventies.

My USA tv  is boring boring too.   My  cat threw up again....she does this almost every day,  I dunno why.   

My  little cell phone  isn't working out for me like I want it to....and I'm  stuck with it for the next two  years!!!   The captel system they have for android OS  just doesn't work well--  my  friends all say  my  voice breaks up  they cannot  understand me.  What if I'm stranded,  in an area where there's no data connection,  and I  can't cal;l,  huh?  what  if captel DOES work,  but the person on the other end can't understand me?  huh?  what then? And the battery  still goes down fast,  even tho I've had it replaced once.  Also  the sprint towers are faulty in some areas.  The ONLY  thing I  like  abt that phone is I can surf the net,  email,  and text, and download books on it.  No  one to text with tho.  and triple AAA  doesn't do texting,  neither does doctors office.   yes,  the sprint company  KNOWS  abt all this,  and we'll just have to wait and see.   If  I cancelled my service now I'd have to pay THEM  at least 300 US bucks.   They   didn't  give me enuf  time to experiment with this phone.   

Not fair,  huh?

Check your avatar and you'll know what to do! 

LOL  I was thinking about headphones / earplugs actually. But like your idea, too.