Man Card In Question...

[cshold]

Okay, I know 'a guy' who was a hardcore 24 addict, then the show ended.
He was devastated to say the least. Then a special 'lady' in his life convinced
him to watch one of the first episodes of Downton Abbey last year.
Well long story short he has become a total Abbey-Addict now.
Is he beyond the point of no return?

[Mescalero]

Who among has not seen a friend lose his head to a lady that spends his bread?

[O.S.O.K.]

What is that? Abby...thing.

I'm not doing a google... if it's a soap opera, then yes.

[Rusty]

I don't really watch TV except that it's on when the wife is watching it while I read on the computer in the same room. My wife started watching it when she had her hip replaced earlier this year. I don't think there's a problem with watching it, it's not like your friend is watching "The View" or something.

Maybe your friend should read the Vince Flynn books.

[jeepnik]

Ahh, I've been accused of having an "Abby" thing. Then again, as a younger man, I had a Mary Ann thing so at least I do have wide range of taste.
Oh, wait, you're talking about that BBC soap that my wife has been watching. My mistake.

[Canuck Bob]

I switched addictions a couple of times. A good friend suggested I try workaholism for a change. I'm blessed with some clever butt kicking friends.

BBC is close to my Royalist upbringing. My favorite is MI5. That is some serious drama. The Abby thing is Peyton Place with accents!

[jeepnik]

I switched addictions a couple of times. A good friend suggested I try workaholism for a change. I'm blessed with some clever butt kicking friends.

BBC is close to my Royalist upbringing. My favorite is MI5. That is some serious drama. The Abby thing is Peyton Place with accents!

Yep, MI5 was darned good. Not sure we ever got all of the episodes in the US, and at any rate, it didn't last near long enough. I have to admit, I have a thing for the British mystery series'. From Morse to Frost to Foyle and not to forget Peroit they are entertaining and just plain good fun.

[Streetstar]

Is he beyond the point of no return?

No ---- i dont consider my man card in question and i loooove a good quiche'. (harkening back to the saying "real men don't eat quiche' ) -- and seriously, with whipped eggs, cheese, ham and sometimes spinach and other things, --- what was ever not to like?

---- you might watch him close for a while though, but me thinks this is not a big problem.

[1894c]

i'm always amazed at the decisions that a man will make where women are concerned...i think your friend needs an intervention..he needs to go hunting for a month...no tv, no trailer, no generator, no cell-phone, no computer, out-side plumbing, just a wall-tent, kerosene lanterns, cooking on the fire, carrying an ancient Win.92 in 44-40, and eating what you kill... :)

[Griff]

I have a friend that loses his head every time a woman turns his. So bad that one "girlfriend" put more miles on his p/u in a month than he did in his "big truck" hauling freight! I've been married to the same woman for 41+ years... but I gotta say... some examples are sheer nuts! Actually, I mostly say, MOST examples belong in a looney bin! And yep, some guys simply ask "how high", when any woman sez, "jump!"

AS for the BBC, "Top Gear" is good programming... even if Graham is a tad over-the-top! But, he ain't all bad... he loved the ZR-1 Corvette, even if "it isn't really a very well-built car." You hafta love the raw, brute-force HP it makes! As he said... "Ferrari, take a note!"

[piller]

Yep, Top Gear is pretty good. Back to America, have you tried watching Burn Notice? It is kind of funny and there are lots of shoot-em-up or blow-em-up episodes. Plus, the English actress who plays the girlfriend is hilarious as a wild eyed former IRA bomber and sniper. Bruce Campbell gets to be his usual droll self and have fun.

[gamekeeper]

I didn't know you guys got so much British TV over there, I thought it was one way traffic and we just got yours.

[cshold]

I don't really watch TV except that it's on when the wife is watching it while I read on the computer in the same room. My wife started watching it when she had her hip replaced earlier this year. I don't think there's a problem with watching it, it's not like your friend is watching "The View" or something.
Maybe your friend should read the Vince Flynn books.

Okay I fe… ops I mean my friend will feel a little better about himself.
I do know for fact he doesn’t watch “The View” or anything like that.
Well maybe “Dr. Oz” once in a blue moon.

[cshold]

I didn't know you guys got so much British TV over there, I thought it was one way traffic and we just got yours.

Rusty, Downton and the main character Highclere Castle
has put ya’ll on the map in this country.

I’ve taken notice that every time there’s an outdoor scene, you
can hear pheasants cackling in the background. Very cool

http://www.highclerecastle.co.uk/

[Tycer]

Revoked. Revoked for fiddling while Rome burns. Off with his head.

Perhaps if he is like you and can make fire with flint and steel and has 6 months of food and water and a go bag and multiple ways out of town and a place to meet-up with family if disaster strike then PERHAPS he can get a pass for one useless, mind-numbing TV show ONCE a week. Perhaps.

No. Revoked.

[KirkD]

Don't let this get around, but I like those Masterpiece Theatre productions of England in the 1800's and if I hear anyone snickering, I'll bust his chops.

[Pete44ru]

What is that? Abby...thing.

I'm not doing a google... if it's a soap opera, then yes.

Abby's a Masterpiece Theater presentation, usually on PBS-TV

I REALLY liked the UK/WWII based series from the 1980's IIRC, "UXB" (Unexploded Bomb) - about a chap whose duty was to disarm Nazi UXB's dropped in/around London.

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[Old Savage]

Days of our Lives and Life Time TV for Women movies - but I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

A German Dr - Karen Weatherby - deteremined that watching women use cell phones will extend you life.



Well - if you don't let your wife see you doing it. - she will wonder why you care what the other woman is saying.

She may also want you to stay away from painted ladies - and - this woman is only wearing paint.

[Mescalero]

OS,
How do you come up with this stuff?

[piller]

I didn't know you guys got so much British TV over there, I thought it was one way traffic and we just got yours.

Doctor Who (Christopher Eccleston was best), Keeping Up Appearances, My Hero, The Vicar of Dibly, Father Ted, Are You Being Served, Top Gear, the Brother Cadfael Mysteries(when they were being shown), Coupling, Mr. Bean, The Thin Blue Line, Blackadder, and As Time Goes By are all good shows. We see some of your shows here and there are some good ones, which is much like American TV. There are some good ones.

[Pete44ru]

Aaahhh, to be a fly on the wall.......................................

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[madman4570]

Back in the 90's took a year (paternity leave,watching the daughter)after wife's ran out.
Couldn't find suitable babysitter.
Best thing I ever did(my Company was big on that stuff)--A daddy leave
Actually I got a raise while on it!

Almost got hooked on "All My Children"
I was kinda like the deal on the Mr. Mom movie (except they knew better than mess with the wife)

Can't believe what I tell you guys on here (where is the curvy couch??)
OK---I feel better!

[Blaine]

A popular little ditty from the 1920's


Love, love, love, love,
Look what you've done to me!
The things I never missed,
Are things I can't resist!

Oh, love, love, love, love,
Isn't it plain to see,
I just had a change of heart,
What can it be?

She's got eyes of blue,
I never cared for eyes of blue,
But she's got eyes of blue,
And that's my weakness now!

She's got curly hair,
I never cared for curly hair,
But she's got curly hair,
And that's my weakness now!

Oh, my! Oh, me!
Oh, I should be good, I would be good,
But, gee!

She likes to bill and coo,
And I never cared to bill and coo,
But she likes to bill and coo,
So that's my weakness now!

She likes a saxophone,
I never cared for a saxophone,
But she likes a saxophone,
And that's my weakness now!

She likes those rainy days,
And I never cared for a rainy day,
But she likes a rainy day,
And that's my weakness now!

Oh, let it rain, let it pour,
'Cause I think she knows just what it's rainin' for!

She likes a long good-night,
And I never had a long good-night,
But she likes a long good-night,
So that's my weakness now!

And she likes boop-boop-a-doop,
And I never cared for boop-boop-a-doop
But she likes a boop-boop-a-doop,
So, that's my weakness now!

And s he likes butt'n dutt'n da-da-da,
I never cared for butt'n dutt'n da-da-da,
But she likes but-dut-da-da,
So, that's my weakness now!

What's more, what's more,
Oh, I think she knows what but-dut-da is for!

And she likes boop-boop-a-doop,
I never cared for a boop-boop-a-doop
But she likes to boop-boop-a-doop,
That's my weakness now!

Ooh, that's my weakness now

[Cliff]

I do like the english products on Masterpiece Theater as well as many english movies. They always seem to find actors who really look the part. In the U.S. it seems our movie makers only want beautiful people or sterotypes for looks. I do like Downton Abbey as well. Sure would not have liked to live that life however. Class status was a big thing. ATB

[Griff]

Arrggghh! You FORGOT Benny Hill? The shame of it!

[hfcable]

I didn't know you guys got so much British TV over there, I thought it was one way traffic and we just got yours.

my son downloads Dr. Who, and we watch episodes when i visit him. the only tv i ever watch! [ dont have a tv myself ]

[Rusty]

Well if it's the BBC that causes I guess I'll have to fess up. My wife and son got me the whole set of DVDs for "Monarch of the Glen." I haven't had time to watch them all yet, but I do enjoy them.

[odfox]

Been hooked on British TV since I watched Monty Python reruns as a kid.

Black Adder, Mr. Bean, Dr. Who and Top Gear also figure in there.

Can't say you're going to lose a man card for watching any show, but you might want to clean a gun while you watch, just in case.

[Blaine]

Benny Hill was absolutely GREAT!! Mr. Bean sort of riled me a bit.

[RIHMFIRE]

my dad uncle and me loved to watch Benny Hill.....
because it made the woman folk mad!

you guys ever watch faulty towers....john cleese...what an absolute nut!

or the Thin Blue Line......mr bean as a copper!

[1894c]

great--british tv favorites--women--where will it end--this is "levergun forum"--this is the place where men are men--where we talk about leverguns--bullets--ballistics--primers--powder charges--calibers--i think we all need some real man-time in the wilderness, no more malls or tv soaps...before we know it we'll be exchanging recipes and ordering from yankee candle...yikes... :)

[AkRay]

What is that? Abby...thing.

I'm not doing a google... if it's a soap opera, then yes.

Abby's a Masterpiece Theater presentation, usually on PBS-TV

I REALLY liked the UK/WWII based series from the 1980's IIRC, "UXB" (Unexploded Bomb) - about a chap whose duty was to disarm Nazi UXB's dropped in/around London.

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There are episodes of this show on youtube. It looks like it was titled, "Danger UXB." I'll have to watch some of them.