Small Talk: No Pun Intended

[walnutqueen]

I watch a lot of nature and animal shows, and there are a bunch of veterinary shows, too.  From Dr. Pol, Yukon Vet, Exotic Animal Vet, SuperVet, Aloha Vet and the upcoming Rocky Mountain Vet - I'm watching them all!  Needless to say, I tune into Animal Planet, NatGeoWild and Discovery quite often.  :-)

[4leafclover]

Oh dear, if I tell her about all those shows I'll never get her off the couch!  lol

[Jellybeans]

I thought the 7LJ was a canceled OWN show that TLC was just showing in reruns. So its really not a new show.

It is not a new show to me. I saw it before.

[SongbirdHollow]

Dr Pol's methods are widely criticized for being outdated, inhumane, and dangerous, FWIW.

Definitely old school.

If anyone's tired of little people there's a new show about giants coming up. oh boy!

[Honey]

Dr Pol's methods are widely criticized for being outdated, inhumane, and dangerous, FWIW.

Definitely old school.

If anyone's tired of little people there's a new show about giants coming up. oh boy!

I've read that about Dr. Pol as well.  My mom used to love the guy and never missed the show, now she can't watch it anymore.

[walnutqueen]

If you want to see the other end of the spectrum, there's Dr. Noal Fitzpatrick, the Bionic Vet and SuperVet (aired on BBC and Animal Planet).  He's a neuro-orthopaedic veterinary surgeon who does the most amazing work, including creating prosthetic limbs and implants for animals.  You may just fall in love with him, if you can find the shows anywhere. 

[walnutqueen]

4leafclover - you HAVE to get your granddaughter to watch the PBS series Operation Wild, which just started last night.  It is all about veterinarians who go to extraordinary lengths to treat wildlife emergencies all over the world.   The first episode is available to watch online until Aug. 2, if it doesn't repeat on your local station.  Here's a link :  http://www.pbs.org/program/operation-wild/#series

[humbleopinion]

Book is a fast read, really.

Read half of it at the airport magazine shop while waiting for my outbound flight and finished it at another airport book shop while waiting for the flight home.

Recognition of the dedication/sacrifices of their mothers, fathers, brothers, exended families, doctors and nurses is lovingly documented by both.

Bill tries to convey the depth of his despair and will touch those who feel disenfranchised by society.

Jen's lack of bitterness is to be admired.

Both choose to be happy and are to be applauded for giving their fans a peek behind the curtain.

[walnutqueen]

4leafclover (et al) : tomorrow evening (Sat 7/11), NatGeoWild is airing a mini marathon of Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER.

[4leafclover]

Thank you walnutqueen--DVR is set and ready to go!

[walnutqueen]

Thank you walnutqueen--DVR is set and ready to go!

 

It's been so long since I watched this show, and I've watched so many more since, I can barely remember the cases.  But I think she has some pretty cool patients and performs some procedures your granddaughter might appreciate.  I hope so, at any rate (I haven't checked her out), because I'd hate to be excoriated for recommending a show about some EEEVIL vet!   ;-)

 

Here in San Diego County, we have a nice little program on our local PBS station called Animal R&R.  It's all about the wildlife rescued and rehabilitated by our very own Project Wildlife; it's hosted by Joan Embry and is a great little show.

[Honey]

It's been so long since I watched this show, and I've watched so many more since, I can barely remember the cases.  But I think she has some pretty cool patients and performs some procedures your granddaughter might appreciate.  I hope so, at any rate (I haven't checked her out), because I'd hate to be excoriated for recommending a show about some EEEVIL vet!   ;-)

 

Here in San Diego County, we have a nice little program on our local PBS station called Animal R&R.  It's all about the wildlife rescued and rehabilitated by our very own Project Wildlife; it's hosted by Joan Embry and is a great little show.

I can remember watching Joan Embery on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.  Yeah, I'm that old.

[walnutqueen]

I can remember watching Joan Embery on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.  Yeah, I'm that old.

 

Joan Embry is the OG of the JC!  :-)

[Honey]

Joan Embry is the OG of the JC!  :-)

In English?  Huh?  Lol

[walnutqueen]

In English?  Huh?  Lol

 

Joan Embry is the Original Gangsta of the Johnny Carson show,  Sorry, I was trying to make a playful reference to one of the housewives of Orange County, who has been named the OG of the OC.  :-)

Edited July 12, 2015 by walnutqueen

[Honey]

Joan Embry is the Original Gangsta of the Johnny Carson show,  Sorry, I was trying to make a playful reference to one of the housewives of Orange County, who has been named the OG of the OC.  :-)

Is it Vickie?  Lol

[ZoloftBlob]

I watch Last Tango in Halifax and Poldark. And Globetrekker. I feel lame next to you cool kids.

[walnutqueen]

Is it Vickie?  Lol

 

Yup.

 

 

I watch Last Tango in Halifax and Poldark. And Globetrekker. I feel lame next to you cool kids.

 

I watch those shows, too, ZoloftBlob!  I think they're totally cool, but I'm just an old fart who knows nothing.  :-)

[4leafclover]

I've never heard of any of those shows--I am definitely not one of the cool kids!  

[walnutqueen]

I've never heard of any of those shows--I am definitely not one of the cool kids!  

 

Sure you are, 4leafclover.  The fewer TV shows you recognize, the more of a life you must have!  :-)

[Wellfleet]

I've never heard of any of those shows--I am definitely not one of the cool kids!  

 

Me too. My TV watching is usually limited to two-digit Time-Warner cable channels and some network. I have wandered into the 300s for PBS' Create channel, which I love. But PBS is mainly for geeks, nerds and other some such like me. And I was lucky - my parents raised us to care about being smart, not cool. Thanks Mom & Dad.

[ZoloftBlob]

fourclover - my shows are all on PBS. Last Tango in Halifax is essentially a modern day soap opera about a British family in Halifax, Poldark is a historical drama in England set in the 1780s and Globetrekker is a documentary show where the host travels around a country doing cultural stuff.

[humbleopinion]

  Bradley Cooper was a Global Trekker.

http://www.pilotguides.com/hosts/bradley-cooper/

[walnutqueen]

fourclover - my shows are all on PBS. Last Tango in Halifax is essentially a modern day soap opera about a British family in Halifax, Poldark is a historical drama in England set in the 1780s and Globetrekker is a documentary show where the host travels around a country doing cultural stuff.

 

ZoloftBlob - I could swear I've seen you on non-PBS forums a time or two!  No shade, here, though - I'm all over the low brow shit so much you'd think that's all I watch!!!  :-D

 

 

  Bradley Cooper was a Global Trekker.

http://www.pilotguides.com/hosts/bradley-cooper/

 

Yes, he was.  Indeedy!  :-)

[ZoloftBlob]

Oh I adore lowbrow shit :)

 

I mean I actually watch My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding despite the *racist* title.....

[walnutqueen]

Hee - isn't that kinda like watching lady hillbillies wrestling in overblown quincinera dresses?  :-D

[Jellybeans]

i don't know what i watch any more. i mean, i will watch a season of orange is the new black but then find i have no desire to see season two. same with house of cards and numerous shows.

i don't know what is wrong with me. the little couple is the ONLY show i come back for more of.

i need more tv in my life. :-(

what is wrong with me?

[walnutqueen]

There's nothing wrong with NOT being addicted to TV, jelly!  I watch way too much, myself.  It is how I zone out from all my worries, and acts as a kind of bio-feedback machine for pain (I swear, it does work for me at times).  :-)

[BizBuzz]

It is how I zone out from all my worries, and acts as a kind of bio-feedback machine for pain (I swear, it does work for me at times).  :-)

 

Don't know why this just came to mind, but I know you watch Grey's walnutqueen, so you will know the episode to which I am referring when I say, watch porn for pain?

 

::giggle::

 

 

i don't know what i watch any more. i mean, i will watch a season of orange is the new black but then find i have no desire to see season two. same with house of cards and numerous shows.

i don't know what is wrong with me. the little couple is the ONLY show i come back for more of.

i need more tv in my life. :-(

what is wrong with me?

 

Absolutely nothing ... you know what you like, to me that is clarity ... which we all need just a little more of in the world today!

[walnutqueen]

I totally know the episode you're referring to, Biz!  Dirty, dirty nurses don't do it for me, though - nor does any other form of visual porn.  :-)

[Jellybeans]

well, i think i need biofeedback tv. lol. my neuro is working with me on grief issues. not MS but grief. so kind...anyway, he wants to set me up with someone who does biofeedback. unsure if medicaid pays and unsure if it can be done if you are deaf. (listening cues) will know soon enough.

i used to read like mad, do art like crazy now i want to veg out on TV....

[BizBuzz]

{{{Jellybeans}}}

 

Hope it all works out for you.

 

On another topic ... it's hot, and even though I am a lizard and love the sun, I don't like this kind of heat, ugh.

[BizBuzz]

In other news ... my daughter got her learners permit yesterday.  Any advice for experienced Moms on how not to panic?

 

::giggle::

[ZoloftBlob]

DO what my mom did - never let her touch the car. ;)

[Absolom]

The best advice I got was to begin in a completely empty parking lot until I was sure the beginning driver would stop or slow down immediately when I said the word. 

[Jellybeans]

In other news ... my daughter got her learners permit yesterday. Any advice for experienced Moms on how not to panic?

No. Just press the panic button. Come on, it won't hurt...

Edited July 24, 2015 by Jellybeans

[walnutqueen]

In other news ... my daughter got her learners permit yesterday.  Any advice for experienced Moms on how not to panic?

 

::giggle::

 

Biz - My Mum let me start her car when I was a wee toddler; never blinked an eye when I learned to drive tractors and dozers on the farm as an adolescent, and was too fucking tired to go with me when I practiced my driving before getting my license.  I was THE BEST teenaged driver, EVER.  Yet I got T-boned by a red light miscreant travelling at 60 MPH while I was driving my Mum's brand new customized 1973 Mustang ...  she was just relieved I wasn't killed, but being driven home by a cop while I was wearing an unauthorized teeny soaking wet purple bikini and a Levis shirt was HELL for me!!!.  I suppressed my injuries in fear of the stepdad's wrath and my Mum's disappointment, much to my own detriment.   Life is totally random, ya know?!  All you can do is love and hope for the best.

 

I am 60+, and Mum still swears I was the BEST daughter.  I now swear she is the BEST Mum.  Time has a way of evening out all the rough edges inbetween.  So - don't sweat the small, or perceivably BIG stuff so much - if everyone survives, it's not critical.  Enjoy the ride while you have it - time goes a lot quicker when you're older!

 

(Shit's gonna happen no matter what tack you take!.  I'd start smoking pot, stat!)   :-D

[Jellybeans]

I AM vaping medical mj. Yay for me!

[walnutqueen]

I wish I could afford the medical mj!  Every time I try to grow my own, these nasty little green wormy things turn into huuuge ugly bud destroyers seemingly overnight!   :-)

[Jellybeans]

I tried growing my own but it is a PITA. I buy from an organic dispensary for my MS. It works very well, no pain and am not taking traditional MS injections!

[ginger90]

In other news ... my daughter got her learners permit yesterday.  Any advice for experienced Moms on how not to panic?

 

::giggle::

Hmmm, my father had me remove all 4 tires and put them back on, showed me how to check tire pressure,  showed me how to do a tune-up and oil change, taught me how to drive in reverse, and then the rest of the "normal stuff"!

I swear all 3 of my daughters drove soooo far to the right when learning it drove me nuts.

Good luck!

[SongbirdHollow]

  Bradley Cooper was a Global Trekker.

http://www.pilotguides.com/hosts/bradley-cooper/

 

Today I Learned!

 

That photo of him is HOT. I'm more of a Hiddleston girl, but wow. I think Cooper grew up in the same area as me.

 

As far as Globe Trekker, the only ones I ever watch (and love) are the Justine eps.

[Maharincess]

Is this show coming back? I remember after the adoptions they said they were going to do a few episodes so everybody could see the kids and see how they're doing, then they were leaving TV. It made me sad when I saw it coming back for season after season. I guess the nobody is immune to the fame whore disease.

They don't need the money so I don't understand why they're doing this to their kids.

Nothing I've seen on TV pissed me off more than the episode where they adopted Zoey. This poor baby was absolutely terrified and they allow a camera man to shove a camera in her face while she's sitting there scared and crying. It made me so sick to see that that I had to turn the channel.

They seem like good people. I adore Bill. Jen is OK I guess but I don't think the Jen we see on TV is her true self. There's just something about her that I can't put my finger on.

I wish there was a law against kids being on reality TV. I think we're going to see a lot of problems coming from the kids who grew up on TV.

Imagine your first day of high school, its a scary, nerve wracking thing. Now imagine walking into the high school knowing that all of the other kids have seen you being potty trained, having tantrums, being punished and every other moment in a kids life that should be private.

How do you teach a child about strangers when everybody you see knows your name, your siblings names, your parents names, your pets names etc etc. I just don't understand why parents who supposedly love their kids would do that to them.

[Maharincess]

I mainly like Bill for his sense of humor, but I do agree with you about him. I think he does bow down to her too much.

I think the real Jen is a control freak shrew to be honest. And that damn laugh she does after everything she says drives me up the wall.

[Honey]

I feel so bad for the two of you, being forced at gunpoint to watch a show that you think shouldn't be on the air.

[Jellybeans]

I don't watch shows that make me sad they returned.

[Veronique Bette]

I am feeling very troubled for these children. Oh, I mean the future high school classmates of Will and Zoey, who were so severely impacted a decade prior by the discreet references to Toddler Will and Toddler Zoey’s toilet training or mild disciplinary protocols on a long-forgotten reality show, that upon spying Teen Will or Teen Zoey on the first day of school, have all the sordid memories come flooding back. I feel sure that Will and Zoey will be as secure and well-balanced as one can be at that age under their circumstances because the intervening years would have been rich with adventure and ongoing family support and love.  My advice for their hypothetical taunting school peers: Y’all need to get out more.

[xldb2004]

Their future high school classmates sre 4 and 5 now....I doubt they are watching the Little Couple and if they are they probably won't remember anything. I doubt Will and Zoey will remember much.

[ZoloftBlob]

Oh, I mean the future high school classmates of Will and Zoey, who were so severely impacted a decade prior by the discreet references to Toddler Will and Toddler Zoey’s toilet training or mild disciplinary protocols on a long-forgotten reality show, that upon spying Teen Will or Teen Zoey on the first day of school, have all the sordid memories come flooding back.

 

In fairness, if you genuinely feel its not embarrassing, feel free to post any photos you have of yourself shitting on the potty, pissing yourself, getting changed out of your dipy, or like at least one gosselin kid, being showered naked. It's not embarrassing for *them* so it shouldn't be embarrassing for you, right?

 

I look forward to you posting a picture of yourself at three pointing at feces in a toilet, or maybe even a video of you shitting in the yard in a training potty a la the poor Gosselin boys who have to live that down. Extra points if you have video of your dad telling the cameras how they digitally relieved your constipation, aka how your daddy pulled feces out of you.

 

That's what these kids (the tlc kids not just Will and Zoey) face. If you don't think its humiliating for all of America to see your private moments then post your pics.

 

In case it isn't clear, I am not expecting you to humiliate yourself, I am merely making the point that no child on a TLC reality show is given the choice to agree to show themselves shitting a diaper and being changed by the roadside or allowed the choice of not airing their weeping in terror as they are handed to their new parents. If you don't want your own moments held up to the public, then understand that while I don't think Bill and Jen are screwing their kids over, they *are* getting a check for their kids embarrassing moments

Edited November 12, 2015 by ZoloftBlob

[xldb2004]

I don't think getting your diaper changed or crying when you get your new parents is embarrassing, but that's just me.  IMO Will and Zoey will have so many challenges both physical and emotional growing up as little people that whatever so called embarrassing moments they may or may not have on this TV show will pale in comparison.  They will not have an easy life, but it won't be because of this reality show.  The reality is they are different.  This society does not do well with different. They will have health issues.  People will be unkind.  They are fortunate to have parents who have succeeded brilliantly in spite of their obstacles as role models for them.