I have not been hooked in by an #y reality show. I have no interest in them. Just as I have no interest in shows on how to decorate my home or install decking all over my garden.

I desperately wish the programme makers would come up with some better ideas. On the other hand, it has significantly reduced the time I've spent watching television, which has to be a good thing.

We need more entertaining genre crossing shows like Desparate Housewives, I think.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

Have to admit I avoid them. I tend to watch Sci Fi Discovery shows and the news. Occassionally if there is a film on that I am home to see I will watch that.

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Hubby watches Survivor regularly because his coworkers all talk about it. I watch it to be with him.

He'll also watch disaster movies when he's too tired to figure out that sleep would be better for him.

I watch Alias because it's research for my novel and I'm curious how many twists they can do to mess up her life. They're masters at cliff-hangers -- just watch one more show to get that question answered. But I'm finding it's not real useful for the research and I end up annoyed by the end rather than smiling, so I might not watch next year. Hubby watches it to be with me.

We both enjoy Dr. Who.

Crackers loves Transformers:Engergon, before that it was DragonBooster. Starting him on Anime early.

Rocket watches pretty much whatever's on.

We get only basic cable because there's a lot of good stuff on the other channels, and it makes the decision whether to watch the good show or do more useful things much easier.

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Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

- Viktor E. Frankl

I had a quick look at the first British Big Brother after 1 housemate became all evil and was breaking the evicting rules, etc and decided to leave. Been on telly once or twice after that but the majority of the housemates have disappeared. Happy news that is.

I have tried to watch the 2nd series but just thought it was useless as they tend to switch the sound off or switch over to a boring scene, so people can't hear the housemates ramble about famous people, companies, etc. What do the producers expect the housemates to talk about.

Also, what's the point of showing people asleep all night?

Now, can you imagine all the BOTP, Gatchaman, etc characters you know of in a reality show.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

The problem isn't the link, it that it's pointing to somewhere the rest of us can't get at. We can't see your hard disk from here.

Can you post the text of the document here rather than the link?

Or can you upload it to the files/fics/whatever section of Gatchamania?

Or can you get yourself a simple web space provider such as geocities.com? I have a geocities.com account for my own webspace and it is a total doddle to use.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

It has to be cut and pasted, but it does work...I tried it.