So being born in the early seventies I was a child of television. I actually remember having only 5 channels to watch one was a local crap station (which did so really cool dubbed Godzilla movies) and one was the PBS station. As a young kid PBS was the best of the bunch because it had The Electric Company (sorry if you don?t know this show you are missing out) and Sesame Street. Also my family had ?the old black and white? and that was the set I had to go and watch if my father was watching anything I did not want to watch.

Even though there were only a few stations how many cool shows came out in that time???? I cannot count them all: Starsky and Hutch, Chips, A-Team, Different Strokes, Facts of Life, MASH, Dallas, Magnum PI, just to name a few. Well now combining my satellite and cable I think I have about 150 channels and what do I watch? reruns of Chips, A-Team, Magnum PI.

I have never seen an entire episode of Friends and I am proud to say that. I just watch the commercials and I want to change the channel. So know you know my TV background.

OK so on to the glowing report on Thai Television. WOW THIS CRAP SUCKS!!!!! I lived in Japan for 3 years and I was able to find 3 shows that I really liked. (Besides Iron Chef which rocks) The funny thing is one of these shows has been dubbed into Thai and is shown here. I still watch it. Here is my classification of Thai shows.

1. CRAPPY SOAPS this is about 99.7% of all the shows on TV. These have to be the worst thing ever created. How many temper tantrums can really hot girls throw in one episode? I loose count every time I try. And every person in these shows is so rich it is crazy. No wonder everyone here is so concerned with monetary status. Ever step in front of a ?big haired? old lady driving a Mercedes in Bangkok? Neither have I. If you have you would not be able to answer that question because your ass would have been run over and you would be eating out of a straw.

Worst of these are on channel 7. I think I get dummerer(sic) watching anything on that channel. Actually say a show where a guy put down a bunch of banana peels for a group to step on but they walked by with no problems then gee when he walked up to see the problem and you guessed it he fell. Wow wonder which episode of the Road runner their story line was taken from? Any show that has sounds effects of BOING and ZOINK in it and does not start with NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH-nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah BATMAN!!!!! Should never get to or past the pilot stage.

2. NEWS well since the propaganda machine is working this is really exciting stuff. I always love the part of the news where they open up a news paper and tell what the big news stories are. Uhhh?!?!?! Can?t figure out the news for TV before the newspaper is able to be printed and sent to your front door? I guess there is a lot more illiteracy here than I figured. Speaking of illiteracy do this little test for me. Next time you are on a bus (not a city bus) try to turn on the overhead light. If you can find one that works it must have been installed by a farang that wants to read in that seat because I sure have not found any.

3. GAME SHOWS Are they actually playing a game? I can?t tell with all the advertising billboards they try to fit on one studio. I expect one to fall down and at least kill the announcer.

4. DUBBED MOVIES I love how the male voices are super super macho and the lead character in every movie has the same voice.

5. KARAOKE VIDEOS just read my previous journal about Thai music I?m about to have an aneurism just thinking about them.

6. SKIN WHITTENING AND SHAMPOO COMERCIALS not much to say about these. Sexy girls, light color skin and long hair. Thank you sir may I have another.

Agree about the tantrums -- it's the howling and screaming that used to drive me nuts. And the fake and belaboured efforts at sincerity!!! The male is always heroic, and the women gooey-eyed and adoring -- please!!!! But Thais can't do without it, it seems. I was very sick in hospital once, and as I was being wheeled into a private ward, the nurses were all sitting around watching a soap, screaming tantrums and all(the soapie, not the nurses), with the volume turned up full blast. I was not a happy little vegemite, I can tell you. Nor were they when I yelled at them to "turn the f*cking thing off! I'm sick and need peace and quiet" Even in my old office at the end of the day when we needed to concentrate really hard to finish off our work, some prat would go and turn on the TV. We tried to tell the boss to get rid of the TV, but his excuse for not doing so was that would upset those Thai staff who had nothing to do for about half an hour while waiting for us to finish. As for commercials, technically they're OK, but conceptually and creatively they are, to put it mildly, bloody awful. The people in ad agencies who calls themselves "creatives" are exactly not that at all. There are exceptions, but in the main, Thai ads are moronic.

Could u plz tell me When was the last time that i watch TV??

I forgot cuz it was a longggggggggggg time ago!

Bier/friends I know you are a couch potato just admit it!!!!!