Question Of The Day, Wednesday, September 19, 2018

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We have DirecTV - we get a good deal on it when bundled with our landline and Wifi and combined with a "loyal customer" discount (for having had the landline since 1988).
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Margret
Margret, I thought I had the only land line on the planet.

We also bundle, and decided to pull Acorn TV into our bundle package. So now I've seen The Detectorists, Line of Duty, New Worlds, Secret Agent, and working on the George Gently series. There are a ton of choices for me on that channel, I can't even list them all.
 

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I cut the cable two years ago and we stream everything via AppleTV. (As an aside, when I turned in the cable box, the woman behind the counter tried so very hard, but very politely, to get me to change my mind. "You'll get bored," she said. "Everyone does sooner or later." Nope. Not bored.) We subscribe to Netflix, AcornTV, PBS Passport and Amazon Prime although we don't watch more than about an hour and a half to two hours a night. We're more readers. Some of the series we've watched: Broadchurch, Granchester, Shetland, Jack Irish, Father Brown, Midsomer Murders, Hamish Macbeth, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Crown, This Old House, anything Agatha Christie, Victoria, Bosch.
 

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I cut the cable two years ago and we stream everything via AppleTV. (As an aside, when I turned in the cable box, the woman behind the counter tried so very hard, but very politely, to get me to change my mind. "You'll get bored," she said. "Everyone does sooner or later." Nope. Not bored.) We subscribe to Netflix, AcornTV, PBS Passport and Amazon Prime although we don't watch more than about an hour and a half to two hours a night. We're more readers. Some of the series we've watched: Broadchurch, Granchester, Shetland, Jack Irish, Father Brown, Midsomer Murders, Hamish Macbeth, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Crown, This Old House, anything Agatha Christie, Victoria, Bosch.
Readers here, too.
I personally was never a horror fan person my entire life, until I saw a person (semi recently) reviewing some more recent horror movies (or, "horror" because most horror movies are complete cheese) on you tube and was 100% satire about it. I loved it. I bought the movies, liked them, and bought the books they were based on and my library doubled in about 2 weeks.
Books always better than the movie.
Baby Girl knows the sound of my butt hitting my reading chair, and she proceeds to charm me and sleep in my lap.
If you like watching or reading spooky stuff, try being at that "scary stuff is going to happen" moment and a cat leaps in your lap out of nowhere like "HI!!!!" and you scream like a little girl and your snacks go into the air.
 

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Margret, I thought I had the only land line on the planet.
Nope. We like keeping our phone number, and we like using the cell phones only for emergencies. And you'll laugh at this: the most reliable phone in the house is rotary! (Annoying when they want me to push a button for some reason, though.)

Margret
 

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My parents have a landline.

I have cable. I like reality competitions like Dancing with the Stars, Survivor, and of course, American Ninja Warrior. I also enjoy game shows - I like the ABC Celebrity Family Feud and Pyramid during the summer. I watch the Big Bang Theory.

If we don't get it on demand, my bf will download it (like we did with Stranger Things - we don't have Netflix). I have access to HBO now to watch stuff like Westworld and Game of Thrones.

And I watch the ABC 7 nightly news most nights.
 

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I should start by saying that I am home all the time and despise silence.

Netflix: The Detectorists Amazon (with extra channels):
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Doctor Who
Gran Hotel Poirot
The OA Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Longmire Downton Abbey
Glow Poldark
Call the Midwife Grantchester
Godless Endeavour
Ripper Street Game of Thrones
Bomb Girls Slave Hunters (Chuno)


Hulu:The Handmaid's Tale
Firefly
Castle Rock
Murdock Mysteries
Taboo
30 Rock

When I watch broadcast tv, it is typically PBS.
 

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I rarely have time to watch TV. Most of the time DH and the kids watch something while I read for a few minutes. We stream Netflix and Amazon Prime through Rokus mostly. Sometimes I will put a movie in while I fold laundry. I have a few shows on DVD that I like for that time too. Like The Golden Girls and Friends. Nothing too heavy. I used to enjoy NCIS and NCIS LA; but I haven't watched either in quite a while. If I'm visiting my Grandma I can get my fill of DIY/HGTV kind of shows then.
 

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Murdock Mysteries
Ooh! I forgot to mention that one. We get both The Artful Detective and The Murdoch Mysteries, on different channels. Haven't seen it in a while, though. :headscratch:

Except for Serenity (the Firefly movie that closed the story arc after they were cancelled a year early) I found all episodes of Firefly on YouTube, which is extremely good because I discovered the series about a week before we went to a cheaper DirecTV subscription that didn't include the channel it was on. I ended up buying the Serenity DVD.

Greatest American Hero is also available on YouTube, as is Kim Possible (except for the movie).

Also, I have all the episodes of Babylon 5 on DVD. I really loved that series.

Margret
 

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Really? I've read the books (and loved them - much better than the Agatha Raisin books by the same author), but I had no idea they'd been filmed. Where did you find the series?

Margret
I watched it on Acorn last year—and before I realized there were books! I really liked the show. The whole cast was great with well-developed characters. It was filmed in the mid-90s I think. I’ve read all of the books, now, too. And I agree with you about the Agatha Raisin books, but they also made that into a series and the Agatha character, although self-centered, is much more sympathetic than she is in the books.
 

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Except for Serenity (the Firefly movie that closed the story arc after they were cancelled a year early) I found all episodes of Firefly on YouTube, which is extremely good because I discovered the series about a week before we went to a cheaper DirecTV subscription that didn't include the channel it was on. I ended up buying the Serenity DVD.
I have been a Firefly fan for years! As much as I wanted the series to continue, I was pleased with Serenity. Our cat Simon (Simon Greystoke Thane) is named after Simon. I wanted to name our cat Tara (Tara Lenore Tierney) after River (both Tam and Song, from Doctor Who) but there were some circumstances that led to it being Tara (from Buffy). River would have been perfect because of the way Simon and Tara are together. (They were found together, too!) And our newest baby is named Silas Endeavour Book after Shepard Book.
 

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I have been a Firefly fan for years! As much as I wanted the series to continue, I was pleased with Serenity. Our cat Simon (Simon Greystoke Thane) is named after Simon. I wanted to name our cat Tara (Tara Lenore Tierney) after River (both Tam and Song, from Doctor Who) but there were some circumstances that led to it being Tara (from Buffy). River would have been perfect because of the way Simon and Tara are together. (They were found together, too!) And our newest baby is named Silas Endeavour Book after Shepard Book.
You should have named her River just so you could say "Hello Sweetie" every time you saw her.
 

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You should have named her River just so you could say "Hello Sweetie" every time you saw her.
I know! I do call her Sweetie-pie! (I love River Song!) My friend whose mother found both Simon and Tara was going to keep Tara and named her after the Buffy character. (She was upset that I had named one of my other cats Willow.) I ended up with Tara because we decided that she and Simon should stay together, and, if we are going to be honest, Tara adores me. By then, I did not want to change her name because she certainly knows it.

Her personality is 100% River. Either River.
 

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Nope. We like keeping our phone number, and we like using the cell phones only for emergencies. And you'll laugh at this: the most reliable phone in the house is rotary! (Annoying when they want me to push a button for some reason, though.)

Margret
I'm with you Margret. I don't even turn my cell phone on until I leave the house, most of the time not until I get ready to use it. If I'm expecting an important call I will have it on so I don't miss it. I look at people in restaurants and other places I go, who are constantly on their phone . . . and I laugh and talk about them to friends I'm with. I remember getting my first cell phone to use in case of car trouble etc. People have to be available at all times and annoy the rest of us? :please:
 
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