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    Image of JP Meyer JP Meyer
    01:14 PM

    In reply to Are Colleges Discriminating Against Women?
    I wonder how much of this is comes from that whole ZOMG CRISIS OF MASCULINITY! thing and how much of it comes from the fact that if there are overwhelmingly male colleges like service academies and tech schools, there are going to end up having to be schools that are going to be more heavily female, especially seeing how women have (I believe) at 55/45% advantage in college enrollment. #genderincollegeadmissions
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    Image of BeRy51 BeRy51
    01:12 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    Same trend with A&E. Remember Biography? America's Castles? Such great nerd porn. Now Biography just copies E! true hollywood stories and is relegated to its own ghettoized channel, and I haven't seen an America's Castles episode since 1999. The nearest substitute is the Ghost Hunter show that goes to historic homes with creepy floor-squeaks. And remember the Great Books show narrated by Andre Brauer? gone. I'm sad for me, and also for the children. I cry. #thehistorychannel
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    01:13 PM

    @BeRy51: Oh America's Castles! siiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. I had forgotten all about that one, it was so good. A & E really used to be amazing, I could park myself in front of it all day. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    01:14 PM

    @BeRy51: I'll admit that I love Intervention and Paranormal State (Ryan is so hot!) but the rest of that channel is dead to me. Too much CSI Miami. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee) RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee)
    01:20 PM

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: I have so much love for Paranormal State. Other than that, the "Criminal Minds" reruns are about the only other thing that reminds me A & E is still around. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    01:10 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    Longing for actual documentaries on actual demonstrable historical facts? I thought that's what PBS is for. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    01:09 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    Don't forget all of the documentaries on gangs of all stripes. I often refer to the History Channel as the Penis Channel, because it seems designed only to appeal to a certain sector of creepy young men with a taste for violence.

    I would love the History Channel so much more if it focused on history that is relevant to more than just the military fetishists among us. I once caught a documentary on some channel about the 1960s and the sexual revolution and I was fucking hooked for all two hours and all commercial breaks. I watched all of the historical extras on the Mad Men DVDs. I love Ken Burns' stuff. I am reading a critical Mormon women's history and poring over old issues of an LDS women's publication right now - FOR FUN.

    Oh well. I suppose I shall continue to sate my nerd hungers with Science TV. (Now with more Michio Kaku!) #thehistorychannel
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    01:08 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    I miss that damn "Barbarians!" series they did. Genghis Khan, Boudica, the Visigoths...all laying waste to Rome! #thehistorychannel
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    01:06 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    The last show I watched on THC was last summer and it was all about how ancient people were being assisted by alien intervention because CLEARLY that was the only explanation for their ingenuity and inventiveness. Oddly, none of the so-called experts featured in the show mentioned alien intervention in the European arena. Just the, a-hem, darker skin? areas of the globe. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee) RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee)
    01:03 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    History International is in full control of the house remote. While I like MonsterQuest (go, Yeti, go!), MysteryQuest is a snooze-fest rehash of more exciting History Channel documentaries. Also need to rant about the 2012 focus. Do we NEED upteen-hundred shows saying the world is going to end in 2012?! Seriously, what more can be said past "the Mayan calendar ends on (date)." And as for Nostradamus...wow. How many times do we need to see The Beard Guy telling us all what Nostradamus is saying (read: his personal interpretation of the quatrains)! GAH!

    Oh, History Channel, how I miss the old you. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    01:18 PM

    @RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee): My favorite criticism of Nostradamus is that he's a post-cognitionist. You don't look at his writings and go, "shit! We all better stay home on September 11!" you look at his writings and go, "Hey look! Hitler happened!" #thehistorychannel
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    Image of Scoithniamh Scoithniamh
    01:03 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    Dramatic re-enactments make me profoundly uncomfortable. True crime shows, history shows, whathaveyou...so awkward. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of Alys Brangwin can't stop the beat Alys Brangwin can't stop the beat
    01:06 PM

    @Scoithniamh: The ones on Locked Up Abroad are pretty good. They're not overacted or making light of the situation. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of boxspelunker boxspelunker
    01:14 PM

    @Alys Brangwin can't stop the beat: I can't watch those. They are too scary. I can read about it on the internet, but I can't watch it on TV. Right before my internship in Thailand, they had one on Thailand. Everyone was telling me all the sordid details and I was like, THANKS BUT NO, EVERYONE, I'M FREAKED OUT ENOUGH AS IT IS. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of funzette funzette
    01:02 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    Erich Von Daniken, the L. Ron of the Ancient Aliens movement, seems oblivious to the implicit racism and ethnocentricism of his theories.

    In my dreams, the History Channel would do a show about the cultural, racial and social implications of Ancient Aliens, but then, they would get a thousand letters about how "You're reading too much into this" and "Aliens are neutral!"

    2012: Apocalypse Soon? it is.

    (Although to be fair, I remember watching a History Channel show on how the world was going to end on May 5, 2000 as a youngster which I fixated on for months.) #thehistorychannel
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    01:06 PM

    @funzette: I remember seeing a special where a guy predicted the world would end in the 90s but it didn't, so he "redid" his "calculations" and decided it would end in 2002. I watched it in 2003. I lolled. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of rodmanstreet rodmanstreet
    01:01 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    I'm glad Nostradamus isn't around today to see how popular he's become. One look at the History Channel lineup and we'd have a medieval Jon Gosselin on our hands. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of BetteD BetteD
    01:07 PM

    @rodmanstreet: Ha! Someone with Photoshop skills really, really needs to put up a pic of Nostradamus dressed in Ed Hardy, smoking a Newport with a trashy 22-year old on his arm. That would make my LIFE. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene
    01:00 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    It seems like a lot of the good, straight history oriented stuff (although still with a heavy focus on WWII battles and the like) has moved to History International, which I am happy to have included as part of my cable package. I do still enjoy the occasional Modern Marvels episode, which I believe is still airing on the 'regular' History channel but not at peak hours, of course. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of Little Green Frog (Wise Latina) Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
    01:00 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    YES! THANK YOU! I just tried to make this point with my husband the other day. It has waaaaay too many shows about Masons (they control everything!), conspiracy theories, the DaVinci code (it's a fiction novel, people!). And all those shows don't even have substance, it's just a whole bunch of "experts" ruminating the same point over and over and over and over. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    12:59 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    The History Channel permanently lost me as a viewer when they started showing all apocalypse programming all the time. They had me terrified for about FOUR YEARS that the world was coming to an end before I read a Cracked article (yes really) that pointed out that the "end of the Mayan Calendar" was actually the end of a specific Mayan Calendar called the "long count" that counted off like, 5 thousand year increments or something incredibly high like that. The Mayans would have just thrown a party and started back from one. When I'm getting more educational programming from cracked.com than from the History channel, something is not right.

    Although the History Channel has always had that weird undercurrent of the paranormal to it even before reality TV. I remember back in 1998 my brother and I used to watch reruns of "In Search Of..." starring Leonard Nemoy at 1pm.
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    Image of BetteD BetteD
    01:10 PM

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: That's what bothers me about it too. They are less concerned with conveying facts than they are with making it sensationalist.

    I guess I'm a codger, but I sort of miss the old, stodgy History Channel. They definitely need a new Director of Programming. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of bibomaco bibomaco
    12:58 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    Same thing with TLC! My parents you used to encourage me to watch that channel. If I was going to watch TV, might as well be informative. Not anymore... #thehistorychannel
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    01:01 PM

    @bibomaco: I blame Trading Spaces for that. They started showing nothing but home improvement shows, then when those got boring they started focusing on families. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    01:03 PM

    @bibomaco: A & E also used to have somewhat tolerable documentary programming. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of BetteD BetteD
    01:12 PM

    @bibomaco: My boyfriend asked the other day what TLC stood for. I had to pause and insert air quotes in order to get the words, "The Learning Channel" out of my mouth. Learning about what? How not to parent? #thehistorychannel
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    Image of boxspelunker boxspelunker
    01:16 PM

    @BetteD: I know! Now it's all wedding, baby, you are ugly fix it now, wedding, odd family, baby, show about something gross.

    Sometimes they combine them. Gross baby antics! Ugly weddings! #thehistorychannel
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    Image of BetteD BetteD
    01:20 PM

    @boxspelunker: "You're Ugly Fix it Now, Baby! So we can have a Wedding with our Odd Family and then do Something Gross!" sounds like a Japanese to English translation of some alternate-universe reality show. Which would actually be a little bit awesome. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of futuremouse futuremouse
    12:55 PM

    In reply to Requiem For The History Channel: A Nerd's Rant
    God, give me Nazi plots any day of the week over fucking Nostradamus and the Mayan Calendar. I do not care if they all say we're going to die in 2012. This is not your department HISTORY channel. If I want to fear for the future of mankind I'll watch the goddamn news. Thank you. That is all.
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    Image of BetteD BetteD
    01:03 PM

    @futuremouse: Ugh. Thank you! I watched that 2012 special the other night, and it was so laughable.

    Instead of focusing on ancient Mayan culture, actual science, or anything at all educational, they had some guy taking apart a watch and saying that the changes in "energy" around Mayan ruins proves that they were technologically advanced and could predict the Endtimes. There was also some nutbag who claimed to have deciphered secret "codes" in the Bible through a special mathematical formula (which was not explained in any detail, natch) that he claims contains the numbers 12/21/2012 along with dire warnings.

    It was so stupid I was actually angry. And trust me, I wanted to be interested, I really did! My birthday is 12/21, and if that is indeed the last day of our lives, I am having a rager. So I need to know if I should really spend my life-savings on a giant hot-tub and 2,000 bottles of Vodka. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of token_illiterate_commenter token_illiterate_commenter
    01:04 PM

    @futuremouse: A-fucking-men. A bunch of pseudo-science and pop conspiracy crap has replaced any semblance of real history. Why do they have to go with that crap when real history is so much more interesting? #thehistorychannel
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    Image of RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee) RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee)
    01:05 PM

    @BetteD: ... Thank you. I am now extremely happy I deleted that special from the DVR. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    01:10 PM

    @RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee): Good idea. It's pretty terrible. Did you know that you can find all kinds of words near each other in the Bible that predict the End Times? DIAGONALLY! Although I guess it would depend on which version of the Bible you have. #thehistorychannel
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    Image of RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee) RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee)
    01:15 PM

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: The Bible is God's find-a-word! #thehistorychannel
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    Image of BetteD BetteD
    01:16 PM

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: That was the worst part! I felt like a more interesting program would've focused on the fine-line between Endtime theorists and Paranoid Schizophrenics. "I can see numbers and letters within the numbers and letters! So it must mean something, why not what I want it to mean? Someone give me a camera, I have to warn everyone! The Gods are talking to me! We're all gonna diiiieeee!" #thehistorychannel
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