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Post by stepper on Apr 2, 2016 23:20:02 GMT -6
Same. I think the thing with BE was as much because I was emotionally attached to her as it was attributable to anything else.
There was a TV show/series about psychics who assisted the police. Some of that was freaky. One they documented, partly as it happened, was a psychic who was helping them look for lost members of the fire department - they had lots of volunteers helping. The psychic directed the searchers to some woods and described what she saw. They were about to give up when they found one of them radioed in and said they'd found a place exactly as she described, but no body. While the film crew was recording she immediately told them exactly where to look and she was right on. They held a memorial on a bridge for both of the men after finding the first body.
Unfortunately, no one could find the second spot, and they'd been looking a long time. Some simply had to go back to work. The psychic was unrelenting - kept saying you'll find him under the roses, but it was February in the mountains and there simply were no roses. The weather turned even worse - colder and snowing. The search party leader decided it was time to call off the search as some of the men were risking their lives to look in hard to reach places - often requiring safety harnesses. Men were giving up the hunt. Then it happened. A radio call came in and they said they saw something red in an odd looking rock formation. It turned out that the red thing was a rose. It had been tossed off the bridge into the water as a part of the earlier memorial service. The water had carried a couple red roses down stream where they were captured in a whirlpool formed at the base of a rock face. The lady then said they should get in the water because the missing guy was there, his foot had been snagged by a sharp rock. Sure enough, at the bottom of the whirlpool, they found the missing guy.
That show included re-enactments, but it also included film recorded professionally as the search was taking place, and it involved police and firemen.
Even if I was a skeptic I'd be hard pressed to completely refute that one.
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Post by Mini Mia on Apr 3, 2016 0:08:52 GMT -6
Yeah. Unless the person put those bodies there theirself, how could they know? It would be nice if the fake ones could be weeded out of the real ones.
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Post by stepper on Apr 3, 2016 14:28:15 GMT -6
I hear that. I think we all get a flash once in a while. The thing is to know when to listen.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 3, 2016 18:37:31 GMT -6
You're probably right, and they may be too insignificant for many people to pay attention, or brush it off as coincidence. I can't say that I've ever what would be called a psychic experience except for maybe a set of dreams that may or may not have been foreshadowing.
I can't even remember if Hubs and I were married yet; if we were, it would have been very early on in our marriage. We were visiting his family in South Carolina, and his cousin stopped by with one of those "crotch rocket" racing bikes. Hubs used to ride, and he took me out on it, which was kind of fun/kind of scary because though I'd been on my brother's dirt bikes many times, I'd never been on something that fast.
We were going home the next day, and Hubs' cousin left the bike there overnight for Hubs to take out once more the following morning before we left. In the middle of the night, I woke up from a dream, a nightmare actually. "Are you awake?" I asked Hubs. "Yeah, I just had the freakiest dream", he answered; he was actually sweating.
I dreamed I was in the front yard of his parents' house, while he was out on the bike...and he'd been gone way too long. I kept getting more and more anxious, because I just knew something was wrong. I woke up when I was almost to the point of panic.
He dreamed he crashed...over and over again into a tree, because the dream kept replaying until he woke up.
He didn't take out the cycle the next morning.
And oh. I was watching a movie on last night (Pitch Perfect on the Freeform channel), and saw a commercial for a new T.V. show. Another one with a medium - Monica the Medium, I think it was. I guess the world's not short on mediums.
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Post by Mini Mia on Apr 4, 2016 0:29:21 GMT -6
I had walked over to a friend's house, and was going to knock on the door when I noticed it was open a crack. So I knocked strangely. And I didn't answer when she asked who it was. And then I pushed the door open a little wider. I knocked and pushed the door open a little wider. Just as I was about to poke my head in and yell, "Boo!" ... my skin crawled, and I suddenly 'knew' that she was behind the door with a baseball bat. So, I called out her name instead. I didn't move from the spot where I was standing. The door opened and she stepped out from behind the door with a baseball bat. I'm very glad I listened to that 'weird vibe' with its 'sudden knowledge.'
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Post by stepper on Apr 4, 2016 17:42:50 GMT -6
It's a good thing you didn't get bashed Joxcee! That would have hurt - bunches! You would have had to defend yourself and might have hurt her too. Of course the first question is, why was the door open?
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Post by Mini Mia on Apr 4, 2016 23:22:59 GMT -6
She's 'flighty' ... so I think she would have bashed me in the head, and not stopped until it was a bloody pile of mush. It simply wasn't my time to go.
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Post by stepper on Apr 5, 2016 20:08:12 GMT -6
I just can't imagine you as ooey gooey mush. Besides, I bet you could a won if you wanted to.
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Post by Mini Mia on Apr 6, 2016 0:31:44 GMT -6
I did win. I didn't poke my head through the door.
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Post by stepper on Apr 6, 2016 16:37:13 GMT -6
Well, I've got to admit that's one way.
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Post by Mini Mia on Apr 6, 2016 20:03:48 GMT -6
Yeppers. I didn't end up in the hospital, or in a box.
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Post by stepper on Apr 10, 2016 13:25:42 GMT -6
Right now there's a good show on about Louis Armstrong and his career.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 23, 2016 21:10:10 GMT -6
I would have liked to have seen the Louis Armstrong program, but I saw your post too late.
I'm also probably making this post too late for anyone to see the show, but we just watched a very interesting program on Discovery Channel called "Sherpa", about the native Nepalese people who serve as guides to Westerners climbing Mount Everest. It's being replayed back-to-back, and is just starting again.
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Post by stepper on Apr 24, 2016 11:49:51 GMT -6
I'll keep an eye out for it - they usually show thoses again.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 25, 2016 6:11:45 GMT -6
You're right, and if not, you can always watch it "On Demand" if you have cable.
I finally found something to watch on Sunday evenings. I was flipping through the channels a couple of weeks ago, and saw a show a friend told me about months ago - "Flea Market Flip". Too fun - couples go to the flea market, buy a bunch of junk, and turn it into unique pieces of art, cool furniture, and other funky stuff - some of it is really beautiful. They then turn around and sell it at a flea market for huge profit. At the end of the day, the couple with the highest profit wins.
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Post by stepper on Apr 25, 2016 17:29:57 GMT -6
I'm glad you found something to watch – recently I have a tendency to scan channels until I find something that holds my attention.
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Post by Phalon on May 19, 2016 8:09:05 GMT -6
BP turned on a new show the other night on Animal Planet.
"Fish or Die". Weirdly entertaining.
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Post by stepper on May 19, 2016 16:49:55 GMT -6
Bro-2 has been in town and we went to Red Lobster last night so I completely missed it. But thanks for the heads up - I'll look for it.
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Post by Phalon on May 2, 2017 6:16:10 GMT -6
I caught most of a show on the History Channel last night called "Superheros Decoded"; actually it was a two-part documentary, the first part airing the night before. I hope it re-airs, or is On Demand, because I'd really like to see the entire thing. I was never into comic books as a kid, though I remember seeing rerun episodes of that cheesy Batman show; I remember Linda Carter as Wonder Woman too, and watching the Shazam/Isis Power Hour on Saturday mornings. The girls really like the superhero movies of this generation - The X-Men movies, Justice League, and such, so I've seen a few at their insistence. "Superheros Decoded" though, was really interesting. It showed the origins and history of the characters, as well as how they were developed pertaining to the societal and political history of the times. Wonder Woman, for example - I just remember the character as portrayed in that campy way by Linda Carter. I didn't realize she was such a feminist when she made her first appearance in the 40s, and again during the 70s when the character was brought back by Gloria Steinem as an icon of the women's rights movement. I didn't even know she's been around as long as she has until I bought the postage stamps depicting her through the decades. The new Wonder Woman movie is one I actually want to see, and not just something I'll watch with the girls because "Oh-my-god Mom, you have to watch this." "Superheros Decoded": www.digitaltrends.com/movies/history-channel-superhero-origins-docuseries/
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Post by Mini Mia on May 2, 2017 23:17:07 GMT -6
I loved the campy Batman, Wonder Woman, Shazam/Isis. I watched one or two of the first Batman movies, but then I just didn't much care for them anymore. Maybe because they stopped being campy? I don't think that's the reason though. I'm just not interested in them anymore. I do want to see the new Wonder Woman though. It seems they're making her look more Xena-like now. It's about bloody time!
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Post by Phalon on May 3, 2017 5:31:21 GMT -6
I know, right. She is a bad-ass kick-butt Amazon, after-all.
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Post by Mini Mia on May 3, 2017 17:36:15 GMT -6
Indeed!
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Post by Phalon on Jan 5, 2018 10:03:41 GMT -6
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 5, 2018 18:37:30 GMT -6
Sometimes I miss when my shows are returning. I hate the new TV Guide, so I stopped getting it years ago. (Haven't found any other guide to replace it.) I do check their website from time to time, and now I have their app on my phone. Thankfully, in this new day and age, there's the internet and DVDs to catch up on episodes missed.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 7, 2018 8:08:41 GMT -6
They're aren't many shows that I watch with any regularity, so you'd think it'd be easy to keep track of when they return. Sometimes though, I'll see that a show is on, and realize it's been back for two or three weeks, and have to play catch-up (most of them I can catch on Xfinity on Demand). Kind of a pain, because I can't watch the new episodes until I've caught up on the previous episodes.
Remember way back, when a T.V. show season ran from fall to spring, and there wasn't a schedule of air dates to have to keep track of?
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 7, 2018 21:29:14 GMT -6
I watch far less TV than I used to. I have a handful I keep up with, or try to. And, yeah, I do miss the days when seasons were more predictable. I really hate that I have several nights where I have no shows to watch, yet all the shows I do watch have to compete against each other for the same time/night. They refuse to scatter out so I don't have to try and find a way to record or catch them online. Several of my shows have ended, so that pile up is getting slimmer.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 8, 2018 7:41:56 GMT -6
I do too - mainly because the kids used to have it on all the time it seemed! That, and because there seems to be an overabundance of junk "reality" shows.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 8, 2018 17:37:20 GMT -6
I hate 'reality' television. None of it is 'real' anyways. And a lot of the new shows seem to be the same-o same-o. I'm tired of cops and lawyers and hospitals ... but every once in a while a show puts a new spin on the old and hooks me. I like: The Good Doctor.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 11, 2018 8:36:25 GMT -6
I watch some "reality" shows, although I don't really know if they're really considered reality shows - they're more competition shows, than a camera crew following people around, filming day-to-day activities.
I watch "Survivor" and have since the beginning of the series; I think it's been 20 years now, or close to it.
"Face Off", a special-effects make-up competition, is another favorite - I find the creativity and artistry amazing. It's been renewed for its 13th season, though the air-date hasn't been announced yet.
I like "Chopped" and "America's Worst Cooks" on the Food Network. I don't know if new episodes of "Chopped" are still being produced, but old episodes seem to air more than once a week, and I'll watch on occasion if I haven't seen the episode prior.
"American Pickers" is one that Hubs and I both like....although I don't know if two guys traveling around the country (and sometimes Europe), buying stuff out of old barns, homes, and warehouses to resell at their antique shops is really considered reality T.V.?
"Catfish" on occasion, if I can't sleep and there is nothing else on.
I used to watch "Fixer Upper" when we were doing the house renovation - last Christmas though, the girls gave me the book the couple wrote; I found them so gratingly irritating, that I haven't watched the show since....I never finished the book either.
The only show I watch that falls into the cop/lawyer/doctor category is "Criminal Minds".
That and "This is Us" are the only dramas on my 'must-see' schedule.
I'm trying to think....unless there's something I'm forgetting about, those are all the T.V. shows I watch at all with any regularity.
Oh! And "Drunk History" - that one starts up again this month too.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 11, 2018 17:31:36 GMT -6
I have took a peek at a few reality shows every now and again, but none of them have made me a repeat viewer. Though I do get a kick out of "Sister Wives" every now and again.
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