A Guilty Pleasure......
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Television is somehow an addictive or unfortunate vice we have all learned to live with. We have also learned to love it. From the early days with 5 VHF, and 2 UHF channels (for me - Boston) it has expanded into cable/satellite and 100+100’s of channels. We already know many of the favorites shows currently (too long to list).
But what are your guilty pleasures that you watch? Those shows slightly, or well under the radar that you watch? Be honest. No judgements.
We all have them. Time to fess up. (show me yours and I will show you mine)
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Mine are the following:
Bering Sea Gold - love the fighting and search for treasure.
The Dead Files - Yup, love Amy Allen and creepy shit.
River Monsters - which is probably not such a guilty pleasure as this show is awesome!
@mfladd I wish River Monsters was less hyped, good show otherwise though.
Do they still have those Real World vs Road Rules things on MTV? If so, that. So dumb.
@Ignorant I used to watch that when I was like 15, I agree, so dumb. I had no idea it was still around. I have to say if it came on I’d probably watch it.
@Ignorant I came across a new one about 2/3 months ago, however I only recognized like 10% of the people because I’m old now. I didn’t have the desire to learn a new cast so I didn’t bother watching it. But yes it is still on.
Not where I thought this was going.
I enjoy Gotham.
@hallmike Love Gotham.
@mfladd Oh, and how could I forget from your OP - I like New Girl too. Guilty as charged.
@mfladd
Caught a few minutes of the Gotham season finale tonight.
Naturally, it’s now on my To Watch list
@hallmike - Well New Girl IS a fun show
@hallmike @FroodyFrog But still a bit main stream. Tell us your darker television secrets - you know you have them.
@mfladd @hallmike
Of course I have television secrets. However, I’m willing to take them to the big rain forest in the sky.
@FroodyFrog your unwillingness to share is detrimental to the thread. Don’t make me put you on a plate. (gif in reserve)
@hallmike
Out of curiosity, where did you think that this thread was headed?
@FroodyFrog a warm and fuzzy caring and sharing session where we bond over our mutual vices, I would imagine.
@jbartus right on the money
@jbartus
You haven’t been here long, have you?
@FroodyFrog hey, it wasn’t my idea, I’m just sharing what I think @mfladd had in mind. He’s been all warm and fuzzy lately, it’s not my fault!
@jbartus My evil is hibernating.
My biggest guilty pleasures are Brit costume dramas. Anything Masterpiece Theatre-ish. Favorite self-indulgent “I feel like shit and want to wallow in some delicious crying relationship feelings” movie is 1995’s “Persuasion.”
Most recent shows of that nature are Peaky Blinders (Pretty sexy diamond-sharp moody cheekbonesssssss… drool), Grantchester (omnomnom drinky jazzy troubled sexy topless vicar), and Penny Dreadful (Eva Green is my aspirational hair and looks and acting goddess).
And def wouldn’t talk it up in casual company but adorable dude at my hair salon recommended it so I so-very-reluctantly agreed to watch it because he is attractive and knows good cinema and he was very correct: The Girlfriend Experience, as extremely softcore porn-y shallow as it surface-level is, was glassy sharp cold wonder, so beautiful and perfectly empty and morally ambiguous and profound on a subjective sensory level of “kinda Patrick Bateman-esque but maybe broken by her family or just shallow modern cultural animal subsistence but who really knows at least it’s artsy and opaque and edgy and the colours are just right and I am entranced” bullshit show.
@goldenthorn Yes!!! Love this show.
Over the weekend I watched all three seasons of Drunk History. I loved every second of it. Some of my favorites that are under the radar, in no particular order:
Gotham
We Bare Bears
Bates Motel
Teen Titans Go!
RuPaul’s Drag Race (trust me, give it a chance)
Getting On
Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan
@conandlibrarian
For Gotham, We Bare Bears, Teen Titans Go:
I’ve seen parts of Bates Motel, and I happened to catch a glimpse of RuPaul’s Drag Race (because the TV was on that channel because of a different show I watch).
@FroodyFrog I have been to every panel that has been done at Wonder Con and Comic Con for Teen Titans Go! The guy that does Beast Boy’s voice is completely insane, in the best way possible. He has got to be the best person to drink with.
@conandlibrarian why are people listing Gotham? It’s totally mainstream! Comic book movies and TV shows are super in right now, even that air-headed version of Supergirl is doing well.
To be clear, I am not calling Supergirl an airhead, or the actress, just the version of Supergirl as portrayed on the current TV series. Female super heroes are awesome, it’s too bad they’re making such a mess of it with a property as important as Supergirl. Go Black Canary!
@conandlibrarian Ok, Teen Titans Go is what we (kids, me included) watch every morning.
@conandlibrarian
I happen to think that a lot of people underrate people who lend their voices to animated shows.
Whenever I look at who voices certain shows, I see some names over and over and over again.
There’s a reason for that, and not just because I keep on refreshing the page.
@jbartus I think people may be listing Gotham because it is a show that I do not think a lot of people talk about. Ratings wise, the show does not do all that well, and is always on the brink. I remember at the beginning of the second season, there was a chance that it was not going to be renewed. I love the show, and hope it becomes huge.
@conandlibrarian I tried to watch and like Teen Titans Go, but I actually liked the earlier cartoon quite a bit and the chibi style just grates. Go feels like something written for adult swim (without some of the nasty, but aimed at the same mindset). Meh.
@conandlibrarian I guess… I just remember in Season 1 it was literally all anybody was talking about. Maybe it’s the circles I run in…
@duodec @conandlibrarian
I think it helps that I never watched the original series. From what I understand though, a number of things from the original series did not carry over to Go, not that I’m complaining.
@FroodyFrog yeah voice actor credits are pretty cool, for example some people may not realize the following.
Mark ‘Luke Skywalker’ Hamill is the voice of The Joker in most of the animated series
@jbartus
Looking at the section for his voice acting career, I notice that he has done work for a lot of shows/movies which I’ve seen.
@conandlibrarian I also watch Bates, but lately I have felt that is dragging and I have hard time pushing the watch button (I do a lot of pirate tv - totally legal, I think)
@mfladd
(Ignore the fact that it’s not perfect quality and is backwards. I’m still not sure why people think uploading content from TV/movies is fine if they have it mirrored…)
@FroodyFrog I know, right? Mirrors suck. :)~
(still love to be a pirate…arggghhh)
@mfladd
Whatever you do, don’t try accessing my RasPi. It’s not like there are movies and TV shows on it.
(Which reminds me, I still have to decide if I want to watch Lost. Running out of room on the micro sd card since I’m constantly adding to the list of stuff I have to watch. The movies now go as far back as 2006)
@FroodyFrog My sites be cool. Movies - no. The most recent TV shows - yes.
@FroodyFrog yeah Mark Hamill is a very prolific voice actor, really that’s his career, being Luke Skywalker was just a small gig by comparison.
@FroodyFrog I don’t think it’s about thinking it’s okay, I think it’s about avoiding automatic detection, that’s why they give it the distortion like an old tube TV too.
@conandlibrarian Drunk History is quality television and quasi-educational. For these reasons, it does not belong on this list. You’re a library, man, you should know this.
If we’re talking straight up guilty pleasures?
Vampire Diaries & The Originals. It’s awful CW tripe, but I love watching it for some insane reason.
Judge me, if you must. I’ll still watch this shit.
@Thumperchick
Yup, guilty with The Originals. One of my favorites.
But they are all asleep, Marcel is King of the Quarter, and it is up to Hayley.
@Thumperchick totally got sucked into vampire diaries (pun surprisingly not intended) because of Damon… he’s hilarious. Can’t get into the originals though.
@katylava I got started on the Originals, and then wandered to TVD - Damon is well worth the rest.
What’s a tTV?
@Cerridwyn
Fox News (helmet hair).
Adam-12. Emergency. Dragnet. The shows I remember growing up with and now I don’t have to defer to my parents wanting to watch the sitcom drek of the day. My TV. MY TV!
Gold Fever on Outdoor (prospecting, which I’ve always wanted to try).
The car shows on Spike. Some of the car shows on Velocity. Unfortunately many stricken with the reality drama angst cancer…
Good shows where a few minutes of drama or angst was enough to get the point across so you could get to the story, the adventure, unlike now where they grab your face and smash it into the “reality” pie tin full of hype-drama custard covered in angst topping then hold you there preaching at you until you choke (with brief interludes of actual worthwhile show) or change the channel.
@duodec KMG-365
@duodec absolutely loved Emergency as a kid. then i worked as a medic. i prayed our 911 dispatch ws called Rampart. it wasn’t. it was called METCAD. i was sad.
@Pavlov I’ve always wanted to get that as a vanity license plate just to see if anyone would ever get it.
So many to pick from… (I run a Plex server and presently have 83 currently airing and 91 concluded/canceled TV shows online, plus the first 1 or 2 episodes of about two dozen other relatively new shows.)
I don’t watch all of it (some is only for my daughters or girlfriend) but I am the only one watching Good Witch…
In the past, I watched Desperate Housewives (not the last season tho… I got tired of it) and One Tree Hill and a bunch of other sappy dramas.
Bar Rescue… and other shows of that ilk.
I don’t care if they’re real or not, they’re entertaining and when I’m working they’re good background noise if nothing else.
Don’t judge me.
@jbartus Love Bar Rescue. Jon Taffer has a little bit of a special meaning to me as his first real gig was helping to build and run Pulsations, a legendary club/dinner theater up the street from where I grew up.
Basically every show I watch is a guilty pleasure because, as I understand it, I have terrible taste.
I’m not sure what this says about me, but I’m anxiously awaiting the return of Mr. Robot. And my wife started me on iZombie. Now I want to watch it more than she does.
@Club33NOS izombie is in my top 3
@Club33NOS what’s iZombie about? I could Google it but asking you is easier and I’m really tired. (Got woken up after only half an hour’s sleep by people panicking because Micro$oft updated a bunch of computers to Windows 10 without permission over the weekend… the three hour nap later on didn’t do much for me.)
@Club33NOS
@jbartus it’s sort of a crime procedural show. But a zombie is helping the cops to catch criminals. The theory is that a zombie stays relatively normal as long as they regularly feed on brains. It tends to also have some funny moments.
@Club33NOS sounds interesting, adding it to my list. Is it on Hulu or Netflix or anything or do I gotta boot up my STB and dust off the TV?
@jbartus I have no idea if it’s on Netflix or Hulu. It’s completed 2 seasons, so it might be on one of them. I’m old school watching on satellite.
@Club33NOS Season 1 is on Netflix and the first episodes of S2 are on Hulu.
@Club33NOS I thought another primary tenet of iZombie was that whomever’s brain she eats, she is able to get memories of that person, garnering information regarding a crime that otherwise would have been lost. Am I wrong about that? (If so, some of early trailers were misleading IMO)
@DrWorm That is a main part of the show. I thought it was a little hard to describe without having seen the show. But you described it perfectly. Thanks!
No TV here, but I occasionally watch QVC or HSN on my iPad. I shop, therefore I am.
I’m a sucker for true-crime series & documentaries - or, as my hubby likes to call them: “how to murder your husband and get away with it shows”… Meh… whatever keeps 'em in line, ya know?
PS - iZombie ftw!
@Texas_Tascha I used to watch thy crime shows every night in bed. The husband referred to them as “research”.
I love iZombie!
@jaremelz
hehehehehe…
@Texas_Tascha OMG, I like you!
@mfladd
@mfladd * or ma’am! *
@Texas_Tascha you got it right the first time. But I have been called many thing here
@mfladd
You mean kind, considerate, caring?
@FroodyFrog I haven’t shed that skin yet?
@mfladd
(I was asked by certain people if i could scare people less. I’m trying.)
@FroodyFrog Ha! I like you just the way you are - confusing.
@mfladd
How do you still find me confusing?
Supernatural- for the last eleven years.
yeah. zooey deschanel is a guilty pleasure of mine as well.
edit: oops… that’s not what this thread is about. never mind. move along.
@carl669 It’s whatever you want it to be about.
@mfladd Congratulations, my friend. You just managed to make me spit coffee. Bravo, bravo.
Hmm, so much crap to watch…
Primetime - Supergirl, Scorpion, Blindspot, Gotham, The Flash, Grimm, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (Kind of sensing a theme in here.)
Cable - HGTV (too many to list), Bar Rescue, Ink Master, Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead (starring my old friend Colman!), How It’s Made, My Cat From Hell, Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (he does good things!), used to watch a lot of HBO series but have slacked since Boardwalk Empire ended. Loved Carnivàle , hate that they killed it too soon.
There’s honestly just way too much good tv these days. Many shows I’d like to watch but don’t have the time.
@cinoclav You are fucking scaring me with that lineup. Where is the hidden camera???
I just finished watching the latest Blindspot. Anything Superhero I watch. Love Grimm.
@cinoclav Yeah, you just ticked off most of what would be on my list. I hate myself for watching Scorpion. It’s truly awful.
I would also add iZombie and So You Think You Can Dance.
@jaremelz It’s not that bad. Plus Katharine McPhee is cute as a button.
@mfladd @jaremelz
Not to be confused with Nanny McPhee
@mfladd It’s terrible! But at least it’s not New Girl.
There, I said it.
@mfladd Ooh, another fun fact. Silas Weir Mitchell (Monroe in Grimm) was born at the hospital 10 minutes from me where I also did my Nuclear Medicine clinical training.
@jaremelz I think I mostly watch Scorpion for Eddie Kaye Thomas. He’s been a favorite ever since American Pie. I do have to say , there have been some episodes with a real emotional impact. In particular the ones where they got deep into the Megan character. Overall the show is over the top but there’s obviously something to it that keeps drawing me back in.
@cinoclav Jefferson?
We are going to have to have waffles sometime - like @carl669 and @jaremelz. @brhfl is close too.
@mfladd I don’t think that picture is doing her justice. Let’s try this one.
@mfladd I went to school at Jefferson, did my clinical (and he was born at) Lankenau.
Can I have blueberry pancakes?
@cinoclav yes. I was going for the cute factor, but she is also hot.
Again scaring me. BB pancakes are the go to.
@mfladd We might have been separated at birth or long lost half siblings. My dad got around…
When I was born I had pure white/blond hair. No one else in the family did - ever. Your dad wasn’t a mailman was he? Because that was the rumor.
@cinoclav I need to catch back up on Grimm. I love the show, but we somehow fell behind on season 2 and then the episodes weren’t immediately available. It had a bit of a snowball effect. I simply adore Monroe.
@mfladd Italian, pharmacist - not quite a match. Ironically his hair was pretty much silver from his late 20’s onward.
@jaremelz Next to TWD, Grimm is probably my biggest can’t miss show. Even if I have to DVR it, I usually watch it the same night. Monroe is awesome and I think I love Rosalee (Bree Turner).
@mfladd @cinoclav Missed my ping yesterday. I want crepes. Or french toast. Or french toast wrapped in crepes.
@brhfl We can do that!
@brhfl they had wafflewiches at work today… waffles with eggs and sausage inbetween – I said they could only improve that by adding french toast!! yummmmmyyyy…
CometTV and NHK
@DrunkCat please expand on that
@mfladd http://comettv.com/ and http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
I have an antenna so the only “TV” I watch is broadcast and the only broadcast I watch are those two channels because honestly, you don’t need any others. Well, that’s not entirely true, CreateTV is also the bomb diggity.
@DrunkCat I watch cometTV too. Their movies are truly awful.
@sammydog01 Awful-ly hillarious
I think my guilty pleasure TV is mainstream. I’ll be watching The Voice finale tonight. I hope there will be a second season of Jessica Jones. And I hope to catch up on The Blacklist this summer. I’m looking forward to the next season of Sherlock Holmes on PBS.
On the PBS Newshour, I like Tamara Keith and Amy Walter (Politics Monday) and on Fridays it’s Shields and Brooks.
@sligett Everything other than The Voice counts as good (and not guilty) in my book. Jessica Jones might be guilty. I love Shields and Brooks, but mostly listen to them on radio (PBSNH and elsewhere). I lean waaaaaaayyyyy to the left, but I greatly admire David Brooks and take him much more seriously than I do a lot of folks with whom I’m ostensibly more in agreement.
@joelmw I’m a total failure, then. I missed The Voice finale.
Does being a fan and watching the Detroit Lions count?
@MrMark hahaha…I am sorry, for everything you have to watch.
@MrMark Yes.
We’ve honestly tried to watch crap TV (e.g., Supernatural). And even some good but not great shows (e.g., Parks & Rec), but I guess we have discerning tastes.
I think our guiltiest pleasure–hell, it’s even a sit-com and I hate sit-coms–is Sirens. And I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone ever anywhere talk about it.
We did just get cable (part of a bundle because of an internet deal; for how long we’ll keep it, no idea), which I hadn’t had for nine years, because I might HATE cable companies more than I hate sit-coms. One of my guiltiest pleasures is SportsCenter. I couldn’t give two shits about most of what they’re talking about, but they do it so, well, entertainingly; and they manage to extract the good parts from the hours of boring that is most every sporting event. Here’s a shot from back in the day. Check out the 'stache on Olbermann.
Oh, and all sorts of silly NBA shit. I don’t keep up with any teams, but I still love the game. I admit to really liking Chuck Barkley (even though he’s a dumbass about a lot of things). And it’s just cool to see the old guys, like Reggie and Grant and Kenny and Mark Jackson.
I won’t list the other TV we watch, because that would just be bragging.
On a side note, I really do hate cable TV. It looks so 20th century. And the noise. It’s just fucking noise. Thank God for Netflix and HBO Go. And the mute button.
@joelmw I love Sirens.
@sammydog01 what’s it about?
@jbartus Paramedics. It’s a sitcom.
@joelmw The fact that Sirens was cancelled still infuriates me!
@sammydog01 oh, I considered that at one point, forget why I opted out.
One of my guilty pleasures was watching Kill la Kill on Netflix- it’s very good, but such a WTF show and insanely awkward to explain to anyone who wanders in.
If someone else happens to have Tiny House Hunters on, I’ll watch lots of episodes of that- the reactions of people are even better than the normal house-hunting shows.
Otherwise, I quite enjoy all of the other shows I watch.
I also like AMC’s Turn - what I am currently watching.
@mfladd I watched that last season, but I’m behind.
@mfladd I keep meaning to check that one out.
@jbartus Very soap opera, at least last season, so don’t expect the History Channel (which is what makes it guilty)
@sammydog01 ah, shame.
@jbartus Benedict Arnold is pretty hot.
@sammydog01 is that so?
@jbartus I like my men dirty.
@sammydog01 looks a bit pudgy to me
We are also catching the final season of Person of Interest. I never watched it initially but my wife discovered it and started watching it on streaming sites, then actually bought the seasons (I think on ITunes). While I have my qualms about some aspects, it has been an enjoyable series to follow.
@duodec My husband got me hooked on Person of Interest. I think this is the final season, it was cancelled?
@mikibell It’s possible that Netflix may pick it up. That’s just a rumor, though, nothing concrete.
Sarah Shahi (Sameen Shaw) was supposed to be in the new show Nancy Drew, but it wasn’t picked up.
I liked the show when they did weekly stories, but I get bored when you have to watch every single episode or your lost as to what’s going on.
I watch Real World/Teen Mom on MTV. I also like Dawson’s Creek.
@lichme I watch Dance Moms. So sue me.
@sammydog01
Law & Order. Any of them. Criminal Minds. Joe Kenda, Homicide Hunter. Forensic shows. True crime shows.
I used to watch the Lifetime Movie Network, but then, so many crime shows and channels came on.
We watch what we call “alien shit” when there’s nothing else on and we want to go to sleep. lol!
@lisaviolet I do confess–and this is definitely a guilty pleasure–that I totally kept up with Season One of the Detective podcast; I see there’s another season coming out and I’ll probably listen to it too. I hate all of those crime shows (maybe because my first wife loved them and I got my fill). Yeah, I don’t get it. But I like it. I mean that podcast in particular.
@lisaviolet
Impractical Jokers.
I haven’t laughed so much while watching a TV show in a long time.
This memorial Day has been raining cats and dogs all day.
So, I have been binging on the British series The Fades on amazon. I like it.
Also, two words Natalie Dormer (GofT)
Also, has the guy who plays Lucifer (US series) (I don’t tend to know the ‘guy’ names)
How could this show be cancelled after one season?! Nooooooooooooo (not everyone’s cup of tea I guess)
@mfladd welcome to The Firefly Lounge. Population: every good show FOX ever made and shows cut down by other networks before they even had a chance.
@jbartus Speaking of this particular thing, was Fox stuck in a timeloop or something, because that pattern happened predictably over and over again. Were two or more producers at war with each other over something?
Other networks cancel shows, but Fox would regularly bring on a scifi show every season, but it would always be cancelled at the end of the season. There’s nothing wrong with a one season show, but it has to be done with that intention.
@dashcloud Working at FOX is easy, all you have to be able to do is identify real talent and potential for massive success… and then cancel it. They have an excellent HR department who is A-number-1 at identifying such capable individuals and acquiring them to ensure mediocrity in programming.
My thoughts when I saw the teaser for Lucifer:
Preview: The Devil left Hell and has come to California!
Me: I’m in.
Preview: …and he’s fighting crime!
Me: I’m out.
@mfladd @jbartus @dashcloud are you talking about “Lucifer”? it was renewed. “Second Chance” was canceled though. i really liked that one.
@katylava No, I watch that too. I was talking about The Fades - British series on Amazon, that also starred Tom Ellis from Lucifer. Sorry, for the confusion.
@katylava I was just referring to TV show cancellation in general.
Most of my guilty pleasures are stuff like Gilligan because childhood.
Am mostly not around TV now, so i suppose my guilty pleasure is fantasizing I’ll get around to watching all the bluerays I own and Netflix queues I create.
Have watched all but the last season of Mad Men, which calculated between v good and awesome (with a few slow spots). Hope I finish it.
A friend and I shared a place a few years back. For so reason every time I walked into the TV room, there was a reality show going about some guy (from Louisiana?) who gets snakes and possums and other critters out of people’s attics.
Dunno what the show was called, and I would never allow myself to record something like that, because then I would have to intend to watch it, and it’s not exactly Buffy or GOT. But still. If that show was on, I could not leave the room.
My guilty pleasure is the investigative discovery channel. I love watching the shows about detectives not stopping until they have found “who done it.” I also like watching the moronic criminals that think they will never get caught and eventually they get arrested, even after being on the “lam” for decades. I admit it, I am addicted to the ID channel and I am not ashamed to admit it.
@deemoy Sometimes it makes me sad that you watch the entire program and the disappeared/kidnapped/lost person is found dead. That’s when I yell at the television.
And Joe Kenda is great. Did ya see his ads for his show’s marathon yesterday? Liked that he was protected. lol
Hey there, yeah I get sad when they do find the victim dead. What makes me angry is that the criminal gets the death penalty and then in a few years the death penalty gets changed to life in prison. Any body that murders or rapes someone needs to get the death penalty, period, no questions asked, no lowering of the sentence, nothing but getting injected, shot or face the electric chair.
@deemoy Philosophically I’m with you, except for 1 problem: people get convicted who aren’t actually guilty
I know and I have thought about that too. If it can be proven that the criminal actually committed the act (they left blood, semen, saliva, eat at the scene) then the criminal committed the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. If they can’t prove that the criminal was not present at the scene, then the criminal doesn’t get arrested or put in jail. That way the innocent people are covered and the crocked cops will be found out.
Speaking of criminals, this guy in the bronx broke into an apartment to steal stuff and he encounters a woman in the apartment. The criminal beats up the woman and leaves. The woman gets up and calls her husband who is downstairs at the front door smoking a cigarette. She tells him what happens and what the criminal looks like and the husband sees him and beats the shit out of him. They take the criminal to the hospital, but a few hours later the criminal dies. The police then go arrest the husband for manslaughter. How messed up is that?
@deemoy I’m personally of the opinion that once a convict has exhausted all possible avenues of appeal that there’s little enough merit to the possibility of their being exonerated that keeping them around is nothing but a burden to the taxpayers. Yes, there is a remote chance that they could be innocent and some future DNA test or something will clear them, but after the appeals process has been exhausted the chances of that are so infinitesimally small as to be negligible. We have enough over crowding in our prisons as it is, the whole life in prison sentence simply exacerbates this issue, get them through their appeals and find some humane way to end it for their benefit and the benefit of the public at large. Requiring them to live out their days in an eight by four concrete box doesn’t improve anyone’s life – not theirs, not their victims’, not their victims’ families, and not John Q. Public’s.
As for the case you mentioned, I hate to say it but that seems like a clear cut case of assault and battery on the husband’s side to me, bearing in mind that IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer). It might not be ‘fair’ but he beat the shit out of a guy who wasn’t a threat to him or anyone else at the time he attacked him and the guy later died. It would be one thing if he’d tackled the guy and held him down while a bystander called the police but beating the shit out of the guy is on a whole other level, that was vigilante justice plain and simple. The wife clearly wasn’t gravely injured since she called the husband so… yeah
I agree with you 100% on the husband getting arrested for beating the shit out of the criminal. It was needed and nobody was in danger at that time. Vigilante judgment has been running amok for the longest time in today’s society and it shows no plans of slowing down.
Case in point the travon martin and george zimmerman case. Zimmerman was the vigilante and travon was the victim and it was uncalled for zimmerman to follow him for no particular reason other than travon being black. We won’t get started on that case. I could go on forever.
@deemoy let’s keep race out of this, what do you say? Let’s just agree that vigilante justice isn’t cool and leave it at that.
I agree with you on the fact that vigilante justice isn’t cool. I didn’t think I was making race an issue, I purposely left out anything to do with race. But if I somehow inferred it, my apologies. I think we can both agree that the justice system has a long way to go before they can get things right, such as actually rehabilitating people in jail so they can get out and have at least a college degree. The other thing justice needs to do is provide any company that hires a reformed criminal gets a reduction in their taxes. That way thesis companies will see some value in higher ex criminals…
OK, I have to confession to make. I like watching Americas Got Talent because every once in a while someone amazing comes on and performs. Watch this little 13yr old girl sing - simply amazing!
(skip to 2:45 just to see the performance)
She’s is only 13 - and so humble! Holy Shit!
@mfladd Nope. I’m not crying. Shut up!!
@jaremelz See, you’re not such a tough nut to crack
@jaremelz It must be the onions
Damnit @dashcloud!
@mfladd you better knock that shit right off before other nuts get cracked!
@jaremelz @mfladd
SQUIRREL!!!
(Amazon gave me $17 and some free stuff, so I might get this for fun. Tempted to wink, but it might be misinterpreted)