#but my roommate just turned off the TV and it was so silly and contrived. i think not having access to satellite TV all my life is maybe not

[arthur-r]

discovery channel will be like “on october 17 2013 someone recorded footage of a very disturbing, completely unprecedented impossible event which implies, without a doubt, supernatural connections and evidence of extraterrestrial life forms…. let’s hear from some experts about this super spooky, extremely unnatural floating object” and the experts say “so actually this is a weird type of cloud it happens sometimes” and discovery channel will say “tune in next time for a car making weird spooky noises…. we’re thinking it is probably a ghost”

#have trees in vietnam developed mutations to ruffle their bark in self defense? radiation and evolution!!!! #we talked to some experts and there were bees on the tree #(actual episode that was just on the TV. the cloud and the cars are both real too) #my roommate got a TV for $15 at goodwill we’ve used it for jackbox a couple times but mostly it’s just constantly on in the background #playing satellite TV channels usually discovery i’m gonna try to tune in to HGTV at the right time for cheap old houses though #anyway discovery channel feels like… analog clickbait?? i guess?? #it’s just. so silly to me #anyway this is too long to be a sillygoofy textpost but it’s supposed to be….. so sorry brevity is just silencing my inner glow or something #shdhdf i just think it’s so silly and stupid. they spend half an hour on here are all the aliens and spooky things this could be #and the expert comes in and says this is a very normal and recognized scientific phenomenon with a full explanation and several known events #and the discovery channel guy says whoa that’s crazy well look at this spooky strange thing!!!! #bonus points when they’re looking at like. aztec civilization and they say For Some Strange Reason the people did this Barbaric Ritual #evidencing Spooky Aliens masquerading as Primal Gods and the Gullible Brown People Fell For It #and then person comes in and says yeah so this was agriculture and record keeping and innovation and empathy and art and advanced techniques #and the discovery channel says But Brown People They Can’t Do That It Was Aliens and then they dig up a sacred burial site #most of the episodes are just stupid and silly and entertaining (like the cloud) but a lot of them piss me off a lot #anyways!!!! i’m heading to bed cause i have my first day of classes in the morning!! #but my roommate just turned off the TV and it was so silly and contrived. i think not having access to satellite TV all my life is maybe not #the big awful issue i thought it was. i think i was maybe winning. i do like learning about the weird scientific phenomena though #but the way they bury it under hours of weird speculation about evil aliens spying on us and meddling in our lives…. makes it hard to handle #okay i’m heading to bed though shdhdf. hope everyone is doing well and goodnight!! #ask to tag (idk what for but there’s definitely something here somewhere) #me. my post. mine. #delete later