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    • J
      Jason Banned
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      It will never work. Mythbusters were great but it was Adam and Jamie that made it

      They tried making House Hazars but it was forced and fake and was more about making big explosions than anything. Nothing very scientific about it really.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Hazards

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        tonyshowoff @Jason
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        @Jason said:

        It will never work. Mythbusters were great but it was Adam and Jamie that made it

        They tried making House Hazars but it was forced and fake and was more about making big explosions than anything. Nothing very scientific about it really.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Hazards

        Yes, great example, that summarises my rant above much more succinctly, it's that overtly fake crap with no creativity just explosions. They took the route of "we've got a hot girl but two 'nerds' see, so it's legit! Even though they probably have no actual exceptional skills or experience."

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            JaredBusch @tonyshowoff
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            @tonyshowoff said:

            And it's only gotten worse where even 15 years after the apocalypse (Revolution) people still look fantastic, young, fit, and wear tons of make up and have had recent plastic surgery.

            I so wanted to like that show, but it was so f*** [moderated] stupid. I mean ignoring the pretty people because TV thing..

            The initial episodes were cool, but once they started making electricity turn on in horribly unrealistic ways (the light house scene for example) I jsut lost all suspension of disbelief. Then once it was all revealed, the final episode of power coming on everywhere was just f[moderated]ing stupid.

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              tonyshowoff @JaredBusch
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              @JaredBusch said:

              @tonyshowoff said:

              And it's only gotten worse where even 15 years after the apocalypse (Revolution) people still look fantastic, young, fit, and wear tons of make up and have had recent plastic surgery.

              I so wanted to like that show, but it was so f******[moderated] stupid. I mean ignoring the pretty people because TV thing..

              The initial episodes were cool, but once they started making electricity turn on in horribly unrealistic ways (the light house scene for example) I jsut lost all suspension of disbelief. Then once it was all revealed, the final episode of power coming on everywhere was just f[moderated]ing stupid.

              I was disappointed the collapse of everything was over within the first 5 minutes of the show, no build up or anything. I watched about half the second episode and I gave up.

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              • scottalanmillerS
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                I never liked that show. I mean it was okay, but it wasn't great. It was so formula and cheesy. The two guys did a great job and were good presenters and made it fun in very small doses, but it was like House Hunters, there wasn't any real substance under it.

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                  tonyshowoff @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  I never liked that show. I mean it was okay, but it wasn't great. It was so formula and cheesy. The two guys did a great job and were good presenters and made it fun in very small doses, but it was like House Hunters, there wasn't any real substance under it.

                  House Hunters you can summarise with: "I don't like this paint, so let's look at a different house."

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @tonyshowoff
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                    @tonyshowoff said:

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    I never liked that show. I mean it was okay, but it wasn't great. It was so formula and cheesy. The two guys did a great job and were good presenters and made it fun in very small doses, but it was like House Hunters, there wasn't any real substance under it.

                    House Hunters you can summarise with: "I don't like this paint, so let's look at a different house."

                    And it's all fake. Many of the houses aren't even for sale and the people not buying any house! Like... actually completely fake.

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                    • tonyshowoffT
                      tonyshowoff @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      @tonyshowoff said:

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      I never liked that show. I mean it was okay, but it wasn't great. It was so formula and cheesy. The two guys did a great job and were good presenters and made it fun in very small doses, but it was like House Hunters, there wasn't any real substance under it.

                      House Hunters you can summarise with: "I don't like this paint, so let's look at a different house."

                      And it's all fake. Many of the houses aren't even for sale and the people not buying any house! Like... actually completely fake.

                      Yes, they already bought it, they just move out the furniture. I actually got a realtor who was on that show for House Hunters International for Russia, she hipped me to the program, I hadn't seen much before that. I never saw the episode(s) she was in, however. Hell, she may have just lied to me.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @tonyshowoff
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                        @tonyshowoff said:

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @tonyshowoff said:

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        I never liked that show. I mean it was okay, but it wasn't great. It was so formula and cheesy. The two guys did a great job and were good presenters and made it fun in very small doses, but it was like House Hunters, there wasn't any real substance under it.

                        House Hunters you can summarise with: "I don't like this paint, so let's look at a different house."

                        And it's all fake. Many of the houses aren't even for sale and the people not buying any house! Like... actually completely fake.

                        Yes, they already bought it, they just move out the furniture. I actually got a realtor who was on that show for House Hunters International for Russia, she hipped me to the program, I hadn't seen much before that.

                        It's neat for the International version only because the US lacks anything like travel television and it provides a very minimal access to that. The locations, at least, are mostly real.

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                        • tonyshowoffT
                          tonyshowoff @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          @tonyshowoff said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          @tonyshowoff said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          I never liked that show. I mean it was okay, but it wasn't great. It was so formula and cheesy. The two guys did a great job and were good presenters and made it fun in very small doses, but it was like House Hunters, there wasn't any real substance under it.

                          House Hunters you can summarise with: "I don't like this paint, so let's look at a different house."

                          And it's all fake. Many of the houses aren't even for sale and the people not buying any house! Like... actually completely fake.

                          Yes, they already bought it, they just move out the furniture. I actually got a realtor who was on that show for House Hunters International for Russia, she hipped me to the program, I hadn't seen much before that.

                          It's neat for the International version only because the US lacks anything like travel television and it provides a very minimal access to that. The locations, at least, are mostly real.

                          I'm the kind of lame person that actually visits places on Travel Channel shows, and No Reservations specifically.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @tonyshowoff
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                            @tonyshowoff said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            @tonyshowoff said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            @tonyshowoff said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            I never liked that show. I mean it was okay, but it wasn't great. It was so formula and cheesy. The two guys did a great job and were good presenters and made it fun in very small doses, but it was like House Hunters, there wasn't any real substance under it.

                            House Hunters you can summarise with: "I don't like this paint, so let's look at a different house."

                            And it's all fake. Many of the houses aren't even for sale and the people not buying any house! Like... actually completely fake.

                            Yes, they already bought it, they just move out the furniture. I actually got a realtor who was on that show for House Hunters International for Russia, she hipped me to the program, I hadn't seen much before that.

                            It's neat for the International version only because the US lacks anything like travel television and it provides a very minimal access to that. The locations, at least, are mostly real.

                            I'm the kind of lame person that actually visits places on Travel Channel shows, and No Reservations specifically.

                            Lame.

                            I say from my apartment in Sighisoara at the UNESCO World Heritage citadel site 🙂

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                              tonyshowoff @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              @tonyshowoff said:

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              @tonyshowoff said:

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              @tonyshowoff said:

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              I never liked that show. I mean it was okay, but it wasn't great. It was so formula and cheesy. The two guys did a great job and were good presenters and made it fun in very small doses, but it was like House Hunters, there wasn't any real substance under it.

                              House Hunters you can summarise with: "I don't like this paint, so let's look at a different house."

                              And it's all fake. Many of the houses aren't even for sale and the people not buying any house! Like... actually completely fake.

                              Yes, they already bought it, they just move out the furniture. I actually got a realtor who was on that show for House Hunters International for Russia, she hipped me to the program, I hadn't seen much before that.

                              It's neat for the International version only because the US lacks anything like travel television and it provides a very minimal access to that. The locations, at least, are mostly real.

                              I'm the kind of lame person that actually visits places on Travel Channel shows, and No Reservations specifically.

                              Lame.

                              I say from my apartment in Sighisoara at the UNESCO World Heritage citadel site 🙂

                              I should clarify it's largely because I don't like researching things because I don't have time, but the second wife does so actually I don't really do that much these days, but when I first started travelling I just sort of matched up with what was close to family at first and branched out. My travel plans also go along the lines of what places let me avoid visas with my Bosnian passport or my now-expired Israeli passport, and my frequently-formaly-seized in Serbia Kosovar passport, which nowadays they also just stamp over the stamp for Kosovo with one for Serbia on my Bosnian one.

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                                tonyshowoff @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                @tonyshowoff said:

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                @tonyshowoff said:

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                @tonyshowoff said:

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                I never liked that show. I mean it was okay, but it wasn't great. It was so formula and cheesy. The two guys did a great job and were good presenters and made it fun in very small doses, but it was like House Hunters, there wasn't any real substance under it.

                                House Hunters you can summarise with: "I don't like this paint, so let's look at a different house."

                                And it's all fake. Many of the houses aren't even for sale and the people not buying any house! Like... actually completely fake.

                                Yes, they already bought it, they just move out the furniture. I actually got a realtor who was on that show for House Hunters International for Russia, she hipped me to the program, I hadn't seen much before that.

                                It's neat for the International version only because the US lacks anything like travel television and it provides a very minimal access to that. The locations, at least, are mostly real.

                                I'm the kind of lame person that actually visits places on Travel Channel shows, and No Reservations specifically.

                                Lame.

                                I say from my apartment in Sighisoara at the UNESCO World Heritage citadel site 🙂

                                Do you only have America citizenship, or what's up with that? Do American passports have visa-free travel in the EU or nation specific or whatever? I have no idea. I assume it's visa free across the board but I do get BS at border crossings sometimes in the west, so...

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @tonyshowoff
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                                  @tonyshowoff said:

                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  @tonyshowoff said:

                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  @tonyshowoff said:

                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  @tonyshowoff said:

                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  I never liked that show. I mean it was okay, but it wasn't great. It was so formula and cheesy. The two guys did a great job and were good presenters and made it fun in very small doses, but it was like House Hunters, there wasn't any real substance under it.

                                  House Hunters you can summarise with: "I don't like this paint, so let's look at a different house."

                                  And it's all fake. Many of the houses aren't even for sale and the people not buying any house! Like... actually completely fake.

                                  Yes, they already bought it, they just move out the furniture. I actually got a realtor who was on that show for House Hunters International for Russia, she hipped me to the program, I hadn't seen much before that.

                                  It's neat for the International version only because the US lacks anything like travel television and it provides a very minimal access to that. The locations, at least, are mostly real.

                                  I'm the kind of lame person that actually visits places on Travel Channel shows, and No Reservations specifically.

                                  Lame.

                                  I say from my apartment in Sighisoara at the UNESCO World Heritage citadel site 🙂

                                  Do you only have America citizenship, or what's up with that? Do American passports have visa-free travel in the EU or nation specific or whatever? I have no idea.

                                  That's complex. Technically I'm a dual citizen but currently can only get one passport, US. So for travel purposes I'm just American. The US has visa free travel to a huge portion of the world (EU especially.) I get all of the UE, Balkan states, Central America, most of South America and a huge portion around the rest of the world visa free or "visa on arrival" like Turkey. US citizens, like EU citizens, more or less get to just grab backpacks and go, no forethought needed.

                                  As an American I get six months, no questions asked, in Panama, Canada and the UK and one year in Albania!

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
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                                    I've got school friends in Kosovo, hoping to get to visit them soon.

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                                      tonyshowoff @scottalanmiller
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                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      I've got school friends in Kosovo, hoping to get to visit them soon.

                                      Albanians?

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                                        scottalanmiller @tonyshowoff
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                                        @tonyshowoff said:

                                        @scottalanmiller said:

                                        I've got school friends in Kosovo, hoping to get to visit them soon.

                                        Albanians?

                                        Yes, they work for the government there. In Pristina.

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                                          tonyshowoff @scottalanmiller
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                                          @scottalanmiller said:

                                          @tonyshowoff said:

                                          @scottalanmiller said:

                                          I've got school friends in Kosovo, hoping to get to visit them soon.

                                          Albanians?

                                          Yes, they work for the government there. In Pristina.

                                          I've had a thing for Albanian women in the past, it was ... well like I said I am remarried 😉

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
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                                            We are hoping to make it to Albania proper while we are in the region as well. It's on the distant side of where we are, so is the hardest place for us to get to from here.

                                            Our Schengen visa is maxed out, so we can't cross into Hungary or Greece so we are trapped in the Balkans 🙂

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