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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Miscellany

Published: 25 January 2017

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• TV,
• Movies,
• romantic,
• Feeloading,

A few nights, at the end of the tour, couch surfing. It's got it's advantages, you're not paying rent, it's warmer (when it's -26 outside) than sleeping in the jeep, but it's got it's drawbacks as well. 

The first of which is that most people's couches are positioned directly in front of their TV, and you have to wait until their day is done before you can go to bed. And most people seem to watch TV until midnight...or so. And so your night grows long with the idiocy of others that you'd never think to subscribe to but are victimized by nonetheless.

The TV here, it's always on. Choose whatever you want to watch, just don't shut it off...there's nothing on, it's the local networks, there's no cable here. Bad bible themed channels and Canadian dramas like "Murdoch Mysteries" and "Michael: Every Day" and "City TV" that make you nostalgic for the golden years of Canadian TV-Shows like "The Littlest Hobo" and "The Beachcombers".

But she's got Netflix, and the nephew warned me that I wouldn't believe the shit they watch and sure enough, I'm here, on the couch, I'm watching everything that they watch. And yeah, truly it's unbelievable. It's like they don't understand how the rating system works: "How to make an American Quilt" - the first movie I've seen that I can honestly say was worse than the Titanic. "Under a Tuscan Sun", not bad, but we've kinda killed that, haven't we?. And when I'm given the controls, choose a film, I have to stay within the prescribed limits of romance or comedy, preferably both, thrillers, suspense, action, intelligence, drama, they're all out, and so i end up selecting the "Ridiculous Six", with Adam Sandler, damn that Adam Sandler, it's exactly what I should have expected. Only they're pleased at my good taste...

Now I get recommendations - things like "5 to 7", which is so low budget that you can see bystanders in the background ducking and getting out of the frame, they're not actors, didn't intend on being in this , if they knew what a load of shit this was they'd move a lot quicker, let me tell you, and I'm expected to rave favorably about it, things like "so romantic" and "so true" and "why can't we be more like Americans imagine French people to be like" and all I can think is that this is bloody nonsense and somebody should be held accountable for setting the bar sooo low...