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Yeah, so, History Channel has always been one of the channels I enjoy having on in the background, but they've started scheduling marathons of "Ancient Aliens" and even though I knew all about the meme with the crazy hair guy, I had never really put any attention to the thing.

Oh, blissful ignorance.

This piece of crap now actually causes me PHYSICAL ANGER, I literally clench my fist just seeing the "show" have "experts" invalidate every wondrous thing the human race has ever achieved.

Also, I just saw them say this:



Is proof that the aztecs were helped by aliens and knew of "the god particle". Cause, y'see, the similarity between the aztec calendar and a cross-section of the LHC is UNCANNY (actual quote). The crazy hair guy LITERALLY used "Is it a coincidence? I think not." HE WAS BEING SERIOUS TOO.

ARGHHHHHH

You should watch this:



It was fantastic.

That's the Aztec calendar, I don't know why people insist on calling it the Mayan one. Mayans and Aztecs are NOT the same thing, no matter what Mel Gibson says.

Calleja said:

That's the Aztec calendar, I don't know why people insist on calling it the Mayan one. Mayans and Aztecs are NOT the same thing, no matter what Mel Gibson says.

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So, I'm confused, then. Was it the Aztecs or the Mayans that invented the Oreo cookie?

ThatNickGuy said:

So, I'm confused, then. Was it the Aztecs or the Mayans that invented the Oreo cookie?

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Yeah, I was amazed to see real history on the channel yesterday, my dad was watching a documentary on Teddy Roosevelt.

You should watch the South Park about this show if you haven't, it's hilarious.

CynicismKills said:

You should watch the South Park about this show if you haven't, it's hilarious.

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Oh, I didn't know South Park had taken on Ancient Aliens, it's exactly the type of thing they do best, I must see it, do you know what season and episode it is?

I also have to watch the Debunked video, once I have 3 hours.

Ancient Aliens is deliberate trash.

I fucking hate what has become of History, TLC and others under this new reign of retard TV.

The title is something about Thanksgiving and it's one of the last 3-4 episodes of the later seasons. I can't remember exactly.

Just looked it up on Netflix, it's season 15, "A History Channel Thanksgiving."

Wait, SOUTH PARK IS ON NETFLIX!? THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

I feel dirty because I just made two Rob Schneider references in a row.

Calleja said:

Wait, SOUTH PARK IS ON NETFLIX!? THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

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Seasons 1-15, yeah. Netflix is pretty good with getting tv shows lately.

UHF (film) had a show called volcano worshipped hour. Why can't history have ancient aliens?

I really really love Ancient Aliens. I always put it on a random playlist when I'm going to sleep since I think it gives me awesome dreams.

Also, I hope everything they say in that show is true.

History and TLC just need to change their names and accept that they've got nothing to do with their roots anymore, like SyFy did. We could call them History Conspiracy Channel and The Lobotomy Channel.

Charlie Don't Surf said:

I really really love Ancient Aliens. I always put it on a random playlist when I'm going to sleep since I think it gives me awesome dreams.

Also, I hope everything they say in that show is true.

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Yeah, I mean, I used to like the Pseudo-History and Hitler Channel, but now they've stopped showing all of the WWII history they used to show, so now I suppose it would be the Pseudo-History, Jesus, and Aliens Channel, and that just gets unwieldy. Plus, they don't show nearly enough Modern Marvels anymore. Though I'm still not sure how "Night" and "Dirt" ever managed to be considered either modern or marvels. What I really miss were the Modern Marvel Engineering Disaster episodes. Hell, until I saw one of the episodes, I thought the Love Canal was a disaster involving a state fair flume ride.

It's just funny that the only time there's really history ON the channel is when it's a miniseries/special event.

History Channel is now all about Pawn Stars and Ancient Aliens. With a bit of American Restorarions/Pickers thrown in.

Calleja said:

History Channel is now all about Pawn Stars and Ancient Aliens. With a bit of American Restorarions/Pickers thrown in.

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I love those shows...

Ravenpoe said:

I love those shows...

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I love all those except Ancient Aliens, too. But Ancient Aliens is now so infuriating to me that I'm ok with missing those other ones.

Calleja said:

I love all those except Ancient Aliens, too. But Ancient Aliens is now so infuriating to me that I'm ok with missing those other ones.

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Well, you're right, I hate Ancient Aliens, but I love me some Pawn Stars, and American Restoration/American Pickers isn't bad.

You want to see some real bad shit? Watch Hardcore Pawn on whatever the fuck channel it comes on. Not only is it a total ripoff, it's a terrible one. The pawn shop in Pawn Stars seems to be pretty upscale, but the one in Hardcore Pawn is so sleazy you need some penicillin afterwards.

Pawn Stars can be fun to watch, as much as the internet loves to give them crap for lowballing price offers after their experts come in to verify items. Cajun Pawn Stars was... sad.[DOUBLEPOST=1358560397][/DOUBLEPOST]

How appropriate.

H2 shows Ancient Aliens fyi

Calleja said:

This piece of crap now actually causes me PHYSICAL ANGER, I literally clench my fist just seeing the "show" have "experts" invalidate every wondrous thing the human race has ever achieved.

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Yup, I rage at that show whenever I see a clip.

"We can't explain how this was created, therefore Aliens must have done it!"

Then they offer absolutely no proof to back up their claims. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Charlie Don't Surf said:

H2 shows Ancient Aliens fyi

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We only have one History Channel down here, and it's Ancient Aliens and Pawn Stars allll daaaay loooong

General Specific said:

Yup, I rage at that show whenever I see a clip.

"We can't explain how this was created, therefore Aliens must have done it!"

Then they offer absolutely no proof to back up their claims. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

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Well obviously mankind is not capable doing anything on its own so we are just gonna have to wait for the aliens to come in with the evidence to back up our claims.

That is the biggest issue with that damn show. It lessens the amazing accomplishments of humanity. I hate that some people are more apt to jump to "aliens did it" than "man, some of these ancient societies were brilliant".

Hell, it's still happening to this day with people claiming that everything from cell phones to stealth aircraft came from tech stolen from crashed UFOs at Area 51.

It's sad that these people can't concieve of humans being capable enough to produce technology.

They were saying the other day that Leonardo Da Vinci was actually given his designs by aliens, possibly even abducted cause there was a period of time we "don't know where he was" or something. Not even geniuses can be human to these fuckers.

Bowielee said:

That is the biggest issue with that damn show. It lessens the amazing accomplishments of humanity. I hate that some people are more apt to jump to "aliens did it" than "man, some of these ancient societies were brilliant".

Hell, it's still happening to this day with people claiming that everything from cell phones to stealth aircraft came from tech stolen from crashed UFOs at Area 51.

It's sad that these people can't concieve of humans being capable enough to produce technology.

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American exceptionalism at its finest.

"We didn't do that, so NO HUMAN COULD DO IT. Ergo, aliens."

Wahad said:

American exceptionalism at its finest.

"We didn't do that, so NO HUMAN COULD DO IT. Ergo, aliens."

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yeah, I do really bristle at the show's HUMONGOUS privilege and condescension to all non-white cultures

but then again there are episodes about how all the Nazi tech is aliens, how the founding fathers had aliens, and Leonardo DaVinci, the smartest white dude in history.......................aliens.

Fuckin' every new thread. Shit is getting tiresome.

I didn't even bring it up this time for the record

Liar.

I was not entirely serious about it, but in Charlie's defense, he was indeed not the first to bring it up.

Charlie Don't Surf said:

yeah, I do really bristle at the show's HUMONGOUS privilege and condescension to all non-white cultures

but then again there are episodes about how all the Nazi tech is aliens

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Charlie, that's because the Nazis weren't white, they were super-white. That's a whole different color of white.

The Nazis were a little too white...







aliens??!?!

Charlie Don't Surf said:

The Nazis were a little too white...







aliens??!?!

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I wish I could find that Louis CK bit about how white people must be from another planet, because we're not really comfortable here...

Do they talk about the naga and connect it to the reptiloid conspiracy in that show? Cos thats one of my favorite conspiracies.

Just because I hate to throw out disagrees with no explination, they are for the knee jerk Charlie hate.

Seriously, there are so many legitimate reasons to rag on him there's no need to do it in a thread that he's actually not being a dickhole in.

Another round of "I hate white people" racism is absolutely him being a dickhole. And I'm not the only one tired of his bullshit.

It was in so many threads in a row last night, that yeah, it was starting to get pretty annoying.

DarkAudit said:

Another round of "I hate white people" racism is absolutely him being a dickhole. And I'm not the only one tired of his bullshit.

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Kneejerk. You obviously didn't read his posts. I'm all for calling Charlie on his bullshit, but in this thread he actually made a counterpoint to the person who brought up the white privalege thing.

Wahad even admits at the very top of this page that he's the one who brought it up, not Charlie.

I read it. And it reads the same as so many of his other posts.

By his own admission, he is not here to truly be a constructive member of this community, and his very presence came from ill intent.

By this very discussion, we've both fallen into his trap. It's up to the mods to see through the crap and put a leash on the little bastard.

Assuming of course this post isn't the one pruned instead.

I sure hopes the mods are less biased than you seem to be when considering reported posts. Like I said, I'm all for calling him out when he's being an a-hole, but I'm not for witch hunts.

Bowielee said:

I sure hopes the mods are less biased than you seem to be when considering reported posts. Like I said, I'm all for calling him out when he's being an a-hole, but I'm not for witch hunts.

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The bias is with good reason. He already self-reported as a "witch". So his credibility with me is nil.

And that's all I've got to say about that. This thread is for other whack jobs.

Why is Charlie being nicer in this thread than usual?





Aliens.

IT ALL FITS!

Conspiracies are fun, but I hate them so much. It's like there's a conspiracy of stupid people trying to take away de value of the many great things humanity has accomplished and, worst of all, trying to hold it back from everything it could do in the future.
Wait, that's just stupid people being stupid. This one's better: there's a conspiracy of people who hate all societal and technological advance and so they promote these conspiracy theories to undo it*.

*No there isn't.

tegid said:

*No there isn't.

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That's just what they want us to think!