Fellow Canadians - is there a bigger buzzkill than CBC?

[HEyHEY]

Seriously. You've had a couple and sit down in front of the telly and start flipping. And then you land on some crappy CBC show about (Usually shitty) cultural activities in your area.
Ugh.

[Orrex]

1. I really hate it when some hoser eats all of my back bacon, eh?

[HEyHEY]

3. If your back bacon was eaten, it's your fault for not protecting it

[Orrex]

5. Everything I know about Canada I learned from reading Alpha Flight

That's like a documentary series, right?

[ghostsofgiants]

2. I dunno, they have some good stuff, amidst the crap.

Fun (except not really fun at all) fact: A dude who hosted one of the Newfoundland examples of such lame local culture shows was a neighbour of mine when I was a wee lad, apparently.

[HEyHEY]

4. Of course

But the crap prevails!

See your new national TV reporter BTW? She used to be metro out of Vancouver. She rules!

[ghostsofgiants]

7. I don't have cable in my apartment so I rarely watch any TV news anymore.

Except on lunch during work. So I don't know who's who.

[petronius]

6. Well, I can't speak for Canada, but the way my cable is laid out we have

four religion channels followed by the public access channel. I can't thumb the remote fast enough to get through that wasteland...

(Although occasionally, when the buzz is just right, those religion channels are pretty good. I remember one guy dressed like a cardinal lecturing in front of a chalkboard - it was genius. And I could watch Dr. Gene Scott (God rest his soul) for weeks at a time. ;))

[enigmatic]

8. Strombo and Rick Mercer make up for most of it

Though what do they show here at CBC Deadmonton every day after the noon news? A show called "Living In Calgary"!

[applegrove]

11. Love Stombo & Mercer.

[kedrys]

9. I don't watch it much

If I remember that Mansbridge is on, I usually tune in. I have yet to check out Mercer, but from I've seen on YouTube, I'm missing out on some fine insanity. Dude. :rofl:

[jakefrep]

10. The shitty local cultural activities in Halifax & Cape Breton...

...are more fascinating than some of the shitty local cultural activities in Ohio (where I live).

I get CBC on my local cable. It's listed as CBET out of Windsor, Ontario, but for some reason we get the CBC Atlantic feed :wtf: where everything (except Hockey Night in Canada) is off an hour from the programming guide.