Dr. Phil, never heard of him until I found this quote by him ...
"We've got epidemic levels of oral sex in the middle schools."
Really????? When I was in Jr high kids were having sex not just oral sex. Dude its so funny. How does he know it's epidemic anyway. Dr Phil cracks me up.
I have news for people. I started college in 1965 and graduated in 1969. That was, supposedly, when free love began and the sexual revolution vaulted to its heights. There were books with titles like, "Sex and the Single Girl." I read, "Sex and the College Girl," to prepare myself for the future.
A firend from the University of Michigan, allegedly a hot bed of sex, was, as a freshman, dating a senior. She had allowed him to touch her breasts and was upset that his plans included grad school in CA because she never thought of herself as "wild." Another friend, this one at Marygrove, had a similiar experience as the sophomore girlfriend of a senior. She, too, worried about allowing him to touch her breasts.
Kids do need to be warned that AIDS can be contracted through oral sex, esp., since the groups experiencing the largest growth of the disease are young teens and boomers.
12 and 13 year olds were getting pregnant at my school in 1969.
Good middle class neighbourhood.
Nothin' new under the sun.
I once overheard a woman say that Dr.Phil looks like "penis wearing a suit"-
I agree. I guess I'm responding to both the "what Dr.Phil looks like" and the oral sex part of this thread.
What ever happened to the Weight Lose Challenge people - did they ever do an update show? Did they all keep it off?
he's a huckster...but I can stand him....
It cracks me up when people spend time hating something that they don't even have to expose themselves to.
I haven't seen his show much - if we have the TV on it is something toddler appropriate - but it seems to me that he basically tells people to quit feeling sorry for themselves.
Thats pretty good advice.
I can't understand why anyone would be offended by him.
Of course, I can't understand why anyone would go on one of those type of shows anyway.
for the 15 minutes and the ca$h is my guess...
The shows don't pay "cash"--just expenses.
I think Dr. Phill sucks, I'm tired of seeing his ugly face durring the News Hour.
I actually think Dr. Phil is popular because this nation needs father figures and Maurie just doesn't cut it.
Dr. Phil and Ellen are good indicators of what American daytime TV watchers evidently relate to. Can you imagine such a large group?
I prefer to relate to women that view nightime TV and relate to shows like Desperate Wives and Third Watch. That's the group I'm in. A smaller, more sophisticated group. Most of us are college grads.
Jack -- Obviously, your being satirical. I find it hard to believe that anyone with a college education could watch 75% of the dramas and 98% of the comedies.
I assume by Ellen, you mean Ellen Degeneris. Have caught her shows a couple of times when school is not in session and I needed company while ironing. It's a cut above most interview shows, despite the time of day.
I wouldn't consider watching Restless Housewives!
It's desperate Housewives, not restless plainoldme.
These are desperate women, believe me. You should watch it. Especially if you enjoy watching one or two beautiful women being desperate. There are actually 4 or 5 women on the show but only two of them are interesting. Too me anyway.
Also, although not advertised, Desperate Housewives also illustrates husbands and lovers that are the sappiest, spineless, metrosexual men imaginable.
I am going to lower my class today and watch Ellen the pervert only because Tina Turner is going to be on. I like Tina Turner.
I'd hate it: I hate obvious things, like disaster movies, most American detective shows, etc.
I thought you were being facetious, because Desperate or Restless or whatever the hell they are is as much drek as the reality shows.
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no plainoldme. I shouldn't have to bring this up, but obviously you need to put yourself in the right frame of mind for Desperate housewives. I don't believe there are many situations like the ones portrayed in the show, at least I hope not. If there are? Society is not what I thought it was.
No, when I watch the show I am thinking how nice it would be to have those two good looing, desperate housewife women living on my street. In fact sometimes during my walks I scope out women if they happen to be, you know, getting in or out of their cars, working in their gardens what have you. Just to see if there might be a hint of desperation about them. Of course I would never act on their desperation. I just like to see if it is there.
Reality shows? Another indicator of how many low class people there are in the country. A large group of people must watch those reality shows because they keep coming back. You know what the deep, hidden reason for producing those horrible shows was? Weak men. Yes, men that are so weak, so spineless they probably never have served in the military, been shot at or shot someone. The get up in their thirties and realize they are incomplete people. That goes for all the male viewers to. Incomplete men, seeking adventure. Same thing with guys that go in for dirt bikes, off road vehicles, surfing, snowboarding, etc. You see them all the time.
Suffice it to say plainoldeme, you would never see ME watching a reality show.
I temped at public radio station WBUR most of 2000, which may have been the year that "Survivor" first appeared. Anyway, one night, I was trying to find, "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and wasn't sure which channel it was on. I found Survivor and watched a few minutes of it. The ridiculous thing that was going on involved moving mud. The contestants could only use their bodies and they were coating their hair with mud and stuffing it into bikini tops and bottoms. It was pretty obvious that the purpose was to titillate. Really stupid. I quickly found Whose Line and was much happier.
The next day, at WBUR, I was putting the traffic sheets into their slot in the production room for the night crew when one of the engineers asked if anyone had ever seen a reality show. I told him about my experience and the guys laughed and said that was the sort of thing they expected.
Why people want to watch programs where contestants are made fools of or put in potentially dangerous situations is beyond me.
I temped at public radio station WBUR most of 2000, which may have been the year that "Survivor" first appeared. Anyway, one night, I was trying to find, "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and wasn't sure which channel it was on. I found Survivor and watched a few minutes of it. The ridiculous thing that was going on involved moving mud. The contestants could only use their bodies and they were coating their hair with mud and stuffing it into bikini tops and bottoms. It was pretty obvious that the purpose was to titillate. Really stupid. I quickly found Whose Line and was much happier.
The next day, at WBUR, I was putting the traffic sheets into their slot in the production room for the night crew when one of the engineers asked if anyone had ever seen a reality show. I told him about my experience and the guys laughed and said that was the sort of thing they expected.
Why people want to watch programs where contestants are made fools of or put in potentially dangerous situations is beyond me.
They certainly do, and they don't care whether it is negative or positive.
