We have cable TV here, which means that in addition to the many Thai stations that we don't watch, we get a small selection of English-language TV. We get BBC Asia and CNN Asia, both of which report exhaustively and incessantly on business and financial news. This is generally pretty boring, but I did get to hear a BBC guy reporting on commodities say "nipple crisis" when he meant "nickel prices," so there is that. (Yeah, my sense of humor is still in the third grade. Wanna make something of it?)
We also get Star Movies, which shows a very strange mix of movies. Every movie The Rock has ever made, for one thing. Steven Seagal's complete oeuvre. "Baby Geniuses," "Three Men and a Little Lady," "All Dogs Go to Heaven 2," "Agent Cody Banks," and other movies aimed at kids. And a perplexing collection of romantic comedies starring Jennifer Love Hewitt doing a fake British accent and weighing about 70 pounds.
We also get two Australian channels. One of them looks like a cross between American network TV and PBS--there's a drama about a hospital, there are cop shows and travel shows and documentaries. On the other Australian channel, they seem to show nothing at all but this. This is not like the aerobics shows in the U.S. For one thing, the instructors all seem to be wearing thongs. (And, of course, those great big gleaming white aerobics instructor sneakers.) They do strange exercises too. There's one in which two hot chicks in thongs stand opposite each other and pretend to fight: in rhythm, one punches while the other one ducks, and then they trade positions, going up and down like pistons. There's another one in which male volunteers are pushed and pulled by the hot chicks in thongs. Presumably this has some aerobically sound premise. Husband and I wonder who, exactly, is the target audience for this show.
Anyway, we tend to eat our supper in the true traditional American way: in front of the TV. So each day we flip through our channels to see what our choices are. Generally we've got: Steven Seagal running in front of fire; CNN World Business Report; hot chicks in thongs; BBC Sport (which reports on things like cricket matches between Bangladesh and South Africa, and the interminable Juventus football scandal); and whatever is on the other Australian channel.
We're reviving the lost art of conversation.
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