Author Topic: New TV Season  (Read 5429 times)

0 Members and 3 Guests are viewing this topic.

Online Spike The Hike Shady

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9004
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #135 on: January 23, 2023, 06:21:01 pm »
Anybody watch The Curse of Oak Island? 

Offline Michael Hardner

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12463
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #136 on: January 23, 2023, 09:03:36 pm »
Anybody watch The Curse of Oak Island?

I think that I saw a show in the 70s about that place.  Did they ever solve the mystery?

Online Spike The Hike Shady

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9004
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #137 on: January 24, 2023, 10:04:48 am »
I think that I saw a show in the 70s about that place.  Did they ever solve the mystery?
Not really.  But some of the things they’ve found on the island are incredible.  A stone road that was excavated estimated to be several hundred years old.  Roman and Chinese coins, a 400 year old lead crucifix traced back to France, etc.

Offline Michael Hardner

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12463
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #138 on: January 24, 2023, 12:11:44 pm »
Not really.  But some of the things they’ve found on the island are incredible.  A stone road that was excavated estimated to be several hundred years old.  Roman and Chinese coins, a 400 year old lead crucifix traced back to France, etc.

Noice.  Are those things shown in the doc ?  I could probably get buy in from the Mrs. on this one if she hasn't heard of it

Offline Squidward von Squidderson

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5630
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #139 on: January 24, 2023, 12:41:54 pm »
Anybody watch The Curse of Oak Island?

It’s a fake, dramatized show that appeals to the gullible and those who watch fake history on tv, but would never pick up a  properly researched book.

Quote
Few seem bothered by the fact that there is no reason to believe there has ever been treasure on Oak Island. Skeptics call it “Hoax Island,” because for two centuries, the obsessed and gullible—including former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt—have been persuaded by the flimsiest evidence, stories told by pseudohistorians and treasure hunters, to invest millions of dollars in digs.

Historian Dan Conlin, who wrote about the island in his 2009 book Pirates of the Atlantic and teaches a class on it at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, is blunt. “It’s nothing beyond an interesting example of pop culture obsession and greed,” he says. “There’s nothing there beyond a natural sinkhole filled up with 200 years of junk from treasure hunting. It’s just the generations of treasure hunters who have created a self-sustaining myth that keeps going and going.”
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/treasure-hunters-flock-to-oak-island-where-no-one-has-ever-found-treasure/amp/

Online Spike The Hike Shady

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9004
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #140 on: January 24, 2023, 12:45:35 pm »
It’s a fake, dramatized show that appeals to the gullible and those who watch fake history on tv, but would never pick up a  properly researched book.
 https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/treasure-hunters-flock-to-oak-island-where-no-one-has-ever-found-treasure/amp/
It’s not fake.  They carbon date many things that have been discovered.  Unless you’re one of those religious crazies that don’t believe in carbon dating.  But I couldn’t care less whether there’s any vast treasure there.  I’m more interested in the various countries that were there a few hundred years ago.  That’s a great conspiracy theory you’ve got there!

Offline Black Dog

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9069
  • Location: Deathbridge
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #141 on: January 24, 2023, 01:09:00 pm »
It’s not fake.  They carbon date many things that have been discovered.  Unless you’re one of those religious crazies that don’t believe in carbon dating.  But I couldn’t care less whether there’s any vast treasure there.  I’m more interested in the various countries that were there a few hundred years ago.  That’s a great conspiracy theory you’ve got there!

Lmao

Quote
The Curse of Oak Island, which comes from the same production company that produces the hit pseudohistory series Ancient Aliens, presents various outlandish theories, especially those centred on the Knights Templar, a disbanded European religious order that Dan Brown put at the heart of his best-selling thriller, The Da Vinci Code. “It’s classic pseudohistory. It’s taking archeological sites out of context, building on coincidences and speculation with no real evidence,” says Conlin.

Otherwise serious journalists help keep the stories alive. CBC’s The Current recently aired a book promotion interview with American journalist Randall Sullivan, who worked on the series. He thinks that the island may contain proof that Francis Bacon wrote William Shakespeare’s plays.

Conlin can’t make himself watch the Oak Island show because it is so absurd. “I saw one expert they brought in holding up a railway spike … and saying, this is the keel spike of a Spanish galleon,” says Conlin.

Between this and your defence of the Netflix Atlantis show, one really gets a sense of your media habits and why you are the way you are (extremely dumb).
Winner Winner x 1 View List

Offline Squidward von Squidderson

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5630
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #142 on: January 24, 2023, 02:43:36 pm »
Shady thinks Muppets - Treasure Island is a documentary!

Online Spike The Hike Shady

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9004
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #143 on: January 24, 2023, 02:49:50 pm »
People’s wild theories have nothing to do with the actual archeological work that’s been done.  Carbon dated wood is carbon dated wood.  Chinese, Spanish, British coins, are coins.  It doesn’t mean there is some kind of treasure there, but there is evidence of extensive work by various groups of people that’s very interesting.  It’s sad that you children get so distracted by fables.
Dumb Dumb x 1 View List

Offline Squidward von Squidderson

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5630
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #144 on: January 25, 2023, 10:48:24 am »
there is evidence of extensive work by various groups of people that’s very interesting.

When they hold up a railroad spike and say it came off a ship, that’s not “evidence” of ships.  It’s evidence they’re full of sh!t.  But you don’t question what you see on tv. 

Do you watch the alien show that the same people make?
Dumb Dumb x 1 View List

Online Spike The Hike Shady

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9004
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #145 on: January 25, 2023, 11:04:00 am »
When they hold up a railroad spike and say it came off a ship, that’s not “evidence” of ships.  It’s evidence they’re full of sh!t.  But you don’t question what you see on tv. 

Do you watch the alien show that the same people make?
That’s not what happens.  Long planks of wood are carbon tested, and the totality of artifacts found, including a ships wharf are studied and hypothesis are made.  But I get it, it’s a giant conspiracy, between the federal government, the Nova Scotia government and academic institutions like Acadia University, to fool everyone! 😂

Look, it’s obvious you’ve never watched the show for any length of time, and there’s ok.  But you’re grossly ill informed as to how the show works.

Offline Black Dog

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9069
  • Location: Deathbridge
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #146 on: January 25, 2023, 11:21:55 am »
That’s not what happens.  Long planks of wood are carbon tested, and the totality of artifacts found, including a ships wharf are studied and hypothesis are made.  But I get it, it’s a giant conspiracy, between the federal government, the Nova Scotia government and academic institutions like Acadia University, to fool everyone! 😂

Look, it’s obvious you’ve never watched the show for any length of time, and there’s ok.  But you’re grossly ill informed as to how the show works.

A veritable multiverse of quality TV options across dozens of platforms and you're watching History Channel junk, that's the real Boomer mindset

Offline Squidward von Squidderson

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5630
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #147 on: January 26, 2023, 10:24:33 am »
That’s not what happens.  Long planks of wood are carbon tested, and the totality of artifacts found, including a ships wharf are studied and hypothesis are made.  But I get it, it’s a giant conspiracy, between the federal government, the Nova Scotia government and academic institutions like Acadia University, to fool everyone! 😂

Look, it’s obvious you’ve never watched the show for any length of time, and there’s ok.  But you’re grossly ill informed as to how the show works.

You really do think it’s real….  you’re actually being sincere in showing how truly stupid you are.   Do you believe the other shows on History?  Ancient Aliens?  Bigfoot?

Online Spike The Hike Shady

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9004
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #148 on: January 26, 2023, 10:48:08 am »
You really do think it’s real….  you’re actually being sincere in showing how truly stupid you are.   Do you believe the other shows on History?  Ancient Aliens?  Bigfoot?
I don’t know what you mean by believe it’s real.  Do I believe there’s a vast treasure?  I highly doubt it.  Do I believe Europeans were there a few hundred years ago?  Yes, the evidence is quite clear.  Are you suggesting that Acadia University is faking carbon dating data?  That’s quite a conspiracy! 😂😂😂

Offline Michael Hardner

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12463
Re: New TV Season
« Reply #149 on: March 05, 2023, 04:14:11 pm »
Last of Us... I was set to give about a 5/10 when someone convinced me that acting, direction, cinematography, and scenery count.

But originality... No.
Disagree Disagree x 1 View List