Have you ever turned on the TV and everything you end up watching is dark and disturbing? Maybe that's just me, then. So, my regular watching TV 15 hours a day has been thrown off by our friend coming into town yesterday.
So, today, I didn't even watch TV until around noon. I flipped around, and there was the series called "Drugs Inc." This episode was halfway over. It was about ketamine, which I know pretty much nothing about it. Except there's something called a K hole and apparently it's addictive. What I did find out by the end of the show was that prolonged use of K will ruin one's bladder. The one case study that was one of the subjects of the documentary had to have reconstructive surgery. His old bladder had to be removed. He lifted his shirt and showed a scar that ran all the way down his middle. This was from the doctors taking part of his intestine and fashioning a new bladder for him, and then inserting it. So, now he has to use a catheter to piss. Horrible. Don't do drugs kids, and stay in school because school is cool.
The next documentary that I watched the end part of was about mail order brides in the UK. I didn't get to hear exactly how they are classified, but when they go to the UK to marry, they don't become UK citizens. Which means they don't have the same rights that UK citizens have. So, say, they marry a horrible violent man. Which is possible, because the mail order bride agencies aren't very stringent about denying men with a violent record a bride. So, if the mail order bride goes to the police to ask for help, they will basically send the woman back home to the husband. Of course if the husband finds out, then he will beat her. These brides, who a majority are asian, have no idea what they are getting themselves into. A lot of them are desperate and need money for their families. They think that these men must be rich and live in castles and will bestow an enchanted life on them as mail order brides. The opposite is often true. They are doomed to be pent up in small one bedroom flats, to cook and clean and be available for any and every sexual act that the husband would like to indulge in. A lot of the ads will extoll the virtues of the mail order brides - like saying how the asians are submissive, or how they will be a good quiet housewife. Yes, we still are in the dark ages.
The next documentary was about forced marriages also in the UK, but I didn't get to see this one.
So, tonight, I got back to the boob tube, and I started watching the series "Snapped". It's about someone who snaps and trys to kill someone. The first story was about a girl who lived with her dad. She got her boyfriend to help her kill her dad by telling him that her dad beat him, when he really didn't. Her dad had gotten angry at her for using his credit card, so she had had enough. They bashed him with a baseball bat and then rolled him in a duvet and stuffed him upside down in a rubbermaid container. The creepy thing about this girl was the image changes. When she was arrested, she looks like a smart ass teen. During the trial, she does her hair all curly like a perm or something. The footage they show of her makes it look like she doesn't give a fuck. When she gets convicted, she announces that she killed her dad and her boyfriend had nothing to do with it. But when he is tried, he is still found guilty. During his trial, though, she testifies again and tells the court how she killed her dad. This time, her hair is in what looks like corn rows maybe. It is separated and stringy looking, but it's hard to tell. She has all this dark makeup on. The prosecutor asks her what was with the new look. She tells him that she has had that look for a long time. But pictures of her went she is sent to jail look much different.
After that, another Snapped. This one was one I had mostly seen before. These two women were business partners in a lingerie shop that offered private modelling. One woman got sick and told the other to take the business. A while later, the other woman basically got evicted and closed down the store. The other woman got pissed, but didn't really vocalize it. Instead she started shooting at the ex business partner's house. She skipped out on her hearing and went off to hide and start a new life. Eventually she got caught. So, what would have originally been a 5 - 10 year sentence became a 20 sentence with no eligibility for parole. Oooh. Tough break.
The last one was about an older couple that was about to get divorced. Before they could get divorced, the wife murdered the husband, wrapped him in a tarp with duck tape and threw him in the back of her Ford Explorer. When the police searched the house and found the body, she said she killed him in self defense and was in shock and didn't know what to do - for a few days. The problem was, all the wounds were inflicted from the back.
Ah, uplifting Sunday TV. Gotta love it. It's so bad to watch show after show of depressing dark negative shit, but it's so easy to watch one, after the other, after the other, after the other. What is wrong with me that I would do that? I need to watch something sickly sweet to counteract it. Hm... let's see what I can find. Ever heard of some ABC series called "The Middle"? Let's give it a try.
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