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Ranorak

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Picture, if you will. It's 2:30 at night.
I'm watching some tv, and as is normal here in the Netherlands, after 1:30 the regular programming of the big commercial networks stops and is replaced with phone-sex ads.
Now, this is a pretty normal thing, and anyone over 16 years old who still gets a boner from watching a girl rub a Nokia 3310 across her bare chest, should be slightly worried.
So after hearing another woman moan suggestively what number to call to listen to a fictive story I press the channel up button again, to move from channel 6 towards my end goal of 11, where I have Comedy Central who is currently on a commercial break.
A few more channels of moaning girls pass me but I pay no attention to them any more.
These commercials are boring, and hardly arousing. But, I think to myself, they must be working on someone. Seeing as how about 6 major channels broadcast them each and every night.
Then I finally hit channel 11, and I see the all too familiar commercial about a electric power supplier.
"Ik zeg, doen!" any Dutchman, you know the one.
But before I can react to that, I go back a channel.
There was something odd about 10.
There was a girl, a phone number, and assuming a Nokia 3310.
But she was wearing clothes. And she was a lot older then the previous girls.
I noticed the title ASTRO-tv.

This is a physic-hotline.
And people are calling it, live, at 2:30 at night.
And take it seriously.

All drowsiness that was so useful a moment ago pops out of my head as I realize;
There are people, at 2:30, that seem to take a physic-hotline seriously, while it airs between nothing but prostitutes and phone-sex. They actually call these people for advice, who's sole business success was getting a air slot in with the smut.
I listened to the phone call she was halfway in answering, She saw the spirits had good things in store for this (assuming) middle aged, single woman. Financial success and if she followed the path of her guarding spirit, even love.
I was somewhat dumbstruck by the epiphany, so much that I actually missed the beginning of the second half of Married With Children.

Heh, Al Bundy is joining the senior citizen marathon.
 

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Ranorak said:
Picture, if you will. It's 2:30 at night.
I'm watching some tv, and as is normal here in the Netherlands, after 1:30 the regular programming of the big commercial networks stops and is replaced with phone-sex ads.
Now, this is a pretty normal thing, and anyone over 16 years old who still gets a boner from watching a girl rub a Nokia 3310 across her bare chest, should be slightly worried.
So after hearing another woman moan suggestively what number to call to listen to a fictive story I press the channel up button again, to move from channel 6 towards my end goal of 11, where I have Comedy Central who is currently on a commercial break.
A few more channels of moaning girls pass me but I pay no attention to them any more.
These commercials are boring, and hardly arousing. But, I think to myself, they must be working on someone. Seeing as how about 6 major channels broadcast them each and every night.
Then I finally hit channel 11, and I see the all too familiar commercial about a electric power supplier.
"Ik zeg, doen!" any Dutchman, you know the one.
But before I can react to that, I go back a channel.
There was something odd about 10.
There was a girl, a phone number, and assuming a Nokia 3310.
But she was wearing clothes. And she was a lot older then the previous girls.
I noticed the title ASTRO-tv.

This is a physic-hotline.
And people are calling it, live, at 2:30 at night.
And take it seriously.

All drowsiness that was so useful a moment ago pops out of my head as I realize;
There are people, at 2:30, that seem to take a physic-hotline seriously, while it airs between nothing but prostitutes and phone-sex. They actually call these people for advice, who's sole business success was getting a air slot in with the smut.
I listened to the phone call she was halfway in answering, She saw the spirits had good things in store for this (assuming) middle aged, single woman. Financial success and if she followed the path of her guarding spirit, even love.
I was somewhat dumbstruck by the epiphany, so much that I actually missed the beginning of the second half of Married With Children.

Heh, Al Bundy is joining the senior citizen marathon.


This kind of crap is common here and it actually gets justified as more and more morning talk shows get their own magic users and let people call them live and ask the magic users questions.
There are tarot card users, cosmos-pseudo-scientists, letter reader... all kinds of crap running amok in 10 AM till 2 PM when most of the people watching are unemployed people.
It's like having ten times more lottery stands in poor neighborhoods than rich neighborhoods.
Hope sells.
You wouldn't believe how many mistakes they have live.
 

Tanis

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How many people buy Madden every year?

Yeah....people are stupid.
 

Ranorak

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Don't they see the porn?
I mean, I can understand the porn makes money. Teenagers who don't realize mommy and daddy will eventually ask for the phone-bill and people without internet.

But... REALLY?!
I know I'm not suppose to be shocked about this.
I've seen people do stupid things, and buy stupid things before.

But this is like walking into a store called We're Gonna Rip You Off, and then do a down-payment on the statue of liberty you just bought, twice.
 
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Ranorak said:
Don't they see the porn?
I mean, I can understand the porn makes money. Teenagers who don't realize mommy and daddy will eventually ask for the phone-bill and people without internet.

But... REALLY?!
I know I'm not suppose to be shocked about this.
I've seen people do stupid things, and buy stupid things before.

But this is like walking into a store called We're Gonna Rip You Off, and then do a down-payment on the statue of liberty you just bought, twice.
It is called a fetish. It is just what some people are into it has nothing to do with being stupid. Trust me there are weirder fetishes out there. Although why they can't do this with their significant other is beyond me.
 

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one of the best ways to enjoy pychic hotline shows is to text in some texts that take the piss but are subtle enough that they won't notice, like texting in "how can i be less gullible"
 

Ranorak

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Glademaster said:
Ranorak said:
Don't they see the porn?
I mean, I can understand the porn makes money. Teenagers who don't realize mommy and daddy will eventually ask for the phone-bill and people without internet.

But... REALLY?!
I know I'm not suppose to be shocked about this.
I've seen people do stupid things, and buy stupid things before.

But this is like walking into a store called We're Gonna Rip You Off, and then do a down-payment on the statue of liberty you just bought, twice.
It is called a fetish. It is just what some people are into it has nothing to do with being stupid. Trust me there are weirder fetishes out there. Although why they can't do this with their significant other is beyond me.
I wasn't referring to the porn in the second half, but to the physic hotline.
Like I said, I can understand the sexlines making a profit.

I do notice that I wrote that sort of confusing.
 

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Hello, fullow Dutchman, and I say: Because there are people who believe this. Now, I have nothing against faith,but when people so fiercely believe in what is in every way a scam, they lose my sympathy.

And thus i choose to ignore them.
 
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Ranorak said:
Glademaster said:
Ranorak said:
Don't they see the porn?
I mean, I can understand the porn makes money. Teenagers who don't realize mommy and daddy will eventually ask for the phone-bill and people without internet.

But... REALLY?!
I know I'm not suppose to be shocked about this.
I've seen people do stupid things, and buy stupid things before.

But this is like walking into a store called We're Gonna Rip You Off, and then do a down-payment on the statue of liberty you just bought, twice.
It is called a fetish. It is just what some people are into it has nothing to do with being stupid. Trust me there are weirder fetishes out there. Although why they can't do this with their significant other is beyond me.
I wasn't referring to the porn in the second half, but to the physic hotline.
Like I said, I can understand the sexlines making a profit.

I do notice that I wrote that sort of confusing.
Oh the psychic thing em belief, for the lulz or someone double dared them to call.
 

Ambi

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Yep, people pay money to masturbate while talking to an old woman.

I also noticed rows of homeopathic pills at the chemist today. Homeopathic pills do absolutely nothing but cause a placebo effect.
 

Kenko

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Ranorak said:
This is a physic-hotline.
And people are calling it, live, at 2:30 at night.
And take it seriously.
Not to be an annoying douché but its "Psychic". Physics are a completley different matter alltogether.
 

Woodsey

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People are idiots.

At least I can very slightly see why someone could believe in religion, but whereas that can be shrugged off with the hordes of contradictions and inaccuracies, you easily prove psychics are full of shit, and people have done time and again.
 

kasperbbs

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Youre lucky this shit airs only at night, where i live they show these dumbasses on so called serious shows during the day and take it seriously, there was even a guy that claimed he predicted japans earthquake among other things, sadly he didn't bother telling anyone about it until it happened, go figure.
 

hyker

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I suddenly want to watch all married with children episodes
which season was that marathon in? 4th, 5th?
 

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Kenko said:
Ranorak said:
This is a physic-hotline.
And people are calling it, live, at 2:30 at night.
And take it seriously.
Not to be an annoying douché but its "Psychic". Physics are a completley different matter alltogether.
ahh thats what he meant I totally took that the wrong way then

OT:I see none of these where I live
 

iphonerose

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Kenko said:
Ranorak said:
This is a physic-hotline.
And people are calling it, live, at 2:30 at night.
And take it seriously.
Not to be an annoying douché but its "Psychic". Physics are a completley different matter alltogether.
Not to be an annoying douché but altogether is spelled 'altogether'. Nice play on words though with 'matter' but I thought chemistry was the study of matter, no? Well...that's what breaking bad has taught me. Maybe physics is too