OT -- weird cable behavio(u)r

I have noticed 'perky' female voices seem to be the option hirers choose. Are they attractive to males ? I can only think that is the reason, personally I find them irritating.

Besides the fact that the "perky" voices are so irritating is the fact that they describe something and then repeat the descriiption and repeat and repeat and repeat``````````````````````````````````````````````

I seem to run across them mostly in restaurants, places like East Side Marios or Boston Pizza. Some marketing person must have told their people in charge it would be good for business - well this person now avoids those establishments.

I was inclined to that anyway after I discovered to my horror (via a programme called Marketplace) that the calamari appetiser that I usually had for lunch at ESM's, which is very small actually figured out at 1600 calories - ouch !

Blame it all on Katie Couric. Can't stand her voice, never could. But it must appeal to some demographic..

Don't talk to me about calorie counters. DS and DH have become slaves to the calories allowed per day and are driving me nuts. With out exercise, all the calorie counting is a moot point. And after dinner, don't snack. I'm watching what I eat, but I'm also watching when I eat. More at lunch and breakfast when I'm going to use the calories, less at dinner when I'm not.

And at restaurants, they spend ages pouring over the online calorie and sodium counts. Drives me nuts. Skip the starch, eat your salad.

But lots of places could do much better on the amount of added salt.

Another of my pet peeves: quite a few of the hosts of shows aired on HGTV recap what's happened so far when the show begins again after a commercial. Commercial breaks are longer than they used to be but most of us will remember what we've seen. Do we really need this drivel?

It's not just that channel - it's *MOST* channels - Discovery does it on most of their shows (Deadliest Catch, Mythbusters, etc). Fortunately, we have DVR/Tivo, so we can pause during commercials, go potty, get munchies, scoop a few litterboxes, then come back, fast forward through the commercials & the recap, and continue watching. The thing is, with Mythbusters, we're finding that we end up watching it less & less for the "mythbusting" than for the explosions :) Adam is getting just too annoying (and you can see it in Jamie's face sometimes, too)... Personally, I like Grant. Used to see him all the time on BattleBots....

I can't say I count calories, it was the programme which brought it to my attention in the case of the appetiser calamaris. It did not cross my mind that six small rings of squid, resting on shredded lettuce could tot up to that many calories.

I was mostly upset because I regarded that as a lunch time snack and in actual fact it was probably MORE calories than my supper !

I did a little googling - too bad it was fried. Just steamed or raw, it's pretty good.

Dumb it down, dumb it down. Even Nova does it; stops as though there will be a break in viewing and recaps

Adam is overkill. The interaction used to fun, but not any more

Dump the rest of them, keeping just Jamie and Grant. Have Adam "guest" once in a while. Find some "pretty people" with brains to fill in the rest. \ The best thing about programs from the UK (like Time Team or What We Owe ???) is the presenters know the subject and have a real passion for it. Not talking heads