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Do you think there's way too many medicalTV series?
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BunWat wrote: "Shrubs?Its a series about tree surgeons. But the main characters - they're only interns so they aren't allowed to operate on the big trees, just the shrubs. They all envy and try to sleep with ..."
HAHA, nice summary of "Shrubs".
Yes. Then they just toss the pruned part aside. I find myself yelling, "There is still hope! Try some root booster"!
I can't wait!I bet they will have a "No leaf left behind" bumper sticker on the trailer.
They don't do any grafting on there, do they?
BunWat wrote: "I here's there's going to be a spin off, called Propagation Nation. Its about a plucky group of cutting rooters who travel around in an Airstream trailer rescuing pruned bits."Are they gonna be eco-friendly?
Budding, too! Tell him about the budding.
the alien plants are the issue, competition makes the locals jealous
BunWat wrote: "I can't. He ran away.Truth to tell, I'm kind of a ferocious pruner my own self. It's satisfying, wading in there with a pair of loppers, figuring out which branch connects to where, and how to g..."
I have a similar technique and mindset once I get past my initial hesitancy (I can't help having some remorse at the prospect, at first). It turns into a type of strategic battle plan with elements of Jenga thrown in. I do a throw over the shoulder move, too. I do the same with weeds. I am certain I look half mad to my neighbors.
I try to throw the bush prunings on a tarp so that way it is easier to drag to my burn pile which is all the way in the very back of the backyard.
I hate bagging up the clippings!A couple of years ago I grew angry over the neighbor's bush overgrowth strangling my Rose of Sharon bushes on our shared fence line. I attacked with my pruning shears and by the end of the day, after loading up 12 landscaping trash bags, I gave up and became naughty. I started shoving stray limbs back over the fence. I really don't like them but I still felt a little guilty for it.
I should try the bucket technique when I weed. It is just so satisfying to whip them over my shoulder with pure abandon. Fling, see ya!
ah, too many overgrown shrubs outside the house.
Misha wrote: "House and Scrubs are no longer on the air (except in syndicated re-runs) and Private Practice airs its last episode Tuesday, so right now my answer is no. Three years ago, maybe."I read that the guy from Vampire Diaries, David Gillies (Elijah) will be playing a medic in an upcoming CBS show. Medical dramas are like fungi I'm afraid.
I will have to try it. I don't even want to think about my back flower beds right now. The liriope that borders them got crazy towards the end of last year and that stuff is terrible to pull. I always fall back on my butt with the effort needed to get the overgrowth out. Ugh.
There are several shows, reality tv, that could benefit from a tailor, maybe two.
The people I know who are in the medical field always have the most interesting stories.As far as the shows that do not interest me, it is simple, I just don't watch them.
I would probably watch shows about tailors.
BunWat wrote: "Aliyah wrote: "Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, Private Practice and Dr House are all limbs from the same body. Don't like the soap opera dialogue and colleagues having sex with each other per episode. And ..."yeah, I will make a separate topic about crime/ legal dramas. But my point was the repetitive content per episode.
I am a med student and lots of the disorders/ diseases are not as common as depicted in these shows. Also people just don't look flawlessly handsome/ beautiful at hospital wards. And the sexual relations? You'd think that these people would be fired by now.
Misha wrote: "What Bun said. I'm writing on my phone so I won't elaborate. Just, what Bun said. I think there are too many shows about people who live or work in swamps. I don't watch them."
That's also true, also Survivor the biggest culprit
Aliyah, I think you're more attuned to it, because you're in Med school. My husband can't watch anything with programmers without driving me bonkers with the whole "it doesn't work like that!" stuff. And, I've heard that real CSI either laugh or cringe at the shows involving their expertise as it's a load of hooey or at the least extreme exaggeration. I doubt many spies sit around watching old episodes of Alias like me. I really enjoy it though. :) You should try sticking to cool spy stuff.
Misha wrote: "What Bun said. I'm writing on my phone so I won't elaborate. Just, what Bun said.
I think there are too many shows about people who live or work in swamps. I don't watch them."
I think there are too many shows about people who live or work in swamps. I don't watch them."
The Creature from the Black Lagoon!I am so stinkin' proud. Plus, it means I didn't totally confuse the becrapus out of you with my explanation. My husband will sometimes laugh and tell me it is a miracle anyone understands what I am talking about. This cracks me up because I do tend to have a funny way of saying things.
Amelia wrote: "Aliyah, I think you're more attuned to it, because you're in Med school. My husband can't watch anything with programmers without driving me bonkers with the whole "it doesn't work like that!" stu..."I've watched Chuck and its quite entertaining to watch re-runs when I'm bored. I also comment on Greys Anatomy and think to myself that "that doesn't make any sense!" or ",why did X marry/date Y? when they are in fact coworkers handling the same case". I like detective storied like the BBC drama Sherlock. I'm also looking forward to watching SHIELD. Which will be a tv series based on Avengers. By the way are you a member of the intelligence community?
I'll admit to liking Dr. House's irreverance and Hugh Laurie as an actor but I do not care much for the other medical dramas you mention. However, there was a great show here in Canada produced by the CW Network in the US: Emily Owens M.D. It was cancelled after one season. The premise and storyline were different compared to others. Meryl Streep's daughter was the lead as a a geeky young woman finding that her residence work as a M.D. is not much different than her awful life high school. I thought it worked well but audiences disagreed.
I watched Emily Owens, M.D. and thought it was engaging and funny.
That sucks, that it was short-lived. Seems like something I would actually watch.
Loved Emily Owens MD and her hot boss, Michael Rady. Private Practice was an awesome show, it always sparked some heated ethical debates when I'm on quiet night shifts, like that episode when Sheldon had to decide whether to save the life of a client who confessed during his therapy session for pedophilia that he had just taken a bunch of pills to commit suicide because he didn't think he deserved to live anymore.But it's always best when a bunch of colleagues get together for wings night and just talk about our patients and the crazy shift we just had (strictly for educational purposes, of course).
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