We have to tread lightly here 'cause I kinda' like this thread and this subject could get it locked or moved to the arena, which is a place just off the edge of the world for me (not a participant in that section).
I can give you a couple of hints, as well as the fact that there is more than one 'crazy channel'; there seem to be two predominant ones but one of the 'teams' has more 'crazy' channels, or at least it seems so to me.
Hints, in no particular order:
1) It is loud; because:
a) People are usually screaming at each other and
b) People is plural, so there is more than one person screaming at once
c) the people talking will not stop talking because they have apparently not quite gotten the concept of 'taking turns' or conversing with other people and must be interrupted by the host(s) but they will still not stop so.... the 'opposing force' starts talking, as well as the primary speaker and the host.... all at once.
2) It makes no sense. If something starts to make sense, someone instantly re- directs the screaming in a new, nonsensical, direction.
3) It makes no sense. The contestants in the struggle for loud and obnoxious do not want to talk about a topic or subject, they want to take their own dogma and either pound it into the person(s) on the 'other team's' faces or defend it against the people trying to pound it into their faces.
4) There are only two, extremely rigid (Easy Boys, not one of those crazy channels....) points of view and they are: "fer me" and "agin me".
5) There is no possibility of anyone on any side gaining any new ideas, thoughts, perspectives for the reasons listed above.
That should be enough to identify the genre that I am speaking about. My suggestion would be that no one mention a specific channel but rather allude to one and I will reply with 'cold, cool, warm, hot, bingo' and we will have to leave it at that. If the actual 'Crazy Channel' were to get out, it is going to make 1/2 of the population cranky that I called it the 'Crazy Channel' because they know it is not 'Crazy' at all but evil, well organized and plotting to overthrow.... well, everything I guess. And it will make the other 1/2 of the population cranky because they know it is not 'Crazy' but a perfectly reasonable response to the other team, which is evil, well organized and plotting to overthrow.... well, everything I guess.
And of course if my wife stumbles across this post (not sure if she ever skims this forum or not), there will be some hollerin' at Kirby's house 'cause the 'Crazy Channel' is not crazy at all but a perfectly reasonable and desperately needed response to the evil ones, who are on the other 'Crazy Channel', which is really the 'Evil Channel' and they are well organized and plotting.... well, you know.
WAY OFFTOPIC: I have been getting involved state- level politics lately due to some very specific legislation being proposed in my state. I go to support 'my side', wave the proverbial flag, and sign in an be counted as an 'us' or a 'them' as well as to testify before the judicial committees. I wear one of 'the pins' to mark me as an 'us' (or is it a 'them'?) but I cannot speak with anyone, including my brother, because they are all well and truly insane. I am an American, born and bred, and I truly believe in our basic system, or at least the fundamental rules put in place first in England (our 'revolutionary' ideas were mostly English revolutionary ideas of the 17th century in England before we 'invented' them here) and then in the US when the US became the US. Our Constitution is short yet wise and cunning at the same time. It is as good or better than any other 'rule book' I am aware of, and it even has some really clever and I think superb methods to adapt and change with the times and needs of our society. We have had and continue to have some truly brilliant, gifted and able people helping to guide us and the entire system along; some true giants among men (an expression, of course there have been female giants as well.... this is not a gender thing). And yet we try our best to decide our most serious social issues by.... who can scream the loudest and longest. I think sometimes the last statesman we might have had was (shields up!) Richard Milhous Nixon. Seriously. Sure he was a criminal and yeah, he was going to be impeached, virtually certainly convicted and very likely criminally charged. But look past or through that and see what he actually did: disentangled us from Viet Nam, opened relations (Boys! I am not going to tell you again!) with China (and while that resulted in what we call Taiwan getting tossed as a legitimate 'state' but hey, you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet....) either put in or greatly strengthened the Clean Water Act (we used to have rivers catch on fire, now I think that one both teams have to admit is a bit too much), the Clean Air Act, created a good and truly beneficial financial change by introducing IRA's (bolstering a sagging S.S. system and actually significantly changing the earning to saving ratio in the US) and so on. Lots of truly good stuff. Really. Sure he was a putz and a criminal, and fairly annoying to watch / listen to but overall, I would give him pretty good marks for a post- WWII American President regarding achievements as opposed to an emotional only reaction.
BACK ONTOPIC.... sort of:
And I am typing all this junk because tonight is the night Fargo is on and Fargo has ended for the entire year! A whole Earth year!!! And I am left with..... the 'Crazy Channel', which was just getting loud behind me (guess who is watching TV....).
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a little bit all at the same time.
Brian
Now we need another thread to guess Brian's "Crazy Channel". I'll even supply a prize. A set of OEM rear brake pads still in the original package (I forgot to give them to the guy who bought my C14).