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It was a rare evening, in which I actually found myself at home, with pretty much nothing to do.\u00a0 Usually, whenever this has been the case, I\u2019ve spent said time and then some playing\u00a0League of Legends<\/em>, but I\u2019ve kind of been on a hiatus from playing lately, and I didn\u2019t really feel like getting drawn into the time suck LoL can occasionally be.\u00a0 I was caught up on wrestling, the laundry was all done, the dog was empty, the pets all fed, and no need to brog.\u00a0 So I turned on the television, with no objective ahead; naturally, I guided the schedule to see what was on TLC.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy Fat Saved My Life<\/em>,\u201d followed by \u201cExtreme Time Cheaters.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 I set my DVR to record both shows, and then I went and did something else, because of course I didn\u2019t actually spend my time watching television, live, and subjecting myself to actually having to\u00a0watch<\/em>\u00a0commercials.\u00a0\u00a0Plssssss<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So when I had more time at another time, I went back to watch these shows, because they clearly seemed like they had the potential to be sadistically entertaining to me.\u00a0 Honestly, at first blush, I was more excited by the show about fat people, because TLC shows about fat people have already gotten a good rap with me so far, but to be honest, I wasn\u2019t really that impressed by My Fat Saved My Life.\u00a0 The title pretty much explains it all, because it\u2019s just a series of short stories, naturally poorly reenacted, about people who were involved in catastrophic incidents in which normal people should have died, but solely on account of their massive girths, they somehow inexplicably survive.<\/span><\/p>\n One woman was so fat that she couldn\u2019t wear a seatbelt when she drove.\u00a0 But she still managed to wedge herself into a driving position, regardless. She got t-boned one day, but because of her monstrous mass, instead of getting ejected from the passenger window like a normal-sized person not wearing a seatbelt would, she kind of just got stuck in the car and survived.\u00a0 Sure, it required the jaws of life to extract her, and she made sure to point out all of the bystanders judging her when being carted away, but she survived.<\/span><\/p>\n Another guy was this fat bar owner who was staying in a hotel, while out of town for a darts tournament.\u00a0 After getting bounced in the first round, he and his friends got absolutely shit-faced at the hotel bar.\u00a0 Drunk out of his mind, he went sprinting down the hallway on the 17th floor, and on account of diminished depth perception, ended up running through and out the window at the end of the hallway, and falling 17 stories, landing face-first on the concrete sidewalk.\u00a0 Inexplicably, he survived, solely based on the fact that his girth, created something of an impact dampener, thus absorbing the energy that would have made the fall lethal.\u00a0 Sure, he broke numerous bones and damaged some internal organs, but he\u00a0survived a seventeen-story fall\u00a0<\/em>because he was fat.<\/span><\/p>\n I turned off the show at this point, because it really wasn\u2019t that interesting.\u00a0 But seeing the preview for\u00a0Extreme Time Cheaters<\/em>, where a man liquified all of his food, because it was faster to consume, a woman who shaved her legs in the pool, and a man determined to get in-and-out of a grocery store in under 15 minutes, seemed like there was some potential for some genuine train wreck television.<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, the show was way more intriguing than I thought it would be; easily superior over How Fat Saved My Life, in terms of entertainment by watching people doing cringe-worthy things.<\/span><\/p>\n The guy who liquified all of his food to save time consuming it also turned out to do laundry just four times a year; subsequently, he had a massive wardrobe, consisting of among other things, 125 pairs of the exact same socks and underwear, because his logic was that instead of spending 4 hours a week doing laundry, why not spend 4 hours every 4 months doing ALL the laundry?\u00a0 And in true TLC fashion, they create a scenario where he tries to go on a date with someone unaware of his idiosyncrasies, and the awkward nature of watching a date transpire, before she ultimately grows impatient.<\/span><\/p>\n Pool leg shaver woman, turned out to be a schedule-obsessive time micromanager, who literally schedules her entire life to a T.\u00a0 From scheduling time for sex, time to schedule the schedule, among other activities, there\u2019s absolutely no part of the day that isn\u2019t accounted for on her schedules.\u00a0 Her scenario is how she plans an extremely tightly scheduled birthday party for her husband, where all activities including arrival, mingling, food, pool party, cake and departure are completely scheduled, and her wimpy husband goes along with it, because the payoff for staying on schedule, is alluded to be, sex.\u00a0 Who cares what all of his friends think about being rushed and herded like cattle??<\/span><\/p>\n And then the third guy is a guy obsessed with counting his steps, because he equates steps to time, and the lower number of steps to accomplish, anything, meaning less time spent doing it.\u00a0 He configures his home to where anything and everything can be accomplished with minimal number of steps taken in between them, and subjects his two sons to his obsessive compulsive behavior, like sending one of his sons to camp a spot in a grocery store line, while he and his other son execute a carefully prepared route of the store in order to pick up everything on a list.<\/span><\/p>\n The payoff for all these \u201ccontestants\u201d are that in spite of their obsessions with saving time, they\u2019re all supposedly for reasons with the best of intentions.\u00a0 Liquid food guy turns out to be a humanitarian for a third-world country, and often spends all of his vacation time visiting impoverished countries.\u00a0 Schedule lady supposedly was once bed-ridden, and having managed whatever ailment that nearly crippled her, has an outlook on life that there isn\u2019t a single minute worth wasting, and lives what she preaches about maximizing every second of the day.\u00a0 And Steps guy simply wishes that every minute saved by his idiosyncratic step counting, is another minute that he can spend with his sons.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the fallacy with Extreme Time Cheaters, and just the concept of extreme measures taken to save time, is that extrapolating the time saved, to whatever measurements, doesn\u2019t really have a concrete payoff date.\u00a0 Like, on shows about saving money, like\u00a0Extreme Cheapskates<\/em>, the money saved, can typically be cut off at some points, and have tangible evidence.\u00a0 Like money saved in a week, a month, or a year, can have tangible hard currency in hand at the end of these time frames, which could then be used to spend or put into perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n Time has no such tangible evidence of existing having been saved.\u00a0 All throughout Extreme Time Cheaters, the show constantly extrapolates the time saved by the extreme measures being taken, saying stuff like \u201csaved X amount of hours per year\u201d or \u201cover a lifetime, saving Y amount of years.\u201d\u00a0 At what point does any of that actually pay out?\u00a0 Sure, I\u2019m sure they\u2019re using an equation based on life expectancy or such, but say a lifetime of extreme time saving is done, and liquid food guy suddenly \u201chas\u201d 7 years in hand – so what?\u00a0 It\u2019s not like time is a tangible currency that can be spent back or anything; the things he did to save time doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that he will live 7 years beyond typical life expectancy or anything.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s a crucial flaw in what\u2019s otherwise an entertaining show of obsessive-compulsive train wrecks of people, because time is just something that really can\u2019t be saved in the vein of currency or something that can be recouped.<\/span><\/p>\n The bottom line is that Extreme Time Cheaters, I\u2019d likely be compelled to watch more of.\u00a0 This particular episode was the pilot episode, as it was for Fat People, so there\u2019s no sure guarantee that either show will get more episodes.\u00a0 Honestly, I couldn\u2019t care less about seeing more fat people being saved by their fat, but I wouldn\u2019t mind watching more Extreme Time Cheaters, even if I think the vast majority of their efforts are for naught.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a rare evening, in which I actually found myself at home, with pretty much nothing to do.\u00a0 Usually, whenever this has been the case, I\u2019ve spent said time and then some playing\u00a0League of Legends, but I\u2019ve kind of been on a hiatus from playing lately, and I didn\u2019t really feel like getting drawn … Continue reading The fallacy of Extreme Time Cheaters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,15,69,125],"class_list":["post-42239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-television","tag-tlc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42241,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42239\/revisions\/42241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}