T.V.
chadwick
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who doesn't have their t.v. hooked up?
who doesn't watch t.v.?
i disconnected my cable t.v. about 6-9 months ago to save money.
i do miss certain t.v. shows but not very many.
i like being among the people who don't watch (much) t.v.
seems to me that they are a smarter group of folks.
discuss.
who doesn't watch t.v.?
i disconnected my cable t.v. about 6-9 months ago to save money.
i do miss certain t.v. shows but not very many.
i like being among the people who don't watch (much) t.v.
seems to me that they are a smarter group of folks.
discuss.
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i am the smartest person here
if my cable goes out for an hour i bug out
I never sit down and search for something to watch or watch something for the heck of it...when I watch tv I am watching something I have specifically chosen to watch...there are certain shows I enjoy watching
most people are shocked to find out I don't have cable...in fact, my best friend's boyfriend asked her what I do with my time since I don't watch tv!
however, I do have netflix and enjoy watching movies
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well, i never had cable tv in my life until about a year ago this may. i like to think i'm intelligent, but yea...no genius.
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genius
you said it just couldn't resist
i've met a few folks in my time that refused to watch tv. a lot of them were dolts, so go figure
exactly! i only watch like maybe 4-5 channels so pro-rated would be the way to go...i like the good ones where i can learn something
though i think watching too much t.v. could be detrimental...
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If I am going to watch a tv show, it's generally a boxset like Arrested Development or something like that and I'll watch the whole thing in a couple a hits then go back to no tv.
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I try to not much television at all mostly rented movies, turned of all my premium channels since I don't watch them. I certainly keep it away from my daughter during the week, we play word games instead.
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I got out of the habit of watching TV a long time ago, when I was a student. I didn't have a TV for a couple of years so it got to where it didn't bother me.
My husband's family got rid of their TV when he was 4 years old. :wtf: He doesn't watch a lot of TV either but I've noticed that he'll sometimes watch utterly mindless stuff that drives me crazy. He's a really smart guy but sometimes he just enjoys vegging. :ugeek: I guess everybody does occasionally.
The only show I still miss is "Animal Cops." It's a documentary series following the ASPCA as they rescue abused animals. I can't find the show anywhere. Turns out Animal Planet is one of those rare networks that rabidly scours the web to remove all uploads of their programming. Most cable networks offer new episodes for limited-time free viewing right on their websites. But Animal Planet is a party pooper.
I think we need to be entertained sometimes. I think even brain numbing, dumb funny stuff is good for us. C'mon, everybody needs to take a break. TV gives us a break. Reality can be too much a lot of the time. Look at what's happening in Haiti. I need a dumb show like Springer to take me away from thoughts about Haiti. It doesn't mean I bury my head in the sand about my world and whats happening in it, its just a break!
they aren't smarter, just poorer than everyone else. :thumbup:
I only watch TV for sport, music, movies, Top Gear, travel shows and documentaries.. basically most things other than X Factor, Talent shows, Soap Operas, that kinda shite... I hate watching reality tv crap as well... over here we have Celebrity Big Brother at the moment and Stephen Baldwin is on it.. and he's a complete bible-bashing moron of the highest order... my life is too short to wonder about what psalm Stephen Baldwin is wanking over any given morning.
That's an incredibly condescending and ill-informed point of view. The "much" in brackets in your post above almost saves what you're saying, but it seems to me to be an afterthought. Watching tv doesn't make you any stupider. In fact, up until a couple of years ago I would have argued that those who do watch tv are generally more informed lot than those without. Obviously it depends on what you're watching, and the advent of the internet has pushed tv to the sidelines in terms of a source of information in recent years too. There's a lot of stupid programs out there (Two and a half men immediately springs to mind), but there's a hell of a lot of intelligent well written tv shows, not to mention the glut of documentaries, commentary shows, current affairs shows etc which are taking up the airwaves these days.
It's just wrong though to talk about peoples intelligence with such broad sweeping statements like that though.
That is my house exactly -
We haven't had cable in like 7 years -
Got Netflix and the roku watch instantly box - but if I don't put in the que the kids don't see it-
They do not mind not having cable one bit - one is 17 and the other is 13
When we are somewhere like my parents house or something staying over for the holidays (they have super extended mega cable) and it takes me FOREVER to choose what to watch- and you realize quickly there isn't shit on the damn thing anyway so why are they spending like$150 amonth??? that is almost $2,000 a year. Blows my minds.
We do however plug the lap top into our TV to watch Lost new as it airs the next day on ABC.com - John Locke does't have TV and he is the smartest man of all smart men - he is no ones Rival
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I have cut back my cable service as well, doesn't make me any smarter, but it does save me some dough. In order to keep the high-speed internet service Comcast makes you keep the basic package which pretty much just includes the network channels. My TV is smarter then Comcast though, since it has a digital tuner it still picks up all their digital channels now that they turned off the analog channels and I don't have a box. So I am basically getting the same service for $10 a month! I was going to be perfectly fine with the basic package since I only watch the major networks anyway.
Did you get your official membership card to the smarter group yet? If not, you are unfortunately still a member of the dumber common folk that watches TV...
Since you opened the door for generalizing and stereotyping, the "smarter" group of folks you talk of must be a riot at parties. What the hell do they talk about? The latest "smart" book they read that no one cares about? I find the smarter folks are those that can blend all kinds of activities in their lives including watching "dumb" TV, it's a balancing act that makes people much more interesting.