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  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478
    Byrnzie wrote:
    But let's face it, outside of the occasional must-see sporting event, it's all mostly pure shite.
    Everyone needs to see Deadwood, HBO is the shit. Otherwise I dont watch T.V.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    drew2420 wrote:
    It's crazy how much TV controls people's lives, without them even realizing it. That's what is really scary. I don't watch much TV, mostly baseball games when I do. But I will find myself once in a while staring zombie like at the TV watching nothing really. Flipping through channels watching absolute shit, and I know it. But yet I continue to stare at it, until I finally just hit the power button. It literally sucks you in, like an addiction. Losing cable for a few months because of money issues was one of the best things to happen to me. With no TV or Internet too I was actually forced to seek out other interests such as books and other interests. Life would be so much more interesting without TV. Add all the propaganda that saturates the air waves and you have yourself a really terrifying circus machine which many people take as reality.

    I occasionally catch a headline on the MSN main page, or it's equivalent, as I'm waiting for my e-mail page to appear - some of these headlines refer to X-Factor, or American Idol, or some such shit, and I feel genuinely grateful that I'm not in a position where I have to see that crap everyday. Not just the t.v, but even just sitting on a train in England on the way to work and seeing the front pages of other people's newspapers used to depress me - or the fact that every fucker was reading the same book.
    I used to enjoy looking at the adverts on the Seoul subway as they were all unintelligible to me and so they were innocuous. If I looked at an advert on the London underground I'd feel imposed upon - even violated in some way. This shit comes at you from many angles. T.v is just a constant barrage of crap. Being in Asia I can look at this stuff and it has no effect on me because I can't interpret the language. It's all just wallpaper to me here. So I feel cleaner.
  • spiral out
    spiral out Posts: 1,052
    We have a TV which we only use for watching things downloaded from the net and DVDs.

    I just find having a TV on droning in the background a great irritation.
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  • drew2420
    drew2420 Posts: 61
    spiral out wrote:
    We have a TV which we only use for watching things downloaded from the net and DVDs.

    I just find having a TV on droning in the background a great irritation.



    Agreed. I will walk into my parent's house and the TV will be on, and nobody is even watching it. It's just on. It's some sort of comfort thing. I lived with people in college who would fall asleep to the TV, and it would play all night. I can't stand having the TV on the background.
  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    drew2420 wrote:
    Agreed. I will walk into my parent's house and the TV will be on, and nobody is even watching it. It's just on. It's some sort of comfort thing. I lived with people in college who would fall asleep to the TV, and it would play all night. I can't stand having the TV on the background.

    Totally. Not that I don't watch my fair share of programs. However, I HATE having the motherfucker on at all times.
    My husband loves it. :mad: Not only as background noise, but he has at times made freaking excel sheets to figure out the scheduling of the shows he wants to watch and how he can record them all. :eek:

    It's an issue. :o
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    QuestionAuthority wrote:
    I cannot believe I am going to be the first one in all these responses to say ~ I love tv.. love my tivo, I think it is most likely one of THE BEST INVENTIONS in many years. I find many quality programs that are always waiting to be watched from my tivo list.

    There.. I am the one TV watcher and proudly so.


    you're not alone.....i love my tivo....since there is so little quality shows on nowadays it's great to record it and watch at my leisure....and yes i'm one of those "weirdos" that like to have the tv on....or music....i don't like living in silence....i can't concentrate....ah add....so much fun ;) and i also can watch tv as i go to sleep and leave it on...i do the same with my ipod too :)

    as for what i watch, besides 30 rock, boston legal and entourage i usually watch discovery, tlc and law and order reruns :)
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    I used to watch TV a lot but now I've been without one for three months and I don't miss it one bit. Like you said, the stuff I want to see I can see it online.

    But then again, I live in a nice city now, there are lots of cool people here, there's lots to do... I lived in a small town before, it's a huge difference.
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  • zacman13245
    zacman13245 Posts: 294
    I stopped watching TV for a while, maybe 8-10 months. But recently I started buying the "tv-dvds" for different shows, like House. I enjoying watching the dvds more than the tv. I can put a dvd on, and just watch the show I want to watch, and not have to flip through tons of channels until I stumble on somthing stupid. There are certain nights that I watch the regular programming, usually just to unwind after work (2 jobs) and relax.
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