Posted on 06/18/2009 10:49:38 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
“Breaking Our Terrible Addiction to TV”
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I broke my addiction to TV (not that I had a big addiction anyway... LOL).
But, now, I’m trying to figure out how to break my addiction from Free Republic...., but do I really want to do that? :-)
We got rid of ours over a year ago,
Haven’t missed it once.
Unplug it. Cancel the service. Get Netflix.
I did 3 years ago. One of the best things I ever did.
Last I knew, [being born in 1957], televisions had an “off” button.
I’m having cable disconnected until January.
Gotta have NCAA Basketball, you know.
I read regularly and watch tv as well. The two pastimes are not mutually exclusive.
I stopped watching tv years ago, what complete garbage. Occasionally I see it when a friend has it on at their house and that just re-affirms that it is complete garbage. Especially the fellatojournalism that passes as news these days.....ugh! God help us.
Except during football season - and then the dang games are on so late at night. ;-)
I don't believe I have ever seen any of the popular shows that have premiered since I've been away. And when I'm home on visits, there are always so many much better things to do than watch TV.
Not that Hard these days with the Terrible Programming. Obama 24 hours a day on a News Channel - Give me a break. ABC White House Infomercial - Barf. American Idol - needs a Rod of Iron (to smash the Idols). Freinds - None of Mine. Cheers - A serious lack thereof.
Just bought "Love Boat - Season One" - Laughed my head off. Before that "Fantasy Island - Season One" - glued to the Screen. Where has good acting and writing gone?
I have a hunch it’s the libs who watch too much tv. It’s probably why they have such a warped sense of reality.
The only tv I watch is the news. I don’t even have cable.
There are plenty of other things I’d rather be doing than watching the idiot box.....like spending time with my family!
My daughter and son in law have hooked up a parking meter to the TV and the kids have to pay to watch.
They are little so its one penny per minute.
The only exception is if mom and dad turn the TV on for them to watch.
I agree.
You know, I just a moment.
I’ve long thought that if the MA TV gambling game in bars, KENO, was available on cableTV, they could raise a ton of money.
My eureka moment......they should tax watching TV.....
I actually still watch “programs”, but not in the style of some (or a lot) of people and/or relatives I know.
Usually, the way to watch TV is to sit there and just stare at it, and whatever comes on and whatever channel you surf through. And after a few hours of that, you may get tired and quit or do something else.
As for me, I may be interested in a particular program (a series, let’s say) and I’ll basically not see it for several weeks or a month or more. And then, I’ll download a bunch of those programs, at one time, sit through them all at one or two “sittings” and then be done with it for another month or two... LOL...
“Last I knew, [being born in 1957], televisions had an “off” button.”
And we needed the “off” allot less back then.
WHEN TV WAS COOL
http://www.billsretroworld.com/tv.htm
If you consider that a DVD set of a particular series is probably $90 to $150,
and that cable is about $40 to $50 per month.
It’s cheaper to buy and resell the DVD set and watch them at your leisure without commercials.
Depends on the household. A lot of people crank their TV way up to super loud, which pretty much excludes all other activity including thinking. The rule in my household is the TV must be low enough to be able to be talked over at normal conversational levels, that way I can still read, we can have meaningful conversations, all that great multi-tasking type stuff.
The Brits already thought of that. ;-)
By choice I don’t have a TV or computer in my home. After working all day with various technologies I like to go to 1946. I turn off the cell phone, crank up the victrola ( yes, I do have one) or turn on my big old Stromberg Carlson radio and concentrate on fixing a nice dinner. TV sucks.
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