Do you have a TV?

[lyra_k]

*yawn*

why do people that renounce TV feel the need to blather on about it endlessly - Wow you're so different! wow! Aren't you like soooo interesting and soooooo intelligent, with all that extra time on your hands you must be the talk of the town!

Is anyone doing that? I think not!

If I was in the UK I'd certainly have my TVs hooked up, since it's pretty decent and all free. Here I just resent having to pay $50 per month for the couple of things that I'd actually watch, only to be assailed by REALLY bad commercials every minute or so.

 

[Belushi]

Are you in the US lyra? I dont think I could watch anything with that many adverts!

 

[chegrimandi]

This is urban Chegs...remember, everyone here is different and on a higher plane to the biomass out there who read the Daily Mail.

I know I am

its like people that don't smoke or drink, I'm like so healthy, so fit, so lively so this that the other...

fucking puritans.....

 

[kyser_soze]

'I don't watch TV. I don't read a daily newspaper. My only media consumption is R4 and Indymedia'

 

[lyra_k]

Are you in the US lyra? I dont think I could watch anything with that many adverts!

yep, and it really is unbelieveably bad. They have a commercial break between the titles of a programme, and the programme starting!

And the commercials breaks are really long too - up to about 7 minutes, I think.

Usually for something like toenail fungus ointment, and then there's a long section at the end warning that the stuff can cause heart attacks, palpitations, spontaneous disembowelment, seizures, acne and depression. But buy it anyway, like, you don't want rotten toenails.

 

[Belushi]

I didnt realise how bad it was until I got the 24 boxed set and discovered it was actually only 17.5 hourse long! the rest would have been adverts on American telly!

 

[kyser_soze]

US TV advertising is hysterical - the biggest audiences are over 50s, hence the ointments and other stuff.

Try living in Florida - it is literally wall to wall pile cream, funeral insurance and other OAP targeted stuff!!

 

[lyra_k]

I do miss BBC America, though. If only I could get BBC America, with UK adverts.

I'm wavering. I almost called the satellite man the other day, then looked at my bank account and changed my mind.

 

[chegrimandi]

'I don't watch TV. I don't read a daily newspaper. My only media consumption is R4 and Indymedia'

my eyes water when I look at Big Brother and I cry if I happen to see a copy of the Sun on the tube. My clothes are made from hemp seeds bought from Peruvian Indians and my drugs are all 'fair trade'. I whip myself daily for my patriarchical tendencies.

 

[kyser_soze]

Oh yeah, 'fair trade' coke. Arf!

 

[Nina]

I haven't had a TV for ages. TBH I do feel a bit removed from reality sometimes and I haven't a clue who all these people are who fill the endless magazines on the shelves.

I just don't understand how people find the time for TV in their lives. I haven't a minute - even when I'm not working.

When I do go to someone's place, I kinda look forward to it and then feel bored in seconds. I feel like I have ADHD all these things flying at me at hyperspeed.

The ads are the best bit though. When you haven't seen TV for yonks, adverts are addictive viewing. Scary.

I don't miss it. Except maybe Jon Snow. He rocks.

 

[Badgers]

*yawn*

why do people that renounce TV feel the need to blather on about it endlessly - Wow you're so different! wow! Aren't you like soooo interesting and soooooo intelligent, with all that extra time on your hands you must be the talk of the town!

I have not really blathered on about it now have I? I prefer it but still miss some stuff a lot....................

Bit harsh perhaps?

 

[kyser_soze]

You occassionally get the feeling that those without TVs take some kind of moral superiority from it - certainly I've met people who really do think that their lack f TV makes them immune from 'the influence of trash'.

It's also a weird reverse snobbery since it's an argument used by crusty old conservatives about 40 years ago about the future of TV. The next thing I expect to hear after rants about not having a TV are about it's 'pernicious' influence on society and how Lady Chatterly should never have been legalised...

 

[tobyjug]

TV is a primary cultural component of about 97% of the population's lives, and much that is talked about, referenced and alluded to in everyday conversation - soap operas particularly, but also 'event' or 'water cooler' TV like BB, , Pop Idol, X Factor will all be top topics of conversation in the playground.

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No wonder the country is so fucked up. I can't remember the last time I had a discussion with anyone about a TV soap opera, (or any other TV program for that matter) as I don't know anyone except my sister-in-law who watches such crap. (What the fuck is IACGMOOH?)

 

[Badgers]

You occassionally get the feeling that those without TVs take some kind of moral superiority from it - certainly I've met people who really do think that their lack f TV makes them immune from 'the influence of trash'.

Those that have met me on here will know without doubt that I have no delusion of moral superiority at all........

I guess the definition of trash varies, I do not want to watch 'Celebrity Love Island' and nor do I want to see Rebecca Loos wanking off a pig........If that is protecting myself from the influence of trash then maybe! On the other hand I quite like Hollyoaks on a Sunday morning, so maybe not!

 

[kyser_soze]

No wonder the country is so fucked up. I can't remember the last time I had a discussion with anyone about a TV soap opera, (or any other TV program for that matter) as I don't know anyone except my sister-in-law who watches such crap. (What the fuck is IACGMOOH?)

Toby...

1. IACGMOOH is 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!' - something that must have even penetrated as far as the cave you inhabit, surely?

2. You are hardly someone who could be termed as 'normal' or 'average' against most people in the UK Toby. And I'd put money on you using TV influenced language, metaphor or allegory without even realising it...

 

[tobyjug]

Toby...

1. IACGMOOH is 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!' - something that must have even penetrated as far as the cave you inhabit, surely?

2. You are hardly someone who could be termed as 'normal' or 'average' against most people in the UK Toby. And I'd put money on you using TV influenced language, metaphor or allegory without even realising it...

If you bothered to check the BARB website total crap like:- 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!' did not get a very big audience.
It may come as a shock but even the most popular TV programs do not have the size of audience that was very common a decade or so ago.
I can't remember the last time a TV program came up as a topic of conversation.

 

[kyser_soze]

If you bothered to check the BARB website total crap like:- 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!' did not get a very big audience.
It may come as a shock but even the most popular TV programs do not have the size of audience that was very common a decade or so ago.
I can't remember the last time a TV program came up as a topic of conversation.

It may come as a shock but since I work in advertising I am more than aware of the dilution of ITV1 audiences (primarily) and the processes that have driven this. And I don't need to check the BARB wesbite, we have it in our agency.

It still doesn't alter the fact that Celebrity regularly delivers 7-9 million viewers on ITV (or if you want 1/6 of the UK adult population), plus the additional coverage that it generates in the press. Hence the reason it's called 'water cooler' TV...

 

[christonabike]

I'm at work, fuck off with this sort of shit:

"It may come as a shock but since I work in advertising I am more than aware of the dilution of ITV1 audiences (primarily) and the processes that have driven this."

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[tobyjug]

It still doesn't alter the fact that Celebrity regularly delivers 7-9 million viewers on ITV (or if you want 1/6 of the UK adult population), plus the additional coverage that it generates in the press. Hence the reason it's called 'water cooler' TV...

Which means thankfully that 5/6ths of the adult population still have a functioning brain.

 

[christonabike]

Lots of elite thinking people here, some people like watching telly, some like sport, some like bikes

Gotta have a hobby, all those that sneer, remember, while people are watching telly, you may also be doing summat that others think is pointless

 

[kyser_soze]

Which means thankfully that 5/6ths of the adult population still have a functioning brain.

Not necessarily since most of them are watching a wide variety of brain rotting TV, listening to that 'popular' music on the wireless (or is it radiogram?) or driving one of those 'car' things with the miracle of the internal combustion engine...

And there's you on your bikes surrounded by wastoid drug takers and their loser friends...

 

[christonabike]

"Which means thankfully that 5/6ths of the adult population still have a functioning brain."

Last night, between 2000 and 2200, there were, on average, 21 180 000 people watching the goggle box

'kin 'ell I thought

That's normal

 

[tobyjug]

Not necessarily since most of them are watching a wide variety of brain rotting TV, listening to that 'popular' music on the wireless (or is it radiogram?) or driving one of those 'car' things with the miracle of the internal combustion engine...

And there's you on your bikes surrounded by wastoid drug takers and their loser friends...

The wastoid drug takers are usually in a tin roofed barn out on Kynance Downs. (I wish I could fly a helicopter gunship)

 

[Badgers]

Gotta have a hobby, all those that sneer, remember, while people are watching telly, you may also be doing summat that others think is pointless

I prefer (for myself) not having a TV but mates of mine who share a great number of my interests are hardened TV watchers. I am staying with a mate at the moment and find it really hard to go to bed early or even switch the thing off when (IMO) there is crap on all 5 channels.

The thread was never intended to be elitist or snooty to TV watchers.....It is my feeling (and a poll for interest) on the matter posted in a discussion forum.