Does anyone else have a problem with TV? (1 Viewer)

[Skrankio-X]

This is my first ever post, so I want to kick off by getting something off my chest:
Over the last few years I've been nurturing a searing hatred for television.

I just find it completely ABSURD when I walk into a room and there's people lying around, staring at a screen which is usually showing one of the following:

-Shootings, explosions, gunfights, murder, torture etc.
-Bad quality soaps that are "so unrealistic they might as well be set on the fucking moon" (-Charlie Brooker), usually made up of a neverending series of arguments spiralling round each other in a vicious circle of grim stupidity.
-Ads for crap that no-one needs, patronising to anyone who has a shred of self respect.
-Reality TV. Cheap. Exploitative. Vacuous. Trash. We lap it up.

Television promotes materialism and apathy. There's a creeping tide of junk surrounding us and nobody seems to mind. Stop watching CSI, please.

I would like to see more people throw their set:

OUT THE WINDOW!

I can't express myself very well without spending too much time. Help me.
Do you agree? Disagree?

One more thing:
"American children and adolescents spend 22 to 28 hours per week viewing television, more than any other activity except sleeping. By the age of 70 they will have spent 7 to 10 years of their lives watching TV."
(-- The Kaiser Family Foundation)

 

[theoootini]

ah, tv is grand. late night boingy boingy on channel 6 now i hear. anyone check it out?

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

i hate css.

 

[therealjohnny]

I love TV

Just wish I had more time to watch it

 

[ernesto]

i hate tv

 

[ronan]

Our TV got cut off over a year ago.
It's amazing...totally promotes coversation!

And ya can still stock up on the good shit like The Wire and The Sopranos on DVD.
It just cuts out all the mindless sitting around.*

*that's what the internet is for.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

yeah, the tvs a few years old now and sometimes it won't come out of stand-by mode, unless i power it off and back on again - but this might be a problem with the remote control

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

ps - good luck with the inter cert

 

[MDR]

It's no worse than sitting in front of a computer looking at the internet.

 

[righteous harmony]

aertel is the poor man's internet

 

[MDR]

aertel is the poor man's internet

Why does it take so long to work its way through the pages? I love the pop reviews on Ceefax though.

 

[therealjohnny]

A nice summary of this thread, through the medium of song

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/titles/whydontyou.shtml

 

[righteous harmony]

Why does it take so long to work its way through the pages? I love the pop reviews on Ceefax though.

http://www.rte.ie/aertel/

this might be faster. haven't had a good look at the aertel in a long time

 

[Skrankio-X]

It's no worse than sitting in front of a computer looking at the internet.

It depends what you're looking at. You could be mainlining pure fact on wikipedia - or lolling around in the depths of youtube watching the funny man fall off the bicycle! Hee hee heh heh hee.

At least Ads just sort of pass you by on the internet. You can become totally blind and immune.

 

[MDR]

or else ads keep popping up everywhere or embedded in the side of the screen while you're trying to read something else. On TV you could be watching news, election coverage, documentaries or something reall funny that lasts for more than 30 seconds.

 

[MDR]

I think the main point though is the failure of the internet to displace aertel as the world's favourite information portal.

 

[therealjohnny]

or lolling around in the depths of youtube watching the funny man fall off the bicycle!

link?

 

[Skrankio-X]

Go on then....

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[Yurn!]

aertel is the poor man's internet

I showed an yank Teletext last week and he was STUNNED. i still don't know why.

 

[george mcfly]

imagine thumped was an ceefax? mad!