The Duchess of Zeon wrote:I take some real pride at the idea of someday raising children without a TV in the house.
Amen, sister. I grew up with a TV we used only for videos, and later gaming systems. Even that I could have done without; books are IMO far more important to a developing child than passive television reception. My fiancee grew up in a similar situation.
Commander 598 wrote:I don't see how it's possible to basically have never watched TV...I think you're a bunch of freaks...not that I actually pay attention to my TV much.
The most I have ever watched TV were weekend stays at my grandparents'. I have never in my life watched TV regularly, and for the majority of my childhood the only TV I ever did watch was at friends' houses, for brief periods of time. So it's very easy to basically have never watched TV: try growing up without one available to watch.
A Government founded upon justice, and recognizing the equal rights of all men; claiming higher authority for existence, or sanction for its laws, that nature, reason, and the regularly ascertained will of the people; steadily refusing to put its sword and purse in the service of any religious creed or family is a standing offense to most of the Governments of the world, and to some narrow and bigoted people among ourselves.
I had myu saturday morning cartoons, and I was reading pulp lit when most of my counterparts were just starting with Red Fish, Blue Fish (Dr. Suess on US politics)
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
Bob the Gunslinger wrote:The most insipid, content-devoid crap can be spewing out of it and I won't be able to turn away or devote all of my attention to anything else. It's horrifying how TV is so addicting, even if I don't want to watch it.
I have the same problem. it doesnt matter if the show is the worst written/acted/whatever that I have ever run across, or how engaging or important whatever else going on around me is. Its like a magnet while its on.
"Siege warfare, French for spawn camp" WTYP podcast
It's so bad it wraps back around to awesome then back to bad again, then back to halfway between awesome and bad. Like if ed wood directed a godzilla movie - Duckie
