TV or no TV?

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Originally Posted by Detale

What about music do you listen to more music. My wife would divorce me if we had no TV. I mean can you imagine having to talk to me all day :shutup:

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I could never talk to you all day detale lol

Cable is to expansive, so not tv here, I get the shows and watch what I like.
I don't like sports so I am good there. Even with the antena and all that I hate watching anything with commercials, it is frustating.

My tv is big and heavy.
It stands on a small table, with thin legs.
We use it to watch in real life family movies
dust loves it.
for local news we use jlc

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Originally Posted by pentomato

Cable is to expansive, so not tv here, I get the shows and watch what I like.
I don't like sports so I am good there. Even with the antena and all that I hate watching anything with commercials, it is frustating.

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Yep, they should have an 'on' switch the size of a Frisbee for idiots like you.

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Originally Posted by Skizo

About 4 months ago my TV was shorted out or something by lightning and no longer worked properly, so I threw it out. I knew I was going to be moving about a month later so I just told myself to wait until after the move to tackle getting a new set. Well, I've been moved for 2 months now and don't even really miss my TV or feel the strong desire for another.

I get all my shows from Usenet now and watch them on the PC shortly after they air; nothing new there.

I'm finding myself going out more and doing things that I might not normally. Does anyone here live TV free or gone any long duration without? Did you end up getting one?

I'm considering holding out until football season starts in the Fall. :unsure:

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I don't watch any TV. It's there for my roommate, really.

Only thing I'll accept to watch is BBC News now and again. Other than that the TV shows I follow are all taken from the scene.

I think you're doing a great thing. Frankly, the TV set is a source of entertainment, but, to be sure, that entertainment can be ascertained with good films and novels.

My2centavos.

It's a huge source of time wasting when you think about it.

But then again, so is wondering the internet aimlessly..

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Originally Posted by The Flying Cow

It's a huge source of time wasting when you think about it.

But then again, so is wondering the internet aimlessly..

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But on the internet you find everything, not only movies, books, you always learn something. You can find people you didn't keep in touch for the last 20 years, on tv it is always the samething.

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Originally Posted by JPaul

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Originally Posted by Squeamous

I'm not having soaps or unfunny sitcoms seeping unbidden into my brain to rot my neural pathways.

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Can they really do that, you're a scientist so I know you won't lie.

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Well I have no empirical evidence, but I do know people who watch such things are rarely of much interest to me.

That doesn't really help does it?

I have a TV but I got rid of my freeview box and canceled the free TV package with Virgin (harder than you'd think) so I don't have to pay the TV license. Been that way since November and I haven't missed it at all. I just watch movies, TV shows and porn via PC on the TV ...

I moved about 6 months ago to where I am now. We have loads of telly channels here. Before that i'd never had a tellybox in my life. I much preferred it that way.

These days I find myself watching Hull v Tottenham and shite like that. :mellow: