Warbler said:
C3PX said:
Gaffer Tape said:
(I haven't had TV in a year)?
Awesome! I haven't had TV in ten years. (Cheated a little in order to watch Lost and Galactica the last few years, but now that they are both over, I am 100% TV free).
Why no TV? surely there must be something on that you like. There's all different kinds channels.
TV's Frink said:
Too many pictures.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
:p
Well, actually... yeah.
I just find it to be a horrible waste of time. Sure, there are some things on I might like, I love documentaries for one, but I never have nor ever would consider spending money on cable. I'd rather waste my time reading books, or going out. When I first got out on my own, I bought an aquarium and placed it on a TV stand in my living room right where most people would have put their TV. Personally, I feel that staring at that aquarium was far more beneficial to me than anything the silly glowing box of colors could have provided.
Up until a month ago I did own a TV, but never had anything but my 360 hooked up to it. Now I am once again TV-less, and my poor 360 lives in my trunk.
So yeah, long story short. I think TV = MASSIVE waste of time. If I need commercial filled news and entertainment, I have the radio (mostly NPR). I might barrow TV show DVDs from a friend from time to time and watch them on my laptop. And every time a new episode of South Park is out I go to their website and watch it. Even without a TV and just those few things I mentioned above, I still feel that my life is far too full of time wasting electronic entertainment.
People talk about TV being a way of unwinding and relaxing. Well, my most fulfilling and relaxing days have begun at 4 - 5 am sitting at the lake fishing. Around 6:30 I would head home, bath, throw whatever I caught on ice, and get to work by 8:00. When I got home from work, I'd clean my catch, throw it on a grill, cook it, and eat it (if I hadn't caught anything, I ate cereal). Then I'd spend the evening reading, go to bed around 21:00, wake up, and start it all over again. There was no TV, and very little computer usage involved.