if you begin to forget how poor you are, Christmas is here to make sure

[SheilaT]

23. Or, I can channel surf. But most of the time when I channel surfed

I would come across ads, a good 80% of the time. Okay, so I didn't actually time it that closely, but it really feels as if the ads are more than half of the programming.

But there's still an enormous amount of time wasted, if you have to sit there and twiddle your thumbs during the commercials. I do watch a reasonable amount of TV shows. It's just that I watch them over the internets. Hulu does have commercials, which is really annoying, but since I'm in front of my computer I just play solitaire. And there's still not as much time taken by the commercials on Hulu as on regular TV.

Netflix, no commercials.

When I watch Rachel from the MSNBC web site, there will be about two minutes of commercials, tops.

I am really, really spoiled by not having to watch commercials. Every so often when I'm in a hotel room, I'll turn on TV to see if there's a show on I want to watch. I might make it through one entire show before turning off the TV in disgust, again, because of the huge amount of time given over to commercials. I seem to recall that in the early days of cable, the promise was we'd pay a fee for the channel and there would be no commercials. Hmmmm.