Reply #22: well i haven't seen a teevee program in months either

[pitohui]

i've never had cable and i really don't have time for teevee, i wonder sometimes how people watch teevee AND have a life, my suspicion is that people who follow teevee DON'T have lives -- so many programs now are soap operas/continuing stories -- this tacitly assumes that the viewer is a loser who never goes anywhere, not even on business, much less on personal travel, hell, even to a party or a dirty weekend they don't go out, they're always around to follow the continuing story

i count myself lucky, and i think you should too

teevee is an addiction that i've seen chew up people's lives, and the "quality" programs are usually more addictive than the bad programs, i knew a guy who went around dressed as dr. who for literally years (needless to say holding no job during those years), i knew a girl who was so obsesssed with star trek: TOS that her parents had to send her to a shrink, hell, we all know these people

just as you're glad that crack missed you, be glad teevee missed you -- think of all the time and money you save

if you just wanna catch sports once in awhile, i agree w. the sports bar/lounge suggestion, or a casino, just have a way to get home w.out getting a DUI

i don't know how old my teevee is but it's way old (pre katrina, i still can't figure out how it missed getting wet but it still works when i bother to turn it on, in fact we had to get one of those special boxes to fix it when teevee went digital -- we're the only people in louisiana who had a teevee old enough to use one of those converter boxes!)

also teevee is just a bad medium if you're into self awareness, internal thoughts of the characters -- for that fiction is much better, plus fiction can be read at your own speed, so it moves faster than teevee -- one thing that irritates me about teevee is the SLOW pace and the repitition and how OBVIOUS they have to make everything -- gosh, do you have to hit me over the head w. a baseball bat to make your point? a well written mystery book makes teevee mysteries look just sad, sad, and sorry