Who does *not* watch t.v. ?

FOG2

FOG2

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MY wife and i cancelled our cable years ago and the newspaper too(Who needs all the gloom an doom they report anyway).
Our internet was thru our cable so we dont have that at home either,but we both have the net at work so were not totally cut off from the world.


It took a while to convince her to do it, but those hundred dollar plus cable bills every month finally conviced her.

We dont miss it at all and instead of T.V. we read and work on our hobbies.Were both happier and financially betr off w/o them.

I just wondered if we were the only ones in the world who live like this ?

Thoughts, questions, statements,,,,

ready ............

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I don't keep a goddamnnoisybox in the house, and I never miss an opportunity to brag about it and let everybody know how snobbish I am. :D
 
Giving up TV isn't hard if you have the Internet. Not having a Computer, TV and a Radio, would be saying something.:)

But who would ever know? :D

if a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it fall, does it make a sound.
 
When I did drive, my CD player and FM band were FUBAR. All good, the only thing I listened to while driving was conservative talk radio.
 
I liberated myself from television long before I got my first computer. I did listen to radio, while I was reading....
 
I have fantasized about losing the tv, but have not pulled the trigger. Am real close to getting rid of the local newspaper as I have grown weary of its editorials disguised as news stories. I do like sports talk radio, etc., and listen to books on CD.
 
I would have to say I watch about 1 hr. per month at best. No tv downstairs, and I do not watch in room very much. I used to be an O'Reilly Factor watcher, but do not even do that anymore. Do not miss it, definitely could go without. Puter, now that is another story......
 
I went without tv for three years and didn't miss it. I did have internet access. I did have a dvd player hooked up to my tv so I could watch movies. The local rental shop had a ton for .99 cents. I have never had a newspaper subscription. Waste of money. I've had about three magazine subscriptions in my life. My latest is a current subscription to Blade which I won't be renewing. Everything can be found on the net. I'm content with that.
 
I haven't watched TV since 2001 or so. Don't miss it at all, and every time I listen to a TV show someone else has on I only feel better about my choice. I'm much happier spending my time skating, working on my website, reading, playing guitar and so forth than watching TV.
 
I have 5 channels of analogue terrestrial TV plus 30-odd digital channels. What would I pay for cable for? I watch BBC2 most of the time anyway! :D

Broadband internet though, that's a different matter. Fortunately I get that free too as a bonus with my mobile phone contract. Along with free calls worldwide landline to landline. And free mobile handsets.
 
I could easily live without TV, but my family couldn't. I watch a very few good shows and I could live without them too. My dream would be to have one of those big, wood-paneled libraries with a huge stone fireplace and stained glass windows where I could sit in a vast leather chair puffing a pipe whilst perusing rare, fascinating books.

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I only watch two shows a week religiously, and have missed most of those in the past couple weeks, due to being sick. NCIS and Fringe. Didn't miss much in ongoing storyline, I can catch them in re runs. No cable. Trying to wean myself off of the tv as background noise. I can't get rid of it, because I have a huge dvd collection.
 
Personally, very little... just the news in the morning, football and 24. Wife watches some of her chick shows when the kids have been put to bed. Kids... watch too much crap in my opinion. Doing my best to get them outside and doing stuff.
 
I watch a few TV shows, but not on tv. anything I watch is commercial free on the internets. Mostly Southpark and Dexter, couple others. and new movies.
 
Not for me....I've been a TV addict since about 1951 and the Howdy Doody show....

Seriously, it is fashionable in certain circles to eschew the "idiot box", but I find much of value. There are a number of dramas and science fiction shows that I watch more-or-less religiously, and I enjoy various offerings from Discovery, History, Science, Military, etc, etc.
Sure, there is an awful lot of drek on. I don't watch it.

So far, my A-1 first-class certified mind remains unrotted.
 
I didn't think I was much of a TV watcher until my last one blew up 2 years ago. I didn't repace it and went through a few weeks of withdrawals, especially in the early evening.

Now I barely think about it. Also now that I've been de-sensitized, whenever I flick it on in a hotel room or friends place - the fact that most of it is pure brain-washing just leaps out at me.

The single most important principle of advertising is that people are 3 times more likely to spend if they are dissatisfied. It's nice to sit outside of social consciousness and just observe......
 
Just bought my first TV last week and I'm 41. I gave up my last old TV in '99. Just couldn't justify the expense and letting that much trash into the house. For the last year have been borrowing the step-son's 13" for PS2 and the wife's DVD's.

Still do not plan to subscribe to anything and we don't even get any over-the-air stations up where I live. Sure is nice to be able to see the numbers on the golf game now though. Watched Batman begins this morning and it was pretty nice too.
 
FOG2 said:
We dont miss it at all and instead of T.V. we read and work on our hobbies.Were both happier and financially betr off w/o them.

I just wondered if we were the only ones in the world who live like this?
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We've never had cable, or the newspapers. We have a VCR (I'm gonna hammer my Becker 7 through it the next it eats one of my tapes) and a DVD player, and we watch maybe 4-5 family shows a month, and my son gets around a 1/2 hour of educational stuff a day, and that's it.

We read, and play lots of games - my son is just plain mean at UNO. :grumpy: I haven't beat him in two weeks.

I'd rather lose all my quarters to my kid than watch TV anyway...

thx - cpr
 
Never watched much TV. One set now hooked up for DVD and VHS. No cable, effectively means no reception here. Computer takes up too much time anyway, but at least I get better music over it than over the radio. :)
 
The wife watches it, I very rarely do. Sometimes the wife will say; "There is a show about aeroplanes coming on, want to watch it?"

Apart from that sort of thing I generally ignore it. I would rather read, or do stuff in the shed, or read weird crap on BF.
 
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