Quote: Tim Walker @ October 7 2009, 9:18 PM BSTPeople who say that don't watch TV are either liars or occupy their evenings with incest, I reckon.
Thanks for that, Tim - my old mum lost her sight ten years ago.
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Hang them. Hang them until they scream for a TV I say. By the way I don't watch much TV straight off as I tend to be in rehearsals a lot. BBCiplayer/4 and 5 players are my connection to the TV god. Plus I only have BBC 1/2/ITV and S4C. And one of those I can't understand!
Quote: Morrace @ October 7 2009, 9:33 PM BSTThanks for that, Tim - my old mum lost her sight ten years ago.
Plenty of legally blind people watch telly, they even get a discount on the License Fee I believe.
Quote: roscoff @ October 7 2009, 9:36 PM BSTI only have BBC 1/2/ITV and S4C. And one of those I can't understand!
I can't understand why anyone would watch ITV either.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 7 2009, 9:42 PM BSTPlenty of legally blind people watch telly, they even get a discount on the License Fee I believe.
She's over 75, so she's entitled to a 'free over 75 TV Licence'.
She may as well be entitled to A Heavy Goods Vehicle driving licence.
A friend of mine was in a newspaper article, when he was a small child, about the effects of watching too much TV on children's speech. Apparently he watched TV all the time and didn't speak until he was five or something. He is now one of the chattiest people I know (worse than me) and a TV director. 
Ha, he was Mike Teevee.
Quote: zooo @ October 7 2009, 10:08 PM BSTHa, he was Mike Teevee.
That's my nickname for him.
People who don't have TVs are missing out on the excellent True Blood, which has just started on Channel 4 now. *cough*
Oh I was going to watch that.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 7 2009, 10:11 PM BSTThat's my nickname for him.
Yay!
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 7 2009, 10:01 PM BSTA friend of mine was in a newspaper article, when he was a small child, about the effects of watching too much TV on children's speech. Apparently he watched TV all the time and didn't speak until he was five or something. He is now one of the chattiest people I know (worse than me) and a TV director.
They had another on of those reports recently, about iPods. Apparently, due to the fact that iPods use so much compression, kids aren't learning to be so expressive in their use of dynamics in everyday speech. Somehow I doubt we will all go to hell in a handcart though.
Quote: Nogget @ October 7 2009, 6:46 PM BSTSome people think it makes them all superior if they don't have a TV, and they're proud to say so. I don't get it. These same people might also proudly claim to read extensively. TV and books are just two different forms of media, each with their pros and cons, neither superior to the other.
Well, I would say that people who prefer to see the movie than to read the book have most probably got so utterly lazy they can't even be bothered to use their imagination and would rather someone else did it for them.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 7 2009, 3:41 PM BSTI must have met at least 10 people in my life who've claimed to never watching television. Spookily, one of them worked for the BBC and claimed she was too busy to watch telly!
So the question is - how long could you go without television?
Several years ago I worked for a newspaper and a TV station, which meant working from about midday to 2am and then going straight to the pub/nightclub and home by 6am and straight to bed. No time for TV. My one day off per week was for heavier drinking sessions, which sometimes involved looking at a telly that was showing the English Premier League.
I rarely watch commercial TV because I hate the advertisements. And because Australian commercial TV news and current affairs shows seem to be targeted at halfwits. Will only watch commercial TV if there's cricket or Australian Rules Football. And South Park and Family Guy. I could live very happily without TV. Radio provides news and current affairs - and DVDs and books provide the escapism.
I know a few people who don't own a TV and prefer reading instead. Not sure why they can't do both.
I am addicted to it. I can't sleep without it, gently humming away in the background, so soothing. But the ads seem to be loud and have frequently woken me.
Maybe that is why during the day I think of icecream, chocolate, new shoes, handbags...
I wonder why we accept ads on TV, but we'd never accept them in books?