I just watch Netflix. Arrested development kept me entertained for a bit but now I have season 1 and 2 of House on DVD to watch.
I think when we move into our next rental, we are going to bail on the cable/dish and just have internet on my Xbox for netflix and huluplus. We do like to watch some shows but for the most part there is soo much crap on TV. We may buy an indoor antenna so we can get local stuff if the wall jack doesn’t allow it.
The only issue I foresee is NFL RedZone. I can catch the Skins on any local channel but watching RedZone was the best thing in the world. Any fixes to this?
Oh- and how to watch The Walking Dead (since you mentioned zombies)?
Why do people always use the word zombie to describe those that watch tv? One posters says we are brainwashed by commercials while another calls us zombified receptacles for commercials. It’s great you don’t own a tv but don’t insult me or anyone else that enjoys watching a good show because I don’t agree with your thinking.
[quote]Death Dealer wrote:
Why do people always use the word zombie to describe those that watch tv? One posters says we are brainwashed by commercials while another calls us zombified receptacles for commercials. It’s great you don’t own a tv but don’t insult me or anyone else that enjoys watching a good show because I don’t agree with your thinking.[/quote]
It is an accurate description of some people watching TV.
My dad literally spent every day/night from 3:00 when he got home from work until 11:00 at night watching tv non-fucking-stop. It was like having an alcoholic dad in that I never, hardly fucking ever want to watch tv. With that said, if it’s on I can’t not pay attention to it.
If you haven’t figured it out, I’m really an all or nothing kinda guy.
[quote]Death Dealer wrote:
Why do people always use the word zombie to describe those that watch tv? One posters says we are brainwashed by commercials while another calls us zombified receptacles for commercials. It’s great you don’t own a tv but don’t insult me or anyone else that enjoys watching a good show because I don’t agree with your thinking.[/quote]
What do you feel insulted for? I enjoy watching movies and tv shows too. Hell this sunday I watch 3 movies and vegged out. I also love whiskey and cigars.
When speaking statistically it is a mistake to feel like a statement made about a statistically significant portion of a population applies to any single individual personally. I spoke statistically. Average time spent watching tv is…over 5 hours. According to data in 2012, adults spend 34+ hours a week watching tv. Children 2-11 years old average 24 hours a fucking week. Seniors watch nearly 7 hours a damn day (48 hours a week).
Further there is demonstrable evidence that brain wave patterns alter when watching tv, dramatically increasing low frequency alpha waves–waves which are indicative of unfocussed and inactive logic or thoughts–and halting beta wave patterns. Beta waves are the waves associated with active logical thought and cogitation. So, essentially, a person turns into a fucking receptacle for broadcast messages because their logical thinking engine is shut down via alteration in brain wave pattern. This is a fact. It is not debatable and it is not personal.
Further of note is the fact that when the same person who was watching a tv reads a magazine brain patterns alter to beta form.
So yes, time spent reading a book or magazine, even something as disgusting as say national enquirer or Cosmo, is by definition more productive than watching tv by the simple fact that your brain is still functioning in an active way.
I am unaware of research into watching sports games vs. other forms of tv.
[quote]sen say wrote:
My dad literally spent every day/night from 3:00 when he got home from work until 11:00 at night watching tv non-fucking-stop. It was like having an alcoholic dad in that I never, hardly fucking ever want to watch tv. With that said, if it’s on I can’t not pay attention to it.
If you haven’t figured it out, I’m really an all or nothing kinda guy.[/quote]
Interestingly enough, accumulated daily TV time has been associated with an inability to focus, an inability to reason, protracted daydreaming, and an inability to concentrate–hello AD fucking D.
Also interestingly enough, ADD and ADHD people have extremely elevated levels of alpha waves…
…and people of all ages including 2 YEAR OLDS are watching more tv than ever before…
Nope, can’t be the TV elevating levels of ADD in society. Has to be something else. We better medicate the kids with amphetamines like adderall instead of making them actually DO shit and focus.
What do you think the consequences of altering a developing 2 year old’s brain for 3 hours a day into unfocused inactivity for years on end are? Impaired learning? Delay or retardation of speech and vocal pattern abilities? Inability to concentrate and think? lack of critical thinking skill development? lack of association of action and consequence? The possibilities are chilling to contemplate. And you thought smoking while pregnant was bad but nobody thinks twice about sticking their kid in front of a TV for hours because they’re busy.
It infuriates me!
(note this is not to say there is no legitimate source of ADD/ADHD outside television. I do believe this is a real behavior disorder outside of tv, in case anybody decided to misread my post. I also believe, and there is mounting evidence for it, that the cable TV generation is responsible for massive elevation in the number of cases…especially when we’re starting them off at 2 years old.)
[quote]Death Dealer wrote:
Why do people always use the word zombie to describe those that watch tv? One posters says we are brainwashed by commercials while another calls us zombified receptacles for commercials. It’s great you don’t own a tv but don’t insult me or anyone else that enjoys watching a good show because I don’t agree with your thinking.[/quote]
I just read a great book called Amusing Ourselves to Death and he rails against TV, but more against news and supposedly informative shows that don’t give people a true perspective and are based mroe on making the news a spectacle of entertainment…he actually says stuff like “Cheers” and “The A-Team” are fine as entertainment.
Yeah, the book is from 1985.
The most incredible thing about TV, when you really think about it, is that when you watch those trashy realty shows like Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, The Real Housewives, keeping up with the Kardashians, Beiber,or LeBron James dunk on Tim Duncan; you are passively watching other human beings succeeding and deposit a million dollars into their savings, when you could be training yourself to do the same things instead!!!
Just remember that life is short enough as it is without wasting it on medial nonsense. Reclaim your life, ditch your TV; read a newspaper or a book! Throughout human history, the most learning was accomplished by reading, not by sitting in front of a boob tube. Just remember, So much can be gained in life by turning off the TV!
I gave up TV twice, once in my later teens for several years (I even had a shirt with a picture of a TV and a red circle and slash like a no smoking sign). and after a friend gave me one in my mid twenties I rediscovered not discovering it.
I bemoan the time I spent as a child watching it. Once a friend called as said hey let’s hang around, and I turned it down because The Monkeys, Gilligan’s Island and Hogan’s Heroes were due to air.
I do spend time on the internet, but that to me is more control over programming than what is scheduled. I need internet anyway, high speed is the new normal, so there. I read news content, email, other useful stuff and T-Nation here, that interacts like TV doesn’t.
[quote]nebil12 wrote:
The most incredible thing about TV, when you really think about it, is that when you watch those trashy realty shows like Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, The Real Housewives, keeping up with the Kardashians, Beiber,or LeBron James dunk on Tim Duncan; you are passively watching other human beings succeeding and deposit a million dollars into their savings, when you could be training yourself to do the same things instead!!!
Just remember that life is short enough as it is without wasting it on medial nonsense. Reclaim your life, ditch your TV; read a newspaper or a book! Throughout human history, the most learning was accomplished by reading, not by sitting in front of a boob tube. Just remember, So much can be gained in life by turning off the TV!
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That’s why I should stop watching Star Trek…I realize it should be ME out there!
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]nebil12 wrote:
The most incredible thing about TV, when you really think about it, is that when you watch those trashy realty shows like Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, The Real Housewives, keeping up with the Kardashians, Beiber,or LeBron James dunk on Tim Duncan; you are passively watching other human beings succeeding and deposit a million dollars into their savings, when you could be training yourself to do the same things instead!!!
Just remember that life is short enough as it is without wasting it on medial nonsense. Reclaim your life, ditch your TV; read a newspaper or a book! Throughout human history, the most learning was accomplished by reading, not by sitting in front of a boob tube. Just remember, So much can be gained in life by turning off the TV!
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That’s why I should stop watching Star Trek…I realize it should be ME out there!
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Out there in a galaxy far, far away?
We just have a TV so that the babysitters can have something to do while the baby sleeps. I get plenty of SCREENtime though, these eyes look at a computer or phone screen far too much, probably more than an average TV viewer.
I really only watch tv (cable) at this time, after the gym while making food and interneting. I’m definitely considering getting rid of cable because of this. Weekend video games and Netflix will stay though…
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]nebil12 wrote:
The most incredible thing about TV, when you really think about it, is that when you watch those trashy realty shows like Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, The Real Housewives, keeping up with the Kardashians, Beiber,or LeBron James dunk on Tim Duncan; you are passively watching other human beings succeeding and deposit a million dollars into their savings, when you could be training yourself to do the same things instead!!!
Just remember that life is short enough as it is without wasting it on medial nonsense. Reclaim your life, ditch your TV; read a newspaper or a book! Throughout human history, the most learning was accomplished by reading, not by sitting in front of a boob tube. Just remember, So much can be gained in life by turning off the TV!
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That’s why I should stop watching Star Trek…I realize it should be ME out there!
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Out there in a galaxy far, far away?[/quote]
Don’t make me angry…
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]nebil12 wrote:
The most incredible thing about TV, when you really think about it, is that when you watch those trashy realty shows like Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, The Real Housewives, keeping up with the Kardashians, Beiber,or LeBron James dunk on Tim Duncan; you are passively watching other human beings succeeding and deposit a million dollars into their savings, when you could be training yourself to do the same things instead!!!
Just remember that life is short enough as it is without wasting it on medial nonsense. Reclaim your life, ditch your TV; read a newspaper or a book! Throughout human history, the most learning was accomplished by reading, not by sitting in front of a boob tube. Just remember, So much can be gained in life by turning off the TV!
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That’s why I should stop watching Star Trek…I realize it should be ME out there!
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Out there in a galaxy far, far away?[/quote]
Don’t make me angry…[/quote]
Intergalactic war starting in 3, 2, 1…
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
I really only watch tv (cable) at this time, after the gym while making food and interneting. I’m definitely considering getting rid of cable because of this. Weekend video games and Netflix will stay though…[/quote]
Like Ed Norton says: “after the first month, I didn’t miss tv”. That first month is a bitch sometimes though.
I’d do it. I love video games…that’s one reason I still have my tv. More classic games for me and also some new ones, even though I rarely play anymore. I view them waaay more favorably than TV because of the interaction and problem solving that you can still sort of function mentally. Netlflix is useful too and fun, but I ran into the same problem with it that I had with cable personally.