How often do you watch tv

nothing wrong with humor, but too many people really do believe and act upon stereotypes.
and they hurt a lot of people, including themselves, doing so.

 

sorry to interrupt....what's an ebt card?

 

It's like a government issued credit card with a preset limit. There's a great deal of fraud, scams, and abuse, associated with these cards.

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Ah. Thanks,'H'. So it's more-or-less a benefits card,made out to your weekly limit,then?

 

More like a Platinum VISA card for the poor


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The only times I watch TV is sometimes when I am at work, and when I am at my parents' or a friend's house (because they're watching it).

 

I don't own a tv. I watch ABC iView for news and QandA. Other than that I stream all the rest of the stuff I watch.

Tv, to me, is brain numbing. So many ads, so many things happening, choosing your station, being happy with the best out of them all, but still, you would rather watch something better!

So pointless. I think anyway.

 

^ Game of Thrones tomorrow !!! Wooo!

 

I rarely watch television anymore.

 

that's actually one of the few things on there, and its one my housemates who have tv watch. george martin is a good writer, and much of his work is written as screenplays to begin with.

i usually have other things to do in my own space just the same.

 

I can't get enough of it!

I really want to read his books, but I've started watching now, so I think I'll just watch the entire show then wait a couple of years and read the books lol.

Are you following the show still ?

What do you mean about "one of the few things on here"? I don't quite understand that, it can have several meanings, or I'm just stupid lol

 

actually it is what literal food stamps were replaced with. it is essentially food stamps and other government assistance in the form of a debit card, which the banks and stores handle separately with the same limitations imposed as those formerly applied to physical food stamps.

and no, it is no more vulnerable to corruption, then any and everything else, involving economics. nor of course, any great deal less.

 

The least Goggle box the better -though sadly it has become socially acceptable - well, One can but try - though hopefully not overtaken by the wwwIT phenomenon

 

most of television i find disappointing and treating what interests me as if it didn't exist, or was somehow negative. that is what i mean by one of the few things on tv that are of any interest to me.

as for his books, he has written many set in what are to me, other and more interesting universes. i see no reason to wait a couple of years before reading, for example, tuff voyaging, or one of the anthologies of his shorter works.

not only has he written diversely, but set his writing in a diversity of universes. many i find more interesting and gratifying.

 

Ah okay, I get cha.

You've described his books really well, I think I'll have to read some! What's the harm ey? I started reading something of his, but I can't remember where I left it lol. I always loose books!

 

As folks have pointed out most TV sucks (98%) with that said I love the other 2% :2thumbsup:

Supernatural
River Monsters
Southland
The Walking Dead
Justify
Burn Notice
American Pickers
UFO Hunters
The Universe
Ancient Aliens
Life After People
Meteorite Men (when it was on)
Breaking Bad (When it was on)
Baseball/football/NBA/NHL
NECN (New England Cable News)



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i would have to say nothing makes me feel happier, safer, and more comfortable, then NOT having to hear the sound of the human voice. those coming out of corporate media, are generally the most distrubing and anxiety generating of all.

i realize someone pointing a gun or a knife at me, is a thousand times more immediate and real, and i've had that happen once or twice too. but such occurances are thankfully extremely rare.

being robbed of the sounds of nature, and even those of the technologies of infrastructure, by recorded and broadcast 'entertainment', is, to me, unfortunately all too annoyingly common. more so then its absence.

maybe its just the relative novelty think. like squre buildings might have been interesting in a world dominated by the curves and irregularities of nature, but are painfully common in a world dominated by rectangularly constructed and arranged spaces. thus the same applies, to this concept of commercial 'entertainment'.

when there were only live plays, and letter the penny arcades and even the first movie houses, that idea of professional entertainment much have been something really wonderful and special. precisely because of the novelty of it. because it wasn't an all the time always there.

today you have to get a really long way away from where there is anyone, to not be able to hear, somewhere off in the distance, a damd radio or television playing.

so for me, that is the thing, the attraction of novelty, is to be able to NOT hear them.

 

I watch tv shows.. don't even own a tv though.