Do you watch TV?...at all?
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I haven't watched tv in 7 years. I can honestly say theres nothing worth watching on tv for me. It all feels so dumbed down and stupid. For example a lot of my friends like Lost, I tried watching a dvd a friend loaned to me for a bit but I just sat there thinking "Why the fuck would anyone enjoy this crap?" and I felt the same when I watched Heroes and pretty much anything else.
DOnt even get me started on reality tv. If I could burn down the studios reality tv shows are made by I would.
On the flip side I do still watch some shows but which are freely available on the internet via their official channels like "Have I got news for you", "QI" and so on.
But in the end the only reason I even have a TV at all is simply to play my PS3. Thats it. If I didnt have a console I wouldn't own a tv.
Unless television makers stop dumbing down their creations to suck in the most gullable and most easily entertained morons on the planet then we're going to have an even thicker generation growing up to make even more retarded tv. And thus the spiral of moronity (Yes I know it's not a word ^_^) will continue that started with creationists. >_>
Not that I really have a high opinion of the human race to begin with and it's hard to see how much more stupid the race can become but hey! We can hope that the human race still has the potential to sink itself even lower than now right? ^_^
DOnt even get me started on reality tv. If I could burn down the studios reality tv shows are made by I would.
On the flip side I do still watch some shows but which are freely available on the internet via their official channels like "Have I got news for you", "QI" and so on.
But in the end the only reason I even have a TV at all is simply to play my PS3. Thats it. If I didnt have a console I wouldn't own a tv.
Unless television makers stop dumbing down their creations to suck in the most gullable and most easily entertained morons on the planet then we're going to have an even thicker generation growing up to make even more retarded tv. And thus the spiral of moronity (Yes I know it's not a word ^_^) will continue that started with creationists. >_>
Not that I really have a high opinion of the human race to begin with and it's hard to see how much more stupid the race can become but hey! We can hope that the human race still has the potential to sink itself even lower than now right? ^_^
I don't watch television, and it's mainly for the reasons that the OP discussed. I can't stand all of the commercials thrown at me during the course of a show (especially how many of them seem to have the same smarmy 'folksy' music--you know, when the repetitive guitar, the occasional xylophone beat, etc). There also just isn't that much good television on these days. Most of the shows I actually do like are comedies, and 'smart' ones at that, such as the Daily Show and the Colbert Report.
I put on the TV when I can't sleep.
Otherwise, I much prefer downloading the shows I like so I can watch them when it suits me. So, uh. Sorta? Not really?
Basically ads suck arse and so does at least 95% of the shit they air on TV, so screw 'em. I'm going around them and never looking back.
Oh, and pay TV... Fuck you so very much for putting ads in your content.
Otherwise, I much prefer downloading the shows I like so I can watch them when it suits me. So, uh. Sorta? Not really?
Basically ads suck arse and so does at least 95% of the shit they air on TV, so screw 'em. I'm going around them and never looking back.
Oh, and pay TV... Fuck you so very much for putting ads in your content.
I don't watch a lot of TV, mostly Dexter, The Big Bang Theory and Bones. And a few Québec shows. I don't actually have TV at home, I just watch everything on the Internet.
I haven't really watched TV since I moved out of my parents house 12 years ago.
Sometimes, I'll watch Discovery, National Geographic or Animal Planet with my girlfriend but rarely. I do watch Ross Kemp on Gangs rather often though.
The computer and the TV is in the same room anyway, so I can just as well communicate with her while she's watching her animal cops shows or whatever.
Sometimes, I'll watch Discovery, National Geographic or Animal Planet with my girlfriend but rarely. I do watch Ross Kemp on Gangs rather often though.
The computer and the TV is in the same room anyway, so I can just as well communicate with her while she's watching her animal cops shows or whatever.
I haven't had "Cable" or "Satellite" for almost 6 years now. I'm more active and if I ever want to watch something I just download it and watch it when I want to.
I don't watch much myself, but it is usually on at home from someone else. Our satellite dish has been out the last few days and it has been pretty nice. I'm out of school so I have been playing my new 360 some more.
I don't own a TV since... hm... at least for seven years now, i guess.
I DO watch some shows and a LOT of movies. But only on DVD or by stream / download.
I DO watch some shows and a LOT of movies. But only on DVD or by stream / download.
For a few shows at least...
House
Big Bang Theory
Lie To Me
Scrubs
Futurama
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Match Of The Day
and various sports
They are the main ones, anyway
House
Big Bang Theory
Lie To Me
Scrubs
Futurama
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Match Of The Day
and various sports
They are the main ones, anyway
Sure, it's how I unwind after working all day. I don't watch anything in real time, though - we record everything on the DVR so that we can fast forward through the commercials. We also watch a lot of Netflix streaming and stuff off Xbox Live (movies and such).
Indeed, what about him?bahumat42 said:
I have nothing against Harry Hill, I enjoyed his first show back in the day, but I've never really watched and certainly not got into TV Burp. At least at first glance it seems to be all the stuff that I'd normally avoid over the course of a televisual week chucked in a blender and mulched into a murky timewasting froth with some lighthearted yet cynical commentary over the top and a touch of VJing thrown in. MST3K for trash telly, if you like.
Closest I get to that and still enjoy the output enough for it to be worth my time is Screen Burn or similar.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Law and Order: SVU
The Daily Show
30 Rock
..Smallville used to be on the list but it ended two weeks ago. Supernatural still has one more season (oh dear god, why!?), but I'm not even sure I care about the plotline anymore, considering it's so paper thin and tedious now. All in all, I don't really watch much T.V.. And that I do, I mainly watched streamed on the computer (mostly Adult Swim Anime, Naruto Shippuden, Avatar, etc).
Law and Order: SVU
The Daily Show
30 Rock
..Smallville used to be on the list but it ended two weeks ago. Supernatural still has one more season (oh dear god, why!?), but I'm not even sure I care about the plotline anymore, considering it's so paper thin and tedious now. All in all, I don't really watch much T.V.. And that I do, I mainly watched streamed on the computer (mostly Adult Swim Anime, Naruto Shippuden, Avatar, etc).
I feel ya dude. I have the 1 billion channels of HD and I watch History (when it's not about armaggedon, the anti-christ, did aliens visit, is Hitler alive nonsense.) Natgeo, Discovery, Comedy central (Workaholics is terrible.) and maybe a few other shows on FX like Sons of Anarchy and Justified. Other than that reality EVERYTHING has destroyed what little value TV had. No, I don't want to watch a bunch of people have cupcake bakeoffs, or toddler pagents, truck driving "reality", or anything.