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i liked some us tv programmes waves.. especially the X-files

tv?

tv=tele vision
NOT trans vestite

I don't do either, at the present time.
(smiling).

me neither my friend

how good does it feel to be free of the brainwashing machine?..
give me real life anyday

Fine, really, I am used to it now. It is a problem in conversations sometimes, as I don't get Reality TV references, but, eh, I don't care.

You know, AW, the only TV programmes that I ever liked when I had access to a set were non-English: Seinfeld, Frasier, Curb your enthusiasm, the Simpsons and Father Ted (which is Irish.) I liked Little Britain, when I saw it with friends.. but other than that ...

But TV is mostly doggerrel anyway, to-day, I feel; over here, it's almost wall-to-wall with reality TV shows and degrading contests...

Hatch's Chilli is the spice of life, alongside the water that they drink in Omaha.

How long have you not been watching TV, Osso? It's amazing how it bemuses people in real life (specifically children) when I say that I don't watch TV. The usual response, after re-asking the question eight times, is 'what do you do, then?' with amazement and worry.

Heh heh, personally I quite like my T.V. (though sometimes I do confess to a desire to throw a brick through it). Right now we are being entertained by coverage of the Athens Olympics, to which pretty much NO Athenians are paying the slightest attention.

Red Dwarf is one of my all time favourite television shows.

P.S. WE'RE TOP OF THE MEDAL TALLY!! YAY!

!!! There will be boisterous singing of 'Advance Australia fair' yet. How many medals have you now?

Is there anything that makes you wish to throw a brick, or something similar, through the television, Fortune?

5 gold medals so far for Australia, which is levelled by China, but were ahead of them in silver and bronze.

Brick worthy television shows on my list include 'reality' programming and those hideous contests where they set out to embarrass and humiliate as many people as possible so that other people can have a good laugh at their expense. I also have a great deal of concentrated ire stored up for the producers of what passes for 'news' in this country, tabloid media

There are also just way too many cop shows on Aussie T.V. at the moment. We've got Aussie cop shows, American cop shows, British cop shows... Ugh, you just can't get away from them! And the sports! Once in a while, every now and then, in small doses, I like a little sports, but no! They like to choke you with it. Not just the events themselves, but television shows about sports, I mean, what's the point?

Please note this does not include the Olympic games which, as I may have implied, I absolutely love.

Ah, well. I shouldn't complain really. I suppose you just have to take the good with the bad.

[or turn it off]

(That's a good option too)

O, what are the golds in? I know that one is in swimming, at least. I wonder what makes the Olympics different; I feel the same: I usually hate sports, but I can watch them: due to the variety of events, I guess.

I agree with all you've said, Fortune. It seems like the whole brickshop is pandering to the lowest-common-denominator. They think that everyone from the bottom up can understand the bottom of the bath, but if they programme high-brow, quality programming, they'll exclude everyone bar those at the very top. They are very generalising, those station managers, and don't believe too well in their audiences' intelligence (all of these reasons why I watch TV once every... six months.) They like to cash in on cruelty that they themselves could not withstand...

Shooting and Cycling count for two of the golds, I can't remember at this moment what the other two were.

Yes, BoGoWo, I do occasionally turn it off. My major problem is those times when I really just want to sit down and relax in front of the T.V. and all that is on is the brainless drivel the powers that be consider suitable fodder for the masses.

On those rare occasions when I do switch on a network news program I end up sitting there for half the show yelling at the box, "That's not news! That's a skating budgerigar!" (or other equally ridiculous 'human interest' -read uninterest- story)

Drom, I stopped watching gradually. Back in the eighties I went to school in landscape architecture and worked at the same time a regular 40 hours and I hardly ever had time to watch tv; then I worked and had to study for my boards. Then my exhub and myself went to Italy for a month as a first vacation in forever and I came back whacko about italy and started to read like a fiend about it and take italian classes and got back into painting, using the italian countryside and my recent engagement with landscape to reinvent my painting... and I just watched less and less tv, still seeing the Olympics and, oh, Westminster dog show and a few other things. Then we remodelled our house, with us doing the work, and then... the marriage fell apart. I would resort to reading as a palliative instead of tv. Then I moved north, after we broke up, and, yes, bought myself a nice new tv. I didn't really know myself then, as I have barely watched it at all.

Did watch the Giro d'Italia one year, and the Academy Awards and, yup, the dog show. At this point I don't have cable and get only basic channels. The machine goes on now only when my niece visits.. she loves it, mostly for the vcr.

So this has been a gradual change for someone who used to watch a lot of tv and had a dad who used to make commercials in very early tv.

No skating budgerigars for you, osso!

Skating budgies, too funny. It's strange, I have two friends who were anchors, well, one still is. I hardly ever watched her either... because she was on a typical network news broadcast.

He made early TV commercials? How fascinating! Did you have to spend time on the sets?

I used to watch a bit of television-- Seinfeld and the like. Then, TV started pandering for the lowest of the low, with constant reality shows, so I just threw it out (especially since they're prosecuting OAPs just because they can't afford to buy extortionately-priced TV licences...)