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CarrieH
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:crying: WAAAAAH! http://bestsmileys.com/sad/4.gif
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KJLSchneider
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Darn, you stole my line!!
I don’t watch a ton, and now that my DS is turning into a couch potato (I started to notice that if the TV is on, even CNBC etc. he’ll sit and watch instead of playing) I try very hard to keep it off while he’s awake. We occasionally watch Glenn Beck in the afternoon, partly because I need a little mental stimulation after almost 10 hours of nonstop mommy mode.
Other than that, I’m a Dirty Jobs/Mythbusters/FoodNetwork junkie while I knit in the evening. And then there’s football on weekends, don’t even get DH started on that
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dulcissima
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I gave up TV about 3or 4 years ago, and I can’t say that I miss it. I remember a couple of months after cancelling cable, I walked past my son’s room, and he was reading. He developed a real appetite for books once TV was no longer an option.
It is amazing how many hours you can add to your day by giving up TV. True, the internet is such a time drain, but I don’t find it is quite as bad as TV because if you get up to do something else, everything on the internet will still be there when you get back.
It is amazing how many hours you can add to your day by giving up TV. True, the internet is such a time drain, but I don’t find it is quite as bad as TV because if you get up to do something else, everything on the internet will still be there when you get back.
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Ahimsa
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Mirdath
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I don’t. I have far better ways to waste my time 
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mdgspencer
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TV can be okay if you have it under control. I wonder though why most families have it in the living room. Then if it is watched much it becomes the center of family existence. Indeed it can easily become the center of personal existence every evening for a person who has to watch this show at 8 and that show at 9, giving television priority in this way over all other forms of activity.
As I said though, television can be all-right it you have it under control Though for my part I haven’t had one for thirty years and don’t miss it.
As I said though, television can be all-right it you have it under control Though for my part I haven’t had one for thirty years and don’t miss it.
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Altesse
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Its relaxing. I either read or watch some TV.
I live by myself so it is like having other people there. (Especially nice at night)
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goofyjim
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Because I like tv. No problem with it at all. It does not influence my morals.
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Sailor_Kenshin
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Cooking shows!
And that guy who gets dumped into the wilderness to show you how not to die there.
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Catholic90
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Bear Grylls
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Katie1723
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Why I watch tv??..2 words…Hugh Laurie
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Sailor_Kenshin
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Wotta man.
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Teakafrog
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I don’t. When we moved a year and a half ago, we never got cable here, and we live in the boonies so we can’t even get regular channels. 
Only thing I miss is a few Discovery channel programs like Mythbusters, and Animal planet. I can watch EWTN online.
Only thing I miss is a few Discovery channel programs like Mythbusters, and Animal planet. I can watch EWTN online.
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Roman20
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Why do you read? Why do you critize?
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NoxSineStellae
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DH and I love to read - we own thousands of books, practically live at the library, constantly carry one around with us to fill the time waiting in line, for a bus, etc; and yet we also love to watch tv. For us it is very much “shared” time, in a way that reading our separate books in the same room is not. We cuddle in bed or on the couch, we discuss what we’re watching during and after - discussions that start with the show, but often become about life and people in general. Many deep, hours long discussions have been sparked by television for us. It’s an experience we both enjoy, and something that brings us closer.
We’re both introverts, and do not like to go out and spend money to have a good time. The other couples that we socialize with either have children, or less regular schedules, so we often do not get to hang out as often as we’d like with our friends. TV is fun for us, in many ways. We like the format of a story - or part of a story - being told in 20-40 minutes. We truly believe that there is some excellent television out there, as good as any play or Oscar winning film, and better than many books. I discount anyone who makes sweeping generaliations like *ALL television is ***** because obviously they haven’t given it a fair shake. There have been solidly entertaining, thoughtful, intelligent, well acted shows produced through the years, and it’s your right not to watch, but don’t treat those of us who find diamonds in the rough as some kind of intellectually and morally inferior lepers.
I grew up without a television - when I was in high school, we finally got one and were allowed 1/2 per day once homework was done. We chose the cartoon Animaniacs. The X-Files was the first grownup show I watched, and I loved it. Maybe I watch so much now because of the years without it? There are so many shows we’re discovering on DVD.
DH and I also like to watch “bad” shows (not content-wise, quality) and get a lot of enjoyment out of mercilessly skewering them, MST3K style, like CSI Miami. Other shows, like Star Trek and Star Trek TNG, we can enjoy on both levels - good shows, with a lot of unintentional humor to be found. Our favorite show was Farscape.
Of currently airing shows we watch The Office, 30 Rock, Simpsons, House, Heroes, and Reaper. The last was a surprise for us, we like the droll humor, that the devil is viewed as unequivocably evil and unsympathetic, and that there’s not really any “secret life” Buffy style garbage going on. Heroes is wearing on our last nerve, but just as we’re about to abandon it, does something brilliant. We’re also looking forward to the start of Medium.
I also get my crime dramas on the computer and play them in the background while ironing/mopping/cleaning, etc - Law & Order CI, sometimes Criminal Minds or Bones…I enjoy the mysteries, don’t want to focus on the gore and whatnot, so it works out well.
All that said, we don’t have children yet, and when we do, we plan to be rigorous with their viewing. We’ve been talking about no cable (which here means no tv at all) when we move, both for cost, and content…right now it’s paid for by someone else, and the only thing ever on is the BBC news, Have I Got News for You/Nevermind the Buzzcocks, and Dr. Who. All things we can get cheaply through torrents in this day and age, and we have our dvd sets.
I don’t plan on ever using tv to “babysit” our kids, but see nothing wrong with a dvd of a classic children’s show/movie on occasion. It’s not even in the same ballpark as reading for imagination, but it is a fun escape. And it has the added bonus of no commercials.
So why do I watch tv? Because it’s the second most enjoyable thing I can do with my husband, it’s cheap, it’s funny, and sometimes after a hard day, I’m too tired to read and just want to have someone else tell me a good story.
We’re both introverts, and do not like to go out and spend money to have a good time. The other couples that we socialize with either have children, or less regular schedules, so we often do not get to hang out as often as we’d like with our friends. TV is fun for us, in many ways. We like the format of a story - or part of a story - being told in 20-40 minutes. We truly believe that there is some excellent television out there, as good as any play or Oscar winning film, and better than many books. I discount anyone who makes sweeping generaliations like *ALL television is ***** because obviously they haven’t given it a fair shake. There have been solidly entertaining, thoughtful, intelligent, well acted shows produced through the years, and it’s your right not to watch, but don’t treat those of us who find diamonds in the rough as some kind of intellectually and morally inferior lepers.
I grew up without a television - when I was in high school, we finally got one and were allowed 1/2 per day once homework was done. We chose the cartoon Animaniacs. The X-Files was the first grownup show I watched, and I loved it. Maybe I watch so much now because of the years without it? There are so many shows we’re discovering on DVD.
DH and I also like to watch “bad” shows (not content-wise, quality) and get a lot of enjoyment out of mercilessly skewering them, MST3K style, like CSI Miami. Other shows, like Star Trek and Star Trek TNG, we can enjoy on both levels - good shows, with a lot of unintentional humor to be found. Our favorite show was Farscape.
Of currently airing shows we watch The Office, 30 Rock, Simpsons, House, Heroes, and Reaper. The last was a surprise for us, we like the droll humor, that the devil is viewed as unequivocably evil and unsympathetic, and that there’s not really any “secret life” Buffy style garbage going on. Heroes is wearing on our last nerve, but just as we’re about to abandon it, does something brilliant. We’re also looking forward to the start of Medium.
I also get my crime dramas on the computer and play them in the background while ironing/mopping/cleaning, etc - Law & Order CI, sometimes Criminal Minds or Bones…I enjoy the mysteries, don’t want to focus on the gore and whatnot, so it works out well.
All that said, we don’t have children yet, and when we do, we plan to be rigorous with their viewing. We’ve been talking about no cable (which here means no tv at all) when we move, both for cost, and content…right now it’s paid for by someone else, and the only thing ever on is the BBC news, Have I Got News for You/Nevermind the Buzzcocks, and Dr. Who. All things we can get cheaply through torrents in this day and age, and we have our dvd sets.
I don’t plan on ever using tv to “babysit” our kids, but see nothing wrong with a dvd of a classic children’s show/movie on occasion. It’s not even in the same ballpark as reading for imagination, but it is a fun escape. And it has the added bonus of no commercials.
So why do I watch tv? Because it’s the second most enjoyable thing I can do with my husband, it’s cheap, it’s funny, and sometimes after a hard day, I’m too tired to read and just want to have someone else tell me a good story.
po18guy
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First, it’s a lot of hours spent vegging! Second, and more impotant, is that Discovery gladly fronted the anti-Christian DaVinci-like hatchet job on the tomb of “Jesus”. It didn’t affect those of strong faith, but it remains an attack. It was so badly researched and investigated that the Weekly World News threatened a suit against Discovery for copying their reporting style.
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OutinChgoburbs
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First, it’s a lot of hours spent vegging! *It’s Catholic90’s time, and Catholic90 is allowed to do with it what Catholic90 will. I don’t think it’s up to you to decide how muchtime people spend in front of their televisions. For all you know, we are Tivo-ing or VCR-ing and watching it later. Even if we watched it all at once, as long as our kids are fed and our work is completed, our free time is just that- free. *Second, and more impotant, is that Discovery gladly fronted the anti-Christian DaVinci-like hatchet job on the tomb of “Jesus”. It didn’t affect those of strong faith, but it remains an attack. It was so badly researched and investigated that the Weekly World News threatened a suit against Discovery for copying their reporting style.
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Sailor_Kenshin
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This actually comes close to describing how I “use” TV…
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