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How much are you influenced by television?
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The only thing TV influences me to do at the moment is not watch it.
"Kimi the Kinky Kiwi".
My daughter Marcia-Marcia-Marcia thinks so as well. I've not had a chance to ask my son, as he hasn't returned from his three hour cruise just yet.
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Influenced by TV? Feh. That's just a load of rich, creamery butter.
On some of those foreign late-night premium-rate pay-television channels, it only *looks* like that....
I was just watching a show where some people were reading this thread on their computer.
likewise. the last time i watched television was in 2004
I quit in the mid-90's. However, I do watch TV shows on DVD... but only after they've finished their run, and were well liked/loved by a lot of people _that I trust_ (read: no "reality" shows). The only drawback is that I miss many references to commercials and their products in conversations outside of home, as well as any knowledge of the then and/or present current crop of young "stars" (which in turn makes looking at the tabloid covers while standing in lines, very boring). Not to mention I started saving money on going to the movies... if you never hear of something, you don't feel a need to see it. Damn, I've got to start watching TV again! No... wait. It costs money around here to receive an analog signal! *sigh* Guess years and years of Star Trek on DVD will just have to do me. *grin*
That's what I mean... you gotta' have cable and a convertor!
(Remember when the whole point of cable TV was no commercials?)
We don't have 'cable' as you might know it here, we do -however- have a television licence which everyone able to receive TV* have to pay.
Plus: anyone selling you a TV-set or a (net capable) computer (or -indeed- a 'smartphone' or radio) is by law required to make it known that you own such a device. - Not complaining -I love having two channels of ad-free decent public programming
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*) Whether it be on a TV-set or via the net; They even call it a media licence now.
Have you considered moving to a civilized country? *grin*
I'd have problems increasing the profits of a seller who is definitely going to rat me out to the evil (*blech-spit-pooey*) taxman (*blech-spit-pooey*).
Our public station (singular) is funded through grants, taxes and begging in place of commercials. And rarely has anything decent on... even if you had a clue what was scheduled. Nope... no broadcast TV for me. DVD's or it's back to the books!
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