Turn off the TV

[ReverseLunge]

Turn Off Your Television!

A message from the White Dot International Campaign Against Television
The average American watches 4.5 hours of television every day.

You sleep for eight hours. You get up and work for eight hours. Come home, eat some dinner and turn on the television. A few hours later you're getting sleepy. Time for bed.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING??

We're not kidding. All those things you wanted to have in your life: passion, romance, love, childhood, parenthood, adventure? when are you going to do all that?

You're staring at a piece of furniture!

People on TV are not your friends. They're not in the room with you. You are alone in the dark, staring at a plastic box. Think about it. This is like a science fiction horror story; but it's really happening. People have stopped living as humans and connected themselves to machines instead.

You're only going to live for 75 years, if you're lucky. How much time do you have left? Enough to spend one whole day every week with fake friends, watching their imitation lives instead of living your own?

TV doesn't give you experiences, it takes them away!

On your deathbed, what if someone could give you back those ten years of television? What if they said you could have another ten years to be with the people you love, find new people, do things differently. What would you say?

[Cipher]

heh, I might watch 4.5 hours of tv per month. I'm not sure what all of the obsession is over it. I can't even name a show that I care to watch other than a few cartoons. Now if they would televise fencing then maybe I might turn the damn thing on once in a while.

[Elemental]

Here is the URL where he copied that.

http://www.tvbgone.com/rants.php

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[ReverseLunge]

What are you talking about dumbass? It's just a good statement and thats all it is.

[ReverseLunge]

heh, I might watch 4.5 hours of tv per month. I'm not sure what all of the obsession is over it. I can't even name a show that I care to watch other than a few cartoons. Now if they would televise fencing then maybe I might turn the damn thing on once in a while.

That's pretty good. I watch about an 2 hours every week.

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

I dont have cable, so I dont watch any TV. PBS isnt worth it.

[ReverseLunge]

You don't have cable? Why not? You guys too poor?

[Neil]

It also works if you replace 'TV' with 'computer'

[mrbiggs]

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Actually, I've been impressed by his quality posts as of late.

[Inquartata]

Actually, I've been impressed by his quality posts as of late.

Heh, possibly that says more about you than about his posts...

[mrbiggs]

Heh, possibly that says more about you than about his posts...

Yeah...

[Westley]

Haha! You like RL! Mr. Biggs and RL, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N- it kind of loses something on the computer, doesn't it?

[mrbiggs]

You don't have cable? Why not? You guys too poor?

I stand corrected.

*sighs and shakes head*

[ReverseLunge]

Big deal. I'm too poor to afford cable.

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Haha! You like RL! Mr. Biggs and RL, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N- it kind of loses something on the computer, doesn't it?

..... i really don't think it ever HAD anything.

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Big deal. I'm too poor to afford cable.

apparently, when one pays ~$40,000 for college, one gets local telephone service and cable for free.

[mrbiggs]

..... i really don't think it ever HAD anything.

Oh, come on, that song was the highlight of my Elementary school days. Other than kickball.

I got beaten up alot back then.

[MikeHarm]

I gave up watching tv/cable several years ago myself. Its made my life a lot more productive. Its more fun buying a stack of dvd's I really want to watch than blowing 70 bucks a month on cable and ending up channel flipping all night anyways.

[ReverseLunge]

apparently, when one pays ~$40,000 for college, one gets local telephone service and cable for free.

huh? Don't get it.

[lochinvar]

On your deathbed, what if someone could give you back those ten years of television? What if they said you could have another ten years to be with the people you love, find new people, do things differently. What would you say?

As Dennis Leary said of smoking: Yeah, I know it takes ten years off your life--but which ten years is it? It's the ten years at the end, when you're a drooling idiot in pampers who can't remember his own name. Right; I'm looking forward to that...