"I am nearly there myself now."

I'll take your word for it... but wierdo or without a TV? Both?

On the basis of: "I watch less and less TV, I must be getting old like you lot" I must have regressed to kindergaten entry status.

The current affairs game sounds titillating, but.

Watching telly is all well and good - marvellous technology and all that, and nobody is more surprised than me that I've gone off it to a greater extent.

Howdy, Houellie, I noticed you dropped onto the Atheist thread over yonder in the articles section - and did your usual party trick of relieving yourself on the banquet table (dousing the pomposity, I believe it's called).
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...hope you feel better now :)

Hi Poirot,

I saw a thread with a million posts and thought what's going on in there. Of course my first instinct would be to make some kind of toilet joke, but I decided that the OLO residents deserved a much bigger serving.

Why is OLO so much about god? Is Graham really into it?

I think you have some of that wrong Houelly.

My lady has kids entering your commercial TV audience bracket, but can watch the thing all dam day, & night. Yes she even likes some soap, as did my mother, when in her 90s. They could discuss some soaps as if they were talking about acquaintances.

She really likes that awful Judge Judy, & Doctor someone on in the afternoons, & will not miss that night one with very fat people alternately jumping around then crying.

Hell she can even watch the dreadful drama put out by the ABC, & the BBC. I have finally worked it out, drama is when they all shout a lot, but to be top drama they must intersperse the shouting with periods of silence, while they stare meaningfully directly into the camera.

Comedy it appears is when they have a hidden audience, [a computer perhaps] laughing regularly to A/ make sure you know it's funny, & B/ know when to laugh yourself. The above drama specialists are supposed to be good at this.

I'm not too sure of the comedy bit, as I usually find myself leaving the room, to avoid being sick on the carpet, so haven't seen much of it.

Then we have that talking heads stuff on the ABC, where a bunch of lefties sit around, & alternately pee in each other's pockets. Frightfully unhygienic, & terribly boring. Perhaps we should give the ABC more money, so they could build enough toilets, to avoid this unpleasant practice.

It really is amazing that I can pull up a TV program with 18 channels, & some nights, not find a single thing I want to watch. The next night there is likely to be 3 things I could be interested in, all on at 7.30, then more garbage for the rest of the night.

It can't all be bad for everyone. I was amazed to find people cruising the reef in yachts, anchoring in particular spots, not because they were safe, or comfortable, but because they had better TV reception.

I think for some Hasbeen, the question isn't 'what do I want to watch on this TV', it's 'Now that I'm going to watch TV, what should I watch out of these choices'.

Of course people can enjoy shows aimed at others, and I was generalising of course, but I had to find some way to explain the stupidity of people watching the same formulated plots and reality shows again and again. My conclusion, which you have just shot holes in, was that the people watching it had not seen sufficient FBI chief with personal issues solve a heinous crime and catch the bad guys enough times before.

I think though, when watching a show, lots of people aren't really watching. I watch some of my wife's shows, but am unable to remember a single character's name. I am in some sort of a trance like state thinking of other things. I wonder how many other people actually watch the TV or are in a trance like me.

Same as ACA. I cannot, will not, believe that much of the population really is that thick. I think the large majority of viewers see it as a parody like I do. I would love to work on the ACA team, I bet they laugh their asses off every day coming up with this stuff.

Well I think that there is some kind of intelletual snobbery that
goes on, when it comes to claiming what people watch on tv.

Personally I'm more like Lexi, I multitask so to speak, but I like
to stay informed. So I might have the tv and internet running,
along with the Oasys, along with something cooking for dinner.

The Ipad tells me what is on both tv satelites, so with a quick
flick of the ipad screen, I can take a look at what might interest
me. I've seen some great programmes on CNN, some on BBC, some
on the Discovery Science or History channels.

All this for less then 2 bucks a day for the tv and less then
1.50 a day for the net. What a bargain!

Why should I limit my options for being well informed, by some
kind of intellectual snobbery?