Something I've noticed lately

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:28 am

It's reading threads like these that make me miss the first 10 minutes of CSI.

Promethium · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:10 pm

Brother Fouzone Wrote:

I thought I grew up watching a lot of TV, but then I met people who do watch a lot of TV.

Outside of The Wire, MSNBC, Tony Bourdain and random travel or PBS shows, I don't turn it on.

Yeah, I thought I always watched way too much tv, but I always listened to far too much music to make that possible. Everyone that I have ever lived with watched way more tv than I do. I don't see how you can spend four to six hours during your day off channel surfing. The most tv I watch is college football on saturday and that might be roughly six hours at the most on a good weekend of games.

e-stone · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:49 pm

Rick Derris Wrote:

You're in college man. Why are you staying home at all?

Go out and drink way too much and try to hook up with as many girls as possible.

exactly.

in my 5 years at college, the only tv i watched was sports. and that was usually at a bar.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:58 pm

I stopped watching TV for the most part in college.

Now I watch 2 shows, and that's pretty much it. Over this past summer, I hardly ever turned it on.

I could stand to watch the news a little more, but I kinda hate pretty much all local, major network, and cable news. When you get away from TV for a while, you stop being used to the way news shows "bait" the viewers, and you totally lose patience for it.

As my roommate said when we were watching Lost last week, TV is a shitty format. I'm expecting/hoping it will change pretty drastically soon.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:05 pm

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694

puma · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:34 pm

the short time i was in the dorms at college.... i never watched tv. now, i need my shows to watch because i just need that hour or two to not think about anything and zone out.

god bless tivo.

discostu · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:36 pm

Are your friends socially inept? Are they stoners? This would explain why they don't leave the TV.

catswilleatyou · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:44 pm

discostu Wrote:

Are your friends socially inept? Are they stoners? This would explain why they don't leave the TV.

im a bit of a shut in you see
and
i'll eat out the gangina if its in front of me
but
i dont watch the TV
and i get it for free
come on sing it with me

FT · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:36 pm

frosted Wrote:

The ironical-type thing about Parker Lewis is that he did indeed lose after 73 episodes. Though most Nickelodeon shows are direct descendants of that show, so that's a measured success. Of a sort. I guess.

Here's the actual chronology of theft:

Most Nickelodeon shows ripped off...

Parker Lewis Can't Lose, which ripped off...

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, which ripped off...

Morgan Stewart's Coming Home, which ripped off...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Natural Mike · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:49 pm

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

Natural Mike Wrote:

I often come *this close* to getting rid of cable until a Discovery show about a midget family or a VH1 Classic interview with Gang of Four sucks me right back in.

This summer in Boston my apartment had cable. I miss Myth Busters and some car rebuild shows, but not much else.

Hi Def tv comes over the air for free. Get a nice tv with a built-in hi def tuner, and some cheap-ass rabbit ears. I get 3 PBS's in hi-def, and one is all parks and shipwrecks and shit in widescreen. Football and baseball look fucking amazing.

Free.*

* once you drop a grand and a half on a tv.

I've actually had an HD tuner in my computer for several months now, and it's terrific on my 19" widescreen monitor. The total cost of antenna, tuner, and monitor was under $300. I have 2 computers now, so I'm working on turning one into a dedicated media system.

south pacific · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:52 pm

catswilleatyou Wrote:

im a bit of a shut in you see
and
i'll eat out the gangina if its in front of me
but
i dont watch the TV
and i get it for free
come on sing it with me

awesome.

catswilleatyou · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:55 pm

Natural Mike Wrote:

I have 2 computers now, so I'm working on turning one into a dedicated media system.

they see me MOWin
my FRONT lawn

shiv · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:18 pm

i love tv, though i really don't watch that much of it.

splates · **Posted:** Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:42 am

i miss Parker Lewis

mutty · **Posted:** Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:53 am

south pacific Wrote:

catswilleatyou Wrote:

im a bit of a shut in you see
and
i'll eat out the gangina if its in front of me
but
i dont watch the TV
and i get it for free
come on sing it with me

awesome.

Yea, people who don't like catswilleatyou really need to have their heads checked.

chowgurt · **Posted:** Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:30 am

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

Free.*

* once you drop a grand and a half on a tv.

Yeah Cap'n, Free!!! :lol

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:37 pm

chowgurt Wrote:

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

Free.*

* once you drop a grand and a half on a tv, and get Chow to come over and help you hang it from the wall.

Yeah Cap'n, Free!!! :lol

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

Start off by getting rid of cable, if you have it. We gave it up 3 years ago. I only miss UGA games.

Yup. Haven't had cable in awhile. Don't miss it at all.

Vanlandingham · **Posted:** Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:43 pm

discostu Wrote:

Are your friends socially inept? Are they stoners? This would explain why they don't leave the TV.

They sure as hell ain't stoners, but they are pretty socially inept. One of them actually said to me "I have so many ideas and want to do so much, but I'm just too lazy to do anything." Which I suppose would make him more then socially inept.

My stoner friends actually spend most to all their time playing World of Warcraft. Go figure.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:52 pm

Vanlandingham Wrote:

My stoner friends actually spend most to all their time playing World of Warcraft. Go figure.

I refuse to get this game, because I know with deadly certainty it would result in expulsion and divorce. I still play starcraft.

no guru · **Posted:** Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:31 pm

I watch baseball, shows like Doctor Who & Lost, some of the forensics shows my wife has on, the occasional news show and a truckload of shows like "Stalking The Mammoth" and "Aliens Built The Pyramids"

Don't have HBO or Showtime right now.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:05 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694

Any shock that this was date-lined Chapel Hill?

e-stone · **Posted:** Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:07 pm

Vanlandingham Wrote:

My stoner friends actually spend most to all their time playing World of Warcraft. Go figure.

show them last week's south park. oh wait, that would involve spending more time indoors watching tv. never mind.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

I watch very little tv other than baseball and a small handful of shows but still manage to spend over $1000 per year on my directv/dvr package. Seems like a waste but I need my yankees coverage, soccer games, and city of men.

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