cable sickness

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This is trivial compared to the sorrows normally on display at the Haven, but I am experiencing great suffering at the hands of cable television.

I have found myself in a house with cable television, surely one of mankind's most evil inventions. I am not used to having more than five channels. This is a recipe for sloth. I watched reruns of that Project Runway show for EIGHT hours today. It has rendered me wilted and emotionless, too stimulated to sleep, too numb to read, and too guilty to watch any more television.



This is cable sickness, a serious and debilitating condition I get whenever I am in a place with one of those horrible boxes. Once I only had sporadic attacks, brought on by special occasions, but now I am in a high-risk area for a good period of my time. Have mercy on a girl who is all alone, weak, eyestrained, and rendered dumber by about 20 I.Q. points, and join the race for a cure for cable sickness! My quality of life depends on someone stopping me from watching television!

I used to be like this when I was young. I was addicted to teletoon, watched it ALL DAY and all the time. I watched it so much that my parents had to get someone to restrict that channel for our T.V.

But, it was a good choice because I found other things to do.

Don't worry, you'll get through it. Cable T.V is great for a little while, but then it just gets boring..for me atleast

I too used to watch cable for hours straight, all night and into the next day when I was younger--mainly to mentally escape from the wretched household environment. My advice, if you don't wish to permanently ruin your intellect, is to just get rid of your personal tv (if you have one), or try to recall as best as you can how awful you felt afterward the last time you were tempted.

The destruction of a television is the most cathartic and liberating act known to our culture.

I never owned a television prior to meeting my wife.
We got one along with a vcr originally just to watch videos.
Then we started watching the local news.
Then we moved to another state and got cable... which led to late-night mindless television watching.
After a year, we moved to Alaska and could barely get any channel, so we sometimes watched two shows when they came in clear enough to understand... The X-Files, and Northern Exposure.

Since those days we've never watched anything but rented movies on the television again.
Far as I know, my former wife still does not have regular or cable t.v., and I left without a t.v.
My daughter and I just watch movies on her laptop (not sure why we don't use mine... power and control on her part I'm sure )

I grew up in a house where the t.v. was on all the time.
It was turned on first thing in the morning and left on until the ending of programming late at night, or else when everyone went to bed before the test-screen and National Anthem came on.

It was on during dinner with my mom chastising me for craning my neck so I could see what was on while we ate.

I cannot believe how much money people pay for cable or sattelite television today... $70, $80, or more per month?

I do want a flat screen t.v. around 22"-30" in size, but just to hook up the dvd player to so we can quit using our computers for the job.
NO WAY would I put up an aerial or subscribe to cable or hook up to sattelite!

I spend enough time on the internet already... having pared that down from all nighters every night.

Anyway, MissPickwickian, hope you feel better.

We have three televisions in our house.

1. Biggest and best television, and the only one which receives the subscription (i.e. "pay") channels, is also the one with the Wii and GameCube attached to it. As long as the children are home, problem solved!
2. Second TV only gets the free-to-air service. Sorted.
3. Third TV is hooked up to the dodgy coaxial receptacle, so the picture is always snowy, and there is no remote, so you have to physically turn dials on the front of the set, and it only gets the free-to-air as well. Hardly worth the bother. Sorted.

How is cable TV evil?

Tim

Where I live, we've got something like 30 channels, but since I got a ten-megabit-both-ways internet connection, TV watching has taken a sharp decline. Since sometime back in februrary or march, I only watched TV on one occation; to get the results of the Danish general election back in november...

A few years ago, the internet connection failed for ten days in a row, so I resorted to watching TV instead: By golly that's dull and boooooooring compared to the Net...!

I have digital cable at my parents' house (where I live during the winter break and the summer), and regular cable at my college dorm.

Tim

"KILL YOUR TV"

(That's just an expression, a bumper sticker. Please don't take it literally.)

Cancel the cable or destroy or sell your TV for real. I'm not joking.