Anyone else here REALLY hate TV?

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I wrote this a few months back on a day when I was feeling particularly ranty-ravey ..

Your Brain Got Worn

It’ll show you what’s right and wrong,

It’ll tell you who to be.

It’ll give you everything you want,

Just as long as you agree,

To never turn it off

So that you’ll forever see,

A distorted image of the world

That betrays humanity.


There’s more-on TV, more-on TV, more-on TV

For you and me!

More-on TV, more-on TV, more-on TV

Than there used to be.


It’ll tune you in and clue you up, to all the latest trends.

The newest thing, the hippest WOW

You’ll be the envy of your friends.

It’ll sort out your shallow life and help you iron-out your kinks,

Giving dumb quick fixes that’ll never work and ‘common-sense’ that stinks.


More-on TV, more-on TV, more-on TV

I have to flee!

More-on TV, more-on TV, more-on TV

Than ever need be.


Once this is all over it is highly likely,

you’ll require a wheelbarrow full of drugs,

to mend your damaged psyche.


Your brain got worn from ‘disaster-porn’ and ‘reality’ T.V.

You’ve wasted your entire life and now you cannot see.

I H8 TV! My attacker busted the screen out of the last TV I had and I'll NEVER buy another one! I NEVER get anything out of watching anything that's fictitious, and that's the majority of what TV is all about. Plus the media often inflates the truth, and that has given me delusions in the past. I like the line in the song, "Calling All Angels" by Train that says, "I need a sign to let me know you're here...cuz my TV set just keeps it all from being clear". Well, most of what's on TV does exactly that.

I must admit I kind of miss watching CNN, National Geographic, & Discovery Health, so I might buy a USB HDTV tuner for my laptop and get cable TV service. But no matter what I do, I will *NEVER* buy another stand-alone television set!

<<Your brain got worn from ‘disaster-porn’ and ‘reality’ T.V. >>

I'm glad you mentioned that. I've recently discovered that the behavior you see of NT's on "Reality TV" is exactly the same behavior they exhibit in the real world, in private or public. To "succeed", you really have to learn to play the "game" just as they do.

Yeah. It sucks doesn't it

TV just isn't what it used to be. I hate it. Luckily, I have my Monkees episodes on vhs, that I have very easy access to. I'm going to get them on DVD, soon.

I've always hated TV, but I started watching documentaries on it a couple of years ago when I was sick with pneumonia. My boyfriend has digital cable, with 200+ channels. I don't plan to ever own a TV myself.

When I didn't watch TV, I thought that simply watching it caused people to trust it, obsess with it, take it seriously, plan their schedules around it, etc. But now I watch it and I don't act like that. I don't think about tv when I'm not watching it. When I am watching it, I'm always doing something else at the same time. It's not an important part of my life, but the monotone documentary voices are comforting as background noise.

Yes, I REALLY hate TV, my roommate watches MTV, TMZ and reality shows constantly, and I feel like turning and watching the wall instead. btw, if you don't know what TMZ is, count yourself lucky and make no attempt to discover what it is. I think some TV is worthwhile, mostly Discovery Channel and Adult Swim, and VH1 Classic is ok too.

autodidact, I like your song (also your name), it reminds me of Dream Theater's "Just Let Me Breathe", especially the line "A daily dose of MTV, will flush your mind right down the drain".

I really like your poem!

I haven't had a t.v. that showed anything but the movies on our VHS or DVD players, for a long time now.

Our daughter has been growing up without television in the house... (both houses now), for 14yrs.

Trouble is... she and I go to fisticuffs over the remote control when we stay in a hotel on vacation
Then when I go to the bathroom and leave the remote on the table, she grabs it and hides it!

We probably have more fun playing around hiding the remote from each other than watching t.v.

When I was a kid, I don't think my family even realized that television sets had OFF buttons!

I'd wake up... and there would be



The t.v. would be on all day long (I'm sure it was never turned off even when we were at school ),
and on during dinner(supper to some of you)
and up until bedtime.

Sometimes if I stayed up late enough...
I got to see this show...




I can even remember that one day... we got a television that had COLORS... well, I mean more colors than just black, grey, and white!

I don't understand people who channel surf. It annoys the crap out of me when I want to be with someone yet all they want to do is sit on their ass and channel surf. 99 percent of what's on television bores the crap out of me. I only turn on the tube when there's a specific show I would like to watch. I mainly watch documentaries and comedy and the occasional ball game. Otherwise it's more interesting to do stuff on the web.

Seems to me you answered your first comment with the second.
People who flash around the channels do not seem to be doing anything constructive to me either... but then... that's what I do with the remote ... but then, but then... I HAVE ADD/HD and I'm SUPPOSED to be that way!

To tell the truth, sometimes I just have trouble dealing with the fact that someone else has the remote . If by chance something actually interesting comes on there's the possibilty that the person with the remote will change the channel.

My father used to do this to me all the time. I will be sitting on the couch reading a magazine and he comes in and turns on the television with the volume really high. I'm too distracted to read so I stop reading and start watching what he's watching. Then he changes the channel right when something that catches my interest comes on.

Yeah, that would be a pisser!

I'm the only one in my family who can really operate the remote.
Because of my unique traits... all I need is a second to recognize whether a channel is worth staying on or not.

I think I channel surf more for the monotonous, mind-numbing, repetition. It's a form of meditation... don't you know!

Channel surfing is DEFINITELY a one-person event!

Talk about remotes!

My daughter and I both have MacBooks.
She'll wait until I am on mine doing something and then she'll get her little remote and start screwing with my computer!

It was so funny the first time she did it... I had no clue why my computer was doing what it was, all by itself!

I hate TV.

You would be fine with me then. Just don't be watching a show for 20 minutes and then change the channel 10 minutes before the end of the program. Not cool. Not when there's other people around. I would have no choice but to wrestle the remote away from you.


Thats what solitaire is for. And clicking refresh every 30 seconds to see if there's new replies to your posts.


agreed.

I prefer to watch dvd's.

My favourite ones...the Hannibal Lector Trilogy.

There is really nothing interesting on tv as I don't have sky tv. If I did have sky tv I would watch animal planet channel as I have seen that at my aunties house and it looks quite interesting.

I hate well over 99% of it, you do get the odd decent documentary here and there (if you look deep enough) and then there's the live Serie A too (forza la Samp). But in actual fact I find radio even less stimulating these days.