Could you survive without television?

[Catastic82]

Only reason my tv ever turns on is for Sport.

And the PS4

 

[Tulip]

Where do you draw the line on thing you enjoy? Do we cut out music and books? People always say you should read but there are definitely books that could draw parallels with programming.

I generally look after myself. I eat reasonably well, get my fruit and veg in, mostly cook my own food (am prone to the occasional McD's), exercise, get out and enjoy the outdoors when i can, have started meditating (highly recommended) etc,.

But there are things I do which I know aren't great for me but I enjoy them such as drinking and "programming". I don't see any of these as becoming damaging, and in fact can be good at times cause they activate some social senses. I could cut all these out but why deny myself that? And on what does the basis of my socialising become? About the exercise I'm doing, how I've massively increased the fruit and veg in my diet, a bushwalk that I did? No one gives a ****. I'd have no friends pretty quickly, and rightly so. Right now it's pretty well rounded. "Watch the cricket? See last nights Q&A? Finally hit the booze with Jimmy last week... You listened to Black Keys lastest album yet? Went to a gig last week... We won footy by 100 last weekend... Seen that latest South Park episode about Lorde?"

In any case like someone above I've been backpacking and it's pretty much impossible to watch any shows on the road. One of the good things about coming back is just vegging out and catching up on a bit South Park or whatever the vibe is at the time.

Agree with this 100%, people like Smiling Buddha get their kicks out of laughing at other people for not being 'in tune'.

Guess what pal, we all end up in the ground. Have as much fun as you can, and ward off the misery as much as you can, until that time comes.

Moral absolutists shit me up the wall.

 

[kfc1]

all of a sudden i want to buy a desk or a couch

 

[Bunk Moreland]

And the less said about Foxtel the better.

We had it for a few years and we were all pretty shamed over handing money over for the junk. When you're 14 and obsessed with sport, it's great, but when you discover going out and drinking and all that boring escapism, you tend to neglect those interests. So the only 'valid' point it had was lost.

It's just full of ads, the programming is constantly repeated (I have no idea how many times they flog Bourdain but I reckon each season nine teams a year) and it's nothing but mostly brain-dead and moronic shit like Adult Swim and the Kardashians.

Beyond me.

Foxtel sport is very good. All AFL live. All NRL live. All ALeague Live. All Premier League live. A bit of La Liga and Series A now. NFL live. NBA live. Overseas test series live. The Olympics coverage was amazing if that's your thing - 9 channels live. Sky Channel 1, 2 and World. TVN. A full time motorsport channel.

For the monthly price it's a fantastic package and good value.

And yes, I go out all the time. I also watch sport at home.

 

[craigos]

Jumping off the Westgate now

Not funny, my TV jumped off the Westgate after watching The Bolt Report one morning. RIP Rank Arena.

 

[Gibbsy]

Quite easily

I only use it for sport (via Foxtel) and there are other ways and means to access that sort of stuff without TV now anyway

 

[LukasTheGreat]

And the PS4

Yes, Can't forget that

 

[Gibbsy]

Haven't had a functioning TV for two years (I lived behind a hospital which cut out the reception) and can barely stand it these days. Even the ABC and SBS chronically shit me, if it isn't their as-bad-as-Sunrise morning cack crews, it's their dullard programming (Black Comedy, Upper Middle Bogan, Josh Thomas... tragic and simply offensive in their levels of bad). I've barely missed it and in the years, have stopped reading magazines and started trying to reading a book a week (usually ends up a book every 2 and a half, though...).

That Sydney Siege shit was the final nail for me with the ABC. It was sensationalist. It was nothing but emotion-fishing. It was all about The Tragedy Narrative, of which it totally became, and of which is now petering out (like an Tragedy Narratives).

When you have people like Leigh Sales on hundreds of thousands of dollars, piss kidneys like Kerry O'Brien stinking up the place long after expiry, how can you honestly pardon their existence? **** em.

Karl Stefanovic too. That prick is nothing but a total sell-out masquerading as a comedian and man of the people, of which he is blatantly neither. He is paid by, and subsequently owned, by the man. He wears his suits, he plugs his Shimanos to Dysons, and he does all this while every so often buzzin off his nut on ecstasy (gotta love the gullible public when Channel 9 said he was on the morning show "drunk." No one is "drunk" and carrying on like that... it was jubilant, touchy feely, and euphoric... dude was pinging) to try and regain some kind of free-spirited cool and hedonism. He is nothing of the sort. All that rebellion, his lame #KarlVTonyAbbott charades, they are just as scripted. They're for young punks and pedestrian.tv to go "wow this dude is sooooooooo crazy!!!" It's embarrassing.

Tell us what you really think!!

 

[Smiling Buddha]

Where do you draw the line on thing you enjoy? Do we cut out music and books?

I'm saying that if you get off the programming for a while, when you come back you will no longer 'enjoy' it. Cutting it out won't be a chore, it will be a liberation.

Guess what pal, we all end up in the ground. Have as much fun as you can, and ward off the misery as much as you can, until that time comes.

I agree with these sentiments entirely, which is why I encourage getting off the programming

You really needed a YouTube clip to tell you that mainstream media are working off a script? Who's the "programmed" one here?

Why the snide, juvenile remarks in all of my threads? Just to get likes from my haterz?

You can be better

 

[Scotland]

And the less said about Foxtel the better.

We had it for a few years and we were all pretty shamed over handing money over for the junk. When you're 14 and obsessed with sport, it's great, but when you discover going out and drinking and all that boring escapism, you tend to neglect those interests. So the only 'valid' point it had was lost.

It's just full of ads, the programming is constantly repeated (I have no idea how many times they flog Bourdain but I reckon each season nine teams a year) and it's nothing but mostly brain-dead and moronic shit like Adult Swim and the Kardashians.

Beyond me.

Too cool for TV, too. Would be easier to start a list of things you're not too cool for.

 

[Scotland]

I'm saying that if you get off the programming for a while, when you come back you will no longer 'enjoy' it. Cutting it out won't be a chore, it will be a liberation.

And others - who have done exactly this - are saying you're making something out of nothing, which is ironically what the "MSM" tend to do.

The longest period I think I've gone without watching any Australian TV was about 7 months. I watched the odd thing here and there overseas, but we're talking maybe an hour a month at absolute most. I don't really reccommend Family Guy dubbed into German. Anyway, came back and switched on Channel 7 news and it was just as shit as it was when I left. No epiphany, sorry.

I signed up for Foxtel in 2012 when 9 games of footy live each round became a thing. Since then I've only really watched FTA TV when the cricket is on, or the GF. I don't miss it, Foxtel is just the same mindless shit with a couple of better shows and some sports that I like. It's TV FFS, you watch it to keep you entertained when you have nothing better to do. That's it as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Tell us what you really think!!

Why peddle gay, MOR opinions on an internet forum?

 

[treefingers]

The only things I watch on TV are the cricket and the footy. Do people under 30 even use it for anything else these days?

I've had a TV in my room for 2+ years now and I reckon I've never had the actual television on. It's only for my PS3

 

[Scotland]

The only things I watch on TV are the cricket and the footy. Do people under 30 even use it for anything else these days?

Have you not seen the ratings for The Voice, X-Factor etc?

 

[Silent Alarm]

I go out most nights a week and have a drink (during the holidays, anyway), and I still watch sport?

Talking more about soccer which isn't conducive at all to going out. Aussie rules is totally different, even if it's on during the night, you can go down with people and watch a game or sit there and watch it on the tele before going out. With the EPL, you're really giving up a full night to watch your heartless team lose. Again...

 

[Gibbsy]

Smiling Buddha do you have an agenda against television? Are you trying to brainwash us all?

Aug 2011 – "How much television do you watch per week?"
Apr 2014 – "How much television do you watch per week?"
Dec 2014 – "Could you survive without television?"

 

[treefingers]

Smiling Buddha do you have an agenda against television? Are you trying to brainwash us all?

Aug 2011 – "How much television do you watch per week?"
Apr 2014 – "How much television do you watch per week?"
Dec 2014 – "Could you survive without television?"

He must have shares in google/youtube

 

[Smiling Buddha]

And others - who have done exactly this

The others you refer to have said they looked forward to coming back to watch South Park!

Hahahaahahahah.

They clearly weren't away long enough to deprogram.

And sadly I do fear that some people are too far gone to ever deprogram - but it is always worth trying.

 

[Scotland]

I wonder how long it will be until not watching commercial television becomes mainstream and all the insufferable flogs start watching Big Brother and My Kitchen Rules "ironically".

 

[Bunk Moreland]

He must have shares in google/youtube

Google / youtube are soo last decade

 

[Gibbsy]

The only things I watch on TV are the cricket and the footy. Do people under 30 even use it for anything else these days?

I've had a TV in my room for 2+ years now and I reckon I've never had the actual television on. It's only for my PS3

Yeah the TV in my room doesn't even have an antenna. Only gets used for PS3 and even then I reckon I've only played that once in the last month

Talking more about soccer which isn't conducive at all to going out. Aussie rules is totally different, even if it's on during the night, you can go down with people and watch a game or sit there and watch it on the tele before going out. With the EPL, you're really giving up a full night to watch your heartless team lose. Again...

That is a very good point

 

[Scotland]

The others you refer to have said they looked forward to coming back to watch South Park!

Hahahaahahahah.

They clearly weren't away long enough to deprogram.

And sadly I do fear that some people are too far gone to ever deprogram - but it is always worth trying.

I've been away backpacking a few times. Didn't watch a second of TV for 10-12 weeks each time.

Came back. Caught up on my favorite shows. Was not amazed.

Don't see any references to South Park?

Did we really need another one of these shit threads? We get it, you're smarter than everyone else and are on the path to enlightenment. The rest of us are just sheep who do what the MSM tell us to blah blah etc. etc.

 

[Smiling Buddha]

Smiling Buddha do you have an agenda against television?

Yes, clearly I do.

If every television broadcasting tower were to be destroyed tomorrow, I would be in pure bliss.

It is clear to many that television is used by a small group of people to control the minds of the masses.

 

[Gough]

You must be pretty easily convinced if a 100 second snippet totally without context is enough to convince you that television is the problem. That clip suggests to me that the line between advertising and programming is becoming too blurred.

 

[Quivorir]

Don't be a sheep please Gough.