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Just cancelled Directv
drventure:
--- Quote ---because I like all of the channels I would have hated as a kid... Science Channel, History, Discovery and the Military Channel.
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;D Hmm, sounds strangely familiar....
But it was cool a few days ago when we decided to watch a show over dinner and my 6yo daughter chimes up "Hey, lets watch one of those "building" shows" (ie those "how it's made/modern marvels shows on discovery). Maybe she'll catch the build bug as well.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: TOK on April 24, 2010, 05:54:30 am ---I don't really like any network shows and get tired of watching movies, so I'll always have cable or satellite. I can tell I'm officially old, because I like all of the channels I would have hated as a kid... Science Channel, History, Discovery and the Military Channel. :D
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Probably also watching the evening news now. I know I do every night and I remember HATING it when my parents did.
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 23, 2010, 04:40:08 pm ---I hooked the cable to the back of my TV out of curiosity. Lo and behold! It worked. And I know for a fact it is not being paid for.
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Y'know they call that theft of services, right? 8)
hypernova:
--- Quote from: drventure on April 23, 2010, 06:44:51 pm ---I waited a LONG time to get that in our area, and then another year before they could offer the TV/Internet/Phone bundle.
Don't hate me just because I'm ultrabroadband :)
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I waited a LOOOONG time just to get DSL in our old house. I know there's a few on these boards who still only have the option of satellite internet as a "high" speed option.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on April 24, 2010, 10:23:01 am ---
Probably also watching the evening news now. I know I do every night and I remember HATING it when my parents did.
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I liked the news as a kid (teenager, anyway). I've gone the other direction. As an adult I've come to despise evening news. I think it's really bad for society. It makes people afraid of the world outside and afraid of each other and afraid of everything. They sensationalize everything. Evening news turns people into fanatics. And since each story is about 2-5 minutes, the coverage of any topic can only be incredibly superficial. They make up for depth with sensationalism. And the only stories they cover are things that are easily sensationalized: murder, rape, robbery, child molestation, kidnapping, scare pieces on possible bad reaction to vaccinations, etc.
To listen to the news you'd think you're surrounded by this stuff, and it makes you afraid of the world. It makes you keep your kids from going door to door trick-or-treating because they might get a poisoned candy (has never once happened in the history of the world).
All this and you learn nothing. You get little more than headlines, and even then they're selected not for their intrinsic value, but for how much blood there was. The evening news ruins you and it ruins the world you live in.
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