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It's that time again - TV Turn Off Week

  
 
Baz Auckland
21:39 / 22.04.02
It's that time of the year Give it a rest for a week and sit in front of the computer instead!
 
 
Trijhaos
21:45 / 22.04.02
I find it a bit silly that people make a big deal out of turning off the television. Is it so hard for people to turn the TV off, that they have to make a holiday out of it? How hard is it to reach up from the volume/channel buttons of your remote to the off switch, get up out of your recliner, and go outside and get some fresh air?
 
 
Mazarine
21:50 / 22.04.02
I've never participated in this, and I seriously doubt I ever will. The TV sitting there, blank, gray, ominous... gives me a complete wiggins. Makes me feel like I'm being watched. I've tried closing its cabinet, but dammit, I still know it's back there.
 
 
Trijhaos
22:08 / 22.04.02
After checking out that website, I will once again say this is the silliest thing I have ever heard.

I want everybody to do something for me. See that button that's bigger than all the rest? Yes...yes...that's the one, the one that says either power or on/off. Right, now I want you to point the remote at the TV and press the big button. No..no, its ok, the little people in the box are still there, they're just invisible. The little box people want you to go outside. I know, its big and kind of scary out there, but you'll be ok.

I'm now going to sit and laugh at all the people who are enslaved by the television.
 
 
Jack Fear
02:08 / 23.04.02
Even easier: stop paying your cable bill and let the fuckers disconnect you. Works for me: haven't had TV service for three weeks now, and have no impetus to get hooked up again.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
05:54 / 23.04.02
i again have no access to tv. and don't miss it at all, although when i was off work sick yesterday, with the landlady out, i watched t j hooker. will again today, too. but i have no real problem with not having access - by an amazing coincidence, i am now writing shitloads of fiction.
 
 
Bear
07:33 / 23.04.02
Trijhaos - its not that easy you know, my TV talks to me, tells me that there is something very good on....

Here's a deal then I'll stop watching the TV for a week if you stop using the Internet for a week
 
 
gridley
16:40 / 23.04.02
They might as well have "Turn off you sex drive week" or "turn off ruining your liver week."
 
 
Trijhaos
16:56 / 23.04.02
Its a relatively simple process. Its not like you're cutting off a hand or something.
 
 
Cat Chant
19:29 / 23.04.02
Can I still watch videos?
 
 
Trijhaos
19:42 / 23.04.02
No TV at all. The magic box stays off. No nintendo, no videos, no DVDS, no Buf-....oh well there goes that idea.
 
 
Tits win
20:21 / 23.04.02
if you're so addicted to tv that you have to turn it off you're a sillo twat. tv is just like any other medium. i don't like newspapers but i don't think anyone should stop reading them, and i don't think i'm better than those who do. and i don't like being looked down on just because i like watching tv. sorry that i'm inteligent enough to stop the tv demons taking over my mind any time i watch it, but i'm not a mong. if yer think tv is shit i might agree with you. but some of it is worth watching. even if you do live your life with a frown.
 
 
Trijhaos
20:28 / 23.04.02
Of course, there's some great shows on the television and as you said its like any other medium, but you don't see "Put the newspaper down week" or "Stop reading books week", this whole "TV Turnoff Week" is silly.
 
 
Baz Auckland
21:07 / 23.04.02
Maybe they should just switch it to "stop watching crap TV week". No temptation island, survivor, buffy, etc. etc.
 
 
Trijhaos
21:16 / 23.04.02
They could, but how many people are actually going to stop watching those crappy talk shows? "My pregnant teen hooker daughter has hooked up with my ex-husband's boyfriend's ex-lover".
 
 
Utopia
21:25 / 23.04.02
trijhaos, i dold you that in strictest confidentiality, and i don't appreciate your joking about it. anyhoo, getting to my point, all tv is crap blah blah blah...
 
 
Squirmelia
11:46 / 22.04.04
It's TV Turn Off Week yet again. Is there anyone who actually watches much TV that is doing it this year? I work for a digital TV company, so am sometimes made to watch it at work, which is the only reason turning it off might be tricky (oh, and the last episode of the series of 6 Feet Under, but maybe I shouldn't admit that).

The book I am currently reading mentioned Bhutan, which was apparently the last nation to introduce TV, so I guess we can't even holiday there anymore if we really wanted to escape it.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
12:19 / 22.04.04
As a cable user I am a bit addicted to the high-end comedy that endlessly marches in front of my eyes. Friends, Frasier, Dilbert, Simpsons, Futurama, Will and Grace, old Buffy, Bob & Margaret ... I tend to watch with half an eye while doing something else and it's a BAD BAD habit and I should learn to concentrate on one thing at a time, but I feel guilty if that one thing is television which isn't really, if I look deep into my heart, worth it.

So I will turn off the TV this week, with the exception of unmissable destination television like new Angel, and anything else I'll kick myself for missing.
 
 
PatrickMM
15:02 / 22.04.04
Maybe they should just switch it to "stop watching crap TV week". No temptation island, survivor, buffy, etc. etc.

One of those does not belong there, and it's not Survivor or Temptation Island.
 
 
Tom Coates
15:13 / 22.04.04
No, it's very very definitely not! This is a board full of geeks, damn you! We will have no further mockery of the Holy Slayer. This isn't Metafilter, you know!
 
 
rizla mission
15:38 / 22.04.04
Black Books has finished .. BBC2's stopped showing the Simpsons.. no good movies..

I think it's going to be a turned off TV week whatever happens..

I might watch some videos though, cos that's different.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:39 / 22.04.04
I actually gave up watching TV quite a while ago- it was about the point where Buffy finished and Fraser just wasn't funny anymore. There seemed little pint carrying on after that.
 
 
Spaniel
09:35 / 23.04.04
Ah, there's always the Sopranos.
 
 
Baz Auckland
15:22 / 23.04.04
...err... those comments were written in 2002, before I had actually seen...
 
 
kosmonaut
17:36 / 23.04.04
Here in the Czech Republic, every week is TV Turn Off Week.
 
 
Tom Coates
19:58 / 23.04.04
It's a bit creepy having threads like this walking the board as if they were living. It's a little too much like Board of the Dead. I wonder whether this is one of those rare occasions when perhaps we should have started a new thread or something.
 
  
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