Originally Posted by Jim B.

...because never watched it since 1966.

Plus, I have no TV set at all, though I have nonetheless subject to its horrors now and then in the waiting rooms of new car dealerships, hospital waiting rooms, etc.

Makes me want to scream, all this loud noise, people running around ("team sports"), barrages of 1 second images, well dressed people urging me to buy crap I don't want or need, people holding up rolls of toilet paper or cans of motor oil to their face and smiling and telling me to buy buy buy and my life will be perfect when I do.

People laughing at things that are not funny.

In fact we only read books.

Time to get back to H.L. Mencken, now.It's good bye to the sheep in front of their televisions in America.***



*** The BBC is another matter altogether...