The goggle box ... ... Love it or hate it?
By dragonstar1
@dragonstar1 (330)
August 28, 2008 5:54pm CST
I find that the TV is rarely enough to stimulate.
If I sit down to watch something, I find my mind wandering to what else I could be doing while watching it.
Unless it something really interesting or I'm very tired, I just can't sit and watch the TV without doing something else.
I'm not even sure I'm going to buy a new license when it comes up for renewal.
I just wondered how other people feel?
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@dragonstar1 (330)
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29 Aug 08
I always find plenty to watch online if the mood takes me.
At least I get to choose what I weant to watch and when.
Its a shame that you can't access BBC & CH4 progs from across the water though.
@dragonstar1 (330)
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6 Oct 08
Yippee we have relished our telivision license and with it freed up our time. It's amazing less that a week in and I'm so much happier without it.
And I never thought I would be able to live without it!
@icequeen123 (934)
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12 Oct 08
I tend to watch it mostly for the news and weather. Having said that the news is so depressing at the moment that I don't know why I even bother with that. 
If I am doing the ironing then I tend to have the tv on, usually a film or something which is worth watching.
We have reduced our viewing to just the freeview box instead of paying out a subscription to sky or NTL for a bunch of channels which have absolutely nothing worth watching between them. I'm getting off my soap box now!
If I am doing the ironing then I tend to have the tv on, usually a film or something which is worth watching.
We have reduced our viewing to just the freeview box instead of paying out a subscription to sky or NTL for a bunch of channels which have absolutely nothing worth watching between them. I'm getting off my soap box now! @dragonstar1 (330)
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14 Oct 08
We've done it, the Tv license has expired and the TV has been consigned to a cupboard.
I wasn't quite sure how I'd find it, but it's great.
I'm much more productive, I watch what I want to, when I want to online.
We reorganised the living room this evening and its the nicest it's ever looked.
I love to read and research so I'm never short of news.
The freeview box is definitely the way to go tho, no nasty contracts and Sky & NTL never seemed to live up to their crisp veiwing promise.
Thanks for your response!
@jessigirl116 (848)
• United States
28 Aug 08
I do just fine without my tv(it's on now for background noise), as long as I have my movies. I have shows I watch weekly, so it would be nice if I can have those, too. I watch a lot of Discovery, A&E, and the History channel.
My dad calls it the idiot box. I agree. My kids didn't watch much tv when they were small, only educational stuff. Now they mostly watch Nickelodeon, Disney, Animal Planet, and Noggin. They do fine without the tv, too.
@dragonstar1 (330)
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29 Aug 08
I think you have a great attitude, especially regarding your children, TFV certainly isn't good for them.
I believe I read somewhere that children who spend more time in front of the TV have slower development of the brain.
I pressume that is down to a lack of all of the senses being stimulated?
