Could you live without television?

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I think I could. And it would free up so much space....

― Rumpie, Friday, 15 April 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

No, because I would have no place to watch NetFlix.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

I could certainly live without being sadly addicted to "Desperate Housewives," though.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

As in not bothering with broadcast or cable (which I happily live without) or not even having a monitor around for DVDs/tapes?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

I've done it plenty. I spent most of the early 80s and almost all of the late 90s without a TV. It ain't no thing.

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Huk, did you miss Captain Planet?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

if so...

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I don't watch tv at all and haven't for a couple years, just because we only get in like half a station. Sure, we could take some steps to get better reception, but I'm more than happy to spend tv watching time on books, comics, movies, music, etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I totally missed Captain Planet.

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Like Huk, I have spent many years w/out a TV, though I seem to watch a lot of it now.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Just t.v - you can have a computer, so you can watch dvds, netflicks etc.

― Rumpie, Friday, 15 April 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I'd go on living, but I'd miss it a hell of a lot.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

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― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

i've done it, and if i can do it ANYONE can. i always end up reading a bunch of dumb books and starting internet message boards for discussions about BOOKS! WTF? Hahahaha! Thank god for the amazing race and the gilmore girls. they have saved me from all those words.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I honestly think I would literally die without TV.

― Alix with an i? (alix), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I'd sooner contemplate living without a computer than a TV come to think of it.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

My best time w/o TV was when I was living in Mtl. I had a library card and a typewriter, and it was the most productive 6 mos of my life.
My friend gave me a b & w, because she thought I seemed lonely (yeah, well, duh), and from there it was a v. short trip to quasi-nervous breakdownville.

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

i love tv as much as i love bacon

― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

i haven't really watched tv since september, with the exception of episodes of the Daily Show that i download...

― kingfish, Friday, 15 April 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I would miss it, but I could live without it.

― Leon Future Coffee (Ex Leon), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

i wish i did. my roommate has it on ALL THE TIME. sometimes i wish she were content reading a book once in a while.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

i love tv as much as i love bacon

Yeah, but real bacon or soy?

*ponders what Future Coffee could refer to*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

(As in the phrase, 'Future Coffee' -- it intrigues me.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Not at the moment.

In the past, definitely. But right now I'm going through some weird television addiction phase.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I wish I had a nice bedroom where I could go to not be near the TV. I find it menacing when it's switched off, so I tend to put it on, even when I'd probably be happier doing something other than watching repeats of 'Flog It!'

― Alix with an i? (alix), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

international tv turnoff week is from 25th april to 2nd may - www.whitedot.org.

last year one of the ppl i lived with was a tv freak who couldn't bear it not being on if he was in the room and absolutely vetoed taking it away even for one sodding week, but i think this year we are gonna stick it under the stairs. yay no tv! (although i might cheat for dr who)

― emsk, Friday, 15 April 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

I do. It's not a big deal, really. I'd be fux0r3d w/o the computer, though. I'd have to write letters!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I wish someone would steal my TV, and then stop manufacturing them. I'd like to live without TV, but I'm hooked. I'm ~~pathetic~~ American.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I have lived without tv and can happily do without it when I'm on holidays and so forth. If I could give up Stenders and Corrie I'd be happy, but I don't think my telly-watching is too bad otherwise.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Now that America's Next Top Model has finished, I dunno, maybe I could manage a week without.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

We're going on one month since we pulled the DirecTV plug. The only thing I'm hurting for is baseball. I NEED JOHN KRUK TO HELP ME THROUGH THE NIGHT!

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

> I think I could. And it would free up so much space....

but what would you point all your furniture at?

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Pash, do you ever get hassled by the TV license people?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Don't have cable, so that's out the window. Broadcast TV doesn't have a lot of appeal to me, but I do watch a lot of NetFlix-ed HBO shows and the like. Plus, my gf has sattelite and TiVo, so if there's something I really really really want to see (NCAA Frozen Four, for example) I guess I could go watch it at her house...

But, short answer to the question: yes, easily.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

If I say I could live without it, doesn't that automatically make me a target for accusations that I am a snob with a bloated sense of self-importance and a rockist to boot?

Cuz if that's so, I ain't saying.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

The TV I've got now doesn't really get reception and I generally only watch movies on it anyway, and broadcast television isn't really the ideal format for movies anyhow because they stop the movie EVERY TWO SECONDS for more ads. Which is admittedly handy for grabbing snaX0r etc. BUT. It makes me want to strangle the commercials, like reach through the television and wring their zippy little neX0r, especially when there's like 5 minutes left of the movie, just the denoument, and they zap you with more ads.

My new plan is to get a TV tuner card, a big f'in hard-drive, and some shareware that will record things that I want to watch, in a kind of poor-man's-Tivo dealie.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

For the most part I do.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

I managed for 5 years at least. I could do it again. Just don't take my computer.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

The internet has corroded my attention span to such an extent that I can't sit through a television programme any more.

All I watch, actually, is the Fox News Channel, which is sort of both enraging and perversely compelling at the same time.

― Dialectical Dave (Dialectical Dave), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

I already do. It can be fun, though. I just never think to turn it on, since I'm hardly ever home and I usually have other things I'd rather be doing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

I could if it wasn't for sports. I suppose I could just watch at a bar or the gym.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

In the past I have. But right now I'm unemployed and must get my twice daily doses of Simpsons and MASH along with Design Invasion and A Current Affair.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

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