You don't hear parents tell their kids "don't sit so close to the TV, you'll ruin your eyes" anymore

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Is this because of computers and the fact that EVERYONE sits inches from a screen now?

Was the whole 'tv hurts your eyes' thing a big fallacy in retrospect?

When I was a kid, this was ingrained to me along with 'dont' talk to strangers' and 'say please and thank you' and all that other garbage. Now you rarely see people sitting MORE than five or six inches from a screen. What gives?

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 2 August 2008 06:27 (sixteen years ago)

hi-def

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 2 August 2008 06:28 (sixteen years ago)

can u pls type lrger ur font is 2 small

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 2 August 2008 06:32 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_105.html

― dowd, Saturday, 2 August 2008 07:11 (sixteen years ago)

children tends to do much worse things now, it became invalid.

― Zeno, Saturday, 2 August 2008 07:37 (sixteen years ago)

i miss tubes. the t.v. always had such a warm glow and it was so inviting. with the lights out, the glow would envelop the whole room and transfix like electric fire. now, i can go past a t.v. that's on and barely even register that it's on. maybe this is a good thing. i dunno.

― Maria :D, Saturday, 2 August 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago)

okay, that was me.

i PROMISE i will log out before posting from now on. (only one computer in the house these days, don't you know.)

― scott seward, Saturday, 2 August 2008 20:24 (sixteen years ago)

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