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I only stopped watching TV last March. So I’m like that guy who does AA and lectures people about drinking. I totally know what I’m talking about even if it’s a totally annoying buzz kill for me to say it.
I also was raised without a TV. Socially, it was awkward from time to time as my friends would talk about shows I couldn’t watch. But guess what, when there was nothing to do, instead of a stupid TV, all I could do was read. So I learned to do that pretty well.
There’s plenty of great programming, especially on the non-premium, non-broadcast networks, such as History, History International, Discovery, TLC, NatGeo and the like. I am a huge fan of documentaries – usually the first shows I seek out when I’m in the mood to watch TV.
Some premium channels, notably HBO IMO, also have some great original programming — Recount (about the 2000 election) and Into the Storm (about Churchill at the outbreak of WWII) were great docudramas. IFC and Sundance also have great programming, but I’m also a big indie movie fan.
As for your kids and the “NO TV” rule, you’ll be sorry when they group up and have ZERO pop culture references. Won’t be able either to post in the OT or to play Trivial Pursuit. Jussayin’.
PS, CDog watches MSNBC news all day while I’m at work. Best informed dog around.
Lechacal, when I was a kid, when my mother got sick of listening to us fight, she threw us out and we played outside. I don’t think that would work in Park Slope. It did work on our old block in Clinton Hill, but not until my daughter was older than your kids.
Biff, a TV is absolutely nothing whatsoever like a fridge you get to fill up. Terrible analogy. By definition the fridge gets filled up for you with a bunch of choices someone else makes.
Buy a blank notebook and a pen. That’s like a fridge you fill up yourself.
I only stopped watching TV last March. So I’m like that guy who does AA and lectures people about drinking. I totally know what I’m talking about even if it’s a totally annoying buzz kill for me to say it.
I also was raised without a TV. Socially, it was awkward from time to time as my friends would talk about shows I couldn’t watch. But guess what, when there was nothing to do, instead of a stupid TV, all I could do was read. So I learned to do that pretty well.
There’s plenty of great programming, especially on the non-premium, non-broadcast networks, such as History, History International, Discovery, TLC, NatGeo and the like. I am a huge fan of documentaries – usually the first shows I seek out when I’m in the mood to watch TV.
Some premium channels, notably HBO IMO, also have some great original programming — Recount (about the 2000 election) and Into the Storm (about Churchill at the outbreak of WWII) were great docudramas. IFC and Sundance also have great programming, but I’m also a big indie movie fan.
As for your kids and the “NO TV” rule, you’ll be sorry when they group up and have ZERO pop culture references. Won’t be able either to post in the OT or to play Trivial Pursuit. Jussayin’.
PS, CDog watches MSNBC news all day while I’m at work. Best informed dog around.
I wouldn’t watch kiddie porn denton, ew gross. No I mean regular old American totally legal to download consenting adults having sex.
Lechacal, when I was a kid, when my mother got sick of listening to us fight, she threw us out and we played outside. I don’t think that would work in Park Slope. It did work on our old block in Clinton Hill, but not until my daughter was older than your kids.
“No, a TV is like a fridge filled with nothing but Lil’ Debbie products, but hey you can pick whichever one you want!”
How do you know if you don’t own a TV and never watch it?
Did you Google that?
“and only adults can see the screen, does anyone thing I’m breaking the law?”
Downloading certain kinds of porn is in and of itself a crime, you don’t even have to watch it but merely possess it. But you know this, right?
Biff, a TV is absolutely nothing whatsoever like a fridge you get to fill up. Terrible analogy. By definition the fridge gets filled up for you with a bunch of choices someone else makes.
Buy a blank notebook and a pen. That’s like a fridge you fill up yourself.
There are a couple of TV shows I have enjoyed watching, but I don’t mind waiting until they come out of DVD and renting them.