Absolutely no advertising

by **threadbear** » Sat 23 Jul 2005, 21:40:19

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'W')hile we're bitching....

You know what bothers me the most about TV? That goddamned fucking fake laughter.
Sorry for the "in your face" there, but Jesus I hate that. Literally, every 5 seconds, after EVERY sentence, you hear the "hahaha"..."hahaha"..."hahaha"
It literally drives me up a wall. Theres only about 3 sit-com's on TV I can watch and not notice it.

It didnt used to be a problem. I got stuck in a room listening to that fake laughter for about 3 hours one time in the middle of an intense acid trip. I about freaked out and killed someone. It was ugly.
Ever since then, i cant watch shows with fake laughter.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Sat 23 Jul 2005, 23:55:46

That was very refreshing and real Kent, thanks. I was delighted to read that. I wanted to go into the arts, but rejected anything to do with commercial art or advertising for the very reasons you mentioned. I didn't want to cheapen creativity for the suits to sell crap and would have been miserable.

by **k_semler** » Sun 24 Jul 2005, 00:04:09

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Wildwell', 'W')ithout advertising you can forget most sports, newspapers, TV and entertainment in general. In some people's power down scenario, there will be hardly any industry or commerce, no travel, no sex, no entertainment...looks like it's going to be mighty boring..

by **k_semler** » Sun 24 Jul 2005, 00:09:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Permanently_Baffled', 'I') realised that they showed the film 3 times a night 3 times in one week , is the fecking normal in the US?!

PB

by **k_semler** » Sun 24 Jul 2005, 00:15:08

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'W')hile we're bitching....

You know what bothers me the most about TV? That goddamned fucking fake laughter.
Sorry for the "in your face" there, but Jesus I hate that. Literally, every 5 seconds, after EVERY sentence, you hear the "hahaha"..."hahaha"..."hahaha"
It literally drives me up a wall. Theres only about 3 sit-com's on TV I can watch and not notice it.

It didnt used to be a problem. I got stu

ck in a room listening to that fake laughter for about 3 hours one time in the middle of an intense acid trip. I about freaked out and killed someone. It was ugly.
Ever since then, i cant watch shows with fake laughter.

by **Badger** » Sun 24 Jul 2005, 00:17:11

Reality TV is another load of utter crap with idol prgrammes and all that bullshit eeerrr hello its not real...

on the bright side as long as its business as usual gives me and my friends more time to get ready for the new realities of the 21st century with out standing in a que of scared desperate people wondering whats happening

by **smiley** » Sun 24 Jul 2005, 12:58:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ell yes, but at a smaller scale, no big competitions.

by **aldente** » Mon 25 Jul 2005, 04:32:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', ' ')I about freaked out and killed someone. It was ugly.
Ever since then, i cant watch shows with fake laughter.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Mon 25 Jul 2005, 04:49:10

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('albente', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', ' ')I about freaked out and killed someone. It was ugly.
Ever since then, i cant watch shows with fake laughter.

by **The_Toecutter** » Mon 25 Jul 2005, 05:03:08

Convex mirrors are far out.

by **Pops** » Wed 27 Jul 2005, 10:57:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kent', '
')... but I never could figure out a way to make a decent living in the arts. The funny thing is that the actual process of creating ads could be quite fun, even thrilling at times, but when I began to face up to an awareness of what my job was really about (selling shit), the ad business pretty much nauseated me.

by **SeasonOfPain** » Thu 28 Jul 2005, 14:48:39

Heh, I majored in Radio/TV/Film in college. What it did was illuminate how utterly VAPID and MINDLESS the entertainment industry really is, and how it's essentially "bread and circuses" to keep people willfully blind to the fact that they exist purely to consume.

I don't watch television voluntarily (except the occasional Start Trek or Law and Order rerun), but my wife is unfortunately addicted. She gets really annoyed at my constant criticisms of the drivel pouring out of the networks (especially cable). However, I couldn't even comprehend sitting through an entire episode of one of those brainless HGTV/TLC "home improvement" reality shows even before I became PO-aware!

To me, "consumer" is the ultimate insult. One major silver lining of PO for me will be to watch the WalMart nation implode.

by **Kez** » Thu 28 Jul 2005, 15:33:08

You can't ban advertising simply because it would start another great depression. With all the advertising I see there must be 100 zillion people employed that would become unemployed. Companies would then take that advertising budget and give it to the CEO's and raise the stock dividends, etc.

Yeah I'm just fooling around, but damn I hate ads. If you watch TV at all, get a DVR or a Tivo and save yourself at least a few hours a week of time that you saved by skipping through the ads.

If you hate internet ads, do a google search for "hosts file" and edit that. It literally blocks most every ad web-domain forever without even loading it up and wasting more of your time and bandwidth by downloading it.

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