TV hasn’t been any good since the corporate types took over the studios, and it stopped being about creativity and became all about the bottom line. Old TV was an art form, new TV is a business. We unplugged years ago. Do wish more of the really brilliant old programs were available online, so today’s generation could see what they are missing.(So much of what is there is definately “B” list)
I use the mute button but also am finding it easier and easier to just not turn on the TV at all.
Was visiting at my brother’s house. They never muted the commercials, nearly drove me crazy. Same commercials every commercial break every 3.5 minutes.
Since we now have to put up with converter boxes there are old time shows usually black & white on chanel 49. Some of the new show are too great. Friday I like Suburbia with Bob Saget. I like his being sarcastic. During summer for me is reading and go-comics. Fall with Dancing With The Stars, I am really hooked on I can’t do those dance steps. And court shows. The people who do not watch TV miss out whats going on with the news. We ourselves did not go for trade in old cars for new.
News and football are the only network shows I’ll watch these days. Shows from the 60’s & 70’s were among the best. I think network primetime has been sliding since the late eightles. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s hit rock bottom yet.
olfart said,
Hey, here is a novel concept. Instead of sequestering your children, try talking to them. Explain why you object to certain ideas and images. Of course that requires that you know your reasons, but thinking won’t hurt you either.
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I’ve got two kids, 22 and 18. We’ve been talking to them for years. Thanks to President Clinton and his stained blue blouse they’ve seen this kind of junk on the TV for years. It doesnt mean we want to watch it though. I’m sitting alone at home, watching TV with my wife, neither one of us wants to watch some stupid ‘male potentcy’ product. And most of it isnt even for impotentcy any more, it’s to make you ‘more powerful and virile’. Dude, if you think you need that kind of garbage you need more help than some little pill can give you. You need to grow a whole new set of nads.
darwin4139, Great minds thing alike! “Big Wood!” Otherwise, it might have been the See Alice commercial where they promise to help you build an Erector anytime over 24 hours. I’d like mine to be a steam shovel please!
Yes the remote has saved my sanity. Whats left of it anyway. I don’t know about the sheep out there, but a commercial never made me buy something I didn’t want anyway. And if you annoy me with your stupid commercial enough times, I will boycott whatever it is.
humor is in the eye of the beholder! since i just witnessed this scene in my house when my granddaughter and 3 yr old great-grandson were visiting, i was very amused. opal is from the older generation when morals were taught in the home, and kids were kept innocent longer. now tv has made that impossible, so it’s up to the remote controller. btw, it was my granddaughter who was grabbing for the remote. i’ve become immune to it, kinda like earl.
ejcapulet almost 15 years ago
Just push the button. It can’t be as bad as the condom ads in China - horrible yet hilarious.
carpetinwater9 almost 15 years ago
Sex sells.
rdh288 almost 15 years ago
What’s so funny? I’ve done pretty much this for some five year olds during Dennis the Menace
Yukoneric almost 15 years ago
Let’s go back to the Fifties!!!!!!!!!!!
alondra almost 15 years ago
Oh yes let’s! When they didn’t advertize such things on prime time TV!
carmy almost 15 years ago
Quick reflexes, Opal!
COWBOY7 almost 15 years ago
The woman can still move, huh?
gjsjr41 almost 15 years ago
Hey Opal, welcome to the 21st. century.
chateauxmargaux almost 15 years ago
Amen!
Smiley Rmom almost 15 years ago
One of the reasons we quit watching TV years ago.
Wildmustang1262 almost 15 years ago
Who cares?! We need to know what those products are for! But other than that, I do not have to know anyway.
Kate777 almost 15 years ago
TV hasn’t been any good since the corporate types took over the studios, and it stopped being about creativity and became all about the bottom line. Old TV was an art form, new TV is a business. We unplugged years ago. Do wish more of the really brilliant old programs were available online, so today’s generation could see what they are missing.(So much of what is there is definately “B” list)
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 15 years ago
for an( LA!LA!LA!LA! ) lasting four hours , contact your physician immediately
joanne13 almost 15 years ago
why do they waste money advertising? every one knows about it!
cjr53 almost 15 years ago
I use the mute button but also am finding it easier and easier to just not turn on the TV at all.
Was visiting at my brother’s house. They never muted the commercials, nearly drove me crazy. Same commercials every commercial break every 3.5 minutes.
kab2rb almost 15 years ago
Since we now have to put up with converter boxes there are old time shows usually black & white on chanel 49. Some of the new show are too great. Friday I like Suburbia with Bob Saget. I like his being sarcastic. During summer for me is reading and go-comics. Fall with Dancing With The Stars, I am really hooked on I can’t do those dance steps. And court shows. The people who do not watch TV miss out whats going on with the news. We ourselves did not go for trade in old cars for new.
blazedancer almost 15 years ago
I don’t watch TV at all, if there is something important going on someone will tell me about it, or I’ll see it online.
GROG Premium Member almost 15 years ago
News and football are the only network shows I’ll watch these days. Shows from the 60’s & 70’s were among the best. I think network primetime has been sliding since the late eightles. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s hit rock bottom yet.
lewisbower almost 15 years ago
Back in the 60s and 70s people complained about sex and violence. They should see today. PBS was the first network to show full frontal nudity
Durak Premium Member almost 15 years ago
olfart said, Hey, here is a novel concept. Instead of sequestering your children, try talking to them. Explain why you object to certain ideas and images. Of course that requires that you know your reasons, but thinking won’t hurt you either. ———— I’ve got two kids, 22 and 18. We’ve been talking to them for years. Thanks to President Clinton and his stained blue blouse they’ve seen this kind of junk on the TV for years. It doesnt mean we want to watch it though. I’m sitting alone at home, watching TV with my wife, neither one of us wants to watch some stupid ‘male potentcy’ product. And most of it isnt even for impotentcy any more, it’s to make you ‘more powerful and virile’. Dude, if you think you need that kind of garbage you need more help than some little pill can give you. You need to grow a whole new set of nads.
caddy.1957 almost 15 years ago
Possibly AciPhex…if ci = s and ph=f say it out loud now…but not where your childeren can hear you….. Gotcha!
carpetinwater9 almost 15 years ago
CaddyShack OK!
darwin4139 almost 15 years ago
I think it’s that bob commercial
Guilden_NL almost 15 years ago
darwin4139, Great minds thing alike! “Big Wood!” Otherwise, it might have been the See Alice commercial where they promise to help you build an Erector anytime over 24 hours. I’d like mine to be a steam shovel please!
lorelei6361 almost 15 years ago
Yes the remote has saved my sanity. Whats left of it anyway. I don’t know about the sheep out there, but a commercial never made me buy something I didn’t want anyway. And if you annoy me with your stupid commercial enough times, I will boycott whatever it is.
gigi2nine over 14 years ago
humor is in the eye of the beholder! since i just witnessed this scene in my house when my granddaughter and 3 yr old great-grandson were visiting, i was very amused. opal is from the older generation when morals were taught in the home, and kids were kept innocent longer. now tv has made that impossible, so it’s up to the remote controller. btw, it was my granddaughter who was grabbing for the remote. i’ve become immune to it, kinda like earl.
REDFOX15 over 10 years ago
NO!