(assuming you have a tv)... Are you one of those people that turn on the tv as soon as you hit the door? If so, WHY?

Do you use it as background noise? If yes, what's wrong with silence Or music

Do you fall asleep to the television? If so, are you actually watching as you fall asleep or is it just on to be on? How loud is the volume??




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I'm one of those people who only turns it on when there's something I want to see (and not just since Tivo). Hearing the tv on all the time is pretty annoying to me, but I know lots of people who literally cannot function without the noise/distraction My 12 year old nephew comes over & he is MANIC until I turn the shit on & turn over the remote to him And he ALWAYS has to have something electronic on - the dvd player in the car, the gameboy wherever he goes... Maybe I'm just being an old bat (who didn't have so much access as a kid) but it doesn't seem right

Anyway, though I find the dependence odd I do fall asleep with the tv on most of the time though but only if there's a sleep timer - there's nothing worse than waking up to the sound of that damn thing I turn to something I'm interested in even if I know I'm going to sleep & the volume has to be extremely low, I really just like to have a little light in the room



So tell me, what are your tv habits??

I do watch TV everyday, but not hours upon hours of it.

I think we play more video games than actually watch TV.

I never fall asleep with the TV on. We don't have TV's in our bedrooms

My mom, my sister and my niece all sleep with the TV on

It drives me crazy. I think the brain needs time to rest from all the chatter!


Oh and I have tinitus and sometimes the high frequency of a TV set will really annoy me!!
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Terilicious said:

Can I ask - what exactly is tinitus?

The only time I abandon my "fall asleep to the tv" mode is when there's a man in my bed I'll abandon the tv very soon

CalhounSq said:

I'l keep you in my prayers!

OOPS I spelled it wrong:

tin·ni·tus ( P ) Pronunciation Key (t-nts, tn-)
n. pl. tin·ni·tus·es
A sound in one ear or both ears, such as buzzing, ringing, or whistling, occurring without an external stimulus and usually caused by a specific condition, such as an ear infection, the use of certain drugs, a blocked auditory tube or canal, or a head injury.

News junkie here,

the tv is always on when im awake,

im not glued to it by any means, but its always there like the internet.


and you never know when Anderson is going to show up in Prada again.

lazycrockett said:

Yeah I watch the news a lot also.

I listen to talk radio more though...gotta keep an eye (ear) on the enemy!

Terilicious said:

Thank you, for the definition & for keeping me in your prayers

lazycrockett said:

So if you visit someone who doesn't own a tv, are you a little antsy or agitated?

I never could understand people that will have the televsion on while using the internet. maybe I just need to focus on what I am doing, but it seems pointless to me.

I don't watch much televsion any more. Some days I will go without watching a show. I don't schedule time out of my life to watch television. When I am watching, if one of the shows I want to see is on, that's cool, but I'll go weeks without seeing shows I like to watch just because I'm not watching televsion that day or in that time frame.

Mostly I surf televsion before bed. I don't even watch a show. I just surf. Sometimes I will jump back and forth between a couple of things. Or I will just watch a couple minute of this and then surf until something else catches my attention.

Please keep the ADD jokes to a minum. That's simply not the case. Maybe Bruce Springstine said it best 200 channels with nothing on.

MickG said:

I'm actually on the Org while "watching" tv right now I do it all the time.

I guess b/c there are only a few shows that really command my attention where I actually sit there & watch every segment... other shows interest me & I like them but not enough to devote all my attention to them (or maybe it's just the strength of my Org addiction taking over )...

But I tv/web surf all the time...

CalhounSq said:

Why would i visit someone without TV? What? have a conversation or some strange shit?

lazycrockett said:

These days, its pretty rare. I go through streaks of having shows I watch religiously, but there isn't anything on right now I watch. I don't have cable and I haven't returned my netflix in about 3 months, so I'm thinking I'm gonna cancel it and maybe get it again in the winter when I'm more in the mood for tv/movie watching.
Occasionally I turn on the news, or if I'm sick of everything I own musically I'll turn it on for background noise while I'm doing something else, but that's about it.

Mine is on for maybe an hour every other day...lol

Byron said:

Yea, but that's just b/c you're SO busy w/ the ladies

CalhounSq said:

That reminds me...I gotta call a taxi for this bitch.

Byron said:

*(the above post by Byron was made in jest and as an appropriate running joke retort to CalhounSq...any resemblance to anyone living or deceased is coincidental and in no way is meant as an accurate representation of Byron himself.)

I really cannot stand TV. It irks me. I watch it from time to time but I can't stand sitcoms and talk shows. I watched this Charlie Sheen show "Two and a half men" last week omg it was like torture watching it, like the same rehashed story and jokes I've seen on every other TV show. I really love movies though so if I'm watching TV it is usually a movie on HBO or something.

I'm usually either reading or listening to music or on the computer or out.

i truly only turn my TV on when there's something specific i want to watch, which is in the form of netflix about 97% of the time. i don't have cable, and i only allow myself 1 or 2 shows max that i watch every week...everything else i wait to watch on DVD compilations.

There are very few programmes that I make a habit of watching but I do like having the tv on in the background, sometimes. It's that flicker thing.

I don't watch TV much at all. I think I saw "Wife Swap" on ABC for the first time last night. Not into TV at all.

If anything, I keep the radio set to public radio stations all day long, for news updates and the music.

onenitealone said:

we used to have indian local access on sundays and i'd just keep the bollywood movies playing in the background all day while i would clean and/or deal with hangovers.

Anx said:

They must have been colourful hangovers. Did you dance?


I don't really watch as much tv as I used to - only the odd programme - and I never listen to the radio. Well, I say that but Big Brother is on here at the moment so I have spent the last 4 weeks being glued to the tv. After that, normal life resumes.

I think TV's great. It educated me from the ground up and look how well balanced I am.

The TV would hardly ever be on here if it weren't for my wife. She is the type to just put it on automatically as if she's drawing the curtains to welcome in the new day. I turn it on specifically to watch things like sports events or series that I follow. She puts it on MTV or VH1 if there's nothing she really wants to watch, or one of the satellite radio stations.

I watch... NBA basketball, Premiership football, CSI, Cold Case, Bones (but those are due to my wife's almost worrying interest in murder and forensic programs), the odd movie, Sportscenter Asia, occasionally The Cartoon Network, and very occasionally programs on Discovery.

I probably intentionally watch no more than 1-2 hours of TV a day, though it's on quite a bit.

i don't even let my cat watch TV. i like him to have voices to hear while i'm away at work, but i put on radio instead of TV because i don't want him getting addicted to crappy daytime tv.

Anx said:

I guess I spend my time on the internet instead of watching TV. My life leads me to spend a lot of time at home and I rarely use it particularly constructively. Beyond the relatively small amount of time spent reading, meditating or exercising each day, I either go on the net (from 6:30am until usually around midday - then maybe again in the evening, like now), go out shopping or socialising, or watch TV. Right now I can hear that film with Cedric and Vanessa Williams behind me, but I'm here on the net, as usual. It kills my sex life, seriously. I'm interacting with you guys when I really should be pounding some flesh.

Fauxie said: