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Plan9 · 02-08-2009, 12:37 PM

I must be dumb as a brick here because this whole TeeVee switch thing seems like trivial bullshit. Don't we have an "economic crisis?"

Is television really such a huge problem for everybody that they can't live without it and will freak out if they don't get a magic decoder box for free?

Seeing as how I don't own a television, I'm at a loss as to what it is so very important about broadcast TeeVee that people gotta have it now-now-now.

Jerry Spring and Judge Judy?

Cable and dish TeeVee are what most lower and middle class types have anyway, right?

02-08-2009, 12:37 PM	#5 (permalink)
Plan9 I Confess a Shiver	I must be dumb as a brick here because this whole TeeVee switch thing seems like trivial bullshit. Don't we have an "economic crisis?" Is television really such a huge problem for everybody that they can't live without it and will freak out if they don't get a magic decoder box for free? Seeing as how I don't own a television, I'm at a loss as to what it is so very important about broadcast TeeVee that people gotta have it now-now-now. Jerry Spring and Judge Judy? Cable and dish TeeVee are what most lower and middle class types have anyway, right? __________________ *Whatever you can carry.* "You should not drink... and bake." Last edited by Plan9; 02-08-2009 at 02:52 PM..