Arsonist Inspired by Fox News

gmule wrote: I got rid of my tv years ago. Best thing I ever did.

Badger

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BadgerKustoms wrote:

gmule wrote: I got rid of my tv years ago. Best thing I ever did.

Really? Did you replace it with the Internet? Or do you not mind feeling out of touch? Personally I am a news junkie and check out many different sources all day long.




Badger

FredHayek wrote:

BadgerKustoms wrote:

gmule wrote: I got rid of my tv years ago. Best thing I ever did.

Really? Did you replace it with the Internet? Or do you not mind feeling out of touch? Personally I am a news junkie and check out many different sources all day long.






Badger

I do use the internet to check multiple news outlets all over the world everyday. I just removed the mindless 24 hour news tabloids. I still have a tv but I mostly use it to watch full length commercial movies on it or the local evening news and some sporting events. Generally speaking thought most TV programming is pure garbage.

FredHayek wrote: Or do you not mind feeling out of touch?

As another here who is largely absent of television, this is a sentiment I can certainly relate to. Luckily (or ironically depending on how you look at it), most people I encounter on a daily basis already know me and what kind of conversations will be "fruitful" so to speak. There's no sense in asking what I thought of "the game", how I feel what team will do now that so and so is coaching, what I think about (insert some nut job celebrity here and their antics), etc.

When in public amongst strangers I actually don't end up speaking to many people but in rare circumstances I have found the "chatty" person in a line or something that will often ask such questions. Unfortunately "I don't watch television" doesn't seem to be the 'end point' for conversation and they continue on. Never really understood why that is though.


Badger

BadgerKustoms wrote:

FredHayek wrote: Or do you not mind feeling out of touch?

As another here who is largely absent of television, this is a sentiment I can certainly relate to. Luckily (or ironically depending on how you look at it), most people I encounter on a daily basis already know me and what kind of conversations will be "fruitful" so to speak. There's no sense in asking what I thought of "the game", how I feel what team will do now that so and so is coaching, what I think about (insert some nut job celebrity here and their antics), etc.

When in public amongst strangers I actually don't end up speaking to many people but in rare circumstances I have found the "chatty" person in a line or something that will often ask such questions. Unfortunately "I don't watch television" doesn't seem to be the 'end point' for conversation and they continue on. Never really understood why that is though.


Badger

I think it is because that is all they know. Nothing else happens in their part of the world.
I would rather go for a walk or tinker on my bikes than watch a reality show.

That's one thing about FauxNews....You can watch it for months, and honestly say that you haven't watched anything that qualified as "reality"....

LadyJazzer wrote: That's one thing about FauxNews....You can watch it for months, and honestly say that you haven't watched anything that qualified as "reality"....

No, You can say that about all of them. :faint:

gmule wrote:

LadyJazzer wrote: That's one thing about FauxNews....You can watch it for months, and honestly say that you haven't watched anything that qualified as "reality"....

No, You can say that about all of them. :faint:

It wasn't his fault or Fox news. It was the lighter.