murphstahoe

TV free!

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/...coUf25zNHtiBIF

bike2math

Some kids who need some real problems.

JosephPaul86

I'm both and happy as can be. But I do use my computer monitor to play xbox. Yeah, I spoil myself.

dynodonn 

Thank goodness that when I was a their age that gas was cheap and there was only 2 channels to watch using the rabbit ears, the only times I lost my television as a child was either due to one of the TV's tubes overheating and blowing out, or as punishment, then I had to go outside and play and having to use my imagination.

Sianelle 

Oh for heaven's sake

robinthehippie

+1

cradduck

Unless they are watching 'Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends' then their taste in cartoons is questionable and they should have their cable taken away till they learn what real comedy is.

scattered73

I got to have my Battlestar Galactica, Atlantis and Dr.Who, big sci-fi geek. Plus I love bad B movies which cable is full of.

scottieie

I get my BSG (Battlestar Galactica) at the DVD rental shop and watch on my computer. Nice not to have to be inundated with advertising, wasting my time and telling me what I need to buy. I think advertising is my biggest beef with TV really. Shows are kinda fun if you want some brainless downtime.
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Gustavo

Wasting your time on pointless things like playing video games (and you are probably an adult at that) is not spoiling yourself. It's just plain stupid.

Specialized fan

What's wrong with Video games? I am a hard core Battlefield 2142 player playing for hours on end.I absolutely love gaming!

ericy

When I was a kid living on the farm, we had one TV station. No channel surfing for us! We could turn the thing on, and if we didn't like what we saw, we turned it off and went out to play outdoors.

And to be honest, I don't feel like I missed out on anything either. Most of the channels we get these days are total junk.

JosephPaul86

Wasting your time on pointless things like playing on the internet (and you are probably an adult at that) is not spoiling yourself. It's just plain stupid.

Now we are both guilty. Back on topic.

UmneyDurak

Aren't we judgmental?

Gustavo

Good point.

gascostalot

If I want to watch T.V., I'll just check out the series from the Library.

srkredliner

Back to the topic at hand:

I think these kids need to learn a little bit about some people in the world who have some real problems due to rising fuel prices - like people who can't grow food, or who can't refrigerate any food because there isn't any energy to do it with.

We get news coverage about these girls in Salt Lake who can't watch TV, and nobody is telling America to carpool, buy local, and buy a bicycle.

gwd

We adults are at fault. I see too many over privileged and under challenged American kids. My knee jerk reaction is to think badly of the kid when the adults in their lives taught them to be that way. Its like when you run across an ill behaved dog- the first thing you think of is dealing with the dog. Later you realize how it took an irresponsible owner to create such a mess.

77midget

My initial reaction was one of resignation, but then I also realized, as misplaced as the values are, at least the kids can relate an occurance in their daily life to a current event and make a decision on it.

I run into a lot of kids who are completely oblivious-If these kids are upset that fuel prices are affecting their household budget, their parent has explained the cause and effect, and they have made a decision to say something about it, I say that is better than nothing. Now, if the parent could work on the perceived value of television in the household, that would be even better.

gwd

Yes, at least the kids are aware of something in the wider world.

wahoonc

I would think a bit less television and a bit more spelling practice might be in order. I also be interested to hear what type of budgeting and planning skills their parents might posses

Aaron

ATAC49er

Car-free, no prob; been there for 4 years now. TV-free, well...I happen to like movies, and the hours between sundown and bedtime need to be filled with SOMEthing! It's not like I'm surfing the www for hours every night,...wait, I do that too.

Cable? Watch about 4-5 hours a week, just cuz 'rasslin' is on cable. Hundreds of channels of complete fecal discharge otherwise. Cartoons? Where's Johnny Quest (the original!) and the Road Runner? All the Pokemon/Digimon/Spongebob/Oddparents/whatever else is just PUKE!

RubenX 

I rarely use the TV. I'm always arguing with my wife about how much time she spends watching TV (over 10 hours a day). I'm only keeping the cable because my son like to watch some educational programs where he actually learn stuff.

kmcrawford111

Here is a prime example of the extreme cluelessness pervading America today. Here's the lowdown:

* I am entitled to drive as much as I want cheaply.
* I am entitled to hundreds of TV channels.

To think that any kind of protesting by these lasses or anyone else is going to change things is laughable. But the scary thing here is... what are these kids going to think 10 years from now, when the energy situation will probably be much worse? Are these new young adults going to riot over not being able to drive Ford Mustangs and watch Pokemon?

There is such a feeling of entitlement in the US that you'd think we were living in a Disney movie.

"All mom's monny goes to gas." And who's fault is that? Maybe mom should get a clue, along with about 99% of the rest of the country. I often wonder how much more stable our future would be if we didn't have this wish-upon-a-star, get-something-for-nothing mentality seething from every nook and cranny here?

Not even Harry Potter will save us this time!

These kids should be happy that they have food to eat and a place to live. It's too bad that children's lives revolve almost entirely around cars and TV.

What a pathetic people we've become.

I-Like-To-Bike

TV reception is terrible from a saddle on a high horse, but thank goodness Internet chatting/pontificting is perfectly compatable with riding that same high horse.