i hate TV...

watch it occasionally...but tonight i'm watching the match...my son insists that it's a family affair...!?

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. "
Orson Welles


"Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done."
Ernie Kovacs


"Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control."
Donna Gephart


"The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. "
Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun



Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.
Matt Groening, The Simpsons


"Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
Alfred Hitchcock

(some people think the commercials are better than the actual programmes...)



"How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?"
Rod Serling, quoted in Submitted for Your Approval, Public Broadcasting Station, 1995


"Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off."
Author Unknown

(ours is a 14inch TV...i'm sure it would be very very dangerous!?)


"I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx

(when the telly is on...i ask "A" to call me if there's anything interesting...he never does, but continues watching!!!)


"Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. "
Marvin Minksy

(and i wouldn't be able to spend hours in front of the computer!!!!)

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