my partner and I just got these in the mail the other day:
it's a little remote control thingy that turns off all TVs--> imagine at the airport, or in those annoying sports bars. and they go on your key-chain...
sold by adbusters: who else but the revolutionaries!
"reclaim your public space"
thought y'all might appreciate this...
here is a link to the ordering page: secure.adbusters.org/orders/tvbgone/
you cannot imagine the fun we have with these...
it's a little remote control thingy that turns off all TVs--> imagine at the airport, or in those annoying sports bars. and they go on your key-chain...
sold by adbusters: who else but the revolutionaries!
"reclaim your public space"
thought y'all might appreciate this...
here is a link to the ordering page: secure.adbusters.org/orders/tvbgone/
you cannot imagine the fun we have with these...
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Sat, May 13, 2006 - 11:01 AMOhh...so funny. I'm definately going to have to get one of these.
I don't have a television. Since I escaped my own childhood I've not been much
of a T.V. watcher, but have--as so many people do--fallen into that sad couple's
routine where sitting in front of the T.V. all evening is the romantic highlight of the
day ( I wonder what DOES happen to couple's sex and emotional lives. Any thoughts?????). It was around the time of Sept.11 when I finally broke....broke away from the television, left my lover who was addicted to it, and moved to San Francisco.
Anyway, I'm now renting tiny a room (and yes, for an exorbitant SF price). One of my roommates--the main lease holder, I sits outside my room all night watching T.V. She
falls asleep in front of it. Sometimes she works on her computer in the adjoining room but needs to have the T.V. on in the background. She thinks I'm not culturally attuned because I can't name the plot or theme to even one sitcom (not sure I can name many sitcoms).
How lovely it would be to just turn that shit off with this little clicker....
Oh, and yes, to turn all the televisions at the gym off! How nice that would be...
Free the world from mind polution! Or should I say "mindless" polution? -
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Thu, May 18, 2006 - 10:18 AMYES!
one time, my partner and I were at a restaurant, and an 11(ish) year old boy and his mom came in. the mother said, where do you want to sit, and the boy chose a table right in front of the tv. we clicked it off and they started talking...to each other. we enabled a family conversation!!! we were so pleased with ourselves....
it is interesting as well that so many people don't even notice the tv is off, they just feel more relaxed somehow.
the beauty of this gadget is all the ways you don't foresee yourself using it, and then you do, and it is the simple things that make the world a better place...
PS if you do not let your roomate know that you have the clicker, you can just keep clicking it off, and she may start to feel better. inadvertantly less lonely? i used to have a roomate like that. it is really sad, i think. it just makes you wonder what humans really need.
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Sun, July 29, 2007 - 11:38 AMAs much as I dislike TV and have pretty much decided to remove it from my life, I don't think it's fair that we should be forcing that opinion on others. As far as I'm concerned we can educate and encourage people to cut back on their TV or just present them the facts and let them decide for them self, but it's up to the individual to make that decision in the end.
We shouldn't be nominating ourselves as some kind of righteous leader with a "holier-than-thou" air about us.
It's like those religious zealots you read about that go to Marilyn Manson concerts and try to stop queuing fans from seeing the show. I say let people be, if they choose a life (or lack thereof) of hours of television then that should be their choice regardless of the mental damage it's doing to them. We here choose not to expose ourselves to TV's hypnotic trance and we openly discuss how much richer our lives have become due to it, but that's as far as it needs to go. -
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Thu, August 2, 2007 - 10:20 AM>I don't think it's fair that we should be forcing that opinion on others
Well, okay, but one must ask who is forcing what on whom....when I'm in a public place I rather resent the idea that the management assumes I'm interested in their taste in sports or other programming.
And of course none of it is really about the actual programming anyway: it's about 1) the advertising on the screen that gets us to buy stuff, and 2) the 'entertainment' that keeps us in the bar or restaurant, so we'll stay and buy more stuff. -
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Thu, August 2, 2007 - 11:21 AMPersonally when I'm at a pub/bar I'm there to buy drinks. Maybe I'm just lucky in that not a lot of pubs have TV screens blaring out. And if they do the place is usually big enough for me to sit out of its way.
Don't get me wrong...I think that bars etc. should be completely TV free. After all that's why many of us attend them: to have conversations with people. I just fail to see how forcing people not to watch TV is any better than people forcing TV down our throat in the first place (medically it is, but morally it isn't).
I don't know, maybe I am wrong and maybe we should at least try to force people to not watch TV, even if it's just for a couple of hours. We'd be providing a service. Who knows, they may even thank us in the long run.
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