First up, what about (talking South Aus here but I just know you have your equivalent) our freebie-with-the-Sunday-paper TV Week Thing they call "BINGE", as though they're promising some kind of viewing feast, but it's just wall-to-wall crap.
We refuse to watch anything that isn't recorded, to avoid the mindless endless inanity of TV commercials - I mean, how much do you just absolutely HATE and DETEST that pinnacle of gobshite ads, the Global Shop Direct Wait There's Fucken More Buy One Get One Free that goes on and on and on and on (but wait there's even more) and saying everything twice and being the longest of all ads by a factor of three? - I've worn out several zapper Mute buttons in my mindless mania to NOT even hear it.
So I did some research.
We have 25 free-to-air channels, times 24 hours times 7 days, that's 4,200 hours of TV viewing per week. We record on average 5 hours of that. That's 0.12% of what's available.
Then there's the Fox Box. We have a pretty normal package, which gives us access to 140 channels times 24 hours times 7 days, that's 18,480 hours available each week. We record an average 12 hours a week (excluding news services and the Test cricket). That's a whole 0.065%. Yes we could cancel, but it's the only way one of us can get Coronation Street, AND they supply a pretty nifty recording system. And once every blue moon there's a movie that's great-to-brilliant.
Okay, I'm sure there's people out there that like to watch the umpteenth re-run of the re-make of Ferris Bueller's Big Stupid Weekend Off, and I'm sure there's millions that would hate what we like, but geez, some of those programs must surely have NO viewers. And why would anyone spend their advertising money in those slots?? I know there's a reason for them, but it truly eludes me.
Right, I feel a bit better. You just need a bit of a bitch every so often! (Sorry guys. Something a bit more interesting soon).
Cheers....
T.R.E.
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