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Of TV Addicts. And Of Killing Time. Or Rather Murdering It

Adam Lovejoy writes: Pardon me for being blunt, but television must have been invented for mugs. It is not the sort of entertainment that should appeal to intelligent people. Especially in large quantities and on a daily basis. Outside of news, sport and documentaries, 99 percent of television content is intended for viewers who have nothing better to do than stay glued to the box. If you look at the TV dramas and sit-coms and comedies you would find that the overwhelming majority of them are badly scripted and directed and abysmally acted. So it makes it all the more remarkable that so many people watch this rubbish every day. And we are talking millions of people here. Do any of them actually follow what happens on the screen and notice the terrible acting? I personally have a problem with... 

Shopping Is An Addiction. You Have To Fight It Like One

So, in the midst of a recession some people are still shopping like mad, buying Chinese made goods that they do not really need. All in the name of supporting the British economy. More of propping up the retail trade, I would say, that has been peddling low quality fireign made junk for years and making a nice profit out of it. But maybe it’s just me. I am just an occasional, reluctant  shopper. I am not really interested in buying items that I don’t really need. I’ll be honest with you: with a few exceptions I generally don’s like the retail trade. I think that it actually creates nothing, apart from traffic congestion, crowds, inflated prices and big returns for major shareholders. It doesn’t really create any jobs, in a proper sense of the word that is, and... 

On TV Addicts. And Ads That Often Make No Sense

I always know when I meet people who watch too much television: the strange glare in their eyes, the clichéd phrases they use, the weird logic they apply to most things and, of course, the way they ask, casually, if you have seen this programme or that on the box the day or the week before. This last thing comes to them naturally, as they actually believe that programmes on the box are as good a subject as any to discuss with others. Just like the weather, football or relationships. You may also spot a TV addict by their rather strange sense of humour, shaped by appalling TV comedies and shows. And you will find that TV fanatics tend to use the phrases that are devised by admen who think that anything ‘catchy’ would remind people about the product they are plugging. Just like that... 

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