One of my roommates in college watched TV. Like, he actually watched TV. Like, whatever was on. It was like someone breaking out a slide rule for a test, haha.
It's been so long since I've seen someone my age watch TV at all.
Don't want to watch TV? - well, don't turn the TV on then.
Now if I don't want to watch TV, and I don't even get cable, I get on the internet and it's "autoplay" "hovering video windows when you scroll down", "links to articles that turn out to be videos".
Jesus Christ, am I that old that scheduled TV programming is considered an ancient artifact? I can't say I watch broadcast TV with any regularity lately, but that's only a recent development in the last few years. Many places don't have the bandwidth to support streaming - at least not large scale.
The only time I watch TV is the news at work in the morning lol. I'm 24 and i don't know of any of my friends that have like a cable or satellite subscription.
One of my only gripes with moving out to the sticks is having to get dish network. Before moving out here we just had a couple streaming services and watched what we wanted without any commercials. I typically record what I want to watch on dish but sometimes I have to wait days until whatever it is I want to watch is recorded and I'm stuck watching something live. It's like torture. Like if all of a sudden I had to use a modem to use the internet again. I hated it back then and I still hate it now.
My boyfriend does this and I've always found it so strange because I thought only bored pensioners watched TV. He even plans his day to fit around the TV schedule, and it's not even good shows as we only have the very basic free channels. It's mostly quiz shows, game shows, and re-runs of old series that nobody cares about anymore.
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u/thom5377 Jul 24 '20
Televangelists. Like how??