We just have to accept it: We aren't the target demographic anymore. I'm too old for the advertisers to care what I think anymore, so they don't target programs to people my age. I think if you don't walk around with your eyes glued to your smart phone, traffic be damned, then you are probably too old also.
I'm stuck watching advertisements before and during even the yucktube videos I watch that don't even remotely apply to me. I don't drive, I don't smoke, and I have no desire to own a smart phone, yet they continually show me car ads, Chantix ads, and ads for the latest smartphone (just a complicated device to get calls from illegal Indian telemarketers, if you ask me).
Sorry, I'll go grump somewhere else for a while...
-- Tom
No we don't, turn it off. I have to really like a show to watch it, otherwise TV is simply background noise. Either way, stupid commercials get channel swapped.
LOL, let it out Tom, I came back here and made the OP before going to bed, it was my "end of the day" rant
Wait a minute, it’s not normal to turn your underpants inside out, then front to back to get 4 or more days out of a pair???
Glad I don’t watch TV. Been 10+ years and I do not miss it one bit!
I'm talking after wearing-out one end
I don't get much on my antenna, and sure not paying to watch garbage, so my next step would be no tv at all. Most of my watching is my $5 SprawlMart DVD collection.
Men used to go through hardship as part of their lives every day. Not only did he do so, he kept it to himself and continued on his path. Was there a desperate need to be noticed and applauded for ones actions? No. Not only was it not needed, it was unwanted.
Since acting like a traditional man is being cut out of society at an alarming rate, we'll unfortunately see lots more of this transition to uni-sex emotion dolls...
We'll make a return eventually. Always happens when people stray too far from our natural positions.
Just keep shutting off the junk, stay away from social media, call these over-sensitive and super PC types on their cowardice, open doors for women and old folks and soldier on!!
Edited since I didn't see which sub-forum we were in...LOL
That's what I was talking about when I said "men were men", it's part of being a man.....not if your designer shoes match your shin-high pants and man-purse.
Sure men are condemned, society doesn't want men, because men wouldn't put-up with the BS that happens these days. Sure be interesting to see out Founding Fathers reactions to todays world.
Everyone should be the same, act the same, think the same. The smart ones figure it out, and teach their kids not to believe the BS being taught in school, or they home school/private school.
LOL, I've had people (women, elderly, disabled) get mad at me for holding the door for them. Once they start their spiel, I just say "your welcome" and walk away.
I don't watch reality TV much, it's mostly fake like a lot of news these days. But I wonder if they ever got around to talking about having to hike to school in 100 degree weather during a hurricane while pushing through 3 feet of snow up hill...(both ways). During, of course, the worst blizzard known to man. Or is today's equivalent..."We didn't have a Mercedes and I had to drive Mom's 2-year old BMW to school. It was blue and everyone knows I look better in summer colors. It was horrible!"? LOL
Kids these days won't even ride the bus, parents have to drive them to school. I had a bud back north, well to do, his daughter was at "that age" where status was it. We were in my old truck one day, and saw her with her friends, so I laid on the horn, called her by name and kept telling her hello.
her dad thought it was funny, the girl, not so much.
I still watch it. I just hit mute and do something else between runs. Some of the stories are inspirational. It just gets to be too much - like those 15 minute long ASPCA commercials.
But....who's gonna save the snow leopards?
Reality TV isn't! I can't watch any of it. It insults my intelligence.
Call me old fashioned, but what I really hate is all the "in your face" LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ garbage, as though it's "normal" and every family has one. I swear, no new show in the last few years is without at least one, and sometimes several.
Then there are the "revivals" of old shows, only now they are cast with "diverse" characters completely unlike the originals. They use all the same names, but the new characters are of different ethnicity and/or sex and/or sexual preference. Hollyweird takes a perfectly good premise and poignantly ruins it!
Anymore, I watch more retro TV than anything. Stuff from when shows were genuinely entertaining, or at least original, with decent morality.
JMHO, and worth what you paid for it.
That's the thing, they figure "hey, if they're watching this, they're borderline zombies", they see the viewing public as having no intelligence. Otherwise they'd be watching/doing something else.
MeTV, lots of oldies....too bad my signal fades in/out