TV and culture

TRX
July 19, 2013
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ANY reference, at all, to any television of any sort post (approx) 1975 will pass me by completely - since that's when I threw the hypnogourd out ....
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I gave up thirty years ago. But in the USA, the idiot boxes are hard to avoid. Most restaurants have several, often turned to competing channels. Doctor's office waiting rooms - any kind of waiting rooms, come to think of it - have them. Businesses have them. I once tried to make an insurance payment, and the clerk would only acknowledge the presence of a customer during commercials. I called the home office to complain, and they pretended they couldn't understand what I was complaining about.

A few years ago a friend was arrested. When he was arraigned, the bailiff rolled a cart into the courtroom. It had a camera and a TV set. There was someone in a judge's robe on the screen.

Any contests of general knowledge or trivia seem to be primarily based on old television programs or celebrities who weren't even born when I freed myself from the box.

Another interesting thing is "multimedia tie-ins." That's when you see signs or billboards with just a logo, or a face, or a lone word that doesn't mean anything. That's a tie-in to a TV program, although apparently some TV commercials have had their own tie-in media.

People frequently think I'm stringing them on when I tell them I've never heard of some program or person they're trying to talk about. I've seen some of them get angry about it.

"Just pretend I'm from a different country."

"Where?" (they think they have me now, since every other place is exactly like where they are)

"1965."