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One thing I love about going out to dinner is getting out of the house. We eat at home on the coffee table. (living room is studio space now.

We just had lunch at a really nice Sushi place. Great atmosphere and tastefully decorated....but, the place has three TV's going. They are everywhere now. McDonalds has TV's, the little redneck grocery store has a big TV in the front you cans ee when you're checking out.

I don't get it. I want to get away from all that crap. You can't go anywhere w/o a TV blaring at you. There is a nice sush place close to home we don;t got to anymore because they have 6 TV's. There'sa even one in the kitchen!

I can see at a sportsbar or McD's, but somewhere nice?
 
Same reason there's obnoxious music playing in most WalMarts - the employees like it, and it helps them stay awake!

I once asked if we could change the TV station while I was waiting to see my doctor. I'm not big on watching Oprah or Dr. Oz.

Patient waiting next to me said "thank heaven". But the billing clerk and receptionist glared at me, and changed back soon as my name was called.

T.
 
Because people would rather live someone elses life - rather than their own.

m
 
NutmegCT said:
Same reason there's obnoxious music playing in most WalMarts - the employees like it, and it helps them stay awake!
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I don't work at Walmart, but I do work at Home Depot. Believe me, store employees don't like the obnoxious music playing all the time. Can you imagine listening to the same crap 7-8 times a day, day after day? The only good thing is that if you work there long enough (years) your brain eventually, mostly tunes it out, or turns to mush. :wall:

And the Christmas music........ :cryin:
 
Long quote - but...

“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (and this was written 30 years ago)

As political as I can get - the politicians pray we never turn the TVs off. Any political stripe and any country.
 
But those "in power" wanted the masses to be ignorant of truth 100s of years ago. The Founders hoped for responsibility to be spread thinly through a growing, educated populace. Emphasis on educated - not mob.

Nothing new under the sun.

TVs everywhere are one thing. Cameras everywhere - another.

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Tom
 
61frogeye said:
And the Christmas music........ :cryin:
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Ah...the Never-ending Season in retail. Starts before Halloween.....working retail most likely turned me off of the Christmas Season...years ago.
 
All I know is I LIKE CHEESE! I saw a great cheese advertisement on TV at Walmart the other day, so I went to Home Depot and bought an Orwellian cheese grater!
 
Basil said:
All I know is I LIKE CHEESE! I saw a great cheese advertisement on TV at Walmart the other day, so I went to Home Depot and bought an Orwellian cheese grater!
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uh-oh ... I think that's a subtle hint ...

Say, you're up early this morning. Spreading some camembert on your toast already? Slicing up the Wensleydale?

T.
 
NutmegCT said:
Basil said:
All I know is I LIKE CHEESE! I saw a great cheese advertisement on TV at Walmart the other day, so I went to Home Depot and bought an Orwellian cheese grater!
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uh-oh ... I think that's a subtle hint ...

Say, you're up early this morning. Spreading some camembert on your toast already? Slicing up the Wensleydale?

T.
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Nothing so upper crust - Sharp Chedder!
 
Basil said:
NutmegCT said:
Basil said:
All I know is I LIKE CHEESE! I saw a great cheese advertisement on TV at Walmart the other day, so I went to Home Depot and bought an Orwellian cheese grater!
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uh-oh ... I think that's a subtle hint ...

Say, you're up early this morning. Spreading some camembert on your toast already? Slicing up the Wensleydale?

T.
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Nothing so upper crust - Sharp Chedder!
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Make mine Double Gloucester & Stilton!

Say CHEESE!

Fantastic with a glass of Port!
 
NutmegCT said:
Basil said:
All I know is I LIKE CHEESE! I saw a great cheese advertisement on TV at Walmart the other day, so I went to Home Depot and bought an Orwellian cheese grater!
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uh-oh ... I think that's a subtle hint ...

Say, you're up early this morning. Spreading some camembert on your toast already? Slicing up the Wensleydale?

T.
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Tom, Leave it to you to mention Peg's favorite cheese...Wensleydale. We normally take out a loan when she wants to make a cheese plate for a party...
 
Wensleydale a bit pricey? In that case, let's go for VELVEETA!

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T.
 
NutmegCT said:
Wensleydale a bit pricey? In that case, let's go for VELVEETA!

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T.
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YUM!

Plastic cheese!
 
SWMBO won't let me buy Velveeta. :cryin:
 
Bayless said:
SWMBO won't let me buy Velveeta. :cryin:
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I don't understand that. You go buy it, You eat it.

If she doesn't wany any, she doesn't have to eat it.

Seems simple enough.
 
Bayless said:
SWMBO won't let me buy Velveeta. :cryin:
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Smart woman! Real cheese ONLY! :thumbsup:
 
"Everyone knows the moon's made of cheese" Wallace in "A Grand Day Out"
The TV plague is in Watkins Glen as well. Progress was inevitable, the town finally caved to money and allowed a monolithic modern hotel to be built right on the lakefront. Now while trying to enjoy an evening on a sailboat in the harbor you get to see the TVs in the hotel bar blaring out into the night. Just wonderful....
now back to your regularly scheduled cheese....

"That was lovely Wenslydale"..
 
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