Tuesday, 22 March 2016

The Daily Mash pretty much sums up my childhood.

A FAMILY that ‘banned’ television now just knows f**k all about popular culture, it has emerged.

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11 comments:

Curmudgeon said...

And you'd be crap at "Pointless".

22 March 2016 at 14:14
ThomasBHall said...

Mine too...

22 March 2016 at 17:44
Tim Almond said...

I've met people who were only allowed to watch PBS and said it meant they couldn't mix with a lot of kids.

Personally I don't watch much TV because it's shit. Movies and Internet are my things.

22 March 2016 at 17:54
James Higham said...

How much about it would we want to know?

23 March 2016 at 05:50
Mark Wadsworth said...

C, for example, yes.

TBH, must commiserate properly some time.

TS, my parents refused to have a telly in the house. Most TV is rubbish, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't watch any of it.

JH, none.

23 March 2016 at 08:01
Lola said...

TS. Me too. Re Telly as a kid - my old man was sports mad so it was always on for stuff like the test match. So we did have a telly. Can't remember what I watched. Crackerjack?

23 March 2016 at 10:20
Dinero said...

From what I see on the content of the Freeview format TV definately has a lot less in debth technical content nowadays.

23 March 2016 at 11:47
Curmudgeon said...

If you totally cut yourself off from popular culture, you may have problems in socialising with other people. it's like the judge who asked "Who, pray, are the Beatles?"

I can't actually bring to mind any of Adele's songs, but I know who she is.

23 March 2016 at 16:05
Bayard said...

TS, me too. Anyway, who needs a telly, when you can watch what decent stuff there is on iPlayer and its equivalents.

23 March 2016 at 17:53
Mark Wadsworth said...

Din, telly is in fact a lot better than thirty or forty years ago, it's just nostalgia. British comedy has gone downhill since the nineties but there are loads of interesting documentaries scattered across BBC4, Quest, Yesterday etc, that's what I watch and a bit of the news and cop dramas with the sound off and music on.

C, "Rolling the deep" was one. Cant think of any others without looking.

B, force of habit. Telly is for passive relaxing, computers are for more active reading, typing, researching etc.

23 March 2016 at 18:27
Lola said...

My interest in 'popular culture' was, in recent times, rather awakened by Kate Upton and her assets...

23 March 2016 at 19:28

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