i am proud to be doing something that is not passive, televisions are about sit back and be entertained or not.
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Sorry, Dick; but there is something palpably self-righteous and irritating in this assumption of yours that nobody who has a tv is capable of being selective in viewing, or of learning anything from all the informative or educational content contained in many programmes, but is bound just to sit there incessantly letting the stuff wash over them in hypnotic fashion. If you don't want one*, then please yourself. But stop, I beg you, going on about how intellectually superior that makes you to all the rest of us "BOOBIES". You are, on the contrary, I regret to say, coming over as something of a silly old fart on the subject.

Best regards

~Michael~

*& I repeat, I have had one for well under half the time they have been available since after WWii, because I hated it when it first re-emerged & find it has only improved gradually since