Is free to air Television and Pay TV stressful to watch?
Continuous noise 24 × 7 on all channels with no natural periods of silence
Ads
shows about murder
Bad news
biased news
shows that effect your overall moods and emotions
lack of educational content
List goes on
btw, I don’t watch TV any more
I’m wondering what would be the difference in heart rate figures between people who watch TV and those people who do not watch any TV at all.
CrazyNeutrino said:
Is free to air Television and Pay TV stressful to watch?
Continuous noise 24 × 7 on all channels with no natural periods of silence
Ads
shows about murder
Bad news
biased news
shows that effect your overall moods and emotions
lack of educational content
List goes on
btw, I don’t watch TV any more
I have a friend who can’t bear to be in a room where a TV is on in the background.
I have my TV on in the background often.
CrazyNeutrino said:
I’m wondering what would be the difference in heart rate figures between people who watch TV and those people who do not watch any TV at all.
They say a passing airplane can alter your heart rate while you are sleeping making it increase by up to 10 percent
I watch very little telly either but here’s one show that’s probably worth taping tonight:
HOW TO CLONE A WOOLLY MAMMOTH
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Sunday 31st May at 8:35 pm (60 minutes)
Serious and reputable scientists now believe that it is technically possibly to clone or “de-extinct” a whole range of animals, including the woolly mammoth – Jurassic Park style – within the next five to seven years. This involves major advances in the study of and the manipulation of ancient DNA, and in cloning. This program is “a beginner’s guide to de-extinction”; it’s about the science behind the mammoth de-extinction project – about the difficulties it faces, the enormous fragility of DNA, the challenges of discovering relatively undamaged mammoth DNA and about advances in cloning technology. (From the UK) (Documentary) PG CC
CrazyNeutrino said:
Is free to air Television and Pay TV stressful to watch?
Continuous noise 24 × 7 on all channels with no natural periods of silence
Ads
shows about murder
Bad news
biased news
shows that effect your overall moods and emotions
lack of educational content
List goes on
btw, I don’t watch TV any more
>>btw, I don’t watch TV any more
then what’s your qualification to comment on the subject?
>natural periods of silence
you’ve come near committing something like the naturalistic fallacy, you need reminding you’re a contemporary social construct, a product of and determined by your environment. If you watch and listen to the ABC and other channels they’ll fix it for you.
>Continuous noise 24 × 7 on all channels with no natural periods of silence
The mute button is your friend.
stumpy_seahorse said:
CrazyNeutrino said:Is free to air Television and Pay TV stressful to watch?
Continuous noise 24 × 7 on all channels with no natural periods of silence
Ads
shows about murder
Bad news
biased news
shows that effect your overall moods and emotions
lack of educational content
List goes on
btw, I don’t watch TV any more
>>btw, I don’t watch TV any more
then what’s your qualification to comment on the subject?
Professor of molecular meditation, quantum interference and photonic/acoustic annoyances
Bubblecar said:
>Continuous noise 24 × 7 on all channels with no natural periods of silenceThe mute button is your friend.
what is the difference between a ‘natural’ period of silence and an ‘unnatural’ period of silence?
i hear plenty of silent periods when watching TV.. Tassie even has completely silent ads…
stumpy_seahorse said:
CrazyNeutrino said:Is free to air Television and Pay TV stressful to watch?
Continuous noise 24 × 7 on all channels with no natural periods of silence
Ads
shows about murder
Bad news
biased news
shows that effect your overall moods and emotions
lack of educational content
List goes on
btw, I don’t watch TV any more
>>btw, I don’t watch TV any more
then what’s your qualification to comment on the subject?
Who would be qualified to talk about it?
are people with opinions not worthy?
or perhaps this – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
How is the apparatus to train you into the field of ‘entertainments’, educational and often something more, if you wander around indulging your own imaginings, exist in some isolated reality, you’ll end up like a child raised amongst wolves.
transition said:
or perhaps this – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_natureHow is the apparatus to train you into the field of ‘entertainments’, educational and often something more, if you wander around indulging your own imaginings, exist in some isolated reality, you’ll end up like a child raised amongst wolves.
in giving free to air media some thought
overall I think its aggressive in nature, I think its overall effect of it is not well understood by everyone
the owners of channels want money, the shareholders want money
as you say the real world is different to broadcasting to isolated people’s minds leaving people vulnerable to misinformation, and /or lack of information
information / misinformation / lack of information is a tool and a weapon to various media companies and governments
I prefer my own time, I think over various things, I was taught science observation at school
having deaf relatives who kept turning up the volume of television made me start to look at media from different perspectives
I found some tv shows were making me depressed shows like criminal minds I find very depressing to watch
>>I found some tv shows were making me depressed shows like criminal minds I find very depressing to watch<
This is why the good lord gave you the gift of free will. That you might exercise it and choose what you watch.
CrazyNeutrino said:
> Is free to air Television and Pay TV stressful to watch?
> Continuous noise 24 × 7 on all channels with no natural periods of silence
That’s what the mute button is for. By muting all ads I get 20% to 30% silence.
> Ads
Yes.
> shows about murder
Am watching: pie in the sky, midsomer murders, miss fisher’s murder, poirot, miss marple, catching milat, father brown, rosemary and thyme.
ie. I avoid only american murders.
> Bad news, biased news
I refuse to watch TV news, except for News on 3, the Feed, and the weekly. I used to get my TV news from good news week, backburner, sean McCaliff, but they’ve all stopped now.
> shows that effect your overall moods and emotions
Difficult – eg. operation ouch.
> lack of educational content
Surprisingly many shows with good educational content on at the moment. A great one this afternoon was about three water supply engineering projects in Singapore, one where an estuary barrage was being built to turn a harbour into a freshwater lake, one for extracting water from Singapore’s sewage, and the third one using reverse osmosis desalination from seawater.
List goes on
> btw, I don’t watch TV any more
Because of personal commitments I’m down from my usual 11 hours TV a day to about 6.
TV just very recently has got great, I think it must be a ratings period. Definitely the right time of year to watch free TV.
I’m catching up on all the old movies that I never watched when they first came out, such as “Kim” and “Rocky”, yesterday’s was a John Wayne western because I’d never watched a John Wayne western before.
>TV just very recently has got great,
agreed, but I fear the damage has been done, i’m unrecoverable, broken, unrepairable.
CrazyNeutrino said:
Is free to air Television and Pay TV stressful to watch?
Continuous noise 24 × 7 on all channels with no natural periods of silence
No, There is no such things as natural periods of silence either. There have been times I’ve been laid low in bed with a migrane wishing the ravens and black cockatoos to just FOAD,
dripping taps/ showers
inverters make a pulsing noise believe it or not. in a quiet house you’ll hear the low pulsing sound through the wall as the sun hits the panels
wookiemeister said:
dripping taps/ showersinverters make a pulsing noise believe it or not. in a quiet house you’ll hear the low pulsing sound through the wall as the sun hits the panels
yes there are lots of natural noise sources
you can record the whole day of sunlight warming up your house and speed it up to hear the noise it generates, you could do it for the whole week
then hear the pattern
never ending barking dogs
if I’ve got the money the windows will all be triple glazed to cut down outside noise
get some more solar panels and change everything to split system so there’s no path for noise to enter
of a night the curtains get drawn, aircon turned on and silence reigns
Even silent ads don’t staop the TV making noise.
transition said:
>TV just very recently has got great,agreed, but I fear the damage has been done, i’m unrecoverable, broken, unrepairable.
Remarkably good SBS documentary last night – “How to clone a woolly mammoth”.
party_pants said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
Continuous noise 24 × 7 on all channels with no natural periods of silence
No, There is no such things as natural periods of silence either. There have been times I’ve been laid low in bed with a migrane wishing the ravens and black cockatoos to just FOAD,
Ravens and cockatoos are sweet music compared to the incessant chatter of nurses in Royal Melbourne.
For a good book about natural periods of silence, read “The sound of a wild snail eating” by Elisabeth Tova Bailey.
There is more than enough exceptional TV content out there for access, if you put your mind to it .
You need never subject yourself to the rubbish that is Aussie FTA.
> There have been times I’ve been laid low in bed with a migrane wishing the ravens and black cockatoos to just FOAD
That’s not called a “migraine”, it’s called a “hangover”.
In the context of “Games people play” by Eric Burne, the ravens and black cockatoos are doing you a service by giving you a hangover pain so severe that you can boast about it.