Congratulations Beth

Yay! I have at least one certain person who read my blog and enjoyed it!

For that, you get 1,000 points! Well done!

Now that i'm done shouting at you, lets get on with it. Today i'm gonna talk about television. Television is a funny thing. When it was released, people where saying "Radio will never be replaced" and "There is no way this television thing will catch on".

Pssh! I love people like that. New stuff sucks and will be obliterated. Its this kind of xenophobic (maybe its not the right word but its the best I could come up with) belief that lets things like the internet happen more slowly so that some lonely bastard like me couldn't do this kind of shit 30 years ago.

For those of you who don't know, television is a wonderful invention that allows us to see prerecorded events that have happened outside of our lives, many of which are set up to look like real occurrences, with the remaining 2% news about the shit that is happening in other fucked-up countries regardless of what the shit it is. I bullshit you not, a kids Runescape (this is a online game that 10 year olds play and complain about stuff that is irrelevant to the game) account getting 'hacked' made the news headlines. This happens here.

Anyway... back to television, or TV as we know it now. TV is in most homes (around about 90% of houses with people in them also have a TV) and seems to form the core of life. In my house, my mum, my dad and my two younger brothers are watching the TV as we speak. Dad is of the belief that I should stop spending time on my computer where I don't talk to anyone 'real'. Instead, I should be moving about 5 feet to my left so that I can sit in front of the TV and rot my brain while STILL not talking to them rather than search to expand my pathetic vocabulary blogging.

Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK?! There is no logic in that what so ever. TV REMOVES social interaction from any family. Every night the whole family (more or less) ends up sitting/lying/standing around watching the TV in a stupor. It makes so little sense its not fucking funny...

DAD: Lets spend some time together.

BRO: How will we do that?

DAD: We'll bum around watching TV and not putting any of this time to good use! Your brothers drug addiction can wait.

Woo. Quality time. Can't wait... life's funny like that isn't it?