TV and Other Anxiety's

Ahhh Television! The place where all teenage questions are answered. I'm not much of a television viewer and if I lived on my own, I probably wouldn't even have it hooked up to an antenna.. I'd just have DVDs...
When I was younger, TV was a staple in my life. I watched The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeanie, Hey Hey it's Saturday, and my beloved Warner Bros. Cartoons, blah blah, we know the era! Saturday and Sunday arvo's they'd always have old movies on.. Golden Oldies mainly, and in the evening it was battle of the Movie Men, Bill Collins Vs Ivan Hutchinson always playing some great movie on Saturday nights and giving us the history of the film and it's performers, the point is it was really good entertainment. Television had class!
NOW......
The verbal diarrhea coming out of the mouths of babes... little foetus' on Neighbours and Home and Away.. and I only watch the ads of the show! To watch the actual show would be equivelent to torture of the gruesome kind... do they insult our intelligence, or has the world really become that stupid? All these shows, Lipstick Jungle, Grey's Anatomy, Cashmere something or another... all it teaches is how to sleep with men, break up with men, cheat on your partner and step over your collegue to get to the top! And if it hasn't got a CSI preceding the title, it's just not prime time TV... now TV has reached the bottom of the food chain... reality TV. Do I care if you're some closet masterchef? That your partner is cheating on you and you have to get some B-grade investigator to find out if they're cheating (keep it in your backyard)? Or that an ex-boyfriend is going to pick your next boyfriend for you? Ugh, I'm so over it... Keeping up with the Kardashians (or however the frick u say their name), Playboy Mansion, (I'm sorry Hugh, when you were younger, you got away with wearing that satin robe, now you just shuffle along and look like you're walking the grounds of an asylum, get dressed dickhead!), and let's not forget Hell's Kitchen! OH boy oh boy oh boy... who's stupider? The narcissitic, ego manic bully running the show, or the dumb-asses who allow themselves to be treated like crap on world-wide television? It's a tough call! So what did the executives all sit around their big mahogany desk, one hand on their willies, the other waving around in the air thinking, lets get a guy, who looks like a cross between a pig and an Orc, who has a temper problem, a vulgar mouth and no consideration for other human beings whatsoever and make a show about him.... hey, the penis-holding suits are laughing all the way to the bank now, they got it spot on... they gauged the intelligence of TV viewing and have now made a freaking fortune out of people's need to watch this dribble!
What kills me is when people tell me they have no time to do the things they would really like to do. I ask them why and I get the 'I have NO time, Oh My God I've been soooo busy, blah blah blah, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit... then during the conversation they're talking about Grey's Anatomy or Hell's Kitchen or some such rubbish show..I"m sorry, if you have time to watch dribble on TV, you have time to be doing those things you SAY you wish you could do... Am I lying? Please correct me if you think my opinion is not valid.


I like some Telly! Intelligent story lines and quirky humour, some that make you think & some that help you escape reality... I'm not a big TV watcher, but what I do watch has substance! And I infintely prefer movies any day of the week..
Is it too much to ask for a little class on our television? Is it any wonder that most singleton's in the world have severe emotional problems? Look at what they're watching? I don't know ANYONE who lives their lives like they do on Sex and the City, or Grey's Anatomy, or Cashmere Lipstick crappola whatever! But I actually have friends who think that is how life should be.... what the? Why am I letting you sit at the same damn table as me in a cafe? Go away

Don't get me started on daytime soapies, real-life Cop shows OR Judge Judy!