You thought GAS was bad, how about TAS

Television Acquisition Syndrome.
 
How low must you value your time, that spending 22 days camped outside a Best Buy for a good deal on a TV seems worth it? 22 days for a discount on a television screen in front of which they're no doubt going to waste the rest of their lives consuming the most shallow, inane form of culture known to mankind. The mind boggles. I know the old cliche is "well as long as they're happy, who cares," but DAMN......you have to feel some kind of pity for these saps.
 
http://patch.com/californ...k-friday-deals-0 

backwoods
......those new curved ones. 

???????????????

I want juan two.

sharke
Television Acquisition Syndrome.
 
How low must you value your time, that spending 22 days camped outside a Best Buy for a good deal on a TV seems worth it? 22 days for a discount on a television screen in front of which they're no doubt going to waste the rest of their lives consuming the most shallow, inane form of culture known to mankind. The mind boggles. I know the old cliche is "well as long as they're happy, who cares," but DAMN......you have to feel some kind of pity for these saps.
 
http://patch.com/californ...k-friday-deals-0 

+1....dehumanization.
 
......and then you have to share the road with them.

 
 

Trying to make sense of it all....
 
So if one spends two hours watching a movie on TV they are worse off, wasting time or damaging their brain cells or whatever than someone that spends two hours listening to music or watching music videos on TV or watching a movie with music in the soundtrack?
 
Personally I don't really care what others do, I judge whether or not it is something I care to do. I don't climb rock cliffs, jump out of planes...and I could go on and on.
 
Lot's of entertainment to choose from...like spending time in music forums and never offering anything in the way of music or music productions...just talk...is that wasting time? It can be so confusing I guess but that's entertainment.
 
 

My wife bought a Samsung Smart TV last year.
 
As a display, I dig it because we used to watch movies and series in bed on her little 13" MacBook screen.
 
As a "Smart TV" I hate that thing - apps are freezing when we first launch them and we constantly have to suffer through software updates. 
 
I can't see myself browsing through channels trying to find something to watch but we do enjoy on quiet night a week just enjoying a series. These days, we're into CSI NY. Everything that's related to science and forensic. 
 
I might have turned out an entirely different person if we had such shows on TV when I grew up - scientific investigation work is fascinating.
 
 

I know I'm jumping to conclusions here, but I have a feeling that if you're willing to spend the best part of a month camped outside in all weathers to get a deal on a TV, you must spend a godawful amount of time in front of the things. And people who spend that much time in front of a TV instead of doing more interesting things (like reading a book or researching something on the internet), in my experience aren't that fussy about what they watch. Which usually means a lot of daytime junk (reality shows, Judge Judy etc) and evening junk (reality shows). 
 
I don't know. I saw the photo of them and I immediately heard a voice saying "I gotta watch my stories." 

Karyn
If they're camping out for 3 weeks because they're TV junkies...  will they suffer from withdrawal?

There's an app for that.

slartabartfast
 
Geeze. Sharkey, what do you want from these women. Instead of sitting in front of the TV wasting their lives, they are camping out in the open air, getting in touch with nature, absorbing the life giving rays of the sun, communing with their fellow human beings and exposing themselves openly and unashamed to the judgement of the universal mind. 

What makes you think they don't have a portable with them?