➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[R2elk]

I've been upset ever since I did the math and found out my favorite hour long show had 34 minutes of content. VCRs were great since you could fast forward. DVDs block that feature now.

Currently I am using the record feature on the DirecTV unit and fast forward through the commercials. I pretty much can't watch live TV because I cannot guarantee that I won't get interrupted or fall asleep. I don't take naps, they take me.

 

[FortCluck]

Currently I am using the record feature on the DirecTV unit and fast forward through the commercials. I pretty much can't watch live TV because I cannot guarantee that I won't get interrupted or fall asleep. I don't take naps, they take me.

That's why we use the DVR because the commercials make a show drag

 

[ShrekDawg]

Honestly tv is junk everything on it is for the most part. I can detach myself from it just as easily. We can play card games, board games, read, and just communicate... most families just sit in front of a TV and don't even ask each other how their day was. It's pathetic.

I truly believe that some of the technology that we have today is really pulling apart today's society. People don't even know how to communicate with each other anymore.

People talk to their friends on Facebook rather than face to face, it's quite disgusting honestly

Yeah, those are all good points and you’re probably right but honestly I’m/we’re guilty of all those things.

Actually, we don’t even usually watch TV together anymore. well my mom and I do on certain nights when our favorite shows are on but she usually falls asleep anyway

But we’re usually all always in separate rooms.

All usually on the phone (my dad is worse than me) or on the TV

We don’t even ever cook or eat together anymore.

But I’m kinda glad honestly cause I like being left alone

We used to do all that stuff though... play games, read, eat together, when we were younger but my brothers don’t live at home anymore and my parents don’t really like each other anyway and they annoy me so I’m just as happy to be left alone.

And all my friends are out of state for the most part so text and FB or Twitter is the only way I can talk to them now.

I do have some locally I could probably hang out with though but they’re all usually super busy.

Sometimes technology is good if you’re all super busy or don’t live near each other anymore or whatever.

But I do think it’s bad when people could hang out in person but choose not to or when they are together but are on their phone the whole time or tweeting each other when they’re right next to each other so they might as well not be.

Or like even my parents will sometimes text instead of shouting it or coming down.

 

[ShrekDawg]

But we’re also like all together 24/7 and my dad works from home the past couple years so we get on each other’s nerves more I think

 

[ShrekDawg]

Currently I am using the record feature on the DirecTV unit and fast forward through the commercials. I pretty much can't watch live TV because I cannot guarantee that I won't get interrupted or fall asleep. I don't take naps, they take me.

That's why we use the DVR because the commercials make a show drag

Yeah I always fast forward through them haha

 

[FortCluck]

Yeah, those are all good points and you’re probably right but honestly I’m/we’re guilty of all those things.

Actually, we don’t even usually watch TV together anymore. well my mom and I do on certain nights when our favorite shows are on but she usually falls asleep anyway

But we’re usually all always in separate rooms.

All usually on the phone (my dad is worse than me) or on the TV

We don’t even ever cook or eat together anymore.

But I’m kinda glad honestly cause I like being left alone

We used to do all that stuff though... play games, read, eat together, when we were younger but my brothers don’t live at home anymore and my parents don’t really like each other anyway and they annoy me so I’m just as happy to be left alone.

And all my friends are out of state for the most part so text and FB or Twitter is the only way I can talk to them now.

I do have some locally I could probably hang out with though but they’re all usually super busy.

Sometimes technology is good if you’re all super busy or don’t live near each other anymore or whatever.

But I do think it’s bad when people could hang out in person but choose not to or when they are together but are on their phone the whole time or tweeting each other when they’re right next to each other so they might as well not be.

Or like even my parents will sometimes text instead of shouting it or coming down.

I think if we all got rid of cellphones, tv, and other things that distract us from life we would be a whole lot better. Too many people are detached from the world around them.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I think if we all got rid of cellphones, tv, and other things that distract us from life we would be a whole lot better. Too many people are detached from the world around them.

Yeah probably but then I’d be really bored/not have anything to do

 

[FortCluck]

Yeah probably but then I’d be really bored/not have anything to do

You could go take care of your chickens, your fish, and be working while meeting new people I'd rather sit outside all day than sit inside on my phone or watch TV. When it's hotter out I'll be on here less and less because I'll be spending most of my time outside.

Right now it's 36 and it hurts to be out there for too long. I have to get ready in a sec though because I have that women's worship at the church tonight.

 

[ShrekDawg]

You could go take care of your chickens, your fish, and be working while meeting new people I'd rather sit outside all day than sit inside on my phone or watch TV. When it's hotter out I'll be on here less and less because I'll be spending most of my time outside.

Right now it's 36 and it hurts to be out there for too long. I have to get ready in a sec though because I have that women's worship at the church tonight.

true but what do I do after that?

Honestly I want to go outside more because we have a nice piece of property and lots of places to walk around here and I should be taking advantage of it but I hate bugs and sweating and heat and stuff and in winter I hate the cold I do love being out there though so I should try to get out more. But honestly I get bored after just a few minutes watching the chickens now. and get bored (and/or frustrated) when I try to read. I think I’m so used to the phone and TV and all the constant stimulation from that that anything else is boring now. I should really try to work on that though haha

And yeah I hate cold! It feels like it goes through to the bones.

And oh fun!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Also reading just makes me mad/frustrated/upset now cause I always get stuck in one place and have to reread a certain word or sentence or paragraph or whatever over and over again and so it takes me forever to read anything. I was always a slow reader before but now the last like 5 years or so the OCD’s gotten worse so now I not only am a slow reader but get stuck in certain spots and it takes me forever to get past that spot and sometimes I can’t which is usually the point I get frustrated and throw the book.