Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!beth
From: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: fashion pages & tv
Message-ID: <134@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 11:01:52 EST
Article-I.D.: gymble.134
Posted: Mon Apr  8 11:01:52 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Apr-85 00:01:08 EST
References: <5433@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
Lines: 22

Laura asked why people watch TV (and read fashion pages, but I don't do
that).  I do, however, watch TV.  Why?  Well, it keeps me company when
I'm reading the paper or various non-technical magazines.  If I'm watching
the news, I may not bother to get up and turn off the TV and turn on the
radio.  Sometimes I like silence in my apartment, but the TV or radio
is on most of the time (tapes sometimes, but they have to be turned over).
Sometimes I watch nature shows on PBS.  They're fun, and I generally learn
something.  I watch sports (NCAA basketball, NFL and NCAA football).  And
I watch some of the more interesting movies and series (Cosby show, Hill
Street Blues,...). 

But I rarely just sit and watch TV.  I'm usually doing something else that
is relaxing or needs to be done (bills, fiddling with the plants, counted
cross-stitch).  So watching TV is not necessarily a time sink.  I do it
concurrently with something else.  I don't go out to a lot of movies or
dinners.  My SO is about 500 miles away, and he watches TV pretty much the
way I do.  Maybe we're antisocial at times, but I find it relaxing.  And
I bet we're not alone in this approach to watching TV.  We also watch the
commericials as entertainment rather than as ads.  David never seems to
remember the product.
					Beth Katz
					{seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!beth