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The trouble with television (well, one of many) is that it moves so swiftly from one thing to the next. You get a hard-hitting documentary on world poverty followed by an hour of closeups of celebrity anal warts, bang bang bang without a pause, unless you count the ads (I don't, because I actually enjoy
them).
To enhance our appreciation, television should simply schedule five minutes of blank screen and silence after every program, to give the viewer time to think / converse about the issues raised by the program.
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Is your "Off" button broken? |
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no, but if I switched off I'd miss the celebrity anal warts... |
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In the future, television shows will be thirty seconds long, to cater f- oh, look, a shiny thing! |
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A rough estimate of five minutes of silence after hour long programs over the course of a year and on just one channel is someones wasted 4383300.00 minutes of fame. |
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I need a couple of minutes to contemplate this one.<swoon> |
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Most people I know do the opposite of this - - think about things like world poverty et cetera, bang bang bang, without pause. When they want to shut their brains off from contemplation, they flick the TV on for five minutes or so - - until they feel 20 IQ points less intelligent. [-] |
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"Phew. That episode of 'Fear Factor' really brought up some issues. I need about five minutes to contemplate. The issues in question are my lunch, and when I say contemplate, I mean 'clean the carpet.'" |
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if nothing else, the five minutes would
be good to make a sandwich or go to
the bathroom. |
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*Note: Is taking idea seriously* |
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So basically this idea is to get the TV industry to do for you what you could do yourself by using the off button?! Its that "Its wrong because they aren't doing it for me" attitude which is causing a helpless society. If everyone took five minutes of quiet meditation after a serious program the networks would realize that air time is unwatched and would change their programming from celebrity anal warts to music with nice imagery. Or they might just cut serious programming so that no one takes five minutes to reflect after each show. |
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I thought commercials work to this effect.
But obviously they don't do it for you. |
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I smoked for 20 years for the same reason. I think there
should be 5 minutes of staring at the wall meditation
regulated by law every hour for everyone everywhere.
I'm just sorry I didn't figure out that I didn't have to smoke
to do it for 20 years. |
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Also I think this is the upside of having a slow computer.
Although I still get antsy waiting for webpages to
download, it really has made me more patient and able to
meditate at very short notice. |
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I don't mind it being brought up myself, considering that the five minutes are inevitably going to be used as some sort of advertising space. |
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Just make a quiet/silent five-minute commercial break at the very end of each show. It sounds like an intelligent idea to work around if you ask me. |
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It's not like you won't find the break to be useful for -something-. Somehow it does feel more natural for a T.V. station to behave this way instead of cramming one show right after the next, divided by only a short, noisy commercial break. |
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I was an early adopter of HDTV, and 3 years ago was provided a set at home to evaluate. |
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One of the benefits aside from the great picture and excellent sound, was that the local stations hadn't figured out how to encode their material, so only the network feeds (shows) were broadcast. |
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Thereby providing the requested 5 minutes of silence to meditate on the FOX (or whichever) logo. Marvellous! |
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Yeah 5 mins or something every hour across all stations like the EBS tests. |
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