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| Thread ID: 75361 | 2006-12-26 02:34:00 | no advertising on tv and radio on christmas day in nz-Why? | lance4k (4644) | PC World Chat |
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| 509732 | 2006-12-26 22:53:00 | Some people have their TVs on all day & don't care what is on. When they are on the computer, the TV is going. When they are eating a meal, the TV is going. When they are doing housework, the TV is going. Some people don't even turn off the TV when they leave the house. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 509733 | 2006-12-26 23:00:00 | I suspect that once upon a time there were some people who managed to infiltrate govt who were actually worried that we were breeding a country full of complete morons who own and watch small cathode ray tubes designed to suck the intelligence out of people. While mainstream govt realized that a populous that was brain dead and well programmed with commercial BS would be easily controlled and motivated towards a greed based economy, this small minority was appalled by this notion, and wanted this to be a country where the were still free thinking people. To this end they set about finding ways of making TV stations un-watch-able at times by removing all funding on certain days. Sunday and Christmas seemed politically exceptable, as the already demented TV addicts would simply see no ads as a bonus, without realizing that the plug in drug required payment from those wishing to guide our minds to patterns of pure greed. Miraculously these deviants succeeded and got people to actually resort to reluctantly talking with family and so forth rather than get their fix of the mind sapping plug in drug each and every single day. Unfortunately it was too late. The battle was won, but the war was long lost. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 509734 | 2006-12-27 03:48:00 | Of course the fact that it's been a Christian festival for quite a while (and now a commercial festival) doesn't mean much. A festival at about the Northern midwinter (which determines the date) has a much longer history. It was one of the many "pagan" festivals, with much more interesting activities than church services to mark them. :D The churches couldn't eliminate the old festivals, they just absorbed them, and renamed them. (Just like the old gods ... look at all the "saints"). Microsoft does the same in it's programme of achieving world domination. ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
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