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…which is an exceptionally rare thing. But before the public even got to hear about it, House & Senate sat down and injected the heavy hand of government, to bring it down with a bone-shattering thud upon something that has been irritating me massively.
So is it time for me to support the nanny state?
I’m thinking no. I was big enough to admit, before, that in its nanny way it was doing something I liked…and I supported it then. I ended up burned on that.
Intelligent people learn. Non-intelligent people don’t.
Besides, I find statements like “TV viewers should be able to watch their favorite programs without fear of losing their hearing when the show goes to a commercial” to be, not only non-intelligent, but downright brain-damaged.
CHANGE THE DAMN CHANNEL.
If the commercials are loud, that is the television network’s way of telling you they think you’re stupid.
We were watching Videodrome, which is a really weird movie. My Favorite Gal made the comment that the television’s speakers might be going…and for a minute I thought maybe she was right. I had the volume at 100 when people were talking, and still couldn’t hear them — then when something strange was happening and they played their spooky music I had to yank the volume down to 20 or thereabouts. We had this experience before, with Agency. Eventually I decreed that, since we have to slide in moves from the early 1980’s to re-create the problem, it’s probably not a television-hardware issue…since how does the hardware know what year the movie came out?
But now I’m wondering, what is Sen. Schumber gonna do about that? You say you’ve discovered a right that I have…somewhere in the Constitution, I suppose?…to watch television without losing my hearing, or living in fear of losing my hearing. So how ’bout it? Where’s my legislation? Actually, shouldn’t someone be tapping into my television, and fiddling with my volume controls in case I’m too stupid to find the remote?
Schumer is such a crapweasel. I remember him as the breakfast cereal guy. He doesn’t care about these various issues. What in the world does a loud television commercial have to do with a bowl of overpriced cereal? Other than that your kids are probably the cause of you having to put up with both of them…they have nothing in common with each other except Sen. Schumer.
He’s just a nanny-state nanny through & through, skin down to bones. He’s appealing to the there-oughtta-be-a-law folks — the ones who are incapable of ever forming the words, “I find that annoying, but we don’t need a law about it.” His constituents are the people who don’t belong here. They get ticked off about something every day, and once they’re ticked off we all have to lose some freedoms. They’ll brook no exceptions.
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I’ve heard this one before too. Commercials are the reason I watch almost no live TV. The only exception is for sports and then just use the mute button. DVR everything and watch it an hour later. You’ll save yourself 22 minutes out of every hour to either watch more TV or do something productive.
Also, the reason commercials are louder is that they don’t balance the sound, they push the levels up to max on the mixer because it’s cheaper than mastering them properly and, yes, they get to shout at you.
- Duffy | 10/01/2010 @ 06:39My own little theory is that commercials are cranked up because they figure you’ve left the room, and they still want you to hear them. I definitely don’t like it, but…
I regularly put on my giant noise-canceling headphones while reading or writing, and crank them up to levels that a hearing specialist would beat me for, so I have no business complaining. Sometimes, when the song hits me just right, I put down the book (Kindle, ohmuhgoodness) and really crank it up. So again, I am in no position to complain, and I daresay that an awful lot of the loud commercial complainers spend a great deal of their time with glaring white umbilici dangling from their ears.
“OMG! These comMERCIALS! I, like, can’t hear myself text!”
- Andy | 10/01/2010 @ 07:46