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Should the Nanny State be allowed to dictate our TV habits? [8 vote(s)]

Oh yes. The country is run by much cleverer people than me and they know best...
0.0%
No way. Bloody Nanny State can sod right off. I'll watch what I want when i want and sot the brain-rot!
87.5%
Don't care. Don't watch telly anyway. (A.K.A. The Sharon Option)
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ddvmor


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No no.  Not a thread about that godawful 'reality' show.


So, apparently, this dude in the British Psychological Society (the what?) says we should have limits imposed on our TV watching.





TV daily limits call unrealistic

A call for imposed recommended daily allowances on television is unworkable and unrealistic, say experts.

Dr Aric Sigman of the British Psychological Society proposed limits after looking at published studies on potential health risks of TV viewing.

He says children under three should be banned from watching any TV, and older children restricted to viewing an hour a day of good quality programmes.

Teens should be limited to one and a half hours, and adults two hours a day.



Then there's a bunch of learned dudes who tell him not to be so silly.


Couple of vaguely interesting points here:


a) 2 hours a day?  Does anyone really watch this much telly?  I mean, sometimes I watch a bunch of recorded stuff in a 2 or 3 hour block, but there just ain't 14 hours of decent TV on in a week.  About half the week, I don't watch any telly at all (mostly cos I'm posting rubbish on here).


b) Kids under 3 shouldn't watch TV at all.  Hmm.  Tricky one this.  I'm inclined to agree with it - but only on the basis that too many people seem to use the TV as a babysitter.  That said, I'm sure the right programmes can benefit a kid's early development.


c) Good quality programmes?  By who's standards?  Channel 4 would have us believe that the bar is somewhere around ankle level...


Now...  Time for an exciting poll.



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HaloBurn


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In the Robert Rankin book "armeggedon the musical" the tv had a camera that locked onto the watchers eyes, the longer people watched the more rations and state benifits they got!

The government haven't quite got to terms with people using the Internet to watch what they want yet have they?

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ddvmor


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The BBC have though.  I'm on their IMP pilot...

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bonniepirateanne


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sometimes i think psychologists just make things up to sound important. Dr Sigmon fraud should leave us all alone

i could watch 14 hours of neighbours a week if it was on heh heh



either way, it's up to us what we do with our time (as long as we ain't breaking the law) - probably controlling our bad eating habits is more important than controlling our bad tv habits (not that they should do either)

ok, end of thrown together all muddled up reply.

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sha76jam


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I kinda presumed he meant the government should issue a "though shall not watch more than two hours TV a day" statement in a similar vein to "though shalt eat 5 portions of fruit & veg a day", "though shalt excercise", "though shall not drink too much" (sorry, I get a little hazy on the figures!).  Don't think he was suggesting a technology that automatically turns of the TV before your film's finished.


Trouble is it's far too easy to just sit down in front of the telly when you get in & not move much, even if there's only total crap on.  That's part of why I gave up on it (now I just sit down in front of a whole internet full of crap...)



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sha76jam


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PS Go re-read your brain rot option your royal jamminess, looks like he may have a point...



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ddvmor


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heh heh heh... my brain is so rotten...

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