Daytime TV
Dear old Norman Tebbit makes his (in)famous 'on your bike' speech in 1981.

Within two years, we have all available channels filled with ghastly dross in normal office hours.

If ever there was an incentive to get out of the house, the sheer rubbishness of daytime TV was (and continues to be) one.

(Edit to correct Freudian typo)

Conspiracy? You decide....
(uncle whippity, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 13:11, 6 replies)

You
may be onto something there.

I was off for a few days with pig flu a few weeks ago. I couldn't wait to get back to work after learning how ignorant women like to dress, eat and shite...or how much chavs in the same family want to beat each other up or eat out their sisters etc...

So I went back to work early, no doubt spreading my vile germs...which brings it neatly in line with defective audio's post about Swine Flu.
(dchurch bah, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 13:25, closed)

I have Sky+, and I'm always busy
If I were to go off sick for a week, I could watch decent programmes all day.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 13:48, closed)

I
have MythTV (which is similar but with better, more 'feature rich' software), but still after about 1 day of watchin recorded stuff then putting the live tv back on, I couldn't wait to get well enough to get back on my feet.
(dchurch bah, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 14:15, closed)

This is true
I also have about a dozen books I've not had a chance to read, and there's plenty of good stuff on Radio 4.

But do I get the pig flu like everybody else? Do I !*%$!*#
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 14:40, closed)

Indeed
I too have loads of books, but sadly have read them all. I read lots and fast. If I'd known I had pig flu coming I would have stocked up on some new ones in advance. It wiped out half our factory.
(dchurch bah, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 20:45, closed)

I've held this theory for years
Sadly, the law has had little effect on getting people back to work, as the workshy are that feckless they don't realise that daytime TV is in fact shite, and the genuinely incapacitated can't escape it...
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 13:46, closed)