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To: Lhn5 who wrote (32841)	11/26/2004 1:15:07 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39344

<You say America is indeed sick, but I see the people around me, the vast majority but of course not all of them, trying to be kind and trying to become better educated.> It's an interesting commentary on the human condition. I don't think Americans are any 'worse' than anyone one else at the core. But look, how does you average American use their time... working their balls off for an extra car in the garage and keeping up with the Jonses... buying 'stuff'. <Helping those when possible is one of the greatest things one can do.> Now, I"m not saying it's all concious necessarily Larry... but people on average spend MUCH LESS time helping out at the local shelter and church and MUCH MORE time playing on computers, working [for what, the US is the richest country on earth!], driving bigger cars sleeping in massive beadrooms, and the beat goes on. Here's where they spend 20% of the entire day that they didn't do 50 years ago: <<According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube. >> <<Percentage of households that possess at least one television: 99 Number of TV sets in the average U.S. household: 2.24 Percentage of U.S. homes with three or more TV sets: 66 Number of hours per day that TV is on in an average U.S. home: 6 hours, 47 minutes Percentage of Americans that regularly watch television while eating dinner: 66 >> There's no way around it... America is leading the way [we're not the only ones... most cultures are jumping on board] to extinction. Right now it's just depression and obesity... of course that's just a couple of symptoms... violence, increases in all sorts of other diseases. It's very simple, people arent doing a god damn thing! To be very honest, I don't think I buy the "people don't know how to go about it" thinggy... it starts with looking in the mirror and seeing the horror. DAK

To: Lhn5 who wrote (32841)	11/26/2004 2:24:41 AM
From: Proud Deplorable	Respond to of 39344

"I really tried to watch regularly was Seinfeld" Talk about depressed !!!!! I watch a network called Showcase that was airing Larry David's (Seinfeld producer) Curb Your Enthusiasm" and then temporarily cancelled it on Sunday night. Talk about violence...I feel like kicking my God D...TV in right about now. It was my favorite show. Here's what they wrote me: Dear *******, Unfortunately, Curb Your Enthusiasm has been removed from our broadcast schedule at this time to make room for new programming. We try our best to refresh our schedule to bring on new series we have acquired. Curb Your Enthusiasm will likely return, but we want to be sure that our viewers don't get tired with what we have to offer them. Also worthy of note is that we are only allowed a limited number of plays within a specified time period for the series that we acquire. As such, like all television networks, we will give certain shows a rest to space out broadcasts. I hope this suitably answers your question. Thank you for watching Showcase -- we hope you continue to enjoy our programming. Sincerely, Viewer Relations Showcase Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. -----Original Message----- ----------------------------- But Trailer Park Boys is another favorite but must they air two episodes of it right after the other on Sunday? I think these people are anti semitic or something.