[geeks] American Cable Tee Vee

[Amy]

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Steven Hill wrote:
> I have just suffered that damned Meow Mix advert for the 8th time
> today.

i crack up every time i see the lyrics to that annoying song that cat
sings.

> What is it with TV here.

we're very bound to our commercialism..when have you ever not met an
american that was not trying to sell ya somethin'?

> Surely there are intelligent Americans who can resist this gash
> programming and constant adverts? Surely the average attention span is
> longer than 10 minutes?

yep, there are. we generally watch a lot of dvd's and use the tivo to edit
out the commercials.

--a