Now some might argue that my sitting in front of a computer screen is the same thing but I argue back that using a personal computer is a "lean forward" activity that engages the mind as opposed to a "lean back" activity that encourages sloth and inordinate consumption of potato/corn chips, popcorn and cheese doodles.
While some of you are going to the bathroom now to wash the cheese stains off your fingers, allow me to state that I am a Gold member of the Marriott Rewards program and while I stay in hotels 50-75 nights a year, I have never, ever, once turned on the television set in any of the Marriott hotel rooms that I have stayed in.
I do have Netflix on my laptop however and I might on occasion watch a movie, a documentary or perhaps an episode or two of what passes for good television but I do not get the loud commercials and never watch anything with a canned laugh track.
Uh, yes, it would be crude.
Franklin’s show was on so many years ago; and we thought it funny at the time. - Good for you on the “intellectual superiority” thing; my SIL shares the same sort of mindset. I’d like to buy her for what she’s worth and sell her for what she THINKS she’s worth. - After almost 50 yrs.; I’m thankful we don’t live near her, and I guess she feels pretty much the same way.