Is it normal for I don't watch TV?

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[–]hennaojisan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

We have a TV but keep a piece of cloth over it. It is useful only when there is some fast-breaking news, like an earthquake. There was a song titled Fifty Channels and Nothing On. That's a good description of most TV. The commercials are usually the best part and the most expensive. You are my kind of normal.

[–]Snow 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Are you from Japan?

The commercials are the part they used most money in produce. It's so brain-washing, therefore even worse than news.

[–]hennaojisan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Yes, how did you know I'm in Japan? Maybe my IP number? I used to have a VPN but I decided not to pay for another year. I like software that you buy once and it is yours forever. Companies are so greedy.

I was born in the US. Where are you from?

[–]Snow 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I can't read your IP address.:) You mentioned the earthquake and the timezone that you are not sleeping and your name...Only people in Japan can have such kind of awareness about earthquakes.

It's a secret that where am I came from.

[–]hennaojisan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Your guess was good. It's a good idea to keep it secret. Yes, in Japan sometimes they warn us that an earthquake is coming by sending a very annoying sound through our cellphones. It's time for dinner here.

[–]thomyorke 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh wow, that's very interesting! Can you control the sound by muting your phone or does it play regardless?

[–]hennaojisan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can't answer that one because the sound doesn't appear very often, thank goodness. But everybody's phone does it so you can hear it coming from other apartments. Then if you turn on the TV, there is an earthquake report immediately. On the day of the Fukushima quake, all trains stopped for the rest of the day so we had to walk home. After about ten miles we found a bar that was still open and ordered a couple of large tokkuris of sake. While slurping that down we watched a bank of six TVs and all of them had maps of Japan with red flashing all over indicating possible tsumami. It was a bit surrealistic. We walked about thirty miles that night and kept stopping at bars more and more frequently. Usually, if you're outside you can't feel the quake and aftershocks but that day the ground was moving under our feet. The worst part was the aftershocks that went on every day for about two months. No joke. After a while, it starts to get on your nerves. REM fan? Me too.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You are incredibly clever. We need more people like you. (Though, in future, note that it's bad manners to dox people in public.)

[–]happysmash27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also, if I remember correctly, Japan also has much higher quality ads than other places.