[Mind's Eye] Re: Xmas television

Just had a few beers with my neighbour and substantial chat about
cricket (he played a couple of games for the West Indies). Now
fiddling with new computer bits for my grandson's gaming monster and
discovering I need some new cables to work around the giant graphics
card etc. May hit the Brazil nuts and dark rum shortly. A house
without a tv is a rarity these days - I may emulate my mate.

On Dec 25, 9:24 pm, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Spent the day watching christmas tear jerkers.
> love being with my wife ..
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> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 5:04 PM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Nearly all the tv news today is about the Royal Family - sadly not
> > about lining them up against a convenient wall.  Enough to chase me
> > out to the pub - but taxis are on double time.  Walk with the dog by
> > the river was good.
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> > Xmas television always makes me think how many wrong turns we must
> > have taken and how impossible democracy is as a concept if this is a
> > good example of what we have become.  We get the Queen lecturing us
> > (with her 50 billion plus) lecturing us on a man who eschewed personal
> > wealth and no one gets to pelt her with rotten eggs.  My daughter's
> > oven broke as she started cooking Xmas dinner, so I transformed into
> > 24hr turnout man to fix the fuse.  This was more exciting than the
> > tv.  Sitting down wondering if anyone in my family says thankyou
> > anymore and clutching to a coffee, the news turned to a lovely woman
> > doing OccupyX - and I realised all is not lost.  Our ordinary lives
> > are all that matters in many respects.  My neighbour just popped round
> > to suggest a few brews later.  He doesn't have a tv.  That's the best
> > Xmas television of all!
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> Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living.