I gave away my (16 year old) TV recently.
Just about the same time, Marc Coleman had a great piece in the Irish Times about the little economic bites taken out of us by
…by a whole zoo of parasites. Each one hopes the bite they take will go unnoticed. Each one on its own does no damage. But put together, they form a deadly army of destruction, sucking pints of blood down to the marrow of our bones.
It was exactly what I had been feeling for a long time, and I’m sure I’m not alone. Not a nice feeling, but what to do?
I’ve made a start by getting rid of my tv. I never watched it so why should I pay €155 a year for a tv licence? The zoo will get progressively smaller over the next year, I hope, and with any luck the phoneline rental, which I hear eircom want to increase, will be next.
As for the tv, there’s not much I will miss on it, in truth, apart from the likes of David Attenborough and his dazzling nature programmes.
Here is one of his best clips, hosted on, appropriately enough, ThrowAwayYourTV.com.
I don’t know when I have seen something as magical as the Lyre bird he describes so perfectly.
