>>>It's now fourteen years and two months since we canceled (or cancelled, depending on who checks your spells) all TV. Because it was already dead, murdered by its own success: it succeeded in selling all its time to advertising, or what wasn't sold, served it. Thus stopped serving me.
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>>>And, know what - I don't miss it at all.
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>>TV - the so called show is the advertising to sell the advertising. A completely useless machine. We stuck to ARTE and the stuff around, we are forced to pay for it in Germany per household (you get sued if you name it a tax, but even if you don't have electricity hit's hard to circumvent), this works so far.
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>Same here, and we're paying it in three places (inherited a house, and have one in the village, came with orchard). And if you want to cancel electricity, you can, but it's a process that takes dozen hours over several days, and in the end costs more than you pay base cost of just having electricity (not the consumption, just the fixed part of the bill) and lasts only a year, then you'd have to repeat it.
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>The only way to get rid of it is to tear the house down.

This would make 11 other families unhappy.