Trivial Pursuit

[ishmael]

I'm sitting here listening to NPRs "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me", in part a trivia show. Current events, some pretty darned trivial. I'm amazed at how many answers I've absorbed over the last week. A head full of bushwha! :D I think it may be time to tune out a bit.

We're so information driven in today's culture, and much of it is worth about a cat's fart. Now I'm a bit of an information junkie, but I've gotta ask myself, what is being made of my poor brain in the process? Helpless mush, I say! Worse than the livers of those geese on pate duty. But you can't help it unless you consciously turn off the radio and the TV.

How 'bout you, how do you manage your engorgement?

[ 12-03-2005, 12:08 PM: Message edited by: ishmael ]

[uncas]

We are thrown a lot of trash on the news and elsewhere...I take pepto to make it through most of it.
I love the game though...even though the stress is on really trivaial topics...TV...TV...TV shows...Movies...actor...actresses...etc.
I guess the game is plugged into the younger set who spend hours watching TV and lots of money going to movies.

[Memphis Mike]

"How 'bout you, how do you manage your engorgement?"

It's easy. I don't listen to any NPR whatsoever or watch any kind of news show on TV. I also cancelled the newspaper and the only rag I read is the underground paper to find out what's going on in the arts.

I wouldn't even have known about the recent US deaths in Iraq had I not seen it on the MSN homepage.

My attitude has greatly improved by not allowing the media to force feed me anything they want. smile.gif

[ 12-03-2005, 12:18 PM: Message edited by: Memphis Mike ]

[Bruce Hooke]

Oh hell...does "news" about holding up a bar with a ham sandwich really count as "information engorgement"?

:D

[uncas]

Only the bartender knows for sure...

[Keith Wilson]

how do you manage your engorgement?Jack, every electronic device I've ever owned has a button or switch on it somewhere that, when actuated, turns it off. Failing that, you can uplug it. Works every time. ;)

[Meerkat]

Originally posted by Bruce Hooke:
Oh hell...does "news" about holding up a bar with a ham sandwich really count as "information engorgement"?

:D Depends on how many ham sandwiches one eats at a time? ;)

[Zimmer]

the only rag I read is the underground paper to find out what's going on in the arts.

Yeah right. The hillbillys a fookin artiste now. :rolleyes:

[Memphis Mike]

DON'T FEED THE TROLL!!!!!!!!