Iolagranola -
Thanks so much for the Onion link. The female version works with me. She cannot go a single day without mentioning that she doesn’t watch television, in that “oh-so-superior” tone.
Reminds me of one of my favorite New Yorker cartoons. Two couples at a cocktail party, and one man says, “Oh, we don’t watch T.V. – we’re pseudo-intellectuals.”
As for me, I can go for long stretches of time without television. I just prefer not to. 
I go literally months at a time without watching TV. We do not have cable and crappy reception so the only thing we use the TV for is watching DVDs. The last time I watched television in my own home was in January for the inaugural.
Otherwise the only time I watch TV is if I’m at a friend’s home and it is on or if I am travelling and stay in hotel.
I hardly miss it at all. However, our local provider is soon to add Food TV so, combined with non-local news, we may finally go for it.
I once went for about five years without a TV. Didn’t miss it at all. I still don’t watch much TV.
My husband is the TV watcher in our household - I’d rather surf and chat on line. However, when I’m sick enough to have to stay in bed, TV is my friend. Still, if it disappeared, I’d not be crushed much.
Um…I SLEEP with the TV on. I have to have it for constant material. Plus, I can’t sleep alone, so it makes me feel like there’s someone there with me. But I figure that’ll change either if/when I get married, or when Medea’s Child comes around to my lustful advances. 
I can’t even recall the last time I watched a regularly-scheduled show. I do, however, use it for a few video-editing projects, and watch a few DVDs on my computer, so I don’t know if I’m really “TV-free”.
Like RTFirefly, however, I definitely need internet access! The broader the band, the better!
Perhaps the OP should be reworded…how long can you live with TV? My answer is, less then three minutes.
I havn’t watched TV since I was 15, and I realized how much of my life I was busy wasting on its inane tripe. As I got older my hatred of the evil magic screen only grew.
For one year I was forced to live in a TV house (TV house being a house in which the TV is always on). I almost beheaded everyone in it. I was in literal hell. The screen sucks you in, leaving a vacuum where there should be learning, coversation and human interaction. It leaves a void in your soul. For one year, I could not venture into my living room or kitchen without being assaulted by it. I will never live with a TV again.
Until my bank account runs dry…
I work at a TV station, so if all of you non-TV watching people spawned, I’d have to go find a new job!
Until my bank account runs dry…
I work at a TV station, so if all of you non-TV watching people spawned, I’d have to go find a new job!
And I don’t want to do that-- I likemy job.
Longest I’ve gone is six weeks. Of course, about two weeks into that, I was forced to watch an episode of Dawson’s Creek, but I consider that more of a horrible, horrible, torture than watching TV. I’m a TV junkie, movies too. Though I DO prefer reading a good book…
We have a TV, but i very rarely watch it - I could easily do without it. I haven’t watched it for about a month.
My computer, on the other hand, I would rather chew off my own hand than get rid of.