Lazy Fuckers

The TV industry has embraced the DVR:

The reason is not simply that more households own DVRs — 33 percent compared with 28 percent at this point in 2008 — helping some marginal shows become hits. It is also that more people seem content to sit through the commercials than networks once thought.

I do not understand that at all. I don't have a DVR, but I do have a VCR and DVD/RW combo unit, so I record the shows I want to see. I watch them later, precisely because I can then fast-forward through the commercials. For one thing, in an hour-long show, nearly 30% of that time is for commercials. Second, most commercials are so annoying that they occupy most of the entries on this blog.

People have to be really dead-ass lazy to sit there like a slug and watch the commercials on a show that they recorded. No wonder their children would be smart to study Mandarin.