Get off my cloud

It's just so obvious sticking TV on my obligatory list of hates that I almost feel bad in doing so, but then I remember how much I hate it and want to add it twice.

For all its many uses: news reports, football matches and Eastenders, I still find them irritating in the highest order. I'd say that over 99% of TV output is straight unadulterated puerile shite that I don't want to see, hear or experience. One of the most annoying things I find about TV is the way people will just leave a telly on, not even watching it. This is a crime tantamount to terrorism as I see it and should be stopped at all costs. Right now at work that truly gut-wrenchingly awful documentary of the grim up north Coronation Street is rolling away in the background distracting the corners of my eyes (I have no proof that my eyes have corners, but similarly no proof otherwise) and poisoning my ears. However, it seems that everyone else that works here would rather have nonsense TV on rather than no TV. What is wrong with peace and quiet I ask you?

AND we have to pay for this gloomy punishment, regardless if I only ever used the box for playing Playstation on. How is that fair? And don't even get me started on adverts. There are many many applications out there today that can block advertising on websites so why does one not exist for TV? A simple plug in device that automatically replaced advertising with images of dancing lemur accompanied by classical music would surely take off immensely, a global bestseller. But no, as yet the only escape we have from this mind control is the off button, which, actually is fine for the job. Why didn't I think of that earlier?

Must dash, celebrity Big Brother is on...