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01 July 2016

Friday question NOT from the Book of Questions If you were going to give up a pervasive feature of modern life, would it be TV, fast food, or something else?

post by: bearwife at: 10:03 | 10 comments

As I stopped eating fast food more than a decade ago, as a direct result of reading Fast Food Nation, this is an easy answer for me.

posted by bearwife 01 July | 10:05

Probably the TV. By which these days I guess I mean, "Watching entertainment on a screen in my house."

posted by JanetLand 01 July | 11:48

Fast food. Easy.

posted by amro 01 July | 11:56

I'm already going without tv except when I stop in to visit neighbors and he always has an old western or elvis movie blaring.

I also don't eat fast food except when necessary to accommodate other people.

I could even suffer without air conditioning.

I wouldn't give up indoor plumbing or the internet!

posted by mightshould 01 July | 15:17

posted by brujita 01 July | 17:20

Can't live without tv. Keeps me sane. Cell phone could go, though.

posted by Pips 01 July | 19:03

I don't eat fast food, so I can't give up something I don't already do. But I could happily live without my cell phone.

posted by Senyar 02 July | 05:29

I occasionally eat fast food, but with enormous guilt and usually in secret. I would love to be forced to give it up because my own self-control sucks.

posted by amro 02 July | 07:17

I don't do fast food, so that's not an option.
Honestly? I find myself far more often muttering that I wish computers didn't exist, far more than I curse television.

posted by Thorzdad 02 July | 11:56

I ain't giving up shit! I love it all.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 July | 10:34

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