Wait a minute. That may lead you to believe that this post is about something other than what it’s actually about:
Cable television.
Over the last 36 hours, the state of Georgia has gotten some pretty foul and even dangerous weather, but it was especially bad up and around where I live (and Coal Miner’s Grand-daughter as well).
That said, It wasn’t 12 hours in a row bad. There were things I wanted to watch on television. Many things. But I couldn’t.
You might be asking yourself “But why FRT? This isn’t Russia. This is America. You can watch whatever you want.”
Au contraire mon frere. Despite living in the land of the free and the home of the brave, if there’s been a tur-na-duh around, we have to shut down the world and watch our local radar all damned day long.
“But FRT, most normal tv stations will at least run split screen technology to keep the weather on and allow them to show their regular programming. The advertiser-funded stuff that I actually want to watch.”
You would think that would be the case. But you would be wrong. On our local stations, we got to see the full screen idiocy of the weather-tards masturbating one another with terminology about tornadoes, cyclonic activity, etc.
What SHOULD have happened is this. A message gets sent to my cable box requiring me to respond. The message would say “Would you like to continue watching the local coverage or would you like to make us go away and opt to see the network feeds instead?”
And I would have obviously chosen plan B so I could WATCH THE FUCKING RACE!!!!
What say you?