overload

ho ho ho

it is (most decidedly) so that this post isn't too far off in subject from the most recent of previous ones. this would be something i normally try and avoid, look you see, but here we are. 

we are now, at least at the time of this being published, within the realms of the business end of the era of Christmas (2023). so yes, i am going to have my usual good moan about what a mess has become of those most important traditions, the Christmas television guides and Christmas television in general. 

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as far as i can recall, or from what i can remember (if not the same thing) last year i elected or opted to skip the previous joys of the Christmas television guide. might actually be for the last two, or more. for some reason i decided to purchase one this year, featured prominently below, for all of £1.60. nostalgic me (moi) wishes to get the classics, Radio Times and TV Times, but they are in the region of £5 each, if not north of that. and they absolutely (resoundingly) are not worth that. 

exactly how do tv guides remain a thing? i mean no, sure, not everyone is on the internet, no matter what internet users may think. but still, every tele in the UK now has an electronic guide. we are tactile creatures, as i have argued before, and like to hold stuff as we look at it. just surprised the high value ones still exist, when cheaper ones do the same job. also "free" ones, as about every newspaper throws a television guide at you. 

yes, i sort of (half halfheartedly) tried to read the guide i bought. it's more or less impossible. there are just far too many channels to look at and consider. certainly, bravo, it is superb that so much range and choice exists, but there's a cost to that. one (or at least moi) can get such a sense of overload, of being overwhelmed, that they just give the whole thing a miss. 

suck it up, or suck it down, i suppose. we are not going back, they are not going to say "let us cut back on the channels". if anything, more and more (and more still) channels and options, be it streaming or what have you, come with each passing year. a collective sense of everyone watching the same thing has been stripped from our society. 

but, that, said, you know, enjoy whatever you, like, watch, man. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!