Comments on: The Mute Button

By: Papa Bear

Papa Bear — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:36:08 +0000

We didn’t get a TV until I was 14, and then there was a very limited list of shows we could watch. And we had to turn down the volume (this was an OLD TV, no remote) during “inappropriate” scenes or commercials. But we had to change the channel during beer commercials. Apparently they were so evil, they were even dangerous with no sound!

By: Easterlily241

Easterlily241 — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:05:20 +0000

Haha me too!

My last semester I couldn’t go home hardly at all because of work. You know what? I actually MISSED commercials!

They didn’t just mute it thought. It would be paused or the channel flipped. And we are HOW old?

By: tewjr

tewjr — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:06:37 +0000

My dad made it easy . . . he just muted ALL the commercials! But he loved to watch football games, complete with all the beer commercials, which seems awfully worldly to me.

By: kinsey

kinsey — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:16:22 +0000

my mother loves her tv guardian. it automatically mutes any bad language and uses closed captioning so that you’re not missing any important dialogue. guess how long it took to figure out that “hugs” was the replacement word for “sex”.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:36:02 +0000

My younger sister had told me that when she was attended a local IFB school (I had already graduated by then), she had mentioned a similar muting of the music while her softball team was watching a DVD while on a road game (though in this case, the movie was “Facing the Giants”).

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:35:07 +0000

I attended an IFB Bible College, and MUTE was burned into the television screen in the student center because they muted all commercials. Watching the Super Bowl sure sucked! But at least we got to watch t.v. at all …

By: sarahbereza

sarahbereza — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:28:01 +0000

This was so my experience growing up! We just about wore out that poor mute button

By: stufffundieslike

stufffundieslike — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:56:23 +0000

Does that make me super-duper fundy or just plain weird?

Is there an option in that quiz for “all of the above?”

By: Michael Sallmen

Michael Sallmen — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:42:01 +0000

I’m part of the 1% of household that doesn’t own a TV. Does that make me super-duper fundy or just plain weird? Of course, we watch DVDs on the computer and don’t mute anything in Robin Hood. Perhaps I’m a back-slider.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:53:41 +0000

what about the G-box or whatever it’s called that automatically censors out the profanity – one of my classmates had one, lol