TV gross

I haven't watched TV for over 4 weeks...NB including all thru Christmas and N Year (I bought the big Radio Times for all of that period, flicked thru it in the car and never opened it again)
I didn't really set out to be an ex-viewer; I'd been watching it less and less for quite a while, and then I began switching it off after the evening news and finding no reason to switch it back on.
So this evening, I'm just relaxing after a gorgeous Green Tea bath, and the phone rings:
caller-"Switch on Channel 4 quick, look! its the biggest woman in the world!"
Without thinking, I blew the dust off the remote.

Great. Of ALL stupid things to end up watching....and its no mitigation that I was on the phone throughout, and talking about totally unrelated things---I was TRANSFIXED by that screen.
Anyway, we were both half-listening to the prog., now showing some massive operation to bypass the woman's stomach, or something, when suddenly...she DIED.

She'd been turned down by innumerable hospitals till the TV prog. makers came along and waved the media wand (they sailed on with the rest of the show as if it had been scripted that way--the necessary pathos element)

Wow...death by TV.

How apt.


Panzer expression 'incredulous'