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/^t/Lots of people consider television an attractive, colourful, talking companion which fills in the bore and emptiness of their everyday lives. They have their eyes glued to the TV all day, and switching from channel to channel, indiscriminately watch everything what is on the air. What do they watch? In 80 per cent it is rubbish, among them commercials in which they try to convince you that eating margarine is the only way to stay alive or that using tampons you will get rid of your inhibitions. Another "offer" are endless Brazilian or American serials and soap operas, like "Bold and Beautiful", which deal mainly with love affairs, betrayal and revenge. But that is not all. We cannot overlook stupid comedies in which we are shown the moments we should laugh at, poor detective stories or police investigations full of blood, shots, car races and crashes. Next, we have got deadly boring and usually incomprehensible political debates about nobody knows what.