Originally Posted by Tippiechick (Post 1546981)

What the hell does that have to do with it? They aren't at work, so I would not judge what they are doing while on strike. As long as they aren't at work, they are STILL proving a point.

You are against people fighting for what they believe is right? Just wondering. Because, I doubt people on the picket lines are doing it for fun. They are doing it to try and get what they feel they deserve.

Originally Posted by Taualumna (Post 1547014)

Waving signs in public like that, yes.

Originally Posted by ThetaDancer (Post 1547016)

Really? Why? Just curious because I really don't understand why you would be "against" that, especially since most of the signs I've seen from this strike and others just say things like "on strike," which isn't offensive or hard on the eyes or anything.

Originally Posted by Taualumna (Post 1547018)

It doesn't look "nice", that's all. Anything like that is a form of protest. If you want to protest, do it silently. Don't gather with signs.

Originally Posted by Taualumna (Post 1546206)

If this goes on long enough, we'll be watching movies and hey, maybe even get rights to air non-US shows (though I doubt that will happen, no matter what the Canadian newspapers are saying...Corner Gas (which I don't watch...kinda trashy, IMHO) and Little Mosque on the Prairie (which I like) on non-cable TV in the US? British shows like Coronation Street? Reruns of the British version of The Office? Doubt that'll ever happen....)

Originally Posted by Taualumna (Post 1547018)

It doesn't look "nice", that's all. Anything like that is a form of protest. If you want to protest, do it silently. Don't gather with signs.

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog (Post 1547036)

Yes, the point of a protest is to look nice. Oh wait, no it's not - it's to get a point across. Generally being silent doesn't get your point across. If the writers had simply stopped writing, the networks probably would have just gone into reruns without any mention of a strike, and without an inside source, people wouldn't have known why. That's not getting attention to your cause.

Originally Posted by Taualumna (Post 1547038)

People would know. They would have sent out a press release before they stopped writing.

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog (Post 1547041)

It absolutely wouldn't have gotten the attention that it's getting now. I don't watch any of the shows that have been affected, and if they had just sent a press release, I probably wouldn't have heard about it (except maybe on GC).

Originally Posted by Taualumna (Post 1547018)

It doesn't look "nice", that's all. Anything like that is a form of protest. If you want to protest, do it silently. Don't gather with signs.

Originally Posted by Taualumna (Post 1547046)

Are you sure? We knew long before they even started striking that there would likely be a strike. At least Iheard about it on the radio, TV and Internet.

Originally Posted by 33girl (Post 1547054)

You do not equal everyone. A lot of casual viewers would have had no clue.

Originally Posted by Taualumna (Post 1547056)

perhaps people just don't read or watch/listen to the news enough then.

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog (Post 1547057)

Some people have more important things to do than watch the news and 800 dramas/sitcoms 24/7. I watch the morning news as I get ready in the morning, and I think the other day they had about a 20 second blurb about it, and I might not have even caught that, except they repeat their stories every 1/2 hour. And even then, it was more about the protest demonstrations then the actual strike.