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goggle box
noun
Television set
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Where once there was one set per household, there is now one per person.All of which adds up to a lot of juice being guzzled nearly 9 billion kilowatt-hours annually in California just on gawping at the goggle box.
In the old days, too, there was a kids' slot called Watch with Mother; today there are fears that television is watched too much without mother, that the goggle box is being used disastrously as a virtual babysitter.
Of course, that's not how most people typically watch the goggle box.
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Partly as a result of these CVs – and also because they belonged to the first generation to grow up with TV as a standard part of life - neither directed ever succumbed to the disdain for the goggle-box that is common in Hollywood.
It's a syrupy, rags-to-riches tale about a timid songbird who dares to dream in Port Talbot, goes weak at the knees in the presence of Pavarotti in Venice, then scuttles home with his tail between his legs until the Big C appears on the goggle-box to wave a magic wand over his fortunes and give him a much-deserved Happy Ever After.
Recognizing that the kitchen continues to be the hub of the home, Loop is inspired by the kitchen TV, but multiplies the utility of a hot-room goggle-box with the flexibility of a tablet.
These people didn't have television until 1978, so they only arrived at the goggle-box 20 years after everyone else did.
Also, face masks, goggles, sharp boxes were not always available.
Major factors that influenced behaviour in these settings were mainly fear of contagion, irregular supply of resources like gloves, goggles, sharp boxes and water.
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