I'm still available for proofreading services, BTW. :)
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Methuselah (Methuselah), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:25 (twenty years ago) link
thinking that you will engage in loads of improving activities because you don't own a TV - dud
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:13 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, and that self-righteous smugness that Tep was referring to is definately a huge DUD.
― M., Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
(And like a few people have said, "watching TV" often means "watching movies" or "watching sports," without having to go to the theater or the park.)
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:54 (twenty years ago) link
This seems like a real stoner habit.
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 19:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 19:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 19:43 (twenty years ago) link
So my point wasn't "Am I cool for not owning a television?", I was just saying that I've come notice how much people's lives revolve around the telly. This is no news, of course, but it's a thing you really notice only after you've given up the habit.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 11 April 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 11 April 2003 09:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 11 April 2003 09:19 (twenty years ago) link
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"i call it 'television' because 't.v.' is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television... is NO friend of mine"
― juliette brioche (elmo argonaut), Monday, July 6, 2009 9:40 PM (1 hour ago)
Is that because television can't dance?
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, July 6, 2009 9:40 PM (1 hour ago)
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
The tv can't dance! My inner three-year-old thinks this somewhat nonsensical explanation is truly delightful!
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it's a somewhat oblique Genesis reference?
― sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
oh god i love tv so much (television, not transvestitism, although that's good too)
― mollie sugban (get bent), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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― sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought it was a "safety dance" reference!
― mollie sugban (get bent), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, that makes more sense!
― sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Everybody look at yr pants
― bro down syndrome (Trayce), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
sisterhood of the traveling pants ;_;
― some sick fuck with a bow and arrow killing roos and koalas (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
XD although you forgot the subtle but crucial lower lip quiver.
― EDB, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Man this thread went in a weird direction.
― bro down syndrome (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Not owning a TV is only acceptable if you can honestly say you literally watch NO TV and aren't watching The Wire and Gilmore Girls and shit on your laptop. Otherwise it's OMG FRONTING for sure.
― bENBBag (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
technically i don't own a TV and for a period last year i didn't have one at all. not that i was trying to front on some "i am better than other people" tip, it was just a thing - i just concentrated on listening to music and reading when i got home. then a friend insisted i take his on extended loan!
― old chisel (haitch), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
What does the SEX MIX of "I Can't Dance" sound like?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link
if it's anything like the sex mix of 'relax' by frankie goes to hollywood, it's probably amazing.
― old chisel (haitch), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 06:12 (fourteen years ago) link
One of my friends, a PhD student, has just started dating another PhD student, who not only does not own a television, but additionally is of the opinion that all Popular Culture is "a waste of time" and does that eye-rolling thing if she finds herself in a group of people who are trying to have a discussion about it. Apparently though spending 12 hours a day sitting in a library reading Renaissance literature and criticism on Renaissance literature is a completely worthwhile and valid use of one's time. I will be pleased when he stops dating this cultural pygmy.
― ears are wounds, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 10:03 (fourteen years ago) link
as any fule kno, people during the renaissance were all wtfomg about the printing press, which is basically like being against tv.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i have no tv and it's frustrating when major news events happen. otherwise i am mostly ok with catching up on things online later, bc that's pretty much what i did wheni had a tv anyway. also i miss watching martha stewart in the mornings.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't stopped consuming popular culture even though I haven't had a TV set for years. I atill read comics, and go to the cinema, and watch movies on video with friends. I just didn't care much for the stuff on TV. Game shows and sports contests don't interest me, and I find most reality TV shows are horrific, because I can't bear to watch people being humiliated. I prefer to read news from the newspaper, as they are less condensed and offer more background info. Fictional TV series are okay, but these days it feels like most TV series have these long, multi-episode (or even multi-year) arcs that require you to follow the series week after week after week. I can't be arsed to do that! I preferred the days when most TV series had self-contained episodes, and you could just watch them once in a while without missing that much.
But the worst thing about TV, at least to me, was how easily it can become the mental equivalent of comfort food. It's too easy to just sit in front of the box and watch whatever's on for hours (even if it's a show you don't much care about), because doing something else would require a bit of physical or mental effort, and you can't bother to do that, because watching TV is just so much easier. I don't think cinema or comics or other popular culture work quite the same way as brain junk food.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I can see how going to watch a two and half movie about robots and superheroes is a bit more substantial.
― My Slow Descent into Assholism (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
two and a half hour? star? men?
pint, surely
― c.c. crabcock (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The only thing that really bothers me about not having a telly is you realise just how much of common office chatter seems to revolve around it. It's kind of the first thing people will say to one another "Oh, did you see that thing on TV last night..." and then you kind of just look blank. (Ditto many ILX threads of late.)
I guess I'm lucky that I work in an office where music chatter is accepted as a valid substitute and our equivalent here is "What gigs/clubs did you go to last weekend?" I'm really grateful for that.
― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not saying it's more substantial, but I don't watch movies every day for hours.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
you don't have to watch tv for two hours a day you appalling elitist dick
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Now now, let's play nice, boys
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a tv in the flat (not mine), which i used the hell out of during wimbledon, but other than sports i really don't watch it at all. the stuff i'd enjoy tend to be series like lost or the west wing back in the day, and i always lose track after missing a couple of episodes.
i really don't understand those people who just turn the tv on in the background and watch whatever's on, regardless. why, when you can consumer whatever culture you want to at whatever time you need to, would you be so passive about it.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 11:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Movies usually require some effort, you have pick a movie, go to the cinema or a rental store, and when the movie is over you don't usually watch another movie right after. Also, there's a social aspect involved: you can chat with your friends before the movie, and analyze it afterwards. Whereas with TV you can just sit there all by yourself and watch it for hours in a row.
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― Tuomas, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 11:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember when a 27" screen was considered "big."
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― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 21 September 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
50 looks smallBut it might be bc we have a lot of 65+s all over work so im used to seeing those
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 21 September 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
i've had a 27-inch TV for the past 12 years and it still works/looks great. Once you output the sound to the stereo movies become VERY IMMERSIVE despite the screen size.
that said i have been kind of looking forward to the day it breaks so that i can get a 40-inch TV (the largest my living room will accommodate) - but i'm not in a rush; they still don't make OLEDs that size
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 September 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
Believe me, finding a small TV (21 inch and less) is much tougher than finding a large TV these days.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Friday, 21 September 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
I haven't owned a television in over ten years, but I did get a projector early this year. Being able to watch movies on the side of a wall (or on the side of my garage) has improved things so much that I can't see ever getting a dedicated TV now.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
i have don't even owned a tv since the mid 90s but i've been dreaming about getting a sound bar or something for my laptop
― j., Saturday, 22 September 2018 01:24 (five years ago) link
Second that projector motionThe only way to watch ghost in the shell at home
― calstars, Saturday, 22 September 2018 02:08 (five years ago) link