"I don't even own a TV"

fear is a man's bets friend

why shouldnt people be pleased at not owning a car..they're bad for the environment!

if someone asked you a church-related or religion-related question, wouldn't you say "I don't go to church?"

nah, I'd go to HR

and if someone asks me if i could take some stuff somewhere in my car i say im sorry i dont even have a car not no my car is at the garage getting its fibulator decompressed

it's the same reason i delete every other tweet and ilx post before i post it

otm

i feel like caring too much about religion or getting upset is un-atheistic. if something doesn't exist you should just kinda shrug your shoulders at it not get all uptight. it's like getting uptight about a leprechaun. just a wry internal lol is the only response.

the thing is there's a difference between "I don't own a a car" and "I don't even own a car". I mean obviously it's better to not own a car, but some people are jerks about it.

xxp

if something doesn't exist you should just kinda shrug your shoulders at it not get all uptight.

just a bit of murdering of gay men and female genital mutilation and worldwide terrorism, let's be cool, atheists.

if someone asked you a church-related or religion-related question, wouldn't you say "I don't go to church?"

nah, I'd go to HR

― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Monday, 31 March 2014 21:35 (9 minutes ago) Permalink

lol ok right

yeah thats part of what i was getting at! saying "i dont have a tv" sure who is going to get weird abt that but responding to "hey have you ever seen parks and rec" with "I DONT EVEN OWN A TV" is def a different thing. i mean, i dont have a tv, i have a netflix/hulu/videogame player that is called a tv so i have no horse in this race really. xxp

idk DG i kinda feel like thats not necessarily where most theists are at yknow but its true i dont pry neither

the thing is there's a difference between "I don't own a a car" and "I don't even own a car". I mean obviously it's better to not own a car, but some people are jerks about it.

xxp

― silverfish, Monday, March 31, 2014 5:41 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Jerks" how? The feelings of car-owners in the room get hurt?

so its that they feel bad about themselves because they own a car and a tv and they are hurting the environment, but they dont want to admit it so they take it out on me, and somehow im the dick? well if they didnt talk about cars and tvs the whole time the whole mess could have been avoided

and before somebody gets incredulous and strawman grand inquisitor on me that is an actual conversation that i had at a super dull party after said dork waxed poetic about Baby Mama the motion picture so i reserve all rights to clown that fool

Nah hurting its about how you carry yourself imo not the ripple effect intended nor otherwise

the point is that there is a very different connotation to the "i dont even X" and the "i dont X" that is not terribly difficult to parse

might have something to do w/you thinking they must or ought to feel bad about themselves for that

cog are u just sore cos clockwork is kinda passé these days, is that it

ayo jjjj telling ppl how ppl must or how easily they must parse is nagl its 2014

i liked baby mama ok

just a bit of murdering of gay men and female genital mutilation and worldwide terrorism, let's be cool, atheists.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, March 31, 2014 4:45 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

by lecturing ppl at work or by getting all personal angry about something you're not actually doing anything to change any of these things. i agree that religion has often bad efx on the world but unless you plan on actually working or volunteering or giving money to organizations that are trying to change these things, just hanging on to anger about shit isn't actually helping you or anyone

not to mention there are lots of religious ppl that are nice folks who are p normal and probably do more charity shit that i ever do

the point is that there is a very different connotation to the "i dont even X" and the "i dont X" that is not terribly difficult to parse
--Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten)

Because don't x is for the first time, and don't even x is for all the millions of other times

or as another version call it the difference between "i don't know any songs by Pearl Jam" and "
Pearl Jam? I don't even know who that is"

i'm not down with your binaries there, UMS

cog are u just sore cos clockwork is kinda passé these days, is that it
--fauxpas cola (darraghmac)

I'm sore because I just tripped over the tv on the way to the bathroom

so to paraphrase this whole question is

a) being tuomas
b) clowning tuomas

I wish I wasn't aware of any songs by pearl jam

or as another version call it the difference between "i don't know any songs by Pearl Jam" and "
Pearl Jam? I don't even know who that is"
--Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten)

Naw not really - the even is when you get asked about pearl Jam in such a way that if course you like pearl jam were just going to assume that without asking and like no actually I don't even know who that is

People so bothered about the tone of the answer maybe they forgot to look at the tone of the question

how dare people make a vague assumption that you mostly conform to the status quo of the majority of people in your area

In it

how dare people make a vague assumption that you mostly conform to the status quo of the majority of people in your area
--have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh)

And that is it in a nutshell!

"How dare you mention that you do something different from the status quo of people in your area. You should just mutter to yourself and walk away sheepishly."

how dare people make a vague assumption that you mostly conform to the status quo of the majority of people in your area
--have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh)

In fact that's a lot of things in a nutshell, right there

Because don't x is for the first time, and don't even x is for all the millions of other times

― cog, Monday, March 31, 2014 5:51 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol imagining some paranoid twitchy-eyed cog "so did you watch-" "GAAAAAH I DON'T EVEN OWN A TV OK JUST CALM DOWN EVERYONE CALM DOWN"

And really while tv owning is quite innocuous the views expressed above are quite indicative of non-thinking majority viewpoints where it's implicit that outsiders should just "fit in"

"There's no racism here"

how dare people make a vague assumption that you mostly conform to the status quo of the majority of people in your area
--have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh)

maybe that's it. I live 200 miles north of my co-workers. they're probably just scared of what's beyond the wall.

lol I was kind of waiting for that

glad to hear that your lack of watching television is comparable to societal discrimination based on race

discrimination against television non-watchers: AS BAD AS RACISM

And really while tv owning is quite innocuous the views expressed above are quite indicative of non-thinking majority viewpoints where it's implicit that outsiders should just "fit in"

― cog, Monday, March 31, 2014 6:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"There's no racism here"

― cog, Monday, March 31, 2014 6:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

take a look at the choices you're making right now

Branwell pitting two sides against each other and disappearing abruptly is some next-level puppetmaster shit.

Maybe Branwell is working on a very long post

og are u just sore cos clockwork is kinda passé these days, is that it

ha genuinely i dont even know what that is

conclusions:

1) if you don't own a television you hate the transgendered
2) it's racist to not watch The Wire
3) we should bomb the crap out of Iraq

people who simply are something vs people who insist on something

choose wisely

namaste, just be

I should know better than to stir the hornet's nest, but sometimes it's really fun to watch them get so outraged when shoe is on other foot!
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Nuclear option

Cog it was a pun on cog, clockwork, cog, is all

it's mad fun to form huge judgements of people off of the tiniest thing you know about them so i support either poll option equally; it doesn't matter if you like tv or not, the important thing is that we can all judge each other quickly and decisively based on the most trivial aspects of our personalities.

Well, ya