"I don't even own a TV"

xp That's the strict Branwellian interpretation. Everyone else is saying there are dickish and non-dickish ways of saying you don't have a TV.

garbled grammar there

and, well, not really, since that's most of what the thread is about as far as i can tell

haha this makes me want to turn on E channel full blast

http://bobsegarini.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/kill-your-tv.png

If we've learned anything from this thread, it's that tv ownership is in no way necessary in order to keep up with popular shows, so when your annoying co-worker asks you about Two and a Half Men, "I don't even own a TV" is a weak response at best.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1e/Amusinghkn.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/FourArgumentsForTheEliminationOfTelevision_0.jpg

hello, the 90's.

http://www.darlingbudsskullfkcrew.freeserve.co.uk/Kill%20Your%20Television%20-%20www.thedarlingbuds.co.uk.jpg\

ha, xps

the crux of the thread is that people who are dickish about about not owning a tv was excluded from conversation at the outset

― goole, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 1:14 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ding ding ding we have a winnah

But they do not exist they are figments of the imaginations of judgmental assholes DO U SEE

The concept of a "TV license" is pretty weird to me as a non-Britisher.

you might even think that the cultural context of television ownership is very different

when i read descriptions of van surveillance driving down streets searching for unlicensed TVs i only think of this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Rover.jpg/250px-Rover.jpg

how much is the bbc license?

i don't even know anyone who doesnt own a tv who isnt a dick about it

am manic for tv

This is the thread we buy TVs in, right

If we've learned anything from this thread, it's that tv ownership is in no way necessary in order to keep up with popular shows, so when your annoying co-worker asks you about Two and a Half Men, "I don't even own a TV" is a weak response at best.

― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 2:19 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Even more of a reason why that co-worker is likely going to think you're trying to shift the conversation to how superior you are, unless you ease into that fact a little less abruptly.

exactly

when i read descriptions of van surveillance driving down streets searching for unlicensed TVs i only think of this:

I am pretty sure those vans didn't detect anything. Scientifically I'm not even sure it could work in theory. They just go round knocking on doors of houses that don't have licenses.

sounds like some black ops shit to me

The IDEOATV people have a smugness about them that feels almost class-based. Insert every argument about high-brow vs. low-brow culture here.

social status / background is definitely at play here, but i'm having trouble pinpointing how exactly... at this point there is probably no correlation btwn income level and owning a tv

tv is the cheapest form of entertainment for a family id imagine

when I was a child you could kick a ball in the street

when the weather's nice i can go days (weeks?) without watching tv. thank god for hulu/amzn/netflix tho bc there can be a lot of shitty weather around here

The IDEOATV people have a smugness about them that feels almost class-based. Insert every argument about high-brow vs. low-brow culture here.

social status / background is definitely at play here, but i'm having trouble pinpointing how exactly... at this point there is probably no correlation btwn income level and owning a tv

― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 1:56 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well for one, there's a huge class gap in broadband service in the US so IDEOATV'ers and cord cutters are likely middle class or DINKS

there's a huge geography gap, too

some of my coworkers who commute from relatively rural areas have no real broadband options other than cellular with really low download caps, so there's no way they're streaming video

yeah, there's some satellite broadband but it's hinky and super expensive

Your smug IDEOATV types (who don't exist in Branwellia) are overwhelmingly from the intellectually and culturally privileged. Such people are unlikely to come from the poor end of the economic spectrum so I think class is very much in play.

Sneering at the masses consuming their low brow prime time opiates comes from a similarly privileged sense of superiority.

tv is for old people

i should tell my 3 year old who is addicted to Dora and Dinosaur Train

she is beyond her years

she writes great fake captions to New Yorker cartoons

the fuck does intellectually privileged even mean, patent holders?

Educationally, sorry.

agree smug classism often at work

i own several TVs and watch none of them

i own two TVs, one for the butler, one for the au pair

TVs watch our children

xps - right, and the geography thing has a class element to it also

i guess i just have a problem with people itt who make it sound like they are being victimized for their lack of adherence to the status quo / not owning a tv. ime rejecting tv (or at least certain aspects/forms of tv - cable, reality tv, laugh track sitcoms, daytime anything) is a gross new type of status quo in certain circles

this could be more of a millenial/generational divide than a class divide tho

Such people are unlikely to come from the poor end of the economic spectrum so I think class is very much in play.

Sneering at the masses consuming their low brow prime time opiates comes from a similarly privileged sense of superiority.

― two bunny rabbits on mushrooms singing Proclaimers songs (onimo),

that is some sweet projecting there, love it!

whats yr income cogs, your parents income, etc

whats wrong with just watching the telly after work/on a sunday evening just for the sake of watching the telly

Looking a little better since we sold the land off to the developers!

Though you have to wonder about what types of people will be moving into the village now!

sometimes its nice to sit with yr m8s on a saturday night and laugh along with the sketch on ant and dec's saturday night takeaway when they made peter andre sing mysterious girl into a tuba and then tell someone he had a fetish for scottish men, what is wrong with that lex, what should we do instead? talk abour #brandydeepcuts instead?

i would feel pretty smug telling some TV license official, "why, I don't even own a TV!" then watch the long, slump-shouldered march back to the van in pouring rain. meanwhile, i have called the van license people on them...

sooo much projection happening itt

so i hear

Projectors are great if you have enough wall, saves space too.

urban haute bourgeosie don't fuc with tv