"I don't even own a TV"

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

bourgeosie they don't fuc with tv
burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb

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

― Evan, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 3:23 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my projector didn't do 4K so i threw it in the trash

I want to get a cheap projector, does anyone have recs

every cheap projector i've used has been plagued by a really noisy fan

Every nice non-tv themed conversation one tries to have is plagued by a really noisy breaking bad fan

i dont even own a tv

I don't even own a projector

time to go listen to the dirty projectors

I stare at a garbage can with a face painted on it.

I own a TV but I took it apart and played with the RGB offset and various stuff and now it's for noise/experimental use only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRNCFuEoJvI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5XhwwCzzfw

The first one is a performance, the second more or less just experimenting w oversized magnets.

I stare at a garbage can with a face painted on it.

― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 22:57 (3 minutes ago) Permalink

Ugh, the ads are relentless

I met someone who said she didn't read fiction.

Beloved family members always die in fiction

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.

― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 19:53 (Yesterday)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JMFFiek-peM/TimTfmrDfnI/AAAAAAAAAaY/68yHxJXy67I/s1600/Comms+Act+2003+SW+evidence+%25281%2529.png

lol i just bought a dora cup.

I met someone who said she didn't read fiction.

― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 6:08 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha heard that one a few times

Do you think they're making it up?

I've heard the "I don't read fiction" thing from a few people. these people actually do seem to read a lot, it's just all non fiction.

haven't heard "I only watch documentaries" film equivalent.

lol i just bought a dora cup.

― beavis bacon (zxc), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 6:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is this like a diva cup

my tv got stolen in a burglary and this thread is triggering

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Trigger_Happy_TV_Titles.jpg

Most annoying: Being earwormed by "Flagpole Sitta."

it's actually a pretty good lyric in that context, a sly detournement on the phrase "i don't even own a tv", which was common in the 90s. so when the asshole singer says it, it's not meant to be a humblebrag or w/e, it's talking about some bizarro world where TVs actually have enslaved humans. *tokes*

i guess thread has taught me that the annoying thing about "IDEOATV" is that 99% of the time this response is provoked it happens in response to some annoying coworker or rando at a party talking about a tv show, which is something that 100% of all people with coworkers/randos deal with because even people who own TVs do not watch every show on it. people who try to shame you for not watching parks and rec are annoying even to those who watch other tv programs. but saying "IDEOATV" is like implying that every single person with a tv is conspiring to shame you when really annoying people are just really into shaming everyone. of course it's a totally rational and sensical thing to say (if someone recommends an app or something for my phone i will say "look at my phone this is not a smartphone" but i will be visibly bummed about my shitty phone :[ ) but it often comes off as "i don't *E*V*E*N* own a tv you unspectacular norm" key word "*E*V*E*N*" like it doesn't fucking matter barely anyone watches P+R anyway

tho i'm assuming this is different in stalinist england where there are only 4 channels of government-mandated programming and all they show are doctor who and east tenders

thread taught you 99% of em huh

i dont even own a tv... it owns me O SHT

I guess it's only really since the birth of my daughter that I had even really considered our not having a tv as an explicit lifestyle choice, but thinking about it i guess it has now become more of a conscious decision than it was originally.

I don't know if that has perhaps subtly changed my tone when it comes each time to answering this tv question, and it can be easy to get tone wrong - especially on certain subjects!

My boring experience: Used to watch a bit more TV when I cohabited with my partner but since financial circumstances meant we had to live apart I generally don't watch it, for a number of reasons.
First of all my living room is massively uncomfy to sit in. Our sofas are horrible, my housemate and his g/f are always in there and making it messy and it's just not a very nice place to be. Our aerial is rubbish too so even if I do try and watch something it's usually peppered by digital interruption.
I still watch a few shows though - mostly via the internet, so I like having the choice of what I'm viewing.
It's easy to be snobby about TV watchers, the kind of people who come home and spend hours each night just vegging out to whatever's on, but I try not to be that person because I waste an awful lot of time doing other things, surfing the net, listening to music and other stuff that wouldn't be considered directly productive. Over the years I've tried to cultivate a less passive lifestyle in my evenings, writing when I get home, making music, exercising etc. Right now it would destroy me to come home from work and just watch pre-programmed telly, but I can see why people do it.
Since I stopped watching TV as much, I'm always shocked at how overblown and obvious a lot of stuff is - particularly TV adverts which I genuinely find depressingly showy and fascinatingly manipulative at the same time. It's something I think people get desensitised to after a while, but when I'm not exposed to it, it really does freak me out quite a lot.