How have you mistakenly offended people recently?

"i call it 'television' because 't.v.' is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television... is NO friend of mine"

Is that because television can't dance?

Postscript: Later I won her over and she invited me to a party I will not be attending.

too busy watching tv?

xp enbb: It's just frustrating to me that it should come across this way or be assumed as a sign of smug superiority. I mean, I "waste" plenty of time on ILX. I certainly don't feel superior to those who "waste" time watching reality tv or other programs that aren't critically approved.

Guys she was clearly hitting on polyphonic. You were in there, man, before you slow-clapped her.

x-post Sarahel - not watching a lot of TV or watching mainly DVDs isn't the problem at all! It's people who do this AND make a point of telling you they do this in a way that is unquestionably smug. Trust me, if you'd heard the lady I was talking about earlier you would understand what I mean. There is no question that about whether or not she thinks she's superior for this - she does.

. . . and it's obnoxious.

too busy watching tv?

Quite possible!

Guys she was clearly hitting on polyphonic. You were in there, man, before you slow-clapped her.

She was pretty cute, but I'll live.

You should bring a TV to her party.

And by TV, we mean TransVestite

I was gonna say that some people have a way of saying this as if television were a disease, but to be honest nobody would butt into a conversation about Valtrex and go "I don't even have herpes"

I think the thing that's usually annoying about it is that some people simultaneously (a) are trying to act all casual like it's no big deal that they don't have a TV, which is 100% true, and yet (b) are clearly really proud of themselves about this and sort of fishing for your acknowledgment that it is brave and special and impressive of them not to have a TV.

FYI TO ALL

i dont have a tv

i swear we've done this "i don't even own a television" shit before.

You should bring VD to her party.

...a DVD

"but to be honest nobody would butt into a conversation about Valtrex and go "I don't even have herpes""

Too bad. This would be an awesome conversation starter.

just so you guys know ian does have a tv i saw it

You should bring VD to her party.

And by VD, we mean Vaginal Dentata

x-post Actually Max, he admitted as much already. Keep up.

]"but to be honest nobody would butt into a conversation about Valtrex and go "I don't even have herpes""

Maybe they'd give you the clap?

Not owning a television: c or d?

xp enbb: Yeah, that's true - there are people who trot it out as a badge of superiority, especially in the context of child-rearing. I just get frustrating feeling like I should be apologetic or deny feelings of superiority because I don't watch "regular" television, and the things that I do watch on dvd are the programs that are stereotypical of the smug "I don't watch tv, except for ..." people. I'm sure this is related to class/education guilt. I have friends that speak with pride about how they never went to college or they dropped out in a way that makes me feel like I'm some sort of privileged tool for going to college and graduating.

i am a robot made of tvs - feel pretty superior to all of u, obv

They should make something like purity rings, but for television

haaaaa snoball

brb, watching Lamp

TV PARTY TONITE!

pj tv party on the dl

I'm watching Big Brother...

my parents are ex hippy art student types and they used to be friends with a pair of real crunchos who refused to have a tv in their house and once my mom took me and the daughter of this couple to the library and the girl whose name was lucy went and grabbed a video off the shelf and gathered up all these children and told them were going to watch a move and then placed the video on the table and sat down expectantly

i offend people all the time by being polite. chivalry really is dead
but that's not what this threads about anymore, eh?

I sometimes watch stupid shit like Entourage on my bigger than it needs to be HD TV. I'm sure ilx hates me appropriately.

(xpost) It wasn't what it was about to start with

my parents wouldnt let me watch tv when i was a young robot either - thats why i remade myself as a tvbot

also i wanted to make a bring HD = hors d'oeuvre joke but the time seems to have passed

when I was 13 my mom came home early from work and my sisters and I were watching MTV and my mom finally realized what MTV was and she got rid of our TV for a year. I think she thought we'd all experience this amazing imaginative creative outburst but the actual effect on me=I have no memory of this year at all.

― horseshoe, Friday, April 6, 2007 2:38 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Sarahel - I get what you mean. I don't know - I have absolutely no problem admitting that sometimes shitty mindless "regular" tv is awesome. I also don't harbor any fear that this makes me any less intelligent than people who don't own TVs or never watch any trash.

few weeks ago I was looking for new flatmates and discussing this with current flatmate (female one) and she asked me about who I had in to see the place etc. this one girl who was friends with an ex gf came to see the place and I was saying "yeah I found her v attractive, it might be weird to live with someone I thought was beautiful."

I only thought about 3 weeks later that my female flatmate must have been like "erm thanks."

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Not owning a television: c or d?

Also: TS: Having vs. Not Having a Television

sorry i don't watch your FANCY HBO i only have BASIC CABLE

LOL - I read that and assumed LG had posted on the wrong thread. What does that have to do with watching or not watching tv?!

I only thought about 3 weeks later that my female flatmate must have been like "erm thanks."

hahahahaha comedy gold there

xp horseshoe - my mom cancelled cable after she woke up in the middle of the night once - I think I was 9 - and saw me watching hair metal videos on MTV.

I wasn't allowed to watch MTV until I was in high school.

I forgot one of these: I was out walking with my gf and trying to start telling some kind of story, but I kept getting interrupted by random stuff. So around the third time that I'm trying to tell the story, this homeless guy asks for change, and I say sorry, man, and try to re-start the story, and I'm like two sentences in when he asks for something else, and I say sorry, man, can't help you, and I turn back to my gf and try to continue the story for like the fifth time, and once again I'm two sentences in when he asks something else, and at this point I'm really annoyed and I turn to him and go I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A FUCKING SENTENCE, MAN, and he looked pretty thoroughly hurt/offended by that.

offending homeless people c/d

I wasn't allowed to watch MTV until after I graduated from college and moved to an apartment where my roommates were willing to split a cable bill, but this was because my parents lived too far out in the country to get cable and our dorm rooms weren't wired for it.

xp nabisco: you were actually pretty polite to the guy.