brb, watching Lamp
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
TV PARTY TONITE!
― jdchurchill, Monday, 6 July 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
pj tv party on the dl
― juliette brioche (elmo argonaut), Monday, 6 July 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm watching Big Brother...
― snoball, Monday, 6 July 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 6 July 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i offend people all the time by being polite. chivalry really is deadbut that's not what this threads about anymore, eh?
― jdchurchill, Monday, 6 July 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I sometimes watch stupid shit like Entourage on my bigger than it needs to be HD TV. I'm sure ilx hates me appropriately.
― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 July 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) It wasn't what it was about to start with
― snoball, Monday, 6 July 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
my parents wouldnt let me watch tv when i was a young robot either - thats why i remade myself as a tvbot
― Lamp, Monday, 6 July 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
also i wanted to make a bring HD = hors d'oeuvre joke but the time seems to have passed
― Lamp, Monday, 6 July 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― horseshoe, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― some american borad (ENBB), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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."
― Local Garda, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Not owning a television: c or d?
Also: TS: Having vs. Not Having a Television
― sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry i don't watch your FANCY HBO i only have BASIC CABLE
― juliette brioche (elmo argonaut), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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?!
― some american borad (ENBB), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
hahahahaha comedy gold there
― And the biggest self of self is, indeed, self (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I wasn't allowed to watch MTV until I was in high school.
― some american borad (ENBB), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
offending homeless people c/d
― And the biggest self of self is, indeed, self (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
xp nabisco: you were actually pretty polite to the guy.
― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry I didn't read where the thread had gone, just the initial premise!
― Local Garda, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
fwiw "i don't watch a lot of tv" is a bit less confrontational that "omg i don't even OWN a tv"
I have probably said "I don't own a TV" before (aiming for an "uh I'm kind of broke right now, sorry for not being up on normal people culture" rather than "I am a superior being", but possibly missing) because the problem with "I don't watch much TV" is that some people take this as a challenge for them to list TV shows that you absolutely must have been watching regularly, because - what? you aren't a real person if you don't watch Lost? or they want to out you as the kind of person who claims not to watch TV but actually has like 10 must-watch shows each season? Eh.
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
okay now I have an on topic story! this one person came to see my flat and she was like looking at the living room and said "oh brilliant, you don't have a TV, that's so refreshing." To which I sort of meekly said "well we do actually, see that 29 inch TV, right there, look at it, it's huge."
And she was like "oh well I meant like it's not the focal point of the house."
― Local Garda, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
R, I was laughing at myself for forgetting the original purpose of the thread. Not criticizing you for posting yr story which, btw, was great.
― some american borad (ENBB), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
lololol ronan
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link
"sorry for not being up on normal people culture" rather than "I am a superior being"
Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel when I tell people I don't watch tv.
― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
"where i grew up, the television was 67 inches and we never watched it"
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
if it were a couple of inches bigger, it would be a really (alright not really) funny joke...
― snoball, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yeah erica I knew that, no offence taken!
― Local Garda, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Ronan your stories are literally killing me
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I posted this on the Chicago thread, but a coworker mistakenly (I don't think she intended to call me a bitch but who knows) offended (not really, but it could have been offensive if I had been of a mind to be offended/cared about what this coworker thinks about me) me today in a conversation about first impressions when she said:
Coworker: I mean, somebody might think you are a real bitch, but then they get to know you, and it turns our you're really okay!Me: ... Yeah, I get that a lot.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
On topic, though: we have a TV but no cable but we watch TV on the internet all the time so I'm not sure if that makes me smug or awesome or a bitch until you get to know me or what.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
At work recently, and I still can't tell if this was a genius evasive action, a coworker had been calling me "Rowan" all the time. He's super nice and a really good guy, and even though I've just started he's v friendly to everyone and stuff, which says a lot about him cos he's a presenter and usually there's an aloofness there.
Anyway I went out for drinks with my colleagues about ten days ago and he's v matey and after a few drinks everyone is cracking jokes etc and he says something and ends it with "Rowan" so I figure I'll make a joke of it and I'm like "you know my name is Ronan? Fuck's sake, Rowan???" and he's like "What? I know your name is Ronan, I just mean like, 'Rone' you know? It's just shorter!"
Felt really bad then though he wasn't offended really...as I say, was either a genius evasive action on his part or he's just that affable a dude that he's affectionately abbreviating your name after a few weeks (which is a possibility with this guy.)
― Local Garda, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Part of me was like he's obviously being all bro style, like "HEY RONE, MY OLD BUDDY" and I've ruined it
― Local Garda, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
You should have said, "all my close mates use my entire given name, at all times; Ronan [middle name] F[last name]"
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
you had something special and you stamped on its pleading face repeatedly until it was dead but still the benign affability in its features was visible in the bloodied dirt
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
you're confusing this incident with my last relationship
― Local Garda, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
who, me or LJ?
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I just did the Philippe "Noooooo!" face
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
lj!
― Local Garda, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
that is the saddest 2-post exchange i have ever seen fwiw and i want to cry and also give ronan a big hug
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
no i was just joking really rather than revealing true sadness
― Local Garda, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
you know that changes nothing, right
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
leave rone alone
― estela, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
so rone-ry
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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rut ro
― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link