"I don't even own a TV"

I don't even have an analogue aerial.

Occurred to me the other day that "I don't even OWN a microwave! It would just sit in the corner of the kitchen doing nothing!" has now superseded IDEOATV! as a signifier of bourgie smuggery among some of my acquaintances.

is there analogue for microwaves for what sopranos/wire/mad men/breaking bad/true detective are to the telly?

hot pockets iirc

Use as a rice steamer.

quinoa actually

The landlord offered me a microwave but I had to turn it down, not out of smuggery but rather because the kitchenette in my bedsit has so little surface area that I would have no room left to prepare food :(

Most new TVs are digital ready so you can just plug in the rf rabbit ears and get HD broadcast. Best HD around! Better quality than most cable or satellite

telly goes on top of the microwave

i DVR hot pocket commercials so i can watch them while i cook a hot pocket

How many bites per second you getting

1080pepperoni

I wouldn't even know what 1080pepperoni is

it's a snowboarding ariel trick where you do 3 complete turns with your dick out

a gazelle is involved

as is the little mermaid

shd've been an option for that rhetorical 180 where you oh fuck it i'm knackered fuck yall bourgie cunts

haha

"I have images turned off"

"I've never even used FP"

"I have a killfile - in my mind"

"I don't respond to polls"

i don't even know how to speak i'm just making noises

i don't even look at ILM

http://crow202.org/2009/cat_howdidthisgethere.jpg

https://twitter.com/planetjedward/status/501928654264619009

we are on the planet jedward wavelength

http://k3.okccdn.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/150x150/558x800/0x0/1134x1134/0/17068308744931606460.jpeg?v=1
"I don't own a TV but I have 17 gigs of Anime and new horror on my hard drive"
http://www.okcupid.com/profile/ABoondockSaint4u

the picture already had me at half mast but the quote sent me there

ah bollocks, forgot i'd turned my okc visitors thing on before i clicked that link. well, i hope he messages me

"I have a satanic symbol tattooed on my leg but I don't worship satan. Any God is a sham and I would love to talk to you about athiesm but don't be shocked at how quickly it will escalate to me yelling at you if you're an idiot."

Seems like a chill dude

"I don't even have a god."

Uh the gun at work stuff is a bit alarming

that dude turned up (...somewhere) before. preeeetty certain it's a trolly fake

anyway ppl who say they don't own a TV are the worst

tru

grabbed the guy from the fedora thread. the line about the TV leapt out at me.

I don't even own a TV. Well, okay, I've got one but if you were to just take it away, I probably wouldn't notice. I'd be all like 'who tidied up in here?'.

What about people who say: "I don't own a television, because I always watch tv programs on my computer, or occasionally my phone, so there's no real point in my owing yet another screen, unless it's so I can say I own a television, so as to avoid annoying all you thin-skinned folks who find this mere fact of my television non-ownership irritating."

they need to speak in shorter sentences

that's the trouble with you kids these days

I just added cable again. Every time I do it's a fun novelty for a little while and then I quickly wonder why I bothered -- basic cable doesn't even have that many NBA games televised and that's the only sport I watch with any regularity. It's such a howling abyss of people talking about open plan kitchens.

no TV in our house (he said, annoyingly? honestly?)

my bf hooked our computer up to a video projector which projects its desktop directly onto a big white wall, and we have thick black shades if we want to look at something during the day (tho we mostly don't do that)

works pretty well, with the exception of presidential debates (the only thing we go to a friend's house with a TV for, honestly- I just find the streams kinda crashy for those) and er honestly I am too busy w work and/or music and idgaf about TV

The other thing that always strikes me about cable when I add it again after not having it is how intense the bombardment of messages you are hit with feels at first when you have been away from it for a long time, just constant images of products and places you'd otherwise give no thought to, attitudes, ideas about lifestyle, etc.

#stuffguyswithouttvsay

there's a bit of that on the internet, too

Yeah but there's something about the visceral force of a loud television ad that you don't get on the internet or at least can easily avoid. Maybe it's more a visceral/aesthetic difference than an ideological one.

how intense the bombardment of messages you are hit with feels at first when you have been away from it for a long time, just constant images of products and places you'd otherwise give no thought to, attitudes, ideas about lifestyle, etc.

lol yes, it's really obnoxious and gross. anytime i go home to see my folks the TV is on all the fucking time and i get help but just feel really grossed out by all of it, the programs as much as the ads.

we have a tv and watch DVDs from netlix (including tv shows, usually years after they originally aired) and i love watching good films/shows but i think live network and cable TV is really pretty much a "vast wasteland." even when i go to a hotel and i get excited for a minute i tend to just flip through until i find some movie i've already seen and i might watch it for a few minutes and then get bored fast. cable is basically worthless imo when you can just watch all the actually good programming later via streaming or DVD. we are super into breaking bad right now and idgaf that i didn't get to see it live or that we are several years behind with everyone else, just like idgaf that i don't see a movie in the theatre if i can rent it at home a few months later

also i try to avoid internet sites that have that obnoxiousness of television, e.g. huffpost, clickbait sites, weather.com