So what do you do in the evening, then?

[davywavy]

In the comments to my post the other day, I mentioned that I don't own a TV. This is unusual - figures from the TV licensing people suggest that 99.5% of households in the country have a telly in them and such is the ubiquity of the gogglebox that the Joseph Rountree Foundation uses non-ownership of one as an indicator of poverty (this surprises me, as the people I know who don't own a TV tend to be both better educated and in better jobs than the average).
The are distinct advantages to not owning a TV. I don't run the risk of wasting my time watching witless crap like Eastenders, X-Factor, Big Brother or the new Doctor Who, and anything decent like Life on Mars I can pick up DVDs of at Cash Converters six months after they come out.
What was interesting about my comment was that it pulled out a number of other people on my friends list who don't own TV's. According to the above statistic, only one person in every 200 should be telly-less, and so I should only have one person reading me who doesn't as opposed to several which seems to be the case.

So, to satisfy my curiosity:

[Poll #1070038]

Comments

Re: Deconstructing Firefly

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Even better than a bunch of geeks on LJ making fun of overweight people? Not sure what is sadder, actually.

Re: Deconstructing Firefly

[(Anonymous)]

To quote the unforgettable Independent review of a TV programme about male impotence, it's "ribald entertainment for the unafflicted."

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Re: Deconstructing Firefly

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Ha! Good one. ;)

Being a "foreigner", and on the subject of TV, I am amazed by this programme about embarrassing ailments, an entire show devoted to the treatment of the most disgusting health problems the human body can muster. WHY? WHY? WHY? I don't get it.

Re: Deconstructing Firefly

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Because people enjoy laughing at the disgusting and strange. A hobby as old as time.

Re: Deconstructing Firefly

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Gee, and I thought it was a science show.

Re: Deconstructing Firefly

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Oh my LAWD, someone lambasting the hideously obese on LJ and then called sad, MY GOD. I've seen the light.

Re: Deconstructing Firefly

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Glad to have helped you.

Are you sure you are from Portland? *grin*

Re: Deconstructing Firefly

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

According to you I'm a male gamer geek with no social skills. Not to mention how sad it is I live on a council estate in Wigan. Hi-lar-ious.

But then, FTM isn't uncommon in Portlandia... so you know.

Re: Deconstructing Firefly

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Actually, and just to clarify for you, I didn't quite say that. I never said you were male... and also didn't say you had no social skills. I DID suggest you were a gamer geek (takes one to know one, and I think it is something to embrace), and I said that you socialize online, not that you didn't have any SKILLS.

YOU said you live on a council estate. I was just pondering the sad irony of gamer geeks making fun of fat people. Often, the two quite literally go hand in hand.

Agreed on the FTM - there is this great drag bar, but I can't recall the name of it just now...

Look for context clues next time ;)