So what do you do in the evening, then?
Oct. 12th, 2007 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davywavyIn 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]
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]
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Date: 2007-10-12 12:35 pm (UTC)Flicker, flicker.
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Date: 2007-10-12 01:19 pm (UTC)Calling time on this before it goes any further.
Date: 2007-10-12 01:38 pm (UTC)Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.
Date: 2007-10-12 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-12 03:00 pm (UTC)Calling time on this before it goes any further.
Date: 2007-10-12 01:38 pm (UTC)Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.
Date: 2007-10-12 01:58 pm (UTC)Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.
Date: 2007-10-12 02:01 pm (UTC)Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.
Date: 2007-10-12 03:03 pm (UTC)Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.
Date: 2007-10-12 03:06 pm (UTC)Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.
Date: 2007-10-12 03:11 pm (UTC)(I wish though :(. I haven't been to a proper bonfire night yet.)
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Date: 2007-10-12 03:12 pm (UTC)Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.
Date: 2007-10-12 03:15 pm (UTC)Also, could I burn an effigy of Alisdair Campbell?
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Date: 2007-10-12 03:17 pm (UTC)We've done Blair and Robert Mugabe in the past, amongst others.
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Date: 2007-10-12 03:57 pm (UTC)I think Darling (slip there, not Campbell... he was very naughty) needs it just due to eyebrow issues.
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Date: 2007-10-12 08:55 pm (UTC)Not whining,
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Date: 2007-10-13 01:28 pm (UTC)Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.
Date: 2007-10-13 01:28 pm (UTC)Also looks like we may be rescheduling to the 3rd of Nov.