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:

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Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

I know.

Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

If you want witless personal abuse, come to my bonfire night par-tay and I'll introduce you two.

Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

My brain might actually explode. After the debate about strikes the other day I CANNA HANDLE IT.

(I wish though :(. I haven't been to a proper bonfire night yet.)

Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

10th o' November, my parents pad.

Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

It's possible, depending. I'm organizing a Girly Day sometime in November. Need to get dates from people and second weekend might be it. (For the record there will be no lace pajamas involved in my outing.)

Also, could I burn an effigy of Alisdair Campbell?

Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

We're burning Brown this year. Kinda have to.
We've done Blair and Robert Mugabe in the past, amongst others.

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[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

But Comrade Broon has been so good the last few weeks. What with his telling off unions and things.

I think Darling (slip there, not Campbell... he was very naughty) needs it just due to eyebrow issues.

Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, could you maybe reschedule teh bonfire? I move house that day & haf to fly to Bombay at 7:30 the following morning...

Not whining,

Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You're teh lamexx0r.

Re: Calling time on this before it goes any further.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'll need tyo know shrpish, as invitations are limited.
Also looks like we may be rescheduling to the 3rd of Nov.