And another thing.
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featherynscaleOften it comes to pass at work or in other social situations that somebody asks me if I saw [insert name of show] last night. I tell them, "No, I don't watch television."
Sometimes this leads people to look shifty and say things like "I don't watch much either, just [these shows]." Sometimes it leads people to turn up their noses and say things like, "Well, aren't you special?". Other negative reactions have been reported, but are less common.
Maybe I'm not being clear enough. I don't watch television. I say this so that people will know that if they ask me about shows, I'm probably not going to be able to provide any response at all, because I will have invariably not seen the thing. I don't watch television. I don't care for enough shows to bother. This is not because I'm inherently a better person than tv-viewers. I'm not advancing the point that people shouldn't watch television. I just don't enjoy it, myself. I also don't enjoy jogging, but nobody seems to get too offended or guilty about that, even joggers.
Why is it so often an attack if I say "I don't watch television" and hardly ever an attack if I say "I don't jog"? To me these are roughly equivalent statements.
Sometimes this leads people to look shifty and say things like "I don't watch much either, just [these shows]." Sometimes it leads people to turn up their noses and say things like, "Well, aren't you special?". Other negative reactions have been reported, but are less common.
Maybe I'm not being clear enough. I don't watch television. I say this so that people will know that if they ask me about shows, I'm probably not going to be able to provide any response at all, because I will have invariably not seen the thing. I don't watch television. I don't care for enough shows to bother. This is not because I'm inherently a better person than tv-viewers. I'm not advancing the point that people shouldn't watch television. I just don't enjoy it, myself. I also don't enjoy jogging, but nobody seems to get too offended or guilty about that, even joggers.
Why is it so often an attack if I say "I don't watch television" and hardly ever an attack if I say "I don't jog"? To me these are roughly equivalent statements.
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Date: 2005-09-21 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-09-21 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-21 08:45 pm (UTC)um.
Nevermind.
Automata!
Date: 2005-09-21 09:48 pm (UTC)Actually, so did this subthread....
Re: Automata!
Date: 2005-09-21 09:53 pm (UTC)We also sometimes sing it about Irish gods:
Man-a-nnan-a... Lugh, Lugh Lugh Lugh-Lugh, Manannan-a, Lugh Lugh Lugh Lugh! :)
Re: Automata!
Date: 2005-09-22 12:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-21 10:23 pm (UTC)Yay!
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Date: 2005-09-21 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-21 11:05 pm (UTC)What works for me, may not work for you.
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I live my life to please me,
not please someone else,
and I hope that others (to some semi-socialized) degree,
will do the same.
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Date: 2005-09-21 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-21 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-21 11:16 pm (UTC)they are still the stupid couch potato automatons, that KMFDM sings about.
And you said
KMFDM makes the morons cry!
If you were talking about some other morons than the ones to which
I was making a reference to the Lyrics. see bolding below:
Date: 2005-09-22 01:15 am (UTC)"WWIII"
I declare war on the world
War in outer space
I declare war in a nutshell
War all over the place
I declare war on every government
War against all odds
I declare war on your inner sanctum
On your blood thirsty gods
I declare war on the axis of morons
All out war on complacent consent
I declare war on the war against drugs
Rape and Slaughter of the innocent
War on big brother
Warmongers and profiteers
War on your dogma dubya
Armageddon's engineers
War in a heartbeat
I declare war on so-called civilization
World trade globalization
Organized desinformation
War on ambassadors of pretense
War on MTV and CNN
Macdonald's walt disney and bethlehem
On christina britney and eminem
I declare war on the world of anti-choice
On violent unilaterality
On the amassment of murderous high-tech toys
And all crimes against humanity
War on the moral majority
On corparate.com imperialism
On mindlessly bumbling stupidity
And police-state terrorism
Worldwar three - be all that you can be
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WWIII
Date: 2005-09-22 01:25 am (UTC)