It really depends on how the person says it. A coworker who informed me that he didn't watch the tele and was thinking of getting rid of the one he had because he thought his wife watched too much? I passed on feeling defensive and just put him in the jerk column.
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
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Sparky1 - May 18, 2005 2:08:14 pm PDT #9927 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
ChiKat - May 18, 2005 2:10:20 pm PDT #9928 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
It really depends on the tone, for me. I know people (my sister used to be one of them) who felt it made them special, and it shows in the voice. Others just don't care about TV one way or another, or don't have the time, or are scared of the addiction.
This exactly. If they act all superior, then yes, it bugs. If they say it in the same way that I say I don't have a baseball glove (in other words, they don't care in the least about it and it has no value judgement), then no.
What cracks me up are the people who are horrified that I don't have cable.
§ ita § - May 18, 2005 2:10:42 pm PDT #9929 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A coworker who informed me that he didn't watch the tele and was thinking of getting rid of the one he had because he thought his wife watched too much? I passed on feeling defensive and just put him in the jerk column
I have a friend whose GF won't let him hook the TV up to anything other than computer games. Knowing him, she's right. She might as well break up with him as get cable -- give him 4 or 5 channels, and she'd never have quality time with him again.
Betsy HP - May 18, 2005 2:10:49 pm PDT #9930 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I feel really defensive about it. I'm too old to be this insecure!
Steph L. - May 18, 2005 2:11:14 pm PDT #9931 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
What cracks me up are the people who are horrified that I don't have cable.
t points, screams, a la Invasion of the Body Snatchers
P.M. Marc - May 18, 2005 2:12:53 pm PDT #9932 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Whoa.
Big ass clap of thunder just shook my house.
I repeat, SHOOK MY HOUSE.
Freaked the cats, but not the kid.
EpicTangent - May 18, 2005 2:13:02 pm PDT #9933 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
It really depends on the tone, for me.
See, I think maybe I infer the tone for them sometimes. I just had a convo with a guy who said he went cold-turkey 4 years ago. At first I was making a conscious effort not to assume he was implying intellectual superiority - but then he said something about people who watch a lot of TV having something like 11th-grade level intelligence or somesuch. He did do a bit of back-pedaling when I said that I watch (I consider) a lot of TV.
Maybe I've just never heard it without the implied superiority tone.
Sparky1 - May 18, 2005 2:14:36 pm PDT #9934 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Knowing him, she's right.
Knowing my co-worker even better now (since he made that remark) I was right.
Susan W. - May 18, 2005 2:15:00 pm PDT #9935 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I repeat, SHOOK MY HOUSE.
Weird. Here it's just vaguely rumbly. Which is unusual in itself.
ChiKat - May 18, 2005 2:15:45 pm PDT #9936 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
points, screams, a la Invasion of the Body Snatchers
ChiKat's right here and she's still fine.
Maybe I've just never heard it without the implied superiority tone.
Gotta admit, I don't think I've heard it any other way. But there are surely those out there who have.
sits back and waits for examples.