87 posts left in the thread!
Sigh. This is going to turn over while I'm on the way home.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 28, 2008 8:24:56 am PDT #9913 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Jesse - Jul 28, 2008 8:27:49 am PDT #9914 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Unless you had one in both.
Oh yeah. I forget that regardless of class, I come from a family without many TVs!
megan walker - Jul 28, 2008 8:28:37 am PDT #9915 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Old money has one kick-ass TV in a room where you don't receive company. Maybe a little B&W in the laundry room or kitchen.
Not in the bedroom, and the kids certainly wouldn't get a TV in their rooms.
Kathy A - Jul 28, 2008 8:28:53 am PDT #9916 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Hee--Cute Overload finally posted the moose-in-sprinklers videos that someone posted here a week or two ago, and many of the comments have Monty Python references in parentheses.
Nilly - Jul 28, 2008 8:30:16 am PDT #9917 of 10003
Swouncing
I get in to discover the database spent the weekend figuratively puking its gut out, and I have just now been informed that it is well and truly dead. Restore-from-tape dead. So there's very little to do except watch a deadline next week loom ominously.
Goodness, in my usual everything-is-my-fault and the poisoning-computers tradition I seems to have developed during the last couple of weeks, I already managed to cross the ocean? Sigh.
Only my deadline is on Thursday.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2008 8:30:35 am PDT #9918 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
New money has a movie theatre in the basement. What's so cool about old money again?
megan walker - Jul 28, 2008 8:30:42 am PDT #9919 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oh yeah. I forget that regardless of class, I come from a family without many TVs!
Jesse, I can smell the old money from here. First, "Phillips", now this. Don't know how the cowgirl thing fits into it. Unless you become the eccentric aunt.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2008 8:32:49 am PDT #9920 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I forget that regardless of class, I come from a family without many TVs!
Ha!
I think in Jamaica, which reasonably recently got both colour TV and more than one station, no old money is old enough to not have more than the one TV.
amych - Jul 28, 2008 8:33:05 am PDT #9921 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I forget that regardless of class, I come from a family without many TVs!
Don't forget that fewer TVs is also part of the whole not so much bling side of the upper aesthetic too. I'm pretty sure it's never even occurred to my parents* that you'd even want more than one. Unless you're under 12 or something.
* academics, with all the upper-tastes-middle-money implications that have already been mentioned
sarameg - Jul 28, 2008 8:34:29 am PDT #9922 of 10003
We had one little b&w tv in the livingroom. We didn't have a den. Or a diningroom. We eventually got color, but no remote. I think the tv they have now, which they only use to watch dvds, is the replacement for the remoteless one. My mom has a vcr/tv combo in the bedroom, but that's pretty much only on when she's thrown her back out.
They don't watch much tv. Frankly, I don't think they can even get air-broadcast right now. My dad loves to rant and rave about how much crap there is on tv and that there's nothing redeeming out there. Yes, you would know because you watch so much of it on the tv that can't get any channels!!
Whatever. I doubt he's really followed a tv series since MASH went off the air.