Comments on: The Boob Tube http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2010/01/the-boob-tube/ Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:09:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Walter http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2010/01/the-boob-tube/comment-page-1/#comment-2224 Walter Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:27:09 +0000 http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/?p=190#comment-2224 We at the Walter household are smart, damned smart, and we watch some measurable, um, shit-ton of television per week. Now, let us draw a line right there and look down our noses to say that we watch what qualifies as 'good' tv. Hell, excellent. This means we're often not watching the tv at all, but rather the laptop, searching out decent programming via Netflix and Hulu, mainly. We canceled our cable subscription quite a while ago-- there simply was nothing much those 100 channels could offer us, sadly, and we refused to settle for their schlock. That didn't translate to some throw-away-the-tv-let's-plant-trees-in-the-living-room epiphany: the "kill your tv" folks make me want to vomit. Nope, we simply started watching much, much better television, and are far happier for it. Oh, and I read more now too. So there, we love tv. <i>AND</i> we're smart. Like S-M-R-T smart. (That was a Simpsons reference, jerks.) Best tv show ever: The Sandbaggers. Look it up, fools. I commend you for returning the giant plasma. I similarly have thought about upgrading to a blu-ray player as NF now has a sizable number of discs, but I'm not wanting to upgrade my tv, so... We at the Walter household are smart, damned smart, and we watch some measurable, um, shit-ton of television per week. Now, let us draw a line right there and look down our noses to say that we watch what qualifies as ‘good’ tv. Hell, excellent. This means we’re often not watching the tv at all, but rather the laptop, searching out decent programming via Netflix and Hulu, mainly. We canceled our cable subscription quite a while ago– there simply was nothing much those 100 channels could offer us, sadly, and we refused to settle for their schlock. That didn’t translate to some throw-away-the-tv-let’s-plant-trees-in-the-living-room epiphany: the “kill your tv” folks make me want to vomit. Nope, we simply started watching much, much better television, and are far happier for it. Oh, and I read more now too. So there, we love tv. AND we’re smart. Like S-M-R-T smart. (That was a Simpsons reference, jerks.) Best tv show ever: The Sandbaggers. Look it up, fools.

I commend you for returning the giant plasma. I similarly have thought about upgrading to a blu-ray player as NF now has a sizable number of discs, but I’m not wanting to upgrade my tv, so…

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