No TV - the New Cool?

Bajingo · 05-01-2010 12:35am

Hellm0 wrote: »

I own a 37" TV but it is only ever hooked up to my DVD player/laptop. I do not have/want television service.

And am I the only one who actually likes the odd bit of acoustic guitar? Perhaps I'm not in the know but I'd say its less admirable to spend your time watching TV than playing/learning an instrument.

I think you're phasers was talking about..do you play guitar?

papa-lazarou · 05-01-2010 10:20am

tech77 wrote: »

John Travolta's Vincent Vega didn't watch TV.
He was pretty cool- i think :pac:

But he had to be reminded that there was this invention called Television and he needn't have mentioned he didn't watch TV. Which makes him a knob.

ScumLord · 05-01-2010 10:24am

whadabouchasir wrote: »

If I can't afford to buy a T.V does this make me cool?

Only if you steal someone else's tele.

AnonoBoy · 05-01-2010 10:25am

Hellm0 wrote: »

And am I the only one who actually likes the odd bit of acoustic guitar? Perhaps I'm not in the know but I'd say its less admirable to spend your time watching TV than playing/learning an instrument.

At other times it's fine but acoustic guitar at a party = Annoying gobsh*te.

hooradiation · 05-01-2010 10:36am

thatsa spicy wrote: »

I'd say loads of people who both don't have tvs and who wankerishly play acoustic guitar at parties like utter, utter dickheads were about to post in this thread, talking about how they don't need a tv, but got put off when they read phasers post and realised that they are, in fact, completely despised by amost everybody at the party.

A word to those people; I've never met anybody who has any admiration for those dicks who ruin the atmosphere at a party by starting to play an acoustic guitar ,when we're all trying to drink ourselves silly and pull with women. What you are doing is basically saying "okay everybody, stop having fun for a minute while you listen to my attempt to create a good impression on all the women"...everybody kind of listens out of politeness but all the while they're looking at this person strumming the guitar with his eyes clothes and his long hair meticulously placed and they're thinking "I'd love to kick the living sh'it out of this goofy bastard"

you live in your own little world, don't you.

Evolute · 05-01-2010 10:44am

The reason people say they don't have a TV is because they want to be cool and out of the box.
Although those who say they don't watch Tv is totally misleading because even if they don't pay for a television service they watch some kind of television.

ScumLord · 05-01-2010 10:56am

Evolute wrote: »

The reason people say they don't have a TV is because they want to be cool and out of the box.

Not true, I don't have a tv because I'm a tight bastard that won't pay the tv license and my tv was acting the prick. It's tormenting another boards.ie user now.

bonerm · 05-01-2010 11:03am

I'm one of these "no tv" people. Everything I watch is via alternative sources.

The irony of it is I have a five year subscription to digiguide just so I can be happy in the knowledge that there is indeed nothing good on.

Dyr · 05-01-2010 11:30am

I've no TV and I remind people of that fact at every opportunity, oddly enough one of my monitors has a tuner so I'm probably liable for a license even though it doesnt work :mad:

phasers · 05-01-2010 1:08pm

Bambi wrote: »

I've no TV and I remind people of that fact at every opportunity

Why?

Dyr · 05-01-2010 1:22pm

Because they insist on going "did ye see yer wan on Xcelebritydancingonanislandin24hours" every single ****ing morning and every single morning i reply "no, I don't have a telly"

bonerm · 05-01-2010 1:30pm

As (I think?) it hasn't been linked yet. (always seems to make an appearance on threads of this nature)

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694

Dionysus · 05-01-2010 1:36pm

phasers wrote: »

people that brag about not having a television are the same kind of people that take out an acoustic guitar at a party (i.e. ****)

Guess who can't play acoustic guitar.

Mossy Monk · 05-01-2010 1:41pm

Dionysus wrote: »

Guess who can't play acoustic guitar.

I would rather not be able to play than be the one that empties the room at a house party.

monkeypants · 05-01-2010 1:43pm

bonerm wrote: »

The irony of it is I have a five year subscription to digiguide just so I can be happy in the knowledge that there is indeed nothing good on.

Like the grandpa in The Lost Boys.

electrogrimey · 05-01-2010 3:01pm

I have a 72" widescreen HD TV.

But I keep it in the box and don't watch it. Just to be ironic.

thatsa spicy · 05-01-2010 3:24pm

hooradiation wrote: »

you live in your own little world, don't you.

You play the acoustic guitar at parties, don't you. :rolleyes:

hooradiation · 05-01-2010 4:07pm

thatsa spicy wrote: »

You play the acoustic guitar at parties, don't you. :rolleyes:

No, but i don't have a raging hate on for people who can do something i can't.

Try putting that rage into something useful, instead of limply typing variations on the word wanker 18 times and then trying to construct a sentence around it.

thatsa spicy · 05-01-2010 4:18pm

hooradiation wrote: »

No, but i don't have a raging hate on for people who can do something i can't.

Try putting that rage into something useful, instead of limply typing variations on the word wanker 18 times and then trying to construct a sentence around it.

Ha, I can play the guitar! So your first sentence isn't correct.

Your second sentence seems so snide that its hard for me to believe that you're not one of those softly-spoken, matt-haired posers who whips out the guitar at a party and self-indulgently unloads hours of practice onto a group of people who then feel forced to pretend they give a fu'ck.
In between songs they say something to the girls like "this song reminds me of emotions..." ....perhaps you don't fit into the description I've just given but in my opinion anybody who does is a joke. My opinion.

phasers · 05-01-2010 4:24pm

Dionysus wrote: »

Guess who can't play acoustic guitar.

I dunno, who?

AnonoBoy · 05-01-2010 4:26pm

phasers wrote: »

I dunno, who?

That lad from the Coronas - he's sh*te at it.

electrogrimey · 05-01-2010 4:26pm

phasers wrote: »

I dunno, who?

Joe from the X-Factor?

ScumLord · 05-01-2010 4:26pm

thatsa spicy wrote: »

Ha, I can play the guitar! So your first sentence isn't correct.

Your second sentence seems so snide that its hard for me to believe that you're not one of those softly-spoken, matt-haired posers who whips out the guitar at a party and self-indulgently unloads hours of practice onto a group of people who then feel forced to pretend they give a fu'ck.

Why do you sit and listen like you give a ****? Why not just go to a different room or set them on fire or something?

thatsa spicy · 05-01-2010 4:31pm

ScumLord wrote: »

Why do you sit and listen like you give a ****? Why not just go to a different room or set them on fire or something?

I go somewhere else but loads of the women present always sit around the guy playing the songs...play this song...play that song... :rolleyes:
LOL @ the fact that a generation of spolit Irish kids who aspired to be from the O.C are now going to be subject to the undignified life of long-term unemployment

ScumLord · 05-01-2010 5:06pm

thatsa spicy wrote: »

I go somewhere else but loads of the women present always sit around the guy playing the songs...play this song...play that song... :rolleyes:

Ah so now we're getting to the bottom of things. It's just plain old jealousy.

Pedro K · 05-01-2010 5:42pm

thatsa spicy wrote: »

loads of the women present always sit around the guy playing the songs...play this song...play that song... :rolleyes:

60% of the time it works, every time.

bullets · 05-01-2010 6:01pm

phasers wrote: »

people that brag about not having a television are the same kind of people that take out an acoustic guitar at a party (i.e. ****)

LOL! When I read the title of this thread thats exactly what my first thought was!

I was visiting a buddy that I had not seen in a while before the christmas
has was having a small bit of a party. Arrived down at his place that he
was shareing with a few people, and he tells me They delibretly dont have a Telly! ........and instead for entertainment what do they do!! whip out the Acousic guitar and and play a Saw with a violin bow and have an ol sing song.

Seeing a growing trend of people I talk to say nope they dont watch the telly anymore or they listen to the radio instead of watching the TV.

~B

Thomas828 · 05-01-2010 9:03pm

I'm going to intrude here and tell everyone that I don't have a tv. For three reasons: 1. There's rarely anything on I'd like to watch, 2. I can't afford the licence, 3. My attention span is seldom longer than ten minutes. I just can't sit still for longer than that. That's also why I never go to the cinema.

Spiralcars · 05-01-2010 10:19pm

Have a tv, don't use it, more fun to be had here on afterhours

Neonjack · 05-01-2010 10:51pm

bullets wrote: »

I was visiting a buddy that I had not seen in a while before the christmas
has was having a small bit of a party. Arrived down at his place that he
was shareing with a few people, and he tells me They delibretly dont have a Telly! ........and instead for entertainment what do they do!! whip out the Acousic guitar and and play a Saw with a violin bow and have an ol sing song.

You should have brought a tv along and got all the women watching it with you. See how the guitar players f**king like it.

Táck · 06-01-2010 12:18am

in vancouver, its pretty normal for a house not to have a tv. we have been moving house a bit and have been viewing a good few also and i'd say out of about 10 homes we've looked at since we got here, 4 had nothing, 3 had a tv with cable and the other 3 had tv's with no cable.

the first house we lived in had a 42" on the wall with a hard drive attached. anything they want to watch they just download. match of the day, the daily show, any hit series'...i even downloaded reeling in the years for the other irish lad there.

im not sure about it being the new cool though but its defineitly the way i think il go when i get back to ireland. the only programmes i watch on rte arn't worth more annually then tv licence fee. but theres no need to go shouting it from the rooftops. i will have a tv, i just wont have cable.

Markroan · 06-01-2010 4:18pm

Lol what would people do without their TV ? It would mean they wouldent be living in fantasy brainwashing land and we couldent have that. who would buy all the crap we dont need that fills the void of emptiness in our lives. Keep on watching Sheeple its Great Really I swear

))) Talking with other people is far to much like hard work anyway who needs it , better to be in a trance in front of a box in the corner that tells you what to think lol

06-01-2010 4:45pm

I just moved into a house that has no tv by choice.. Like it grand so far.

dub_skav · 06-01-2010 4:50pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I just moved into a house that has no tv by choice.. Like it grand so far.

Well that's because you have an alternative source for your ads.

Markroan · 06-01-2010 4:54pm

Here you are if you are serious

)) This is the Science behind what I am talking about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VabsRwgT-ws&feature=related

wolfric · 06-01-2010 5:29pm

Markroan wrote: »

Lol what would people do without their TV ? It would mean they wouldent be living in fantasy brainwashing land and we couldent have that. who would buy all the crap we dont need that fills the void of emptiness in our lives. Keep on watching Sheeple its Great Really I swear ))) Talking with other people is far to much like hard work anyway who needs it , better to be in a trance in front of a box in the corner that tells you what to think lol

The funny thing is that you actually believe that's true. You think TV is the only source of ..."brainwashing"? Look around EVERYONE and EVERYTHING is essentially a "brainwashing source", from people who say it only feels like Christmas when there's a turkey/ham so you go out and buy one or the crazes of style of clothes/books/morals/ways of speaking/attitude/pretty much everything that we do that people catch onto. Turning off a tv isn't going to stop anything. That's not even to say the influence of society is a bad thing either.

Markroan · 06-01-2010 5:54pm

Thanks for that

)
Dont think I said TV was the only source of brainwashing I am well aware as you are I am sure, it is not, but it is the source that is in your living room to which you and your kids are particularly succeptable without your even knowing it. Think about it most of what you believe to be true about the world you got it from the Church or the media in most cases without ever questioning "The source or their beliefs and biased opinions" Most people mistakenly believe that if its in the media then it must be true. That is a Pity

ScumLord · 06-01-2010 6:05pm

wolfric wrote: »

The funny thing is that you actually believe that's true. You think TV is the only source of ..."brainwashing"? Look around EVERYONE and EVERYTHING is essentially a "brainwashing source", from people who say it only feels like Christmas when there's a turkey/ham so you go out and buy one or the crazes of style of clothes/books/morals/ways of speaking/attitude/pretty much everything that we do that people catch onto. Turning off a tv isn't going to stop anything. That's not even to say the influence of society is a bad thing either.

The difference is your describing peoples opinions which are not the same thing as a media department using news and programming to influence the general public's opinions.

No TV - the New Cool?

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