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No TV - the New Cool?

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    #92
    TPD
    Registered Users Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    chosen1 wrote: »
    Probably been asked before but what do people face the furniture at, if they have no TV?

    Fireplace? Coffeetable? Window? Centre of the room?


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    #93
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    chosen1 wrote: »
    Probably been asked before but what do people face the furniture at, if they have no TV?

    Their acoustic guitar of course.


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    #94
    CR 7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭CR 7


    chosen1 wrote: »
    Probably been asked before but what do people face the furniture at, if they have no TV?

    They aim it wistfully at an empty TV cabinet, of course.


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    #95
    brummytom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    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. ****)
    Do people really do that?! :eek:


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    #96
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    phasers wrote: »
    I just really love my Sex and the City box set
    I thought take me own life was a new celebrity reality tv show.
    chosen1 wrote: »
    Probably been asked before but what do people face the furniture at, if they have no TV?
    The computer, mine has a big screen and a remote so it's not all that different.


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    #97
    Hellm0
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Hellm0


    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.


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    #98
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Don't bother with a TV if you don't want to, but ffs, don't be po-faced about it.


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    #99
    ball
    Registered Users Posts: 479 ✭✭ball


    I don't watch TV.

    That can only mean it's either NOT cool, or else it WAS cool.
    Can't be cool right now


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    #100
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    ScumLord wrote: »
    I thought take me own life was a new celebrity reality tv show.
    I'd watch that


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    #101
    whadabouchasir
    Registered Users Posts: 942 ✭✭✭whadabouchasir


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


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    #102
    Bajingo
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    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?


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    #103
    papa-lazarou
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭papa-lazarou


    tech77 wrote: »
    John Travolta's Vincent Vega didn't watch TV.
    He was pretty cool- i think :confused: :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.


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    #104
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    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.


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    #105
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    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.


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    #106
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    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.


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    #107
    Evolute
    Registered Users Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭Evolute


    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.


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    #108
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    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.


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    #109
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    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.


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    #110
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    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:


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    #111
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Bambi wrote: »
    I've no TV and I remind people of that fact at every opportunity
    Why?


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    #112
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    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"


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    #113
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    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


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    #114
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    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.


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    #115
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    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.


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    #116
    monkeypants
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    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. :D


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    #117
    electrogrimey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭electrogrimey


    I have a 72" widescreen HD TV.




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


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    #118
    thatsa spicy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭thatsa spicy


    hooradiation wrote: »
    you live in your own little world, don't you.

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


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    #119
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    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.


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    #120
    thatsa spicy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭thatsa spicy


    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.


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    #121
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Dionysus wrote: »
    Guess who can't play acoustic guitar.
    I dunno, who?


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