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No TV - the New Cool?

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    #122
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    phasers wrote: »
    I dunno, who?

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


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    #123
    electrogrimey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭electrogrimey


    phasers wrote: »
    I dunno, who?

    Joe from the X-Factor?


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    #124
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    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?


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    #125
    thatsa spicy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭thatsa spicy


    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


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    #126
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    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.


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    #127
    Pedro K
    Registered Users Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭Pedro K


    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.
    :)


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    #128
    bullets
    Registered Users Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭bullets


    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


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    #129
    Thomas828
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Thomas828


    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.


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    #130
    Spiralcars
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭Spiralcars


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


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    #131
    Neonjack
    Registered Users Posts: 226 ✭✭Neonjack


    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.


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    #132
    Táck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭Táck


    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.


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    #133
    Markroan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Markroan


    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


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    #134
    [Deleted User]
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    I just moved into a house that has no tv by choice.. Like it grand so far.


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    #135
    dub_skav
    Registered Users Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭dub_skav


    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.


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    #136
    Markroan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Markroan


    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


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    #137
    wolfric
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭wolfric


    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.


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    #138
    Markroan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Markroan


    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


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    #139
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    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.


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