HomePet Peeve: when people are sanctimonious about how little TV they watch.
TRUTH BOMB. (can you tell i’m really into this phrase?)
You know what? I work forty plus hours a week. If I want to kick back with a glass of wine (bottle of water), some cheese (goldfish), and a new episode of Lost (Sixteen and Pregnant), that’s my God-given right.
You don’t own a tv? Oh, how wonderful. You know, where I come from, that’s not intellectual and evolved, it’s poor.
This.
Yeah, for serious. I don’t want to hear it.
The worst is people who say they don’t watch TV, but yet they have a billion favorite movies. How is that different?
And this is coming from someone who doesn’t even have cable.
Hey, I’ll be the first to say it - I love television. I have a very elaborate setup ensuring that I can watch whatever TV I want, wherever in my house I want, all because I love TV.
I agree with Steph. Yet, I think I may be one of the last people who grew up without cable, or really any TV at all. Yeah, we were poor, but that’s not why we didn’t watch TV.
If you didn’t live “in town” when I was a kid, you got a total of three channels. Only one of them was reliable. So, no, I didn’t get to watch all the stuff that most kids did. For example, I’ve never watched “You Can’t Do That on Television”. Welcome to being country-and all the money in the world wouldn’t have gotten us anything, because there was NO CABLE out where we lived. Cablevision refused to run cable out anywhere near us until I was nearly in high school, so I missed MTV, too. I know! Imagine growing up WITHOUT MTV!
As a result, when I say “I’ve never seen that”, or “I don’t watch a lot of TV”, or “We didn’t watch TV when I was a kid”, it’s not that I’m trying to seem better than anyone else. I couldn’t give a shit how much TV you watch. Most of my adult life we owned just one TV. There never seemed to be a reason for a second one. Finally, when Jared and I got married, we got another as a gift. I won’t lie, it does seem really, really weird to me that anyone would want a TV in their kitchen or bedroom. But if you do, and you enjoy it, fine. Why would anyone care?
