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09-09-06, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by recursive
"I don't have a TV and I'm intellectually superior to you." (paraphrasing) is good also.
09-09-06, 12:07 PM
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Well, I'm car-free and we don't own a tv... :-)
Same thing with the cost of cable, and we just got tired of the adverts. Finally got rid of it after we realised we hadn't turned it on in a year. I think the last thing we watched was the 2000 celebrations as they went round the world.
We buy dvds and have the net. Watching it occaisionally at family get togethers, some of the stuff seems interesting, but we definitely don't miss the commercials.
Same thing with the cost of cable, and we just got tired of the adverts. Finally got rid of it after we realised we hadn't turned it on in a year. I think the last thing we watched was the 2000 celebrations as they went round the world.
We buy dvds and have the net. Watching it occaisionally at family get togethers, some of the stuff seems interesting, but we definitely don't miss the commercials.
09-09-06, 01:38 PM
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Two H's!!! TWO!!!!!
Originally Posted by Platy
From the top ten conversation killers, skipping right to #1:
1. I'm carfree and you can be carfree too.
1. I'm carfree and you can be carfree too.
Originally Posted by recursive
"I don't have a TV and I'm intellectually superior to you." (paraphrasing) is good also.
09-09-06, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Artkansas
And the similar questions...
Katie Who? Paris Who? American Idol, what's that?
Katie Who? Paris Who? American Idol, what's that?
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09-10-06, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Roody
"Gas prices have gone up? I didn't realize....That's too bad!"
I've bought a total of five gallons of gas in the past 8 months.
I really AM going to have to fix my truck soon, though.
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09-10-06, 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by davidmcowan
It seems that a Buddhist approach is better in "converting" one to car free. I live my life this way if you choose to hear about it just ask. Which is not as fast (or as measurable) as the Christian conversion method of killing you if you don't want to be car free..
09-11-06, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by acorn_user
I wasn't aware that Televangelists had started to make snuff films....
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09-12-06, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by recursive
"I don't have a TV and I'm intellectually superior to you." (paraphrasing) is good also.
09-13-06, 09:51 AM
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I believe there's active and passive TV watching. When I watch TV I choose what I watch, engage in it, and make it a point to be ACTIVE about what I watch, whether it's Frontline or Cribs.
I DON'T like TV on as background noise, which seems to be everywhere. Friends houses, work lunch room, waiting rooms. It's ridiculous to have a conversation and have to yell over non-existent 3rd person (think about how often this happens). I have relatives/friends who automatically turn on the TV as soon as arriving home, as natural as turning the lights on or kicking off their shoes. From 3pm when their 10 year old comes home from school, through dinner, til 10pm the TV is constantly on as NOISE. To me that's absurd. Completely different than gathering around to watch a movie, or "Lost" for an hour, and being done with it.
The audio "clutter" of TV, and the fact that so many people accept this, (where is I turn unwatched TVs off), is what I'm astounded by.
Lately I've just been downloading TV shows I like (like Prison Break). I can watch when I want, no commercials or promos. Just the show, when I want and how I want.
I DON'T like TV on as background noise, which seems to be everywhere. Friends houses, work lunch room, waiting rooms. It's ridiculous to have a conversation and have to yell over non-existent 3rd person (think about how often this happens). I have relatives/friends who automatically turn on the TV as soon as arriving home, as natural as turning the lights on or kicking off their shoes. From 3pm when their 10 year old comes home from school, through dinner, til 10pm the TV is constantly on as NOISE. To me that's absurd. Completely different than gathering around to watch a movie, or "Lost" for an hour, and being done with it.
The audio "clutter" of TV, and the fact that so many people accept this, (where is I turn unwatched TVs off), is what I'm astounded by.
Lately I've just been downloading TV shows I like (like Prison Break). I can watch when I want, no commercials or promos. Just the show, when I want and how I want.
09-13-06, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by gwd
I'm like Caspar_S, no car , no TV. It seems like once a year or so I hear something about another study showing some kind of mental incapacity associated with TV watching. The last was just a few weeks ago where the study associated memory impairment with TV viewing. It would be interesting to me if some psychometrician would compare the car-free by choice with car-dependent by choice populations. Judging from people I know, it sure seems that the car-free by choice have better life skills. They seem to have more interesting lives and get along better with their kids. Maybe the health and wealth factors of a car free lifestyle cause measureable improvement in other parts of your life.
I have to agree that there seems to be a strong correlation among the people I know between car- and TV-lessness and general superiority.
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09-13-06, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by MaxBender
Best approach for initial contact (First impressions, first dates, job interviews, etc.) is to just show that you are normal.
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Oh well. I'm totally screwed if that's the case....
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09-13-06, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by PaulH
Besides, would someone who really liked their car necessarily want to subject it to the wear and tear of short-trip commuting?
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I don't feel particularly superior for having neither a car nor a TV, but I do feel a lot calmer.
09-15-06, 01:05 AM
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Here in Austin, that is pretty common. I've seen people spend 10-20 minutes fighting over a parking place near a store when about 100 feet away are rows upon rows of empty ones.
Here is the thing that absolutely befuddles me to no end. I park my car way away from everyone in the back of a parking lot (don't mind the few extra steps). Invariably, in the expanse of empty spaces, people park right beside my vehicle. Why the heck do people just have to park by someone else's car?
As for TVs, I agree. One of my pet peeves are people who passivly watch TV. Unless laid up in a hospital where there is nothing else to do, there is no point to this. I much rather hit a computer, a book, or something, than stare at a boob tube mindlessly for hours on end.
Here is the thing that absolutely befuddles me to no end. I park my car way away from everyone in the back of a parking lot (don't mind the few extra steps). Invariably, in the expanse of empty spaces, people park right beside my vehicle. Why the heck do people just have to park by someone else's car?
As for TVs, I agree. One of my pet peeves are people who passivly watch TV. Unless laid up in a hospital where there is nothing else to do, there is no point to this. I much rather hit a computer, a book, or something, than stare at a boob tube mindlessly for hours on end.
