Oh sweetie, I feel much of your pain. I was raised by television (not a bad parent, given the alternatives), yet never inured myself to the frustrating interruption of BORING commercials. Oh sure, today I'm tickled to watch a DVD my dad made of a videotaped we kids loved -- the commercials are nostalgic, and my brother and I instinctively rub the memory of bruised arms from playing along with the Hawaiian punch commercials.
But we played along because we were fighting off the annoyance of having been interrupted for something boring.
These days, I have the miracle of a DVR and cable, which the household uses exclusively to watch hockey, American football, soccer, and the occasional rugby match. Netflix streaming and Amazon Instant keep me in as much episodic television as we want, though we're perpetually a season behind the rest of the world due to the release timing of licensing.
As a result, Paul and I have a rather inflated view of the quality of television. We watch only things our friends recommend. As a result, to us non-sports television is exclusively made up of How I Met Your Mother, the first three seasons of Big Bang Theory (they switched from being about quirky, nerdy friends to being about hopeless nerds getting it on with impossibly hawt chix), et al.
We know nothing of this Jersey Shore we see referenced in sidebar ads on websites.
Life's pretty good this way.
And yeah, watching sports with friends is a lot of fun. I'm so glad that most of my friends don't make fun of me for the geek betrayal that others seem to think I'm doing when I eat guacamole and yell at the receiver for butter fingers.
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Date: 2012-04-14 03:10 pm (UTC)But we played along because we were fighting off the annoyance of having been interrupted for something boring.
These days, I have the miracle of a DVR and cable, which the household uses exclusively to watch hockey, American football, soccer, and the occasional rugby match. Netflix streaming and Amazon Instant keep me in as much episodic television as we want, though we're perpetually a season behind the rest of the world due to the release timing of licensing.
As a result, Paul and I have a rather inflated view of the quality of television. We watch only things our friends recommend. As a result, to us non-sports television is exclusively made up of How I Met Your Mother, the first three seasons of Big Bang Theory (they switched from being about quirky, nerdy friends to being about hopeless nerds getting it on with impossibly hawt chix), et al.
We know nothing of this Jersey Shore we see referenced in sidebar ads on websites.
Life's pretty good this way.
And yeah, watching sports with friends is a lot of fun. I'm so glad that most of my friends don't make fun of me for the geek betrayal that others seem to think I'm doing when I eat guacamole and yell at the receiver for butter fingers.