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TV's Frink said:

Couldn't stop laughing at this:

http://www.youwillnotbelieve.us/pursuits/category/star-wars-yoga

 Wow, that is funny.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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http://theweek.com/article/index/104150/top-7-insane-homeowners-association-rules

Evil HOAs (as if there was an alternative).

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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xhonzi said:

http://theweek.com/article/index/104150/top-7-insane-homeowners-association-rules

Evil HOAs (as if there was an alternative).

After a plane crashed into the Sanford, Florida, home of Joe Woodard, killing his wife, Janise, and their infant son, he decided to rebuild a new home on the same lot. But his reconstruction came to a screeching halt when his HOA informed him that he'd positioned the new structure unacceptably and failed to achieve a perfect shingle match with his neighbors' homes. Threatened with a lawsuit, the grieving widower told a local reporter that he'd hoped to change things up to avoid "reliving" painful memories — but eventually capitulated to the unsympathetic HOA

This might be one of the worst things I've ever heard.

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C3PX said:

Gaffer Tape said:

(I haven't had TV in a year)?

Awesome! I haven't had TV in ten years. (Cheated a little in order to watch Lost and Galactica the last few years, but now that they are both over, I am 100% TV free).

Heh, don't paint me too praise-worthy.  It's not by choice.  It's because I can't afford TV access.  Doesn't mean I don't watch a lot of television shows on DVD on my computer.  =P

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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C3PX said:

Gaffer Tape said:

(I haven't had TV in a year)?

Awesome! I haven't had TV in ten years. (Cheated a little in order to watch Lost and Galactica the last few years, but now that they are both over, I am 100% TV free).

Why no TV?   surely there must be something on that you like.    There's all different kinds channels.

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The reason I don't receive television broadcasts is I haven't enough time to schedule my life around when shows are on, the bulk of the programmes are visual sewage or not to my taste (I prefer to watch DVDs etc where I can pick what I watch rather than having visual media chosen for me).

I also suffer from a form of epilepsy where (along with other stimuli) certain forms of moving image can give me seizures so I ration what I watch and try to only watch video images when there is someone around should the worst happen.

Being in public spaces is sometimes problematic because of the ubiquity of flat screens.

My eye tends to get drawn to them and I can enter a stage which resembles catatonia (my body freezes up, I can't blink I can barely hear anything).

Even after all these years it's still rather freaky.

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Bingowings said:

I also suffer from a form of epilepsy where (along with other stimuli) certain forms of moving image can give me seizures so I ration what I watch and try to only watch video images when there is someone around should the worst happen.

Sorry to hear that.  I'm guessing the Recursive David Hasselhoff is not something you want to see again.

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Bizarrely that's not a problem, neither are strobing lights or video games.

I very rarely have a problem in the cinema either.

I've never been able to pin down what exactly is the problem with television as it seems to be the chief visual trigger.

It might have something to do with the angle of the screen or trying to focus on too many things at once.

Sometimes when I'm in a crowded room and trying to follow a conversation I hear all the voices at once with equal balance and that can set me off too.

Medication has been very helpful though it does leave me rather zapped of energy.

 

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TV's Frink said:

http://roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/1282595061_bottom-robotsindisguisewells.jpg?w=518&h=532

 Whoa! And to think inside that little astro droid lives a tiny little man.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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And in that tiny little man is a rag-tag group of scientists on a ship...

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And inside that rag-tag group is a pure unbridled lust for Rachel Welch.

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Warbler said:

C3PX said:

Gaffer Tape said:

(I haven't had TV in a year)?

Awesome! I haven't had TV in ten years. (Cheated a little in order to watch Lost and Galactica the last few years, but now that they are both over, I am 100% TV free).

Why no TV?   surely there must be something on that you like.    There's all different kinds channels.

 

TV's Frink said:

Too many pictures.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

:p

Well, actually... yeah.

I just find it to be a horrible waste of time. Sure, there are some things on I might like, I love documentaries for one, but I never have nor ever would consider spending money on cable. I'd rather waste my time reading books, or going out. When I first got out on my own, I bought an aquarium and placed it on a TV stand in my living room right where most people would have put their TV. Personally, I feel that staring at that aquarium was far more beneficial to me than anything the silly glowing box of colors could have provided.

Up until a month ago I did own a TV, but never had anything but my 360 hooked up to it. Now I am once again TV-less, and my poor 360 lives in my trunk.

So yeah, long story short. I think TV = MASSIVE waste of time. If I need commercial filled news and entertainment, I have the radio (mostly NPR). I might barrow TV show DVDs from a friend from time to time and watch them on my laptop. And every time a new episode of South Park is out I go to their website and watch it. Even without a TV and just those few things I mentioned above, I still feel that my life is far too full of time wasting electronic entertainment.

People talk about TV being a way of unwinding and relaxing. Well, my most fulfilling and relaxing days have begun at 4 - 5 am sitting at the lake fishing. Around 6:30 I would head home, bath, throw whatever I caught on ice, and get to work by 8:00. When I got home from work, I'd clean my catch, throw it on a grill, cook it, and eat it (if I hadn't caught anything, I ate cereal). Then I'd spend the evening reading, go to bed around 21:00, wake up, and start it all over again. There was no TV, and very little computer usage involved.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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are there no movie on that you would watch?

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I actually don't even watch a lot of movies. Maybe one or two a month. Usually those are with friends. If there is a film I am really interested in seeing, I would probably rent it and watch it on my computer or go see it in the theater. That way I don't have to put up with the censorship of broadcast television or the cost of cable, or the commercials in both.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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The new "Vintage Style" Zuckuss Action Figure Cards have a picture of the original vinage card on the back... where it says 4-LOM.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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C3PX said:

Even without a TV and just those few things I mentioned above, I still feel that my life is far too full of time wasting electronic entertainment.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-90-of-waking-hours-spent-staring-at-glowing,2747/

I think TV has the potential to be, and often is, extremely educational.  People (not Warbler) often acuse me of being smart and well educated.  Half (perhaps more) of what I know came from watching TV.  And half of that was from the Simpsons- one of the most educational shows I have ever watched... really puts Sesame Street to shame.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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xhonzi said:


The new "Vintage Style" Zuckuss Action Figure Cards have a picture of the original vinage card on the back... where it says 4-LOM.
I actually went out of my way to check that at the store the other day. I nearly cheered at how awesome that is.

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xhonzi said:


I think TV has the potential to be, and often is, extremely educational.  People (not Warbler) often acuse me of being smart and well educated.  Half (perhaps more) of what I know came from watching TV.  And half of that was from the Simpsons- one of the most educational shows I have ever watched... really puts Sesame Street to shame.
When we watched the Daily Show and Colbert, I felt like I knew what was going on in the world, but I was never sure how much was joke and how much was real.

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