Don't quite get the context, but I imagine if skip a few generations you can image a young person of unknown gender taking their eyes of their device and their gizmos out of their ears for a couple of seconds to reply curtly "I don't own a television"
Well, that's sort of the point. Even twenty years ago, before streaming easily brought TV to whatever device you wish, people could watch TV series on DVDs on a computer,. And even before that, well, the fact that you didn't own a television rarely meant that you hadn't seen a whole lot of TV at some time in your life.
What amuses me is that people jump at the chance to tell me they don't own a television, even when it's not what I asked.
I own a television but its roof aerial was crumpled to uselessness when the house was tented for fumigation back in '19. If I want to watch anything on it, I have to plug my computer into it. --Anthony Probst
Don't quite get the context, but I imagine if skip a few generations you can image a young person of unknown gender taking their eyes of their device and their gizmos out of their ears for a couple of seconds to reply curtly "I don't own a television"
ReplyDeleteWell, that's sort of the point. Even twenty years ago, before streaming easily brought TV to whatever device you wish, people could watch TV series on DVDs on a computer,. And even before that, well, the fact that you didn't own a television rarely meant that you hadn't seen a whole lot of TV at some time in your life.
DeleteWhat amuses me is that people jump at the chance to tell me they don't own a television, even when it's not what I asked.
Interesting
DeleteI own a television but its roof aerial was crumpled to uselessness when the house was tented for fumigation back in '19. If I want to watch anything on it, I have to plug my computer into it.
ReplyDelete--Anthony Probst
That's an interesting story! But I bet you don't take every conversational opening to let people know your TV sort of out of commission...
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