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kinda got tired of how they played up the nobility of burrell and rawls

ha i was kind of getting mad at myself at how mad i get every time shakey revives that thread. ilx should never have baited him by digging the wire, i guess.

I don't even read those threads intentionally and I get it - Shakey hates the wire. We ALL get it.

I don't think he DOES hate the wire, he just doesn't love it.

Well I hate the Wire and I haven't seen it. Seems like one of those smug things, something to signify to people that you have an s.o. to snuggle up with on the couch and watch a DVD set with. For starters. And if it sympathizes with narcs I'm just not there.

Half-serious.

It sympathizes with everyone, really.
Even you. Specifically you. There's a fourth season arc about you.

I get around.

something to signify to people that you have an s.o. to snuggle up with on the couch

this is RONG because I watched all of The Wire when I was single!

yah that post is almost worse than shakey mo's -- at least he pretended to try giving a shit about it

xpost so you'd have something to talk about with all of your couple friends

do you hate it when people talk about tv in general cuz it reminds you that you're single?

what about like... eating dinner

that too?

time-warner often turns off hbo if they discover you're single

couples watch the wire together?!

all the people that i know are fans of it are deeply, deeply single. they're very much single.

would take two steps back from a person at a party that describes themselves as 'deeply single' btw

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xxpost Dude, yes. It's like you guys have never heard of this DVD box set phenomenon. The couples work through each disc on the couch and eat snack food? And they can tell their friends, "I don't watch TV"? Y'all are playing dumb.

aww, we did this, though we don't say, "I don't watch TV." In fact, it helps ameliorate the non-TV-watching superiority complex/condescension issue, because, now we actually do watch TV.

i have heard of these fabled creatures but have yet to meet them....

xpost When I said I was half-serious I was serious. I am annoyed sometimes at this phenomenon as a status/happiness signifier, but most of the time it's just a normal, normal, normal fact of life.

Actually, we didn't watch the whole thing together - often, we'd start on a season, and I'd watch multiple episodes after my better half went to bed.

To Omar? I really thought it was practically their exclusive domain. Except I had a roomate last year who watched a buttload of M*A*S*H DVD sets on her laptop all by herself, despite having a boyfriend, but she took forever doing it, I guess, one or two episodes at a time. Despite that it was sort of a depressing activity for her to be doing. Although we didn't have TV, not even an antenna.

xp - what is a status/happiness signifier? couples watching tv shows on dvd together? watching the Wire in particular? Cuddling on the couch watching stuff while eating snack food?

I watched one episode of Thirty Rock and an Ernst Lubitsch movie with my last girlfriend. With the one before her I was pretty well annoyed with screens and monitors at the time. I think we watched Being There?

the shows i've watched on dvd solo outnumber the ones i've watched with my fiancee about 10-1. i feel like my friends who watch tv on dvd are always doing it alone with a bottle of liquor or a fully packed bowl.

Sarahel: Oh, it's just something I've been thinking about lately. It's less about what's actually done than how it's communicated.

Thinking about, like, last four or five days. Noticing what is broadcast and the effort to broadcast it. Previously I think I noticed and was annoyed but wasn't sure why.

At this time in my life I wonder what I would do without the Internet. I would probably join the campus chess club.

xp - we have a lot of the same tastes in movies and tv, and like watching them. I think there are only a few things/or types of things that we'll watch solo.

bamcquern you are coming off a bit like a creepy weird itt

Don't care.

xp jim: I don't think so ... but I think we need more Rongness

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Up the rongness! Where's Morbs? Where are our contrarian brothers?

There's one.

can i just tell you how much i enjoy eating salted snack foods on the couch with my girlfriend and our dog as we watch entire runs of Homicide/Dexter/Breaking Bad/Mad Men/The Wire/Sopranos/Lost/Deadwood/Top Chef? Honestly.

we actually eat ice cream while doing this ...

ice cream > salted snack foods

the shows i've watched on dvd solo outnumber the ones i've watched with my fiancee about 10-1. i feel like my friends who watch tv on dvd are always doing it alone with a bottle of liquor or a fully packed bowl.

Three glasses of wine and an oatmeal raisin cookie actually.

ice cream, salted foods, tubs of crisco... we eat em all.

the shows i've watched on dvd solo outnumber the ones i've watched with my fiancee about 10-1. i feel like my friends who watch tv on dvd are always doing it alone with a bottle of liquor or a fully packed bowl.

this is not far from what i meant by "deeply single"

i have never watched a show on dvd alone or with my wife. 90% of the time my tv is there for background noise, i kinda don't want to put any effort into it. also i like the randomness of just turning it on, flipping a few channels without planning what to watch

i will admit that we stay on the lookout for new series.
Kinda eying Warehouse 13

The Wire isn't exactly snuggle-inducing fare ... probably the only one of this type of show that is less so would be OZ. Of course, there could be couples that like to cuddle while watching prison rape ...

I watched The WIRE with two of my colleagues from work, and we'd have pizza and bottles of wine and dig into the WIRE DVDs one night every two weeks or so (and we had a Hopkins drinking game where we had to drink whenever the university was mentioned on the show). But my partner hated The WIRE so he wasn't part of that. I do snuggle and snack with my bf on the couch while watching The Venture Brothers and Mad Men, so . .. guilty as charged, I guess.

Yes, but do you cuddle during scenes of prison rape? I dunno ... maybe Shakey does.

Yeah, and my point is really that I have always thought Jay-Z is enjoyable enough but has been consistently overrated. I don't think he's had some massive deterioration in quality; I think people have gotten tired of the one thing he does, which is mutter into the mic and say "uh-huh" a lot.

― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Monday, October 12, 2009 1:20 PM Bookmark

would have been quicker just to write "i don't get rap" imo

oh gee you sure shamed me

this guy