Kill your television... kill other people's televisions...

[flexagon]

Ha ha ha! We have a houseguest and he's brought this delicious keychain into our lives. Apparently they're all kinds of fun.

For those too lazy to click, imagine a tiny remote control that does nothing but turn off televisions -- small and unobtrusive enough to take into all your favorite restaurants, laundromats, airports, et they-seem-to-be-everywhere cetera. We've ordered two of them already. Heh heh. :)

HLM and our houseguest suggest that I start a tv-free community on LJ. Possibly worth trying, though a) it probably wouldn't take off and b) I'd hate for it to turn into another stupid rant community.

UPDATE: a comment on my community_quest post informs me that televisionfree already exists -- and by the way, it doesn't look especially ranty. I think I'm off the hook.

Comments

[flexagon]

Haha. That is funny. How are you avoiding making them the focal point of every room? Or are you just not fighting that?

[jg26.livejournal.com]

I would guess that it is the point... to never have a room where you're not looking at a TV.

[flexagon]

Maybe so... but it might also be to never have a room where you couldn't watch TV. That's actually different (a little) than ending up with all your furniture pointing straight at the things, which is something that bugs me about a lot of living rooms. We'll never know unless hiddenbear can stop laughing for long enough to rejoin us. :)

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Went away for the weekend and didn't have time to form a response.

The answer to your question is that I don't try to make it anything other than the focal point in my living room. My living room is for either a) laying on the couch watching t.v., b) eating dinner watching t.v., or c) using the computer with the t.v. in the background.

I almost never watch the t.v. in my bedroom. It's there in case I am really tired some night, but am in the middle of some show that I want to see the end. In which case I can go to bed and pretend to watch the end of the show, but actually just fall asleep.

The t.v. in my guest bedroom is there because there is no other place for it. When I have to give back the t.v. in my living room (lent to me by a friend), it will go back in the room it is supposed to be in.

For me, the t.v. in my living room is the only thing that makes the room worth being in. I rarely have friends over. And I'm single. So I'm normally in that room alone, with no one to talk to or look at. So I eat dinner with the t.v. on, and relax at night with the t.v. on, etc. etc.