>>>>Blockbuster and Best Buy cost money
>>>
>>>It's money well spent, believe me. And nothing comes for
>>>free, holmes.
>>
>>How does watching The Office on NBC cost me money? It only
>>costs me time and opportunity cost. But no money.
>
>Sure it doesn't. Keep believing that if you wish.

Please explain how watching the Office on NBC costs me money. Please. I need to know if I'm spending money and don't realize it.

To my knowledge, watching The Office on NBC has cost me $ 0.00.


>>>Everything you buy is a direct result of what
>>>you see on TV.
>>
>>That's total bullshit.
>
>No, it isn't.

Let me make sure I understand what you're saying - EVERYTHING YOU BUY IS A DIRECT RESULT OF WHAT YOU SEE ON TV.

Jesus Christ man. If that's true for you, I feel bad for you. It's most definitely NOT true for me. I don't really buy anything based on TV advertising.


>>I don't buy things based on what I see
>>on TV. I know you're referring to advertising and all that,
>>and I'm not claiming to be totally immune, but my choices at
>>the grocery store, music store, etc have nothing or very
>>little to do with my TV watching.
>
>Now *that's* total bullshit. Tell me how it is in that little
>vacuum you live in.

It's not a vacuum. I'm just saying advertising doesn't dictate what I buy. I buy whatever's on sale at the grocery store. I rarely buy clothes for myself (it's mostly my wife and family) but when I do, it's not something fashionable I saw on TV. It's whatever I see that looks like me. Other than food and clothes, most of my spending is music (not advertised much on TV), books (almost never advertised on TV), and DVDs (sure, they're advertised on TV but I don't usually buy the popular ones that are on TV).

Maybe one big difference between me and most people is that I don't watch much TV at all. I don't have cable, so I only have six possible channels to watch (NBC, CBS, Fox, ABC, UPN, WB). And I watch 1-2 hours of TV a night, AT MOST.

So clearly I'm not the TV advertising zombie that you think I am.


>Dude, you are a consumer. Everyone is. Own up to it. You're
>not above it, so stop.

I admit to being a consumer, but not a TV advertising zombie. I'm not immune to advertising, but I'm pretty close. At best, advertising merely lets me know about a product I might not otherwise have known existed. But it rarely convinces me to buy something unless I already wanted it.


>Of course there's also another option, that being BBC America,
>which is on cabl-- wait, you'd have to "pay for that." Or,
>let me gues, you "don't get that channel." Well, too bad for
>you. That was how I was first exposed to The Office.

Yep, no cable.


>Then there are other, less legal methods of geting DOWN with
>the show. But you two keep LOADING up the excuses, eh?
>
>(and, because you're apparently too dense to use your
>imagination, I'll tell you to take a gander at the all
>capped-words in that last sentence).

Pretty obvious what you mean. But since my only PC is at work, that's not a good option for me.


>Let me know if you come up with any more excuses so I can
>shoot them down with the quickness.

The bottom line is that I'm probably not gonna check out the BBC version.


>>And what kinda sucks about
>>renting TV series is that Blockbuster charges you for each
>>disc (though I guess it's still a good deal because each
>disc
>>usually has over 2-3 hours, more than the average movie).
>
>"Cry Me A River" (c) Justin Timberlake
>
>Ever heard of a little business called NetFlix? Doesn't
>Blockbuster have an online service? Don't both offer free
>trials?

Too much effort to sign up and quit just to see a show I'm not all that into in the first place.


>Excuses #2 and #3, shot down. Got any others?

The best excuse of all - I'm just not all that interested.


>>>That's a crock of shit, and you know it. And even if you
>>have
>>>a few folks who do (allegedly) talk that shit, so what?
>>Fuck
>>>them.
>>
>>Well, it just makes me think the shows must be really
>>different.
>
>Ooo, it's "different," so it must be "bad," right?

No, but if all the people who love the BBC version hate the US version, and I love the US version, it seems likely to me that I won't like the BBC version. At least as much as the US version.


>>And if I love the US version, why bother?
>
>Because if you're going to join a discussion about the two
>versions of a show you should probably see them both before
>chiming in?

Ideally, sure. But I said all along I'd never seen the BBC version. So I wasn't deceiving anyone.

I also never said the US version was better. I just said that I suspect I would probably like it better, IF I ever saw the Brit version. Big difference.



And that you've run out of excuses for your
>laziness?

It is laziness, but it's also a show I'm not all that into seeing (BBC version at least). Otherwise, I would have made the effort.


>(and before anyone else chimes in claiming that people have a
>choice to not watch the UK version, they certainly do, and
>they can also choose not to make excuses about why they
>haven't seen the show but are %100 sure they love the US
>version, unquestionably).

Not having seen the UK version doesn't have any effect on my love for the US version. If anything, it makes me better able to judge the merits of the US version on its own accord, rather than having to compare it to another version.