>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.

Not to nitpick, but doesn't watching TV use energy? The TV you watch it on isn't stolen, is it? Well, there you go. When I said "everything costs," I meant *everything* costs.

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

Pretty much. But I didn't need all caps to say it. So, please settle down.

>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.

Okay. Whatever you say.

>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.

Fair enough.

>>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.

Fine.

*I'm snipping the rest, all the way down to:*

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

This is all you had to say in the first place. Instead, you presented a laundry list of reasons why you weren't going to watch. Blockbuster costs too much, I'm not going to buy it sight unseen, blah blah blah. All you really had to say was, hey, not that I'd pay to see the UK version anyway, but I'm just not all that interested in it. End of discussion.

>No, but if all the people who love the BBC version hate the US
>version,

Who here (beside possibly bignick), said they "hate" the US version? We may not be as fond of the US version as the UK one, but if you've been in the huge Office post, you'd see that there are those who still respect the show, just not as much as the UK 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.

But how would you know unless you don't try? I have no respect for that laziness, I'm sorry.

>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.

So, you're not even allowing for the possibility that you'll like the UK version. You've made your mind up before you even saw an episode. Not only is that lazy, that's rather ignorant to boot. No "big difference" there. But hey, do you.