>>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.

Good point. You got me there.


>>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.

It just seemed like such an extreme point needed to be highlighted. It's hard for me to even imagine buying everything based on what's on TV.


>>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.

I guess so. I was initially cosigning with Will though. After seeing and loving the first season of the US Office, I thought to myself, hey maybe I should check out the BBC version, it's probably good too. Then, for all the reasons I mentioned, I decided against it.


>>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.

Not sure if the word hate was used specifically, but that's the impression I got. Because so many people here talk about how bad it is compared to 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.

Fair enough. But at least it's laziness born out of a relative lack of interest at this point. It's not like I'm dying to see the show but I'm too lazy to make it happen.


>>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.

Well, I'm allowing for the possibility that I'll like the UK version, I just don't think it's likely that I'll like it better. I think I would probably be amused by it, but mostly because it somewhat resembles the US version that I love.


In any case, you like the UK version and think I should watch it. I love the US version and have a litany of reasons why I'm too cheap and lazy to bother with the UK version. I guess it's a stalemate or something. :)