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Drill out your pepper seeds?
On 2/8/2013 12:08 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "gtr" > wrote in message news:2013020807360671161-xxx@yyyzzz...
>> On 2013-02-08 10:29:10 +0000, Ophelia said:
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>>> No, they weren't watching it. It was just on and the sound very low.
>>> The
>>> were chatting to us all the time and never once watching the tv. Had
>>> they
>>> been watching it, I would have made an excuse and we would have left.
>>> Other
>>> than the tv being on, it was a most enjoyable visit.
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>> I'm sorry, I don't follow the logic that has turning to TV off become a
>> violation of some kind of social norm. But then maybe you're talking
>> about attending something with co-workers or the bereaved, I don't know.
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>> I don't know from hanging out with "not exactly friends" and a TV. As I
>> ponder this further it occurs to me that none of my friends have the TV
>> on, regardless of the sound level, when friends are over, unless we are
>> watching a DVD or a movie as a group, which is quite the rarity.
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>> We entertain a lot and our friends do too. But then they are friends, not
>> something else. So for my unique situation, asking someone to turn off
>> the TV never happens because it's not on. Like just as impossible for
>> others but not a problem at all is the music which a number of people
>> have
>> playing on a stereo. If it's too loud, someone asks it be turned
>> down, or
>> be changed if it's too "peppy" or turgid or something.
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>> On a number of occasions in discussion groups (my movie group), people
>> have asked it be turned off. It is, and amazingly without a great
>> deal of
>> angst, hand-wringing, negotiation--none of that!
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>> But then most of my friends don't really watch a lot of TV though we do a
>> lot of reading. I suppose that's now officially "elistist", reading
>> books.
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> I don't think i am getting through here A neighbour invited us in for an
> evening! Just me and my husband. Nice people. I just made a comment that
> they obviously keep their tv on as a matter of course. They are not
> particularly friends, just nice neighbours. The sound was not intrusive, it
> just seemed odd. We enjoyed our time with them.
>
LOL
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