The number one reason why white people like not having a TV is so that they can tell you that they don’t have a TV.
On those lonely nights when white people wish they could be watching American Idol, Lost, or Grey’s Anatomy, they comfort themselves by thinking of how when people talk about the show tomorrow they can say “I didn’t see it, I don’t have a TV. That stuff rots your brain.”
It is effective in making other white people feel bad, and making themselves feel good about their life and life choices.
Though these people often fill their time by talking with other friends who don’t watch TV about how they don’t watch TV, looking at leaves, cooking, reading books about left wing politics, and going to concerts/protests/poetry slams.
Generally this makes them very boring and gives you very little to talk to them about. It’s important that you NEVER suggest they are making a mistake or that there is a value to owning a TV. You should just try to steer the conversation to allow them to talk about how they are better than you.
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people who don’t have TVs don’t like sports and people who don’t like sports are essentially assholes
love the generalizations! keep ’em coming! (ps i don’t have a tv, am mostly white, and like watching sports at the local pub or friends houses. did i mention that i don’t have a tv?)
Wow, I’m white and I don’t have a TV either!!! I do however, have free high-speed internet access from my university and I am able to enjoy all of the wonderful shows of abc and nbc for free online! (can you still watch TV without cable?)
Cheap white people now wish they were able to watch the Daily Show but want to avoid cable bills, and in the absence of television must be satisfied with the bits posted on youtube.
Yet they do have the advantage of being able to talk about not having TV while not admitting that they’ve seen every episode of Lost online. When will everyone catch on? I suppose that former white students will be found spending 3x the amount that others spend on cable on an internet connection that will permit adequate viewing online.
i’m black…i have a tv ..but it’s not plugged in, and i like sports,i just don’t have to watch all the games on tv..it’s always better in person.
but TV IS EVIL
I stopped watching TV a few years ago… too boring. Teh intratubez is far more interesting. I dunno what’s on TV these days, and I don’t give a shit.
The audiences at the slams I’ve been to were mostly poc.
Funny piece, but in my experience the minority who doesn’t have a TV is busy doing other stuff. They’re not boring, it just means everyone else has to try harder instead of falling back to ‘did you see last night?’
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I own a TV but only use it to play video games. Many white people like video games, and use them to channel their natural desire to bomb brown people in a constructive, non-violent fashion. This way they can avoid the guilt normally associated with racist violence while committing it in their heads. One minute I’m strafing a terrorist mosque, the next I’m at an anti-war vigil hitting on asian women.
White people get off on being anti-technology. It makes them feel more outdoorsy and environmentally responsible.
My computer/laptop is my TV.
I wish I didn’t have a TV. However, I do like comedys and watching old TV like Land of the Lost and Transformers.
Haha, Lori, you make it seem like someone can either own a tv or an internet connection.
For the record, I don’t own a TV. I grew up watching way too much of it and it kind of sucks. You’re a total lazy asshole if you just sit around watching TV.
By the way, take a walk at night in any white suburban area, though, and you’ll see the blue and white lights flashing in their homes. I mean, I thought we were generalizing here! Let’s get at least more than 5% of the population down.
Please, please publish this blog AND all of the comments posted about it in book form so that I will have something to show my son that exactly replicates all of the douchbags I have had to live amongst all of my life. How passe is it to read this very accurate and totally hilarious blog and then… get upset at the author rather than laugh at yourself? Do I only think this is funny because I am a white person who has lived in Hawaii and in Asia where people can routinely actually develop a sense of humor about their own cultures? What kind of dildo actually posts “For the record, I don’t have a tv, you’re a lazy asshole… blah, blah, blah” on a blog post that is making fun of that exact position? Why can’t anyone just laugh? It’s funny.
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I’m white and I don’t have a TV. I haven’t had cable in 13 years. I never talk about it though. I just hate TV and all those shows you listed. I watch movies on Netflix though. Yep, Netflix rules. Even when someone says “have you seen that show” I just say “no I haven’t” if I can help it and don’t mention anything about not having TV. I’m partly cool but too lame to hang out with you, right?
I have a TV (used only for games or movies), but I don’t get any channels, mainly because everything on TV sucks so badly these days (not counting reruns of good shows, which came on a million times already), even static is more fun and less degrading to watch.
Dear White People,
I’m sorry it is hard to feel cool. It’s great being as white-washed as I am, yet still be so nicely Asian that white people immediately think I am cool when I meet and talk to them at a party. However, this didn’t stop me from getting passed over for a promotion last year. So I guess you guys still win. Fuck all y’all.
Love,
A banana
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this website is really cool, but I have to say, its characteristically white of you to mix humor and invective/critique until no one knows which is which any more.
I cant decide if this website is more appealing because it forces people to realize how we really are (Im sure everyone is saying, F*** thats me!!) or because people enjoy the subtle attack on those who carry this stuff too far, and/or perhaps there is some element of class warfare in that more middle class people can rail against upper middle class people. What niche are you filling, or are you filling all of them? At any rate, I like it.
Perhaps this is too much analysis? Well that would be typically…
these kind of white people sometimes have a tv with a dvd player in the closet that they use to watch movies and tv shows from netflix. or they watch tv shows on their laptops. and then they go around asking their co-workers, “did you see that episode of the colbert report when he tried to ask the republican congressman to name the ten commandments, and the guy couldn’t do it?” to which their co-worker might respond, “no, i don’t have cable.” to which the white person will respond, “oh, neither do i, i don’t even have a tv. but i watch colbert on the internet. you should have seen it, it was so funny…”
(i know this is true because i’m white, and i do this all the time. it makes me feel so special).
Well, I have a tv and it’s on all the time, I just never really watch it. I catch my pc input by osmosis as CNN is the soundtrack of my living room.
lolll i love how all the white people post the comments to talk extensively about themselves and how they dont have TVs and why..ect.. hahahhahahah
This is great, so true. I actually have a TV but no cable and love telling people that I only watch PBS and netflix!
youtube is my tv….
I happen to Love my Giant oversized HD-TV.
Of Course, i use it for video games, and watching Movies, and not watching Sports.
Sports are Boring.
I like this blog but it can be a bit too generaliseing. There are many Subsets of White people. For instance, i’m a Nerd. Very different from A Jock.
I love poetry slams and tv and poetry slam poems about tv.
Love it.
This is from 2005, but I think Seanbaby already summed up the point of this whole discussion, including the comments, with this piece of writing gold:
“I don’t normally talk much about television, because I’m trying to break into the scientist business, and you look smarter if you brag about how you don’t have a TV. Sometimes I’m so smart I don’t even know what a TV is. To me, the words “Perfect Strangers” might as well be “Tingle Dingle Banana Man” because I don’t know what you’re talking about. That’s how smart I am.” – seanbaby.com
That phrase, “Sometimes I’m so smart, I don’t even know what a TV is,” is the quip I sling anytime I hear some tool talk about how they don’t watch TV. Murders them every time, and as a bonus, *I* get to be the witty smart person!
For the life of me I’ve never understood how these “TV Haters” can sit around and watch movies all day, as if that’s somehow better. You’re still just sitting motionless for hours, staring at light dance across a screen. I cannot see how that
is any more productive than watching television.
It’s clear to me now. To the author, white people = liberals.
I’m better than anyone who watches TV. And I am white as the driven snow.
I used to not have a TV, and was damn proud of it, until I moved in with roommates who insisted on having a TV. Even now, I only use it to watch whatever is on Bravo.
Um…if liberals don’t have televisions, how can they control the “liberal media.” That. Makes. No. Sense.
And who the hell is watching all that television? Lazy minorities?
If you meet a white person without a television (the kind who can afford it. others like to complain about how they cant and its the republicans’ fault. i’m a liberal with a tv), immediately ask them about The Theatre. Spell it the British way.
Man, I was starting to feel bad about myself. My EuroPass trip in college, drinking tea, love,love,loving my iPod Touch….
My whole life reduced to a stereotype of someone just keeping up appearances.
But I’m a raging atheist who won’t live without her digital cable box with built in DVR. Name a TV show. I’ll describe the plot of the pilot and who guest starred. So, see, I’m a unique white person who can feel superior to other white people who think they’re unique and superior. Wait. What? Oh… shit.
NIGGAZ BE LIKING TA STEAL TV”S!
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I have a TV but no cable connection. I use it for watching DVDs that I pirate from Netflix.
If I could get a low cost cable package with only the channels that I like (BBC Amercia, IFC, Sundance) then I’d seriously consider it.
I used to have satellite radio. That’s deativated for the time being because I’m a peniless college student and I try to drive as little as possible. If I get a job where it is impossible to bicycle or take public transportation and I’m forced to commute then I’ll probably turn it back on.
P.S. A few times I have watched tv episodes on the computer but not frequently. My DVD collection also consists of a few TV series’ like The Prisoner, The Young Ones, Little Britain, and a bit of Red Dwarf.
Without a tv I use the projector my exboyfriend left me to watch my anusara yoga videos and julien schnabel films.
This blog is a fantastic work of art. I’ve been pegged, and pegged hard.
I have never had a TV. If people talk about TV (but they hardly ever do), you just make up stuff. Oh, wait! there’s the TV at the sports bar. Covers football and such.
Ha! This is so true! Only reason I don’t have a TV. Well, that, and I can’t afford one on my non-profit salary. Yes, that’s it.
there is a guy at my work who is undergoing renovations and does not own a TV and inssits on sharing especially about the not having a TV part. I couldn’t relate but did my (just smile and nod at the white person) thing..
I can’t believe how accurate this site is!!!
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i havent watched tv in a while because i lent it to some people
but i miss some cartoons that i enjoyed, how is it that it seems like cartoons nowadays are somehow even better than when i was a kid
but as an adult i must do my best to conceal the shameful habit of watching cartoons
I love tv
This reminds me of those people who don’t have a microwave. Shudder.
Haha! I don’t have a microwave OR a tv, and yep, I like to brag about both of those things. Well, actually, I do have a microwave, but I use it as a bookshelf.
And wait, I’m not white.
What the hell am I doing here? Oh yeah, this blog is funny as shit.
You could say that but everyone uses random things to say that there better than people. Like not getting pregnant while in high school. Or choosing not to do drugs. Its your personal choices and you comparing them to other peoples personal choices.
OK maybe this is the post to bring this up – I love the satire in this entire stuffwhitepeoplelike blog, but perhaps it is useful to re-name it and think of it this way –
This is a FLAKE list!!!
i.e many of these are more culture than race dependant (though obviously white dominated). I’m a liberal white guy from the midwest who moved out west (so my threshhold for “flakiness” is probably pretty low compared to the liberal white guy from California or Oregon). So to square midwestern me, I label many of these behaviors (organic foods, Yoga, NPR, etc…) as…. FLAKE!!!! I developed my own “flake” list a long time ago. Perhaps best described in this form –
YOU MIGHT BE A FLAKE IF…
-You do not own a TV (this was at the TOP of my flake list, hence I posted this here)
-You won’t eat a cheeseburger
-You don’t watch NFL football. (baseball, basketball, or hockey may be freely substituted here, but NOT soccer. If you watch or participate in soccer – at least in the U.S. – you are a flake)
-You worship Macintosh computers
-You listen to NPR
-You look on in horror when someone throws a pepsi can into the regular trash
-You ride a bicycle to work
Anyway, this is most of my original list I made years ago, I did not necessarily attach race to it, but I understand the association. This now 76 item blog is brilliant!! Great work and great satire!! I can now add at least 20 more items to my “flake” list! (but your list is so much better). Of course the irony (I know, irony is on the list) is that this square from the midwest has by now taken on more than a few of these behaviors…. and I heard about this blog on NPR.
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I remember back in grade school that there were a couple of kids that were not allowed to watch TV. They were socially retarded in that they could not discuss the trivial shows that the rest of us took to be so importantj. They were picked-on as they didn’t understand any of the buzz-words or catch phrases that originated from the (beloved) boob-tube. I’m sure that they are rich doctors now as success is the best revenge, but their childhood was (non-TV-referenced) hell!
To me, if you don’t have a TV, your out of your mind. My fellow white peeps get a TV, it makes for good conversation outside, at the bar, at work, you know what to talk about, pop culture, current events…and not just to watch stupid things, but you got food tv, the history channel, discovery channel, you can learn something…take a break from that “good book.”
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SO TRUE LOL
stuffanonymouspeoplelike: being humorless assholes
A lot of white people don’t like to appear “low income”. So if they can’t afford cable and a nice size TV, their fall back excuse to respectability is they dont “need” TV anyways…
Of course appearing more righteous, pure, and holier than everyone is also something white people strive for. So being unblemished from the “evils” of TV (TV representing all the bad aspects of society and establishment), definitely works toward that image.
I recently got a huge HDTV with an cable plan upgrade coming soon. But honestly not even being a snob, regular TV especially daytime TV is a big estrogen influenced industry so I can see why guys wouldnt take to watching TV.
I don’t watch television. Notice how I use the word “television” and not “T.V.” That’s because “T.V.” is a nickname, and nicknames are for friends, and television is NOBODY’S friend.
I don’t watch TV and don’t like watching sports… Also, I am not white. So maybe that makes it ok… LOL!! Great post.
You left out white people like me that have a TV but watch TV by downloading it from bittorrent and watching it on the computer, even when it’s only 1 or 2 hours after it has aired. Man, I’m a goldmine for this site.
Oh man – I’m so not-white white. I have 4 televisions and two vcr’s. and two dvd players. I even watch TV when I’m in the kitchen cooking.
You forgot that the main reason we like not having a TV is not only because it rots your brain, but because it gives us more time to listen to NPR and use it to make even other smart people feel bad because they just watch CNN.
As previously noted, some people don’t have a TV because we bootleg everything from the internet.
i’m a white guy who has a tv, but i don’t watch it because i don’t have cable or local channels, nor do i have a lot of time or intrest to devote to television programs… i usually get my essential sportscenter at my girlfriend’s house, my parents’, or at the gym. where does that leave me in the grand scheme of devotedly trendy white people?
by the way… where is the blog about white people liking sportscenter? trust me, we love it.
Sorry, TV is the glue that holds my marriage together. We spend way too much time making up ridiculous drinking games for lame TV shows, making fun of people on reality shows, and getting turned on by the munchies on FoodPorn…I mean, FoodNetwork.
If anyone wants to contribute on an American Gladiator drinking game, feel free. So far, I drink every time Hulk Hogan’s mustache grosses me out…which is every time I see him.
Thank you for calling out this phenomenon. I am sick and tired of bringing up a Sopranos reference and not having people get it. The fucking Sopranos! It single-handedly made TV good again. Missing The Sopranos or Arrested Development or The Office or Curb Your Enthusiasm… I can’t imagine it.
And I love it when people say they don’t watch/have TV. My response: “Oh yeah, I forgot, you’re reading all seven volumes of À la recherche du temps perdu. How’s that working out for you?” Then I dare them to name a book by Dostoevsky besides Crime and Punishment. I always win. Ha!
WOW WRONG I HAVE 3 BIG SCREEN3 AND 2 SMALL TV’s
lol High def too lol i must not be white any more
o and books suck
dare that
I have a big screen TV but I don’t have cable or satellite. I only use it to watch movies. I think I must be delving into some yet unmapped white person territory there.
i don’t mind telling you since you’re strangers, but the fact that i don’t own a tv is a highly guarded secret around people who know me — primarily because if it ever comes up, they try to give me whatever pos tv they have sitting in their basement, like i’m a shivering orphan and they have a spare coat.
im a white college person who plans on not having a t.v. when I leave college. at least it will be one way of having a non-standard looking living room (ie. tv-less). Besides, I’ve managed EASILY through college without having a t.v.
b.t.w. lots of your posts are really hilarious. my white friends and i love you. keep it up.
I didn’t own a television for years, but that was because I was a poor starving public school teacher with student loans and couldn’t afford cable. And yes, I casually dropped “oh, I don’t own a television” into conversation all the time, but never did I say that I didn’t watch it. My pre-television owning days were spent watching Desperate Housewives at my neighbors apartment.
Hey, I don’t have a TV. Now I do shit with my life instead of pissing it away watching televsion. Like reading blogs.
Does that make me better than anyone? No, it just makes me less bored.
I don’t have a TV, so I don’t get most of the references you’re making. I haven’t watched TV for the last 25 years. I’ve never seen Sarah Silverman or Arrested Development or most of the other things you’re talking about. The last time I regularly watched TV was when I was a junior in high school.
But maybe you’re only talking about white people under the age of 30? Or age 25 or something like that?
I hate to break the news to you that I’m the only white person I know IRL who doesn’t watch TV. Old white ladies love it more than life itself and sit in front of the tube about 16 hours a day. People do claim they don’t watch TV but then they can relate to virtually any reference to it. It’s like being a “California vegetarian” which means you only eat meat when you feel like it.
Way to steal the onion’s joke and make it not funny!
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fucking bullshit… most whites own tvs
White liberals like to drop the “I don’t have a TV” bomb on other white people in the hope of invoking white guilt about watching TV.
Generally I’m glad this one became prevalent enough to deserve it’s own entry on ‘Stuff White People Like.’ It’s a reasonable response to the previous paradigm where everyone did have a TV and the previous nights shows were discussed a little too much.
I don’t own a TV because I’m the visually-addictive type. It used to go on at 5:30 and not be turned off till 1am or later. I’d be falling asleep at school or my job the next day. I’d get nothing done with a TV in my house.
The initial shocked-and-nervous withdrawal behavior that comes from walking into your rooms and not turning on TVs is pretty illuminating. Your house will seem really uncomfortably quiet at first.
I alread tolk!?
I don´t have a Tv, i´m better than yours
1 of my white best friends years no longer has a tv in his room. matter of fact, he literally told me “i don’t think i’m gonna watch tv for a while. i’ll read more” and i said “WHY?..you’ll miss ‘family guy’ and ‘scrubs’. HOW WILL YOU SURVIVE?” and he said “i’ll have to give this whole idea more thought. but for now, i wont watch any tv.”
the best part is when white parents proudly talk about how they don’t let their kids watch any tv.
their kids are gonna end up as cultured mini-adults who will never know the joys of reminiscing about tv shows they watched in their youth. i mean..as a college student, it’s almost ridiculous how much me and my friends enjoy random conversations about “doug” or “salute your shorts” or the original “power rangers”.
the no tv kids will just stand there looking dumb and left out…albeit overly proud that they’re “above” us because they read the news paper growing up. whatever, i read the paper too.
i think to broaden your children’s minds and to not include tv is actually limiting your child’s imagination. i mean, if all you do is read books, you only see things through your eyes. to watch a tv show is to see things through the directors’ eyes..or the writers..or the actors. and it expands your mind to the world around you. i mean, tv IS a window to the world. where else can you peek in on new designers getting their start in nyc (project runway) and the national news in georgia (cnn) and then people remodeling homes and failing miserably (hgtv/tlc)?
no tv = sheltered. and you know who is/ was sheltered? creepy homeschooled kids and britney spears.
i have a small tv but dont pay for cable, which i get free anyway, but still hate current programming.
i also work in the tv industry, but still hate current programming, and so dont watch tv when i am home.
im thinking of getting a bigger tv, mainly for appearance, but promise not to watch tv unless they change the current programming, in that case i guess id have to change my job.
which would mean i wouldnt be able to afford a bigger tv, and would have to make do with my small which i dont watch anyway, because i hate the current programming.
I don’t own a t.v., am white, and spend time eating organic and reading books on right-wing politics. Hmm.
I know white people who own about 7 tv’s. So much for that observation. Just to let you know, the people you know as white people are a very tiny minority. I have two tv’s but I only watch PBS and informative channels. That other shit rots the brain. he he!
I dont like poetry readings. They tend to be full of Maya Angelou wannabes with dread locks. What is up with black poets and dreads.
Hilarious… I was just talking about this in my yoga class tonight. We all couldn’t wait to chime in about why we don’t own a television. Did I mention that I love to tell people that I do yoga?
Also… I think the whole TV on DVD thing really lets white folk us off the hook. We get “no tv bragging rights”, but still actually get to watch TV on our DVD’s hooked up to our TVs (or on our apple computers)… and we can get them on Netflix.
This blog makes me feel like I belong to something… it’s nice to know other white folks think like me. Thanks. good work.
classic. i don’t have a tv. but i always tell them that its because i am too cheap to pay for cable. that way i can boast about being frugal. this makes people feel like shit. then i say that i am too busy to watch tv because i am so busy going to the gym and applying for graduate school. oof!
best line: “looking at leave”. oh how i know so many hipsters that this applies to.
best line: “looking at leave”. oh how i know so many hipsters that this applies to.
You must be judicious about to whom you reveal that you don’t own a television. Your old fraternity brother will think you’ve gone fruity. Mention it to your co-workers free-spirited roommate, and you could be banging her within the hour.
i live in a large east coast city, and after having thought for a bit i literally don’t know a single white friend, acquaintance or family member that doesn’t have a tv. i mean, satire has to have at least a grain of truth…
“American Idol, Lost, or Grey’s Anatomy”
LOL WUT. Only white people watch those shows! So where are they coming from if none of them have TVs?
Also, I thought white people were the only ones buying HDTV.
Once again, you’ve proven that you’re not referring to white people in this blog, but rather maybe white hipters/yuppies.
Americans are soooo weird.
You guys can actually tell who is ‘white’?
And you care?
Dont you all have siblings and grandparents and cousins who are every ethnic background imaginable on this planet so that no one is actually sure what colour they are anymore? (Like Canadians do. We can’t tell anymore)
Sheesh.
Probably you are having sex based on paint chip cards right? Ecru goes with ecru…lets see…. eggshell and snowdrop, oh dear, that would not quite match…. ummm… chocolate with oh dear could that me milk chocolate and dark chocolate having sex or would the baby be too hard to classify?
I am a white living in Bucharest, Romania. You are right, I do not have a TV.
I happen to know a particular white couple that brags about not owning a TV because they claim there aren’t any thought provoking programs to watch. Funny that they don’t hesitate one second when I invite them over to watch my flat screen LCD.
all i have to say is that if i were to make a site like this abot black people i would be called a racist.
and fuck whoever wrote that liking concerts and pretty much everything but tv makes you boring. most of the white people who don’t have tvs are college kids and they can’t afford them because they spend their money on drugs and other recreational actvities. you know what’s boring (and poorly written)? 90% of what’s on tv.
and how come black people can say cracker? if you want equality then don’t gloat in your new found freedom, you’ve been able to vote for over 30 years, get over it, move on. we are not the people who enslaved you, that was a long time ago.
i like this site but sometimes it goes too far and is offensive towards white people as opposed to funny (and tue).
I don’t have a TV. I have a projector that my old roomate left when he moved. It’s like a TV that I could run through my VCR and watch TV through, but I just hook it up to my computer sometimes and watch movies on it. I had a TV that I borrowed from my girl but we got in a fight and I gave it back to her and was like ‘I don’t want your stupid fucking TV in my house’.
Growing up my mom didn’t let me watch TV cause she said it rots your brain and I was only alowed to watch 3-2-1 contact and shit til I was like 13 but my dad would watch howard stern sometimes when my mom was asleep and we’d laugh at Chesty Westy and her 40F tits.
I’d always ask my mom what I was supposed to do all day and she’d say “be creative, use your mind”, which mostly led to me sitting in my room for hours staring at the wall bored out of my fucking mind. But TV definitely does have an affect on your mind. It’s like cigarettes. When you stop watching it for a while and then start again it’s disgusting. Then you get quickly hooked and can’t look away until eventually you start thinking the bitches on flava of love and the people on elimidate are normal.
When my parents finally caved and let me watch TV when I was 13 or so and got cable a year or 2 later I spent every second watching it. I couldn’t handle it, it was like crack to me. It was like moving to a new continent and being exposed to some virus that all the natives have built up an immunity to. Right now I’m more addicted to the computer and have only watched TV a few times at my girls house for the past 2 months, and I feel pretty good mentally and my mind seems calm again, but i’m feeling the boredom start to creep in again. Like you said it’s hard talking to people cause they all seem pretty nutty and mindfucked from the TV. Acting like some dude on the real world is normal for them and keep feeling like an alien visiting a planet that’s gone crazy.
What is ok, however, is renting said TV show on DVD when an art professor/art critic recommends it for you while critiquing your work.
I’d watch the one at my apartment if it weren’t busted.
Enough already with proclaiming use, non-use, or limited use of television. Whatever, it’s a handy home appliance, like a toaster or a telephone, that can be utilized when needed. If you’re in the mood for a movie, sit-com, video games, etc., you can just switch it on, or not. It’s your choice. It’s there when you need it. Just like the rest of us, you hypocritical TV haters were glued to the TV on 9-11 … or did you wait for the book?
Yep, no tv for me…that shit rots your brain.
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I’m white (and I live in New York, which is apparently a really white thing to do 🙂 and I don’t have a TV for many reasons:
-lack of $$ (or rather using the money for live entertainment – concerts, shows, etc.)
-lack of space
-lack of time to watch (you know cost/benefit analysis!)
I do miss it when there’s breaking news, and I’m not judging because I think there are some brilliant writers out there, especially for shows like 30-Rock and The Office, but I think people depend on TV to much for socialization (“let’s discuss life imitating life imitating life”) and unwinding and/or self soothing…how about a glass of wine and a good book to relax!?!
Feels nice to post – I had to defend my choice to not have a TV daily to ex-boyfriend (who very efficiently did have one :)!
Hey, Mylosh, you’re right. I don’t like sports, I don’t watch TV, and I’m proud to be an asshole.
Love this one. We don’t have a TV because we can’t afford cable. But we DO have a super sweet 24-inch HD screen. We watch DVDs. And we watch sports at other people’s houses. Hillarious.
Except I’m not really sure when I’d have time to watch TV — too many other things going on. I haven’t gotten through the list, but you should add “Being uber-busy” to the list.
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I have so many friends like this! Sack up, hos, you know you love trashy TV. Don’t be so pretentious my fellow white people.
Embrace it.
No one has said anything about commercials. It’s the commercials that suck, not the TV! With DVDs, you can focus in for at least more than five mins and you don’t have to listen to some tool screaming at you to buy something. So I use my laptop (which I bought), instead of the TV. And I don’t tell anyone else I don’t have a tv, except for the million of you reading this.
xo,
white sterilized vegan atheist yuppie lawyer: railing against the Establishment by night, defending it by day
I’m starting to think the comments need to be turned off on this blog.
The sheer number of people (the commenters, not the white people referred to in the posts) who just don’t get it blows my mind
I call the TV the Talmudvision, and sometimes the “jewtube”.
I love it, and especially all those office-supply commercials that make White males look totally stupid to their intelligent “black” bosses!!!
I like the VW commercials that show a White, Asian, and Black as “close buddies” in the same car.
I love TV, it’s so real!!
This post seems to have touched a lot of nerves. I proudly admit that I like TV yet I am also smart and I have good taste in music and books.
I especially love those “Entertainment Armoires,” the big cabinets for the living room where you put the TV but can close the doors to conceal it. That way, you can feel superior and intellectual (“no TV, I only read and listen to NPR”) and sneak viewings of American Idol when your friends aren’t there. They’re so pretentious, as the shape so clearly advertises its contents.
I listen to the wireless.Does that make me colourless?
I hate the smug satisfaction non-TVers radiate. It makes me want to shit on my fist and punch them in the neck.
TV is awesome. It’s also not “all crap,” as some have suggested. I mean, come on, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” anyone?
I’m too broke for cable. I’ve got a spool of wire plugged in to the TV as an antenna, and that works for me for the moment. I do miss real TV, though.
why is everyone making excuses if they do have a tv? are we really that insecure that if a website says its stereotypical to have not have a tv, then we must make excuses of why we do have one, well, i have one, but its not mine, its for a lazy friend of mine….. come on, haha. who really cares? its all in good humor,
I prefer to read, thank you very much.
I guess that makes me better than you, inferior TV-watcher. Ha!
I am a Peace Corps Volunteer AND I don’t have a TV. Nevemind that I have internet in my home. I’m white, and I’m better than you.
(laughs hysterically)
I don’t have a TV, and yet I find myself to be very interesting!
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I have a tv antennae attached to my computer. I didn’t have tv or internet when i first moved into the apartment. When I didn’t, I read alot, used the valuable 3D software, learned how to knit and practiced playing the guitar a great deal. Now that I have TV and Internet… it just fell off the radar. I watched a great deal of tv up until the writer’s strike. I just watch the news and play computer games(Zoo Tycoon is fun!). I look at my lovely guitar with guilt one in a while.
My sister, a white environmentally-savvy gal, doesn’t watch TV and absolutely adores talking about how it melts your brainstem, yet she Netflixs some shows and watches them later. Evidently watching CSI is only bad for you if you watch it at it’s programmed time slot.
Well yeah, it’s like chewing gum for the eyeballs…
*goes and watches Scrubs on the interwebs*
… besides the computer isn’t such a hideous piece of furniture.
ahh this is quite true but there is more to it then just what is explained here they, or should i say, we make up a infinitely small group of people that are better then everyone else.
I need my TV so I can watch reruns of The Cosby Show.
It lets me into the workings of the black mind.
They’re so much like us!!
😮
Um, actually people who have TV are boring because all their lives consist of is other people’s- i.e. reality shows, etc
TV is a tool for fools – those w/o TV are the ones who are actually thinking and have more interesting things to talk about than “who licked whose butt on Survivor”- Yap, that’s advancing the human race alright.
Granted there are some great aspects to TV – creativity (very limited these days) and channels that teach idiots about fish deep in the ocean, etc – otherwise they wouldn’t know a world existed outside their own trailer
I don’t trust people who say they don’t watch TV. What are they afraid of? I guess it could be addicting and/or rot your brain. …. if your brain easily rotted …..maybe if you just sat around watching Southpark & Spongebob (and white people LOVE Southpark & Spongebob) all day that would probably speed the putrefaction process.
We have a really crabby white newsman in my area. Like alot of white people, he hates everything. I would hate to miss seeing his sarcastic remarks every morning if I didn’t have a TV.
We have 3 TVs but I guess we really aren’t that white….except my one son who is blond. My other son & I would probably be sent to a death camp if Hitler were still around because we most likely wouldn’t look white enough.
My ex would always say he didn’t watch TV but then he would spend hours in front of his stupid computer then complain because his back hurt.
are you implying there is ANY benefit of having a TV, whatever color you are?? TV exists to pump ads in our brains and my brain simply doesn’t need all that in it. If you want to watch a TV show or read news you can get it all online (minus the ads).
Anyway, I spend my TV-free time with activities like mind boggling sex and drug fuelled parties in my penthouse… But I suppose this is all too boring to talk about, so I won’t give details… Much more fascinating to talk about what happened on American Idol 37 last night but alas, not having a TV, I don’t have the requisite background to engage in those conversations… To feel better about myself, I might have to go on seclusion – maybe to a small town on the Greek or Turkish coast and lie in the sun and snorkel a bit…
I am the black friend of many white people without a TV, and this is hilarious!!!!
I’ve got a 60 inch 1080p LCD Plasma. great for HD-PORN!
anyone up for a nude game of twister?
advance the first round: lights go out and the strobe light happens. lots of fun and twister-riffic-sex.
I’m so white I don’t have TV or an internet connection at home! I just leech off my company…
Another thing about white people. They are always worried about their brains “rotting”.
If you don’t have a TV, how are you going to watch home improvement shows? I guess if you aren’t a home owner you might not be interested.
How are you going to rent a DVD and cozy up with someone to watch it? (let’s go crowd in front of the computer honey)
How are you going to watch the Hitler…I mean History channel?
Watch the travel channel to find out some more places you might want to go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can do some of that stuff online too but why limit yourself?
Just don’t sit there watching Spongebob all day and you will be fine.
Jesus. Get over yourselves.
And speaking of ads on TV, I need that stuff. I don’t want to sit hunched at the computer researching it. I want to be spoonfed. HAHAHA …just kidding.
Without TV ads then how will I know what’s on special at Sonic?
OMG – this is so true!
I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve made some casual reference to television equipment or a program in front of a group of “white people” at a party or other occasion, only to see them fall all over each other and foam at the mouth in anticipation of telling me how little interest they have in television. In fact, they have so little interest, they will go on and on and on and on about their lack of interest.
You will get a better reaction in a group instead of one-on-one, because people will actually attempt to one-up one another about their contempt for television. “I gave up television completely two years ago.” “Oh yeah, that’s nothing, I gave up television ten years ago.”
I’m busted–AGAIN! This site has pegged me so many times…
I’m a white female, American by birth, spent my twenties in Japan, Australian citizen after moving Down Under and marrying a local. No, I don’t own a TV. Enjoyed watching TV in Japan (helps you learn the language). Meant to get a TV when I moved to Australia, but never got around to it. I’ve never seen ‘Friends’ or ‘Seinfeld’
Put my foot in my mouth recently at my new job–I switched off the TV in the lunch room and announced that television was evil. My new boss looked shocked–she said that she loves all television, and that she and her husband download American TV shows that haven’t been aired in Australia yet. She’s fanatical about Gray’s Anatomy. ‘What do you do if you don’t watch TV?’ she wanted to know. Umm…ride horses, read, swim, Pilates (real white people stuff!)
It’s frightening–some of the admin drones at work gather in the lunch room to watch Oprah at noon every day. During the commercials, they talk about the TV shows they watched the night before.
I must admit that when I housesit or stay in a hotel, TV is a treat. I really like the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and South Park!
Why watch TV with commercials when you can watch a lot of shows online without them for free? I cannot have commercials interrupting segments of Rob and Big, it’s just not acceptable. The faster I get to find out if Meaty took another dump on the floor, the better.
everyone has one. get over it.
I have a couple TVs, but I don’t have cable.
That stuff rots your brain.
Ultra-white-guys like me set up media servers on their xboxes and shit.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694
The Onion link (#142) is hilarious and totally spot on. Exactly what I was talking about (#137).
Annoying, pretentious f**ks!
Cable is expensive! Fuck Comcast!
I’m not smart enough for the irony here…
“If I could get a low cost cable package with only the channels that I like (BBC Amercia, IFC, Sundance) then I’d seriously consider it.”
This whole post is a joke, right?
Yo Clander – you forgot TWO huge things white people love:
G U N S !!!!!!!!
VIDEO-GAMES !!!!!!!
White people love to blow shit up. I hate hunting animals but people, thats another story. Show me a fucked up arab or communist bastard and I’ll shoot em’.
“Remember Guns don’t kill people, I do.”
But how do they watch Monty Python if they don’t have a TV!?!
I love how everyone took this chance to say they don’t own a TV
I don’t have a TV not because I hate TV, but because I LOVE TV. Too much. Some people can’t handle their booze or smack. I OD on TV. I am a problem viewer. I’d be up all night, every night, with the remote, looking for a better program.
I don’t look down upon recreational viewers who can watch TV and still function in other areas of their lives. I look upon them with envy.
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The Daily Show sucks!!
Maybe this has to do with where I live (Ft. Worth, TX area), but I don’t know any white people without a TV.
Not that I don’t think that post is funny. I’m just wondering where all these TV-less white people live.
Furthermore, a lot of these things don’t fit white people in Texas, and certainly not small-town white people in Texas. Is this a region/class thing as much as a race thing?
Enjoy the blog. Keep it up.
Sincerely,
White Guy in Texas
I’m a half white and I own six TV’s and usually watch it from 6 pm till midnight if I’m not on the computer looking at porn. If I were all white I guess I’d own twelve TV’s and watch it 12 hours a day when I’m not on the computer looking at porn.
I’m no couch potato but not having a TV is crazy talk. You must be talking about New Yorkers who are too busy enjoying authentic ethnic restaurants, theater and irony to have time to watch TV.
one more white boy with a TV here!
i’ve got a TV, but i rarely watch anything but movies, it’s more like a monitor with a VCR and DVD hooked up to it. i’ve got cable, but it’s a total sham, nothing decent on any of the 200 channels.
the news sucks, commercials suck, and most modern sitcoms suck. i like movies though, you can choose what you watch instead of being stuck with whatever crap the TV is spewing these days.
my parents don’t have a TV, but they are a bit freaky. i always went down the street to watch TV with the neighbors as a child.
i’ve got to agree with the statement that “TV rots the brain”. lots of propaganda on TV. it’s everywhere else too though, so just ditching you TV isn’t enough to stop the brain rot.
Haha, I’m white. I have 2 tv’s and a projection set.
Who has time for TV? I’m so busy driving my Prius to Starbucks for a double expresso soy latte and purchasing organic vegetables for my Asian fusion dinner party that I can’t be bothered to know that the biker chick got voted off American Idol.
Our driver Julio has a TV in his living quarters, but my Spanish isn’t as good as his so I’ll never get one. It seems like so boring, and everyone chatters like Guatamalans. I like American language things. OMG why is TV such a major deal if it’s just for servants?
I looooooove my HDTV, Comcast, and DVDR! My hubby and I watch all the time!
But, I used to have friends who were so snobby about not having a TV. But whenever they visited, they totally took over the TV. And they always watched crap like Jerry Springer. They were also healthfood freaks, but would eat all my M&Ms!!! Bastards!!
Needless to say, we are no longer friends…
I have a tv, but it is usually used for games by my son. Tv takes up too much time, sort of like this darn computer. I have better stuff to do and I’m here reading these blogs. Love “Corner Gas”. It’s the only show I really watch.
Read Food of The Gods by Terence Mckenna, it has a nice section on TV and how it is the #1 drug.
“not having a TV is crazy talk”
Of course, we all know to be sane, you must have a TV and buy into the projected perception by government and corporations. No, the people who parrot mindless garbage from their televisions are the ones who are insane. If you are so easily lulled into conformity, I want nothing to do with you.
lol its so true …. except for the Poetry Slam thing ….. i hate Poetry as much as a hate TV
Ohhh look at #162 too f’n cool and cultured for TV. I love you advanced white types. I know people like you who pretend to be above the common things in life but I can’t get you out of my media room when you come over to my house. I also…..prepare yourself…play video games and sometimes have completely mindless fun. Get over yourself and stop living in your head 24/7.
I love telling friends who do this how they are missing out on Top Chef. Whites also love gourmet cooking…so this really messes with their minds!
Dude tv is what you make of it. If you are an easily swayed moron than you will buy into whatever is on, but if you have any ability to think for your damn self you can watch the stuff that interest you and not be forced to ‘conform’ to the man. Moral of the story is that tv is just another form of entertainment much like books or poetry or the internets and there are crappy books crappy poems crappy websites. And one last thing its not like you don’t get exposed to advertisements online or at the bookstores or even worse some smelly hippy poet trying to sell you some crap he made. Moral of the story if you don’t like being entertained then you wont like tv- to each his own
We went 8 years without watching TV. We actually HAD a TV, but didn’t watch it. That made us even cooler white people because we were disciplined enough not to turn it on. Mostly people would say “hey, it’s like that commercial with the duck, or the gheko or lizard or whatever…” and I’d say I never saw it and watch the conversation stop… kind of like the Dean Whitter commercials we never saw.
Anyway, I started watching American Idol season 6 so I would have something to talk to my daughter about. Now my daughter says this year “we don’t watch TV any more”. Snotty kid. So I don’t have anyone to talk with about who will win… Carly or David A.
My boyfriend hates TV, but all his golfing pals were always bragging about their pricey new HD plasma TV so he got a deal for $64,000 on a 103″ Panasonic and had it modified in West Palm Beach into an aquarium. OMG his buds at Medalist won’t talk to him now (jealousy, probably) I watch TV now but the fish have difficulty turning around to so it gets boring.
When people say “We don’t have a TV” – I want to yell “YOU’RE NOT BETTER THAN ME YOU PRETENTIOUS A-HOLE!” in their face and then kick them in the groin (regardless of their gender).
I’m white and I would make sweet love to my TV if I could figure out how.
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Hmm, I did a little mental polling with my mostly white friends and found that the only friends I have without televisions are my two Asian friends…. both married with kids, and considerably better off financially than myself. Maybe they’re secretly whiter than me.
We have two small tv’s, my husband gets tv-envy when he visits my brother’s huge LCD TV.
If I had enough money for a huge LCD TV, I’d go to Italy or something. :0)
When people tell me they don’t have a tv, I always want to respond, “Really? They’re quite inexpensive these days.”
so true man… or they can tell you how they’ve transcended TV and dick around on youtube or some new-fangled way of watching their reruns of tv shows for free online. Basically telling you how much smarter they are and cost-effective.
im white and i loves me my maury too much to not have a tv
Wow, I read about ‘hating corporations’ (#82) and suggested writing about not having a TV in my comment and only afterwards looked at the list to find you’ve already got it covered. And so many other things I do (but also many I don’t). Awesome! Do you work in marketing? PR? What do you call us people? White is too generic, my parents don’t fit the bill, and many my age don’t either, but some up into their 50’s might.
Anyway, another trend I noticed, and it’s mostly outside my peer group, is just the oposite: TV is on all the time, nobody really watches it, it is is just somekind of background flicker and ambient noise. What do you call those people?
…can’t help it: ADS SUCK!
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I don’t have a TV, but it’s not because I don’t like TV shows – it’s because I can’t bear the frequency with which TV shows in the US are interrupted by commercial breaks. I suppose I could buy a Tivo or something now, but I’ve got out of the TV habit.
I don’t think I’ve ever brought the subject up in conversation, but it is quite amusing to watch visitors stare into corners of the room in the belief that there must be a TV hidden in there somewhere.
I am white, don’t watch TV (haven’t for years), and I hate sports except on the radio. I find listening to John, the radio jock for the NY Yankees guarantees me eight hours of absolutely peaceful sleep; about one half inning does the trick.
There IS something soothing about the knowledge that, while you are reading a book or listening to the radio, a concert of serious music for instance, 99.99% of your fellow citizens, the assholes of the world, are ruining what little brain they have left watching some idiot like Bill O’Reilly or Walter Cronkite pontificate about things he doesn’t really understand.
I am convinced that it was TV that gave us the Cretin From Crawford, the worst president in history. You could easily get the TV crowd to elect a dog if you promoted him long enough. And I believe the same dimwits actually thought Bush was telling the truth when he launched his aggression against Iraq. They are so stupid they will believe anything….as long as it comes from their TV screen.
I pooped my pants
thank you for proving the point of “white people don’t have tvs”.
I don’t watch t.v. Everything on it is part of the ongoing effort to make us all mind numbed slaves of the New World Order.
Draft Ron Paul for President.
ahahaha, starting our you post saying “i dont a TV’ on a post that says white people like to not have tvs really says something! we know you’re white, you don’t have to go on explaing it.
we know white people feel that they are enititled to every other person to listen to the crap that comes out of their mouths (messing with white entitlement would cause chaos) but saying, “i watch TV online” or “I don’t watch a lot of TV” would be less annoying to anon-white person.
thanks in advance.
The site should really be “Stuff Pretentious Rich Liberals Like”. Only complete assholes are thinking “F*** thats me!!”. It should also be noted that the people the site is making fun of feel obligated to agree and have a chuckle at themselves. The author must be having a hell of a laugh at the expense of idiots like yourself.
OR, we’re out playing sports instead of being a fatty WATCHING sports.
Bravo
Its not so much the tv its the idiotic commercials that drove me to get rid of the damn thing.
You can see anything you want online in 2/3 the time whenever you want and I like that you tend to actually use your brain when you don’t have the option of sitting infront of the tube.
I think it might actually be evil though.
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This is the most accurate description of all the white folks I know that don’t have tv, or at the very least, don’t have cable. Personally, i have a television but no cable. I watch the local news on the three channels the rabbit ears pick up (abc, nbc, and cbs), but this won’t work after the new year without a new connection, which I will refuse to buy. Thus I will be left with my high speed internet that my landlord offers free of charge and be content with my netflix.
Stupid 70″ plasma TV. If it weren’t for this damn thing, I could afford a Prius. Thank God for my Cliff Bars and Odwalla juice.
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Have you ever tailgated at a football game? There is a 1:1 ratio between how much you like sports and how much of a fat, alcoholic, loudmouth asshole you are.
Hey Clif bars are delicious
I’m interracial (black and white), and don’t have a TV at home, but I do have one in my hybrid Escalade.
yes but how fat are you is the most important question.`
No no no no..
what white people really like is to say they have a TV but don’t really watch it.
2 people live in my house. We have 5 TVs in the house! And 1 in the garage.
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considering the digital box is free from local cable providers, i have a feeling you will be watching abc. nbc and cbs with no problem in 2009.
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White people do like having TV’s. How else, beside watching Discovery or the History Channel, can they prove how much smarter they are than everyone.
C’mon we have all heard this “man I hardly ever watch TV unless its the Discovery Channel or the History Channel”.
Or they like having a TV to claim they don’t watch it.
Or to say “yeah man I watched like five minutes of that show once and it was stupid”.
TV will always be a good tool to show how much smarter you are than the common man.
did you really say this to every post?
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great post. and the best argument for myself to bite the bullet and cease watching tv as well. thank you.
I love the “I don’t have a tv…well, actually I do, but I don’t have cable” line. What does that even mean?
Damn. Never realized I was an asshole until tonight. And I’m a new Netflix subscriber as well! Haaa!
I miss the days when episodes of various Star Trek spin-offs were on EVERY DAY! And the Simpsons. My two favorite shows. I got rid of the TV after one summer when I had first moved to a new state to be with my now husband, and he was gone working an outdoor job on an endangered bird species. I’d get home from my boring job at a youth non-profit, which was pretty slow because my programs all tracked the youth during the school year and this happened to be the summer, and I’d turn on the Simpsons for an hour. And then I’d watch an episode of Star Trek, and then prime time would be on, which back then was Roswell on Tuesdays and ER on Thursdays, and Friends, and then I’d watch murder and mayhem on the local news, and then a scary national news show about more murder and mayhem, and sometime in there I’d fall asleep, and have weird dreams about murder and mayhem. Sometime in there I realized that the people on TV were not as interesting to me as people I could really interact with, so I put the TV away and got out more.
Now I am a teacher, and my colleagues all know I don’t have a TV, and some of them don’t either, but plenty of others do, and they talk about what they watch on American Idol and the Daily Show. I don’t mind.
My main reason for getting rid of the TV was its numbing effects on my brain in isolation. But I think sometimes people need downtime, however that is achieved. My father and my father-in-law keep passing me spy thrillers in book form, and that is pretty mind-numbing too.
Is TV bad? For me, yes. So I’ve made that decision for my child as well. My husband, who grew up with TV and was worried about giving it away, often says, with wonder, “How did I ever have time for the TV before?” Maybe a TV would make folding the laundry less boring. Who knows.
it’s true that the computer can be just as time-consuming, if not more than tv, but no one can truly argue that tv gives you better things to talk about with friends and makes you more interesting. not having a tv isn’t something that white people do, it’s something that people do when they find better things to do with their time.
In the 50s and 60s, TVs were useful to make poorer neighbors feel inadequate.
In the 70s and 80s, various snobberies formed around whether your set was colour or not, whether you owned more than one, and if you saw the newest MTV video (cool), Britcom on PBS (cool and intellectual) or if you owned a VHS/Betamax/laserdisk player.
In the 90s and 00s, you can be snobby in new ways: brag about how many (rich), how big (rich) or how flat (rich) your set is, or how you never watch it ever (smart), only watch movies on it (smart), only watch certain channels (smart), like it on only for background noise (smart), only watch via TiVO to avoid adverts (smart) or how you don’t even own one (smart and also v. v. busy socially).
I’ve lived without TV for years, watched certain channels only, used it as a movie player, and watched addictively. I got neither more or less wealthy, nor smarter or more stupid, no matter what my viewing habits were.
Not caring what others think about you is more smart than taking a stance pro- or anti-TV. Watch if it makes you happy, don’t watch if you have better things to do, and shut up about it, because no matter what you say, it will sound like either excuses or bragging, and no one cares.
White people also like to say they don’t have a tv when they in fact don’t have cable but have a tv and dvd player
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no you are an asshole for thinking that
Correction:
People who dont have TVs are Playing sports..People who have TVs are stuck watching us who do not…
Assholes aside, you can either be a player or a spectator.
I see you have made your choice. Enjoy the game!
Thanks for this one. I get irritated whenever one of my friends fills out a questionnaire on a social networking website with the response “I don’t watch TV.” Even if it is true, it smacks of snobbery. There may be 57 channels with nothing on, but there’s a 58th (or 508th) with something interesting. You might as well say “I don’t read books” or “my brain is full.”
Television is just a medium. Intrinsically, it is neither good nor evil. One cannot achieve holiness merely by scrupulously avoiding contact with cathode ray tubes and subsequent technology.
how do white people SIMULTANEOUSLY like not watching TV but also love the Daily Show and Cobert Report? they must ge their fix on the internets or something…
i think the error you made here is the diffrence between having something to talk to someone about, and having something worth talking about.
mylosh u fuckin real tv sucks buy this shit dont think watch non sports american football for pussies baseball cricket for cunts
intelligent people talk about ideas niggaz talk about fried chicken but dont forget the rice and peas or the piss
you are gay
Nigga pleaz!
Maybe non white people need to have a web site down talking people who have better things to do with there time than mindlessly watching some rediculous and unrealistic tv show.What ever makes you feel better about not having any kind of real substance,originality or intelect.Tootles.
Because as we all know, there’s no such thing as an elite, professional athlete who owns (and watches) a TV, or plays video games, for that matter. Schmuck.
I’m with them on this one; commercials SUCK.
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Wow. What an asshole.
He’s right though. People who watch TV end up like you. And that’s bad for the country, because people like you go and vote.
We haven’t had a TV in 30 years. Originally it just happened that way. We were young and broke and busy. But then we noticed that life was fine, maybe better without it. For one thing, I lost weight without a TV. Less time sitting on my ass, more time to go to the gym, and less time watching commercials that lured me into eating junk food. I’ve never seen a commercial for steamed broccoli.
Watch a video of a kid watching TV and you might throw yours out the window (I saw one once in a class on child development). It’s a little scary. Our kid learned to read quickly and grew up just fine. He has a TV, which is entirely his business.
We really don’t do it to make anyone else feel bad, although people are always justifying themselves to us: Hey, did you see such and such, well we don’t have a TV, and then it comes . . . I don’t watch a lot of TV, I only watch the news, I only watch PBS, blah blah. I hear the average American watches 4-5 hours of TV a day. I don’t know how anyone finds the time. Do they have trust funds?
There are shows I enjoy, like Project Runway. I catch them very occasionally in hotels and on Jet Blue. When I surf around I’m often shocked by what I see. And the “news” is terrifyingly dumb. I agree with the person who says that prevalence of TV is part of the reason we have an imbecile in the White House. He’s just one more expensive, useless product that we’ve been sold that does us no good, like an ab roller or a Hummer only much more dangerous.
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I don’t have a TV. I like to tell other white people that I don’t have a TV. The worst part about not having a TV though, isn’t missing shows that I really want to watch, but coming across a faker.
You know, the person that says “Did you see x last night?!?! It was uplifting to say the least.”
To which you proudly reply “Oh, no, I don’t have a TV.”
And instead of the air being sucked from their lungs so fast blood comes out, they reply “Oh, me neither. But it was still awesome!”
This new breed of non-TV-Fakers is simply unacceptable. I made the sacrifice, I didn’t get to watch Lost. Why is it you can and say you don’t have a tv?
And if you question them about it, they’ll make up some excuse. “Oh, I saw it at a friends house” or “Oh, I was using a public, energy efficient Maytag at the laundry mat when it came on.”
Bollocks, the lot of them. Its not exactly like you can call it either, like “Mind if I go over to your house and inspect it for TV like entities?” Mind you, more ’round the bush, but still.
Even then, they could hide the son of a bitch. Its so frustrating.
I’m getting annoyed just typing this, thats it, I’m off to go eat grapes.
#9 Making you feel bad about not going outside
Umm… I don’t have a tv and I’m not on hear calling anyone an asshole… I’m just sayin’…
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I agree people who dont watch sports are essentially assholes; but people who dont have TV’s are bigger assholes. I read all day at work, and go to the gym every morning. At night, I like to site in front of the tube for at least 2 hours. You cant make me feel bad for watching TV, and if you try, I will tell you to go F&^% yourself- And by the way, I guarantee I am in better shape than all you “non-TV owners.” I ran two marathons last year, and can dunk. (Only 6’2).
White Guy Sports Fan
I don’t have a telly, but it’s only because I can’t afford the fecking licence!
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I love white people who constantly brag about now having a TV but then will see every shitty movie Hollywood flushes in their direction. What is the difference between TV and movies? I also hate what is implied when someone states their non-TV owning status; as if that means they spend all of their time reading the great books canon (when they aren´t volunteering at Habitat for Humanity or teaching immigrants how to speak English). When someone tells me, “I never watch TV!” (and there is always an excited exclamation point at the end) all I can think about is that they don´t have time for television, what with all of their self-absorption.
No really, you’re a racist. 😐
Wha?
I can’t watch my DVDs or play my games without a TV.
FAIL.
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like Truth, Equality, and Justice?
http://www.survival-international.org
Not quite true. White people don’t say that it “will rot your brain.” They usually just leave it at “I don’t own a television,” and then give a superior smirk. Note however that this is even more effective if it can be combined with a story about how his or her parents didn’t believe in television. I’ve only lived in Berkeley for about nine months, but I’ve already heard this about twenty times.
…and people with inflated egos are the biggest of assholes of them all.
yeah… according to this site, I am less than 5% white. Sounds more like Stuff Insecure White Faggots like.
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I second this, strongly. I have no idea what I would do with 3 channels, let alone 900. Jesus Christ. I’m so busy just being BUSY and NORMAL and WHITE that I have no idea when I would find the time to watch two hours of television a night. Yikes.
As to the above statement about Lost, I just go to my boyfriend’s house to watch it. It’s not a big deal, really. Ha.
All I know is that me and my girlfriend and our dog sit and chillax on the couch at night watching CSI or whatever crud comes on. We don’t just watch TV, we chit chat about the days events, what’s going on with each other, family, etc. Also, of course, other things ensue–although doggy has to go outside for a while. The TV room is for much more than just MMA. 😉
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Got to admit, this is the 3rd time I’ve seen it and I’m in tears.
Low brow humour..love it.
I bet you have a Really Big TV and a really small……..?
Why can’t we make fun of ourselves by making fun of obviously stereotyped (but still fairly accurate) behaviors without someone bringing up racism?
Geez. Anyone who objects to this is the ultimate PC goon.
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I think it’s pretty short-sighted to assume that people who watch tv only watch crap. There’s actually a lot of high quality and informative programming available (Frontline, Leher News Hour, Booknotes, Flava of Love…wait that’s not one…well, you get the point). And it’s possible that there are folks out there who are visual learners, and the tv offers the best medium for learning information. Finally, it’s just not nice to assume a position of superiority.
This is moronic.
own a 42 inch plasma TV. Want a bigger TV so I can put the 42 inch in my bedroom for weekend mornings when I’ve had too much wine. I’d like to move the 20 inch flatscreen to the kitchen. Watch any and everything. Have season pass for NFL Football, NBA basketball and love college football and basketball. Watch ESPN, News, comedy….movies….anything. Love to play video games too.
I live in San Francisco, drink Sierra Nevada (microbrew) and love wine. I’m a huge fan of indie music. Currently listenting to a lot of Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, MGMT…etc.
…..where am I going with this?
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Damn straight.
Now don’t forget to wipe.
To the topic on hand… huh? I have never met a person without a TV. Even my grandparents! And they were immigrants! Piss-poor Russkie peasants!
This entry made my brain hurt.
…really, no TV?
Zing!
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seems like none of us have anything important to do
Objection!
I’m French,(white of course),cultured,and I hate Tv.
Only assholes have a tv.
Tv is not culturally correct,and if you want to impress someone,like exactly said in the entry,tell everyone you don’t watch tv.
Tv is for the people,not for the elite (I’m a leftist artist).
Tv is not in the spirit of Mozart.
Miles says as a child, Mozart WANTED to watch TV, but his father was so controlling, the boy was forced to stay at the piano. His music bespeaks the frustration.
Muff
I do not have a TV and this blog is SO accurate. I LOVE saying that I do not have a TV for the feeling of utter superiority I receive. It makes me feel light-years smarter than the average joe (self-satisfied sigh*). I also get an immense amount of satisfaction telling people that I read the book instead of seeing the movie 🙂
–self-satisfied grad student
“On those lonely nights when white people wish they could be watching American Idol, Lost, or Grey’s Anatomy,…”
I’ve never seen any of those shows.
The internet lets me keep up with The Simpsons, Family Guy, ATHF, South Park, and specials by Louis Theroux. But that only amounts to twenty hours per year.
I wish TV was good for the other 364 days.
There are also the white people who own a tv but insist they only watch PBS and Discovery Channel.
http://death-sentences.blogspot.com/
You’re the non-TV watching person who likes to pick up the phone and call all his friends all evening long. Friends that are just kicking back watching their favorite shows until interruption from the likes of you. Get a TV!
or how about we stop caring what people think and make our own choices…..freedom..
When you think about it, anyone who doesn’t own a TV, but spends time on computer blog sites is really rotting his/her brain just as much! 🙂
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Dang! I pride myself in being the Wrong Kind of White Guy, and will do much in the way of behavior modification to preserve my status as the Ur Wrong Kind of White Guy. But I’m afraid that buying a TV may just be the bridge too far when it comes to behavior modification. Maybe if I buy a TV, but leave it in the shipping carton and pack it away in a corner of the basement…
I went through a phase where I just HAD to mention the absence of TV in my life. My favorite part of the conversation was discussing how I had weaned myself from the evils of TV while studying abroad. A classic white person conversational double-play. White people are quite fond of study abroad stories. Lately, since I got a great deal on a giant new T.V. as part of a credit offer (don’t white people love talking credit ratings?) I’ve had to resort to insisting how the European and/or British versions of popular programs are vastly superior to their American counterparts. Don’t even get a white person started on the superior quality of foreign news services.
douche canoe
I am standing on my chair applauding you. This was perfect. I am nearly inspired to throw my TV out the window. Most of my best girlfriends do not own TVs and every single thing you have written is true… we talk about this all of the time.
(so true about the steamed broccoli commercials)
Some white people that do watch TV usually talk about how expensive and big their TV is but will not tell you that they didn’t pay the full price. Here’s where they get their fancy electronics.
http://www.culturallycool.com/refurbishedindex.html
You bit this one from The Onion.
I think it’s wrong when adults from the 80’s make their kids live without TV. I work with a lady that does that and her kids are miserable. They actually are not happy at all and the husband has to go to a friends house just to watch football. It’s crazy, There are bad things on TV and good things like current tv if you wish not to watch it then that should be on you do not make others suffer.
I don’t know of any people of color that does that only whites and I must admit that are very few of them that don’t watch TV.
http://www.culturallycool.com
not completely true.
i dont have a tv because I am to fucking poor to afford one.
it is however, fun to brag about it. >:3
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Oh my gosh! Yes. Poetry slams. Why aren’t they a separate item on the list?
Dude, this list is so way longer than 100.
I saw a guy being interviewed on tv who, when asked about tv said, ” I do not subscribe to that medium”.
White cultures have in the past century reduced the many overt ways that used to be exist for expressing status hierarchies, so now white people have to be content with coming up with such silly, arbitrary ways of expressing such.
True, but has a damn good point.
Another one who bought into the “visual learner” crap. Write-off.
Hi Banana, I swear you must be my Asian ex-gf?
yeah! Like being superior and pretentious.
evry wite friend i have owns a tv…
LOL — when I was in college I had a homemade sign up because so many people asked that said: “Yes, we have no TV” (with a nod to the song with a similar name)
We had a public address system instead and routed the stereo through it — we had some insanely loud parties. But only a few. 😀
Good times, good times.
Black people have got have TV and cable so they can get BET!
this is a humorous statement, i am white, i have a tv its a new flat screen lcd, but i don’t use it its just plugged in not mounted, taking up space on my floor, i don’t have a dvd player or cable or even it hooked up to my comp…. bebap!
These blog posts are both hilarious and creative, but I think the title of the book should have been “Stuff White HIPSTERS Like”
Free trade coffee, no TV, personal anecdotes of “poverty,” etc…all traits of the white hipster.
Pardon me, FAIR trade coffee…
The white people I know all have tv’s, but enjoy talking about how they don’t let their kids watch it.
I am white and I have a TV, but the only shows I watch are Conan O’Brian, Seinfeld, and Scrubs. 😦
I like this list, but this one puzzled me.
I don’t watch tv, and I don’t talk about it either. The same way that I don’t eat sh**t, and I do not talk about that either.
The reason it puzzles you is because you are the butt of the joke! Of course you watch tv. You pretend you do not. You are the joke!
yup. Not watching TV is super pretentious, but us white folk love to not do it and then talk about how we don’t do it. Man this guy is really good.
No, Joe, sadly, you don’t get it. Accusations of hypocrisy just won’t fly. White people don’t lie. Haven’t you understood that yet? White people (as defined above) don’t have, don’t watch, and never think about television–except, of course, for the Daily/Colbert show. And, therefore, except for D/C, they don’t talk about it. Like Gabriel was saying, TV (defined as ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ or ‘CSI’) is a kind of excrement: nasty, brutish and dull. Beyond that, what could one say? The fact that we don’t own a TV does not make it interesting for us. Landers has simply got this one wrong.
same with Lame Band Names. like my friend’s band is called Mallows of the Marsh, as in marshmallows. and Smashing Pumpkins, Tilly and the Wall, what? not that they’re bad musicians, just dumb names
I don’t own a TV, and honestly have no desire to watch the likes of American Idol. But yes, I do enjoy to telling people I don’t have one. In fact, I go one better: I also never fail to add that there are some shows I like to watch when I’m, say, staying at a hotel or house sitting. Shows like Frontline or NOW, or a good, critically acclaimed movie on cable. (Don’t say “foreign or Independent film”; you’ll give the game away.) Plus, I mention a few sitcoms I might take-in along with pro football and college basketball games. This approach allows me to congratulate myself not only on just how much I rank the average American philistine, but also on what a secure, easy-going guy I am to readily admit to indulging occasionally in a bit of low(er?)brow TV.
Robert
I think most of us enjoy this list until one of the items hits a little too close to home; then we become defensive.
Dear Robert,
I don’t have a TV but I only mention it if an asshole starts to bore me with a conversation about TV. I also don’t drink coffee so that leaves me out of that circle as well. I think the white people thing is a bit racist but hey, think of all those other groups that aren’t.
I’m mixed race so I can say anything I like.
Family viewing is good old cadaver covered with sperm, but real porn would freak them out. You can kill someone but you can’t love them.
i’m white. i’m not white trash, but you wouldn’t know it from the tv i watch.
it’s crazy: flavor of love, rock of love, girls next door, law and order. i do however draw the line at the hills: that show is rancid.
I would watch tv if I had one, somebody broke into my house and took it 3 months ago and I never replaced it, so now I just blog all day. http://www.revoint.com
I don’t own a television, but I will on occasion invite myself over to your house to watch yours instead.
…dude, what?
I’m white and I have 2 TVs. Every white person I know has a TV. I didn’t know white people liked boasting about not owning a TV. Thanks for enlightening me and keep up the good work. You’re too much!
I’m actually thinking that it stopped being cool to not pay attention to or own a tv a few years back, with the widespread acceptance of (oops! I mean, “co-optation”, right?!) of hipster culture.
For those of the hipster persuasion, it’s way cooler now to watch a lot of tv, and make sure all your friends do, as well, and then oh-so-savagely tear apart the shows that the “media machine” had the audacity to tell us to bend over and take. You know, the people who love to indulge in pop-culture drivel for the sake of “social inquisitiveness” or “meaningful cultural dissection”. See, they understand the ESSENCE of what the tv shows are telling us, much better than you do. Their tastes are SO high-minded and refined that they want you to know they can AFFORD to watch the mind-numbing swill on network tv, since they’re “in” on the joke.
I’m black and don’t have a TV,but love the hell out of real hip hop and soul music…Am I a freak?(yes,I LOVE Mos Def like the white people do.):D
I’m a white guy who owns a TV but doesn’t have satellite, cable or good antenna reception, but I watch a lot of movies, and enjoy stealing other other people’s televisions, then converting them into fish tanks.
there is so much crap on tv “reality shows” that it is almost not worth having a tv but then u could’t watch porn
i almost forgot fuck american idol
I’m a tv producer and I own a huge honking set. Being white, I like to go to dinner parties and bore everyone with details of my work. Then I lie and say I don’t even own a tv. This prompts some blowhard to call me a hypocrite. A loud and hostile argument ensues and everyone’s evening is ruined. Brilliant
Aha! I am just oh sssssoooo superior to all youz corportate ad slaves! Elitism, here I come! Joy!
Just watch instant play documentaries on Netflix. Who needs TV??
My favorite is when people, who I know for a fact watch tons of DVD’s of tv series on their laptop, boast on their My Space and other sites how they don’t own a TV, and they’re so above us all, unaffected by this crap, morally superior, blah, blah, blah. Ah, hipsters. Gotta put up with them.
…and then there is the super smug sub-species of #28. They work in tv, usually in very influential and priviledged positions of broadcast journalism — correspondents, anchors, senior producers. With a dismissive wave of the hand they love to announce at (#90 Dinner Parties) “Me? I never watch tv.” It gives them great pleasure to dump on a medium that pays them so handsomely.
So well, in fact, they can afford to indulge in pretty much every activity and consumption habit so cleverly listed on this blog. But NEVER point out the obvious to them. Better yet, tell them you are an accomplished non-fiction author living overseas, use the term ‘tipping point’ and then sit back and enjoy their fawning.
“Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison, we’d be watching TV by candlelight?” – Al Boliska
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Awesome.
One thing I have noticed is that people who don’t have a TV don’t call it “TV”. They invariably call it “television”, like they have so little experience with this strange device.
I don’t own a tv. Not that I think I’m better than anyone, I think I may have luckily been born with an imagination that keeps me busy with some extremely cool activities that are quite fun to discuss with others… that is when they can get over the fact that people like me actually couldn’t give a shit about what’s on tv.
I’ve noticed those same people who watch a ton of tv seem to also have a couch-sized ass.
Besides, I don’t like sales people (commercials).
Excellent job of proving the point Steve. But you’re missing lots of great commercials.
Ha Ha That’s so true though
exelent. thats fun.
you do realize that this is comedy, right?
you’re the person this post is making fun of. you just bragged about not owning a tv, douche.
This whole thing is crap – it’s not about being white. I’m not white and I did not grow in the US, and I can say that a good number of these things are “so me”. It’s a question of lifestyle choice – maybe more people like these things because they are white, but when you open your eyes, you will see that it is more tied to your lifestyle and socioeconomic status rather than color. Such a shame this blog has gotten so much attention – I should come up with a silly idea to get everyone’s attention too.
This sight isn’t about white people literally. It’s about urban hipsters and or yuppies. There are plenty of “culturally white” people of other races who also fit into the “stuff white people like” stereotype.
IT’S SO FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S SO TRUE!
http://www.mrcheapstuff.com/deals/2007/02/5-massive-benefits-of-not-having-a-television/
For me it was a decision between paying for cable or internets and internets won out. I miss television :c
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LOL I’ve experienced this ‘set’ of peeps who don’t own tv’s. I could NEVER live without my TV!
I though not having a tv was cool but now I can’t live without it sorry I love t.v. but the coolest shit is at http://www.revoint.com
I don’t have a tv. I’m white. But I don’t know anyone like me.
Probably because I’m so original 🙂
Ummm, most people who say they don’t have a tv….do.
who doesn’t have a tv?
tv is actually very educational
The best part is that if you have children, you sound like a way better parent because your children do much more productive things than waste time in front of the TV.
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I literally choked on my orange juice while reading this! They spend their times looking at leaves…
Leaves?! That is soooo funny!! And so true. Going to plays and protest all the while wishing they had seen that last episode of Grey’s Anatomy.
Big miss on this one. The only people I’ve seen without TVs are hippies.
Something White People (at least this White guy) love is Adult Swim on the Cartoon Channel. Wouldn’t give up My giant TV for anything.
I don’t have a TV because I can’t afford it right now. I wish I had one. 😦
I’m white and I have a 52 inch big screen in the living room. A 48 in flat screen in the bedroom. All 3 of my kids have a TV in their room and we have a TV in the game room. Any questions?
I don’t have a TV because I beat it to death. Thats why I follow people with car TV’s so I can watch it.
I was told that this is what I’m going thorugh: http://aliciapernell.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/successfailure-rate/
I have a TV but I usually only watch NOVA ;-0
This is funny. Guess my sister is white. LOL Oh ya so am I. But I have 4 tv’s some funny stuff here lol
also national geographic and the discovery channel
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I stopped watching TV because my late wife or my son always had the remote. They were not interested in what was on TV as much as what else was on TV. If it was something I might have been interested in, they skipped past it faster. I need my own TV because I like the History Channel and other boring stuff. This fall we are buying a large screen TV and Satellite dish. But I do LOVE to tell people I don’t watch TV. I feel so righteous.
What?!? A white American without a TV?!? Then they would not have anything to talk about. I find myself bored at white only parties because that’s all what people talk about. Unfortunately, TV rules America.
Perhaps if you didn’t watch TV all the time, you’d have more time to think of how to make yourself seem more clever and omnipotent. Also, your jokes might not suck such immense amounts of elephant shit if you tried thinking them up on your own, as opposed to flogging the eviscerated, rotting carcass of the horse known as “hippies and liberals”. Keep up the good work. Oh wait, disregard that last sentence. Unplug your keyboard and chop off your fingers instead, and sew your mouth closed with baling twine while you’re at it, so as to prevent the world from suffering the burden of the diarrhea and refuse you consider “your opinion”.
Ahh, thank you for creating this page! I get so tired of people trying to make me feel bad about watching TV, claiming it makes me a mindless zombie. I watch the History Channel more than anything!
I’m not saying TV should be your life, but don’t I absolutely hate those that seem to say “Why watch ‘Modern Marvels’ when you could be out curing AIDS?”…Fuckers.
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I do not have a TV, I listen to the Aus equivalent of NPR, and seem to do a lot of the shit that your chattering classes do.
However I can not stand lefty (liberal) bleeding heart politics, Toyota pious’s or Dutch Bicycles.
Hahahahahahaha!! I laughed so hard at this one. I know several white people with no tv’s for that exact reason. When they come to my house, their eyes are glued to it!
NOT true.
White people don’t like having a TV? I need to make more white friends, cause all of my white friends own a TV. Hmm.
I have a tv….
just not iin my room…. -_-
lol
but yeah thats one thing we do
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I have three TVs. . . and I don’t watch any of them.
That’s how much better/whiter I am than you.
Best shows for ripping into white people
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Seriously, this website is one of the most disgusting, useless pieces shit I have seen in my life. You spew facts which have as much depth as a kiddie pool, I don’t care because that’s just your own stupidity, but what ticks me off is you’re riling up a new generation of borderline retards like yourself, and stretching the gap between whites and black which so many strong, dedicated people have worked and even died to close. White people like Priuses and organic food, then I one can assume black people like fried chicken and watermelons? cut the crap and go back to school you fool!
don’t all black people like fried chicken and watermelon? it’s called a sense of humor, pull the stick out of your ass and smile for once in your life.
oh, snap! it is infinitely better to own several that you don’t watch! there is the added implication that you’re much too busy doing important stuff – kudos!!
Hahahahaa
relax.
It’s satire…
I LOVE fried chicken and watermelon…does that mean I’m black?
BUT! A lot of them have a DVD and will purchase entire seasons of Dexter/The Office and spend an entire weekend catching up.
Oh, this is great.
I actually don’t own a television, and while I will admit that I get smug satisfaction from admitting that fact. I will also admit, that I watch shows online and rent whole seasons on Netflix and watch them on my computer.
I really don’t miss all the commercials and needlessly dumb shows.
Well, this is funny… I haven’t had a television since April. Mine “died”. I bought one, hated it… returned it and bought another… hated it… got busy working so much, I didn’t get one. I never “bragged” about it at all though.
I actually avoided telling people that I didn’t have a television, I didn’t want them to know. My brother was going to visit “home” and stay with me. He’s really cheap. His son will sleep on the sofa and he will bring an Army cot. Oh, but when I told him that I didn’t have a television or cable TV anymore… he couldn’t handle it.
-Thomas (a white guy who caused his brother to start staying at a Quality Inn)
i don’t have a tv, and mostly get called out on this by other white people…are they the wrong kind of white people? i wonder…
I don’t own a TV. But my parents do and since I live with them, I watch theirs. Whoohoo!
Actually with the DVR these days, at least those of us with a few brain cells left can watch programs on our schedule and forward thru the commercials.
Not only do I have No TV, I actually have 2 no TV`s. Instead I read and Talk!
In the 21st century. Turn off the TV and read a book.
Nice post, thanks.
Probably just means you have some southern roots.
You do realize that you are indeed bragging about not having a TV, don’t you?
Not all non-white people can read; as a consequence of white people. Please refer to slavery and the expansion of the voting rights act of 1964 to include multi lingual voting material to all minorities given a less than enthusiastic education of said minorities.
Why the need to “rip into white people”? This site does that well enough I think.
Well snap yo fingas and move your head side to side sistah! Oh and pass the watermelon you are being greedy, thumbs up for witty smart fun comedy thumbs down for angry crybaby comments, But I guess another thing that white people like is offending the easily offended when there is no reason to be offended in the first place!
I used to know someone who didn’t have a TV.
Hearing her and her spiel about the evils of television really made me glad I do own a television, so I wouldn’t become a whiny, pretentious twat just like her.
Seriously, you’re lambasting white people lambasting white people? That’s the fun part of this site (for people who get it). And “riling up a new generation of borderline retards”? Believe me, if they were retards, they were already, with or without TV, and your use of the term shows no PC leanings, while you talk about race relations (relatively speaking).
This is not a race issue. This is just funny. I have a giant TV (which is off right now but generally runs for background noise while I read); I have that Subaru from a different post. I like to laugh at myself.
White people laughing at white people liking Priuses and organic food DOES NOT MEAN, OR EVEN IMPLY, that black people like watermelon and chicken.
It’s a logical fallacy. Check out Hurley on Logic (citing the Greek philosophers who first worked out the list).
Its kind of irrelevant now with all the same crap on the Internet.
The REAL pretentious white declaration today is: “I don’t have a computer.” That will make ’em gasp.
I agree, I watch all my TV online and check my email 24/7, Im always on my laptop.
I love telling people I don’t have a TV. It makes me feel superior AND I don’t have to engage in a retelling of previous night’s episode of “Lost.” If I’m on a roll, I then say I spend most of my free time volunteering at a Shakespeare theater group. Priceless.
Put that on the list, Shakespeare.
Elizabeth
i would die. if i didnt have a TV i would have ran away because my son DOES NOT stop screaming and the only thing he likes is Noggin.
hulu.com can help all those without TV or just no time to watch TV.
full episodes of the daily show and colbert report along with other TV shows and movies! anything from Family Guy to Death Wish.
hulu.com can help all those without TV or just no time to watch TV.
it even has sports, like NBA highlights.
Yea, what the hell is up with that, white people? I can’t live without at least 3 channels.
I have basic cable but don’t watch much, mostly it’s on the ‘music choice’ channels-lotsa music, no commercials functioning as muzak. TV’s on but not being watched.
I’ve never had a TV, even when I was growing up my parents refused to own one. I think that there certainly is an element of superiority bullshit, but I really mainly don’t own one because I recognise it as such a waste of time. Anything I really want to watch is on the internet anyway.
I have a tv, but I only watch Frontline and Jim Lehrer.
I try not to watch TV but my pasty ass isn’t that good. I took the tv out of my bedroom for Feng Shui purposes though, so that must count for something.
you are soo white haha
Not owning a tv and then watching shows on the internet doesn’t make someone superior, it just makes them a dumb hypocrite. They’re still sitting in front of an electronic box, but instead of having a bigger box where you can see the little tiny people doing things, you have a smaller box that makes it difficult to see the little people doing things.
Whenever someone brags “I don’t even own a TV” I just make a sad face and say “Oh my god, that’s so sad.” (knowing nod) “Are you poor?”
Wow, you’re exactly the kind of superior asshole everyone hates. Do you realize that owning and watching television and intelligence are not mutually exclusive? Sure, 90% of everything on TV is crap, but then 90% of everything ever made is crap (Sturgeon’s Law). Bad job picking on Lost, just makes you look even more ignorant because (a) criticizing something you haven’t seen is…well, it makes you look like an idiot and (b) Lost just so happens to be a shining example of the 10% and is likely one of the more intelligent and innovative narratives produced certainly in this decade, probably longer. It also happens to need television as its medium for complicated narrative device reasons I doubt you’d understand.
Also, I happen to work professionally for a Shakespeare theater/library/cultural society and the volunteers are annoying and don’t know their asses from their elbows.
I love that, Molly. That’s what I’m going to say from now on.
Here’s what’s cracking me up about all these responses. At least half of the people responding to this entry are DOING THE EXACT SAME THING THE ENTRY IS MAKING FUN OF!!!! One by one, people are chiming in, “I also don’t have a t.v., blah blah blah…” or even worse, “I have a TV but I never watch it / haven’t plugged it in for 2 years / only watch the History Channel…”
Please. The compulsion among white people to pretend they hate TV is so strong that they can’t even stop doing it in a discussion making fun of the compulsion.
I’ll be the first one to say that TV fucking rocks. I am a white girl with a master’s degree who has travelled extensively and has a 20-foot-long wall of bookshelves stacked floor-to-ceiling with fantastic books, most of which I have read. However, I fully appreciate all that TV has to offer. And I’m not just talking about the fucking History Channel or PBS. I’m also not talking about serioius, Emmy-nominated, well-written crime shows. I’m not even talking about my favorite show in the whole wide world (The Office). I’m talking about the crap. I’m talking about watching aging rocker Brett Michaels trying to find love among 20 skanky hoes on “Rock of Love 2” (that’s right, it had a second season). You don’t know entertainment until you’ve watched Brett dangle a “Backstage Pass” in front of a weeping, half-naked rock chick and say, in all seriousness, “Will you stay in this house and continue to rock my world?”
I can appreciate the value of a good half-hour of news. I adore Tony Bourdain’s No Reservations. And yes, there are some great documentaries on TV (which I almost never get around to watching). The thing is, when I’m worn out from a day of dealing with three little kids and preparing for the class I’m teaching at the university here in town, my brain just doesn’t want “high quality” TV. And it sure as hell doesn’t want to quietly listen to NPR. My brain wants candy. And seriously, if you can sit through an episode of Rock of Love 2 without cracking up at least four times, then you’re probably not the kind of person I’d want to hang with anyway.
I am not saying one I agree or disagree with your thought.All I am saying is I know of a couple that were just regular working people.But when they were married the man told his wife that he didn’t believe in owning a tv.She was ok with it because she would read and had lots of other things to do anyway.They actually have a small mini farm and this is all they do now because they are both retired.But now go back to when they just started out.Both working regular jobs.They saved their money and then bought some land.He was a brick layer so he built their house all by himseld except for the electric and most of the plumbing and well digging ofcourse.He paid off the little loan quickly that was used to have the footer dug and concrete poured.He then paid cash as he built the house brick by brick.As you can expect they have beef in the freezer and canned veggies too.Everything is paid off and they still mangage the little mini farm.The man is 72 and she is 66 I believe.He still cuts his own wood and uses wood to heat the well insulated brick home.I can imagine that on most occasions they were both tired after working outside and did not miss having the tv that much.I can imagine what they are thinking about all of the mortgage problems accross the country when they did it their own way.
I am not saying if I agree or disagree with your thoughts about people that don’t own a tv.All I am saying is I know of a couple that were just regular working people.But when they were married the man told his wife that he didn’t believe in owning a tv.She was ok with it because she would read and had lots of other things to do anyway.They actually have a small mini farm and this is all they do now because they are both retired.But now go back to when they just started out.Both were working regular jobs.They saved their money and then bought some land.He was a brick layer so he built their house all by himself except for the electric and most of the plumbing and well digging ofcourse.He paid off the little loan quickly that was used to have the footer dug and he laid the basement blocks.He then paid cash as he built the house brick by brick.As you can expect they have beef in the freezer and canned veggies too.Everything is paid off and they still mangage the little mini farm.The man is 72 and she is 66 I believe.He still cuts his own wood and uses wood to heat the well insulated brick homeThey own both of their cars and when need a new one,yes you guessed it”cash”One of they hobbies is camping and they use a large pop up camper.I can imagine that on most occasions they were both tired after working outside and did not miss having the tv that much.AndI can imagine what they are thinking about all of the mortgage problems accross the country because this couple worked very hard all of their life.I guess you could say they did it their own way.Oh by the way one of the mans quotes is”tv’s waste peoples time”.
This comment should be the reference to another topic: Hard Work.
Older white generations will take pride in telling all the youngsters how hard they worked throughout their life, and how they never bought anything on credit, all cash! Somehow it’s noble to never have what most people consider luxuries, and to do physical labor all your life for nickels and dimes. The more back breaking the work, the more passionate they are about telling everyone of their experience. To people like this, hard work will always trump intelligent investment decisions, like real estate, or low to medium risk mutual funds. If you go over to their house, they will tell you about every amenity and item they bought for a killer deal, or how they made that piece of furniture or tiled their own floor. Ah memories!
I don’t have a TV, and I totally admit that my husband and I have offhandedly bragged about it, but for us it’s more like we actually are very busy people and we don’t think it’s wrong to watch TV but it’s our first year of marriage and we want to give each other more time together more lovemaking too!). Honestly, there isn’t very much on TV these days that I agree with – I would watch the Discovery channel or History channel or something like that if we did have a TV. Also, we probably spend just as much time on the internet (some days) as people watch TV. :0)
But also, we are Christians and that has something to do with it too. Further still, when I was growing up I remember my dad watching TV way too much (and he still does) and it was very difficult for me to watch him waste his life away being sucked into TV shows. So anyway, I don’t really like TV nor do I have one but I think it is for different reasons.
ok. why are you talking in 3rd person.?
you’re explanation is SO white.
I always thought of not having a TV as being an ultra-conservative white person thing. Like, hardcore evangelicals and white nationalists (who, contrary to popular belief, aren’t the same groups of white people.)
Not till after I had kids did I realize that there was also a granola-y hipster crowd which eschews it for pretty much the exact same reasons.
I think there is even a forum at “mothering dot commune” for TV-free families. Talk about White People; that place is packed to the rafters with ’em.
*YOUR
Let’s discuss.
‘Your’ signifies ownership or relation, which refers to something owned by someone, a title or friend/relative. Example:
“Your computer rocks.”
“Your mother is a camwhore.”
“Your criminal status is unacceptable.”
‘You’re’ is an abbreviation of ‘you are’, which is what you’d say when speaking to someone about who or what they are, be it insult, praise, fact or random statement.
“You’re a moron.”
“You’re fantastic!”
“You’re a normal person.”
“You’re gay.”
I request that you and everyone else who makes this mistake learn what I have just explained on the grounds that IT’S NOT THAT FUCKING HARD.
Never met a liberal that was not addicted to TV. Liberal whites got to have their TV’s.
“trump intelligent investment decisions, like real estate, or low to medium risk mutual funds”
HA!
(the most reliable way to earn money is to work for it and/or steal it)
LOL, so true. They are better than you for not having a TV, LOL Losers.
“they are making someone else feel bad for no reason and unintentionally implying that their “superior” grammar skills are all they have to show for a wasted liberal arts education.
While proper grammar usage is all well and good, a Grammar Nazi cavils even insignificant errors in English to somehow win an argument. Of course, rather than being genuinely persuasive in an argument, pointing out English errors is a weak attack only on the typist’s credibility and never has any bearing on the underlying premises and assertions therein. ”
Who fucking cares if someone spells incorrectly?
I care.
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you should also know that most of the “I don’t have a TV” whites are lying. But never dispute their statement, play along and suggest that they are so much more progressive than an average white
The only reason any white person around here would`nt have a T.V is financial.
Why would I need a tv when I can get all the advertising and hypnotic entertainment I need from the internet?
Both “small mini farm” and “little mini farm” contain redundant adjectives.
This was directed at Steve.
Another reason for not owning a TV is similar to the reason for avoiding alcohol: You know you have an addiction.
I’m a white chick and I LOVE Tv! We have every channel on the planet and still watch more movies online; I guess I am just not trendy enough to “not own a Tv”. I also don’t go outside much; I have the fitness channel on demand!
Great stuff; loving it!
J & A
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I agree with you. If you understand what the person means, even though they made a small grammar mistake, it’s of no consequence. To point out the small mistake is petty and sounds like you’re trying to point-score in the “I’m better than you” competitions.
I’d be lost without my TV. I was without power for a couple of days and I REALLY missed my tv.
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Dear Gustafun,
I don’t have a telly, not just because it takes up so much room in the house, and there is so much rubbish on there, but also because it is more fun to get the WHOLE SERIES out on DVD later on, then you can really GROSS OUT and watch as much as you can cram in before you have to take the disks back to the library and your eyes go funny. Get a life! :))
Jill
who ever wrote this i f*cking love you.
i gave up tv two years ago. kudos on this blog.
Me too!
I don’t have a tv for three reasons; I hate advertisements, I resent being told what time to be in front of the tv, and I love getting the whole thing on DVD later on.
You forget another thing white people do when they are lonely and “not watching TV” – they rent TV shows on DVD, and say “My TV is only for movies … I don’t get cable”.
Now, is there something wrong with being lonely? Some kind of stigma?
And, what about just loving one’s solitude? That lovely peace and quiet after a week in the warehouse with the piped music, the tannoy…
And, I don’t have a telly, I play the DVDs on the PC.
what the fuck when did white people not have a tv…i hear all the time did you see this or girl you better watch this…damn i guess my white friends and me did not get this white shit. that shits retarded…cause you know white people do like to watch porn, kid shows, drama shit, etc.
Please Elmo, get a life and be happy. Don’t know about you, but I have had enough of this silly blog – I’m off now to get a life. Good luck!
Yes TV is essential to becoming a mindless fuckwit. And all white people must have TVs. I bet the guy who writes this blog is a Jew.
Ha, well…I know a few white people without TV’s, and they’re certainly more interesting than those that do own a TV (or seven). I have a telly in my room but never use it, and I swear I’ve used the explanation, “That stuff rots your brain.”
Quite funny.
I find most people who “dont watch tv” are lying. I once spent a week with a friend who “doesn’t reall watch tv”. The tv came on when she woke up, we rarely left the apt, she watched tv while I read, and I went to bed and woke up one morning to find the tv had been left on when she went to sleep.
Dont watch tv my ass.
Since Netflix is one of the things that white people like, then this should be renamed from “no TV” to “no cable” that means you either watch a very snowy PAX channel-56 (or CW if you are lucky) or your just watch your Netflix.
I don’t have a tv and i am white…. wait no! i have a perfectly functioning expensive tv that is not hooked up to cable just becuase i thought it would be a good idea… and now I have told too many people that I “don’t have a tv” to pay the small monthly bill for cable and hook it up.. damn, what a big miscalculation. i wish so much that i could just veg out, but i am stuck pretending to read boring news magazines that my roomate gets. sometimes i go home and read cataloges instead becuase they are more colorful. My only option (also as stated above) was to get netflix. which i did and i LOVE it. the problem is they don’t come fast enough but when they do I watch them right away. I end up spending most nights vegitating in front of the tv anyway. efff. The only down side to netflix is that once i was feeling particularly white and put all of these stupid documentaries about other cultures and intersting stuff on my que. some are in other languages with subtitles!!!.. anyways, now they keep coming and i keep forgeting to take them off. so i am stuck watching some bull in french about yves st. laurent or some jazz about evo morales being a cocalero in spanish. efffffff. i am so white
But i thought that we ALL love the daily show and the colbert report…isnt that shown on tv? hmmm…
Maybe we don’t like having TVs in our houses so that we aren’t like the hordes of Asians who stare endlessly at screens.
OMFG that is soooooo me. I haven’t had cable in seven years. But I have a television set and I watch my Netflix on it (I rent a LOT of episodic televison). And I LOVE to tell people that I haven’t had televison in seven years. It’s like a mantra to me. I especially mention it when people ask me if I’ve seen a particular funny commercial. I immediately launch into how I haven’t had televison for seven years and how it really leaves a person feeling lost when it comes to pop culture references. Saying that makes me feel really superior. But then every once in a while people will visit my tiny, well-lit, eclectically-decorated apartment in the ghetto and will notice my television set and say “Hey, I thought you said you didn’t have a T.V.!” and I’ll say “No. What I said was that I didn’t have TELEVISION, which refers to the actual signal that comes through a T.V. set, producng the images one sees.” And then I’ll smirk superiorly.
What I have never admitted to anyone is that I secretly unscrew the cable from my modem and watch Tyra Banks before I go to my job in Midtown Manhattan.
TELL ME ABOUT IT. I WENT TO THIS ASIAN MASSAGE PLACE TO GET A KOREAN HOOKER, AND THE WHOLE TIME I WAS BONING HER SHE WAS WATCHING TV. AND NOT EVEN GOOD TV, SOME TRASHY KOREAN LANGUAGE SOAP OPERA.
LOL. You write like a latina, though.
Yes, a Jew named Christian. LOL.
You can watch your Netflix DVDs on your Macbook or in the portable DVD player in your Prius. Unless you own the Macbook Air, you are the wrong kind of white person. Unless you stream your Netflix queues to your Macbook Air. Then you are a highly advanced white person.
priceless
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I’m white and I love TV. This is a shitty stereotype that’s not even true. All the white people I know have at least ONE TV.
It’s a joke. The whole sight is a joke. And it’s very funny I think. It plays on the idea that stereotypes are perposterous. Who can speak fof all “black” people? Who can speak for all “white” people? It treats it like there is a monolithic block who vote, eat, relax, and live in the same manner. I laugh because I am proud to not have a t.v. and I love MOs Def and grammar. I’m really laughing at myself.
Laugh at me too.
people who take this site seriously and think its racist are stupid, however you do make it even more fun to read.
OMG this one is SO true! i cant tell u how many times ive mentioned a major tv event to get a response like “i dont have tv” or worse “i dont watch tv” which means they HAVe a tv but they refuse to watch it to show how diciplined they are..ARG! lol
I am white-looking and don’t have a TV, only because i think the money can be spent well somewhere else (like weed or interesting hats). I have a fast internet service so I can just about catch any shows I want online. I miss ESPN though.
This is pretty funny but it’s completely bullshit to assume that the magic power of the idiot box is SOOOO enticing that NO ONE could possibly dislike it. While there are good shows (Sopranos is pretty okay, Office is usually funny) the whole idea of watching anything as long as it’s on TV is obnoxious. The whole problem with being contrarian (like this blog or like Chuck Klosterman, who’s basically a hilarious douchebag) is that too often you just end up being predictable and stupid besides. Yeah, hipsters are scum etc. but there are non-hipster people who simply and truly don’t like being houseplants. Get over it.
I don’t get it this one. I’m Asian and I don’t have a TV, my reason is lack of diversity on TV so I don’t watch TV. I make it a point to let my friends know I don’t have a TV.
I am really proud that I haven’t watch TV in years.
But White people not having a TV, what on earth? Really….?
thank you, asian guy, for proving that asians want to be white. you completely just bolstered this post and proved that you are one of those people who define themselves as “ethnic” buy try to be cliche’ “white”
I don’t have “TV” (as in cable, dish, or rabbit ears), but I do have a buttload of TV shows on DVD. Does that count?
your probably one of those half asians with a white dad! (see asian girls)
I was one of those people for a spell, but it started because I didn’t have any money, I wanted one but then I got used to not having one. After some time, I convinced myself it was a conscience decision, and began to go out of my way to inform people I didn’t have a TV. I felt so good about myself, I was so high on my own sense of self satisfaction (simpson’s quote) that I almost couldn’t take it.
One time I went into one of those “As seen on TV” stores at the mall, a) to see all of the wonderful knifes that can cut through a shoe(?) that I was missing out on, and b) so the shopkeeper women would ask me something that I could steer into me being able to say- “”Oh, I don’t have a TV”. How sick and demented is that? This really happened.
I’m proud to say I do have a TV now and I abuse the “right” (should be anyway) of Tv ownership through hours watching “Californication” and “Entourage” and whichever Gordon Ramsey show happens to be on at any every hour of every day!!!
My current girlfriend mentioned to me she had cable as some type of dowery-like enhancement to the relationship.
Most of the sit com jokes have been all told thru Jack Benny, Lucy and Van Dyke. The only deprture i’ve seen was Sienfeld (dry but funny) and the one with the gay guy, the hetero friend-girl and the twitty smart ass gay-guy- friend foil, (I forget the name of the show), but the 3 times i saw it
it was fairly funny because most the gay jokes hadn’t been told up to then.
The first Survivor was fairly neat but after that………
along with all the other so called reality stuff.
Yes i own a tv, but cable comes with the lease.
Tv favs are: all talking heads, except that whiney ass Hannity.
but also include Boxing, MMA, NFL, TCM, History ch., The shows 24 and Lost and the game show Jeapordy when I catch it.
But still can’t figure why the tv pop culture of rich kids acting badly has produce so many celebutantes with absolutley no body of work, that I’m aware of.
More sheep for slaughter!
How does anybody live without T.V?
Whatever people who don’t watch TV are doing, it is likely to be something ACTIVE and PRODUCTIVE, while naffins such as yourself are engrossed in American Idol and the rest of that shit. I find it quite telling that you admit to having nothing to talk about with a non-watcher…
Oh, by the way: They ARE better than you.
Now what?
You have given a perfect example. One should not try to tell the person that he/she should own a television. Simply let the person talk about how he/she is better than you.
Our family went overseas, gave the TV to someone to look after, came back, didn’t require it back. That was 20 years ago. Fast forward to my flat these days, my flatmates certainly spend hours in front of the TV, watching sport, but doing no sport – which I can’t quite fathom I have to say. I’m a musician – between practicing my music, since I’m in 4 bands so we’re talking serious amount of time rehearsing, talking to people, reading a lot and generally being sociable in other ways that don’t require me to sit down in front of a box being fed 10 second soundbites, I honestly have no time to watch anyway. I’ve paid our cable subscription for a year, and watched all of ten minutes on our own TV at the flat. My choice is to buy the DVDs of any show or movie I like, and I prefer to watch these shows straight through rather than have something I’m getting into interrupted every ten minutes, simple as that. Nothing wrong with TV per se, and I don’t tell others NOT to watch TV, but I frankly find extensive radio interviews about a subject more often than not a hell of a lot more insightful than a 5 minute slot rammed between advertising, again, simple as that. I really don’t care if people are into American Idol or whatever, it truly and simply doesn’t interest me. The stuff that I do happen to want to tune into on the odd occasion, I can’t anyway – because my flatmates are usually hogging it to watch endless reruns of sports or American Idol 🙂
Very, very easily, as per above answer – it’s a thing called the internet, and DVDs of shows are better in my opinion because as I said above, it means an uninterrupted show at the end of the day.
I think this website is more about liberal/Starbucks people than actual white people.
Most of those people are white.
That’s true. But it’s just a portion of the white people.
Regardless, I just discovered this blog, and I find it hilarious. Even though it’s meant for satire, many of the “white people observations” ring true. Maybe that is what makes it so funny?
Well said….Thank You!
This is a majority white country. Who do you think is going to be on TV?
You win.
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Hmmm… don’t you think there’s a lot of funny, true habits that someone has cleverly collected. It’s good to laugh at ourselves!
I read these articles and feel so great that’s someone out there making fun of pretentious people, and remaining smart and funny while doing it. It makes me feel like there are decent people are there.
Then I read the forum posts and I just get SAD.
You’re a fucking idiot, Al.
Reading this comment and the post it responded to is the funniest thing I have read all day! I can’t stop laughing. I don’t watch tv much, either. But reading this forum is better than any tv show! My favorite line: “You’re a fucking idiot, Al.” (No offense to Al, but that’s just HILARIOUS!!!!!!!)
By the way, this site is meant for laughs, so stop getting so offended by everything. (Oh yeah, Being Offended is on the list of Stuff White People Like. Forgot.) But it’s still funny.
Rachel Maddow was on the Daily Show last night talking about much she loves Barack Obama, was very offended by something meaningless, and doesn’t have a TV. Does this mean Rachel Maddow is a white person?
a TV for 6 years. They were the most productive years of my life. I married. My wife a non-white person nearly went insane without one so we got one. I immediately became unproductive again.
And why yes I do feel superior to other white people cause I married outside my race and have biracial children.
/Some of this was snark some was not. pick and choose.
I gave up my TV when I last moved with the intention of getting a license at some point when it’d be more affordable, but ended up getting on fine without it.
I don’t dismiss ALL TV as complete mind-rotting trash, but I am very aware that many of the shows on these days are absolute rubbish which I would end up wasting my time on if I had a TV (Jeremy Kyle, Hollyoaks, etc.)
But like Al said, all time no longer spent on TV goes to the internet now! I prefer how much more selective I can be about what entertainment and information I consume with the internet and with much less intrusive advertising (although internet advertising is getting progressively more invasive).
However, TV Licensing seem absolutely oblivious to the idea that someone would actually be able to go without a TV! They won’t stop hassling me, telling me to pay up or pay the fine. They’ve even got their ads targeting my facebook page specifically!
I’m surprised that Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann aren’t on the list already.
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again HIPPIES!! i couldnt live without a tv. TV AND WEED the most perfect things. although now i can just watch tv on my computer so i guess i could just get rid of my tv and watch shows on computer and then be like “wtf negro u can steal my tv i dont even need it anymore!”
TV offers companionship and the feeling of presence one doesn’t get from reading. It is the culmination of convenient(operative word) entertainment and that’s why people love it.
As a permanently broke student, however, I simply cannot afford to pay for such a thing and I am happier this way. Watching TV has always induced a state of zombie-like inertia and drooling, which has now been replaced by more productive activities such as reading more, playing with my pet more, riding my bike more, talking to my family and friends more, dancing more (just for fun), breathing more.
I have a TV and don’t watch American Idol, Lost, or Grey’s Anatomy. (And I’m white)!
La TV es el diablo!
You white people need to settle down! This website probably isn’t geared towards you; it’s geared towards the annoying hipster sect of white people. I’m a white person whose view on the world and this list would be much different (my list would include racism, El Caminos, and inappropriate southern accents).
I love to sit in front of the t.v for hours . . . I hate american idol,greys anatomy,and the rest of those bullcrap reality shows.I watch what I like .
I do have a t.v. but i don’t watch it, two and a half men and american idol just don’t interest me.
I never watch tv… I just do not like it when a way of life is put in our minds being the right way. I know there is a button and I know there are also good things on tv, but I find it time consuming and movies I can watch on my computer…Well, the thing is, I do not care for random amusement and I really hate “formats” hahaha, just the word in itself makes me feel caged 😉
And I thought that not having a TV was a POOR, AND BROKE person’s activity, and not just a white thing??….hmmmmmmm
I agree. life is too short to sit watching stuff that someone else has spent time designing around their ideas. How much time do we spend listening to real people’s ideas – the people that matter in our lives, not some random people who happen to make TV.
The best incentive to stop you watching TV is just to look at people watching TV – they look immobile and hypnotised. They are PAUSED. Their lives are PAUSED. They are growing older and unfitter by the second.
Can you imagine anyone who has really gone far in life spending hours every day sitting staring at the refined products of uninspiring people’s minds?
And it’s so great to force people to talk about real things that happened to them instead of what they watched on TV. I don’t care what some journo thinks about life – journos are the scum of the earth! Elton John said that, and I agree.
si absolumenti
As a Black person that doesn’t own a television let me say…
This post is effing hilarious! I’m guilty of “talking with other friends who don’t watch TV about how they don’t watch TV, looking at leaves, cooking, reading books about left wing politics, and going to concerts/protests/poetry slams.”
Not owning a television transcends race I guess…
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*I* don’t own a TV. I download all my shows and watch them on my computer. *grins* No commercials. No losing DVDs. It’s great.
Yes, I’m white. And I brag about not watching TV… but just the fact that I don’t worry about commercials.
We don’t watch TV (no cable; thus, no picture at all in a high rise building). We do watch NOVA and similar programs on DVDs. Our child watches DVDs on astronomy, physics, biology, biographies, heavy metal and rock concerts. TV is considered to be a time/brain killer.
We are proud indeed of not having TV in our life. When mention names of the shows I sometimes recognize them as I see them under “reviews” in New York Times. I have never in my life watched American Idol, Survivor, Sopranos, Buffy the vampire killer, etc. What a waste of time…
The more important thing is to say, “I don’t own a tv.” By emphasizing the ownership aspect, a white person is able to show that they reject not only popular culture, but also the consumer habits of others.
For the record, there’s a lot of good, literary tv drama out there….The Wire, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica…..
yeah. Had to check out this one because it’s me… white and no TV. And I think I am better for it. Just found out today who is going to be in the Superbowl this weekend.
Seriously, how do people have time for TV?
Voluntarily sit on a couch to watch advertisements while your life gets shorter? When you could be playing with your kids or having a coffee or training for a marathon? Or even better, playing chess online with perfect strangers?
Love the site. I think #121 should be “Firearm Collection” for us semi-hicks.
white people also like to say that they only watch BBC.
I am white and I cannot imagine living without a TV. I love TV. I watch LOTS of TV.
Yeah, because black people steal it.
Rude and definitely toxic statement.
The best thing about irony is that those who are most ironic are not aware of it.
So saying that black people like to steal televisions is racist but this entire list isn’t racist toward whites?
Shit like this makes the racial barrier worse.
When I was 21 I moved to Seattle with my then husband, our cats and our TV- which was a wedding gift. By the 2nd week of living there, our TV was stolen- by a black kid we knew by name of Ashby- and we couldn’t afford another one.
I lived in Seattle (the holier-than-thou, PC capitol of the world) for 6 years without a TV. I Totally felt off the grid in regard to pop-culture as it relates to television, during that time. I did a lot of clubbing and running around with friends. I was in great shape and very happy.
Did I miss TV, not really. Did I feel that not having a TV, (or a phone for that matter) made me better than everyone else? Naaah, I just felt poor. If I had the $ to buy one I probably would have 🙂
Do I have a TV now? You bet! a big-ass plasma hi-def mother that I veg in front of every night! Man- could I use some exercise… not that I want Ashby to look me up or anything ;D
I think we all havedifferent definitions of “waste of time” To some, you sitting here, reading this blog and commenting on it may be waste of time and watching a good documentry on NatGeo/Discovery/Hsitry a good use of time.
I am looking forward to saying this after February 19th!
Maybe it’s the not white half of me talking, but a prerequisite to my well-being is a TV. Aside from the huge amounts of video games I play and DVDs I watch, I just love channel surfing, seeing different programs, etc. Unfortunately, I no longer live in the US, and the programming here in Jordan doesn’t quite stand up to what I can see back home. When I go back, though, probably one of the first things I do is flip on the television, and it rarely goes off.
It’s the “I don’t have CABLE TV” statement this white girl likes to make.
The programming is crap. The ads are annoying. I threw mine out 10 years ago, and never looked back. And my life is busy, full of friends, rich and fulfilling, thank you.
Getting rid of my TV was one of the best things I ever did. My ex-wife was the catalyst, and I’m still grateful to her.
Faaaaiiil.
HA HA HA HA HA
yeah me too. i rock the rabbit ears. i’m hoping the digital tv switchover turns out like the millennium…a load of crap.
training for a marathon? seriously? lets add that to the list. what is it with white people and marathons?
i really hope this guy is joking.
inappropriate southern accents? lol what?
I am happy to say that I have a 60″ HD plasma TV with 400 cable channels. People that brag they don’t have a TV are so lame.
lessee…
pay 25-75/month for…
commercials… 20 mins per hour avreage…
shout shows… 3 or more people talking at once… none heard…
reruns… 70 percent programming… seen it…
read… what is cdo, mbs, credit default swaps… who cares? anyone who owns a house or has any retirement savings…
why… 40 percent of your net worh just went to the top 1%… wait ‘tll they open the “bad bank” next week… bank toxic assets… now become YOURS… to pay off the next 30-50 years… while you work 20 years longer than you thought you would…
oh… but the view is so much more… you know… real…
As a white person who does not own a television, I find that watching the serials on my computer, either rented from netflix or downloaded, to be satisfying enough. And then I can still look at people cluelessly when they talk about tv and say oh, I don’t have a tv. I suspect a lot of white people without a tv have a similar coping mechanism.
My wife and I are guilty of a variation on this: We don’t have cable. We can often be found discussing how the savings we accrue, by not paying for cable, directly translates into exotic, third world travel (another item on this list).
Now I’m conflicted! Despite our best efforts to be authentic, it’s difficult to not become a competitive and pretentious snob. On the other hand, if I buy a 60″ TV and a cable package, am I not falling into another trap–consumerism?
Perhaps the key to authenticity is to not talk about how authentic you are.
This list is really funny, but it gives me the same sinking feeling I had when I discovered how well I fit into a myers-briggs personality profile.
You’d have to be making your black TV stealing comment satirically (ie. as a joke) for it to be equal to the material on this blog.
Agree. I just can’t bring myself to PAY for TV. Then you still have commercials. If I want to pay for advertising, I’ll buy a T-shirt.
I do get a warm, fuzzy feeling of superiority when I say I lack cable.
I don’t think most people in my yoga class have cable either.
That doesnt mean they cant download something and watch it on there computer. Every show on TV can be watched on the network’s website or various other pirate sites. So this just goes to show how pretentious some people can be.
That doesnt mean they cant download something and watch it on their computer. Every show on TV can be watched on the network’s website or various other pirate sites. So this just goes to show how pretentious some people can be.
please….make….some…..sense
…and you are exactly the person that the blog is talking about.
Shit No television…. that what havin kids is for .. Live Entertainment! Go on bobby.. Hit yer cousin back. Like watching Gladiator only you rootin for your Kid!
I love TV. I hope I do get brainwashed by all the corporate propaganda that’s shown on TV. TV is my vast wasteland. Long live Big Brother!
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#101 Being Offended
The next one should be steroids
Other punctuation exists besides ellipses. Look into it if you want anyone to comprehend whatever it is you’re trying to say.
… White people without a tv usually steal (they call it downloading) lots of tv to watch on there MacBook. If you ever need an old or pre release movie these white people may be happy to get a copy for you. Unfortunately it will only be viewable on a computer. Keep in mind, these white people are often secretly desperate to watch popular TV shows and events, Inviting them to you’re house can be a good way to build/fake friendship. Bonus points if you let them believe that there is some kind of irony involved.
no it’s called “college students”…it’s really not just white people..it’s a college student thing. where my brother lived in college everyone in his dorm building were downloading illegally…and they ranged from many different races and whatnot…they also would gather around each others computers and entertain themselves w/ their fave tv shows.
but about the “i don’t have a tv”…
that is definitely a white thing or those type of “scene” kids. i heard that quite frequently…in school..”i don’t like watching tv…but i only watch nat’l geographic or discovery channel” and then a week later you hear them talking about the real world or some shit. hahaha, and when you call them out on it, it’s even more fun…the stumbling and the defensiveness…haha
* i meant to say “lived on campus” not “lived in college” lol
Why have TV when you can have YouTube. But, don’t go saying white people love YouTube or I might have to buy a TV. Regardless, Arabs living in Europe are the ones who love YouTube.
I’m not white. I LOVE TV!!! I love Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Comedy Central, CNN, Food Network, BBC America, and TV5monde.
My favorite tv show is Heroes on NBC. Good stuff.
I love the internet too. I like to sit for hours and hours writing papers and dissertations in front of the tv, then I get up and weight lift and kickbox while watching tv.
I’m only half white, so I own a tv, but I hate commercials, so I don’t actually the tv. But, it does have a #84 sitting on top of it, as well as a microphone as it relates to #58, so I’m good. I’m white people. Peace out, playa!
I’ve just discovered the secret to enjoying these lists:
Don’t read the comments.
This one is just stupid every white person i know has a TV in every room of the house, not to mention a 50+ inch HD in the living room with a DVR and a sunday ticket subscription so we can drink and watch football all sunday. Hell even the little kids got TV’s in their room. As for illegal downloading hell yeah and we stream the videos to our huge ass TV’s through our LAN. If you dont do this your probably just retarted and can’t work a computer, why not take advantage.
Delicious irony? Mis-spelling “retarded”.
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OMG…I love TV. Beverly Hills 90210 reruns are my favorite.
I am 1/4 white and I don’t own a tv.
Before we met my husband who is white also did not have a tv.
Most people think we are weirdos.
I didn’t have a TV for a year and a half and it was hell on earth and I missed Lost.
Wow…I am glad I have a TV. Though I don’t subscribe to paid television. Video games and DVD’s are better in my opinion.
That’s because you are weirdos, you weirdo.
so…..if not owning a tv is essential to being white, how is tv the key to a white persons heart like in the madmen post?
where’s the irony, kernel boy?
stealing, as in taking away from someone and keeping for yourself? such as hacking into tv station’s archives, copying the data, deleting the originals and refusing to share their copy? i believe you are talking about ‘the wrong kind of white people’ there..
but indeed, people who are dumb enough to study liberal arts or even not study at all (such as yourself, apparently), do have lots of time to waste so they probably do secretly crave “popular TV shows and events”.
you can watch the DVD box sets on your laptop…preferably a Mac, of course!
Amen, but I have an ASUS laptop with a 26″ LG monitor attached via DVI-HDMI cable. Hooray for TV on DVD
Your mean but it was funny.
you are a half douche
self righteous. you sound like a tool. douche
ghostface killa-like thats not a ridiculous name? lil wayne? retarded names are EVERYWHERE
stop trying to sound intelligent i’m gonna shit my pants from laughing so hard
wow there. well LUCKY you! thanks for sharing about your cool activities that are quite fun. what a great mind on this one! you truly are blessed. or you are a pretentious douchebag. one or the other
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hahaha well I guess it’s true from me. I have a tv (xbox/movies) but I have Justin.TV if I want to watch anything on cable.
This one is sooooo funny, but I do it for a different reason. I thought I would miss it but I am never home anyways…
I go to sports bars or a venue to watch a game, the theater to go to the movies and online if I really am jonesing.
I don’t think I am better, I just truly like being out of my house more than sitting around inside all the time.
AND when I am, I can download a whole season of Lost from
I tunes and when I am hungover, just start rolling through them non-stop without commercials…
TV sucks…the internet is waaaaaay better to get the same content with no commercials…
Comedy Central rocks…online.
Haha, this reminds me of my grandma. She is a little eccentric.
One time at a restaurant, she kept saying to everyone at our table, “I just saw the last episode of Lost last night! I’m going crazy! I have to talk to someone about it!”
But no one at our table had seen it. So she actually called over our waiter and said, “I’m sorry, but I just have to talk to about Lost right now. Do you by any chance watch it?”
And the guy who looked to be in his 20’s and had long hair said, “No, I actually don’t even have a TV right now.”
Then my grandma said, “Oh. You’re one of THOSE people.”
Best story ever.
I don’t have a TV because I don’t have time to watch TV. Lots of free time must be fun.
Being a poor student leaves me without one! No sports for me other than those played at my university.
Yeah, like the free time you are taking to write a comment on this blog. Must be great.
I totally agree with this post. People who don’t have TVs are boring and don’t have anything to talk about.
I think the article could have benefitted by mentioning the people who brag about not owning a TV, but then religiously watch clips of shows like The Office, the Daily Show / Colbert Report online.
IT’S STILL TV PEOPLE!!! WATCHING IT ON YOUR COMPUTER DOESN’T MAKE IT ANY DIFFERENT!!!
(In case you can’t tell, I know a lot of people like this)
Buh-zing!
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no tv and no beer make white people…….something something. lol
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Dude, this website has it’s own book out and I think it’s been on CNN.
Pedal your wares elsewhere.
I think it’s more about telling people you don’t have a TV than actually not having one.
I didn’t have a TV for 7 years till 6 months ago (I am 25) when my friend gave me one. But I haven’t even plugged it in yet. I really really just dislike TV. Does that really make me boring? I read lots of news articles and I spend alot of time outside. Who has time to follow all that stuff anyways? Like Lost? People get addicted to that! How can you spend so much time on that!?!
As an aside, Did you know that watching TV burns fewer calories than sleeping? Also, couples who have a TV in the bedroom have half – YES, HALF! – the sex as couples who don’t!
So NO! I am not boring! I am well-informed, fit, and have a great sex life! I am not ashamed! Down with TV!
I completely agree.
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aren’t people that only talk about tv boring also?
I went bananas on some cat over that the other day. I was having a bad day, and the phrase “I don’t own a television.” is one of my greatest pet peeves.
I’m a Puerto rican male in Brooklyn who’s pretty anti- TV, and I am guilty of gloating about it, so what!
I have a flat screen TV, but only have rabbit ears. I almost never watch it. Does that make me the wrong kind of white person?
which word?
All of these comments by people arguing why they dont watch TV is just reinforcing the argument of what was stated in the article. People like to feel they are better and more sophisticated because they dont watch TV and make you feel as if you are intelectually less than they.
Agreed. Is “American Idol” really that important? Sounds like it, to judge from the amount of verbiage devoted to it.
Hilarious!!! I embraced my white girl deep and abiding love for television a few years ago during grad school when I got tired of feeling down listening to my professors and fellow students talk about how they don’t have tv’s or don’t watch the tv’s they have. Asserting one’s lack of television to me is a clear signal of someone’s desperate attempt to look smarter than they are. I’m a very smart person, but I wouldn’t miss Project Runway for much of anything.
Yeah We have about 6 sets in our house. Have you ever heard of the “Redneck snowman” some fellow poor white people might know what I’m talking about.
HAI MY NAEMS CAKMAK U BE FREND NOW, YES?
That is true…
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I don’t own a television because of the fact that I am a poor college student. Besides, I can watch the exact same shows on the computer.
you don’t need a t.v. these days. i am a college student and don’t own a t.v. because i can watch the shows/movies/ news on my laptop =)….but if i could have a t.v., i would have a big one cause i love t.v. lol
me too girl
I brag about having a TV, but not watching it…
http://www.beabetterproducer.com
See? no tv…lol.
I don’t have a TV, but that’s just because I don’t want to pay for cable … I don’t think it makes me cool, I swear … plus I can watch South Park online now …
Television is for losers. If you watch american idol or other reality, then you are a loser. I have no TV, but I get a lot of grief for it from my friends. They think I am weird…
Jealousy isn’t something to be proud of.
I have never seen it and it really annoys me when people talk about it like it is important. Those are the people who really need to get a life.
No beer? That is crazy. Where did you hear such a thing?
If all you have to talk about is TV shows, you are a pathetic and boring person. And if you watch daily show and colbert, you are even more pathetic because you are being spoon fed nonsense as news.
I have a t.v. with rabbit ears. I refuse to pay Cable. Mainly THE TAXES. I get PBS, Local News Channel with old reruns and an old movies channel. Plus, I know if i had more channels i wouldn’t get as much done as i do. So, that’s all I need after the web.
PERSONAL TESTIMONY:
I was at a casual gathering of white (I’m not), middle-aged folks at the invite of a friend, and when I got there I told myself not to judge them. I was doing well until in the FIRST FEW MINUTES of being there, one of them drops the “Well, I don’t have a television in my home” in response to a comment about television.
I was literally stunned, yet prepared, thanks to this website.
I own a T.V. that I don’t watch but rather use for video games. Games are far more entertaining and games+systems are expensive as it is without paying for cable. I’m sure many people share this sentiment as well.
what a nerd
I don’t ever watch cable tv, but will watch a movie every week or two. I don’t tell anyone about it because that would make me a friggin retard. Nobody gives a flying swinging hoot what you do with your free time or what I do with mine. As long as your tv watching isn’t costing me tax payer dollars as I support your lazy arse, I could give a squirrels step-mothers diaper change. Once a guy at work said, “I don’t watch those shows, I don’t even watch tv” to another worker and I chimed in, “and….” I then followed that up with a vivid fantasy of me throwing him over the balcony for being a douche.
THE NAZIS PERFECTED TV – AND THE NAZIS WANTED A “TV IN EVERY HOME.” . . . 99% OF AMERICANS HAVE TV.
WHEN 99% OF ANYBODY DOES ANYTHING – IT’S A PROBLEM!
SO WHAT HAPPENS . . .
ART DIES . . .
DEBT EXPOLDES . . .
CONSUMERISM RUNS THE SHOW . . .
THE ENVIRONMENT SUFFERS . . .
UNHAPPINESS PREVAILS . . .
CHILDREN NEVER MATURE . . .
HEALTH SUFFERS . . .
THE RICH RULE . . .
PEOPLE GET A LOT DUMBER . . .
WAR RAGES ON . . .
I HAVE NO TV – SO LET’S TALK ART, FINANCE, MATERIALISM, CONSERVATION, HAPPINESS, CHILDREN, HEALTH, WEALTH, AND PEACE!
THE NAZIS PERFECTED TV – AND THE NAZIS WANTED A “TV IN EVERY HOME.” . . . 99% OF AMERICANS HAVE TV.
WHEN 99% OF ANYBODY DOES ANYTHING – IT’S A PROBLEM!
SO WHAT HAPPENS? . . .
ART DIES . . .
LITERATURE DIES . . .
DEBT EXPOLDES . . .
CONSUMERISM RUNS THE SHOW . . .
THE ENVIRONMENT SUFFERS . . .
UNHAPPINESS PREVAILS . . .
CHILDREN NEVER MATURE . . .
HEALTH SUFFERS . . .
THE RICH RULE . . .
PEOPLE GET A LOT DUMBER . . .
WAR RAGES ON . . .
I HAVE NO TV – SO LET’S TALK ART, FINANCE, MATERIALISM, CONSERVATION, FITNESS, LITERATURE, HAPPINESS, CHILDREN, HEALTH, WEALTH, AND PEACE!
Actually I think not having a TV is more of an asian thing. Most of my friends didn’t grow up with one.
Your right on some, but dead wrong on the war deal.
No pun intended.
I don’t watch television how people normally do. I like the idea of on-demand, choosing my own programming rather than letting networks decide for me. This is why I watch exclusively online. I also despise commercial interruptions.
So again, fuck off with your stupid shit.
actually watching tv online is a really white thing to do
Um. I cannot begin to tell you how racist and ignorant that made you sound.
Hopefully, you are not as much of a douchebag as you make yourself seem.
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money lying that they don’t have a TV.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
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You really need to learn to take things with a grain of salt. Can’t you see that nothing about this site is all that serious? Take that to You Tube instead, :).
War rages on because of American Idol and Grey’s Anatomy? You take this way too seriously, man.
Hell yeah, Gears of War much?
This should be called stuff smart people like.
The preposterous portrayal of blacks in recent years has turned me off TV. Even the Orkin man was black in their ad the other day. If that’s the audience TV is after, they can have them – I’ve got better things to do than indulge this ‘blacks are just white people with dark skin’ nonsense so in vogue now after the Obama euphoria.
It should be noted that some white people have TVs just so they can watch Adult Swim.
i don’t have t.v because I’m too poor to pay the cable bill. I’m white
well, now we know what you do.
might i suggest you change this to ‘having the biggest best resolution tv’? because everyone ive talked to only cares about whos house they should go to in order to watch those damn shows based on whos tv is best
“[Regarding what “white” people do, or talk about]…looking at leaves, cooking, reading books about left wing politics, and going to concerts/protests/poetry slams.”
Do you truly believe any of these things is bad? Or are they just “boring” to you? Is reading bad?
I don’t even know why I’m writing this comment, the whole premise of this site, and that book, is absolutely ridiculous. You know, I’ve never actually said this to anyone in my entire life, but you should be ashamed of yourself. Yes, you should genuinely be ashamed of yourself. Truly, this makes my jaw drop.
The whole concept of race is a cultural construct anyway. Christ, go take an anthropology class and stop perpetuating this absurd, immature attitude. Way to market to the lowest common denominator.
You’ve never told anyone in your life to be ashamed of themselves? Really? You know what I think? I think of your full of s**t. Lots and lots of it. You’re so bad at it, that it’s embarrassing being in the same post as you. “I don’t even know why I’m writing this comment….” Are you serious? I mean, are you really, really serious? Your post makes you the lowest common denominator, by default. Renounce your ignorance, little one. Renounce it at once!
FAIL dude, FAIL! You totally missed the point of the post.
heehee. #101- being offended….
Learn how to take a joke, man. I’ve TAKEN Anthropology classes, and they don’t make this any less funny. It also seems absurd to assert that the author of purely textual humor thinks “reading is bad”. For God’s sake, embrace your whiteness and lighten up.
… You don’t have a TV, do you?
What he said. And anyone who writes all in caps to get themselves noticed automatically makes my Crazy People list.
you are so dumb
i can not explain how dumb and unfunny you are
Relax you obviously fall into this category because your talking down to the author and telling him how much better you are. So get off your high horse and laugh at yourself
A new trend is to turn off the “boob tube”, more families with children usually belonging to fringe Christian churches or the “cable is too damn much” crowd you find in trailer parks (the UHF band). What else to add is as of June 2009, the whole digital transititon ended 53 years of analog in the US…except the border states still picked up analog signals on the airwaves. Television is responsible for the “ills” of society, it makes people dumb, fat and lazy, and most of all: white people read books, listen to NPR on XM and use the internet to write snotty-snobby-elitist blogs. +
“Adult swim contains mature subject matter that may not be suitable for some viewers”.
“But has notably politically incorrect jokes about every race, religious sect, sexual orientation, nationality and any group of people imaginable.”
“Does it make you wonder what’s in the mind of those adult swim viewers?”
“Most likely adolescents whose parents forgot the v-chip or didn’t know in the west coast, we broadcast in 7PM local time…watches this trash”
“Btw, they are … white. male. and act their age to love it. ”
{Late-night sh*t}
White people believe only blacks watch TV 24-hours a day/ 7 days-a-week??? I altered BET on they could create 100 new digital subchannels, like BET news, BET sports, BET movies, BET classic soul music, BET sistas (female-oriented), BET Latino (the Spanish-speaking Black populaiton long left ignored), BET talk (Oprah owes this one), BET-BBC (Black British-oriented), BET-TBN (the Black evangelical Trinitarian) and BET kids zone (Bill Cosby thought of this one). +
Go attend the fundamentalist Christian churches preached the “evils” of television, yeah the ones who are primarily white Southerners living in big oil-fed SUV-based suburbs. Mormons have “family night” on Mondays (No TV allowed), Seventh-day Adventists have 3-hour a day “3ABN” programs, Jehovah’s witnesses block 95% of the TV channels and Pentecostals only watch “G-rated” videos as a “family together”. Let’s talk about God, Jesus, Love and Peace. +
Second time around on the post (watch with the reply button…fingers slip). What ever happened to TV news of the 1960s exposed the reality of war to living rooms? The Vietnam war was what it is: a war, but the “wrong kind of war” unlike previous wars actually endangered US national security. The Civil rights movement was broadcasted on TV in a way more people thought intelligently on the problems of African-Americans (the 1963 Birmingham protests when white officers had pit bull dogs and water hoses struck the crowd). And don’t forget the power of CNN in the 1980’s: the Tiananmen square massacre and fall of the Berlin wall. +
Mary, you’re aware of the digital transition has arrived? The rural white folk use to never get TV at all. The Palm Springs area never got a full-power TV station until the late 1960’s. The mountains west of the famous desert resort city known for Hollywood celebrities thought it would be good to get at least 2 TV stations. John Conte, Walter Annenberg, Frank Sinatra & Bob Hope jump-started a NBC station on channel 6/36, and then came a competitor ABC station channel 3/42. Today. we have all the major network affiliates and half of the 20 stations are in Spanish, but based in Indio, Coachella or Imperial valley where most people are Latino. +
CAKMAK you’re either a…
1. Troll pretending to be a child or really being a troll.
2. Not a native English-language speaker.
3. A pedo-perv-predator on the wrong site.
4. Have a mental disability impairs spelling.
or 5. From Kazakhstan (say “mishmash” to Borat for me). +
Beer is for “poor working bums” usually a Bud light, Coors (the original) or Miller (high life). Wine coming in the box is for alchies on “welfare” after they get tired of coolers, and bars are for “downscale” folks: low-lifes with no social skills. Because proper white Christian upper-middle-class men are always in love with their wifes and children, no alcohol ever allowed and church attendance every Sunday or Thu. night. +
They should say to their friends, co-workers or dates “I only watch one show a night, I’m always at my job, commuting to and from there, and oversleep every night.” Damn, are we white folk a bunch of work-a-holics…or what? I don’t! It’s from my French and Cherokee ancestry: the French work 30 hours a week (4 day work-weeks), and the “poor Indian reservation” where unemployment rates still hover above 50%…despite they get affirmative action. LOL! +
Whiteys like us have youtube, Hulu, the WB online or DVR components in our PC’s. It’s the new way to watch movies, shows or music vids. What ever happened to MTV? They got M2 on some cable systems. “Video killed the radio star” is a catchy nostalagic song when in fact shock-talk radio killed the video jockey (or MTV-VJ) star in the early 90s. +
1/4 white people don’t have their own TV network/ channel yet, that’s why. Here comes the racial ethnic humor: The Blacks do, the Hispanics do, the Asians do (in Sou. Cal. we have a few Korean, Chinese & Vietnamese TV channels), even the Iranians’ satellite TV channel based in the San Fernando valley in Farsi, and sadly, I wish the Cherokees who had a language with its own alphabet got on the TV band wagon the same way KMEX, Telemundo & BET had. +
In 1958: not having a TV was still the norm when one TV set in the house cost a whole YEAR’s wages-color TV in 1968 was hard to get; in 1983 anyone not have cable was seen as average-by 1993 only the religious right said they don’t believe in TV or it’s “evil”; and today in 2009: wealthy whites say “we’re fine without/don’t need TV”-by 2019 the way the economy is: a month’s wages won’t cover a cable bill. Satellite dishes, rabbit ears & now the TV sets…are cancelled, due to insufficient funds or outdated tech. +
New trend in college education is online courses, save over $100000 by not having a…”life” or “Campus life”. Times had changed : most 30-year olds live with their parents, not for maturity reasons but financial reasons. Wanna get out of their house to be the “man” or “woman” not remain a “kid”? Sign on to an online university, but hope you pass the exams & “graduate” with a faxed-in bachelor’s degree. +
The return of vaudeville! Hey, let’s play president Obama! I’ll have the black face material with the water paint, you be the racist redneck with a bible on one hand, the gun on the other…and you my sweet girl be Sarah Palin, the wicked witch of the right (or South). Hey honey dear! Can you get out your halloween costume? Not the one with a “good witch” more like the Adolf Hitler custome for April fools’ day. +
50% of the commercials are informercials for insomniacs at the dead of night. Another 50% are PBS station pledge drives to keep themselves on the air. And the remaining 1% are shows you care to watch…on TiVo if you cared for it. +
I…can’t,…must…get…in-hal-er,…looks…like…i’m…dying…(dead).
Sheesh! All because in the 1950’s/60’s, NO BLACK PERSON was visible on TV, except whites perform in black face for comic relief, and by 1970 an occassional black face show up on TV commercials or minor character roles. This really make no sense to me, other than wealthy whites admit they had kept out minorities in major, positive, accurate, respcetful and non-stereotypical roles. The kind of pop culture ruled by greedy megacorporations and (dead) white men who want to either shock people’s sensitivities or want to start a controversy: A LEADING ROLE for an African-American. +
Hispanics are said to be socioeconomically worse and have 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 12 TV channels in their language (Spanish), including SiTV is a bilingual one & in L.A. we have the “urban bicultural Chicano” channel known as KJ-LA-TV. I recalled the huge news media stories on KMEX-TV channel 34 in Los Angeles, because it was owned by Hispanics and Mexican television companies, aired Spanish language shows like “telenovelas” of white blonde Castillian actors, and TV commercials with “brown faces” like McDonald’s, Budweiser, Wal-mart and Ford motors co. felt they actually had money to burn: FIESTA! (get out the tropical music sound effects). “Todos Los Consumadors Por Disconto”. +
Brad, you either aren’t white (rednecked whites may count), don’t work (or work part-time in a minimum wage joint) and have no social life (or you’re agoraphobic).
Note I was joking around with you, because the shows you watch are for “trendsetters/coolfinders” in major cities/ urban areas, and the kind with million-dollar condos or kids can actually walk outside without fear of getting shot, molested and introduced to drugs or gang membership.
Most funny is the white people don’t own a TV, because it hurts a child’s innocence and intelligence. For example, 3 year olds can’t watch any TV at all (not Sesame street?)+
John, you’re white & live where blacks or whites in “racial gang attire” roam, El Caminos driving all broken but still kicking on the roads in front of slow crowded busses, and foul-mouthed deep-southed twang or “ethnic sounding” accents can be overheard. That’s the urban life before the yuppies/waspies came about to “clean it all up”, plus the scene you’re describing includes billboards for tonight’s shows on BET, ION, TBN, Telemundo or Asia-TV channels. +
A multicultural moment: what language was that Cinti & Aaron hart? Spanish? Italian? Provencal French? Catalan? Portuguese? Romanian? Franglae? or Spanglish? You see, I’M NOT CULTURED. ONLY WHITE ANGLO SAXON AMERICANS whose native language isn’t even Latin, claim to be. +
Last post on this topic: “TV is the drug of choice of the 21st century”. Addictive…mind-altering…and damaging to one’s soul, character, personality or intelligence. Kinda like booze, cigarettes, coffee, antipsychiatric meds, public education & organized religion. “TV is the opiate of the masses” said by the GREAT philosopher Karl Marx who hadn’t lived in the 1950’s when his ideology Communism began to die off. +
iv’e been reading this site and its hilarious but sincere, not only to america but a large expanse that goes as far as young people today in the philippines. but we are heavily influenced by american culture. HEAVILY. weve had some german visitors at home who have not seen a kfc or starbucks or havnt eaten donuts even. thats when i realised it.
this influence is even more extreme in an all girl high school. we are what you call ‘conyo’, generalised. girls who talk fake american accents, do not know how to ride or what to call public tranportation and the sort to shriek at mentions of gossip girl or archnids.
please see the hell im supposed to endure.
(for the people who know what isaw id much rather eat that than donuts.)
“Christ, go take an anthropology class”
lol, no thanks, whitey
That’s mighty white of you.
lol, I always made it a point to point out that I haven’t owned a tv in many years. It’s humbling to have myself put it check. Too true, Too funny.
Everyone loves TV…to put it in this way, every racial group in America got to have their own network or channel. It’s part of the business, a gigantic ice cream shop of 31(00) flavors. Why not? The reason for the “500 channel cable”.
Here’s the first Telemundo TV station (KVEA 52 Glendale/ Los Angeles) went on-air promo from 1985. They compete against a higher-rated Univision flagship station KMEX 34, it’s history dates back to the ’60s (MEX stands for…) +
U know what is sooo white? inventing the mf tv… then realizing it’s a tool to control the masses, utilizing that tool, and rising above it to make the next thing for the idiots to lap up and drop $ on
There was a study a few years ago saying that whites get too much airtime, which is “wrong” because they watch less TV than any other racial group in America.
The study said that most whites spent an average of 40 hours a week watching TV while blacks spent 80.
I mean yeah we’d like to watch an extra 40 hours a week of TV too, but those hours are taken up with our full time jobs.
Thanks for sharing informations.Looking forward to more stuff.
Oh aren’t you adorable :3 *pats on the head*
I got stuck with 2 white people for my college dorm, and one of them told me that TV’s are “rubbish” (probably trying to act British). Haaaaa.
The only thing I don’t like about not watching tv is going over someone’s house and watching them watch tv when you wanna go out and do something. I have to sit there and pretend like I care about all the flashy things on the box. Kinda sucks.
I’ve devised a perfect excuse to give to people when I’m forced to answer the “did you watch this”, the “why not?”, followed by the “soooooo, what do/did you watch?” question. It turns out I screwed up in my early twenties when trying to figure out what business I should start-up. I essentially made the “paralysis by analysis” mistake. So, now I just say, “you know what dude?, I frittered the majority of my twenties away and now I have to play catch-up with my life. I don’t watch tv because I screwed that luxury up” As soon as this answer is given, a twinkle of delight can be seen in the listeners of my comment as they realize they are actually BETTER than me for watching tv. It’s a win-win all around.
So right:) During one period when I did not have a TV cause I couldn’t afford it I loved to to make a comment about it. So silly.
fucken idiots!!!! GET A LIFE you BOrinG FucKS- TV OBVIOUSLY HAS ROTTED YOUR BRAIN!!!!!!!
hahahahahahahahahaha LOSERS, GO BACK TO YOUR BOX, STROKE IT GENTLY AND WHISPER SWEET NOTHINGS IN ITS EAR.
GEt A fucKEN LiFE!!!!!!!!
TV IS FOR PEOPLE WITH NO LIVES
AND IM NOT WHITE
Michael,
Sarcasm > you.
I’ve gotten around my desire to say that I don’t have a TV combined with my positive addiction to being a couch potato by not getting cable! When people mention the latest episode of Dexter or Deadwood, I love being able to say, “Sorry. We don’t have cable.”
I hate TV, not because it rots your brain, but because I don’t watch most of the shows on it. They’re all so repetitive and boring and un-thought out. If I want to watch a show or something I’ll either YouTube it or get it from blockbuster.
Blockbuster video is going out of business: over 1,000 stores are expected to close. Nobody is buying videos any more, it’s all about netflix…and white people love video on demand. +
This is funny and true. I have 5 TVs and I love it. Movies on demand in HD with surround sound is awesome to watch in the living room with my girlfriend. The game in HD is awesome to watch with the fellas in the basement. Hell, I control the environment, and with a DVR that can pause a live game, it is BETTER than being at the game. The evening news in my bedroom as I drift asleep, you guessed it, awesome. Now for the kicker. Owning books that you only read once is stupid. Borrow it from the library idiot. Same thing for owning movies that you only watch once.
LOL I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com and I must admit it’s just as funny!!
And speaking of video on demand, everyone is invited to see my video, ‘Michael D. does dicks in Da Dong for Dollars in DeMoines’. You can cum see it for free at your nearby gay club bathroom. I’m the one being rode on by two guys, a dog and a pussy cat.+
Speaking of Anonymous, a FOX news report about the web hacker “on steroids” who is the man (or a group) known for extreme trolling and verbal/written attacks on people who got their sites hacked. This is scary stuff right here. +
WE ARE ANONYMOUS. We do not forgive, we do not forget. ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_85FwUVkvis
Fail on the first attempt, let me try this again. (Sorry!)
I’m a white person without a TV- I used to have a big box which looked ugly and only had 4 channels.
That’s not to say I don’t watch TV… that’s what for the Internet is for!
Glorious, glorious hours of Peep Show, Flight of the Conchords, Lost, Search for the next Pussycat Doll…
Whoa! Wait a minute!
Not having a TV? Now that’s just un-American.
Without my television….Well, I don’t know. But Bad things would happen. Most likely, anyways.
Does having a TV but not the time to turn it on count?
It’s worse, ’cause then you have a tv and you’re inefficient, too.
so why not just get a tv?
I don’t own a TV. Not because I think it’s bad for you, but because I believe television has been rendered obsolete.
Also, I’d like to add that it’s becoming ‘uncool’ to say that you don’t own a TV. It’s still considered bad form to own a TV, but even more bad form to mention in any way, shape or form, that you don’t own one because it makes you seem smug and superior. More and more people are quick to point this out to me, I’ve noticed, thus appearing even more superior themselves.
Simple fact is that TV bores the fuck out of me.
Please shut the fuck up.
Really? I’m not the one going on and on about irrelevant bullshit. ‘We don’t forgive and forget’ what? And why are we supposed to give a fuck?
Because tv is obsolete.
Hmmm, you might have a point. Or it could be that I’m an asshole who just happens to hate sports. Either way, it take one to know one, eh?
Agreed.
People who brag about not owning a TV are douchebags. But people who put down people who brag about not owning a TV (and then brag about this themselves) are even bigger douchebags.
Why don’t you just cut through the bullshit, pull out your dick, and scream “Mine’s bigger!” Essentially, that’s the game you’re playing here, isn’t it?
P.S.
“For the life of me I’ve never understood how these “TV Haters” can sit around and watch movies all day, as if that’s somehow better. You’re still just sitting motionless for hours, staring at light dance across a screen. I cannot see how that is any more productive than watching television.”
Because “Films” are art, don’t you know this? What kind of hairy barbarian are you?
ha-ha! I agree.
I don’t watch TV because I have ADD but I think it’s ridiculous to claim that the only interesting conversation people can have it about television shows. Lame!
yo! i dont own a tv!!!! im most likey more amercan than you foo!
Then why do you still own one?
hmm. its not that i’m white, and too superior for tv, i’m just poor. fresh out of college sucks.
Sorta, you can still brag about not watching TV but you don’t get the self-righteous feeling of saying you don’t own a TV. IE: you’re half-way there.
Often, white people find it easiest to pretend to watch TV in order to be included in the universe of meaningless sitcoms that forever dominate white-people conversations, even if said white people don’t actually watch their TVs. This allows white people to maximize their social interactions while still making fun of people who don’t own TVs.
You get 75% credit for having a TV but not enough time to turn it on. See that makes you seem real important and almost as superior as someone who doesn’t have one.
They are searching for the next Pussycat Doll? That wasn’t on my TV!
Anyone else ready for Chuck B. to get off his soap box?
It’s ironic that you appear to have generalized more than the author you intend to criticize for making a rash generalization…
“Do you truly believe any of these things is bad? Or are they just “boring” to you? Is reading bad? ”
Please note the preceding text for grammatical errors.
#1. Sentence number one should read: Do you truly believe any of these things ARE bad?
Rationale: When conjugating the verb “to be” it is necessary to remember to consider whether the noun it follows is plural.
#2. Who said anything about books being “boring”? Please provide a source when quoting.
#3. In the sentence, “Is reading bad?”, it is important to keep in mind that when presenting a persuasive argument, the argument should have substance. Instead, try stating that while you understand the author’s description of white people that your personal experience of being white is contradictory. Expand on this idea as it may strengthen your argument.
Also, If you choose to not expand, it is suggested that you remove the sentence entirely as it is obvious from your lack of proof reading that you, personally, think “reading is bad.”
I own 6 tv’s, 3 HD computer monitors, portable DVD player, a video ipod, and an iphone so yippeee! Oh, and I’m white…. This site is effing hilarious!!!
Lol so funny yet so true! I had this one friend who wrote “What? That dusty box in the corner I keep my books on?” in her facebook profile under “Favorite TV shows.”
I have made an effort enjoy watching television (with friends I respect and admire) but it just doesn’t engage my attention.
Judge me if you want, I just can’t see a need to own a T.V.
LOL–I do have a TV but rarely watch it. Why? Because there are other things I’d rather do. Such as visiting websites like this one. 🙂
See im 17. i havent had tv for 2 years. Im not going to lie, it does make you feel better to say to people “I dont have a Tv and it rots your brains, instead I like to go outside and paint a wall and watch it dry!” Thankyou.
[…] I’m very excited about the television post, which is weird, because I totally used to be one of those white people. In fact, I didn’t really watch any TV at all (except at random points when I’d go […]
People who don’t like sports were never good at sports. People who read a lot are fine by me.. But to pretend you can’t watch TV without having your brain rot are just closed-minded. Kudos to this blog post (almost 2 years running!). I see that I’m fairly late to this conversation. I grew up watching TV and always rather enjoyed it. I also read before age three and lettered in 4 sports in high school and 2 in college for LSU. I enjoy cycling, cooking, working, smoking marijuana, and making love to my wife. I’m now, ironically enough, a professional white reggae musician (I love this site!). I lived in the Caribbean for 4 years during my youth. While there I enjoyed scuba diving, snorkeling, boating, studying the culture, and of course, watching TV. I have an IQ of 152. I hope everyone has my point by now.
Say that again. I stopped reading after intelligentsia.
“People who boast about their IQ’s are losers”
-Stephen Hawking
[…] and social sharing. Just about anyone I talk to about this work, at least in San Francisco, says “Oh I never watch TV”. If they do watch TV they say “this is useless, everyone uses a DVR now”. I do ❤ my […]
…I’ll guess that your point is either “talking about how unique and accomplished I am” or “deep, deep sarcasm.” Either way, it’s another win-win for whitey, whitey.
Hi.
You are either exaggerating or trying to boast to a bunch of people you will never meet.
Either way, you would be a statistical outlier and not affect the trend that people waste their lives watching TV.
I rarely take the time to reply on random ass anonymous comment sections such as this. However, your comment seemed to represent me in a way. I’d much rather browse the web and read and post about random shit then watch television. It’s just that I can choose my entertainment, and I can brag that I don’t watch TV to my friends. Win – win situation!
Except I don’t have friends cause I can’t relate to them now.
Hahaha. Ditto.
folks protest too much. My IQ is crap. But so is t.v. — I like the web and books. And lovecraft, which is REAL D****D WHITE. But, so am I, so screw it.
TV rocks and people who can quote Stephen Hawking are idiots.
I usually just tell everyone I don’t own a t.v because some dirty mexicans stole it.
I recall a line of dialogue (may not be exactly correct) from the 1990s movie “don’t tell Mom the Babysitter’s dead”. When one of the characters a 10-year old (?) boy was watching a game show, the elderly babysitter turns off the TV. “TV rots your brain”…and she fetches him a book, a very first chapter of the encyclopedia. “I want you to read it and memorize it fully. Tomorrow you’re doing a report on the Aardvark.”
The reason I dislike TV has nothing at all to do with wanting to brag about it to others and adopt interests that make me feel superior.
The fact is that much of the time the TV is on, it is not being watched. It is instead emitting obnoxious punctuating music – as though we would be too stupid to get the point of a scene without it – as well as blood-curdling screams, gunshots, and sudden loud bursts of advertising propaganda. As if that weren’t enough, there is the “education” aspect of TV where some blaring voice cominatcha from the living room informs you of some new concern you must immediately adopt.
TV as background noise makes for the most miserable companion I can imagine. The most insidious thing about it is that people believe the silence their home would otherwise be filled with would be dreadful and lonely. That is so untrue. That silence is indicative that it is your time, to be filled with the thoughts, music, or pastime you enjoy. Have you ever listened to the birds sing from the window only to have the desperate pleading nuisance noises coming from the TV as if to say “pay attention to ME! I’ve done my research, and am employing every tactic I know to keep you distracted by me and hypnotized – your mind is mine!”
I have nothing against good shows and enjoying them. But you – people who have the TV on all the time with your attention constantly usurped – do you really think that just because they spent all that money that what would otherwise occupy your mind (with the TV off) would be boring? You think your life’s not interesting? Too bad! That’s such a lie. It is because people are figuring this out that reality TV has come into play (and it’s cheap). Enjoy your own life, the music of your own house. You rule the TV.
Or would you enjoy a Christmas family show with no carols and laughter – just a TV droning on behind the tree?
Best comment yet.
When reality television first hit my tv a decade or so ago, I told everyone, “this ain’t gonna last, it’s a fad”. I thought it was so incredibly stupid and the sign of a possible future where we would have such crappy and unfulfilled lives that we would have to turn our tv’s on and watch someone else’s life, that I didn’t think it would last 2 years. We all have a genius ability lying within us; mine is the ability to see trends. This is the only major one I was wrong on. I’m gonna blame the rising trend of utter stupidity in this country, rather than carry the blame for missing it. I hope that’s ok.
you do understand this is satire, right?
I hope you are using your “genius ability” to play the stock market, and not just for smugly analyzing pop culture.
I don’t “play” with my money. I meant social trends, when I spoke about predicting trends. Human behavior is predictable. Add in “stress factors” such as those regarding money, and you have a recipe for mental instability, which is pretty unpredictable. Even then, there are factors that are predictable. A course in statistics would allow you to see just how much of a crap shoot securities are. Apparently statistics is not your “genius ability”. Keep looking.
PS. And stop watching so much television.
I literally never get sick of this web site!
Here’s another good one: http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com
Got to have a TV , how else can you watch boxing ?
This website is really dumb.
It’s more of a support group, actually.
its true!!! all this being said is true!! ALL TRUE!!
I do not know one white person who does not own a TV. Sure, there are some who get all new-age hippie about it, but these are a tiny minority group. Most white people love watching TV – it is a very, very white pastime. Maybe it is less popular in higher socio-economic groups, but in general white people love having a TV. I guess that’s not as funny as ripping the few snobs who are like this.
It should be:
#28 Flat screens and pay TV
White people love to act modest, but at the same time conspicuous flaunt their wealth. The perfect way to do this is to have a big, wall-mounted flat screen with a pay-TV subscription, which they just leave on with the volume turned way down whilst entertaining guests.
Of course, you can’t make any sense of the show because you can’t hear it, and no-one wants to watch the crap anyway, but none of that is the point. Every time they glance over and see their grand statement of affluence, the white person’s ego is fed and they are happy.
i don’t have a tv. i have a record player.
I don’t have a tv because a black guy took it…
hey..I couldn’t resist that age old “joke.” 😉 jokes!! please don’t shoot me.
That’s called racism, you idiot. Because of people like you, other people get voted into office by people who harbor guilt for other people that have to put up with shit from people like you. If you get my drift. And I know you do.
I’m sorry for calling you an idiot.
Yes, Sq, a stupid little joke is the cause of all troubles, lol. I guess Chapelle alone has added another 100 years of racism to the world.
Political Correctness has done more to divide the races than anything else in recent years.
Not watching T.V. and bragging about it is probably more common than actually not having a T.V. Also, the brag, “I didn’t see that. I don’t have/don’t watch T.V.” Is very popular.
oh, its just life!
you MUST be white SqCognitive.
LOL. YES!!! Thank you so much for making my other point. Let me guess. Your a liberal, right? And you don’t judge, do you? Did I get that right? You also don’t stereotype, right?!! RIGHT!!! I know you, because I used to be you, before I realized with a little logical reasoning and factual evidence for why things are, I could be me. If you get my drift…..and I know you do
Every time I vote, I get white and black liberals ( most blacks are actually conservative, by the way; but we’ll leave that for another time) who ask, “but you’re latino?”, as if I’m a sure thing during election time. You wave a few dollars in my face and I’ll vote for anything you want. Like I’m some sort of puppet. No, no sir. I may have been raised in the ghetto, but I will choose how to think.
I’m actually Puerto-Rican. Full blooded. But, thank you.
“I do not know one white person who does not own a TV.”
Really? I find that astounding. Outside of the middle-income bracket (or at least into the more highly educated echelon), I know very FEW white people who own a television. Maybe you just have no experience of continued academia or academics… or live in a rural area, where tv watching is more prevalent.
“I don’t have a tv bc a black guy took it”
hilarious!
and I’m black!
(supposedly)
and NO, us staunch NON-tv watchers do NOT brag about the fact of not partaking in the toxic, brainwash & obesity-inducing that is TV watching.
We don’t brag. We just point it out.
(oh wait, maybe that has something to do with my not-being-White-ness… Oh wells 😛
lol, yours is even funnier! Props! And true I imagine! Do you write any?
OMG. This is funny. I actually haven’t had a TV for 20 years. The reason though is so not normal. I am ADDICTED to moving pictures. I can be stopped dead in my tracks, unable to move when walking by any screen that has video. This includes the commercial on the monitor playing behind the clerk at a store. Seriously…I stop to watch the commercials…they are “mini-shows” in my mind.
But I do agree, most people that don’t have them want to pro-actively point out why that’s they do it. I think they know they are about to get a ration of rolling eyes and “are you nuts” look, so they preemptively say why and of COURSE they have to make themselves feel good about why. They already know most of the world doesn’t think about the world they way they do.
I freely admit to my TV addition and therefore needing to keep the TV out of my house. I do LOVE being invited to friend’s houses that have TV thought to get a fix.
I have the same problem as you! I can’t stop watching and I love getting TV fixes! That’s why I can’t have a TV in my house. I don’t tell people I don’t have one though because I don’t like it when they step away from me and avoid eye contact. Most people who don’t own TV’s love this reaction though! It makes them feel as if they are above the lowly masses of society.
But if they don’t have a TV, how can they watch reruns of “Everyone Loves Raymond”?
your a pussy.
albino people are gay
you should grow a dick…… and mike hunt is pretty queer
Hahahahahaha! I am so white! I too have no tv. But my daughter(who is gifted) goes to a Waldorf school…which means there are hundreds of us without a tv! We have collective meetings(while knitting) about tv. I love this website, because it is a constant reality check to anyone who thinks they are uber cool! I haven’t had a tv for 10 years…but then again I grew up on the west coast of Canada on a commune, and we didn’t have one then.
Truth be told, I was taking a break from studying Spanish and doing my homework for my erotic writing course…and just finished watching Survivor:Villains vs Heros on youtube. And yes I am watching from my MacBook Pro
I may have to stop typing so I can hate my life with my whole body! hahahahahahaha…I might pee my lululemons
we are too busy having lots of sex
douche canoe…hahahaha
nice rebuttal Joseph…did you learn how to debate from a book or tv?
I don’t own a TV because there hasn’t been anything good on since the ’90s ended. all these new TV programs are just utter garbage infused with overused bits, gags and monkeys (because some idiot in the box office decided that EVERYONE LOVES MONKEYS).
Other than that all you will ever see on TV are new age lame cartoons for tweens, American Idol, biased news casts from FOX, Family guy and Animal planet. animals blow, who’s idea was it that it would be entertaining to look at a glowing box of animals for hours on end?
“The number one reason why white people like not having a TV is so that they can tell you that they don’t have a TV.”
ROFL! That alone was hillarious. In fact, this entire site is a work of comedic genious.
your opinion about this can’t be trusted because you don’t have a tv. are you sure that you know what is on tv? this doesn’t sound accurate.
what was so good about tv in the 90’s? shows/news/educational tv seem much better now.
It’s sad to see people so unconscious and ignorant of their situation. You think white people hate having tv? how bout black intellectuals who don’t have tvs or any other ethnicity who realizes that tv has become commercial bullshit that wastes your life away.
How depressing that someone is considering boring when they can’t refer to a television show.
This site is so fucking stupid and I’m not even white. I do find things white people odd and different, but this site doesn’t even have the insight to understand why.
MOST TV is total crap, but there are a few good shows out there. That’s still no reason to have TV as you can find them all on the net these days.
Hey buddy, the site is in jest. Seriously, just one big joke. Bring some humor into your life.
wow, its so weird that you got so offended by this. you clearly don’t understand that this is a hilarious joke. and if you don’t find it funny then, hey, close the browser.
Do you have other deeper issues about your identity that this might be touching on?
“He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger”
just a thought.
though I wouldn’t be surprised if this evokes more rage.
woah, calm down scooter. dont have an aneurysm. it would be really embarassing to die getting angry at a blog thats meant for a joke. seriously, calm down. its good for your health
White people like me like hooking up a huge flatscreen to a computer to make it a media center and then using that interweb thing to download/watch all the tv shows we want without so many commercials or bothering with scheduling or TiVo.
Not having a cable TV bill and maybe going over to someones house to watch something is great too.
so not having TV service but having a tv.
[…] not very cool. According to my culture, it’d be much much cooler for me not to even have a […]
I bet you felt real good while you wrote that blog 🙂
I think the author has mixed up class and race on this one – specifically, class in the form of liberal, hybrid sporting, whole fools market elitism. It’s sort of the cultural equivalent of being politically correct – call it CC. Now, I’ve had my hybrid, I’ve spent a fortune at whole foods and I have two pair of Birkenstocks and a Subaru so I’ve tasted it. But it has nothing to do with race. Funnier than hell, though.
White people would watch TV Japan, to check out the latest yet undubbed anime toons. They also love BBC for news, comedies or mystery shows. And show off to their friends (normally TVs are turned off when company are over) about they have TF1, France 2/3 or RDS/SRC broadcast in French.
There are six reasons I own a TV:
Sopranos
Six Feet Under
Entourage
Dexter
Big Love
True Blood
Or maybe it’s three reasons:
HBO Original Programming
As a whitey/honkie in Africa, I LOVED finding this site… and this comment was hilarious. I, too, don’t have a TV… and I LOVE telling people I don’t have a TV and how much my children read, instead, and all the quality time that we can now rather spend and .. blah-blah-blah… ! You made me laugh at myself, thanks!
I haven’t had a TV for years. My trailer couldn’t be hooked up to cable and sattelite was too expensive. When I won the lottery I might have been able to afford one but I blew the money on that Alberto Giacommetti “Walking Man” statue. The statue looks great near my stuffed rotweiler but sometimes I think about pawning it for a decent Sony.
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[…] “I don’t have a TV,” she said. And then she added, “The only reason people don’t have TVs is so they can tell other people that they don’t watch TV.” (This is also a Stuff White People Like post). […]
The next someone tells me they don’t have a TV, I’m going to mention something involving Hulu. I hope I come across as cynical.
I don’t own a TV simply because I just can’t get into whatever’s on these days. I’m more than happy to just watch DVDs of shows on my computer…no commercials, no waiting.
I own one. A grubby black and white tv covered with spit.
rich kids…
I don’t have a tv cause I can’t afford one. I barely managed to save enough up to get the laptop I needed for college; even then, I was on the school computers for two years.
The most important part of this one is the opening paragraph. So so so so true. I guess we like to feel “different”
[…] Not having a TV […]
haha, I went to one of the most “white” public schools around and they actually had a decreed “t.v. turnoff week.” That way the entire school could spend a week simultaneously feeling superior to all those other people who actually wasted their brain watching television.
hmmm, not really, everyone i know has a tv.
“I don’t have a tv cause I can’t afford one. I barely managed to save enough up to get the laptop I needed for college; even then, I was on the school computers for two years.”
Also something white people like to say. And feel better than you for it.
Nonsense. I don’t have a TV because I am either working or trying to catch up with the pile of books awaiting my attention.
Borat here. I am official national state people’s journalist. Great Kazak TV stars. low quality budget production. No jews produce. no gays or gay music. techno dance illegal. baywatch is new big hit show. must find pamela anderson. she was in dancing with star. other men stay away from my new babushka. I hear pamela for sale…single again. yea?
We who don’t own TVs ARE superior. Most of us don’t smoke tobacco, do drugs, own guns or belong to a church either. For some people, TV is just something to look at while they sit on a couch, pick their nose, and dribble.
Man I effing LURVE my 50″ plasma. One of the most life-quality-improving purchases I ever made.
And, BTW, I also love sushi, japan, clothes from saville row, correct grammar and good diction. So I fit a good part of the steeriotype (=fragment).
I also kinda like black street fashion, but if the blogger or someone else here is black (and happy to speak for black people), perhaps he can tell me wtf is up with those timbaland boots?? Just how the f did those huge yellow monstrosities come to be stylish??
Rufus:
“We who don’t own TVs ARE superior. Most of us don’t smoke tobacco, do drugs, own guns or belong to a church either. For some people, TV is just something to look at while they sit on a couch, pick their nose, and dribble.”
Rufus is SPOT-ON and I’m Black! Wait, no…make that white now, yaaaaaayyy 🙂 lol
Know what sucks tho?? Being casted for tv shows when u don’t watch tv. I’m like…So wtf show is THIS? lol (haven’t had a tv in yrs :P)
I tried not owning a TV once in the endeavour of more artistic and educational pursuits.I even thought about learning another language!!!!It soon wore off and even though I was on the brink of poverty I quickly went out and bought one.Yes it was almost vintage.
I don’t own a TV. I used to but programming got so bad (reality shows everywhere) that I found that I barely ever watched any TV. When I moved I left the TV behind thinking I would go back for it in a day or 2. I never did. It’s been 2 years now and I have never missed my TV. Even today when I go to people’s houses, there is still nothing worth watching unless you think that Karaoke Idol, Dancing with the have been stars, Jon and Kate plus 8, Survivor and the Hills are shows worthy of your time.
Yet you know of all these shows.
[…] previous lack of TV wasn’t a self-righteous, things white people like thing(#28, aka look at me! I’m so liberal and crunchy and righteous that I’m too good […]
Oh look, a white person talking about thier lack of a TV in great detail. 😮 Never saw this one coming
The post’s title is a question and I can answer it for you all:
5. TBN (Praise the lord and pass the remote, WWJD?).
4. RFD-TV (It’s all about local agriculture/farming reports).
3. CMT (Pump up the volume for that western sound).
2. Speed TV (The thrill of NASCAR and no v-chip needed).
and the 1. channel is…FOX NEWS! Forget the other Fox.
(All-American neo-con GOP-endorsed one-sided reporting).
ummm.. white people do have tvs actually.
this one was stupid.
I think a lot of you have problems understanding these are just broad funny stereotypes that apply to the current (young 20-30’s) white population of the USA. Of course black people, and Asian, and Latino people do some of these things. Of course all white people don’t do all these things. These are just FUNNY STEREOTYPES that are oddly and recently very prevalent in American White culture. I am very guilty of a lot of these. I think it is really funny. I live in Japan, have an Asian girlfriend, like mos def, used to make movies, wanted to be a writer, like to camp, etc, etc. No I don’t do yoga and don’t really like tea… and I am NOT going to be all defense and complain that this list is stupid and I guess I am not white cause I don’t drink wine. Just enjoy this for what it is. BROAD STEREOTYPES. one more thing. Stop being so defensive. one one more. You dont need to post on every thing that you DONT do, “I don’t do …..” whatever. good for you.
This one wasn’t stupid. I know a number of white people (both older and young) who don’t own a TV, who refuse to allow their children to watch TV, and like to spit off tirades about how terrible TV is. It’s hilarious.
By white people I think you mean American people. Stuff you write is mostly about Americans
But yeah, not having a TV can make you the “idiot intellectual”
[…] you see, it has been a long, long time since I’ve had cable TV. In fact, it’s been almost a decade. For the year and a bit that I lived with Danielle, we […]
Hmm… I must admit: I say I don’t have TV as I am a student in a foreign country and TV is big and expensive. But when I am in “snobby” white circles Í proclaim pleasurably :”I don’t have a TV, I am so creative, bohemian!” And from then on everybody is supposed to like me more.
I don’t have tv either, but I watch everything online!!! So i still get the superior feeling of being able to say I don’t have one, but I can still talk about all the shows I watch 🙂
Oh, and there’s no commercials and i can sit down and watch House at 1 am.
I think the problem is the crap shows, obviously the TV only displays a picture, it’s not responsible for the garbage people watch on it. You should grill the folks who say “we just watch it on the computer” well that’s the same damn thing! Satellite has to stay otherwise i can’t watch my Dodgers! DVR: record what you want and skip the commercials. Netflix is the way to go if you don’t care about sports. You’ll have to take away my 65” DLP from my cold dead hands! What else would you do? Read books? What kind of a life is that…………to the guy who said there is nothing good on tv, how would you know if you haven’t tried? Dexter, Breaking Bad, House, Ghost Hunters etc.
Our liberals love to not have TV’s…but they have the internet and find ways to watch everything for free. they are such arrogant hypocrites!
White people don’t have TV’s? huh? What white people we talking about? lol
You do realize that you are alive, right? Do you really want to waste hundreds of hours of your beautiful, alive, breathing, human life watching commercials for bullshit?
I agree, Jim. But what is the point in asking a passive/reactive cattle human what he wants? Either he has no opinion except for what threatens his vegetable state (passive). Or he has a strong opinion, but it’s not his own, despite him believing that it is (reactive).
You could as well tank to a drunk wall.
I meant “talk”. Not “tank”. Obviously. 😉
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No, that’s not white people, that’s Muslims.
We didn’t have a television for years but we finally got one. However, there really aren’t any good shows on anymore. Everything is a ‘reality’ show or just something that I can’t identify with at all. I caught part of a show called ‘Desperate Housewives of New Jersey’. These types of shows are sooooooo ridiculous. The women are all mean, back stabbing gossips. And they throw money around like it grows on trees and are always talking about what cosmetic procedures they are going to have done next and taking their children to fashion shows or screaming at their children or husband. Just watching these types of shows stresses me out. So, I am sticking to a little news and renting movies!
But I don’t think we ever bragged about not having a TV. Actually when you tell most people you don’t have a TV you usually get a very negative reaction, not to mention the fact that you can’t carry on a conversation about what happened on ‘American Idol”. Most of our friends were like “Oh good you finally grew up and got a TV”, insinuating we were immature for not having one- and maybe we were, lol.
I never thought of us as being better than people who did have a TV. I just really don’t like what’s on. So we waste more of our time on other things, like the internet, obviously- haha. And also, TV’s and cable bills can really add up when you’re a young, poor married couple!
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Interesting… I thought I didn’t have a TV (actually, I have a TV, just not cable) because I was poor and cable costs money that could be used to buy food. Turns out that any time I say “sorry, didn’t see that… don’t have cable”, I’m really trying to brag about how awesome and better than everyone else I am for not having TV.
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Yeah, but do you have that deliberate tone in your voice when you say it? You know who he is talking about. By the way, you just fulfilled a post from 3 years ago on another thing that white people love — not like, but love: Getting offended.
I’m starting to wonder where he gets the idea that all white people read books on left-wing politics. As far as I can see, all white people have at least one book by Ann Coulter, and at least one Rush Limbaugh tie.
I guess this is what the author describes as “the wrong sort of white people” although they seem to be the most common sort by far in my experience.
Don’t be a goober. He’s talking about a certain kind of white people. The kind from la, Seattle, Boston, New york and Mass. I’m from la, and he describes these people exactly as they are, right down to their hempwear. I live in the valley, where every culture carves out their little area, and the only people who volunteer (see, that’s the key) that kind of info….are those kind of people. Those white people who make sure everybody in the room is watching while they carefully place their empty soda can in their green bag. You get a trophy here for doing that kind of thing, or at least the right to pound someone’s face in with an endless tirade of environmentally-charged epithets as you forget to cut the plastic circles from your six-pack.
Good thing I’m white and talking about white people, or I’d reeeeeeeeeeeeally be in trouble for the “those kind of people” comment. Anywho, come on down my hometown and have yourself a laugh. Because, believe me, my friend, we are a joke.
One of my personal favorites. https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/28/101-being-offended/
Priceless. I almost peed a little.
Please, tell me he has one about the judgmental “non-judger” or one about the dude who swears he’s the next hero of all minority races; specifically Africans-Americans or anyone with dark skin not from Europe, but excluding Asians applying to UCLA, or Asians, in general. Either way, I appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
i think most white people like tv, it’s just cool to say you don’t…
#oo1 one people like to kick the shit out of other races in fact most white people dont give a fuck about bitch ass sites like this
I am white and never had a tv growing up. It sucked! I will never be without, I hope. I love tv. Really.
I hate tv because of those constant annoying fucking adverts. Illegal downloads of just our favourite shows is the only way to go!!! Muhaha having and paying for a tv and a tv licence makes no sense when you have a computer.
I am white, I don’t smoke, I don’t have a Bob Marley poster in my dorm room, I don’t recycle, I have never had “yellow fever”, No funny or ironic tattoo.. I guess i’m a bad white person. oh-shit Hopefully I can read a bit more how my race acts so I can learn to fit in better. YAY!
nooooo I don’t own a TV cause I hate watching it. I miss not being able to talk about TV shows with people. Really, it’s true I swear. Oh man, how do I wriggle out of this one, ah ha ha ha ha.
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Yes, you really are a shitty person. The least you could do is recycle. And cut out the sarcasm; self aware, sarcastic narcisism is still narcisism.
hahaha! Hilarious! I dont have a TV and i love bragging about it. It does rot your brain and is full of smuttery. On those boring nights I get a dvd and we watch it on the laptop. I am a hippy, I sometimes recycle, always buy organic and drink distilled water. I sew cool staff and paint pictures of beaches, ballerinas and water lillys among other things. My husband surfs, listens to black music and wears gangster hats. I think Im pretty fun to hang out with ;-P
But Tv has been and still is (forthemostpart) engineered for and by white people. This is kind of an oxymoron
^^^ This whitey is guilty! No TV, and I feel sorry for you if you do have one. (although I do have Netflix streaming to my computer, and will stay up until the wee hours of the night watching past seasons of Weeds or The Office – but I’m way behind, so I still won’t be able to talk about it with you around the water cooler, maintainingmy air of superiority!!! I win!)
The word oxymoron is very well used by white people.
oh ya, a girl who considered herself to be an elite or intellect says that she does not own or watch tv every time she meets someone new. can be boring after a while.
LOL I saw this blog on http://www.DanielDickey.com (The MTV VJ) and must admit, it’s super funny as well.
I’m a (gay) white boy who WISHES he didn’t have a TV. My partner won’t let me get rid of it though. He likes watching movies like Broken Hearts Club. I would be proud to assert “I don’t have a TV!” but I am a vegetarian, so I can tell everyone about how I don’t eat meat. That’s equally as good as not having a TV.
You can add to your list telling everyone how gay you are when it has nothing to do with the discussion.
Nah, Tv has been and still is (forthemostpart) engineered for and by Jews.
Damn. I knew it was only a matter a time before some jackass came on here with something like that. To be honest, I’m surprised it took you so long to show up.
As time goes on the posters have less and less of anything to offer. Nothing funny or even a little something of substance to add to the discussion. The ratio of moronic to decent comments are growing and that makes me Mr. sad guy. It might be time for me to high-tail it out of here. If the next comment is as stupid as the most recent ones, I’ll just cut my losses and leave.
Stop being a fucking faggot. Maybe you should kill yourself
i can’t see anything here, which can upset you like that.
I watch TV 3 to 4 hours a day. It’s my drug of choice. As long as I don’t watch the news, I find it a good mind numbing way of relaxing and taking my mind off of the problems of work. Anyone who tells you they don’t watch TV or they don’t have a TV is either stuck up, lying, or they spend their free time masturbating because they don’t have any friends because they are so convinced of their own superiority. The last person I knew who claimed he didn’t watch or have a TV, was one of the biggest dick heads I have ever known.
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so true, I boycotted TV for 2 years. I love to tell people how it rots their mind and I did without it for 2 years. I still believe we were better off without it.
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“Generally this makes them very boring and gives you very little to talk to them about.”
Wow! That´s dumb.
Of course you will have nothing to talk about with an active person if you are a couch potato and all you know is what TV implanted in your brain.
Stop approaching people and talking about TVshows! Then, they´ll never have to tell you they do not own a TV.
I have lots of friends who donot own TV´s… we have full lives.
we never talk about not having a TV-set. We have so many other interests it never even comes up.
We also find people who only parrot what they see in TV-shows EXTREMELY boring.
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Dude .. this blog really is sad. It is indicative of a mind so plasticized, so malleable to the bullshit that is pumped out of the tube. There is no point in trying to take an opposite position because you have no ‘perception’ of what it like on the other side – ie what it is like to NOT have a tv and therefore how much more time you afford yourself, how many more better things you can do for YOURSELF in the time you spend mouth open, gawking at the purile, fatuous, vapid shite you think adds value to your life.
I have a degree, I play the piano, I speak french, spanish and am learning chinese, I run on average 30 miles a week .. I am not saying this is because I have no TV but it is BECAUSE I decided not to waste the hours, days, weeks you use up watching a box in the corner or as a medium to play games.
I don’t expect you to agree because as I said you have no perception of the other side – I am qualified as I used to be like you.
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Agreed. Mentioning how I don’t have cable only alienates me and angries co-workers and minimizes my chance of climbing the corporate ladder. The same might be said about any number of pop culture or arts knowledge. The entire state of modern culture is in the shitter, as far as I’m concerned. Paying for cable just so I can participate in conversations around the water cooler about whatever mindless dialogue took place on the idiot box would only infuriate me more.
“Marketed rebelion is just another case of lying on the sofa with a moron in your face.’ – Billy Childish
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Kid you’re fucking retarded. I don’t know a White person out there that DOESN’T have a TV. Bitch.
the ones you’re thinking of probly stopped watching it because the prices dropped so far that your ghetto ass could finally afford one and they did it out of protest.
I get everything i need off the internet, dont you? Do you really watch TV? I had a dish at one point, there’s really nothing on… weather channel maybe. It never comes up in convo until someone asks if I saw this show or that — then cat is out of the bag. I watch TV in airports, if i’m not txting. I havent watched TV since I went online in the 1990s, it’s vastly more entertaining and less preachy.
I haven’t owned a TV in 2 years just because I just don’t have the patience for it anymore. It’s like some weird form of ADD. I used to be able to watch an entire season of 24 on DVD in 2 days. I’d go nuts doing that today. I’d rather be doing other things…working out, reading, coffee with friends, creative activities. I don’t think I’m better than anyone for it, I’m just not interested in what’s on TV anymore.
Way to fight the system Richard.
heh, clown.
I feel the same way you do Richard. I used to watch TV series on DVD, back to back, all episodes in one weekend. I’ve spent 4 years now without watching TV. 1st year had a old TV, did not watch it, got rid of it and spent 2 years with no TV. I bought a new TV last summer to watch movies occasionally and for my spouse to play video games, but we don’t have cable.
Not owning a TV does not make someone better or worse, it is only a choice. I simply prefer the internet and radio and books.
Maybe to some it is boring to have a conversation about the news, or science, or books. To me, it is boring to listen to a conversation about a TV show. So what? We simply have different interests.
Rachel,
You are an elite white person. Congratulations!
American Idol is my favorite tv show. I don’t have tv but i get all the episodes of this tv show online and that all are really amazing.
I don’t watch much TV–but I spend waaaay too much time on the Internet
Family guy is the perfect one on my tv.
I do have a t.v. in my trailer, put my toilet broke this weekend, and I shit all over the floor, with the corn from my hungry man dinner sitting right a top a big ol pile of shit, fucking very smelly, thank gods I had my T.V> to turn too. FUcking mel’s fabulous trailer park where the toilet blow up. It happend before and the plumber said never flush a tampoon, it was my fucking girlfrind how ya smellen Helen, bitch.
I don’t have a tv, that shit rots your brain… but… I admittedly have NOTHING to talk about other than how much of a computer geek I am and really controversial heavy topics. It makes me a social butterfly at parties.
Maybe I should just give in.
When two people who both live without a TV meet, there are always two conversations. The first: a self-congratulatory back-and-forth about how great life is without TV. The second: where do you download 30 Rock?
WTF this is a great example of how society works. YOU don’t like people that don,t watch tv because they can’t talk about dumbass tv shows that convert you into a mainstream dick like every other motherfucker in this country.
Yes well, so many idiots got televisions that the networks had to dumb down the shows in order to keep the new moronic crowd watching. 90% of television is unintelligent, unrealistic (reality) and boring. Whenever a new show that requires you to think and use more than 2 brain cells launches, it gets cancelled within a few months – that’s because the majority of viewers don’t get the plot, and networks have to keep the masses happy.
The few intelligent shows left have loyal viewers, but there are only a few left and unfortunately we can’t give our attention to all the great shows, which means we’re forever cursed with such gems as 16 and pregnant, Toddlers and Tiaras and watching the Dugards breed.
So most of these posts are about rich liberal white people. How about writing about normal, hard working, middle class white people? I feel like the people being made fun of in these posts are a very small minority. (I’m white, by the way) Doesn’t everyone talk about the white people being the force behind the Tea Party movement? Maybe make a separate section for non-rich-stuck up-liberal white people. (I guess they’re not as easy to make fun of)
Let me get this straight: your argument is that the Tea Party Movement is MORE difficult to make fun of?
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I’m white and I dumped TV about 4 years ago. Not because I want to read books or better myself, but because the shows can’t develop any substance because they have to be interrupted so often by advertisements. Seriously! Watch a DIY on how to make a cabinet for example. Nice guy says, “buy the wood”, cut it up, glue it. BAM, there is your perfect cabinet! What just happened? Commercial break to sell you something you definitely don’t need, back to the news, some interesting headlines involving something horrible that will happen to you, be right back after the break… I realised that after hours of TV watching, I didn’t know anything more than when I started.
That is why I ditched my TV and now download the shows I want; but you know, if its ’cause I’m white, then so be it!
I’m white and don’t own a TV and laughed my ass off because I do love telling people I don’t own a TV, and they always answer how they shouldn’t have one, too.
It is somewhat a double standard because a TV isn’t neccessary with internet or a TV card and a computer.
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Going months without tv……….when someone asks if I saw this or that, etc………I realize I always say, “I don’t have tv”.
Also, anyone else I’ve heard not have a tv is because they’ve said………in regards to “Did you see so and so on tv”
Now I will respond by saying, “No, I didn’t see it, No, I didn’t catch it.”
Thank you for helping me to polish my mirror and allow me to NOT be that guy……….”No, I didn’t see it, I don’t have TV”
I have found I don’t miss it.
Now, back to more online surfing……….lol
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500 channels on your cable TV bill shouldn’t feel bad when you pay $75-85 per month. Honestly, it’s more expansive to buy a single designer water bottle every day with you on the go! OK, what’s $3.50 x 365 days a year? Add it up, you’ll be surprised.
What’s the “white people” have to do about this ? Open your fucking mind.
Internet>TV
You know… this is bogus. I just googled “why I don’t have a TV” because I was curious why some other people might not watch it. I got a few satisfying answers and… this. So this is how I sound to people, just cause I don’t give a rat’s one about television. This just goes to show you how people get ahead of themselves so fast, coming up with these weird ideas. I’ve never even heard of the type of person described here… in fact, all the people I ever met, white or not, who talk about “how bad the media is” and TV is, have been slobbering, unblinking, hopeless TV addicts themselves. Lol. I don’t watch TV because when I watch TV I feel like I’m wasting time. It usually doesn’t make me laugh or anything, and it often is pretty unnerving for me to watch for several reasons. A lot of that has to do with how things are portrayed in fictional shows wrongly, such as mental illnesses… and I know when I see that on television there are 100 other people who have NEVER heard of the illness, and all the information they’ll EVER hear about it will be from some badly stereotyped minor character with the mental illness or something. I think moron writers are one of the main reasons for general stupidity. They’re one of the main reasons stupid idiotic thoughts spread like wildfires through all these people’s brains… the other main reason is stupid teachers. I’m often also directly insulted by how a certain group of people I’m among, who I won’t mention here, are portrayed on television and in the news. I literally can’t turn on the television, and while flipping through channels, settle on one that won’t eventually dish out a low blow in our direction, or something badly researched. It’s extremely frustrating… and it’s usually something trying to be funny. I’ve gotten over being offended, but I’ve got no reason to watch what’s on TV, besides the news, Encore Westerns once and a while, and George Lopez. That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. But, telling people I don’t watch TV has never been something I do because I care about looking good to them. I do, indeed think most of TV is crap. I keep that to myself, though. I don’t mind that people like to watch it. If it had more that I cared about on it on my cable TV, or my housemate didn’t hog the on-demand almost 24-7, i might be addicted myself.
It’s a good thing you weren’t wasting time watching TV, Dolan, or you may never have had time to google “why I don’t have a TV.”
Not having a TV is quite a nice discipline, as it can lead one into all sorts of new pursuits. Even something as uneventful, yet infinitely rewarding, as quiet self-reflection.
Absolutely not to say non-TV watchers are better than TV-watchers, it’s just a life choice. An extra little discipline, to see what might happen.
More recently I have enjoyed the discipline of not reading any news on the web.
It’s like using black and white film in a camera. It’s a simple form of austerity, to whittle away externally generated sense impulses, and push oneself, and get closer to one’s true self.
It’s just a simple discipline, something to experiment with.
Nothing about being better than others – but it’s more likely that such a sentiment stems from one feeling inherently less than others, rather than another feeling more.
The most interesting adventure is to drop all that stuff and just laugh and enjoy discovering, without judgement.
It need not be anything more than a dialogue of getting to know (and learning to appreciate) what makes each other tick, without judgement.
Internet?
Bullshit white people love tv where you think they get all this corny ass shit from for some cool shit go to http://www.myurbantree.com
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But I do very much get a kick out of people’s befuddled responses: “Oh, I only watch PBS! We only have it for educational programs and DVD’s – old classics, you know”. This is like insisting they “only have cupboards to keep dishes in, sometimes food”
oh shut UP! Go whine about reverse discrimination elsewhere.
Are the enough “I’s” in your little novel chief?
You forgot to mention that they all watch Mad Men on their computers!!! So hilarious!
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It sounds like that it’s not white people you dislike so much as insincere people. I can definitely support such a sentiment. I just personally wish it didn’t have to be tied to a specific skin color.
Not trying to invalidate what you are saying, just giving an opinion.
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i don’t have a tv….
but i’m just cheap, still watch it on the interwebs
So… Let me guess.
Some hipster criticized your favorite TV show as well as your addiction to the device. Probably for good reason.
I hate to say it, but in this case they were right.
I see enough advertisements just driving to work. Why the hell would I want to see more by watching TV. It’s quite literally 30% advertisements.
If you want to watch a program, use Netflix or the internet or something. Cable TV is junk.
So true. laugh at yourself people-stop taking yourself so seriously. The joke I heard goes-Q-“why do white people own a TV?” A- “So they can tell you that they don’t watch television”. It is just a form of elitism that they may not even realize.
Tv DOES rot our brain.
I’m not sure if I even watch TV anymore in the strictest sense. I have a TV, but I don’t use its TV function anymore. I use it as a computer monitor to watch shows streamed off the internet. Oh, and it’s hooked up to all the game consoles of course.
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I was at a hotel and was flipping through channels and stumbled upon this show on the Discovery Channel called Sons of Guns. Another hack producer sold his soul and its basically a custom gun shop version of Pawn Stars. Anyway, as I am watching, I am have trouble understanding everything that is being said. I turn up the volume and then realize that its not the sound but their retarded redneck Bayou accents. Think Brittney Spears’ twang when she isn’t singing.
The show itself is shit and has no substance and I am hard pressed to think of the last time the Discovery Channel had discoveries or the History Channel had history. Every show is redneck vouge, with truck drivers, loggers, fishermen, and what have you. The push and pull factors are obvious; the right kind of white people (of SWPL) stopped watching TV resulting in millions of dollars of lost ad revenue and the wrong kind of white people (functionally illiterate rednecks) got cable ten years after everyone else.
The state of affairs is as such that I’m not sure what came first, the chicken or the egg, because I’m a city slicker and all I don’t even know where chickens and eggs come from because TV won’t tell me.
Well, this pretty much sums it up.
Not having access to cable TV isn’t just for white people. It’s for smart people.
No Tv 2.0 Update: white hipsters everywhere are now cancelling cable tv and keeping cable modem services … ‘all you need is internet’… and stream niche programming and netflix to their flatscreens, including french, german, and other foreign content,… including news from Al Jazeerah, BBC, DW and other non-Murdoch sources….
Lol, you know what else white hipsters are doing? Calling other people hipsters who decide to ditch cable TV out of realization that it’s shit. That’s right. You’re a hipster and the best part is you probably don’t even know it.
A brown dog more beautiful than the other one and what do you think?
You’re a hipster and the best part is you probably don’t even know it.
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I would shrivel up and die without tv and i’m very white.
Not if you don’t like sports. Or at least not with very good looking people.
You should have used a // instead of a regular slash, it’s pretty popular with white people
is there anyone out there that has seen that new show about shoving hamsters up your asshole? I hear its really good.
Ugh, i didn’t have a TV before it was mainstream. i just cant believe all of these sheeple stay glued to a glowing box all day when they could be outside riding fixed-gear bikes through the park to this new organic Indian place by my studio apartment
HA! A very particular type of white person. Maybe this site will transform into “Stuff Indie Hipsters” like… which will soon be TV, nasty food, guns, etc. because there will be too many Indie Hipsters so it will no longer be hip to be a hipster.. so, basically the hipster of the future is like a Suburban hunter who also plays Football.
your comment made me laugh out loud
This has to be one of the funniest blogs I’ve ever read. The comments are priceless! BTW. I’m not only the founder of people who don’t watch TV I also don’t watch it. Well I look at it but its not turned on so I guess that counts.
Genius!
Awesome! I shamelessly speak about using bunny ears on our tv because cable is a gigantic rip-off. I download what I want to see for free, and I watch it on my little 50″
This post is completely stupid. I am white. I don’t have a tv at home. You say “…On those lonely nights when white people wish they could be watching American Idol, Lost, or Grey’s Anatomy…”. First of all, if you want to watch those series, you do it online and avoiding the ads. Secondly, you -at least I do- use that time to read/watch movies that you WANT TO watch -not the ones tv offers you to watch-.
Yeah…commercial TV is whack. I mean how many damn ‘Crime Scenes’ need investigating?
Netflix is the ‘hip’ way to go.
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So…if I legitimately don’t watch TV other than about once every two months, should I still waste money on something I don’t use so I won’t look like a hipster?
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Come on… TV does fry your brains… you can’t deny that, it’s for old people… And there’s one pretty huge extra-TV activity you didn’t mention, white poeple love the internet, at the very least, young hipsters will all have an Apple computer, phone and tablet…
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I find there are a lot of people who come home and just watch TV, that is all they do and stems from a desperate desire to “be connected” even if they aren’t really connected with other people that much, and be “in the know” – where, again, how can you believe what you’re being told? It’s all self-importance and covering up for what unenriched, lame little lives they have – and believe me, they do have lame little, directionless lives. They don’t do much. They’re boring. Period.
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