I've heard probably 10 people, at least, in my life either blatantly brag that they don't own a TV or at least mention that fact when it wasn't necessary at all. This shit drives me up the fucking wall.
I'm sorry, why should I be impressed you don't own a TV? I guess what you imply by that is you have such a focus of your time on superior intellectual activities that not a modicum of your time can be wasted on something as drab and mindless as something on TV. Or maybe you're too far off the "mainstream" to be entertained by something mass distributed. Or maybe you're a hyper-popular socialite. I'm sure the reasoning, or rather message, varies.
Rather than providing secondary or periphery evidence of a lifestyle or skill set, how about actually exude it? Or just blast it out. Fuck, I'd rather someone roll up into my grill, rip off some quote from Shakespeare, and say "betcha don't know which sonnet that's from, BIIIITCH." That is so, so, so much better than saying that you don't have a TV. Christ.
Of course there's a billion annoying expressions of insecurity and/or arrogance out there, but this one really gets to me.
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