Dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum, diddle de dum. Ooooweeeeeooooooo

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1297483]

Comments

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Other - no TV. :)

[andrewducker]

Hence the link in the question...

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Well, as in, not that interested in watching tv-type-stuff. :)

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

I don't have TV either; I went with "I don't watch Dr Who".

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

More people should watch Basic Instinct 2.

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

New Doctor Who?! Why was I not informed by the authorities?!

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

yes - I listen to BBC radio all the time and not once in the many trails was a new Doctor Who thingy mentioned!

[fannymagnate.livejournal.com]

I'm a proper grown up and don't watch Dr Who after the kids have gone to bed - I prefer to watch the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

heh :) I'd also add to that - I don't read Harry Potter or any other children's books on the basis that I'm an adult :)

[andrewducker]

Wow, that sounds incredibly limiting. I'm glad I'm not bound by the strictures of being an adult.

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

Yeh I have limited myself to the entire cannon of works intended for adults, that is true. That said I didn't tend to read children's when I was a child either - having aspergers I prefered the encyclopedia :)

[marrog.livejournal.com]

In fairness, I don't have aspergers or anything (indeed, in tests online I come out with such a low aspie-count that I'm, like, the Anti-aspergers or something) but as a child I managed to find time for the encyclopedia, the complete works of Dickens, Austen and a number of other 'stuffy' classics (my Grandfather taught English) and children's fiction.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
o "On Three Ways of Writing for Children" by CS Lewis (1952)

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

Yeh but for me it's not about being snobbish against literature with a certain label ('childrens' book) it's more that I'm drawn towards 'heavier' material. I just finished reding Mandelbrot's Fractals and Scaling in Finance which is incredibly dry, it's actually just a collection of academic papers. And yet the subject matter cuts right to the heart of the current financial crisis. My interest such stuff doesn't leave any time for HP and the like. No doubt a HP reader would avoid Mandelbrot for the same reason.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I like heavy stuff and light stuff.

* shrug *

I like some of the HP books, but not all. I also like Dry legal textbooks and heavy philosophy. I just think that being unduly fixated on one subject or another, whether it's Mandelbrot or anything else is a bit worrying.

And if it's not about being snobbish, why word your initial comment the way you did?

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

Well, that's not what you said! I'm sure there's plenty of "adult" material you wouldn't touch either, on those grounds.

(Me, I'm a kids' fantasy geek who also reads Hofstadter, Chomsky, etc.)

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

Well, that's not what you said! I'm sure there's plenty of "adult" material you wouldn't touch either, on those grounds.

True enough.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I'm not that heavyweight!!! (though I get twinges of feeling probably shoudl be...) - but I find most adult fiction too lightweight/simplistic and thus kids stuff even moreso (generally - there are/were exceptions).

As a kid I read the library out of anything science-fact...

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I'm an adult.

Whatever that means

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

Nice come back. If this were reddit or digg you'd be getting upmods right now for effective use of of a webcomic/xkcd link :)

Is this were my argument falls down because I'm addicted to web comics? Although I'm open to the idea that webcomics are perhaps a higher form of communication than just plain words ;)

[andrewducker]

If you haven't read Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" then you should - it looks at exactly that, and is a fascinating history and thesis.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Is this were my argument falls down because I'm addicted to web comics?

You have an argument? I thought you just had a really boring taste in books. :-p

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

Different. I have a different taste in books :)

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Potayto, potahto...

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

Actually round here it's more like I say tay-ta you say spud :)

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I say tatties.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Oh that's lovely.

I keep a jar of bubble mix by the back door, but it's not really on the same scale.

[andrewducker]

Wow, that sounds incredibly limiting. I'm glad I'm not bound by the strictures of being "proper grown-up".

[fannymagnate.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but I was too busy watching "Last Year at Marienbad" to respond to this . . . And I still haven't got round to Funny Games (US).

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

I'll see your Godard and Fassbinder and raise you a Debord and a Straub / Huillet ;-)

[fire-sermon.livejournal.com]

You didn't have an option for 'I knew exactly when it would be on and tuned in for those three minutes.'

[andrewducker]

Dammit - I couldn't find an exact time anywhere!

[fire-sermon.livejournal.com]

Ah - I was cheating and found out from the guy that was managing the online content for the bbc site.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Nor an option for, 'I didn't know when it was on, and was afraid I'd missed it, but thankfully my partner was in the same room as the TV and could shout when it was on, so I ran through, and thus spared myself Girls Aloud and some soap opera I never watch.'

But I think that's probably too many characters for the text field. :)

[pennski.livejournal.com]

We started the sky plus going, and then 2 hours in started to fast forward through it, stopping for any musical numbers (ouch!) and then catching up with Dr Who.

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

Inexplicably, you don't an option for "I was subtitling the bits of CiN Scotland that we had scripts for - practically nothing - so I half-watched it while scrabbling around frantically trying to figure out what was coming next". I did manage to see it properly when it repeated...but wasn't very impressed.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

oh wow - you do subtitling? I've always wanted to meet a subtitler

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. I think you're the first person who's ever said that to me - it doesn't occur to most people that the job exists until I mention it! :D

[skington.livejournal.com]

It's a bit lazier than the previous CIN specials - it looks like the pre-credits sequence of the Christmas special, rather than something that would stand alone (e.g. Steven Moffat's excellent CIN special last year, or the extended post-regeneration sequence we had before David Tennant's first season).

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

Re: Don't watch Dr. Who

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I don't watch TV.

But if I did, I'd probably watch Dr. Who. :)