Oh, I watched plenty of television as a child/teenager. Up until I discovered sci-fi around age ten, it was even fairly normal kid fare. I just...didn't watch many movies, I guess? Possibly it was because I didn't really have any friends until I was twelve, and when I got some, they were all nerds who'd basically had the same experiences of lacking friends and thus lacking pop culture connections.
But I will gladly take the description of "amazeballs." :D
It was astounding how much more like *people* these kids were when compared to the milquetoasty kids around them. They had, like, thoughts, and shit. It was crazy!
I had a student like that. It was great. Uh, never mind the fact that at forty, he actually was an adult. *snicker*
I've only had sporadic access to a TV for...eight years now, I guess. We had one TV per dorm in undergrad, and Kenyon's culture was kind of anti-TV anyway--not to mention anti-cellphone, to the point where there was practically public shaming for talking on one in the more public areas of campus; it was awesome--so no one much used them. (Some friends and I watched Atlantis and BSG, but that was it.) My parents have cable, so I could watch whatever when I lived with them, but I rarely did. Now I don't have one at all and just watch Castle on ABC's site, and use Netflix for anything else.
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Date: 2010-06-24 02:57 am (UTC)But I will gladly take the description of "amazeballs." :D
It was astounding how much more like *people* these kids were when compared to the milquetoasty kids around them. They had, like, thoughts, and shit. It was crazy!
I had a student like that. It was great. Uh, never mind the fact that at forty, he actually was an adult. *snicker*
I've only had sporadic access to a TV for...eight years now, I guess. We had one TV per dorm in undergrad, and Kenyon's culture was kind of anti-TV anyway--not to mention anti-cellphone, to the point where there was practically public shaming for talking on one in the more public areas of campus; it was awesome--so no one much used them. (Some friends and I watched Atlantis and BSG, but that was it.) My parents have cable, so I could watch whatever when I lived with them, but I rarely did. Now I don't have one at all and just watch Castle on ABC's site, and use Netflix for anything else.