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Topic: What does your family / friends think of your hobby?
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted September 17, 2010 11:52 AM
Yes, Something's happened along the way: when television started you had a screen not even a foot across, and if a family was wealthy enough to have a TV they all huddled around it because they were so expensive almost nobody had more than one in a household. They were together for a shared experience, and probably talked about it afterwards too.
Time passed, the screens got bigger, the sets got cheaper. Soon everybody had one and then several, and people started having a set to themselves.
Now the screens have gotten tiny again but cheaper still, and we have them with us all the time.
We can live in our own isolated little worlds, just us and our screens.
Alone even in a crowd: Don't seem healthy to me!
We three like to go out to breakfast every Saturday, to a nice little place up by the harbor with really good home-style food. We've noticed that unless Nintendo DS stays home, our son can go the entire meal without saying anything or eating either.
I've expressed a desire to drive a nail through the damn thing and leave it dangling from a tree, but so far my wife isn't on board.
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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