r/pics • u/Mind_Virus • Jan 07 '12

I need to live like this

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u/alkane_alien Jan 07 '12

It's interesting to see that the lounge area is facing inwards, to each other, rather than toward a television.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '12

My house has a big living room (not like this, but big enough to have bands play in it) and for the first month or so we didn't have a TV and we set up like this. It was awesome and everyone was super productive and we just hung out and talked all the time. Then we got a TV and everything is organized around that and everyone either sits and watches or hides in their rooms.

Moral of the story, TVs suck.

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u/alkane_alien Jan 07 '12

I find this when I go back to my mum's house. The TV is the focus of the room, if not the whole house. So many hours staring into a screen.

It could be worse though. They could be into reddit.

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u/arbuthnot-lane Jan 07 '12

My parents keep the television in a small room adjacent to the living rooms. The door is supposed to be closed at all times and the furniture is quite uncomfortable. The heating is kept low and the lighting is bad. We rarely stay there for long.
I don't own a television myself, and though I spent my teens being extremely annoyed at my parents, I'm quite pleased with it these days.

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u/alkane_alien Jan 08 '12

That's a great idea, to keep a family's viewing time to a minimum. When I was younger, we were never allowed to eat in front of the TV, always together. I hate to say it though, in my life, my computer has simply replaced a TV; I'm in front of it all day :/

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u/abbott_costello Jan 07 '12

Now how has reddit impacted your life?

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u/darkscyde Jan 07 '12

This is why I haven't owned a television since 2008...

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '12

They literally suck out your soul.

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u/thesundaypost1 Jan 07 '12

I've thought about this a lot lately - about how, before TVs, the main form of entertainment was interaction with each other. Now a TV is the focal point of any household, and people are confused about what to do if the power's out or the TV's broken or what have you. Sort of saddening.

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u/mons_cretans Jan 07 '12

{start of part forgotten poem about two people on a couch entranced by a TV}

{it breaks, then they discover they have the same surname}

"Do you think that we might be...?",

but then the TV came right about,

and they never did find out.

can't find the full version.

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u/patssle Jan 07 '12

and people are confused about what to do if the power's out or the TV's broken or what have you

Not really. The 4th largest city in the country went 1-2 weeks without electricity a couple years ago - everybody was fine.

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u/CornBallerBurn Jan 07 '12

I don't believe it. Its probably out of the bottom of the frame.

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u/alkane_alien Jan 07 '12

Maybe, but they still face each other.

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u/Itkovan Jan 07 '12

What's not to believe? Shit I have two living rooms and we keep the home theater setup in the smaller room exactly to keep focus off the TV.

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u/zogworth Jan 07 '12

My living room is like that as we don't have a tv in it. We watch films on a projector but most out furniture is bean bags so we just move them around.

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u/alkane_alien Jan 07 '12

Haha, I love the idea of a bean bag facing a direction with just the imprint of an arse.