That’s not what I hate. What I hate is that there are almost certainly many people who do like it.
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I’m sure it’s nonzero but I hate to think anyone is being fulfilled by this (or thinks that they are). I don’t like the assumption that we want a TV on, by default, anywhere we have to wait for more than a minute (e.g. at the clinic* last week). Some place like an airport it tends to get drowned out, anyway.
*P.S. no polyps, BTW
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Ah thanks for the thought; I see I could have written that more clearly…I didn’t mean to imply that I’m interested in acquiring it, but rather that I found the photo of the bowl interesting, and probably even more so I found the feeling of nostalgia that it engendered to be an interesting feeling…
Thank you anyway, though! Just seeing the photo and recalling using them was enough for me.
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Given the profusion of places with televisions and the number of homes I’ve entered in my life where the television must always be on and audible, I fear it is a very large percentage, at least in the US. In college one of my stumbling blocks to studying was that every time I went to someone’s apartment to study they always had a television on in the same room, making it impossible for me to concentrate or get work done.
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Nice!
Is that the slime oozing out from your tv set?
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I prefer the TV to be off unless I’m actually intending to watch something. If I really need background noise, I’d much rather switch on some music.
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Well my last clinic wait there was no TV in the waiting room but in the prep room I had a TV and could tune into TCM which was nice as I had about a 45 minute wait there. Outside of that I was too drugged to notice if there was TV or not. (well does the monitor showing what the scope sees count as TV?)
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Actually congratulating Gyrofrog on his diagnosis, in my own weird, roundabout way.
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They’re so starved for cash too.
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You’d think they’d just completely omit my zip code. At least this time they included a pre-paid envelope…
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Just wanted to give a shoutout to this elegant little bug who made it all the way up 31 floors to say hello…
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That’s quite the view you have there!
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Tis the season, I guess: saw a couple of those on the windows of the revolvy restaurant in Phoenix this weekend.
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Awesome.
But I can’t tell – what is he holding?
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Looks like a kitty to me? Can’t tell for sure, tho.
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Way back when our University started warning that some of our offices were going to have to relocate out of Manhattan, my boss volunteered early when no one wanted to move, so we lucked out with an extremely nice space. That view is the fanciest thing I have…
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It’s the right shape, if not the “right look,” in terms of how I remember Zappa. 
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