Why I Hate Television
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@scottalanmiller Aw but see, I don't understand the difference so to me, the joke works because I know nothing about what they're referring to, so for me, the joke is fine because I don't know any better. Although for that joke to work on me, I would have to actually watch this show and I think it's trash so I don't watch it to begin with. But I digress.
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@NetworkNerdWifey said:
@scottalanmiller Aw but see, I don't understand the difference so to me, the joke works because I know nothing about what they're referring to, so for me, the joke is fine because I don't know any better. Although for that joke to work on me, I would have to actually watch this show and I think it's trash so I don't watch it to begin with. But I digress.
If you don't know the reference, what makes them funny?
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well the joke came from the "talking like that" line.....as in, referencing techie stuff is part of his problem with talking to women. One didn't need to know what the techie stuff meant in order to understand the joke.
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I'm very inconsistent, I'll moan at a TV program where a talking dog is breaking into NASA's mainframe in order to destroy some aliens by guessing the password and I'll be yelling at the TV "Oh yeah, like NASA would use weak passwords. That's so lame" and my wife will turn to me and say "Oh, so you have no problems with talking dogs attacking aliens then? That bit's realistic for you?".
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@NetworkNerdWifey said:
well the joke came from the "talking like that" line.....as in, referencing techie stuff is part of his problem with talking to women. One didn't need to know what the techie stuff meant in order to understand the joke.
Ah, and if you know what he said, it sounds like he's not technical and just says things he doesn't understand. So not knowing what he said makes it a joke about being too technical. But being technical makes it a joke about him being a poser.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I'm very inconsistent, I'll moan at a TV program where a talking dog is breaking into NASA's mainframe in order to destroy some aliens by guessing the password and I'll be yelling at the TV "Oh yeah, like NASA would use weak passwords. That's so lame" and my wife will turn to me and say "Oh, so you have no problems with talking dogs attacking aliens then? That bit's realistic for you?".
The thing that I have it "internal consistency." I'm fine with Superman, as long as the movie is completely consistent about how that happens in the fictional world. I'm fine with physics being bent, as long as they are bent consistently. I have no problem with requiring the suspension of disbelief. What I can't handle is when I care more about the fictional world than the people who made it and I can see where they were lazy or confused about their own fictional world and they are breaking their own, fictional laws that they have defined.
