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Doesn't Palimpsest deserve it's own crib sheet? Or at least a Primeresque timeline chart?...
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Mitch Wagner commented on
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I watch about 9-11 hours of TV per week. It seems like a lot. That's not counting the odd YouTube video. The average American watches 34 hours of TV per week. I don't understand how that's even possible. I suspect they have it on while doing other things. I use podcasts for that....
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paws4thot commented on
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I bet that includes thing like "watching" gridiron as "watching Tv", when most people use that time primarily as eating, drinking beer and chatting with their friends time....
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Mitch Wagner commented on
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I'm not at all a sports fan, but my brother is. My brother is a mundane -- doesn't read sf, doesn't watch it on TV or in the movies, doesn't really understand it at all. So he's my connection to what real people are like. He was bemoaning to me the recent tendency of US baseball management to fill up the downtime between action on the field with meaningless electronic entertainment. Baseball is a very slow game, and fans used to use the frequent downtime between activity on the field to talk with each other. It's like in the movie...
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paws4thot commented on
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I've seen scenes from "When Harry Met Pippa", or whatever it's called. I've not seen the entire film,and had no clue that it involved a rounders game....
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Mitch Wagner commented on
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"Rounders." Ha! I had to Google that....
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