Shared culture and stories

[shadeofnight]

Shared culture and stories

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[shadeofnight]

You have always struck me as a media social person. You also seem to love Dragon*con a lot and always post good stories about it :)

My girl only went to Dragon*Con one time and had fun, but now she is all "been there done that".. and does not want to go back heh.

I have been semi amazed that for as many people that watch TV, so few post in the forums about them.

Good question.

[badmagic]

It's mix of shared values and a shared experiences, with media (usually web-oriented. I'm not much of a TV watcher) as a subset of the latter.

[heldc]

Oh, man, did you see the Mythbusters ep where they.... :)

[shadeofnight]

I like the "defeat the high tech alarm systems"... :)

[starfyrone]

why do men watch sports? So they have something to talk about

I've had someone ask me that a number of times. "You don't watch sports, what do you talk about with the people at work?" My response is pretty much a blank/puzzled stare, "Talk to people at work? Huh?"

Coming from the opposite direction, when asked why I don't socialize at work, my response is generally "The only thing people at work talk about is sports and what was on TV last night. I've got nothing in common with that sort people, why would I bother talking to them?"

Now that might not be completely "fair". In the hostile environment that is the workplace it's probably not really safe to talk about much of anything else. So even if the people talking sports/TV had anything to make them worth spending attention/life span on them, I'm unlikely to find out; and I know all too well from experience the things that interest me mark me as "The Other" so I keep *my* mouth shut.

[shadeofnight]

I talk to people at work about work gossip, or I talk to the few cool ones about their lives (and just keep mine on the PG rating.. which 95% of the time it is).

Lucky most of them do not talk sports to me.