The second disadvantage is even more insidious. I can’t watch my 50-inch plasma TV during meals. Instead, I watch the 50-inch DLP TV that’s in the dining room, which is almost the same as being Amish.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
I enjoy our kitchen table though. When I picked it out, we were looking at furniture, and I kept complaining how uncomfortable the kitchen chairs were. The salesman made some stupid remark about how you don't sit there long. I said "Give me comfort or give me death." He just looked away.
We tried eating without the TV only once, and it taught us the surest way to ruin a perfectly good marriage is by talking to each other.
Everybody's marriage is falling apart except ours. See, the problem's communication. Too much communication.
- Homer Simpson
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."