Everything I know I learned from TV
On Sunday, I was at a barbecue and we started talking about whether TV and movies inform us about how we are supposed to be and how much it does. I thought about what I would think if I only had TV or movies to understand the values of our society. Here is my list thus far:
1. Only skinny people deserve love/sex.
2. Career women have no lives and need a man to teach them how to have one (usually meaning that they really want to get married and have children…now).
3. If you take the glasses (and if female, the ponytail) off a nerd, he/she will transform into a beautiful person suddenly worthy of attention. [Nerds are starting to be cool, but I'm going off what shaped my teenage years like She's All That.]
If anyone actually reads this and has more, please post.
Here are some that I’ve noticed:
1. You can see the Eiffel Tower from outside every window and in the background of every view when in Paris.
2. Even the most complex problems can be solved in 22 minutes (plus commercials)
3. It ALWAYS rains at funerals
4. You don’t have to say bye on the phone, you just hang up!
5. People always wait their turn to talk