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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2433982" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>Some of 'em absolutely would be. "I thought you knew how to grill!" or "What are you doing playing with fire while I'm busy?" or "Why don't you have the fire extinguisher next to the stove?"</p><p></p><p>Admittedly, I think those guys are jerks. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I've been through situations like that with ex-girlfriends, too, mostly involving them getting wrapped up in a book or sappy movie or TV show and me being at fault for not remembering that potential death is the only thing that is valid to call them away for.</p><p></p><p>I mean, she was angry, but she did it. My concern would be more if she ended up not doing it. It took some work, but she did respond to the need. She's not unreachable. She just wants to be.</p><p></p><p>And this toning out is why I think something like TiVo might be very helpful. Even if she's in the schedule, and some emergency happens, she can stop the TV and go take care of it and then come back without missing a moment.</p><p></p><p>It kinda just means that TV is more than TV for her, just like books were more than books for my ex-girlfriends and the Superbowl is more than just a football game for the men in my family. </p><p></p><p>Yeah, it's bad. But IMHO, that bad can be controlled and mitigated without being removed entirely. She doesn't, IMHO, need to stop being aborbed by the TV. She just needs to control when she is absorbed by the TV. In this, she has an advantage over the Superbowl, because I think we can all agree that watching the Superbowl the next day just isn't the same. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 2433982, member: 2067"] Some of 'em absolutely would be. "I thought you knew how to grill!" or "What are you doing playing with fire while I'm busy?" or "Why don't you have the fire extinguisher next to the stove?" Admittedly, I think those guys are jerks. ;) I've been through situations like that with ex-girlfriends, too, mostly involving them getting wrapped up in a book or sappy movie or TV show and me being at fault for not remembering that potential death is the only thing that is valid to call them away for. I mean, she was angry, but she did it. My concern would be more if she ended up not doing it. It took some work, but she did respond to the need. She's not unreachable. She just wants to be. And this toning out is why I think something like TiVo might be very helpful. Even if she's in the schedule, and some emergency happens, she can stop the TV and go take care of it and then come back without missing a moment. It kinda just means that TV is more than TV for her, just like books were more than books for my ex-girlfriends and the Superbowl is more than just a football game for the men in my family. Yeah, it's bad. But IMHO, that bad can be controlled and mitigated without being removed entirely. She doesn't, IMHO, need to stop being aborbed by the TV. She just needs to control when she is absorbed by the TV. In this, she has an advantage over the Superbowl, because I think we can all agree that watching the Superbowl the next day just isn't the same. ;) [/QUOTE]
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