voxette-vk:

mailadreapta:

voxette-vk:

Also, this idea of leaving TV on “in the background” is very foreign to me. I’m either in fixed attention to it or not.

Oh, God, this is so me. I was once at someone’s house trying to have a conversation, and they insisted on having the TV on “for some background noise”, and let me tell you: I did no participating in that conversation. Nor did I really watch the TV; instead I spent the entire evening with my attention frantically flitting from the screen to the people and settling on neither, while occasionally injective plaintive, useless pleas for them to shut the damn tube off.

I’m completely capable of ignoring a TV in the background if it’s a program I have no interest in.

But I would never put on a program that I “wanted” to watch and then sort of half-watch it. It doesn’t appeal to me at all. I would just have to watch it again, properly.

Ugh, now I’m thinking about when I used to have to watch TV live with no recourse for interruptions… It was a bad time.