Your TV small talk is ruining dinner parties- Page 2

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 7:01am

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
---Eleanor Roosevelt and/or Henry Thomas Buckle

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 7:32am

I DON'T HAVE A TV. I ALSO DON'T HAVE WI-FI.

I do have a smartphone with unlimited data, though, so I can stream anything I want.

But if you come to my apartment and don't like to read, you may get bored.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 1:38pm

How about I just go to your apartment and we just have sex?

Updated On: 3/4/15 at 01:38 PM

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 2:39pm

But how do you do the whole "let's go back to my place and say we're just going to watch a movie when really we're just putting something on for background noise while we do it" line if you don't have a TV?

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 3:08pm

I guess snuggling close to try to both see the smartphone screen might advance things quicker?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 3:39pm

Matt, as you haven't posted anything on this thread, I doubt anyone is directing anything at what you and your friends might be discussing because we know nothing of it.

I was commenting on the article. Regardless, I feel pretty secure that those who have been around BWW for a while, especially on the OT board (and many in this thread), probably know what my friends and I would be discussing.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 3:50pm

“I guess snuggling close to try to both see the smartphone screen might advance things quicker?”

^I’ve actually done that, but only with guys I’m dating seriously. That sounds like a joke, but involves prolonged periods in a weirdly close physical proximity that feels very intimate. And possibly annoying.

I’m more inclined towards putting on music rather than TV or movies in casual scenarios, but “Let’s go back to my place and listen to So-and-So’s XYZ album?” isn’t really a viable pick-up line in the 2010s unless you’re wearing skinny jeans, a neck bandana, and a pair of Converse, and who’s still fucXing that guy, anyway?

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 3:58pm

Oh Christ...you just reminded me about the time I picked up a guy at Splash by telling him he needs to hear the Dreamgirls concert album. I brought him back to my place and had the most terrible sex to the sounds of It's All Over. He ran the ferris wheel at the Toys R Us in Times Square. Later, I recreated the moment in my first cabaret act by telling this story and singing the entire end of Act 1 of Dreamgirls.

Not a word in this post is exaggerated. Maybe Russell Tovey is right.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 4:01pm

"but “Let’s go back to my place and listen to So-and-So’s XYZ album?” isn’t really a viable pick-up line in the 2010s unless you’re wearing skinny jeans, a neck bandana, and a pair of Converse, and who’s still fucXing that guy, anyway? "

I think that will still work on the majority of the gays in Brooklyn.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 4:45pm

"I think that will still work on the majority of the gays in Brooklyn."

I know

Robbie, that's a terrific story. Did you tell the Ferris wheel part?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 4:51pm

Good lord, Robbie. That story is gayer than Rip Taylor's lingerie.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 7:42pm

I was there! Not only did he tell the story, he punctuated it with, "I went home with a carny!".

[darquegk]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 8:06pm

Well, I had sex with Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom.

What? It came up organically.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 10:25pm

You had me at "He ran the ferris wheel at Toys R Us." A sort of CAROUSEL update, i.e. "You're a queer one, SonofRobbieJ." I keep thinking of Eve Harrington. "We played Liliom for three performances. I was terrible."