Confession: My family doesn't know I have an HT!
05-10-05, 07:43 PM
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Confession: My family doesn't know I have an HT!
I have a problem. My mother will be visiting me in a couple of weeks. She lives in Florida and hasn't visited me here in Boston in about 8 years (I usually go to her). The last time she was here, I had a 27" TV, no surround sound, and moderate sized movie collection. Since then, I now have a 6-foot wide DLP projection screen, speakers all over the room, and a library of hundreds of movies cluttering up the place.
She has no idea.
It's not that I've lied to her. I've just never mentioned it to her because, frankly, it isn't the sort of thing that interests her or that she would care for, and I didn't want to listen to the inevitable lectures about how I'm wasting my money on frivolous things when I could be spending it on her instead (yeah, she's a peach).
But now she's coming. Worse, the room she'll be staying in is the HT room! So there's no way to hide it. I fear that she'll realize how many multiple thousands of dollars I've sunk into this hobby and be appalled. I expect that I'll never hear the end of it.
What's a fella to do?
She has no idea.
It's not that I've lied to her. I've just never mentioned it to her because, frankly, it isn't the sort of thing that interests her or that she would care for, and I didn't want to listen to the inevitable lectures about how I'm wasting my money on frivolous things when I could be spending it on her instead (yeah, she's a peach).
But now she's coming. Worse, the room she'll be staying in is the HT room! So there's no way to hide it. I fear that she'll realize how many multiple thousands of dollars I've sunk into this hobby and be appalled. I expect that I'll never hear the end of it.
What's a fella to do?
05-10-05, 07:54 PM
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Are you over 21 and considered an adult? Then it should be no big shock to her. Do you also smoke crack, buy whores and have a methlab in your tub? No? Then I think a HT is far from a bad investment. Just tell her to pop into this forum and she will see that it's getting to be a very normal thing...to have a dedicated HT.
Make sure you take her out to a nice dinner and a few nights on the town....maybe that will soften the blow.
While she's there...hell, all the time....make sure she knows Mom is #1....movies and big fat screen...a distant second. Unless there's another lady in your life. Then it's a distant third.
Make sure you take her out to a nice dinner and a few nights on the town....maybe that will soften the blow.
While she's there...hell, all the time....make sure she knows Mom is #1....movies and big fat screen...a distant second. Unless there's another lady in your life. Then it's a distant third.
05-10-05, 07:56 PM
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Put her in a nursing home.
Seriously though, just let her see it. If she doesn't like it...well she only visits once every 8 years anyway. Besides, you never know, seeing Steel Magnolias in 60" Widescreen with Dolby 5.1 might convert her.
Seriously though, just let her see it. If she doesn't like it...well she only visits once every 8 years anyway. Besides, you never know, seeing Steel Magnolias in 60" Widescreen with Dolby 5.1 might convert her.
05-10-05, 08:10 PM
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Uh, or you could tell her that you work, and you like to spend some money on yourself, and you're sorry if she doesn't like it but tough cookies.
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05-10-05, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Josh Z
Since then, I now have a 6-foot wide DLP projection screen,
6 foot wide? That would be the equivalent of an 83" TV. You really have an 83" DLP?
Stew
PS. Grow some balls.
05-10-05, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by spartanstew
6 foot wide? That would be the equivalent of an 83" TV. You really have an 83" DLP?
05-10-05, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Cygnet74
its DLP front projection, stew. i have a 16x9 screen that measures 96"x54" and 110" diagonal.
05-10-05, 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike Lowrey
Nice pic, but you had to get the floor in the shot, and you cut off the top of the screen. What kind of photographer are you????
05-10-05, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Cygnet74
i don't like black bars... so i framed it out. actually, i'm pretty sure my mom took that picture when she came to visit last december.
I took a photography class back in the 8th Grade and I still remember most everything about composition from that class. (I'm 31 now.)
05-10-05, 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike Lowrey
Nice pic, but you had to get the floor in the shot, and you cut off the top of the screen. What kind of photographer are you????
05-10-05, 09:28 PM
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Are you single? If so, then you sleep in the theater room and offer her your bed because "its more comfortable". Maybe she won't even venture into the theater room.
05-10-05, 10:17 PM
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Pink couches? I like them, but are they manly? LOL
Really though I like when people have things. I know some people drink or smoke or snort all of their money, but what do the others do with it? Take for instance, my 39 yr old sister. She lives in a house essentially for free (she's supposedly buying it from my mom, but never pays her anything, like $50 a year). She gets food stamps, so she doesn't have to pay for groceries. She doesn't have a real heating system, so all her money is not going to that. She doesn't take her dogs to the vet. Where is all of her money going? She doesn't have any new furniture. Her vcr is 10 yrs. old. I just don't get it.
Now my younger sister has a fish tank, trees, a new dining room set & a couple of tvs, dvd players & vcrs.
BTW - My dad would love the setup. He wanted to order something like that, but doesn't have the dough.
Really though I like when people have things. I know some people drink or smoke or snort all of their money, but what do the others do with it? Take for instance, my 39 yr old sister. She lives in a house essentially for free (she's supposedly buying it from my mom, but never pays her anything, like $50 a year). She gets food stamps, so she doesn't have to pay for groceries. She doesn't have a real heating system, so all her money is not going to that. She doesn't take her dogs to the vet. Where is all of her money going? She doesn't have any new furniture. Her vcr is 10 yrs. old. I just don't get it.
Now my younger sister has a fish tank, trees, a new dining room set & a couple of tvs, dvd players & vcrs.
BTW - My dad would love the setup. He wanted to order something like that, but doesn't have the dough.
05-10-05, 11:26 PM
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Er, just paint the TV screen a la Pollack. Instant art. She's never the wiser. Damn, I'm smart.
05-10-05, 11:30 PM
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Well, if you don't want her to see it you can always send all that stuff to me for "safe keeping". 
But should your answer be "Screw you"...then i suggest buck up and take some heat for it.
But should your answer be "Screw you"...then i suggest buck up and take some heat for it.
