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> $POPULAR_SHOW[0] popular(adj) ... "regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general" > The quizzing usually doesn't end there, because this

> $POPULAR_SHOW[0] popular(adj) ... "regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general" > The quizzing usually doesn't end there, because this apparently makes me some sort of sideshow curiosity. Why are you surprised at that? If you want to be considered part of "people in general", then I'd suggest becoming familiar with a few (self-described) popular shows! I don't watch much TV, as such. But I've found the best way to exercise is to queue up various series of shows and hit the cardio machine. Usually they're ~40 minutes an episode with ads removed which is a reasonable cardio time. You get a little popular culture and some fitness too. But I'll bet you're about to tell me that those popular cardio machines aren't for you, and you only enjoy exercising by hiking mountain trails :)

bunderbunder 15y ago
If you want to be considered part of "people in general", then I'd suggest becoming familiar with a few (self-described) popular shows! If spending my precious free time on an activity that I find to be enormously boring is a condition for being considered a peer by people who're so devoted to an activity that I find to be enormously boring that they're not sure how to interact with me in a way that doesn't revolve around said activity that I find to be enormously boring, then I suppose that's fine. Seems a bit unfortunate that anyone should be so devoted to one thing out of a whole universe of activities and topics, but if they really don't have anything else to talk to me about, then I suppose I probably won't have anything to talk to them about that would interest them, either. :)