"- There's a lot of smalltalk I can't engage in, you might not notice but there's a lot of references to TV personalities in daily interaction with people." He

"- There's a lot of smalltalk I can't engage in, you might not notice but there's a lot of references to TV personalities in daily interaction with people." Heh, I know exactly how you feel. Normally I'm fine with being left out of those conversations though. "- When I watch television somewhere I instantly think how much facade and how little information the medium contains. This has gotten worse over the years." This is also spot on, besides it feeling like a facade, it also is very very boring.