Vicarious
There's something about mentioning your desire to buy a plasma TV for the upcoming Cubs pennant chase, as well as the upcoming Bears season, that makes your buddies become annoyingly pushy.
The best analogy I can think of is when you're at a bar with a bunch of pals and you see an attractive girl on the other side of the bar, and you do the worst possible thing: you nudge one of your friends and tell him. It's the kiss of death for a fun evening with your bros, because you know what will happen? THEY WON'T STOP HARASSING YOU. You're of course never quite drunk enough to walk up and talk to that girl, but that doesn't matter to your high-fiving friends who will all take turns whispering possible pick-up lines into your ear or slipping money into your hand to buy her a drink with or giving you friendly shoves in the right direction.
That's exactly what it's like to want to buy a plasma. You tell one of your friends, he tells another, who tells another, who tells his brother, and pretty much within three hours every male east of the Mississippi is IMing you links to Best Buy online shopping cart checkouts, or texting you "go 4 the 50 inch, pls!", or calling you to ask when you're throwing a housewarming party.
I'm not kidding, when I came home yesterday afternoon with my arms full of grocery bags, my roommate greeted me at the door and shrieked, "SAMSUNG!"
Like the poor guy pressured by his friends to hit on the chick on the other side of the bar, I'm all like, "Sheesh, I just wanted to go to the store and look at it, that's all. I don't know if I really have the balls to actually buy it."
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Plasma sucks, especially if you watch sports it will burn onto the screen...go for LCD.
Haha, man I know exactly what you mean about friends at the bar.
Guys that try to egg other guys on to hit on girls only do it because they don't have the balls to do it themselves and would rather see their friend sweat.
Guys that try to egg other guys on to buy a plasma only do it because they they're broke.
......Hence the title of this post.
Agreed Elias
LCD is the way to go.
Pete, I'd expect no less than 60 inches out of you.
Costo. Vizio. 50".
LCD is for cheapskates who don't want the real quality....Plasma all the way baby. You owe it to yourself.
Ok Pete, ask yourself who knows the most about this stuff, as well as who actually _has_ all this sweet gear, and not just who reads reviews on CNET and acts like they know what is up, while really, they just own some lame 32" LCD they paid too much for at best buy, and an ipod. Buying Apple is rebelling, shake that hard drive.
Anyway, Mike S. is completely correct. Additionally, LCD was never meant to be deployed bigger than 42".
Vizio is the worst brand out there, you might as well throw your cash in the lake. Unless you are gonna watch the Bears on it, then probably better for it to not look good. Not going to get Urlacher any sacks this year (again) but at least you can pretend that way.
Get at me if you want TV advice dude, I hate to see people waste all that money paying retail and, god forbid, tax (especially in this 'progressive' blue state).
Whatever you do, dont take advice from these noobs, the same ones that emphatically predicted the Bears winning the super bowl, then SHUT THE FUCK UP when they only mustered up 100 yards of real offense and couldnt tackle one player down there. So did the rest of this city. Watching your 'return specialist' get the shit knocked out of him on a slot route as a WR is gonna be fantastic. "It's not Rex, it's your defense". Remember that.
I know NFL football and I know electronics, I got your hookup dude :)
If you don't mind shelling out $3000+ every 2 years then sure go for plasma.