Tuesday, October 14, 2008

It's F***ing HUGE!

Today, we did our part to revive the economy. Yup, we went and bought the new flat screen TV. It's a Sony 46" LCD. And when you look at it in the store with all the other TV's, you're thinking, "Ooh, maybe I need the bigger one."

Let me tell you. When you get it home, it is just fucking HUGE. I mean like, obscenely big. Like if you put on a tennis match, you'll have to wag your head back and forth to follow the ball. Like you feel the need to rent a bunch of Cinemascope movies. Like "That actress's head is twice the size of yours", huge.

The Burger King commercial makes you fear that eating a Whopper might prevent you from ever standing again. The baby in the Pampers commercial gives you a massive case of heebie-jeebies about what might be found in one of those diapers. And the bra commercial for the "full figured" women?...yup, HUGE!

I plan to sit here and just marvel at huge-osity for the rest of the day.

Update: I finished publishing this post, looked up at my new TV and noticed...It's Still Just Awesomely HUGE!

Update the Second: Two hours later and yup! STILL HUGE!

Update the Third: I just got back from the store, and I swear the thing grew some while I was out.

14 comments:

mattw said...

"The baby in the Pampers commercial gives you a massive case of heebie-jeebies about what might be found in one of those diapers."

While I don't change as many diapers as my wife, what with her being at home with the kid and all, I still get the heebie-jeebies over what might be found in a diaper.

When my older sister was a baby/toddler, she was sitting at the dinner table with her extended family with a full diaper. They were all eating sheppard's pie. Apparently, so the story goes, she stuck her finger in her diaper and scooped out some of the contents and then held it out to her aunt, who, thinking it was sheppard's pie, slurped it right off of her finger. It wasn't.

MWT said...

Where's the pictures? We down here in the peanut gallery demand PROOF!

MWT said...

Also, Matt: ewwwwwwww........

Nathan said...

Yeah Matt, Ewwwwwwwwwwww! I did not need to hear that!

Trust me MWT. It's HUGE!

vince said...

Trust, but verify. Pictures!

mattw said...

Nathan, you aren't trying to compensate for something, right?

Nathan said...

Speaking of things you're not getting pictures of...

Random Michelle K said...

And I for one am thankful.

Jeff Hentosz said...

Girl arrives at her boyfriend's to find he's been drafted to sit his baby nephew. She oohs and ahhs over the tot, but recoils in horror when she picks him up.

"Oh, God, he stinks," she says, "Why haven't you changed his diaper?"

"Later," says the dude, "The package says it's good up to 14 pounds."

Nathan said...

Jeff

The diaper on my TV was about 42" x 17". I have no idea how many pounds that would hold.

Ilya said...

Nathan, have you tried sitting a bit farther back from the TV? It may get smaller that way...

Steve Buchheit said...

Definitely do not watch porn on it, you may not get over the inferiority complex.

Steve Buchheit said...

::singing:: Ah, sweet mystery of life at last I found you (more obscure references for this week, I guess I'm filling up on my quota)

Jim Wright said...

Welcome to the Enormous Big Ass TV Club, Nathan. Mine's Plasma and 67" inches across.

While it's great for movies, there are some things best avoided - like the clip of Teddy Kennedy the news was just showing. I mean that guy has an enormous head already, on the big screen it's like the head that ate the world. nom nom nom