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user-inactivated  ·  3545 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 11, 2015

Yay Archer! Yay Erin!

I dunno if I've told this story, but I'll tell it anyways because I do what I want.

I remember a buddy of mine's dad walked into the room and Mad Men was on TV. No one was watching it, it was just on.

He looked at us and was like "why do you have that shit on?"

We explained it was just white noise to us, and he looked at the screen and scoffed.

Then he explained how Mad Men doesn't mean shit to him. He talked about how, when he was alive during the Mad Men era, when people in skyscrapers were debating cigerette ads, he was on the streets, neck-deep in the civil rights movement.

"I couldn't use the same sink as everyone else at the time," he said. "So Mad Men doesn't say much for me."

Couldn't get into the show ever since. Felt like it'd be a betrayal.

Edit: in retrospect, that 'white noise' pun was not intended.