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April 19th, 2004
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DVDs: Their Role In a Happy Marriage
My fabulous wife and I are both hardcore DVD addicts. We have a large number of DVDs. What to watch?

Together we have devised a sublimely clever system for deciding which movie to watch. I heartily recommend it to all other married or otherwise coupled appreciators of the hypnotic silvered disc.

We take turns as puller and picker. The puller goes through the shelves, selecting the titles he or she might be in the mood for that night. After the puller has narrowed down the field, the picker makes the final selection.

Compromise without negotiation. What could be better?

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From:[info]eddyfate
Date:April 19th, 2004 09:01 am (UTC)
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Oddly, I've used exactly that system before in the past.
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From:[info]multiplexer
Date:April 19th, 2004 09:28 am (UTC)
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Our current methodology works like this:

"I want to watch a movie."
"What kind of genre?"
"I dunno. Something light."

We both peer at the gazillions of DVDs for a while.

"I can't find anything I want to watch."
"Let's watch Pirates of the Caribbean."
"Okay!"

We've watched Pirates an awful lot. :)
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From:[info]wordwill
Date:April 19th, 2004 09:35 am (UTC)
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Is there minimum or maximum number of titles the puller is required to provide? You know, by law?
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From:[info]doc_ezra
Date:April 19th, 2004 11:18 am (UTC)
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Dunno about law, but three seems to be a near-ideal number when my wife and I use the system (and it's pretty much the only way we're ever able to pick something). We use the same system in determining where to go out for dinner. :P
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From:[info]robin_d_laws
Date:April 19th, 2004 04:35 pm (UTC)
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Is there minimum or maximum number of titles the puller is required to provide? You know, by law?

Again your lust for codification rears its doughty head.

While there are no formal regulations, social convention generally dictates a number between 12 and 20.
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From:[info]wordwill
Date:April 21st, 2004 02:33 pm (UTC)
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Again your lust for codification rears its doughty head.

Wait a minute... is that an Iron & Silk insult?
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From:[info]robin_d_laws
Date:April 22nd, 2004 04:04 am (UTC)
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No, I am an unabashed admirer of any book on which I collect royalties.

I refer you instead to the following exchange.
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From:[info]whisper_jeff
Date:April 19th, 2004 10:16 am (UTC)
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You, sir, are a smart man. Great idea.
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From:[info]ts52
Date:April 19th, 2004 10:20 am (UTC)
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This sounds an awful lot like the method for giving two siblings cake. One cuts the pieces, the other choses who gets what.
I hadn't thought to applying it to movies though. Great idea!
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From:[info]chadu
Date:April 19th, 2004 11:20 am (UTC)
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Spiffy. So round, so firm, so fully packed.

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