. . . is when you look at somebody’s vacation photos with interest.
Vacation PHOTOS, okay…as long as they don’t try to show their vacation HOME VIDEOS — or worse yet, their day-to-day home videos of every boring aspect of their mundane, routine existence.
Do you remember the murders of Chandra Levy and Laci Peterson? American cable news watchers got to see a vast number of incredibly boring vignettes of those young ladies talking with their families at home, from home video clips taken by admiring family members.
When I was born in 1945, long before home — or even commercial video tape — had been invented, my mother convinced my father it purchase a silent 16 mm home move camera to capture pictures of me growing up. I’m very grateful that he never used it, not once in my childhood.
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Yes, home videos are taking it up a notch. Showing them to people is a great way to test how far their politeness would stretch.
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