E.G Supernatural Series. If you told me what was going to happen in that, I would rip out your innards and feed them to the vultures. However, with Harry Potter, I couldn’t wait and got the Teen to give me a brief overview of the books (we have the 7 of them) and am ok with knowing and amlooking forward to seeing how they put it to screen. Same with the Twilight series.
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My spoiler code is pretty much the same as yours, fwiw.
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It díd go wrong once or twice though..really irritating because you can’t forget it haha.
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In the old days when you pretty much had to watch a show as it aired then the playground and the office was full of talk and speculation about last nights TV. Now everyone has to be restrained and bland and just say something like “it was awesome”. There now has to be a subtle and intricate dance to work out if both conversationalists are at the same stage of their viewing.

For example in the 4th season of Alias when you find out that, see, you nearly stopped reading then didn’t you Lee.

There’s no answer to this obviously, and I hate spoilers as much as the next man, I just think it’s a shame that they can suck the enthusiastic conversation out of a gathering of geeks.
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And as someone who watches wrestling, I know the pain of spoilers… since there is one live show a week, and then 3 shows that get taped the following day in front of tens of thousands of people…. and half the fun of wrestling is not knowing what is going to happen. There is a show I have to pick up on Friday mornings because I don’t get the channel it is on and I avoid spoilers like mad the 16 hours between its airing and the time I finally get to see it.

I believe in reasonable spoiler restraint (like if you don’t talk about television, don’t suddenly decide to talk about a show the night it aired or even the next day on your blog)… I generally hold myself to a slightly higher standard though…. I don’t like to spoil anything for someone else… though it kills me sometimes because I want to talk about something and I can’t.

It’s a problem for us in Perth because we’re two hours behind the east coast and people discussing something on TV don’t even realise there’s people in “that other timezone” who haven’t seen it yet, they’re discussing it “as it happens”.

I think in this day and age, the responsibility falls to the individual to make sure they don’t see or hear something they don’t want to, unfortunately! Although people accidentally giving something away is forgivable, whereas people maliciously giving away something because they know it will ruin it for other is just nasty.
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