I know a lot of people who don’t own televisions, and I’m one myself. I don’t recall EVER having whined about it, thank you very much. But it DOES give a decent analogy to work from. I find proletyzing people irritating, regardless as to whether they own televisions or not. Someone constantly boasting about their 52-inch plasma-screen television is just as irritating as someone boasting about not owning one at all.