So, because Downton Abbey is airing over in England right now and people are starting to get their hands on bootlegs of it over here, I've gone into hyper "I DON'T WANT TO SEE NOR HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT IT TILL JANUARY, MMKAY?" mode and I'm in the process of doing my best to secure my social media accounts by blocking anything about it. This means hiding friends in my Facebook feed for a few months. This means doing THIS for Twitter:
Yes, I've pretty much "muted" every character name (Mary and Thomas might be an issue due to their names being common and such). It's that extreme. Seeing as how the two biggest plot points on the show last year were spoiled for me by people/news agencies who did not give two craps about Masterpiece before Downton Abbey became a runaway hit (BANDWAGONERS. THE BANE OF MY SPORTS AND NOW NERDY TV-VIEWING EXISTENCE.) I am taking no chances.
I know this only covers, like, 25 percent of my life. I mean, a MAJOR spoiler was spitefully blurted out in the office last year about a month before this terrible thing happened over on our side of the pond. And, unfortunately, you can't tape up co-workers' mouths without OSHA coming after you. And sometimes, you get spoiled when a site thinks they're helpfully telling you about someone's contract and how he or she has or has not been re-signed — Oh geez, that means I should probably block out actor names too. SIGH....
But, yeah, if you know stuff about the show that the rest of us, don't ye dare utter it in front of me, lest you want me coming after you with the biggest roll of duct tape you've ever seen in your life.