Things most people seem to love but you hate

[raleighnut]

Similar here.

I can’t remember the last time I turned a TV on either. I pretty much watch what I watch because the wife has turned it on - and it’s there in the background…..

What always annoyed me is people who put the TV on but muted and then play music.

 

[AndyRM]

What always annoyed me is people who put the TV on but muted and then play music.

There's a circle in hell reserved for that kind of behaviour.

 

[HeinrichManouvre]

team building exercises

Oh yes indeed, although I don't really know if most people seem to love these. Those that don't, like myself, just keep quiet about it.

But hot on the heels of the above, is the dreaded "tell us something interesting about yourself."

 

[Cavalol]

ITV most of the day, but especially in the morning. O'Leary is just a modern day Stuart Hall (with none of what people assumed was his appeal back in the day), Ms Kelly is proper annoying, the least said about Schofield the better and as far for Alison sodding Hammond? She alone is one good reason to never watch that channel again. She's a pointless, annoying, braying gobsh*te.

 

[All uphill]

Oh yes indeed, although I don't really know if most people seem to love these. Those that don't, like myself, just keep quiet about it.

But hot on the heels of the above, is the dreaded "tell us something interesting about yourself."

" I have fantasies about cannibalism" works well.

 

[slow horse]

I can’t remember the last time I turned a TV

I haven't watched TV in over a decade, if by TV is meant a big box flat screen taking centre stage in the living room, receiving signals from the Beeb & co. Streaming, on the other hand... Loads of great stuff online, more than can be sensibly watched in a lifetime.

 

[figbat]

I haven't watched TV in over a decade, if by TV is meant a big box flat screen taking centre stage in the living room, receiving signals from the Beeb & co. Streaming, on the other hand... Loads of great stuff online, more than can be sensibly watched in a lifetime.

I think that it's a bit disingenuous to claim to watch various streamed services on a television set and also claim to not having watched TV in over a decade.

As far as I am concerned, "watching TV" is not dependent on the source of the content, only on the device and attention paid to it.

 

[slow horse]

if by TV is meant a big box flat screen taking centre stage in the living room

Happy to admit I remain addicted to watching stuff on my computer, and also think of it as "watching TV".

Spoiler

It was kind of a joke.

 

[Paulus]

Celebrity adoration, TV programmes with celebrities on.
Reality programmes with celebrities taking part.
Any reality tv programme.
As soon as a programme has celebrity in the title, the tv goes off.
You may of guesses that I may not like celebrity focused programming. 😡

 

[captain nemo1701]

Celebrity adoration, TV programmes with celebrities on.
Reality programmes with celebrities taking part.
Any reality tv programme.
As soon as a programme has celebrity in the title, the tv goes off.
You may of guesses that I may not like celebrity focused programming. 😡

Yes, those celebrity baking/painting/sewing/dancing (delete as appropriate) shows. Its just formula TV, talk about variations on a theme. Most of my ire is for Strictly Come Dancing....it used to be a show hosted in the 70's by Terry Wogan?. I thought it died but apply the celeb formula and its a cult.

Gogglebox - pretty sure that some telly exec watched a Youtube reaction channel (so numerous, there are more than Accy's overdraft limit) and decided to pinch the idea for TV. That's all this show is, a TV reaction show. Of all the dramas you can do....and they get people to react to telly. Its like the Royle Family gone wrong.

Celebs in the Jungle....please just fade away as a genre. This is real barrel-scraping. I simply don't care if you've got someone who had a minor chart hit in 1986 etc, etc. And Ant & Dec...please retire.

TV detectives - how many more 'lets twist the genre' variations are there?. I especially dislike those ones where the central character is only a part-time amateur. Like, by day they work in LIDL, but in their spare time....Get another hobby.

TV detective shows set in quaint fictional counties, stiffs popping up in cottages & big country mansions, with murder rates higher than Los Angeles/Mexico City combined.

Downton Abbey.....why?. As Bill Bailey once said, you can see moss growing on people in real time.

Reality TV....phasers locked, photon torpedoes maximum spread...FIRE !

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Yes, those celebrity baking/painting/sewing/dancing (delete as appropriate) shows. Its just formula TV, talk about variations on a theme. Most of my ire is for Strictly Come Dancing....it used to be a show hosted in the 70's by Terry Wogan?. I thought it died but apply the celeb formula and its a cult.

Gogglebox - pretty sure that some telly exec watched a Youtube reaction channel (so numerous, there are more than Accy's overdraft limit) and decided to pinch the idea for TV. That's all this show is, a TV reaction show. Of all the dramas you can do....and they get people to react to telly. Its like the Royle Family gone wrong.

Celebs in the Jungle....please just fade away as a genre. This is real barrel-scraping. I simply don't care if you've got someone who had a minor chart hit in 1986 etc, etc. And Ant & Dec...please retire.

TV detectives - how many more 'lets twist the genre' variations are there?. I especially dislike those ones where the central character is only a part-time amateur. Like, by day they work in LIDL, but in their spare time....Get another hobby.

TV detective shows set in quaint fictional counties, stiffs popping up in cottages & big country mansions, with murder rates higher than Los Angeles/Mexico City combined.

Downton Abbey.....why?. As Bill Bailey once said, you can see moss growing on people in real time.

Reality TV....phasers locked, photon torpedoes maximum spread...FIRE !

I am in total agreement with you but 'liked' your post due to the evocative passion with which it was written.

 

[figbat]

Most of my ire is for Strictly Come Dancing....it used to be a show hosted in the 70's by Terry Wogan?. I thought it died but apply the celeb formula and its a cult.

‘Come Dancing’ was the quaint old dancing programme. I always assumed that the title of the modern “celebrity” version is a portmanteau of this and ‘Strictly Ballroom’.

But I otherwise agreed with your sentiment about this and other “celebrity” reality TV.

 

[lazybloke]

‘Come Dancing’ was the quaint old dancing programme. I always assumed that the title of the modern “celebrity” version is a portmanteau of this and ‘Strictly Ballroom’.

Regardless of the celebs appearing, it's still a dancing competition, just as it always was.