Need help with habitual activity

[BrumJim]

Do you continue to do something, despite the fact that there is no fun in it anymore? It should be great, but has lost its appeal and lustre, but you still can't admit it, and carry on in denial?

My problem is QI. In the beginning it was great - a little different from your average panel show, with intelligence as well as wit. Educational and funny. Now it just seems to consist of increasingly wild ties from Mr Fry, and willy jokes, as the men try to make the token female presence as uncomfortable as possible.

Will Ms Toksvig rescue it from its slide into crude silliness, or is it past its best, and suitable only for retirement?

And anything else that fits in this category? Things that you do or watch, but on reflection, don't know why you continue to do so?

P.S. Coming to this forum to make posts does not count!

 

[jefmcg]

Terrible in these times when a heterosexual can't get a job presenting at the BBC.

Personally, I found QI very smug, so haven't really watched it much. Toksvig is much funnier than Fry, IMHO, so maybe I should tune in again?

 

[wheresthetorch]

Well, the thread title should summon @Fnaar

 

[swee'pea99]

I stopped watching QI for exactly the reasons you cite. Also Have I got News. Most programmes get tired, but the powers that be never pull the plug until all signs of even possible life have been extinguished...and often not even then. Inertia takes very little effort, and doing nothing is an easy way of doing nothing wrong.

 

[Roadrider48]

Terrible in these times when a heterosexual can't get a job presenting at the BBC.

Personally, I found QI very smug, so haven't really watched it much. Toksvig is much funnier than Fry, IMHO, so maybe I should tune in again?

You are dead right about Toksvig!

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

Work; it has no appeal but I keep doing it

 

[speccy1]

Do you continue to do something, despite the fact that there is no fun in it anymore? It should be great, but has lost its appeal and lustre, but you still can't admit it, and carry on in denial?

My problem is QI. In the beginning it was great - a little different from your average panel show, with intelligence as well as wit. Educational and funny. Now it just seems to consist of increasingly wild ties from Mr Fry, and willy jokes, as the men try to make the token female presence as uncomfortable as possible.

Will Ms Toksvig rescue it from its slide into crude silliness, or is it past its best, and suitable only for retirement?

And anything else that fits in this category? Things that you do or watch, but on reflection, don't know why you continue to do so?

P.S. Coming to this forum to make posts does not count!

I have this problem with club riding........................

 

[Elswick Cotterpin]

Television in general pretty much has that effect on me... I don't watch it anymore.

 

[nickyboy]

[QUOTE 4225318, member: 259"]QI is old school smug, pompous, middle-class BBC at its best. It should suit Toksvig very well.[/QUOTE]

I knew there must be a reason why it appealed to me

 

[Vidor06]

The Last Leg on C4 was great when it started during the 2012 Paralymics. Very irreverant and damn funny. But its become incredibly formulaic now. Adam Hills does a rant, they have a token guest and then they do a silly dance or song at the end. When I saw Josh Widdicombe tell the same joke on two or three different programme in the space of a few days then I knew it was time to call it a day and haven't watched it since.

 

[Vidor06]

Trying to get my teenage daughter to behave like an actual human being is one activity I stick to habitually despite no reward. My wife asked me the other day what we should do for her birthday and I said we should do nothing and see how she likes us ignoring her. Thats how fed up of her I am at present.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I stopped at D - Fry became boring and his sidekick Alan Davies is risible.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Ive no idea who Toksvig is ...ill google it........

I see, about right for the bbc then..i dont bother with much with Qi ..i used to quite like it..

on the habitual side ive stopped going to the pub every friday sat and sun since new yr.. dont miss it at all..saved a few quid too..

 

[Venod]

Not recently, but early in my cycling life Time Trialing was OK when to begin with but it quickly became a chore not a pleasure, it was so liberating to kick the habit.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I had this with some American TV (The 100, for example). I continued to watch, fearing that if I stopped watching then I'd miss something. it took 20 odd episodes to tell me that it had become dull and predictable.

I think Shane MacGowan put it very well, when he said (something like) you always go out for a drink thinking that it will be the wildest and best night of your life, but always at the end of the night it's just been another p*ss up. Soon it becomes your life and you look back wondering how and why you didn't get that special life-changing night out, and realise it's because it doesn't exist.