Other people's tv viewing habits.

[mickle]

Not exactly so I'm afraid! Misogyny is actually the hatred or dislike of women (manifested in many different ways) in general and not towards isolated units..

Choose another subject to have a stupid trolly argument about.

 

[trampyjoe]

Now put on Wartime Farm, or the great british bake off and watch some real TV.

Bake off yes, Wartime Farm no.

I started watching it but it has taken the 'acting' too far and that really gets on my bits. Incidently does that Alex chap ever do any work?

Back on topic .. I can't stand any of that X idol nonsense and would rather pluck my own bum hair than watch it.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

However, they should then not have "sneered" at Comedy Pilot for not knowing name of the racing car driver's girlfriend. He could probably have enjoyed looking at their cookery books or other books.

Touché !

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Choose another subject to have a stupid trolly argument about.

yes dad!

 

[ComedyPilot]

A thing that struck me about the programme; I was told about half of the contestants were auditioned for the show?

Call me naive, but doesn't the X Factor as a phrase/meaning support the belief that someone unknown steps up and wows the audience/judges?

How can that be so if the contestants (or a good majpority of them) be hand-picked beforehand?

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

would rather pluck my own bum hair than watch it.

No! You don't have to do that anymore!! Look:

 

[Arch]

Bake off yes, Wartime Farm no.

Other way round for me, although I must admit to not having watched the Bake off. I think I mentally marked it down as 'like Masterchef'.

 

[PaulB]

I used to watch the early rounds of X Factor up to about eight years ago for a good laugh but there must have been some sort of directive against getting the loonies in front of the camera so now I don't watch it. Florence (out of The Machine) and Adele seem to have done well without this abomination behind them whereas no-one can remember the actual 'winners' of previous series with maybe one or two exceptions. An indication right there that there is little or no 'X-Factor' and the show entitled 'Britain's Got Talent' should be prosecuted under the Trades' Descriptions act.

 

[ComedyPilot]

No! You don't have to do that anymore!! Look:

At 0:31 seconds the voiceover says in a pushy-salesman-style pitch "No-No is perfect for your bikini area"

Yet the woman on screen is shaving her thigh....????

 

[TVC]

At 0:31 seconds the voiceover says in a pushy-salesman-style pitch "No-No is perfect for your bikini area"

Yet the woman on screen is shaving her thigh....????

Are you outraged or disappointed?

Saturday night TV - mogadon for the masses.

 

[Maz]

Each to their own, I guess.
I really don't like X Factor, but my kids love it. It's one of the few programmes they can watch together without any squabbling or arguing. That's a good thing in my books!

 

[hotmetal]

I remember being invited to a meal at a friend's house. It was just me and the two of them. Like the OP, we had a nice meal, some wine, and then he said "Ooh! Big Brother – it's eviction night tonight!"
I considered myself duly evicted, made my excuses and left.
I've sort of got used to it now though – every time I go to visit my best mate (and father of my Godson), I have to talk quietly so as not to disturb his wife who sits between the two of us watching all the usual stuff. The trouble is, as a non-telly watcher, I find it so distracting having the noise and flickering that I usually forget what I'm saying. It wouldn't be so bad, but there is no other room where we can go, and she won't let us go to the pub!

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

I find it so distracting having the noise and flickering that I usually forget what I'm saying.

I much prefer that explanation (rather than we're both facing early stages of Alzheimer's)..

 

[Saluki]

I work in and out of people houses all day. Most people who's homes that I go to have the TV on all day. I only see snatches of TV here and there but it seems to be mostly American Idol/American X factor with Steve Tyler (what ever is he doing!!) Jeremy Kyle, then again on the +1 channel or programmes with titles such as 'I used to be fat' or similar. My customers tell me in excruciating detail about Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother, I'm a Z lister get me in there, Celebrity Ready Steady Cook, Celebrity Name that fruit, celebrity falling over on ice etc etc, not to mention eastenders, hollyoaks et al and it all seems to be junk. Naturally, in their eyes, I am a total dullard for not having a clue what they are talking about.

We do have a TV but we don't watch that lot. Mostly we use it as a DVD viewer. I have long dreaded evenings around certain friends houses as they invite us round and have the TV on showing all sorts of tosh (including X factor and the associated out of tune warblings of the untalented but desperate, with the judges who I don't know either, telling them how rubbish they are). Happily we have not had to endure our friend's and family's TV habits as its been summer so we have used cycling in the long evenings as a reason not to go round for hours. Its autumn now and so we are 'expected' to be bored out of our tree round people's houses.

I have no idea who tulisa is, not sure about the shirt-zinger woman except that she dates a racing driver. I have heard of the take that bloke but not so sure about the older Irish chappy. I don't think that I am missing much. Is that grumpy Simon Cowel bloke not being horrid to people on X factor any more then?

Your evening around your Sis-in-Law's must have been horrendous CP, I suggest a long bike ride to get the memory of the evening exorcised from your head.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

I work in and out of people houses all day. Most people who's homes that I go to have the TV on all day. I only see snatches of TV here and there but it seems to be mostly American Idol/American X factor with Steve Tyler (what ever is he doing!!) Jeremy Kyle, then again on the +1 channel or programmes with titles such as 'I used to be fat' or similar. My customers tell me in excruciating detail about Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother, I'm a Z lister get me in there, Celebrity Ready Steady Cook, Celebrity Name that fruit, celebrity falling over on ice etc etc, not to mention eastenders, hollyoaks et al and it all seems to be junk. Naturally, in their eyes, I am a total dullard for not having a clue what they are talking about.

We do have a TV but we don't watch that lot. Mostly we use it as a DVD viewer. I have long dreaded evenings around certain friends houses as they invite us round and have the TV on showing all sorts of tosh (including X factor and the associated out of tune warblings of the untalented but desperate, with the judges who I don't know either, telling them how rubbish they are). Happily we have not had to endure our friend's and family's TV habits as its been summer so we have used cycling in the long evenings as a reason not to go round for hours. Its autumn now and so we are 'expected' to be bored out of our tree round people's houses.

I have no idea who tulisa is, not sure about the shirt-zinger woman except that she dates a racing driver. I have heard of the take that bloke but not so sure about the older Irish chappy. I don't think that I am missing much. Is that grumpy Simon Cowel bloke not being horrid to people on X factor any more then?

Your evening around your Sis-in-Law's must have been horrendous CP, I suggest a long bike ride to get the memory of the evening exorcised from your head.

I'm with you! Totally!!! (I also suspect we do the same job or very similar.. )