Marshmallow_Fluff
Guest
- Location
- Beds
Other people's tv viewing habits.
- Thread starter ComedyPilot
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
hotmetal
Senior Member
- Location
- Near Windsor
Ah, but Marshmallow, I bet you don't look like Robin Hood. Maid Marian maybe…?
Marshmallow_Fluff
Guest
- Location
- Beds
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
I watch the television occasionally, although never ITV as it's so dreadfully common.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
As a kid, I only ever watched CBBC (Children's BBC). CITV was seen as being really uncouth to me because... Get this! It had adverts!!
Marshmallow_Fluff
Guest
- Location
- Beds
Hover Fly
He, him, his
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
You're one up on me there. I would never have recognised a song by Spandau Ballet (or indeed Spandau Ballet herself). Therefore I am more pompously snobbish about popular culture than you.
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
Thank heavens for that. I thought that I was the only person who was not allowed to watch ITV when I was growing up. It was BBC1 only. I suspect that I am somewhat older than you as we didn't have CBBC. My parents hated the adverts and said that they were subversive. "People who watched commercial channels lived in council houses" my Mother said, she really was the most dreadful snob.
When I went for tea with my pal Claire, I used to watch Magpie and Happy Days in a state of awe and wonder. Her Dad liked pop music and used to copy some of his albums on to tape for me
I never told my parents as they would have banned me from going around there.
OP
OP
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
Jeez.....what rock have you been hiding under?
Tony Hadley, best male vocalist ever............
Here endeth the lesson
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Thank heavens for that. I thought that I was the only person who was not allowed to watch ITV when I was growing up. It was BBC1 only. I suspect that I am somewhat older than you as we didn't have CBBC. My parents hated the adverts and said that they were subversive. "People who watched commercial channels lived in council houses" my Mother said, she really was the most dreadful snob.
When I went for tea with my pal Claire, I used to watch Magpie and Happy Days in a state of awe and wonder. Her Dad liked pop music and used to copy some of his albums on to tape for me
That's awful!!I did have the choice by the way, but I didn't like the idea of there being adverts between every programme, so I simply didn't watch a lot of ITV at all.
Andrew_Culture
Internet Marketing bod
- Location
- The People's Republic Of Suffolk.
We didn't have a telly for about five or six years (possibly longer) but we didn't tend to let on as people used to react as if we'd disclosed that we had a terminal illness, and then they'd offer us suggestions for how we might be able to get a television!
We never knew what on earth any of our friends were talking about!
We do have a telly now, but between then and now the number of channels available has ballooned so we find that there's less commonality between viewers, and with the advent of social media friends talk about telly with other viewers online, which means that (in my experience) people now talk about telly less in social situations.
Blooey, that point took a while to make!
We never knew what on earth any of our friends were talking about!
We do have a telly now, but between then and now the number of channels available has ballooned so we find that there's less commonality between viewers, and with the advent of social media friends talk about telly with other viewers online, which means that (in my experience) people now talk about telly less in social situations.
Blooey, that point took a while to make!
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Thank heavens for that. I thought that I was the only person who was not allowed to watch ITV when I was growing up. It was BBC1 only. I suspect that I am somewhat older than you as we didn't have CBBC. My parents hated the adverts and said that they were subversive. "People who watched commercial channels lived in council houses" my Mother said, she really was the most dreadful snob.
When I went for tea with my pal Claire, I used to watch Magpie and Happy Days in a state of awe and wonder. Her Dad liked pop music and used to copy some of his albums on to tape for me
Not unusual at all, I think. We didn't watch ITV when I was a kid, and I have at least one colleague who is the same. I don't know why in our case, but I suspect a certain degree of snobbery, although Mum said it was because the signal was lousy. I pretty much only saw ITV when we had Schools broadcasting on at school. All the region and company idents (like Thames, and Anglia) were very exotic to me.
I think the first thing we watched on ITV was Morse!
Andrew_Culture
Internet Marketing bod
- Location
- The People's Republic Of Suffolk.
One of the greatest things about not having a telly is that your friends act a s sort of giant filter; they talk about only the things they enjoy, not the 90% of crap they watch but complain about!
Andrew_Culture
Internet Marketing bod
- Location
- The People's Republic Of Suffolk.
Silver statue of a knight on a horse?
Do you remember the countdown clock before schools programs started?
Hell, I'm old enough to remember school assemblies led by radio!
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Yup, that was Anglia, and Thames was a reflection of Tower Bridge. ATV was three Venn Diagram shapes overlapping, but I can't think what Granada was, there must have been one.
And the BBC and ITV had different clocks. One was round bobbles for the divisions, one was lines. I think the BBC was bobbles, but might be wrong.
Funny how those memories are so ingrained.
