IMO you did well there.Well.......it beat me!
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Feel like I've just ate a one legged donkey!
No way I could face that.
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No way I could face that.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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So why do you watch them?
If you have a PVR, timeslip the coverage and skip the ads. If you don't have a PVR, BUY a PVR, then... timeslip the coverage and skip the ads. Start watching at 19:20 and you will finish at the same time as usual with 20 minutes of your life not blighted by being force-fed ads and available for more constructive activities!
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Don't forget it is also blind
Forgot about that bit bit in the grand scheme of things only having 1 leg is worse
classic33
Leg End Member
You using too much hand sanitiser, too often. Skin is dry round your nails.Well.......it beat me!
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Feel like I've just ate a one legged donkey!
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
The advert that really annoys me at the moment is that one for the credit card machine, where they all stand round going ooooooooooooooooooooooooooh while having a stupid look on they're faces. Makes me want to throw somethng at the tv, well not my new TV as that cost me to much money.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Not being funny here, but I GENUINELY do not get it! You all clearly hate ads as much as me yet you plonk yourselves in front of the TV and watch them... WHY?!!!!!!!! 
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Not being funny here, but I GENUINELY do not get it! You all clearly hate ads as much as me yet you plonk yourselves in front of the TV and watch them... WHY?!!!!!!!!
Because we don't record everything we watch perhaps?
And they are even on Instagram for hecks sake
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Mo1959
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Not much choice. Don’t particularly want another gadget. I don’t record anything. Just use catch up for stuff I miss.Not being funny here, but I GENUINELY do not get it! You all clearly hate ads as much as me yet you plonk yourselves in front of the TV and watch them... WHY?!!!!!!!!
I've been digging manure this morning.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Let's say that a TV programme is on from 10:00 until 11:00, and includes 20 minutes of ads...
Option #1: Turn equipment on at 10:00. Sit down and watch the programme, including the ads. Spend 20 minutes hating the ads. Finish at 11:00.
Option #2: Turn equipment on at 10:00. Spend 20 minutes doing the washing up (or something else useful), or (preferably) something which is fun. Go back and sit in front of TV at 10:20. Watch the show, skip the ads. STILL finish at 11:00.
(Mo has posted while I was typing that, so another option needed...
)Option #3: Use 20+ year old technology which can't record TV. Watch 15-20 minutes of crappy ads per hour of commercial TV. ***
*** Oh, and also say that there is nothing good to watch on TV! I have a stash of about 100 hours of interesting stuff to watch so there is never a single moment in my life when I would say "There is nothing worth watching on TV" In reality, I manage to find enough good stuff most days anyway, so some of my stash is 3 or 4 years old. I'll get round to it one day, or if I don't, no problem. I have only used 30% of my PVR's storage. As for the time spent doing this... I spend less time planning my recordings for the week than I would watching the ads in one hour of commercial TV!
Anyway, I suppose that I'll remain baffled, and you will both carry on watching ads that you don't like and NOT watching shows that you WOULD like because you hadn't noticed that they were on, or they were on while you were asleep or doing something else.
All part of life's great, confusing variety...
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Let's say that a TV programme is on from 10:00 until 11:00, and includes 20 minutes of ads...
Option #1: Turn equipment on at 10:00. Sit down and watch the programme, including the ads. Spend 20 minutes hating the ads. Finish at 11:00.
Option #2: Turn equipment on at 10:00. Spend 20 minutes doing the washing up (or something else useful), or (preferably) something which is fun. Go back and sit in front of TV at 10:20. Watch the show, skip the ads. STILL finish at 11:00.
(Mo has posted while I was typing that, so another option needed...
Option #3: Use 20+ year old technology which can't record TV. Watch 15-20 minutes of crappy ads per hour of commercial TV. ***
*** Oh, and also say that there is nothing good to watch on TV! I have a stash of about 100 hours of interesting stuff to watch so there is never a single moment in my life when I would say "There is nothing worth watching on TV" In reality, I manage to find enough good stuff most days anyway, so some of my stash is 3 or 4 years old. I'll get round to it one day, or if I don't, no problem. I have only used 30% of my PVR's storage. As for the time spent doing this... I spend less time planning my recordings for the week than I would watching the ads in one hour of commercial TV!
Anyway, I suppose that I'll remain baffled, and you will both carry on watching ads that you don't like and NOT watching shows that you WOULD like because you hadn't noticed that they were on, or they were on while you were asleep or doing something else.
All part of life's great, confusing variety...
You made my head hurt just reading all of that. And after all that I couldn't be arsed.
Tonight Vera is on and Vigil . Can't watch both so I will watch Vera and record Vigil. Then I will watch Vigil tomorrow night before the next episode is on..sorted.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Ok...You made my head hurt just reading all of that. And after all that I couldn't be arsed.
Tune to the channel that you want to watch. Press 'Pause'. Go and do the washing up. Come back 15-20 minutes later and press 'Play'!
When you come to the ads, press 'Skip 1 minute', 'Skip 1 minute', 'Skip 1 minute'. If still on ads press 'Skip 1 minute' again as needed. If you have overshot, press 'Skip back 30 seconds' as needed. I can skip the ads in about 5 seconds of button pressing. (Ad breaks are usually in multiples of one minute.)
