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What makes you want to turn over the TV?

146 replies

BrickPoet · 08/04/2024 22:43

Adverts

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PTSDBarbiegirl · 08/04/2024 22:51

Forced, unrepresentative diversity in drama or adverts.

RaininSummer · 08/04/2024 22:57

Adverts with ghastly soundtracks. There are a few at present. Can't tell you what they are for as the sound is so obnoxious it gets an instant mute. Also anything with canned laughter or really gobby so called celebs.

KnickerlessParsons · 08/04/2024 23:05

Mrs Browns Boys and Ru Paul's Drag Race. In fact anything with men dressed up as women.

Supersoakers · 08/04/2024 23:08

gratuitous violence; operations

Librarybooker · 08/04/2024 23:15

Often repetitive trailers. Occasionally just because they are oddities. There was that wonderful tv series Mr Bates vs the Post Office, but the trailer person said ‘verse’. Completely inexplicable mispronunciation. Then there’s annoying people you skilfully avoid that suddenly pop up on trailers. Sarah Cox, ugggh 😡

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 08/04/2024 23:23

Paddy McGuinness saying 'booking' deliberately so it sounds very much like he's swearing - but he technically isn't, so you can't complain.

I would also have said the Verisure Alarms adverts, until somebody on here made the observation that they look like the result of a task on The Apprentice - and now I find them funny instead, thinking about that every time!

All the adverts for direct cremations, claiming that "Nobody likes funerals". Treasuring the opportunity to set time aside to pay tribute to and 'say Goodbye' with a traditional memorial, when a loved one has sadly died, is not something that 'nobody likes' at all. Some people may not like funerals, but a great many of us do - and it brings a real feeling of closure to many. Obviously people would have preferred that the loved one hadn't died in the first place, but you can't change that now.

Interestingly, they seem to be dialling back on that claim now, with some companies urging you to save money by having a direct cremation but then also suggesting that you spend the money that you saved on a memorial service/gathering for the deceased as well. Isn't that pretty much 'a funeral'?! It's like the financial equivalent of Marjorie Dawes and her 'Half the calories' diet!!

NotAllowed · 08/04/2024 23:28

All of it. I only catch what’s on TV at my mums house and cannot believe people voluntarily sit and watch it.

evertheblue · 08/04/2024 23:31

the slurpy noodle one and the man crying and distraught on holiday one - I hate them both, and turn over immediately they start

MuggedByReality · 08/04/2024 23:37

The Eastenders theme music. Tum-te-tum-te-tum-tum click…

ElleLeopine · 08/04/2024 23:37

KnickerlessParsons · 08/04/2024 23:05

Mrs Browns Boys and Ru Paul's Drag Race. In fact anything with men dressed up as women.

Yup, this!

LightDrizzle · 08/04/2024 23:42

Lots of orange people with Turkey teeth arguing.

Mrs Brown’s Boys.

shellyleppard · 08/04/2024 23:43

The news....its so bloody depressing

Thatsthewayitisnt · 08/04/2024 23:50

Definitely the news. Anything with operations and violence . Agree with forced unrepresentative diversity . Reality TV in general and celebrities. Live at the Apollo because it’s hardly ever funny.

Northernsouloldies · 09/04/2024 00:00

Debbie maggee advert for the make over kitchen... yeah Debbie like your kitchen got done up with new doors and a worktop.
Those fuckers Ant and Dec.

PlasticOno · 09/04/2024 00:07

KnickerlessParsons · 08/04/2024 23:05

Mrs Browns Boys and Ru Paul's Drag Race. In fact anything with men dressed up as women.

This. Also soap operas, reality tv, crime shows except Shetland, anything about the royal family, true crime, comedy panel shows, afternoon game shows like The Chase, anything on Dave, anything involving Rick Stein, Stacey Dooley, Jonathan Ross, Danny Dyer, Lucy Worsley dressing up, and the East Midlands news, because it reminds me of living there.

Pozz · 09/04/2024 00:24

Yep all of the above and for me it's the shouty tv ads.

In fact there are a lot of shouty annoying people on tv now I come to think of it, mostly with nothing interesting to say. I assume they're desperate to be heard but I have to switch off. I need calm in my life thanks!

Pinkfluffypencilcase · 09/04/2024 00:39

Lorraine kelly
horror / gore

lemmein · 09/04/2024 00:39

Not so much these days* but Lorraine Kelly used to have me diving for my remote - especially when Dan Wootton was on with her!

  • I don't do it so much now because I never watch live tv - not because she's less annoying!
HeddaGarbled · 09/04/2024 00:42

News is fine. Let’s get two people with opposing views on and encourage them to have an argument and pretend that’s news reporting, no thanks.

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 09/04/2024 00:44

and the East Midlands news, because it reminds me of living there.

You can swap to any other region's/home nation's news if you prefer! I must admit, I sometimes purposefully go to the East Midlands news instead, as it reminds me of when I used to live there Grin

lemmein · 09/04/2024 00:47

I also haven't watched the news or listened to LBC (used to listen everyday!) since Boris was in the death throes at Downing Street - sick to death of the constant lies, just the sight of them makes me wanna hurl stuff at the tv. These days I just stream what I want to watch - a much calmer experience!

Trez1510 · 09/04/2024 00:53

Game show audiences - ramped up on a thimbleful of cheap wine each - whooping and hollering.

Strictly audience attempting to clap in time to the music.

Northernsouloldies · 09/04/2024 00:58

Pinkfluffypencilcase · 09/04/2024 00:39

Lorraine kelly
horror / gore

Is that one and the same.😀

Pinkfluffypencilcase · 09/04/2024 01:02

Northernsouloldies · 09/04/2024 00:58

Is that one and the same.😀

Unintentionally yes 😂

Thatsthewayitisnt · 09/04/2024 01:25

Northernsouloldies · 09/04/2024 00:58

Is that one and the same.😀

😂😂