To have never watched a single episode of The X Factor?

[akaemmafrost]

Well I watched about 10 minutes one time about 5 years ago. .

I just don't get it I really don't. Can someone explain to me just what exactly is so gripping about it?

Judges? How the hell can someone like Cheryl Cole or Tulisa judge anyone's singing when they are so supremely shite themselves?

I have never watched it. I also judge people who do watch it massively Which is wrong, but I can't help it.

YANBU

I've seen it a few times, but I'm just not interested in it.

Same with Big Brother, Strictly, The Voice, BGT, etc. I don't have the patience to watch it for weeks and weeks.

That's not to say I don't watch shite on TV or I think I'm superior for not liking it. It's just not my cup of tea

YANBU, I watched it a couple of times for about 15 minutes each time but found my brain immediately disengaging. For me, its the TV equivalent of Mace.

It was such a nothing experience, I haven't even got the interest to whip up some kind of anti-X Factor rant.

Instead, I go in the kitchen and sing instead. I've got a much better voice than the ones I saw on TV, which is nice.

It certainly passes the "programmes my mum wouldn't have let me watch if they had been on when I was younger" test.

Why is Strictly more socially acceptable, I wonder?

The only thing that makes Xfactor worth watching are the very funny threads on here.

Yanbu. Last episode I saw Rhydian was robbed.

Maybe Strictly is more acceptable because the contestants are already "famous"?

Or maybe ballroom dancing just looks classier.

I've never seen an episode of x factor either

I haven´t either. Admittedly not living in the UK helped to avoid it, initially. However, I did encounter trailers for it when working in Ireland and it is now on tv in the country where I live, but quite easy to avoid :-)

You are not alone...we don't watch it in this household even with tweens! We are definitely a Merlin/Dr Who/Strictly type of family. In fact hardly ever watch ITV at all....Tabloid TV!

I used to enjoy it but it has lost its way over the years. I only watched bits of it last year but this year I can't bring myself to watch it at all!!!

Why is the opposite of Cheryl cole, Coldplay?

I watch the auditions with my teenage son & we laugh uproariously at all the really dreadful ones who can't sing a note, especially those who have a tantrum when they're told to clear off. We lose interest once the competition is narrowed down to the better ones.

It's just one step from showing monkey tennis instead.

I love it.

I also love towie and reading the daily mail.

Shoot me :)

I used to watch it for the first few series. Initially the auditions were amusing and then you got kind of sucked in and wanted to know what happened.

But I have just lost interest in the last couple of years or so. It is so formulaic and just so samey. Also I lose patience with the way programmes pad out a few minutes of actual material with so much repetition e.g. they tell you what you are about to see (sometimes twice for good measure), then you see it and then they tell you what you have seen tonight. I know the X factor are not the only programme to do this but they were one of the worst offenders.

No interest in it anymore- I have moved on!

Me neither. I loathe , hate and despise it.

Not my thing either.

None of the "reality" things or Strictly appeal to me at all.

It´s the wanting to see people mocked/belittled-I don´t get it.

Never watched it either, or any of that sort of thing since that show that was responsible for Mylene Klass.

Not my thing. Not claiming an intellectual high ground, I watch all sorts of rubbish. I do get fed up that it overtakes the papers and work discussions, it seems so dull.

I don't watch it because its shite. Bread and circuses. And the winning acts they spew out are so dull and again, formulaic.

I haven't seen it because we haven't got a TV, but I slightly resent the fact that it's still wormed its way into my consciousness and I know what it is. Ditto Big Brother etc etc.

I've never seen it, I saw a bit of an audition episode and it seemed horribly cruel.

But I'm not anti reality tv. I like the Great British Bake Off (it's so pleasant and soothing), and I saw a series of Project Runway which was really interesting too, designers making clothes, oh, maybe I only like watching people make things!

What an odd use of AIBU ? Why would you be unreasonable for not watching a TV show?

Sorry for the random ?

Can't stand it... I feel like my brain cells are melting slowly away.
That said, I hate all reality shows. I don't know whether it's the fakeness or the terrible presenters... or both.

I am only so irritated by it that I would say something, simply because like other posters I have been bored to tears by idiots blabbering on about it.