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've watched it once at someone else's house. I certainly didn't feel as though I wanted to watch it again.

I've seen 10 minutes of Big Brother at a work training day about conflict.

I love Strictly though.

Don't agree aris. It's so prevalent that it seems to the norm to watch it. So AIBU not to seems to be a fair question and so far the AIBU police Trills seem ok with it.

Seems I am not alone either.

I know more people who don't watch it than do .

I also see no harm in doing or watching something a bit mindless . Clearly by MN standards I am a bit of a thicko but I feel no need to be 100% mentally stimulated all the time.

You've not missed a thing, I have stopped watching it. Even Take Me Out seems more entertaining viewing on a Saturday night .

Come to think of it I hate both Celebrity Big Brother and Big Brother and Strictly Come Dancing too. There are far too many of these programmes on so I switch off and read my Karl Pilington Idiot Abroad book which is hilarious.

It honestly makes me cringe, though all the posturing and face pulling and crying when the do/don't get through.

It's certainly not about me thinking I am cleverer or above anyone else. I Just Don't Get It!

I love Masterchef but I have to fast forward through the bits where they gush on about this changing their lives. It's a plate of food ffs!

I think it's the massive outpouring of emotion for something that seems so cheesy iyswim?

I get that, we often fast forward through the sob stories

OF course not.

Why would you think it would be unreasonable?

There are many many TV shows that I have never watched.

All of these things, X-factor and Strictly and whatever, could be about half the length.

I wouldn't mind watching people learn to dance and then do the dance, or try some singing and then be told if they are any good, if it wasn't for all this waffle about the journey.

We always start watching half hour late and then fast forward chunks or Brucie

X factor viewing figures at end of Sept were about 9-10 million. There are about 60 million people in the UK, so only around 1/6th are watching X factor on any one weekend.

If you are actually wondering if it is unreasonAble not to watch then you need to chill out. :o

I would like to state that you have to be a thickie to watch X-factor and its ilk.

But then I also have to remember that we have bought days worth of 80's American detective stuff, like Magnum and McGyver, ( they were quite cheap at the time) and have watched them avidly.

That would probably make me rather thick in many people's views, so maybe I should just keep my gob shut and smirk behind my sleeve.

You are not alone! I have never actively chosen to watch X Factor - but it is everywhere. I don't understand why it is headline news - it's just a talent show?!

The awful, awful build ups and crying and talk of 'journeys' make me feel ill. The winners will mostly sink without trace in less than a year. So what is the point? The programme is SC's own PR industry.

I did quite enjoy the Gareth Gates / Will Young final (back in the day). Was that called Pop Stars? It didn't seem to take itself so seriously then. I thought the format would have got stale by now, but it just keeps going year after year.

Complex at least you are brave enough to just come out and say that I must be thick.

I know very intelligent people (with PhDs and everything) who like to watch this kind of TV.

They're not thick, they just have bad taste.

Good job that I have the hind of a rhino and I can cope with being told that I am thick and lack taste.

I think you are either thick OR you lack taste, depending on who you listen to :o

And "you have crap taste" can always be responded to with a bit of "no, YOU have crap taste" :o

I am quite happy to take both, I suspect it is a taste issue though,

I've never watched it either. Or that one in the jungle or anything about dancing or Big Brother; none of them. I detest phone in/vote tv.

The problem is so many people are into it. I've stunted many a conversation opener from perfectly lovely people 'Did you see..x factor, I'm a Slebrity etc?' with 'Er..no'. End of discussion

I don't think I'm thick, so it must be the taste thing. Or just the opportunity to switch my brain off occasionally.

I don't start conversations about it though, I've got better things to talk about.

MIL watches the jungle thing. Conversations go like this:

"Did you see Celebrities in the Jungle last night?"

Me - No.

"Oh, well, this happened, and then he said this, and then someone else you've never heard of did that, and etc. etc. for about 15 minutes"

Doesn't make any difference if I've seen it or not, really.

ILOVESOOTY - My sentiments exactly, however, last night for the first time in years, I was bored with Strictly and was on Mumsnet for the whole duration, so who got the push?

Complex at least you are brave enough to just come out and say that I must be thick. Oh Arisbottle, I didn't mean to call you thick.

It's just that I can be quite judgmental on these things, frequently forgetting to judge myself.

On the few occasions I can quote the bible, I will do: "Judge not, that ye be not judged."

Complex I am joking. Why would I be bothered that some random on the Internet might think I am thick,

I am very common and have a level of taste that would make most MNers gather their Boden skirts and run for the hills . I like it that way.

Endo I even talk about it, I have no shame