DH/DCs talking over the TV - AIBU in that it makes me feel murderous?!

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DH and DCs continually talk when I am trying to watch TV. I rarely sit down to watch anything and when I do they keep talking . Bloody Sky subtitles rarely work on things I want to watch.

DH reckons I am BU. I may say something to him while watching something which requires a one word answer but he will turn it into a thousand word fucking monologue. I then tell him to shut up and he gets all antsy. DCs decide there is something important they must tell me just because I am sitting watching something .

I don't see the point of following a movie or a programme if you can't hear what is being said so don't know what's going on.

Is it because I am getting old and cantakerous? They just won't STFU!

Is it just me?

No. Pause it, and then sit and wait for them to finish and then say 'thanks that was mesmerising' and turn back to the tv and press play again. Keep doing that. Should extend your tv time and the longer they go on the less tv they can watch.

Nope, I tell them immediately to shut up. Drives me crazy as I don't have sky now and can't pause live tv.

It was worse during the exams as I had to physically get rid of dh and dd who were talking about subjects when Gardeners world was about to start.

We have 2 other reception rooms they could bugger off to - only one room with a tv in it!

Woe betide the person who interrupts by 30 minutes of Gardeners world a week

Not just you.
My DH and Ds do this all the time

that would drive me nuts, can't bear people who have to conduct a fucking commentary for every programme they watch. And we can't pause anything (luddites!).

It's really disrespectful. Tell them all to bugger off .

YANBU because I can tell it obviously fucks you off enormously (yes, I've been told I'm very perceptive )

But you don't have to hear every word though do you?

DD1 and my mum are the same, that if they're watching something then they can't abide any interruptions whatsoever, and that annoys me no end.

It's pretty controlling to expect the whole house to bow to whatever you're watching on telly, it's more understandable if it's just some random bollocks stuff the DC have to tell you but which could wait, but your DH lives there too.

YANBU on getting the rage at him using a thousand words when one will do, DH does that too, I'm not very patient about it

My df does this and it is irritating beyond all reason. Dps are staying with us for a month between houses and as if it's not bad enough that my dm watches every God awful soap going but when she finally runs out of the bloody things and I put on a breaking bad before bed df starts a conversation all the way through it wtaf!!! Or falls asleep and snores loudly. Equally annoying.

YANBU.
Hand over a notebook and tell them they can write down comments/queries etc and you will deal with them at the end of your programme. My friend did this and it worked a treat.

Ha ha. Glad it's not just me then.

I sometime put the programme I want to watch on record in my bedroom. Then attempt to watch it downstairs, then pause it every time anyone tries to say anything above reasonable conversation. In my definition this is ; I've told you twice that I'm watching this program. I don't mind the odd question, request or funny comment. But when someone keeps up a constant blah blah blah , then want me to tell when what's going on ..Grrr.....

If I'm lucky they've messed up the start of the program they wanted to watch next. I go upstairs and watch my tv in peace. It's getting less and less of a problem ;)

My dp talks through my programmes and is quiet on the sodding adverts