day time tv watching, is lazy and only to be done when sick

[NoahVale]

is how i was brought up and i cannot get away from that feeling.

i may be lazy and be mumsnetting but to physically go and turn on the TV seems wrong.
I expect I am in the minority, judging by comments

I was never allowed to watch Noel Edmonds Swapshop as a child. Still bear a grudge now..

When I was a child (middle of the last century) we didn't have anything to watch on the telly on until around tea time and then only two channels.

The radio was on in the kitchen (the Light Programme, now R2) almost all day. Life was different then with many jobs un-mechanised as today. If TV had been available all day then it would have been very distracting.
I listen to music on the radio for much of the day whilst getting tasks out of the way and only switch the tv on when I want to watch something.

Sometimes I don't put either the tv/radio on and the house is deathly quiet without a little background noise.

I was never allowed morning tv , ie. swap shop either

I work really hard all week and am now having a relaxing day watching some tv and cuddled up with my dogs - I don't feel guilty at all!

Daytime telly is a bit crap unless it's a bank holiday or Christmas time. Nothing better than a lunchtime spent watching Oliver! and eating a bowl of leftover trifle.

I had a sick day a few weeks ago and got stuck into some DVDs. That was most enjoyable too.

As a child I used to hate that 70s show Why Don't You Switch Off Your Television And Go And Do Something Less Boring Instead?

Stuffed with insufferable stage school brats who I longed to drown in a bucket.

Not if you're doing the ironing and watching Netflix

I agree, it is such an ingrained message ............. crazy really. Sometimes I do sit and eat lunch in front of one of those house programmes, such as 'Location, Location, Location' but it just feels 'wrong'.

Even watching catch up tv in the daytime (of a superior type programme ) seems wrong !!

One of the joys of being semi-retired is daytime tv. Homes under the Hammer, A Place in the Country, Three in a Bed, Come Dine With Me etc etc. How do people find time to work?

I think some people have far too many self-imposed rules.

"Aaaah. The Young doctors"

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They probably donated the Sister's head dress to a disaster relief fund. It could have sheltered an entire family.

After working full time for the past 44 years I have damn well earned the right to watch daytime tv.
I usually knit at the same time because I can't sit and do nothing.

I don't watch the programmes as such but if I am on my own I often put the rolling 24hr news on for company. I don't like a totally quiet house. I tend to wander in and out of the living room while doing other stuff so rolling news is quite good - it doesn't matter if you miss a bit

I'm like this too. I sometimes record things and I like Neighbours but only watch if I'm eating or doing something else worthwhile at the same time.

Dh always wants the tv on and I hate it

"the ones who genuinely don't have anything better to do during the day), be they unemployed, disabled, elderly"

I've been and mucked put the horse, exercised him, came back, went to the tip (long overdue), took the dogs out, cleared out the food cupboards and re-organised them all, emptied the dishwasher and re-loaded it, went and bought dog food and returned something to Toys r Us. I'm now watching daytime TV having made lunch and eaten it. I will be going out again to exercise and finish off the horse. Am I lazy?!

Don't feel guilty, OP! Sod it, sit down with a cup of tea and mumsnet!

A retired friend of mine watches daytime TV - she entered a phone in competition on This Morning and won £60, 000. So a good days work for her I'd say - lazy TV can pay

What TV is 'worthy' to be ok to watch?

Football
EastEnders?
The News

What makes it acceptable to watch something but not to watch something else?

We watch television during the day. Sometimes it's educational stuff I've put on record for the dcs (we home ed) and other times we have music playing on the radio tv channels (often classical as the dcs like it and it's not distracting) when we're working on other things. Sometimes it's cartoons if they're having a short break or lunch. Some days we're out a lot going to activities so don't see the tv all day.

Remember that daytime TV is mainly aimed at the less productive members of society (I'm not saying "worse" members of society, but the ones who genuinely don't have anything better to do during the day), be they unemployed, disabled, elderly or just plain lazy.

An hour or two of tv is ok in the evening but there is aways something that's needed to be done, I feel lazy if I were to sit down during the day, toddler is different, but I would tell my 14 year old to go and do something productive if I caught him watching tv during the day

I use Netflix on a tablet constantly while doing the housework to alleviate the boredom. Hardly lazy as I'm never sat down!

There's always been a lot of intellectual snobbery about TV versus radio, the latter being considered more worthy and so forth.
When breakfast TV first came about it was considered quite an about-turn for we Brits to put it on in the background and get on with getting ready for work. Horses for courses and all that.

I enjoy listening to Ken Bruce and as I hate most of his stand-ins when he goes on holiday I switch to Homes Under the Hammer instead. When he eventually retires I'll switch to Classic FM or Planet Rock because there'll be no point to Radio 2 otherwise.

What if you're multi tasking? I've got a two Midsomers , two Miss Marples of the Joan Hickson variety. , and a whole series of Grantchester I'm watching whilst making two cakes, mince pies , a stew and tonight's dinner. Does that make me lazy ?

Personally I don't see the different between a few hours of television in the daytime to a few hours of television in the evening. Nowadays, things are often recorded, so people can watch things at different times. You could logically say to go do something more productive during the evening just as easily as during the day.

It's like saying eating an apple is only healthy if you eat it in the evening, not during the day.

It's just ridiculous judgement based on someone's personal (and biased) opinion. The idea that tv is okay in the evening, but lazy during the day is not based on fact. It's ust a way of people sneering at those who aren't "too busy working and doing productive things" during the day.