Telly in the day.

[shesgrownhorns]

It drives me nuts that my dh can sit and watch telly in the daytime. Bits of films or old dramas mostly. It’s not all day by any means, but when he comes in (which is fairly often, we have a family business, I work mainly online at home) he plonks himself down on the sofa and flicks incessantly through the channels. I like quiet or at a push a bit of radio 4 in the background but having him sitting idle in the living room grinds on me!

I know this stems from my childhood where this was viewed as moronic, and I know I have adopted the same stance.

I never say anything because I’m not the controlling sort at all, but it does my head in.

I’m aware that being on mumsnet is pretty vacuous too, although I rationalise that it is at least stimulating and social.

AIBU?

Ahh but at least Mumsnet is quiet

I'm semi retired now but have wfh for some years. I rarely have noise during the day, don't put the tv or even the radio on. But DH retired at Christmas and now the tv or radio (or both together for cricket) are on constantly. I don't say anything particularly, he's worked for over 50yrs and is entitled to wind down as he likes, BUT it drives me nuts. Today he is out for the day and I have perfect peace.

Yanbu because tv in the day is awful!
I have friends who would rather sit inside with some awful crap than go out (notable was the Jeremy Kyle/Trisha years I had a friend addicted to Jezza).
I think it's a time waster but if I had the chance I d probably binge read a good book (at least you could sit in the garden with that though).
Probably just me but I find tv in the day depressing.
I m 51 though so grew up when it wasnt so widely available (though I do remember The Moomins and The Clangers at lunchtime).

I’m on maternity leave and I have learned to tolerate day time TV for when we are not out on walks, playing with DD etc.

On the whole it’s pretty dull though, I’d rather download something to watch.

This would annoy me too.

It's not because I think there's anything wrong with watching telly, whether it's day-time or evening. It's just because that sort of aimless, long-term channel-hopping drives me absolutely mad for some reason. I don't know why, but people watching five minutes of one thing without knowing what's going on and then watching a few minutes of another thing they're not really interested in and then switching over again and watching a few adverts and then - aarrrrrggh, it's making me irritable just thinking about it. It literally makes me clench my jaw in fury.

Another thing that absolutely boils my piss (and my dad does this every time I see him) is people just muting the sound on the telly instead of turning it off. I visit my parents and my dad will be talking to us for two hours and the whole time, the TV will be flickering silently in the corner even though he isn't watching it and nobody is remotely interested.

That would irritate me too. Fine if there's something specific you want to watch (I used to like the BBC drama 'moving on') but just to keep flicking over to find any old shit to watch would piss me right off.

I spent a lot of time stuck in front of the TV when I was ill but I would record specific things from the evening to watch in the day when I was on my own.
I hate the aimless flicking through channels. I also hate Utube clips which my DH watches in the evening.

I like watching TV. Not 'daytime' TV though! It's the only thing that stops my brain being overactive all the time.
I love a good book but if I have things on my mind (which is almost all the time), I can't focus on the book and my mind will wander.

If dh was home channel hopping while I was working at home, that would be annoying. Likewise I wouldn't do it if he was home working either.

(We generally don't channel hop anyway) but I wouldn't watch TV while he was trying to work nearby - (I'd just be secretly annoyed he was working nearby and disrupting my TV watching time - if I had any!)

YABU. I watch TV to unwind after a stressful day at work, and during the day at the weekend for the same reasons. It really calms me down. I don't really watch TV as in the channels though, I generally watch Netflix and other streaming services.

"Yanbu because tv in the day is awful!"

With, Sky, Netfix, catch up etc, anything that's on in the evening is available during the day.

I've worked nights/evenings, so does my DD. So we often watch, Vera, Poirot etc or a film during the day. I catch up on soaps.

The whole 9-5, set hours days are gone.

I'm about to go shopping at my local Farm Foids and Lidl because it will be quiet. Then I'll do some housework.

What difference does it make, what time of the day it is?

Oh come on, a bit of homes under the hammer is great fun 😄😄

Do people know recording boxes like virgin + are ubiquitous now. So you don't have to watch shit TV in the day?

I'd find that a bit annoying too though. As he's not really watching it, it's just noise.

Day time TV minds me of my student days and so I equate watching it with laziness

As a pp said it's depressing to me.

I watch tv In the day but I don’t watch daytime tv. The only time I really get to catch up on stuff is when DD is at school on my day off. Don’t really care if people think it’s lazy.

In my mind, if you’re just channel flicking and not watching anything specific means that you actually don’t want to watch anything so go and do something else.

I hate the TV on during the day, how people can have it on as 'background' is beyond me.

This must be infuriating for you.
Me and OH have our own business. He does the manual work and I do the office side of work.
I couldn’t do what I do with OH watching tv loudly in the background.
I can’t stand day time tv anyway, when I have completed my work, I’d much rather be washing the car, cleaning the house, sorting through wardrobes, doing any DIY etc.

YANBU, tv on in the daytime, unless someone is ill, makes me cross, probably because it wasn't allowed when I was young.

The exception to this is Sunday afternoons in the winter when an old film or Harry Potter type things are nice to snuggle up to.

Love a bit of daytime tv, homes under the hammer, Doctors, Escape to the country, all with a nice cup of tea and a biscuit, bliss!

It would drive me crazy too. I have a friend who has to have the telly on all of the time.

She once described somebodys house as 'one of those weird homes with no atmosphere' because whenever she was there in the daytime this persons telly wasn't blaring away unwatched in the corner.
She probably thought the same about our house....

Personally not my thing but I really don't see any problem with it, I wouldn't say anything about it it would seem petty, everyone likes different things, live and let live

Am I the only one that doesn't understand this? 🤔😝 Who's he hurting? If it makes him happy leave him be! Bring back Murder She Wrote I say 😂😂😂

I don't 'not watch daytime tv' I just don't watch it in the daytime

I come home from work and put the telly on.if i have a day off in the week it'll also be on. We watch a lot of telly as a family generally, so don't see the issue 🤷‍♀️

I can’t stand silence so if I’m home either the TV or music is on for background noise. But then I can’t even sleep without something on so maybe I’m not the best to ask

I feel the same. My husband has a lie in at the weekend, breakfast then plonks himself in front of the tv to watch some real dross. I recognise my frustration comes from my upbringing - my parents always cracked on with their jobs for the day and tv was seen as an evening treat.
In the same way, I’d rather do my chores first and relax later, whereas my hubby is quite happy starting his at 9pm when I’m happily absorbed in watching Netflix. He also works very hard so I know he needs to relax in his own way... but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that it rather irks me even when I know it shouldn’t...