People that Say they don't watch TV

[Aquarius1234]

OMG so annoying. Esp those that lie.
You do watch TV so stop making out you spend all evening not looking at a screen!
Or those that say they never watch movies or go cinema. You then find out they go twice a year.
Watching sport or netflix counts as watching tv regardless if you watch it on your laptop or not.

@XenoBitch LOL! That clearly is watching TV! You just confirmed the OPs point. Some people like @MightyFishwife don’t watch TV, but some others (like you) say they don’t when they clearly do. Why do you do that 🤔 Don’t answer with the “I don’t sit there flicking through channels” as that isn’t the point. I don’t do that either. I don’t watch crap, but I do watch TV - like you do!

@BigHeadBertha omg or like those people that say "I don't drink" and then every weekend they neck 4 bottles of wine, lol

So are videos on Instagram.

I watched stuff on on my PC, and I watched DVDs (and the people the sneer at that can fuck off)... I was still exempt from paying for a TV license.

Yes, saying you don't watch much tv is fine. People who don't even own a tv - fine. It's the snooty people who say they don't watch tv to sound intellectually superior when clearly they DO watch it!!!!

How are you posting here then? 🤔

OP, equally annoying is when someone asks if you're watching some drama or other and it's like a foreign concept to them when you say you haven't heard of it or never watched it.

I read most books on an e-reader. If I’ve not read the paper book, have I actually read the book? Sure if watching TV only refers to an actual television then reading a book only refers to a paper book.

My take - watching something on a screen (TV, computer, tablet, phone) for entertainment in your own home / on your private device (need to cover the projector on a sheet in the backyard and watching stuff on a commute etc) is watching "TV". This includes the news and sports. Personally I don't watch commercial TV ie what you can get through an aerial and typically has commercials. I stream everything including any sport event that I want to watch. But I am watching.

Leaving your house to see a movie at the cinema is "going to the cinema". I very rarely go to the cinema - once or twice a decade.

Are they actually sounding more intelligently superior or just speaking normally? And it others who can't get their head around that people can say what they want about watching TV or not and have chips on their shoulders and need to excessive their brain more?

I was/am one of those people.

In my previous house I never watched TV (aside from possibly a couple seasons of my fave shows per year). We had a tv, but I didn't have the time or desire to watch anything. I watch TV now, but it's limited to a handful of my fave shows plus 1 soap. My time can be better spent far more productively elsewhere.

As for the cinema, I don't go. Haven't been since 2018/19. Nothing I want to watch so badly that I'd pay for an overpriced ticket with a room full of strangers. Before that, I'd go maybe twice a year maximum. I don't like watching movies at home either.

@WetLettuce2

• I don’t have access to any screens. I don’t have a phone, or wifi.

I read, and think deeply *

You post on mumsnet via your brain?? There's thinking deeply and then there's extreme evolution wow

Are they actually sounding more intelligently superior or just speaking normally? And it others who can't get their head around that people can say what they want about watching TV or not and have chips on their shoulders and need to excessive their brain more?

I tend to suspect the latter. Some people have massive chips on their shoulders and seem to think someone expressing they don't own a telly equals a moral judgement on them for watching telly.

I watch TV now, but it's limited to a handful of my fave shows plus 1 soap. My time can be better spent far more productively elsewhere

What on earth do you think other people are watching if not a handful of their favourite shows?

My dad just constantly channel surfs until he finds something to watch. He will not shift away from the TV at all.

I don't watch 'telly' by which I mean live tv, reality shows, news channels, sitcoms etc. I do sometimes put things on Netflix on a laptop while I'm doing something else but sitting in front of a TV doing nothing else, never.

I 100% get this.

Personally for me, I find it impossible to put the tv on, with the purpose of just sitting and watching it. I can't sit and watch anything, I usually just have YouTube on with music because I have the attention span of a teaspoon.

If I am watching tv it can't be live because I will rewind it 900 times as I am allover the house finding things to do hahaha

I watch Only Connect and I did watch The Hairy Bikers South Wales episode. If my partner didn't live with me I wouldn't watch it at all.

My partner watches CSI, Special Victims Unit, Police Interceptors and 999 programmes. I might be sitting in front of the tv but I don't actively watch it. I glance up or listen infrequently and as a result I can say to my partner when he's watching "you've seen that one".

So using TikTok or a Youtube channel is “watching TV”, going to the cinema is “watching TV”, and sitting in a pub with the football on a big screen is “watching TV”?

Any moving image via any medium whatsoever is “watching TV”? Don’t be ridiculous.

Imagining something in your own head is watching TV too.

I’m still confused!

I watch the morning news for about 45 min per day (M-F) but sleep through most of it.

I watched a series on Netflix (Squid Games if you’re interested)
I watch an American Football game about every 3 weeks from Sept-Feb
On the weekends the TV is on, but I’m not actively engaged.

I don’t watch movies, go to the cinema, stream YouTube, etc.

I say that I’m not a big TV watcher or don’t really watch tv… am I lying?

Ugh. There just seems to be a certain type of person who thinks that, if they don't like something, they are somehow better than people who do like it. You see it in TV watchers too - "Oh, I don't watch [insert name of popular show" said with a punchably smug look, as if not liking things is a substitute for a personality.

I expect reading Mumsnet counts too. After all, it is a screen.

Interesting hill to die on, OP

How do you mean? 😴