to hate " oh we dont watch tvs - just DVDs"

[RolandButter]

its television you MORONS

I sock those who disagree with me

LOL. Ver good Lundy.

We're all going to be rolled up in clothes softly shouting about television through our scarves and socks. It'll be like that really ANNOYING game where you had to wear fifteen gloves and four jumpers and try to eat chocolate with a knife and fork.

Just like that.

i know someone who says this about telly/dvd and also " we don't say that in our family, we say x instead" cos one of our kids said God.

like.vomit.

intellectual snobbery is the worst sort in the universe hate it hate it hate it.

enough vitriol sorry.i do love owl babies tho it makes me cry

We don't have one because we don't see the point of paying lots every months for wasting hours surfing through endless mindless channels and finally switching it off because there's nothing good on. We watch DVDs and iplayer, and so do the kids, and it suits us because we can choose what we watch and for how long. I pigged out on telly in my 20s as we didn't have one/didn't have cable when I was growing up, and felt starved of music videos, adverts and soaps. But after a while it started to feel like Eastenders is always the bloody same, the news is depressing and I'm too old to know who all the celebs on the reality shows are supposed to be. Also I don't care and I can't stand repetitive ads trying to sell me stuff I don't need or want. I still spend lots of time in front of the screen - to me ebay and mumsnet are the new Eastenders and shopping channel. It's just a choice - doesn't have to indicate implied smugness or intellectual superiority.

i think if you watched tv though you could use a paragraph

Its not intellectual snobbery though - we genuinely do not feel the need to have access to television programming on demand. We don't miss it. When we did have it, we hardly watched it anyway.

Sorry if that offends anyone

I love the telly.

Really hate it when people don't have one. It's like me not having a mobile phone really. I reckon it's very annoying and in fact am going to get one (when I get round to it )

But TV - it's fab. And yy if you are not going to have one then watching stuff on the puter is The Same Thing really.

Yes, agree. Coco - your rush to communicate so fully and breathlessly does suggest you are in need of some soporific, mind-numbing, dumb down time.

Get a TV, quick, think of your friends.

YANBU. Like people who tell you self-righteously that they are vegetarian but who eat fish

We have a telly for x-box/dvd purposes, but I am not paying money for a TV licence so we don't watch "telly". At our last flat we had normal telly and it was crap, complete and utter crap so we didn't watch it, so I am not going to pay for it.

I don't pretend that we don't watch plenty of screens though.

its not just the telly thing. couldn't give a monkeys how others do their thing just don't want it rammed down my throat in a one upmanship way. plenty of marvellous non telly watching people that don't ram it down others throats out there I'm sure.

anything that starts " as a family, we xxxx " i walk away from very very quickly.

Oh Alpen, I go nearer. I love all that, I want to know all about it.

All I really want out of family life is to be able to say, 'As a family, we enjoy canoeing on Sunday afternoons' or 'as a family, we so enjoy fell walking' or something

Nobody else in my family wants a shared family hobby though. I have been talking about it for years. They are all ingrates.

As a family, we are ungrateful for the efforts our mother has put into suggesting we might all enjoy ice climbing together.

omg. i think family life is great and shared hobbies, whatever your bag is, great, go with it. just don't broadcast it expecting me to be impressed. there seems to be a big competition going on. its so sad. why can't people just get on with their lives without bigging it all up all over the place???

Probably because the hobbies and shared group family activities are so awful and tense and rife with conflict when you're doing them, that you then have to get some compensation by showing off about it?

My god, if we ever did end up canoeing every Sunday afternoon, I'd bloody tell EVERYONE I met in the loudest smugest tones available. No doubt.

hardly compensation if everyone thinks u r an arse for showing off tho

let's face it though, 'as a family we enjoy canoeing on Saturdays' really means they went once and nearly drowned each other with their bickering.

it's like that bit on CVs where people say 'my hobbies are reading, walking and the cinema' which means they read a John Grisham novel once, occasionally walk to the shops, and go to see the new James Bond when it comes out.

I wouldn't care. I'd want spontaneous applause and envious looks.

that's my cv

i do feel like i live on another planet sometimes.

actually i have a friend who goes one better.

she says "as a family, we don't really watch tv. we prefer to do other things, get out of the house. bake etcetc"

then basks in wholesome smug glow.

THEN says "so whos going to win xfactor and don't you love the bongo brothers on britains got talent"

i admire her for it really

Alpen, I'm not being completely serious. You may stay on Earth, all is well.

Hmm well when I say I don't watch TV I mean that once the children have gone to bed I don't ever sit and watch TV

But DC do watch it

So I get to watch a fair bit of Spongebob

I don't watch television, but that's because I have no television reception in my house.

I watch iplayer and DVDs, and don't really want to watch anything on ITV or Channel 4, so can't be bothered getting an aerial sorted.

So from my point of view, YABU because I'm lazy, not smug.

I always merrily admit to watching loads of TV, in an awful inverse snobbery manner, which is probably just as bad.

I love to see the noses wrinkle