Does anyone else's Dp pick holes in TV programmes?

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I have covid at the moment so am stuck inside. I usually work outside the home with a long commute so not much time for TV. Dp works from home (runs his own business) which isn't doing well at the moment.

Because I'm home more and isolating, I'm able to watch a bit more TV. I watch TV to escape primarily and sometimes documentaries for interest.

I sat down on Sunday night to watch Vera. Dp sat down with me and immediately started. 'She would never be able to drive that landrover, she would need a police car that could be insured and they wouldn't insure that.' 'There's no way that the NCA wouldn't have jurisdiction' and ON AND FUCKING ON. This is just an example - unless it's a purely factual piece of TV where the facts can't be disputed, he's picking a hole in it.

I don't give a flying fuck how realistic it is or not but actually having someone mither in my ear was so bleeding annoying. I told him to stop and it's almost like he can't - he looks fit to burst to point out to me why something can't be right. In the end, I actually raised my voice and told him to go and do something else rather than bother me at which point he did finally shut up. He said he just enjoys watching tv with me and we don't get to often watch stuff together and he's getting involved etc etc. it's not like he's 12 either, he's 50 fgs!!

Does anyone else's Dp do this? I'm tempted to tell him I'll watch TV on my own going forward!

My DS12 does this and it’s so ducking annoying! I hope he grows out of it though

My husband does to a certain extent - I find he's more likely to do it when I'm watching 'one of my programmes'. I usually sarcastically say 'oh but Back to the Future* is soooo realistic!'

*insert name of a film he's recently watched and made no comments on it being realistic!

Yes mine does. Non stop!

I just pause, give him the look and say 'it's not a documentary dear' then crack on.

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My DS12 does this and it’s so ducking annoying! I hope he grows out of it though

we can allow it at 12, tell him he needs to stop when he gets a partner though!

All the fucking time !

My recent ex did this to anything of my choosing. It's one of the reasons I've joined him..

Yes Vera solidly my programme I think.

I shall use it's not a documentary line - that's a good one!

*binned not joined!!

My husband does, but he's worse with factual programmes. If there's anything he disagrees with he'll say it's wrong, for instance he has a very old degree in geography and archaeology so if a programme on either of these subjects comes on with updated views of research he'll insist that they're wrong, although he's similar with programmes that he has no direct knowledge of., And don't get me started on steam trains.

I'm the guilty party for this in my household . I shall think of this thread and try to shut up in future .

DH doesn't do this, but I do occasionally. I grew up with 4 brothers and they gave me the habit.

So not my fault, obviously.

I do it when things get silly to make the plot work, ie that just wouldn’t happen etc

Oh my DH does this. Went on and on about the Sandra Bullock film The Net, about how that would never happen etc. He's a computer programmer 🙄 I don't think it would win 'best documentary' Oscar but I don't care! I enjoyed it.

He likes Lord of the Rings and Star Wars but I don't make comments about how realistic they are!!!

My partner does it about telephone systems 🙄. He also has an incredibly annoying habit of saying 'oh he's from 'so and so'' 'that's the actor that was in...' and my DD has started doing it to. I want to scream at them every time! Yes they have been in other things, they are actors it's not real

Both DH and I do this, but I'm worse. I shut up if other people are in the room but my DH gets chapter and verse about how a police officer wouldn't behave that way and how that technical thing would never work. I hope one day we'll be toothless and babbling in front of a too-loud TV about how 'that didn't happen in the pandemic' while our grandkids roll their eyes.

Mine does, all the time.. even does it with children's cartoons & films for example how does Ryder manage to get planning permission for a new tower in Adventure City, and HOW does he pay for it.. omg it's a children's film, just enjoy it like your daughter does!

Oh god yes. There's very little drama he can even sit through. Stuff like Vigil made me laugh but it wound him up, and eventually I have to tell him to be quiet, or to please find something else to watch. There's no chance of him sitting down to watch Vera. I watch it on my own, it's much better that way!

We do this. My daughter and I do when we watch our series together too. Not 5min spiels, but the odd "how did they get to do x when they're y?!" It's a way of sharing a tv experience with someone. I'd hate not to be able to!!

You are making me all laugh

@Helga55 at children's films lol. He's training your children to do it!

Its natural disaster films or natural history films in our home. DS and DH both enjoying huffing and puffing about incorrectly categorised dinosaurs and I have to remind them for example that Dante's Peak isn't a documentary on surviving volcanos. DH knows he does it though so it's a bit of a joke in our home. He always laughs when Dave in the Full Monty is chuntering about the welding in Flash Dance.

I do this Usually it’s when women wake up with perfect hair and make up. Or wearing modern make up in historic programmes.

I am guilty of this too. I don't think it winds DH up, or at least he has never said it does. The man clearly has the patience of a saint.

Oh yes. My husband likes serious, knowledge improving programmes. So do I sometimes but I also enjoy amusing unchallenging stuff like soaps, the Masked Singer and Naked Attraction

He'll often come prowling in when I'm watching something on my own and start moaning about "this rubbish".

My standard responses:

1. I'm an adult and I'll watch what I like.

2 . Who are you? The television police.

1. There are [X number] tvs in this house. Why don't you go and watch something you prefer?
2. Or in response to "what's going on in Eastenders?" - "I've no idea because someone keeps talking".

The most annoying thing is when it's my turn to cook dinner and I've timed it to put on the kitchen telly and enjoy one of "my" programmes. Cue all 3 other members of family suddenly appearing in kitchen and buzzing around, talking loudly and standing in the way of the TV despite having shown no interest in being in the kitchen at any other time of day! Aaaarrgghh!!!

Same here. I've had enough of his running commentary over, say, Coronation Street.

He just doesn't get it that I'm not that interested, I just use it to zone out.

So, as I'm at 'breaking point' with him over this (no one will be leaving home, btw) I usually retort, 'not bad for someone who insists they don't care.' That shuts him up.

I watch/listen to 'Tipping Point.' He tuts because the questions are simplistic and so are the contestants. I don't care. I'm only half paying attention whilst doing a load of kitchen chores. So I say, 'just tune it out' because that's what I get told by him if there's something I don't like i.e. kids playing up in a restaurant.

I daren't watch Jamie Oliver or The Last Leg it's just not worth the aggro, the side eye, the tutting etc etc etc.