Strictly and X Factor

@mrs_teapot wrote:

Makes me laugh that people are scathing about watching TV and the quality of the programmes… yet come to JC chat rooms and post here as if that is in some way better or a better use of time… funny that.

Runs for the hills :D :D :D

Ummmm…I don’t think I have been scathing of TV…have I?
When I had a TV I was never one for reality programmes – I never knew who most of the “celebrities” were, they seemed either unpleasantly egotistical or dull as ditch water and the programmes bored me rigid. Big Brother was good when it was still in its early days and still a social experiment but it lost me when it started to be a launch pad for wannabes. I wouldn’t condemn anyone for watching them though, they just weren’t my thing.

However I haven’t replaced sitting in front of the TV with sitting in front of the computer on the Internet. I have found time to keep up with friends more than before, to talk to my partner more than before (oh the times we both came home, ate, slumped in front of the TV and glazed over then went to bed with barely the foggiest idea the following morning what we’d actually watched), to read, to listen to music – I mean really listen, not just have it on in the background, and so much more than that.

I’m a little out of the conversation when I got out with groups, it seems the first hour or two of the conversation is taken up with the latest TV (usually all the reality programmes and the soaps), diets, celebrity gossip…I think that’s the only time I feel I’ve missed out by not watching TV but it’s not the TV I miss, it’s the exclusion from conversation as a result.

I havn’t watched either this year Mrs T….I watched strictly a few years ago for the first time and really enjoyed it…but not seen it since….I have watched X Factor a few times in the past…but I must say I prefer the auditions shows…I am always amazed how some people think they have talent but sing worse than me…and I am terrible!
I also record most programs that I do watch….the ads do my head in
I love Grand Designs…been watching Homeland the second series…love it..the only soap I watch is Eastenders….don’t ask me why its utter rubbish…I guess it’s just habit
I used to have the tele on in the background all the time even if I wasn’t watching it..automatically turn it on when I got indoors….but nowadays I hardly turn it on before 8ish…unless there is a sports event on I want to watch