Does anybody else have a partner with totally opposite tastes in tv viewing? My wife loves x-factor, strictly, I’m a celeb, soaps etc etc whereas I cannot understand why anybody would want to watch such crap? Unfortunately I have a 8 year old son with similar tastes so usually get out voted. I think a second tv may be in order (or a new wife :D)

New wife.

wife & 2 daughter – thank god we have enough TVs and rooms to watch – otherwise I’d of peeled my skin off ages ago

Same here ! X craptor and such has me wanting to destroy the TV before it destroys me !

Embrace it, only a TV program for God’s sake. Failing that, read a book?

Why do you think I spend so much time on here.

Other activities* are available…

*for want of a better word to describe sitting on your backside staring at a box for X hours.

Glupton1976 , bang on lol

Take wife back to shop and demand refund as wife not performing as specified? what do you want?

While the ‘girls’ may watch these programs I choose to do something more useful instead – Personally I find this programs ethically and morally disturbing – I find nothing entertaining in the cynical humiliation of desperate people – once religion was the opium of the people – now its reality television

Glupton +1

I usually end up reading or on the web. Amedias – you are probably right but I don’t have indoor hobbies anf cannot cycle all night

Isn’t it great when you realise your not alone? Anyone know how many different CSI variants there are? Very nearly de-listed channel 5 recently.

Ha ha. csi is another series she likes to watch. I did not mind it at first but after half a dozen episodes they all blend into one.

watch more porn

My Mrs watches Cheaters. and the real housewives of new York 🙁 Amedias I tried to get my wife to take part in one of those other activities but she said no she’d rather watch x factor
🙂

wobbem – porn is degrading to women (especially the stuff i watch :D)

wobbem – porn is degrading to women (especially the stuff i watch :D)

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5AYMiAdqhQ[/video]

Channel 5 – owned by Richard “Dirty” Desmond, Private Eye’s favourite pornographer.

You need a man cave! Man caves rule

Women generally like this shit

Yup, Man cave ! Or of course.. 2nd tv,or headphones, or…..

You’re lucky. My missus works on a soap, so I’m obliged to watch it with her when its her episode!!!! 😯

My missus and daughter watch all of that tat aswell..I have a laptop.
Leave them too it

Mrs Feet has Come Dine With Me on series link 😥

Mrs Jek likes to watch the next top model bulls ht. Ireland, America, Australia, UK. Unbelievable!

I wrote a long response to this. But decided here wasn’t the place to say it.

The importance it’s given in households isn’t right. I can’t see how passivity can be a sharing experience.

I don’t have a tv in the house. Much easier that way.

Saying that, though, when I’m at my mum’s she always has one of the lowest common denominator shows on. Sad really.

glupton1976 – Member
Why do you think I spend so much time on here.

+12

Not only the bread knife with her East Enders, Strictly Come Prancing, Holby City, there are the various daughters of darkness, with the Kardashians, <Insert approproate country>’s top model, and assorted other girlie crap, it’s a wonder I get to watch anything brutal with gratuitous violence.

99% of women just want to get knocked up, eat chocolate, buy crap and watch TV.

Utter spazes.

Lol @ JCL.

I’m quite lucky – it’s just Enders and Holby in chez-removed. We have a special arrangement here; the telly may be switched off and decent music put on if I’ll play Scrabble which is Mrs Removed’s favourite game.

I quite like Scrabble but it’s a secret. Sssshhhh.

My boyfriend loves crap reality TV. Usually it’s something about man doing a boring job that involves wearing a workman’s helmet of some sort. They try to make it exciting by using dramatic music and the word could. “If Ratzenburger isn’t really careful he COULD crash his giant boat into the giant port.” Obviously he does this every day and it’s his job but it COULD end in disaster (it doesn’t).

Don’t get me started on Grand Designs. Rich people whining about how terrible their life is because their Swedish handcrafted windows have been delayed by two days and they have to stay in the three bed outbuilding.

How do they do that? Who gives a monkey’s?? Let’s watch some vintage kids TV footage while the world’s dullest voice over man talks us though how to make a zip.

How about an hour long documentary on vintage firearms?

I hate Quest.

Timidwheeler – you make a good point. The division of programming on gender stereotypes is very lazy.

I’m lucky i think – Mrs used to watch X-factor and strictly, but i’ve successfully weened her of it

She still loves Eastenders but watches it on demand when i’m out

I still retire to the mancave a lot though 🙂

Yep, Mrs Coolhandluke loves shit TV too and I thought it was only me that had to suffer the crap tv offerings.

Friday night is worse IMO, with seemingly endless soaps on from about 7 until 10? Emmerdale, Corro, Eastenders, more soddin Corro ahhhh

At one point last Friday Mrs Coolhandluke complained that I’d been away working for two weeks and all I was doing was using the IPad instead of talking to her. Of course, this was during an advertisement break otherwise she wouldn’t have been talking at all.

I think she needs help.

To be honest even though I moan about my wife’s tv choices there is rarely anything that I actually want tp watch.

The only thing my wife and I actually want to watch together is Grand Designs.

I will put up with a couple of soaps she likes, but I am banned from watching anything on Discovery whilst she is present because ‘its boring’. If Strictly or any thing on the Horse and Country channel is on the box I will leave them room (or bring the laptop to the sofa if I’m getting the ‘spend some time with me’ calls from the lounge)

I am banned from watching anything on Discovery whilst she is present because ‘its boring’

Pretty much the same here but it doesn’t bother me too much

She was rather pissed off yesterday afternoon though to find out a documentary I was watching about Richard Nixon was 3 hours long, so was I really but I thought I’d stick it out for the fun of it 🙂
In the end she went and sat on a stool in the kitchen watching something else.