[Closed] wife loves to watch trash tv

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)

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.

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 [i]if[/i] 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. [b]"If Ratzenburger isn't really careful he COULD crash his giant boat into the giant port." [/b] 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.

My kids have turned their backs on the X factor this year,think its had its day
and my wife never watches the soaps but does do strictly come dancing & kids are mostly watching the Disney channel although the oldest (13) is obsessed with 16 and pregnant which is a bit worrying
I Sky+ anything that clashes and watch it later

Out of curiosity - those who wives/gfs etc.. watch x-factor do they also have awful taste in music?

Personally speaking I could never be with someone who has what I consider poor taste in music...

I have been subjected to the following 'documentaries'.

Men work on a boat.
Men work on a dock.
Men work on on an oil rig.
Men work on a dock loading bits onto a boat which will be used to build an oil rig.
Men cut down trees.
Men cut down trees in the snow.
Men drive lorries in the snow (warning may contain one female driver who will be treated as a freek)
Men work on a building site.
Men work on a different building site (x100)
Men go fishing in a big boat and it gets a bit windy.
Man goes fishing by himself.
Man and friend go fishing in a small boat.
Man eats lots of food (sometimes fish)
Man watches friend eat food.
Man who was once in the army eats some food he has found in the woods.
Man who was once in the army fires a big gun while shouting.
Man who was never in the army talks about how a battle 600 years ago COULD have taken place.
Man (and a woman) whoop and shout themselves into hyper-delirium because they have managed to take a photo on a mobile phone and upload it to Facebook.

I do quite like Top Gear.

Out of curiosity - those who wives/gfs etc.. watch x-factor do they also have awful taste in music?

Personally speaking I could never be with someone who has what I consider poor taste in music...

My missus never put music on at all, bar whatever the radio kicks out

Men work on a boat.
Men work on a dock.
Men work on on an oil rig.
Men work on a dock loading bits onto a boat which will be used to build an oil rig.
Men cut down trees.
Men cut down trees in the snow.
Men drive lorries in the snow (warning may contain one female driver who will be treated as a freek)
Men work on a building site.
Men work on a different building site (x100)
Men go fishing in a big boat and it gets a bit windy.
Man goes fishing by himself.
Man and friend go fishing in a small boat.
Man eats lots of food (sometimes fish)
Man watches friend eat food.
Man who was once in the army eats some food he has found in the woods.
Man who was once in the army fires a big gun while shouting.
Man who was never in the army talks about how a battle 600 years ago COULD have taken place.
Man (and a woman) whoop and shout themselves into hyper-delirium because they have managed to take a photo on a mobile phone and upload it to Facebook.

All educational... 🙂

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

Erm..... why would you do that? Time she's spent in front of that stuff = more time that i don't have to discuss soft furnishings or what school mum A said to school mum B about school mum C, and can waste my life on here or in the garage?

And Strictly's great, btw.

Timidwheeler - sounds like my kind of tv 😀

2nd Telly.. Problem solved..

I tune out most of the stuff mrs nano watches as I'm sure she does when I'm watching a doc although she has made the odd foray into what she would see as the darkside:

Always used to enjoy watching 'overhaulin'' on discovery with Chip Foose. When we were on honeymoon even she got excited about heading down to his workshop..

Does it really mater?

The missus watches "crap factor", "Britain has very little talent" and "Help my broadcast media career should have ended but my agent thought I should humiliate myself one last time."

My running joke is to ask when the executions start. Then I go play in the garage or go for a night ride I'm not compelled to watch it.

TBF She lets me watch stuff she's not into and some stuff we both like I'd imagine having some sort of stepford wife who liked exactly the same things would be pretty dull after a while. Vive la difference and all that...

I do quite like Top Gear.

Men drive cars and ejaculate.

I do quite like Top Gear.

Men drive cars and ejaculate.

😯
I don't remember watching that one.

Was it on a video?

Vis-a-vis sofa in the middle of the room, TV at either end.

Inspector Montelbano anyone?... 🙁 it's like a cross between morse, frost and benny hill... In Italian 😐 with the funny bits removed and plinky plonky background music..

Somewhere there are lots of women complaining about all the time their blokes spend playing computer games...

At the end of the day, if it makes you feel all high and mighty and like a superior person by being derogatory about something that the person you purport to love finds enjoyable then you crack on...

[i]At the end of the day, if it makes you feel all high and mighty and like a superior person by being derogatory about something that the person you purport to love finds enjoyable then you crack on...[/i]

I think perhaps you could be taking this a tad too seriously...Xfactor fan perchance? 😉

Strictly's not crap.

My SO is unfortunately going deaf and has been since being young so she wins sympathy votes but then loses them by watching all these shite prorammes with the sub titles on and the volume at Spinal Tap levels. She says it helps her to read the subtitles??!!??
The real clincher is her watching The Killing in the same mode. I have pointed out she doesn't speak Danish and however loud it is she still won't understand Danish. All I get is abuse and a headache from the telly being so loud.

I guess I'm quite lucky. The OH and I both prefer documentaries, and both agree that there is no such thing as "too much David Attenborough" 😀

My mrs has the same taste in tv as me,i.e. it's all trash

most nights it stays off,really only use it for watching dvd's

and now with Kate being up the duff that's all your gonna about

for months

there is no such thing as "too much David Attenborough

This

I could do without the missus's's' guilty pleasure that is Gossip Girl. At least she admits that its vacuous shite and tonight being Monday means snuggling up in bed with the laptop to watch Homeland and the Walking dead 😀

Not on my TV you're not.

You do realise you can choose the picture that show on it don't you?

Getting the 'spend some time with me' calls from the lounge

I used to get that.