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Do you watch tv?

  • 13-04-2013 08:05PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭


    I have many tv's, the wife, kids all watch it.

    When I get up at 05:00 I will watch some engineering stuff on discovery, but that's about it. Then off too work.

    Anyone else?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Rarely. Maybe the news but that's about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Come Dine With Me all the way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    My TV has a braile function. I turn it on, lower the sound, close my eyes and feel the screen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    sky+ so no


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭danslevent


    Much prefer the laptop, no ads!

    I have gotten so used to having no adverts watching tv actually inspires hatred, not relaxation like it is supposed...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,746 ✭✭✭✭Misticles


    No. I watch utv.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭johnayo


    Yes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,830 ✭✭✭✭Taltos


    Rarely - little on our box - so much more on netflix or those other sites ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Chop Chop


    Come Dine With Me all the way.

    Ha ha, the Missus loves this, I don't get it, it's full of weirdos.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    IM0 wrote: »
    sky+ so no


    You do realise that Sky+ is still TV, just recorded?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭crazy cabbage


    Dont even have that sare view thing yet so no.....

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭smallerthanyou


    Mainly just sports and pointless. I can't live without pointless. Richard is my idol. Everything else I watch is netflix or stolen if not on netflix.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    summerskin wrote: »
    You do realise that Sky+ is still TV, just recorded?

    lies


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I spend at least five hours a day watching the telly.

    Some of these days I might even turn it on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Voltex


    I used to watch telly all the time...till I got married and had kids!
    Im lucky if I can grab 10 mins on the bog by myself let alone enough time to watch a program!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    I almost never watch the television. The only thing I do watch is Star Trek while I cook. Sometimes I'll find a good show and watch the whole lot over a week on the Interbutts, but mostly I just listen to music or watch movies. I find it harder to get into a show than a movie, and it's definitely harder to find one I'll like watching than a good film I'd enjoy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Duff


    Watch the Champions League on it. The rest I watch online.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,409 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Just news, rugby and some Top Gear the odd time. Youtube and Netflix for everything else.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Chop Chop


    I almost never watch the television. The only thing I do watch is Star Trek while I cook. Sometimes I'll find a good show and watch the whole lot over a week on the Interbutts, but mostly I just listen to music or watch movies. I find it harder to get into a show than a movie, and it's definitely harder to find one I'll like watching than a good film I'd enjoy.

    Mad isn't it, I can't understand how my wife and kids are glued to it.

    I just never liked it, I'm a fecking nerd. All I do is pull the plum to engineering stuff.

    Thinly veiled, pulling your plum to a Bunsen burner thread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    The odd documentary or news but not much else. Stream or DVDs from the library.


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  • Site Banned Posts: 256 ✭✭Dr Silly Bollox MD


    Netflix, streaming, sky+, DVD, torrents aren't TV?

    Who knew?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 305 ✭✭Kichote


    No and I havn't instead replaced it with some streaming service and I rarely watch any videos at all besides the odd youtub video if I think its actually useful to watch. I particularly dont like Netflix because of DRM and Silverlight.

    If there is someone else watching something vaguely interesting I might join them but wouldn't sit down when Im bored to watch telly. There is always something more interesting to do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    I didn't even have a tv til I moved in with my partner.

    I only get into maybe one or two series at a time and I might watch them online on a day that I'm ill or w/e.

    I read and lurks the internet, feels like I'm doing 'something' rather than staring at the pretty colours :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    I watch all my programs on the Internet. I detest not being able to watch what I want when I want to which is why I never bothered getting a TV. Also German TV is absolute sh!te (and I thought RTE was bad...).

    While I can understand older people being surprised, people my age in Germany are always amazed that I don't have a TV or radio. Wtf is the point if you have the Internet?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭ONeill2013


    online TV would still count as TV, just on a different display monitor. I watch a lot, but i'm in the industry so it is excusable, mostly documentaries though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    I do not watch tv. We never had a tv growing up. I actually didn't even know what a tv was until I was 15.

    No, only joking. I watch tv probably more than is healthy for any living creature. But generally on less-than-legal streaming sites - very rarely on an actual television set.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,162 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    Hi, my name is Oink, and I have been TV-free for 24 days :).

    It was easier than I thought. Except the part when I had to delete all the episodes of NCIS, Hawaii 5-0 etc that I had recorded...

    I have loads of time to practice my music now :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    At home, just a few programmes on BBC4 via iPlayer, on the laptop. When I'm elsewhere I have other stuff inflicted on me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Don't watch it anywhere near as much as I used to, maybe an hour or two a week.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    At the moment, the only program I sit down and watch at its scheduled time is The Apprentice. Otherwise, I don't really watch much. When Dexter starts back in June, I'll acquire it and watch it when I get a chance, but that's pretty much it.

    I don't get much free time and I hate wasting it on TV. I probably sit down once a week and just switch it on to see what's on but rarely even make it to the end of a program before I have to go do something else.

    Actually, that's a lie. I see plenty of Peppa Pig, In the Night Garden, Hubble, Thomas the Tank Engine and whatever else RTÉ Jr shows.


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