What do you do during TV ad breaks ?

OU812

Watching 24 the other night, I realised it was 42 minutes of program wrapped up in an hour long show, so with station IDs & ads, a massive 18 minutes of ads or 30% of the broadcast time.

During the breaks, I took a whizz, made a bio of tea & checked on the kids. As a result, I've no idea what the advertisers who no doubt spent a fortune on their 30 second slots were trying to sell me.

What do you do on the ad breaks?

Banjo String

Fart and blame it on the dog.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Ads??

You're doing it wrong.

I fast forward through them. Rarely watch tv 'live' apart from football.

osarusan

Why are make a cuppa and channel hop part of the same vote? They're completely different. Poll fail.

BBDBB

I channel hop and then swear as I realise the adverts are timed in parallel across some of the channels, then I find something that attracts my attention and watch that for too long before flicking back to the channel I was originally watching and swear for having missed the re-start of that programme:mad:

Kaycee2

Press pause, stare for 3 minutes, fast forward

orchidsrpretty

Usually put the TV on mute and talk to whoever I'm sitting with. If I'm alone ill check fb, reddit, boards etc.

MonstaMash

No 'roll a spliff' option :mad:

MRnotlob606

dont watch tv

Peregrine

I fast forward through them if it's recorded.

The only live TV I watch nowadays are rugby matches and they only have ads before, during half time and after. I try my best to avoid them. If coverage for a 18:30 match starts at 18:15, I pause at 18:15 and start watching at 18:20 to skip the ad break. I can find something else to do during halftime.

_Brian

No ads here any more.
Netflix only.

Even the kids are glad the ads are gone !

Mr E

Ads? How quaint.

stefan idiot jones

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I fast forward through them if it's recorded.

The only live TV I watch nowadays are rugby matches and they only have ads before, during half time and after. I try my best to avoid them. If coverage for a 18:30 match starts at 18:15, I pause at 18:15 and start watching at 18:20 to skip the ad break. I can find something else to do during halftime.

I fast forward the sham that is scrums too. Reset after reset is worse than any advert.

I could watch the Soda Stream advert for hours though.

LETHAL LADY

I usually seize the opportunity to throw on a load of washing.

vibe666

Never watch live tv, so if there are adverts, they get fast forwarded and I like to challenge my reflexes on 30x FF and see if I can hit play perfectly at the end of the adverts. I'm getting pretty good at it took.

Mostly stuff is downloaded though, so no adverts at all. I'm already getting reamed by sky for a tv subscription every month, I shouldn't have to get adverts forced down my throat on top of that and when I do, I I go out of my way NOT to watch them anyway, so it's pointless.

Even if I had just turned on the tv and my favorite show/movie was on live tv, just starting and I had nothing better to do, I'll pause it for 5-10 minutes and do something else to give me some FF breathing room to avoid the ads.

Rebel Rebel

Yep Pause, at the start, go do something for 10 min and fastforward the adds

shedweller

Between work and kids i dont get to watch tv during the week. When i get to watch it at the weekend i watch downloaded tv shows and they dont have ads! For recorded stuff i ffwd the ads.
I also use adblock on the computer too. Dont like ads.

cloud493

Put the kettle on.

Crumpets

Make tea and wake the cat up.

stimpson

I clicked "Quick Workout" because I assume you mean fapping.

Arthur Beesley

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

dont watch tv

Do you have a TV?

deco nate

And this is for the most part
Why I download, no
Ads. If I could do it legal, i
Would. Without the ads and pay for it. Glady, but ads ruin a show. This is why pirates are so common, give us pay to play without ads and watch
The profits skyrocket!
Edit: bar Netflix, cos they have a very limited line. I think in future we need to cross the line. No more barriers to TV shows, because we can already access them, be it by illegal means.

The Backwards Man

I watch the ads and fast forward through the shows.

Dónal

Dónal wrote: »

I fast forward through them. Rarely watch tv 'live' apart from football.

Same here, i seldom watch TV these days and when I do I nearly always record and FF the ads.

OP you forgot the FF option in the poll, chances are that it would be the most clicked.

PizzamanIRL

MonstaMash wrote: »

No 'roll a spliff' option :mad:

No. There's not.

OU812

Hmmm... it appears I screwed up on the questions. Would anyone have any objections if I did it again (properly)? Find this fascinating.

I mostly download myself, for the little I do watch, but I've noticed a lot more product placement coming in & also a lot of stuff on youtube having product placement.

I wonder what the future of advertising is. I mean, adverts on tv are ignored, the cinema is an eating competition until the trailers start. Does anyone even buy newspapers or magazines anymore ?

petes

What's a bio of tea?

Normally channel hop, check on dinner, talk to housemate, have a smoke.

Download most of my favourite TV shows so no ads, and watch a fair bit of Netflix!

Product placement is the way to go, I recently saw a programme where they use CGI graphics to "place" products existing films & programmes.

dmc17

OU812 wrote: »

During the breaks, I took a whizz, made a bio of tea & checked on the kids.

What does this entail?

The Backwards Man

petes wrote: »

What's a bio of tea?

It's what you drink with jambalaya, crawfish pie and fillet gumbo.

OU812

dmc17 wrote: »

What does this entail?

I have no idea where that came from. It's like the doubling of one of the options in the poll. I didn't put it in

mike65

Only watch BBC in real time, everything else (bar sport) is PVR'd I'll record a programme I'm watching, just come to it 10-15 minutes after its start time so I can skip the ads.

Teyla Emmagan

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It's what you drink with jambalaya, crawfish pie and fillet gumbo.

Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

ads ? everything i watch is web-dl 720p or 1080p

KyussBishop

Pop the show into download site of my choice, download it, and continue watching where it left off - before the ads finish; then I turn off the TV (then kick it, and shoot it - repeatedly - in apoplectic rage at witnessing one of any number of annoying adverts).

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

No option for channel hop? The most popular action!

Arthur Beesley

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

Sounds like something a carpenter would say.

The Backwards Man

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bio.

Agricola

I just sigh and say what I always say "Jaysus, telly is gone ta fúck with ads now aint it"

OU812

Have asked the mods to add some options to the poll.

shruikan2553

I watch netflix, youtube with ad blocker or stream game of thrones. The closest things to ads I watch are game or film trailers but I look up those on youtube.