Who controls the remote?

skye

Just curiosity here. My fella controls the remote in our house so we end up watching basically what he wants. Infuriating!! The only time I get to watch "my" programmes is when he's out ( or if I put on a face for a while - hehe! ).
I reckon it's mainly blokes but would like to be proven wrong!!

Basq

Blokes....

Women just watch muck (soaps and that sorta drivel) anyways!

angelofdeath

she has the tv all to herself, i never get off the pc

skye

Yeah? And sport, sport, sport is sooo fulfilling!

skye

Angelofdeath, she is a lucky woman and I hope she knows it...

OLDYELLAR

Im a woman and i basically control the tv , hes too busy with world of warcraft

angelofdeath

not really cos then when she wants to go on the pc to play solitaire or tetris:rolleyes: i get all huffy

Basq

angelofdeath wrote:

not really cos then when she wants to go on the pc to play solitaire or tetris:rolleyes: i get all huffy

Gotta hate that... a Pentium 4 machine with 128MB graphics card, 512K RAM.... and she wants to play solitaire!!

skye wrote:

Yeah? And sport, sport, sport is sooo fulfilling!

Personally speaking, i don't watch sport in the house.. always watch footie in the pub! Kinda boring and no atmosphere watching at home!

I don't really pick what's on to be truthful... we can normally agree on something!

Megatron

Who ever has the remote at the time tbh.

Generaly i only watch tv while i winding down from work.
other than that i'm off up to the puter.

*Page*

it all depends on whos in the house..

if everyone is home then its my dad if he's not in its me if i'm not in its my kid, then if no one is in my mam try's to use it gets annoyed and claims the we all watch to much tv and its banned for a week!


if i'm in my guys house its him unless he's out of the room! but he'll still come in and change the station even if he's not watching it to remind me that he owns the "bopper"

snorlax

my remote's broken so i have to use a bamboo cane to change the channels!

Megatron

snorlax wrote:

my remote's broken so i have to use a bamboo cane to change the channels!

are you living in sandmount ave ?

i used to , and again the remote didn't work , so we had the youngest in the house become the remote ( the got themselves a stick) and we left it behind o_O

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i took the batterys out of the remote once and my dad couldn't change the channel so he sat watching mtv2 all day!!!(i later put them back without telling him) pick up the remote and told him he had pressed a wrong button and believed me tee hee hee

Sarky

No remote.

Television isn't great anyway. Plenty of DVDs to keep me happy.

snorlax

well ud be amazed out how well you can control the stick after a while...!

was thinking of getting digital but there is a lot of junk on the tv at the mo..

skye

What drives me totally scatty is when I'm watching something and he's been on the computer, he'll just come in and change it over!! Aaaaahhhh :eek: Maybe I'm just too soft with him as I let him??

snorlax

if its infa red u can put a book over the little red light on the tv and it will block the signal (and the channel will remain the same until someone gets up to move the book!)

Chalk

basquille wrote:

.....512K RAM.... and she wants to play solitaire!! ......

youd more likely yo play flimbos quest on that spec machine......

Mac daddy

she does mostly no real interest in tv eventough i have a 32" wega she watches it mostly, I only watch american chopper on mondays and thats pretty much it.

I'm always on the pc - when she started to moan i was never downstairs i decided to buy a laptop so now i can sit down stairs with her using my laptop

danniemcq

whoever has the remote controls and if you leave the room you must hand controls to the person on the right

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nope no handing of the "bopper" over!!! when i have it it stays in my pocket!! also stickers work better than books!!

danniemcq

no no no where the heck are your manners what happens if you go to the toilet for ages, huh huh did you think about that did you ... yeah thought not

LoneGunM@n

We mostly watch the same stuff, so never really a problem!! When she's watching her programmes [Desperate Housewives & the sort], I normally read a book. Same for her when there's footie on.

The only thing I demand to see if it's on [whilst trying to find something] is Scrubs ... if that's not on, she normally picks ... just realised that she pretty much dictates whats on the TV

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danniemcq wrote:

no no no where the heck are your manners what happens if you go to the toilet for ages, huh huh did you think about that did you ... yeah thought not

i dont care i will bring it with me!!

Gilgamesh

when living with My Ex, I had the remote, but she had betteries

toiletduck

The Alpha male in the room. I will always concede control of the remote to my Dad when he enters the sitting room, when im back home.

snorlax

there's plenty o alpha females out there to Toiletduck especially if desperate housewives are on...!

toiletduck

snorlax wrote:

there's plenty o alpha females out there to Toiletduck especially if desperate housewives are on...!

i know what you mean, i was at a friends house a few weeks back when one of the girls realised that desperate housewives was on, the girls promptly took control of the remote for the next hour! I had never watched it before but was converted (or brainwashed!)

snorlax

when their in groups they'r even more dangerous... !