Having the telly on when people visit

[G Richards]

I think it's rude. You have to be present with the visitors and engage in conversation and so on.

 

Caveat: if it's a regular visitor, the sort who makes themselves right at home anyway, perhaps a family member or close friend, then I think at that point it's ok to leave the telly on, but you would still talk to them, perhaps just not in an undivided attention sort of way.

 

Personally I don't watch very much tv and if it's on it's for football or perhaps a film. Occasionally Mrs G is watching something, but then I'm reading or on here, while still being present but not fully engaged with whatever she might be watching.

[Pureblood]

I only ever turn the TV on when I want to watch something. Why would you just leave it on all day?

Very strange behaviour.

 

I reckon Section has panels in his kitchen which double up as TVs, like in Total Recall. 

[Bjornebye]

Depenmds on a few factors 

 

- who is it

- whats on

- what time of day it is

- are they here to visit me

- have they got cunt kids with them

- is it raining

- are they male or female

- what mood am I in

- am I pissed or sober

 

Fuck them. American Pickers is on. 

[Moctezuma]

Rude, unless it's on for a specific reason.

[Bjornebye]

Rude, unless it's on for a specific reason.

 

Its only rude if you have 'anal bangers volume 7' on and yer nan or the priest pops in. 

[Bjornebye]

Rude, unless it's on for a specific reason.

 

Its only rude if you have 'anal bangers volume 7' on and yer nan or the priest pops in. 

[Guest]

Its only rude if you have 'anal bangers volume 7' on and yer nan or the priest pops in. 

 

Now there's a story to be told.

[Mook]

Its only rude if you have 'anal bangers volume 7' on and yer nan or the priest pops in.

 

 

Priests are usually watching 'Banging 7 year olds anally volume 1' anyway so I wouldn't make an exception in their case.

[VladimirIlyich]

I hardly watch telly and watch anything I want to watch on my laptop. The beauty of this is that I always have my headphones on when using the laptop so I can just simply ignore,or grunt every five minutes to pretend I'm listening when I'm actually knocking one out to Anal Bangers Volume 2.

[Sputnik1]

Obviously if people are coming to watch something, like a sporting event then it stays on. A lot depends on what kind of house you live in and who the visitors are,. but generally if it's a visitor and they've come to talk to me, the TV goes off. 

 

It's easy for me though, I probably have my TV on for a couple of hours a week. 

 

Back when I was a nipper we had one of the first colour TVs in the neighbourhood, it was a coin operated one. We were otherwise very poor and if anyone (including my friends) called, the Tv would be switched to black and white so people didn't talk (she had a little cleaning job on the side, and in those days the DSS did house visits. Think 'child catcher'  (chitty chitty bang bang) looking blokes in suits.) 

 

I might be remembering this wrong, but I seem to recall having to watch a cup final in b/w because someone called during it. 

[mattyq]

As a rule I'd consider it rude and a little ignorant

I think it's probably a generational thing, though

[Dr Nowt]

I don't have a TV.

[Dr Nowt]

Or friends.

[Fowlers God]

Or friends.

There you are.

[razor]

A bloke I know is a policeman in New Zealand.  His family origins are in Aintree.  A few years ago he travelled home to visit relatives, some of whom had never met him, though they obviously knew his mother etc.

 

He had arranged to visit his mum's family as he's got a treasured childhood photograph of him stood in their garden when he was a wee nipper.  He got in touch with his aunt who lives in the house and arranged to visit at 8pm one Wednesday.

 

He arrived at early, at 7.30, and the bloke who answered said his wife wasn't available and sent him over the road to the pub to wait for half an hour or so.  The bloke then came to get him about 8.05 and said that now Corrie had finished he could come over.

 

He was telling me this story and pointing out that "Pommes love Corrie, don't they?  11,000 miles, I'd travelled, and was full of emotion when I saw the house which was familiar to me because of that photograph!  I had tears in my eyes when I knocked at the door."

[Tony Moanero]

I never have the telly on when people visit, I'm far too busy following Flashscore.

[SlugTrail]

Fuck

that's a bit rapey isn't it.