How to discard my telly

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  1. clueless1

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    Evening all.

    Ideas please:)

    I want to discard the telly. Trouble is, my son, who has done nothing wrong likes a bit of telly. Wife though abuses it, insisting on watching whatever utter drivel poisons the airwaves.

    Right now, its some drama about people's lives being destroyed (something to do with families of people who go to jail), but just as easily it could be some mind numbingly depressing soap, or the latest 'talent' program.

    I've thought about simply placing the telly in the garden, before hitting it with my pick axe, but I think I need to be more subtle if I'm to avoid being in the dog house for too long.
     
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    You have a difficult task there clueless, people get hooked on the soaps. You could try explaining to OH the cost savings, no licence fee for a start. That could go towards a nice treat instead. Or how about moving the telly into a smaller room whilst you do some much 'needed' DIY in it's current position, then gradually turning the heating down in that room till OH either freezes or gives up. Hmmm, it's a poor plan - maybe the pick axe is better.
     
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        You don't have to spoil her fun do you, Clueless? Being a soap fan is a pretty trivial sin in the big scheme of things. Get yourself a decent pair of earphones and plug yourself into something which doesn't wind you up. The possibilities are endless: learn Serbo-Croat, listen to Mongolian throat singing, tune in to some obscure but interesting radio station ...

        Marriage is all about compromise. And one day, when you're both retired and sick of the sight of one another, you may be very glad of that telly.
         
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          Hi Clueless

          Try the parental control. Default to Sport/News/Gardening or whatever then forget the password It should work for Sky or Freeview.

          The Doghouse may be a better option though. Don't forget to take 6 pack.
           
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          • Phil A

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            Take the fuse out of the plug.
             
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              I wonder about it myself too.
              The only must watch drama program at the moment is Borgen on BBC4. I'm just about to give Birdsong a go, and if it's on Hustle is an easy (in a no brainer kind of way) watch.
              HIGNFY is good fun too.
              But the truth is that the overall program quality on Radio4 and 4extra is far better.
               
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                Can you remove it from the 'family' room and put it somewhere else Clueless, so it's not so invasive?

                For those of us who occupy our time doing other things it's easy to think we can get rid of it, but when you've got a family to consider as well it's not really an option.

                Mine's been gone 13 months and when I go to my daughter's place now it drives me nuts having the 'one eyed monster' that is on permanently, spouting at me. :yawn:
                 
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                  Do you miss the quality bits of TV Sheal?
                   
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                  That was so boring! Just filled with people staring into space. for 45 minutes.
                   
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                  All i can suggest Clueless is to move the telly to a seperate room...or Mrs Clueless could always move in with Mr Lolimac....
                  Having said that it's not so much the telly with Mr L it's those:mute: XBox things with him.....i don't mind to a point but come on...if he could see himself jigging around the sofa looking like a slightly overweight commando he might do different:D
                   
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                    You can legally watch the BBC iPlayer content without a license as long as it is not being watched live (ie; as it is being broadcast).
                    You do not need a license to listen to the radio at home or in your car. However, businesses need to pay the PRS fee.
                     
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                    i didnt realise that we were married to the same guy !!!!!!
                     
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                      Although I frequently moan about the available offerings, I'd really miss the telly if it suddenly disappeared. Over the festive/new year period I watched 'Sherlock', a truly great production which does that wonderful thing of being good, popular entertainment without being brain-dead, the new productions of 'Great Expectations' and 'Edwin Drood' (its Dicken's bicentennial, so I suspect we're in for a lot of the Uncle Bumplecrumplenumplechooks) and I'm now stuck into the new adaptation of Sebastian Faulkes' 'Birdsong'. For these and many other good pieces of work, I forgive television everything. Whenever anything big happens in the world, I'm on to BBC News or Sky before you can say 'remote control'.

                      I was at school with a few kids whose parents didn't have televisions. A slight air of self-righteousness always hung in the air around them, as if everyone else was Not Quite The Thing. We felt rather sorry for such children. They tended to be the National Health specs and orthopedic shoe brigade, if you know what I mean. And I have no evidence that any of them was any more likely to pen masterpieces or solve the mysteries of the universe than the rest of us.
                       
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                        I might let the telly stay. In fact, I might set up the old portable in another room, and banish the wife to other room if she wants to watch something that would compel me to hurl myself from the roof.

                        For programs that she wants to watch that mere make me wish to gouge my own eyes out with sharpened bamboo canes and push lit cigarettes into my ears, I might let her stay in the living room, but I'll hide in some head phones.
                         
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