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08 Sep 2010, 3:27 pm
08 Sep 2010, 3:56 pm
Joe90 wrote:
(In Britain we spell it ''telle'').
If you're wondering what the point is of this post, I'm just trying to know if anyone else is as difficult as me with tellevision. I don't watch much telle at all, and if I did I'd have to be on my own to watch it, so I can follow it better by putting the subtitles on (nobody else likes having the subtitles on).
But when there are other people in my family who are trying to watch the telle, I seem to try my best to distract them and bring the attenion onto me. Not like a child - I just want to make conversation all the time with my family, because I find it hard to start a conversation elsewhere, eg, work.
So in other words I don't let my mum or my dad watch the telle. My mum says, ''I'm trying to listen to this!'' and my dad says, ''I can't here this because she keeps yapping.'' It's just a horrible habit what I can't seem to break or grow out of.
I can't seem to stay in my room for long all evening because I get restless and I need to talk to somebody in the house. Just when the hell will I ever grow up and learn to let others watch programmes on the telle???????
If you're wondering what the point is of this post, I'm just trying to know if anyone else is as difficult as me with tellevision. I don't watch much telle at all, and if I did I'd have to be on my own to watch it, so I can follow it better by putting the subtitles on (nobody else likes having the subtitles on).
But when there are other people in my family who are trying to watch the telle, I seem to try my best to distract them and bring the attenion onto me. Not like a child - I just want to make conversation all the time with my family, because I find it hard to start a conversation elsewhere, eg, work.
So in other words I don't let my mum or my dad watch the telle. My mum says, ''I'm trying to listen to this!'' and my dad says, ''I can't here this because she keeps yapping.'' It's just a horrible habit what I can't seem to break or grow out of.
I can't seem to stay in my room for long all evening because I get restless and I need to talk to somebody in the house. Just when the hell will I ever grow up and learn to let others watch programmes on the telle???????
I don't think the problem is with you here. They are the ones who are more interested in the words of an electric hypno-box than the words of a living human member of their own family. I would consider that to be quite rude, not to mention unhealthy. You should be the one trying to make them feel guilty and ashamed for not listening, rather than it being the other way around.
A plastic box is more important? They need a reality check.
I agree that TV stuff is better alone, not that much of it is very interesting. I never really understood the point of watching these things communally, so generally speaking, I don't.
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08 Sep 2010, 5:36 pm
Joe90 wrote:
(In Britain we spell it ''telle'').
Telly. With a "y", not an "e."
08 Sep 2010, 5:57 pm
Invader wrote:
Joe90 wrote:
(In Britain we spell it ''telle'').
If you're wondering what the point is of this post, I'm just trying to know if anyone else is as difficult as me with tellevision. I don't watch much telle at all, and if I did I'd have to be on my own to watch it, so I can follow it better by putting the subtitles on (nobody else likes having the subtitles on).
But when there are other people in my family who are trying to watch the telle, I seem to try my best to distract them and bring the attenion onto me. Not like a child - I just want to make conversation all the time with my family, because I find it hard to start a conversation elsewhere, eg, work.
So in other words I don't let my mum or my dad watch the telle. My mum says, ''I'm trying to listen to this!'' and my dad says, ''I can't here this because she keeps yapping.'' It's just a horrible habit what I can't seem to break or grow out of.
I can't seem to stay in my room for long all evening because I get restless and I need to talk to somebody in the house. Just when the hell will I ever grow up and learn to let others watch programmes on the telle???????
If you're wondering what the point is of this post, I'm just trying to know if anyone else is as difficult as me with tellevision. I don't watch much telle at all, and if I did I'd have to be on my own to watch it, so I can follow it better by putting the subtitles on (nobody else likes having the subtitles on).
But when there are other people in my family who are trying to watch the telle, I seem to try my best to distract them and bring the attenion onto me. Not like a child - I just want to make conversation all the time with my family, because I find it hard to start a conversation elsewhere, eg, work.
So in other words I don't let my mum or my dad watch the telle. My mum says, ''I'm trying to listen to this!'' and my dad says, ''I can't here this because she keeps yapping.'' It's just a horrible habit what I can't seem to break or grow out of.
I can't seem to stay in my room for long all evening because I get restless and I need to talk to somebody in the house. Just when the hell will I ever grow up and learn to let others watch programmes on the telle???????
I don't think the problem is with you here. They are the ones who are more interested in the words of an electric hypno-box than the words of a living human member of their own family. I would consider that to be quite rude, not to mention unhealthy. You should be the one trying to make them feel guilty and ashamed for not listening, rather than it being the other way around.
A plastic box is more important? They need a reality check.
I agree that TV stuff is better alone, not that much of it is very interesting. I never really understood the point of watching these things communally, so generally speaking, I don't.
It's not necessarily that TV is more important to them, but sometimes people want to do their own thing. Contrary to what we sometimes think, the world doesn't revolve around us.
Now, if this is a routine thing and they don't engage the OP normally/healthily, that's another matter entirely. But simply wanting to watch TV is not, I don't believe, indicative of any problem.
08 Sep 2010, 6:54 pm
nova2012 wrote:
Invader wrote:
Joe90 wrote:
(In Britain we spell it ''telle'').
If you're wondering what the point is of this post, I'm just trying to know if anyone else is as difficult as me with tellevision. I don't watch much telle at all, and if I did I'd have to be on my own to watch it, so I can follow it better by putting the subtitles on (nobody else likes having the subtitles on).
But when there are other people in my family who are trying to watch the telle, I seem to try my best to distract them and bring the attenion onto me. Not like a child - I just want to make conversation all the time with my family, because I find it hard to start a conversation elsewhere, eg, work.
So in other words I don't let my mum or my dad watch the telle. My mum says, ''I'm trying to listen to this!'' and my dad says, ''I can't here this because she keeps yapping.'' It's just a horrible habit what I can't seem to break or grow out of.
I can't seem to stay in my room for long all evening because I get restless and I need to talk to somebody in the house. Just when the hell will I ever grow up and learn to let others watch programmes on the telle???????
If you're wondering what the point is of this post, I'm just trying to know if anyone else is as difficult as me with tellevision. I don't watch much telle at all, and if I did I'd have to be on my own to watch it, so I can follow it better by putting the subtitles on (nobody else likes having the subtitles on).
But when there are other people in my family who are trying to watch the telle, I seem to try my best to distract them and bring the attenion onto me. Not like a child - I just want to make conversation all the time with my family, because I find it hard to start a conversation elsewhere, eg, work.
So in other words I don't let my mum or my dad watch the telle. My mum says, ''I'm trying to listen to this!'' and my dad says, ''I can't here this because she keeps yapping.'' It's just a horrible habit what I can't seem to break or grow out of.
I can't seem to stay in my room for long all evening because I get restless and I need to talk to somebody in the house. Just when the hell will I ever grow up and learn to let others watch programmes on the telle???????
I don't think the problem is with you here. They are the ones who are more interested in the words of an electric hypno-box than the words of a living human member of their own family. I would consider that to be quite rude, not to mention unhealthy. You should be the one trying to make them feel guilty and ashamed for not listening, rather than it being the other way around.
A plastic box is more important? They need a reality check.
I agree that TV stuff is better alone, not that much of it is very interesting. I never really understood the point of watching these things communally, so generally speaking, I don't.
It's not necessarily that TV is more important to them, but sometimes people want to do their own thing. Contrary to what we sometimes think, the world doesn't revolve around us.
Now, if this is a routine thing and they don't engage the OP normally/healthily, that's another matter entirely. But simply wanting to watch TV is not, I don't believe, indicative of any problem.Then perhaps you suffer from the same problem.
Considering a plastic box to be less important than a living person has nothing to do with being self centered. Ironically however, your defence of ignoring others for the sake of mildly entertaining oneself, does.
08 Sep 2010, 8:57 pm
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