Shouting At The Television: Classic or Dud?

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I just mentioned shouting at the television in the David Shrigley thread. And then wondered if there was a thread about shouting at the television. So I searched for it, and the only responses that came up were my own posts.

Surely someone else around here shouts at the television. Or at least talks back to it when the people on it are annoying.

― THAT Kate (kate), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(maybe it's just cause TV as in "shouting at the tv" is too short to be a search keyword? I hope?

― THAT Kate (kate), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Guilty as charged.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

And you're right, did we not talk about this about 2 months ago at some length?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

All the bloody time. Actually kind of necessary: am usually branedead when I return home, and need a good shout at some Yank Nazi Fuck on the C4 News ('Guantanamo is completely legal and Churchill himself would have approved...' 'GAH! Fucking Hirohito had the right idea!!') to wake myself back up.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

you have to shout at the television. otherwise, they won't know when to shoot the puck, or the ref will miss that blatant display of high-sticking, etc.

(*note that i originally typed in "shoot the fuck", which is a entirely different concept, it seems*)

― Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

And you're right, did we not talk about this about 2 months ago at some length?

It doesn't turn up in the search, if we did. Unless the thread was called something stupid. Like a reference to a B&S song or something.

― THAT Kate (kate), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

no fear, I always yell abuse at the telly

Most recently yelled at :
Bowling for Columbine, yelled at Charlton Heston obv
Eastenders, yelled at Sam for 'doin it fer tha faaahmly' sudden change of character nonsense
C4 News at woman for rambling on about how great the 'love' is at the moment with the fans of the rugby. bleurgh.
and Most adverts

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I shouted at the Arts Programme or whatever it's called when the Shrigley docu was on. I shouted at shoddy and shadey Eastern European arms merchants. I shouted at the Turner Prize nominations, especially the Chapmans for being cnuts. I shouted at Charles II and I ESPECIALLY shouted at his annoying weepy French mistress.

And that was just last night's shouting!

― THAT Kate (kate), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah what fun we had shouting at Pop Queens last night. And whot of INCEST NIGHT i.e that lady bonking HER SON for gods sake HER SON on Judge John Deed (bestest new programme evah is that on tonight I wonder I do hope so), Mark Fowler snogging his mum on THE BILL and then something else I can't remember that was on Harry Hill's TV Burp!

I blame Daniel Handler.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I shouted 'FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS' when the Lancet suggested banning nicotine, which I'm quite proud of. 20-a-day g/f a little perturbed.

As for the Pop Queens -- how fucking sexist can you get??

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha we larffed at the Charles 2 programme too - mostly because whenever we flipped the channels onto BBC2 there was an Elderly Man whispering into a younger man's ear "You DO understand the King wants you above all other men" (fnnurrr) and "the king desires your pleasure" (FNURRR)!!!

Missed the mistresses.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

close enough

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

We have been avoiding watching Judge Deed or whatever, because HSA's mum really fancies him and that kinda creeps us out. But Charles II was fab, wish I'd caught more of it. Especially the bit about burning the popists and the like, that got me shouting. Oh, the weeping garlicky mistress "Eeh ahm not a whoare!"

― THAT Kate (kate), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Judge John Deed could have done with being just an hour rather than hour and a half (good grief QC) but it entertained me whilst I was waiting for MAME to compile. It featured a Comedy Mortician and ARGH I CANNOT BELIEVE THE PLOT TWIST WAS INCEST. I reckon Matthew Broderick the Elder (haha MB the Eldar) should do a quest appearance.

Garlicky, you say? Drat, I bet she's been beheaded by now.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

generally, i shout when i disagree with something. or i just start talking back, and then realise they can't hear me and end up by sighing and feeling a bit silly.

i shout at the news all the time.

and i found myself pulled in by 'pop idol' the other day. shouted all the way THROUGH that one. didn't stop watching it, though.

it can be a good sign that you maybe shouldn't be watching what you're watching. pete waterman is not good for my blood pressure.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

what good is TV if you can't scream your freakin' head off?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

(i used to do regular pre-taped TV spots on the nightly news in conjunction with the newspaper I used to write for, and I would scream loudest at myself)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

When we had a television, I did used to shout at it. It's one of the reasons we got rid of it. Now I sometimes find myself shouting at the radio :(

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I turned off Pop Idol after the geeky one that is now supposed to be cool (sheeyah) sang a slushy wobstime ballad. Pants! VH1 had 100 Worst Videos Of All Time (which I gather they show every wobs but I'd not seen before).

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely someone else around here shouts at the television. Or at least talks back to it when the people on it are annoying.

I know many mentalists who do this.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

We had an argument the other night about getting rid of the telly, which culminated in Matt getting up in the middle of the night and writing my name on it. In mascara. I don't even WANT a telly, I just don't want to get rid of it in case I want to watch a video one day. Or Eastenders.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

100 worst videos of all time.

the song at number one is actually sort of good, if its the same one i think it is. sadly, i can't remember - i guess you'll never know.

which makes the whole of this post seem pretty pointless..

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The video to "So Macho" still confounds me. "Boys Boys Boys" was obviously set in Scunthorpe. My favourite Forgotten Song was THIS IS IT! by Danni. Was this before or after she was Goth-Danni? Marvellous.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

When my wife was a teenager, her mother got angry one day that the kids were all loafing in front of the TV rather than doing housework or homework or whatever it was, so she unplugged the TV, carted it outside (with distressed adolescent cries trailing after her), threw it out the back door, then went and got her shotgun and put a shell straight through the tube.

Shooting at the TV, C/D? Classic, obviously.

― spittle (spittle), Monday, 8 December 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I find it impossible to watch tv without shouting at it, to my friends' collective annoyance. I was raised without one, and never learned proper tv etiquette, thereby never being allowed to control the channel changer either as I don't know what shows are crap and which to quickly pass over.

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

CLASSIC. i love it, probably too much. last thing i shouted was "not that!" in response to the question posed ("what are you having for dinner?") by the ad for arby's new italian beef sandwich. i used to reserve yelling for news/political issues, but now that i live on my own i've gone no-holds barred.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 8 December 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I find myself shouting at the computer more often than I'm shouting at the television.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 December 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to leave my room when my housemate yells at sports on the television. I just feel embarrassed for him.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 8 December 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

for some reason i've always separated yelling at sports and yelling at everything else, probably because my mother is extreme with regards to the former. i can't be turning into her!

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 8 December 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I blame Daniel Handler.

Why blame Lemony Snicket?

― Catty (Catty), Monday, 8 December 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I am a big-time yeller at televisions. Yelling at the television is so important. Especially when the television is WRONG! It must be told it's WRONG!!!!

The Boy used to get all mad at me during the last two seasons of Buffy that it took a great deal of restraint to NOT shout at the television. If it wasn't the Snivel Twins weeping about magicks and oh i love you baby then it was that big-mouthed Kennedy and her attitude problem. Why didn't the big ubervamp eat her? why why why?

― Catty (Catty), Monday, 8 December 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The only time I remember shouting at the TV was during a televised spelling bee.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 8 December 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I yell at crap ads all the time. My mum talks to the soaps, and dad shouts at her "THEY CANT HEAR YOU, WOMAN!". My parents are amusing.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

I just yelled at the annoying woman in the Dixons ad who pretends to be in a customer service call centre with technology supplied by the IT folks in the Minority Report police department.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 25 November 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Shouting at the tv == cheap emotional release, neither classic nor dud.

Pulling a handgun and blasting away at your tv while screaming and choking on apoplectic-rage-spittle == dud, as someone could get hurt.

Hurling shoe through tv screen and smiling with profound satisfaction == classic, until you have to sweep up the little slivers of glass from the corners of the room, although still immensely satisfying in retrospect.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

20 Things We Hate About Builders

Wednesday, 12 Sep 2007
9:00pm - 10:00pm (1 Hour )
five life

Justin Ryan and Colin McAllister are joined by a host of celebrities, including Caprice, Linda Barker, Tommy Walsh and Vanessa Feltz, who share their grumbles about domestic workmen. They discuss issues such as unreasonably hefty quotes, homes being left untidy, wolf whistling, bodged jobs and `cash only' payments

― G00blar, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

I used to work with Justin Ryan back in the early 90s when he was a barman. Great guy who everyone loved. Never seen him on TV though. Good? Bad?

― everything, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

a host of celebrities, including Caprice, Linda Barker, Tommy Walsh and Vanessa Feltz,

Uh, celebrities? I know Caprice but the rest are unknown to me.

― stevienixed, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Oh come on. Vanessa Feltz for fuxake.

― everything, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Largish orange woman?

― everything, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Ah fuck, of course! I recognize her.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/383647746_83652060c6_o.jpg

― stevienixed, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Srsly, yeah, sorry, I didn't know her know, but I know her face (and now, thanks to GIS, also her bottom.)

― stevienixed, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

The worst picture I could find:

http://images.travelpod.com/users/bigjim/wimg.right_way_round.vanessa_feltz_300x193.jpg

― everything, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Her name. Jesus, Nath, REREAD yr posts.

― stevienixed, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

bodged jobs

― nabisco, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

I do my best shouting at the radio in the car these days.

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Man, nothing fucking gets me yelling like Iron Chef America. "THOSE ARE THE BEST FUCKING OYSTERS I WILL NEVER EAT, AND YOU'RE MAKING THEM INTO A FOAM???? WHAT AN ABSURD, UNGODLY ABOMINATION!"

Makes me get my Alex in NYC on. Pretty much every show/movie/video game brings it out, tho.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

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