The most boring 5 minutes on tv?
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Apart from adverts that insult your intelligence what do you find the most boring 5 minutes on tv?
5 o clock in our house is gin o clock, nuts olives and a large g and t. We watch the chase.
Chase finishes about 15:55 and we turn onto bbc for the news at 18:00 not like itv who can overrun adverts way past six. We watch itv at six thirty not interested in the local news especially when queen Nicola is in full flow.
The last five minutes of pointless are so boring, the big one listing all the pointless answers. Never liked the programme, format or presenters it only takes a lucky guess from one of the 100 people asked to stop the participants winning a paltry amount. Well named pointless.
5 o clock in our house is gin o clock, nuts olives and a large g and t. We watch the chase.
Chase finishes about 15:55 and we turn onto bbc for the news at 18:00 not like itv who can overrun adverts way past six. We watch itv at six thirty not interested in the local news especially when queen Nicola is in full flow.
The last five minutes of pointless are so boring, the big one listing all the pointless answers. Never liked the programme, format or presenters it only takes a lucky guess from one of the 100 people asked to stop the participants winning a paltry amount. Well named pointless.
MrGTI6 said:
The start of The Apprentice. The same five-minute intro every week for the entire series explaining the process of the show in great detail. It usually involves the candidates mincing around with a suitcase or poncing about in a lift.
Don't watch anything on Discovery then 
5 minutes of actual footage and 25 minutes of recaps and adverts
Mercdriver said:
Apart from adverts that insult your intelligence what do you find the most boring 5 minutes on tv?
5 o clock in our house is gin o clock, nuts olives and a large g and t. We watch the chase.
Chase finishes about 15:55 and we turn onto bbc for the news at 18:00 not like itv who can overrun adverts way past six. We watch itv at six thirty not interested in the local news especially when queen Nicola is in full flow.
The last five minutes of pointless are so boring, the big one listing all the pointless answers. Never liked the programme, format or presenters it only takes a lucky guess from one of the 100 people asked to stop the participants winning a paltry amount. Well named pointless.
Looking at the times you've noted here and the way that's written, are you sure you only have 1x G&T?5 o clock in our house is gin o clock, nuts olives and a large g and t. We watch the chase.
Chase finishes about 15:55 and we turn onto bbc for the news at 18:00 not like itv who can overrun adverts way past six. We watch itv at six thirty not interested in the local news especially when queen Nicola is in full flow.
The last five minutes of pointless are so boring, the big one listing all the pointless answers. Never liked the programme, format or presenters it only takes a lucky guess from one of the 100 people asked to stop the participants winning a paltry amount. Well named pointless.
Murph7355 said:
Looking at the times you've noted here and the way that's written, are you sure you only have 1x G&T?
This was my takeaway. The most boring 5 mins on tv is when I turn it on in hope rather than expectation, scroll through that which is offered and then fire up a streaming service for something I actually want to watch.
alock said:
Do people really just sit like this in front of the TV day-after-day watching the same routine of shows?
I haven't watched live TV in 15 or more years. A pal of mine is an obsessive TV watcher and turns it on and exposes me to alien things like advert breaks, recaps and mind numbing repetition.
After a couple of days I have to tell him to refrain from this or I will fire a harpoon cannon through the screen, and then his forehead.
Lotusgone said:
I usually wind through the first minute-and-a-half of Abandoned Engineering - it's not boring so much as irritating. Just let the stories unfold.
I find the same with most of the "Traffic Cops" style programme - it's about two minutes before we're past all the pre-amble and onto the actual start of the programme.
bloomen said:
alock said:
Do people really just sit like this in front of the TV day-after-day watching the same routine of shows?
I haven't watched live TV in 15 or more years. I find no shortage of stuff to watch already, no need for broadcast telly.
alock said:
Do people really just sit like this in front of the TV day-after-day watching the same routine of shows?
We are both in our 70’s, wife has bad asthma so we are both at risk from covid so we took seriously the stay at home rules. OK in summer I can tinker with car do the garden etc but in the winter get bored after doing the chores, g and t before dinner then a super dinner cooked by my trained chef wife, relaxing watching the chase entertaining BW is an excellent compère and the format is good.I have never watched soaps or the other trivia on the tv and am very selective what I watch
Literally anything on tv these days, anything to do with celebrities, I wince if I am at a families house, I will literally leave the room rather than watch it, cooking, anything remotely linked to reality tv type stuff.
Hence I watch no tv, adore movies and watch a lot of real stuff on youtube no influencers or popular people, just clips of things, factual stuff and funny stuff.
It's amazing how easy it is to drop tv out of you life, and also amazing how many people continue to just watch it anyway!!
Hence I watch no tv, adore movies and watch a lot of real stuff on youtube no influencers or popular people, just clips of things, factual stuff and funny stuff.
It's amazing how easy it is to drop tv out of you life, and also amazing how many people continue to just watch it anyway!!
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