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What makes you reach (or run!) for the Off button?

(207 Posts)
MawBroonsback Wed 26-Jun-19 11:58:17

For my late father, it was The Archers theme music, which he referred to as the “dum- de-dums “
At the first notes he would do a Usain Bolt across the room to turn the radio off.
For me, I’m afraid it is The Listening Project.
Intrusive? Boring? I don’t know, I just can’t stand it.
(Just a Minute comes a close second!)

KatyK Wed 26-Jun-19 16:11:52

EastEnders
MasterChef
Top Gear
Jeremy Kyle
Jeremy Clarkson
Sport of any description

Marilla Wed 26-Jun-19 16:36:40

Women’s Hour!

sassenach512 Wed 26-Jun-19 16:41:52

The 'Go Compare' tenor with the twirly moustache, sick to death of that ad

Lona Wed 26-Jun-19 16:46:14

Lucky lucky, lucky me, I'm a lucky son of a gun .........???

Grandma70s Wed 26-Jun-19 16:59:31

Just about everything that’s been mentioned so far! Also Strictly Come Dancing and things like The Voice. I also turn off any form of violence, real or fictional.

Yet I watch lots of TV, mostly news and current affairs, plus any good documentary. I’d watch good comedy if there was any.

merlotgran Wed 26-Jun-19 17:05:36

That song definitely wasn't written for women, Lona. After working eight hours, doing the housework, cooking, after school stuff, supervising homework, getting kids to bed etc., there's precious little time for fun, let alone eight hours sleep. hmm

JanaNana Wed 26-Jun-19 17:18:22

All the adverts for Purple Bricks, don't know how they help to sell any properties at all.

FarNorth Wed 26-Jun-19 17:33:47

Football
First notes of EastEnders theme
TV actually isn't switched on much in my house (no-one else lives here)
Traffic & news on radio 2 - I've been known to switch off for that, then on again after 5 mins.
Radio presenters who drivel on & on instead of just presenting the music

Sara65 Wed 26-Jun-19 17:43:54

Adverts with Lorraine Kelly, actually anything with Lorraine Kelly

Emmerdale (my husband loves it)

Any reality TV(except Strictly Come Dancing)

Namsnanny Wed 26-Jun-19 17:59:13

Mostly everything mentioned above, but especially adverts, any adverts.
Turn them down every time!

Sara65 Wed 26-Jun-19 18:05:41

Lona

Thankyou very much, that song is now stuck in my head again, and I’ll be singing it all evening, and I hate it!

jusnoneed Wed 26-Jun-19 18:20:23

Anything so called "reality" and anything that has the word Celebrity included in it.
Football.
Soaps.

99% of stuff on the beeb/itv really.

KatyK Wed 26-Jun-19 18:42:22

Oh yes Sara Lorraine Kelly. How could I forget. How did she get to be so famous? She just agrees with everyone and tells them how great they are. I could do that!

Millie22 Wed 26-Jun-19 18:48:20

That awful advert for some foot condition where the people are dressed up.

paddyann Wed 26-Jun-19 20:05:08

God Save the Queen ,I've managed to avoid it most of my life ,even caused a huge row with my then boyfriend(now husband)father when i refused to stand for it at a Masonic dinner dance...I always made sure I went to the loo to avoid it after that and he learned that I wont stand for the Queen ever .In the days when they played it last thing at night on TV I always made it to the off switch before I was forced to listen to even the opening bars .

BradfordLass72 Wed 26-Jun-19 20:17:27

Music

Glammy57 Wed 26-Jun-19 20:21:18

“Reality” tv, anything with Jeremy Clarkson, all daytime tv shows!

Boosgran Wed 26-Jun-19 20:24:01

Jeramy corbyn and left wing comedians

Namsnanny Wed 26-Jun-19 20:30:18

paddyann….I never hear it nowadays.

Just remembered, all adverts aimed at the nether regions, camera angles are almost gynaecological! (sorry for lowering the tone!}

watermeadow Wed 26-Jun-19 20:30:48

I switch off at every mention of the B words - Brexit or Boris.
Normally I have Radio 4 on most of the day, and Radio 3 in the evening, but now my house is silent while the BBC wallows joyfully in politics for hours every day.
Apparently nothing else has happened in the UK for three years outside politics.

Smileless2012 Wed 26-Jun-19 20:34:13

Animal charity ads that show awful footage, including the sound track on one in particular of animal cruelty and suffering.

I know it happens and give regularly to animal charities but I don't want to see it or hear it and IMO they should give a warning before they're shown.

Pantglas1 Wed 26-Jun-19 20:40:31

Party political broadcasts - each and every last lying one of them.

Eloethan Wed 26-Jun-19 20:40:45

A Question of Sport
Match of the Day
Any royal news item or tribute
Mrs Brown's Boys

Grannybags Wed 26-Jun-19 20:47:34

Most of the above!
Reality shows
All soaps
Adverts

NanKate Wed 26-Jun-19 22:29:51

Diane Abbott
Zoe Ball
Jonathan Ross and his side kick with the messy hair whose name evades me
The two awful presenters who host Strictly
People who say skedule instead of schedule
Presenters who say off of
You’ve started me off now. I’m a grumpy old lady. ?