Now one which might actually have some truth in it
If I'm ever off work sick, when I'm slumped in a nest made of gloopy tissues and empty lemsip packets, I'll flip on the TV and let anything wash over me - Jeremy Kyle, Loose Women, anything. But as I start to return to normal, I reach a point where I suddenly realise, "Jesus Titty-Fucking Christ, I'd rather drag myself into work than have to watch any more of this shit."

So, I speculate that daytime TV is deliberately made offensively brain-numbing, to force sickies back into the office.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:33, 7 replies)

I won't ask...
...what caused the tissues to become gloopy. Or, indeed, what exactly it is that washes over you other than Jeremy Kyle and Loose Women...
(Harry Webshiter Spiggley biggley bog., Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:35, closed)

you could always just read a book or something.
IF YOU CAN.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:40, closed)

Well yes
You could also put on the box set of your favourite show, or build an airfix kit of the Bismark. But you don't, do you? When you feel like a plate of cold misery, you tend to slump and veg out. Well, I do, anyway.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 13:58, closed)

For me

Slumping and veging are reading a book. So many books, so little time....

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 14:00, closed)

Have you got to the one where Spot's dad takes him to the farm?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 15:41, closed)

lablol
zing!
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 16:29, closed)

I agree
with moon monkey
(anonymouse sitting in front of a screen since 1989, Fri 2 Dec 2011, 14:59, closed)