this ^^
it's basically all my folks did when I was there. Soap operas, crime shows and the odd good bit of comedy.

Even worse, my mum watches episodes of soaps more than once as she doesn't follow them well
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 19:36, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

It's CSI (all the various different ones)
Bones, NCIS, Law and Order, anything like that... plus the skiing and american football here. I can't bear to sit through an entire evening of forensics programs because I get so aerated at the inaccuracies.
(berk, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 19:39, Reply)

I love CSI though :D
But that's cause I'm very unscientific nowadays.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 19:41, Reply)

I don't mind it occasionally
but incessantly? My mum will cheerfully watch it from getting in until going to bed, and frequently does. She also tends to talk over the tv in a kind of 'ooo, look what he's doing, that's naughty' kind of way as well, so I just get more and more restless with her chuntering and the blatant factual inaccuracies until I have to do what I'm doing now, and hide from them all.
(berk, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 19:43, Reply)

Oh god I hate it when my mum does that.
"Ooh, why is he doing that?" I don't know! It's not been revealed yet! God!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 19:44, Reply)

"who's that?"
"isn't he whatsit from that thing?" "you know ____ from down the road, well, she said..." "blumin heck this is rubbish, I don't know what's going on" "can you turn it up, my hearing aid isn't working"...
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 19:47, Reply)

Everyone in my family is deaf
mother was raised speaking very loudly, father has tinnitus.

MAKES FOR ENTERTAINING DINNERS
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 19:49, Reply)

This
not quite so middle aged, but this. Nnnnnng even thinking about it is making my brain itch.
(berk, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 19:50, Reply)

I tend to do that, on an average day each week I watch
- 3x hollyoaks and the next day's one on E4... or the whole lot on +1
- 1x hollyoaks and the next day's one on E4... AND the whole lot on +1
- about 1/3 of one of the omnibuses on a weekend.

I still can't tell you what's going on at the moment in any detail.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 20:17, Reply)

Oh Gonz
*shakes head sadly*
(berk, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 20:19, Reply)

I donno why I watch it really, I used to watch it 'cus it gave me routeen in my life where I had none.
I now think I like it because after that my brain is turned off work-mode for the day.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 20:22, Reply)

and for letching the pretty girls in it?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 20:23, Reply)

I don't think I'm a normal bloke, I don't really do that, and I'm not just saying it.
It's very rare that I see a pretty girl on the telly and think to myself "Cor, look at the tits on that, the things I'd do to them would be frowned upon by law", I generally think "Cor, look at the tits on that, that must give her terible back ache, I wonder if she uses ibupurphame cream".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 20:28, Reply)