Turn Your TV Off! Smash it! Kill it!

Shadow Wolf · Oct 20, 2019

oldbadger said:
And since you started out with smashing tellie to pieces etc.... all very aggressive, I felt that you wouldn't mind some alternatives ideas to those which you probably expected or wanted.

Have you ever read some of my posts? Obviously killing people, clubbing kneecaps, sabotaging property, property destruction, and subjecting people to extreme amounts of fear and terror are not viable, workable, or even good options for obtaining goals. However, sometimes imaginations get wild, vivid, and inevitably angry because people do things that make some people angry enough to daydream about dunking their face in hot deep fryer grease. I'd never do (Schindler's List deeply upsets me since it represents real people who actually suffered that), but I've certainly thought about doing it (and much worse and far more violent).

SalixIncendium · Oct 20, 2019

oldbadger said:
Are you an adult?
Are you living in your parent's home?

If so....... go and get a place of your own!
If not so...... It is your Dad's house!

Alternatively...... which part of 'buy comfortable ear plugs' don't you get?

...in any event..... stop moaning... ?????

Yes. If you have bad habits, it’s perfectly acceptable to subject your children to them regardless of the cost.

My step father loved to drink. He would come home and be verbally abusive. Sometimes an undeserved beating ensued. But it’s all good, because it was his house.

Thanks for the enlightening post.

England my lionheart · Oct 20, 2019

Rival said:
As an alcoholic and lifelong smoker, I don't think white noise is his biggest concern.

That's a big poops by me then :-/

oldbadger · Oct 20, 2019

Rival said:
Maybe then he should stop being an alcoholic jerk and think about other people?

That's what triggered my more direct approach to your complaints about your Dad.
You told us all that he is an alcoholic, and now you call him an alcoholic jerk.

Do you talk about him like this amongst friends and neighbours? Does he know that this is what you think about him?

See it this way....... If you do criticise him locally, and if he knew how you were trashing his reputation (if you are).... how do you think that would make him feel about you?

Turn it around..... if you were a Mother and your daughter was destroying your reputation (however that might be) what would you think and do? Would you bother about her moans ??

I don't think my expectations are unreasonable. Night time is quiet time. This tends to be the case in most households. He sleeps during the day and is awake at night. I'm the opposite. Guess which one is normal?

Lots of people sleep during the day. They are mostly normal.
In any events, are you telling us that your Dad is an abnormal, alcoholic jerk who doesn't care about you? If so, and if you are of adult age in your country, you might need to think about changing your home.

You realise I wasn't being serious?

How would I be able to know that?
Are you being serious in your descriptions of your Dad?

After repeated ear infections as a child, I cannot wear them. I cannot wear inner ear earphones. They hurt and repeatedly fall out no matter what I do. Otherwise, don't you think I would have tried?

I don't know what you have tried.
The plugs that I use are truly fantastic.
They have a very soft clear central shaft with three circular seals which increase in diameter along the length of the shaft. As soon as one connects in to your ear the noise drops a lot, and as soon as the second seal touches your ear the noise is cut out to nothing by any comparison with those big ear-defenders that engineering workers use. Chemists sell them very cheaply.

Because you have had ear infections your doctor will tell you if you can use these, and may even give prescription for them, although they will cost less than a prescription charge (in the UK, that is).

oldbadger · Oct 20, 2019

Saint Frankenstein said:
Sometimes things are complicated and it's best not to make assumptions and judgments based on those assumptions

I assumed nothing!
The post was full of questions!

Rival · Oct 20, 2019

oldbadger said:
That's what triggered my more direct approach to your complaints about your Dad.
You told us all that he is an alcoholic, and now you call him an alcoholic jerk.

Do you talk about him like this amongst friends and neighbours? Does he know that this is what you think about him?

See it this way....... If you do criticise him locally, and if he knew how you were trashing his reputation (if you are).... how do you think that would make him feel about you?

Turn it around..... if you were a Mother and your daughter was destroying your reputation (however that might be) what would you think and do? Would you bother about her moans ??

No, I don't. I don't need to. Everyone in the village knows he's an alcoholic who is incapable of working. Nothing I'm saying is exaggerated or untrue. I've had to have the police round because he locked me out in an alcoholic rage once.

oldbadger said:
Lots of people sleep during the day. They are mostly normal.
In any events, are you telling us that your Dad is an abnormal, alcoholic jerk who doesn't care about you? If so, and if you are of adult age in your country, you might need to think about changing your home.

It's not like you can just up and move out, you know. It's not that simple. Who has that kind of money? Even as a teaching assistant, just renting a one bedroom place is out of my budget.

oldbadger said:
How would I be able to know that?
Are you being serious in your descriptions of your Dad?

Yes, why wouldn't I be?

oldbadger · Oct 20, 2019

SalixIncendium said:
Yes. If you have bad habits, it’s perfectly acceptable to subject your children to them regardless of the cost.

My step father loved to drink. He would come home and be verbally abusive. Sometimes an undeserved beating ensued. But it’s all good, because it was his house.

Thanks for the enlightening post.

That is very unfair!
Are you trying to suggest that I would condone parents abusing and beating their children up?

And your sarcasm ....... :facepalm:

Quagmire · Oct 20, 2019

oldbadger said:
That is very unfair!
Are you trying to suggest that I would condone parents abusing and beating their children up?

And your sarcasm .......

Any way you could just leave this thread alone? You obviously don't understand what it's for and from the replies you're getting, looks like nobody else wants your input here either.

oldbadger · Oct 20, 2019

Rival said:
No, I don't. I don't need to. Everyone in the village knows he's an alcoholic who is incapable of working. Nothing I'm saying is exaggerated or untrue. I've had to have the police round because he locked me out in an alcoholic rage once.

It's not like you can just up and move out, you know. It's not that simple. Who has that kind of money? Even as a teaching assistant, just renting a one bedroom place is out of my budget.

Yes, why wouldn't I be?

OK....
This now seems not to be just about telly noise at night.

It now has enlarged...... your Dad is an unemployed drinker who has raged at you previously, and thrown you out before this time. You are a teaching assistant who cannot afford a bedsit (whatever) and it seems that no other family or friends have offered you accommodation. Is that about right?

If so, the telly thing is a part of the whole, am I right?

Nobody on RF knows your Dad, and so nobody can know about attempts to communicate with him. I wonder how he came to be in his present situation? What happened to your Dad, I wonder...? Is he an angry man about his past?
I also wonder whether you have asked your doctor for counselling service? Where I live that's free, but if it costs then I would understand that it won't be such a good idea.

I wonder if your friends or family might offer advice about the whole situation. .... beyond the telly thing?

Rival · Oct 20, 2019

oldbadger said:
OK....
This now seems not to be just about telly noise at night.

It now has enlarged...... your Dad is an unemployed drinker who has raged at you previously, and thrown you out before this time. You are a teaching assistant who cannot afford a bedsit (whatever) and it seems that no other family or friends have offered you accommodation. Is that about right?

If so, the telly thing is a part of the whole, am I right?

Nobody on RF knows your Dad, and so nobody can know about attempts to communicate with him. I wonder how he came to be in his present situation? What happened to your Dad, I wonder...? Is he an angry man about his past?
I also wonder whether you have asked your doctor for counselling service? Where I live that's free, but if it costs then I would understand that it won't be such a good idea.

I wonder if your friends or family might offer advice about the whole situation. .... beyond the telly thing?

Nah it's definitely about the T.V. I've had all this out about him on RF before.

oldbadger · Oct 20, 2019

Quagmire said:
Any way you could just leave this thread alone? You obviously don't understand what it's for and from the replies you're getting, looks like nobody else wants your input here either.

While the OP respond I would wish to continue.
...... but I don'tr want to respond to you about this from now.

oldbadger · Oct 20, 2019

Rival said:
Nah it's definitely about the T.V. I've had all this out about him on RF before.

Fair enough.......
I think your telly noise needs to start with a doctor's appointment. I hope they are free. The doc can probably offer good advice about the kind of in-ear sound attenuators I have mentioned. I always had trouble with my ears..... but these do not irritate or hurt my ears at all.

Where I live big seagulls are around, awake and shrieking all the time, day and night, and before I retired I needed to sleep well. That caused my search for possible remedies.

Some of these plugs were harder and I didn't like them, but others I found were very flexible and soft, and that was the problem, gone. But my wife had to wake me up because I couldn't hear the alarm. So if you get these, don't blame me 'cos you're up late!

Quagmire · Oct 20, 2019

oldbadger said:
While the OP respond I would wish to continue.
...... but I don'tr want to respond to you about this from now.

I'll get over it.

Rival · Oct 20, 2019

oldbadger said:
. I hope they are free.

I live in the U.K.

robocop (actually) · Oct 20, 2019

Rival said:
So, on a night when I'm in bed in should be dark and silent. Night time! But no. Dad has to have the T.V. on droning behind me all night, it's enough to make me really lose it. And then I notice, wherever I go in this house or anybody's house there's always some T.V. prattling in the background. No-one's actually watching on listening, but it's on.

I mean is it so hard just to take it and throw it out the window?

Or I don't know, turn it off?

What is it with these people who need something droning on 24/7? You afraid of the silence? What? I mean all I'm asking for is quiet and darkness on a night, but now I have some random house's sensor light on and off and on and off all night! I wouldn't have a right to complain if I lived in a city, but I live in a tiny village out in nowhere land. Is it too much to ask??

Turn your crap off!!

I live in my own apartment, and my TV with 4 hours per day would be an electric bill of $6/yr and I watch it a lot less than that. That's right... $6/yr.

Evangelicalhumanist · Oct 20, 2019

Rival said:
So, on a night when I'm in bed in should be dark and silent. Night time! But no. Dad has to have the T.V. on droning behind me all night, it's enough to make me really lose it. And then I notice, wherever I go in this house or anybody's house there's always some T.V. prattling in the background. No-one's actually watching on listening, but it's on.

I mean is it so hard just to take it and throw it out the window?

Or I don't know, turn it off?

What is it with these people who need something droning on 24/7? You afraid of the silence? What? I mean all I'm asking for is quiet and darkness on a night, but now I have some random house's sensor light on and off and on and off all night! I wouldn't have a right to complain if I lived in a city, but I live in a tiny village out in nowhere land. Is it too much to ask??

Turn your crap off!!

Got rid of my TV years ago. Refuse to pay for cable for junk I don't care about. Haven't actually watched TV in years. Don't miss it a bit.

Brickjectivity · Oct 20, 2019

Rival said:
So, on a night when I'm in bed it should be dark and silent. Night time! But no. Dad has to have the T.V. on droning behind me all night, it's enough to make me really lose it. And then I notice, wherever I go in this house or anybody's house there's always some T.V. prattling in the background. No-one's actually watching on listening, but it's on.

I mean is it so hard just to take it and throw it out the window?

Or I don't know, turn it off?

What is it with these people who need something droning on 24/7? You afraid of the silence? What? I mean all I'm asking for is quiet and darkness on a night, but now I have some random house's sensor light on and off and on and off all night! I wouldn't have a right to complain if I lived in a city, but I live in a tiny village out in nowhere land. Is it too much to ask??

Turn your crap off!!

Do what I did. It drove me crazy to be trapped in the same house with somebody who made noise/made smoke/cooked at strange times/used bleach or febreeze/sleep in the living area etc. It didn't matter how much I cared about them, how nice they were. Living in a tent is an improvement. Living in a basement, a large van, anything. Anything but that. A chair with an umbrella is more pleasant. It is more pleasant to have nothing to do but twiddle one's thumbs.

Evangelicalhumanist · Oct 20, 2019

Brickjectivity said:
Do what I did. It drove me crazy to be trapped in the same house with somebody who made noise/made smoke/cooked at strange times/used bleach or febreeze/sleep in the living area etc. It didn't matter how much I cared about them, how nice they were. Living in a tent is an improvement. Living in a basement, a large van, anything. Anything but that. A chair with an umbrella is more pleasant. It is more pleasant to have nothing to do but twiddle one's thumbs.

You have thumbs? Wow...how advanced is that???!!!

Evangelicalhumanist · Oct 20, 2019

SalixIncendium said:
Yes. If you have bad habits, it’s perfectly acceptable to subject your children to them regardless of the cost.

My step father loved to drink. He would come home and be verbally abusive. Sometimes an undeserved beating ensued. But it’s all good, because it was his house.

Thanks for the enlightening post.

Really? Couldn't you have signalled that you're being facetious or something?

Revoltingest · Oct 20, 2019

Rival said:
He's one of those people who likes to sleep with the T.V. on. I hate it. There's not really a compromise there.

Also, how can people sleep with the T.V. on??? Why??

It offers something to pay effortless minimal attention to,
thereby quieting one's roiling sleep-stealing thoughts.

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