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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We usually have the TV on as background noise.  We have lots of lively conversations and certainly no one ignores anyone.  Doesn't sound normal to me.[/quote]

Why do you feel like you need background noise?  If no one is watching it, why don't you turn it off?  I genuinely would like to know.  [/quote]

I too hate having the television on and cannot fathom why anyone would want it on as background noise, especially when there's company over. I find it difficult to understand conversation if there's television on in the background, and the commercials, lights, and noise just generally annoying me and sometimes give me a headache.

I grew up in a family where we were only allowed to watch television a couple hours a week. My sibling married someone who has TV on all the time, is very bossy, and it really annoys the hell out of most of us.

I would encourage those who have company over to turn the TV off unless there's something very specific everyone wants to watch.[/quote]

Maybe we're not as easily distracted as you?  Having a TV on makes any lulls in the conversation or quiet moments less awkward.  Plus, often it's some sort of educational/history program and it helps bring up a new topic to discuss.  I would encourage those that do not like having the TV on, to turn it off if they have company.  The rest of us can decide on our own how to handle it, thanks![/quote]

Pp here. I should have added, I have poor hearing and my mother wears a hearing aid. My in law could care less that having the tv on means my mother can't hear the convo. He'd rather hear the tv. And he wonders why we don't want to do holidays at his house....[/quote]

OH my gosh, we had a similar situation one time with my MIL (who is addicted to TV and must have it on at all times). We were at HER IL's nursing home, and great-grandfather-in-law and we were trying to have a conversation.  Well, MIL wanted to have a sports game on in the background and kept trying to turn it up but GGFIL, who was hard of hearing, was growing more and more irritated b/c he could not really hear what people were saying over the TV.  Well, he finally EXPLODED and MIL was TOTALLY shocked and could NOT understand why hard-of-hearing GGFIL would be "so hard" on "poor little her' when all she was doing was try to hear the sports game.  *I,* HER DIL, thought she had been really rude to not understand that an older person (in whose home we were) can maybe not hear very well and was growing irritated with the volume.  Even I had been able to see that, and I had only been in the family for a few years!  I felt so badly for GGFIL and thought MIL behaved completely horribly.  OF course I kept ALL of this to myself, b/c it wasn't my place or business, but whew, this is what I am talking about when I say that tv people can be soooo rude and not realize how distracting or irritating it can be to others who are merely trying to have a social conversation, which is (presumably) what getting together is all about!  You do NOT always need your little "crutch" of a television on when people are trying to visit!!!  [/quote]

What do you do with your free time not spent watching TV? I'm guessing not reading or brushing up on your writing skills? [/quote]

People who watch too much TV much not have a long attention span, nor the ability to read and comprehend what they are reading.[/quote]

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