How to deal with annoying people while I am watching the TV

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Dear ILE,

So I was watching my show in the tv lounge, already having to put up with one moron who didn't know about the show yet felt qualified to weigh in on it a-a-and also to crack horribly insipid jokes during the course of the program. Then comes the resident LOUD AND OBNOXIOUS GIRL who is also very stupid when it comes to relating to things televisual (e.g. "Ooh I'm so excited for the old couple!"). How do I shut them the darn up without, you know, being a cockface?

Love,
Annoyed to Hell in Chi-town

― Organized Crime (Leee), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

Get your own TV?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

yeah "TV Lounge," what is that? Are you in prison or a mental ward? Then these people interrupting the Gilmore Girls is the least of your problems!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Talk through their shows then go HOW DO YOU LIKE IT

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

I assume she or he is attending college and this is the group TV for the dorm or whatever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

I have my own television, but! I use an antenna, and both FOX and CBS come in fuzzy. Thus, &c.

― Organized Crime (Leee), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

I use an antenna, and both FOX and CBS come in fuzzy.

And the downside?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

AMAZING RACE & 24.

― Organized Crime (Leee), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

start selling drugs so you can afford cable in your own dorm room.
soon you'll have a captive and paying audience willing to laugh at your every utterance in the hopes of a free high.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

Create an intricate fantasy television world.

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

put on katja kassin

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

hardball

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

fuck.

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

i should watch tv now.

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

i just got so tired after attempting to fill some thing out.

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

you should not be in any room that contains a large appliance.

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

such as a radio?

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

such as a stereo?

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

an unplugged stereo

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

my a/c thing is in.

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

no sandblasters

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)

ChainsawChick.com

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)

Put the subtitles on (888 on teletext)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

no chainsaw. no joan jett.

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

? chainsaw art site?

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

Put stereo next to tv and blast metal machine music (while putting on teletext).

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

ay.

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

shit. i don't have a tv.

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

eggs

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:30 (twenty years ago)

eggs florentine.

― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps you should just chill out and ask yourself whether hearing every last word of some TV show is really that important, and worth being an asshole over.

― kirsten (kirsten), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Turn the TV up REAL LOUD. And keep turning it up until it's too loud for you to hear them chattering, but that's usually the same point it becomes so loud you can't make out what the tv's saying.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Hold a sign that says


   Shut the Fuck Up Asshole 
       I'm watching TV. 
   (Jesus H. Christ)

If you're holding it before they come into the room, then it isn't necessarily directed at them.. but they'll probably get it.

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

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