Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 04, 2022

Me thinks that hubby’s more married to his TV than his missus.;-D

With a 1000 channels to choose from you have to click through the channels. ‘course you’ll never get through all the channels in the length of time of a regular program so that’s a losing proposition. Then again most channels are just old reruns anyway or the sports channels are all talking heads to fill the air time.

I’m so glad I don’t have a TV. Youtube wastes enough of my time

Poetic justice is only a remote possibility.

Spouse, who can parse three different conversations at the same time, cannot read over my shoulder because I turn pages (or scroll) too fast for her. And becomes annoyed when I fail to understand her when she talks while the TV is spewing into the room. Everybody has their strengths… and weaknesses.

You know that’s a challenge to start speed clicking

Better the remote hits the fan than that other stuff.

You gotta grab the bull by the tail and look it in the eye. (Insert recommendation for the movie “Trixie” here.)

The bloom is definitely off the rose

Use the guide feature. The one that put TV Guide out of business.

My wife will enjoy this. She doesn’t say it, but her breathing changes whenever we start a conversation with, Wonder if there’s anything good on tonight?

Yeah, I know the answer to that and so does she, but it is still a good question, because sometimes we find a good oldie and sometimes we are surprised by something more recent. That’s rare, but it happens.

New Netflix plan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Bm2WUYBxU

I think she made her point. He should have been listening – 2 rules for a happy marriage: Rule 1 -Your wife is always correct. Rule 2 – Refer to rule 1. BTW I do like her slippers.

“57 Channels “And Nothing On)” Springsteen. Now 200 channels with the same problem. Glad I dumped cable years ago.

Earlier he had a choice – she said was “or”.

This time she said “and” – and now it’s “all of the above”.

I start with PBS. I seldom want to change.

Netflix can lead you to browsing but it can’t make you watch. With good reason.

Re: Clicking the remote – Seinfeld said it best, "Men don’t want to know what’s on TV, they want to know what else is on TV.

Cat drawing is great. As good as a bear.

Time for a second remote. That would be much more fun. And interesting. For people watching from a distance.

your point?

Why? I refuse to watch dead air. Besides you said you didn’t want to watch anything.

“ESPN, ESPN! You’re the reason I’m single again. Life is for losers, sports are your friend.” Modern Men

Hey, if I click fast enough and far enough, I can get just enough of each show to speak informatively, yet still be ignorant of most any subject, TV related, on any bar stool in the state.

One of the things that kept me from marriage was the thought that I would be required to sit beside a man on the couch every Sunday to watch football. I SWEAR that was a requirement of “a good wife” in the 1950s. . .

’Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest."

Alexander Pope

Have you ever watched someone keep clikking thru the channels, hoping there will be something to entertain, that wasn’t there 2 minutes ago? Drives me nuts.

But … but … but … Surf’s up!

Gotta admit that she’s giving him a fair amount of warning. Results are not going to be pretty.

The stories I could tell.

What is this remote they talk about? The one I have doesn’t seem to work. No matter what button I push, nothing but crap shows up on the screen.

My favorite network has its own button on the device. It isn’t ABC, CBS. CNN, FOX or whatever, it’s OFF. It is right next to the “Billy Mayes Memorial Button” which is labeled MUTE.

My wife says I have two faults

1) I don’t listen

2) something else

Some marriages end with a bang instead of a whimper.

Wife needs to read a book.

Ipad + You Tube = I have a husband?

The message did come through loud and clear, however…..

I never channel surf.I find one lousy program and I stick with it.

Turn to C-SPAN and leave the room with the remote.

My wife and I have separate TV’s and separate bathrooms. Been married over 40 years. Now you know the secret to a happy marriage.

Clicking through channels annoys me no end.

That’s why we have 2 tvs and a door tween us.

liked the cat checking the ‘temperature’ of the room. :-O

I like this variant of The Lockhorns.

I’m sure he’d be fine with the fat lady singing, but instead she just sits there and nags.

“…clicking through the channels…”

But isn’t that what the new Meta is for?

That could be at our house, if my husband knew all those metaphors. I am the clicker-except things don’t click they just whiz on by too fast.

With the DVR, I never need to click through channels. I have prerecorded programs ready to view.

My other half is the queen of mixed metaphors. She recently remarked after being klutzy at something or the other that she was just being an elephant in the room.

Hmm…I’d like to think of it as a heap of cliches that mean the same thing.

That’s not mixed metaphor, it’s multiple metaphors! Quite the piling of Pelion on Osa.

I don’t bother to click through the channels any more.

I long ago figured out that the Crap on 99% of them is not ever going to go away.