Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 23, 2023

It’s the 21st century – she can watch TV on her phone.He needs the big screen to see all the details of the big plays.And her shows are all talk anyways.

Barb must be spending too much time watching what is going on in Congress.

She is like Vladimir Putin trying to destroy Ukraine. If he can’t have that country, then the Ukrainians can’t have it either.

So, Barb is a domestic terrorist?

I have worked out a perfect way to share the remote. In theory. When Spouse turns on something that bugs me, I simply leave the room.

Best thing that could be done to a TV set.

Back off or the cat gets it Barb

That’s a no-win scenario, Barbs. With that set-up you make take more TV-shrapnel in the face than he will. Feeling kamikaze lately?

Looks like a zero sum argument here – if she blows it all up, NO-ONE gets to watch (if, in fact they’re still alive).

What a dynamite idea!!!

It’s the newest technology, the 4K pieces TV.

Let her have the remote and the TV. Go out and have some fun with your friends.

Shades of Solomon’s gambit, baby.

This would have been perfect a few weeks ago during the debt limit negotiations.

In the days of multiple screens in a room, fighting (even figuratively) over WHAT to Watch is silly.

I like ESPN and you like HBO

Looks like two TVs is the way to go

We ordered a second remote – not that I care all that much what my husband chooses to watch, but sometimes I want to make changes and now I don’t have to keep asking him. Mostly, tho, I just read and ignore the TV.

My spouse wants me to have the remotes. Wants me to pick something to watch. Invariably disagrees with my choices and complains loudly about them. I ask, “what do you want to watch”, “I don’t know what’s on, find something”. I find something else and we repeat the process. “These are all the same old things”, “but they’re the things we’ve recorded/saved that you like”. “What about that new show on Discovery or Nickelodeon or Netflix that everyone’s talking about?” “What’s it called, I’ll look for it?” “I don’t know, just find it”. I start looking for whatever it might be, wherever it might be. “Why are you looking there? I don’t have time to spend the whole evening watching you fool around”. So, I have over the remotes, they are refused. “Just fine something”. And we go back to the first thing I picked and both pick up our tablets. More choices is not necessarily a good thing.

Not a bad strategy, but won’t both of you end up punished in the end?

Barb has had enough of C-Span, golf tournaments and bass-pro. Give her the remote mister or the TV gets it.

The one good feature of having a remote is that one can flip the channels while seated. Otherwise it would require one person to stand at the tv and pushing the channel button to cycle through the list. But that’s about the only real value. Volume, picture width adjustment requires only a one time visit, so the remote is not totally necessary for those.

My wife controls the remote most of the time. I prefer to read or play video games

Our old TV broke down about six years ago. We tossed it and never replace it. Problem solved.

My wife has control of the remote and the lounger in our living room.

The only time I get them is when there is a program we both want to watch which is about 25% of the time. Most of the time, I watch my favorite network, OFF, in my den.

I do have a spare remote sitting with my miscellaneous computer connectors and equipment. I don’t want to wait three days until a replacement can arrive. Programming the remote is an interesting task that may get related some other time.

The TV is upstairs in the entertainment room. Mostly, my wife watches shows and movies on her computer. I don’t watch shows at all.

Go ahead. I watch what I want on my iPad.

Most households have multiple sets, we have two.

Not much to interest me, so there’s very little conflict.

It is a time honored tactic. Mutually assured disruption. Still, I firmly beleive that command of the remote is a “first come, first serve” situation, unless your opponent is under the age of 5.

Give Me “Say ‘Yes’ to the Dress” or Give Me Death. Actually, tough call if you think about it.

Never happens in my house, we have a TV in (almost) every room.

They only have one TV? Not good for any relationship

Once it’s on the Hallmark Channel it never changes, unless there is severe weather.

Is that Barb Bannon, Steve’s sister? He too wanted to blow things up (in his case, the whole country) on the off chance that it would get reconstructed exactly the way he preferred.

The TV remote – in my household we refer to that as “the wand of power”.

I don’t share the remote. Since neither of us watch TV the remote sits alone and dusty on the coffee table.

My peers should try it. We couldn’t be happier without garbage TV and Faux News.

If Barb fails in the negotiations and presses home her advantage, She (and He) are going to get a face full of TV screen. All those itty bitty fragments are going to be blown right in their faces.

Two TVs and headphones.

IF — I say IF —this were a problem in my house, I’d just buy one of those universal remotes. Click, click, back and forth. Wouldn’t that be fun?

One of the reasons I like living alone.

He knows she’s not serious, until she puts on eye protection.

Get dueling remotes. Hours of fun switching channels than watching something together

we have two remotes so we can have remote wars

Barb has the better remote.

His and hers SEPERATE TV rooms would let each watch what they want.

“Blow up your TV, throw away your paper,

Go to the country, build you a home,

Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches;

Try and find Jesus on your own."

—John Prine (R.I.P.), 1971

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwq0YoOy4g

PJ (RIP) & I liked to watch the same shows, so that was never a problem, but we each had our own remote, because we both HATED 99.9% of all commercials & muted them whenever they came on. (We used to joke about our “dueling remotes.”) The funny thing was that even with my hands full of knitting, I could hit mute on my remote before he got to his. Finally I wore out my mute button & had to get one of these gizmos:

https://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/2018/smash-mute-remote.jpg

p.s. The other thing we heartily agreed on RE TV was: ANYTHING is better than channel-flipping!

My wife controls the remote. I gave up years ago. Bonus, I don’t get criticism for making mistakes with it.

Speaking of TV shows. I really like this new show called “So Help Me Todd”. No gruesome murders, and no unnecessary blood. Reminds me of the old crime banter shows the ones like Thin Man, and Moonlighting, or McMillan and Wife, or Heart to Heart.

This one is in a law office, and it is the mother who is the lawyer, and her son is the detective, and conveniently, the daughter is the doctor who has all the medical clues sewn up, and Lyle, who is exceptionally smart, covering all the modern computer related stuff…

So far everyone in my family loves this show and that is something, seeing as we have teens all the way up to us, the grandparents.

Housefire killed our TV in ‘94. We never replaced it. We credit that as one good reason for our very peaceful and stable marriage that turned 40 this year. If there’s nothing screaming mindless emotional drivel at you all day you actually get a chance to talk to each other.

THE case for having at least one TV per person!

FRED ALLEN—-“Television is like a steak.It’s a medium that’s rarely well done”

If she’s that addicted to TV she’ll never blow it up.

I solved that problem years ago…my wife has the tv in the living room and I have my computer in my den. Everything is streamed anyway, thru roku and the internet, so we can each watch what we want when we want.

Luckily, it’s only HER half that will blow up.

Barb is exercising the split screen option.