Published on 12, July, 2020
Way back in 2013, my mother started asking me if I had seen a particular programme on Channel 4. I kept being told that I simply HAD to watch it because it was absolutely hilarious. Her description of it caused me to think it sounded rather ghastly. "It features people watching TV and commenting on what they have seen. Some of the things they say are priceless!"
As I've never understood the appeal of people watching YouTube videos of people playing video games, I was struggling to understand what could possibly be so enjoyable and entertaining about this programme that my mother kept talking about. If you haven't already guessed, the programme was Gogglebox.
Eventually, I decided to watch it. My mother had spent weeks telling me about the antics of the 'posh couple' who always appeared to be in an inebriated state, so I figured that I had to at least find out for myself what all the ridiculous hype was about. Well, I was hooked.
Yes, my guilty pleasure (one of them) is watching Gogglebox.
Do you have any guilty pleasures that you care to share? - Please keep it clean folks!
My guilty pleasure is watching 1970’s and 80’s tv, The Sweeney, The Professionals and Minder. Hill Street Blues is my absolute escape. No one is allowed to watch these programs with me, I’ve found that people talk whilst the program is on, I really don’t understand that.
My dad used to love watching Hill Street Blues, and I also remember my parents watching the likes of The Sweeney, The Professionals, and Minder.
Yes, it can be rather irksome when someone decides to start talking while one is trying to watch something on TV, particularly if it is something that one has been looking forward to watching. I remember that if my dad wanted to watch something that he knew nobody else wanted to watch, he would go and watch it on the TV in his bedroom.
I have one thing I do every Friday, I take sandwiches to work every day with the same filling. On Friday I take a chicken curry and rice ready meal and nuke it. I am really living the dream!