What About 🐲🐢🌟?Your opinion of TVs at restaurants (assuming they're playing something neutral or positive to you)?
| I need them | |
| They're fine | |
| Meh, don't care | |
| Would rather not | |
| Absolutely not |
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DeltaWye@VictorKoopa Eh. Sports or something benign is ok.
Problem is anywhere else, some asshole will set it to a news station.
@DeltaWye
Kind of miss having an IR blaster in my phone for fixing TVs set to...undesirable stations.
Kind of miss having an IR blaster in my phone for fixing TVs set to...undesirable stations.
Jake in the desert@DeltaWye @VictorKoopa I don't wanna see sports OR news.. Even music videos can be problematic, they're often gonna suck. Nature docs or cartoons (or decent movies) are the only things I figure I'd ever wanna see, and that's highly unlikely 😂🤣
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi@DeltaWye I get sports if it's a sports bar, but a proper restaurant, nope.
webhat@VictorKoopa I was in a restaurant recently in Warsaw, the television was right in my line of sight. It was showing beautiful images of Georgia (the country, not the US state) And I found it very distracting, luckily I was in good company
Tanek Rune@VictorKoopa
I get really (really) distracted when there's a tv on and stop taking part in the conversation. Likely part of this is because I was not allowed to talk when my dad wanted to hear something on the news and I would get yelled at, regardless of whether this was at the dinner table or not. Pretty sure I'm now wired to think that TV time = quiet time.
I get really (really) distracted when there's a tv on and stop taking part in the conversation. Likely part of this is because I was not allowed to talk when my dad wanted to hear something on the news and I would get yelled at, regardless of whether this was at the dinner table or not. Pretty sure I'm now wired to think that TV time = quiet time.
peachfrontthere is a natural instinct to want to keep an eye on moving objects and a flickering screen even with the sound turned off is a moving object that destroys the intimacy of the dining experience
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦@VictorKoopa @Pinchy63 if there's something I need to follow (like #NoKings) I'll pull out my mobile (silent, with captions).
FruitConsumer@VictorKoopa
Honestly depends. If it's a sports channel by a counter with some people craning up to stare at it, that might be a bit atmospheric and positive.
Some totally random Vietnamese/Indonesian soap opera might be atmospheric, too.
But if it's some annoying monitor playing 90's stuff while I'm trying to socialize and relax, then it might be pretty meh.
If there's canned laughter coming from it, it'll probably be annoying.
Dziadek@VictorKoopa I would never use any restaurant or cafe with a TV on the wall. I have a problem with noisy distraction from enjoying the food.
How many people have complained to a restaurant owner that there was no music?
None. Nada. Zilch. Sweet FA.
Ross of Ottawa@VictorKoopa actively avoid places with TVs
OmnivoreOverly loud volume is my main problem.