Trying To Read Text Messages On Tv Programmes

[MargoTester]

Recently people in TV programmes receive texts which are shown on the screen briefly which I can't read quickly enough, I find this intensely annoying and have to wind back and pause the screen (if I can be bothered)

Does anyone else have the same problem or is it just old age 😏😡

[barry1010]

It is annoying - are we supposed to read them?  

[barry1010]

Talking of annoying tv I watched Vera last night (reliably enjoyable) and was very irritated by the kitchen layout in the house where the man died.  (Not a spoiler - you know somebody is going to die.)

There was breakfast bar with kitchen/bar stools lined up in front of it.  They were far too close to the breakfast bar for anyone to sit on them but couldn't be moved back because they were on a big ledge.  I had to pause the tv several times to check that I wasn't seeing things.  I am a very irritating tv partner. 

[bhg481]

barry - don't you also get irritated by reading lamps with no wires and radiators with no pipes?

[MargoTester]

I guess they wouldn't show them if they weren't meant to be read and they are sometimes integral to the plot

[Countrylover]

I can't even read them if I pause the screen.  We have a small TV which is what we want, so are not prepared to get a bigger one just to read text messages.  Perhaps they  could be arranged to show as subtitles.  And yes its very annoying!  And I need new glasses  which doesn't help ;0)

[MargoTester]

Exactly my thought Lottie if they are important use a subtitle 

[barry1010]

I do indeed, bhg - and when are we going to see a drama that does not feature a humungous kitchen with bifold doors opening on to the perfect terrace?

Margo, I have seen that in some dramas - floating text messages on screen, large enough for anyone to read.  

[barry1010]

I think it is Strike that uses the floating text messages - very different from subtitles.

[Countrylover]

Barry  you sound like Mr L.  I sit there enjoying a drama and he comes up with things just like that. 

[MargoTester]

Well I haven't Barry, where did you see it?

[MargoTester]

Sorry crossed posts

[Countrylover]

15.46

Barry, don't forget the essential Island in the middle of the kitchen!

[barry1010]

Those islands bother me - especially if they have the sink in them.  Disaster waiting to happen.  The hob in the island would give me palpitations.

[Countrylover]

Exactly Barry,   and those sinks don't have a draining board.  I watch those escape to the country, etc programmes and it seems that the island is the biggest wannahav!   Apparently essential for entertaining.  

[barry1010]

I don't want to entertain in my kitchen and I certainly don't want to be watching tv in the kitchen with the extractor fan, the food mixer, the microwave and the dishwasher churning away.  

When I'm cooking, stay out of the kitchen and don't get under my feet.  

[barry1010]

I wouldn't mind the extending hose tap fingwee though.  Definitely on my list for when I refurb the kitchen - in about 20 years.  

 

[Countrylover]

I feel like that about playrooms too.  We were very happy to have kids playing in the lounge where we could join in.  Now it seems you have to have an adult room where kids can't play.  What happened to family life?

[barry1010]

Apparently I have to have a man cave.  My wife must have a twee summer house where she can do crafts in peace, and drink gin.

I don't watch Escape to the Country but I am fond of A Place in the Sun.  I often wonder where on earth they keep the mop, bucket, vacuum cleaner....  

[MargoTester]

.......so does anyone think the problem with trying to read texts on TV is to do with be old

[Cloverjo]

Margo, it's nothing to do with being old. They just don't give anyone enough time to see them properly