I ask to turn the channel or I leave...

[pbmus]

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[niyad]

1. Same as you.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I rarely am in a business with a TV that's turned on.

However, I have been known to change channels or turn it off entirely. I just don't understand the need to have a TV on in a waiting room. Well, okay, maybe have one that's tuned to the Aquarium Channel. Other than that, people can wait quietly. Read a book. Play a game on a cell phone. Write a letter to a friend.

I hate public TVs.

[Kali]

10. there are fucking tee vees on gas pumps now

like people can't go a minute without that kind of noisy crap (or already have it going in a personal earphone anyway)???

[gristy]

18. I absolutely will not pump gas if I have to listen to crap coming from a teevee

There's plenty of gas stations that let me pump in peace.

[cos dem]

39. Oh I totally agree. I hate those!

Is it too much to ask for a moment of piece and quiet once in awhile?

[MichaelSoE]

43. This scene from 20 years ago truly disturbed me. Is it too late now?

[GoneOffShore]

46. Lots of 'Loglo' -

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. Yep.

[Karadeniz]

4. First I'd ask that they change the channel, then leave if they don't. This why we have HGTV !!!

[stopdiggin]

5. no I wouldn't. but the business is 'pegged for future reference'

there might well be some scrolling through Yelp reviews the next time I am in need of services ...

(I have to assume that either a business owner knows his client base - or doesn't care. And, in either case, I see no profit in wrangling with them.)

[SheltieLover]

6. Absofuckingloutely!

[Stuart G]

15. A BRAND NEW WORD..............."Absofuckingloutely!" 10 POINTS FOR YOU!!!!

[SheltieLover]

17. Oh...

I have a whole vernacular filled with such gems.

[hippywife]

48. I use that word all the time...

but I spell it correctly: absofuckinglutely.

[we can do it]

7. Yep. Have done it, will keep doing it.

[LoisB]

8. Yes, I would.

nt

[Staph]

9. I have done so.

I will politely ask if they will change the channel. In a fast food joint, I was once told that the owner/manager insisted that Fox News be on. So, I told the counter staff to tell the manager that she had lost a customer, who would be telling others to avoid this restaurant. Then I left without ordering.

I did go back there, three or four years later. The television was tuned to ESPN!

[Enter stage left]

11. I've done it three times...

once in a dentists office, and twice in a auto service center, the channel was changed in the dentists office, turned off in one of the auto service centers, and told me to talk to the general manager in the second service center. After talking to him, they turned it off.

Sometimes you just have to let them know, no more bullshit!

[alittlelark]

12. Always - but first I tell them WHY.

[tavernier]

13. Sure have.

They had it on in the icu when my husband was in a coma. I asked the nurse if this was their way to get him to come out of it by getting up to throw a chair at the tv. He was not a fan.

[Hekate]

14. Depends on my needs. Sometimes I have asked an employee if that is the only station they are ...

… allowed to play? Or if perhaps the manager chose it? And if the answer is no, then I advise that person that a lot of people find FOX offensive, and perhaps they could choose another station.

One time that happened at the office where I got my mammogram — I needed to be there.

[BootinUp]

16. I hardly go out

might not get the chance but i would join you.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

19. Yes!

Also, you can buy universal clickers at Amazon that will turn the TV off or change the channel...lol.

[lastlib]

20. I once asked a cashier in a busy Wendy's if she could change the channel....

from Fox to CNN. The harried cashier *handed me the remote* and said I could do it myself. So I found CNN, switched to it, then pulled up the menu to look for parental controls. There I *locked out* Fox Noise and Fox Business channels, and set my own PIN key for the controls. Then I gave the remote back to the cashier. Now they can't get to Fox until they can figure out the PIN!

The small victories can be really sweet!

[lagomorph777]

27. Dayum!

[PittBlue]

47. This just made my day!

[Skittles]

21. yes

I could not trust the judgement of anyone watching such trash.

[lagomorph777]

29. Exactly. The most crooked car repair place in town has it on.

They lost my business permanently.

[albacore]

22. Best $20 I ever spent....

[MontanaMama]

25. Seriously...

This works?

[NullTuples]

32. It does.

It just runs through flashing every IR coded "off" command it knows. Most brands keep their encoding the same for the basic functions.

[albacore]

44. Yup.... I just unobtrusively turn the TV off. Usually nobody cares, but if somebody

...asks to turn it back on, I give it a couple of minutes and do it again.

"TV must be broken."

[lambchopp59]

23. I'm nearly to suggest "Love's" truckstop change their name to "Hate's"...

I'm done fueling up nor getting road supplies there. None of the chain truckstops have great political stances with their contributions, but unexceptionally "Love's" truckstop drives me right out the door with their insistence of propagandizing their patrons to FOX noise.

[ret5hd]

50. I drive quite a lot...

Loves fuel prices are nearly ALWAYS high…sometimes by as much as 0.40/gal.

(the same is true for Pilot etc)

Always use the gas Buddy app. You might drive a mile out of your way, but you will always save money.

[LowerManhattanite]

24. I've walked TF out of places playing that sh*t.

It’s a conscious choice on the part of management and tells me what I need to know.

I’ll spend my money where I feel comfortable.

I’m not comfortable in places broadcasting sh*t that denigrates people like me.

[lagomorph777]

26. Yes. It tells me that business is untrustworthy.

I can't tolerate it anyway.

[Duppers]

28. Have done so a few times.

No tolerance for it here.

[yaesu]

30. yes and I have never to return. nt

[majdrfrtim]

31. In the eleven months I was boots-on-the-ground in Iraq

I cannot *ever* remember walking into a military building (which had a TV or TVs going) which did NOT have Fox "News" bloviating away.

Had I walked right out every time that happened, there's a good chance I'd have starved.

[Busterscruggs]

33. Back before

My license was suspended( I think the cop had it out for my = bumper sticker). I had taken my car in for service at the dealer. While I was waiting in the service area, I saw that fox was on. I grabbed the remote from the coffee bar, changed the channel to MSNBC then took the batteries from the remote. The service manager came in and asked what happened to the channel and said that he was sick to death of people messing with his news shows. I just looked up from my sailor moon fan fiction I was writing and said nothing, smiling on the inside

[Ferrets are Cool]

34. I have done it several times.

Back when I actually went out to eat.

[Slammer]

35. Fox News

The local Chinese restaurant I like usually has two TV's showing CNN and one showing Fox News. The sound is turned down on each of them but closed captions on.

I don't really mind FOX news being on. It's often helpful to know what the enemy is thinking. (But I certainly don't watch it at home because others in my family might be exposed to toxicity.)

I'd prefer the restaurant to have MSNBC rather than CNN but not enough that I'd complain about it.

[tiredtoo]

36. yup eom

[Orrex]

37. If I did that, I would be able to enter few restaurants in my county

At least, few among the many (i.e., nearly all) that have a tv on.

Ditto for doctor's offices, bars, bottle shops, local repair shops, and the list goes on.


It strikes me as a nearly meaningless gesture that will have absolutely no impact on the business, its customers, on Fox News, or on me.

[Hulk]

38. Only place I've encountered is the gym...

Used to be at the Bush Int'l Airport...Houston; but I think that was 10+ years ago. They even had a fox Store that sold their shit..Bill-o's crapo books of nonsense, cups, etc.

Think the fox Store has vanished...the last time I passed through. (Personally, I HATE the HOU Airport...for numerous reasons...not worth going into.)

[DanieRains]

40. Bring It On If They Show Fox I Am Allowed To Give Them My Opinion

Of course I would hold my tongue till after the food is served.....

Fox is Traitor TV.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

41. You know, armed forces radio blares out right wing shit 24/7...

especially limp-balls before (thank God) he died.
Because of this, many military types are brainwashed to the extent that many no doubt cheered on the Jan. 6th rioters.

These people may be a big problem in the future, a very big problem.

[csziggy]

42. I have walked out of businesses that had FFaux Noise on their TVs

Fortunately, NONE of the doctor's offices I've been in that had TVs in their waiting rooms have had it - they usually have HGTV or the Food Channel.

I did complain about the waiting room for people waiting to be called in for surgery having the Food Channel on. Here they had a room full of people who had not been allowed to eat for at least twelve hours and they are showing food preparation?! Next time I went in for surgery, they had HGTV on. (I had two surgeries just about a month apart so I believe my comments made a difference.)

[Emile]

45. I heard there is a very small universal remote

that allows you to secretly change channels.

[hippywife]

49. Same.

Fortunately, I don't run into it much anymore (another high spot for the pandemic) and when I do run into TVs on, it's usually in my doctors' offices. Both run medical/health advice programming.