Do you mute your TV during commercials?

[0007]

[tx_dem41]

1. Should add a new choice...

I turn the channels.

[0007]

7. .....yeah! Damn it, I did like the three bears, I goofed.

Because I do flip to another channel during those sickouts. But that would be kind of like muting, right?

[tx_dem41]

11. Okay...you convinced me...

..I voted for mute. :-)

[illflem]

15. Me too

[Skittles]

2. Tombo used to do that and it drove me f***ing insane

he was never quite fast enough UNmuting, ya know? :grr:

[0007]

13. Where's Tombo now?

[Skittles]

14. he stayed at the farm

I moved back to da city

[justinsb]

3. But I rarely

watch TV at all and ocasionally I listen to the commercials and then send email to the company pointing out the obvious misleading statements in them, or just generally complain.

[amazona]

4. no but you know my dad does that

I think that requires paying too much attention to the TV but heck he's retired, he has the time. I'm often doing something and more listening than looking, so I listen for when the commercials are over and the program continuing.

[noamnety]

5. I mute

I wouldn't bother if the volume on commercials were slightly lower. But the volume on the commercials is generally louder than the shows themselves - it's jarring.

(Dear commercial making people - are you taking notes on this? Turn your volume lower, be less obnoxious and we might leave the sound on!)

[OneTwentyoNine]

6. How about turn the damn volume down?

Of course its against the law to advertise at higher volume but I guess Mike Powell is busy looking at boob tapes over and over.

[Meowser]

8. Yes-the commercials come up at a higher volume than the program

and it drives me nuts!!! :grr:

[unpossibles]

9. I used to mute

Then I just got rid of cable and now watch DVDs and tapes.

The strange thing is now when I am somewhere with a TV on, it is so much more surreal and fake looking. It's easier to spot the Fnords... ;)

[Mojambo]

10. I mute my attention

I just turn back to DU during the commercials.

[maveric]

12. I try not to watch commercial TV but when I do, I flip channels

during commercial interruptions.

[BeTheChange]

16. I fast forward through them.

I start my viewing of things when atleast 30 minutes have already been recorded. Then, I fast forward through the commercials and save myself from the mind clutter.

I love dish network.

[0007]

17. Now I know why they made 'ya boss and CEO of the year, LOL!

[Todd B]

19. I hear ya'

I hear ya'! DVR has been completely awesome during this Christmas season because I don't have to sit through all those rediculous holiday commercials!

All the good stuff, none of the filler.

[Left Is Write]

18. I don't mute them, but I often turn down the volume.

The commercials are always SO MUCH LOUDER than the actual program.

[catmandu57]

20. the remote she is your friend

My tv, the one in my den/office/hideout is a ten year old magnavox with smartsound, it keeps the vollume level where it's set at, great gizmo, but I still mute out the sound.

[Bok_Tukalo]

21. No. I am facinated by advertising and propaganda.

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[fluffernutter]

22. change the channel.

i'm a flipper for sure.

[bigwillq]

23. No. I get a snack, pee, read a magazine, write

or something else rather than watch or mute the commericals.

[n2mark]

25. I do the same

do whatever until the commercials are over.

[bigwillq]

27. I don't really like commercials

Some are funny but they really are an interruption.

[Blue Gardener]

24. Yes

Mostly when they show the same frickin' annoying commercials every ten minutes. The ESPN Sunday night football commercial is really starting to piss me off. They not only show it at every break, but they show it back-to-back at every break. Arghhhh!

[0007]

28. The commercials during football games spend more than the simple

game. A game is 60 minutes with 30 minute break at half time. Most football games last over three hours.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

26. On certain channels that up the volume on the commercials

I do. The local UPN channel's commercials are always very loud in comparison to the volume of their shows.

[Not_Giving_Up]

29. I don't mute or change the channel

I go to the bathroom, the kitchen, check the kids, whatever I need to do.

[0007]

30. You just mute the TV by walking away, very good.

[medeak]

31. have self mute in brain

it's amazing...automatically tune out. Hint of things to come me thinks as husband will soon accuse me of doing same.

[TheMightyFavog]

32. Only the annoying ones.

Like those fucking annoying ads for Sandals Resorts that Charter Cable in Stevens Point airs every fucking attosecond!

Otherwises, as one who plays in the world's largest rivia contest for a top ten team, many times I not only watch them, but sometimes take notes on them.

[lib_1138]

33. I tried to vote but it said there was a problem

Is your poll run by Diebold? Or am I just too new to vote in stuff?

[0007]

35. I have no idea, ask the administrator!

[proud2BlibKansan]

34. I turn the channel

I usually end up watching two programs at once. I almost always zap to another channel when the commercials come on. If I really want to pay attention to anything, I TIVO it. Then when I watch the TIVO, I zap thru the commercials.

So I don't turn them down, I turn them off and speed them up.
Not sure how you want to count that on this poll.