Community Chat

[beach-mom]

OK - it's Monday, and maybe I'm a little tired and cranky (as are some around me!), but I have to ask: I just read yet another thread where a poster starts out criticizing host, vendor, whomever, and says something like, "I changed the channel so fast." Why do we have to know this? Just state your opinion (or criticism) and be done with it! I assume if you're unhappy you will choose not to watch!

[faeriemoon]

You have to say "I changed the channel" because if you don't, someone will tell you to "change the channel!!!"

[chickenbutt]

It's only a guess, and I haven't seen the thread in question, but the OP probably said that to preclude the usual, snotty, response of 'then why don't you just change the channel?'.

[Yuban3]

If they just simply state, "I don't like so-and-so when they are on", at least one person will respond with, "Well, just change the channel, and you won't be bothered by so-and-so".

It's their way of trying to cut the retort off at the pass.

[chickenbutt]

GMTA

[DoneTryin]

[PIT-HAG Melissa]

On 6/2/2014 faeriemoon said:

You have to say "I changed the channel" because if you don't, someone will tell you to "change the channel!!!"

ITA and that HAS to be one of the MOST OVER used snotty responses here..

[Suhse]

Change the channel may be perceived as snotty and overused, but, let's get real here

Isn't it also the most basic common sense suggestion anyone could make.

The home shopping channels are in millions of homes. No program or host or vendor, is ever going to appeal to everyone.

The fact that you can't stand a host talking about her family, or a vendor dancing, and just have to "change the channel" because you find in unbearable that a host wears the same pants too oftenthe fact remains, the network will decide whether or not they feel the host is doing the job they expect, the vendor is selling enough to be profitable, etc.

Sooooo, if it really gets on your one last nerve, that badly, that the vendor keeps rubbing the product on her body, And the host misused a pronoun, then, for your own sake, by all means change the channel.

Isn't that what you would do with any other program you started to watch and didn't enjoy?

[circles]

I find that posters are so eager to say ""change the channel"" that they haven't even completely read any OP's thread already saying their complaint and that they had changed the channel....I find that annoying....read the dang thread thoroughly then you won't have to reply with that snotty comment....!!!!

[occasionalrain]

On 6/2/2014 SUHSE39 said:

Change the channel may be perceived as snotty and overused, but, let's get real here

Isn't it also the most basic common sense suggestion anyone could make.

The home shopping channels are in millions of homes. No program or host or vendor, is ever going to appeal to everyone.

The fact that you can't stand a host talking about her family, or a vendor dancing, and just have to "change the channel" because you find in unbearable that a host wears the same pants too oftenthe fact remains, the network will decide whether or not they feel the host is doing the job they expect, the vendor is selling enough to be profitable, etc.

Sooooo, if it really gets on your one last nerve, that badly, that the vendor keeps rubbing the product on her body, And the host misused a pronoun, then, for your own sake, by all means change the channel.

Isn't that what you would do with any other program you started to watch and didn't enjoy?

There is a difference between a disliked tv show and a presentation of products/items a viewer wants to see. I want to see the Mizrahi designs but, because of the obnoxious Shawn, I'm compelled to change the channel. It's beyond annoying when again and again presentations are missed because of the host.

It's true that no one is universally liked but most professionals are tolerable. That's all we want a tolerable host that makes it about the item and not about themselves.