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• David L commented on Announcement time!
  And hate having a running TV in my line of sight when I want to concentrate on something else. On this I totally agree. I suspect it is the movement / changing display that distracts me from the nearly static display I'm working on....
• Moz commented on Announcement time!
  hate having a running TV in my line of sight when I want to concentrate on something else I generally move so that I'm next to the TV facing away from it to avoid this. Or leave the room if I can't do that or get hassled for doing it. To me it's rude as heck, even if they just regard it as background it's focus stealing for me. I know a few people like this and for the ones who are adamant that they have to have the TV on in order to socialise I've been happy to agree...
• Howard NYC commented on Announcement time!
  “Appeasing the dictator [Hitler] is like feeding the crocodile, hoping that you are the last to be eaten.” --Winston Churchill, 1938 yeah... this is preaching to the choir... but recent ugly urges towards compromise (AKA: hand over half of Ukraine in exchange for Russian assurances) ought be stomped upon (yeah, I'm looking at you, Emmanuel Macron of France)...
• AJ (He/Him) commented on Announcement time!
  My (UK, 70s-80s) experience was that houses where the TV was always on were the working class ones. Middle class houses generally it was only turned on to watch specific things, whereas when I visited working class households they might change channel when a programme finished but it was only turned off when they went to bed. I am fine with background music I don't actively dislike but can't deal with any sort of speech - I'm like Pigeon in that my brain latches onto it and I concentrate on that rather than what I'm trying to do. No longer...
• Mike Collins commented on Announcement time!
  I grew up in a working class house which is probably why I can ignore a TV. My daughter did all her University revision to a background of Star Wars videos. She knew them word for word and could ignore them and keep out background noise. In the gym I can train to any music I don’t like*. In the rare occasions when something I like is played it disturbs my concentration. I don’t as once a member of a gym whose owner occasionally played Jim Reeves songs. He rarely got to the end of the track before there was...