Watching TV with a "Flipper."

That is really exciting... I mean for a change... the Male has the remote I wish dad and bro read this Always been a female territory at my dad's place... And I dont have a Television. Btw, mom can handle 7 channels at a go and she keeps track of almost all her soaps most of which are aired at the same time... Ladies are born with such great powers...

I leave it alone most times unless I have already seent he show then I look for one I havent seen They seem to repeat teh movies several times thru the month What I dont like if am watching some thing and someone comes in and changes the channel like son in law and hiis wrestling nights here in the puter room not like we dont have 5 tvs lololollol

This is a problem that, I'm sad to say, will never be solved. Men "hunt", women "nest". This, unfortunately, is no more obvious than when the two genders are watching TV together. Men are always 'hunting' for a better channel while women find something even semi-interesting and they will stop and 'nest', getting whatever they can from that one channel before moving on. This is a phemonomena that I noticed decades ago and gave a lot of thought to, since it affects almost every male and every female who watch TV. So, it's always better to have two TV's in a house with a man and a woman.

My ex was natorious for flippin'. Used to drive me crazy. I'd get interested in a program and then I would never know if we would get back to it or not. It was as if I wasn't there at all. Funny thing is now I am one. I can't stand the stupid commercials they have on and how many of them there so I am forever flipping through. And I like to flip ahead and see what I want to schedule in for later watching. I watch my own tv in my room so it isn't like I am bother anyone else.

I think it was a Seinfeld joke that men are more interested in what else is on then what is on, while women like to watch a program to it's completion. It doesn't make much sense but..... I remember when I had a TV with many stations. I was constantly checking to see what else was on.

i don't have this habit, but my youngest brother has it. He always liked to change channels during commercials and we end up missing certain parts of the show we were originally watching, so it was quite irritating to me. However, since the advancement of video streaming on the internet, i've hardly watched tv as internet videos don't have commercials and can be played back anytime i want. So this issue of "flipping" hardly affects me now.

It's a boy thing and most of them do it, I have no idea why. I would just love to have gone in to watch TV with my b/f when he was watching a game and start flipping through the channels the way he does when I would be watching something. I stopped watching TV with him and got on the computer instead...only problem there was, when his game or show was over, I was expected to hand the computer over with a smile because it was "his turn now."

I leave the television on a station and can be irritated by a flipper! But I live alone, so the only one who does it with me, is my granddaughter. She is usually in control of the TV when she is here, and I am usually on the computer, but sometimes I pay attention to something she is watching. It is bad enough that she watches programs that I think don't need to be on the TV, but it seems when I actually get interested in a show, she changes the channel. We might be watching a music video, and then we are watching one of those shows made for teens, then back to seeing if she can find another video she likes. BUT, since she has the remote in her hand, I just so with it and get back to the computer!!

Oh, wow!!! I just hate it when they do that. I just get up and leave the room and go read a book. I will not sit there with a "flipper". If it's ADD then I know a lot of people with ADD!!!

my son is like that. i will see something hes watched a few minutes then he will start flipping and so i just go in my room and watch it if i got interested i think its a man thing. ive only seen one woman ever do that and she was man like. never seen another one do it.

Hi JeninTN, I have never of the expression "flipper". But I have to admit that I am a "flipper"..I have the urge to change channel during a commerical..My daughter is an adult and she refuse to watch TV wiht me..But I have watched up to 3 shows atonce by changing back and forth...But being that I am use to watching TV alone it had just become a habit. I can watch 2 shows at once but I sometimes have trouble chewing gum and walking at the same time....LOL LOL LOL

no, i don't watch tv much anymore. when that happens when i'm with a flipper, i would stop watching and do something else or grab the remote away from the flipper.

I think I am "Flipper".I didn't know there is a word for that till now haha But I only do it when I am watching music channels.Sometimes I change even the songs I like just to see what songs are on the other music channels.It doesn't make sense but I still do it.

Oh man, the flipping thing bothers me so much. It's like, hey, this is a perfectly good program, why are you changing it?! But cue commercial break, nope, screw these commercials, let's find something that has a show on right now. It's so annoying, I have to fight the urge to rip the remote away from anyone who does it.

Jen. Jen. Jne. I think that this is a man thing. My husband drives me crazy with this thing. He was so excited when we got a deluxe cable package that has 150 cable channels. My response? Oh great. Then we can watch 1 minute of 150 television shows. Just about the time something catches my interest, he changes the channel. I thought that I was alone until I brought this up in conversaton with a group of girl friends. Every single one of them had the same complaint.

I would find that extremely frustrating too. I'm definitely not a flipper. If I'm watching something, that's what I'm watching. If I get tired of that and want to watch something else, I pull up the guide and pick something and go to it. I never just randomly flip from channel to channel and I certainly wouldn't change the channel without first asking everyone else that was watching TV with me. That's being rude. I will occasionally flip back and forth between a couple of channels if there is more than one thing on that I'm interested in. Usually, it's sports. For instance, I might be watching a football game and flip over to NASCAR now and then or vise versa, but I go back to the original program after a bit. What does your bf do if you're watching a movie? Can he watch the whole thing with you? I can't imagine someone flipping away in the middle of a good movie. I think I'd have to take that remote away and put it...somewhere...

My ex used to do that and it drove me crazy. I would just start to get interested in a program and he would switch it. He never watched a commercial, so all those companies were spending money for nothing as far as he was concerned. When an add would come on, it was time to switch. I do that alot myself, but only if I am alone. If I am watching tv with someone else, I don't change it, and if I do I ask them first.

I am a flipper myself! Sometimes I would find myself watching a semi-boring show, and then realize that I was watching another semi-boring show on another channel. That I've gone through a lot of 'flips' that I forgot the original show that I was in. I think it's in the DNA of guys! Unless of course we're watching a game of our favorite sports team.

Since the first time I have DVR about six to seven years ago, I've been putting favorite shows on my DVR list. When I watch any of them, I just fast forward through the commercials. With many people having DVR nowadays, the chances for people flipping channels or flippers as you call it seem to lessen. What could be as worse as flippers is hoggers (could be anything), which people that record lots and lots of shows until there is no space left in the DVR. You may have a DVR or may not necessarily need one. When I don't have anything to watch, I flip through few channels. Usually, I just happen to know or familiar with few channels I flip. Maybe your boyfriend needs to know what to watch.

Hahaha.. really funny experience i think, watching a program television with a flipper. sometime, when i was alone, i was a flipper, i would like to change the channel when i started boring, and when i changed the channel, it needed more than 3 minutes to find another program in another channel. and i often back to the first channel. hehehe.. i would like to watch television alone than with a flipper. i am sure that we will not be able to watch the television well.