Let me explain. We’ve got a telly that automatically turns on subtitles when we hit Mute. And we hit Mute a lot: to play something exciting that’s just popped up on the internet, to leave the telly on while doing something else (because brightly lit moving wallpaper is brilliant), or when one of those adverts with babies in it comes on.
Poor J-Lo :-(
So it’s a very clever and helpful feature, but the subtitles do tend to get stuck if we’ve changed channels since the last time we muted. Like in these examples. The first one got a warm reception when I tweeted it back in July so I’ve been saving them up since then. Just for you.
Some of Gary's X Factor judgements were a bit harsh this year
No, that's Gail's actual hair
Yet another quirky video treatment from Will Young
Alan Carr and Tulisa consider how different things might have been
Diana Vickers has an AMAZING secret to share with us
haha I always hate it when subs are wrong. (I live in the netherlands, so I get dutch subs with every english show)
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