Soap operas and reality TV - what's the big f**king deal??

Viktor · Post by **Viktor** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 7:40 pm

Is it just me or does anyone else fail to see the appeal of such shows???

Myself and Mrs. Viktor hardly ever see each other in the evenings when Big Brother and Eastenders are on as I don't see the point of it at all and go off to play FO:T and CS.....

As someone who has plenty of REAL stuff to occupy my time (work/money/kids/tax returns/friends/PC games/etc...), why am I even remotely expected to give a flying f**k about the lives of fictional characters in a soap opera or a group of attention seeking c**ts who've allowed themselves to be locked up and constantly monitored for 10 weeks????

Chris(is evil) · Post by **Chris(is evil)** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 8:26 pm

i cant stand big brother. Its boring and unfunny

Crow of Ill Omen · Post by **Crow of Ill Omen** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 9:00 pm

They're aimed at people whose methods of occupying time include watching TV. I don't like Big Brother either. The only time people like that enter my reality is when a group of drama students get drunk on the table next to mine in the pub.

Rat Keeng · Post by **Rat Keeng** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 9:36 pm

I voted IT'S BOLLOCKS!

I usually watch 2, 3 sometimes 4 hours of TV a week, unless there's some big event like the World Cup on. I've watched, all put together, about 1 hour of Big Brother, and for me that's 55 minutes too much. Cram a bunch of attention whores in a building, and watch them! Ooohh, the excitement is unbearable. OMG u can c them nude in da shower, OMG OMG OMG.

Most TV is pointless drivel in my opinion, with very few exceptions.

Viktor · Post by **Viktor** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 9:36 pm

Crow of Ill Omen wrote:They're aimed at people whose methods of occupying time include watching TV. I don't like Big Brother either. The only time people like that enter my reality is when a group of drama students get drunk on the table next to mine in the pub.

Hopefully, you do the decent thing and kick the shit out of them!!

Crow of Ill Omen · Post by **Crow of Ill Omen** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 9:43 pm

Viktor wrote:
Crow of Ill Omen wrote:They're aimed at people whose methods of occupying time include watching TV. I don't like Big Brother either. The only time people like that enter my reality is when a group of drama students get drunk on the table next to mine in the pub.
Hopefully, you do the decent thing and kick the shit out of them!!

Generally I just sit there resenting the fact they're better looking and have more money than me, waiting for the day guns become legal over here.

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 9:47 pm

Vote: It's Bollocks!!!

I think that Big Brother and shows like it are a sign that people lead boring and uninteresting lives and have to rely on mass media for stimulation. Note all of the people that said things along the lines of, "It looked like something out of an action movie," when the WTC was hit. I'm beginning to wonder if people are cognizant that they are watching actual persons on these shows.

BTW Viktor, if the missus is distracted by the televisor and this allows you some time to yourself in order to game and it doesn't cut into your "growing closer" - to use a Heinleinism - I wouldn't bitch.

OTB

Viktor · Post by **Viktor** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 9:48 pm

Crow of Ill Omen wrote:
Generally I just sit there resenting the fact they're better looking and have more money than me, waiting for the day guns become legal over here.

In England, drama students are officially classed as vermin and can therefore be killed legally by trapping, poisoning and shooting. Some old fashioned pubs do insist on them being sodomised to death with pool cues in the tradional East End manner.

Crow of Ill Omen · Post by **Crow of Ill Omen** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 9:52 pm

The trouble is, they're in a group and I'm on my own, and all that dance class makes some of them into strapping lads. Serves me right for drinking around Chelsea, I suppose.

Red · Post by **Red** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 10:02 pm

ONly thing I watch on TV is a movie here and there, some late night cartoons on "Teletoon" on weekends, Discovery and TLC.

What I really hate is the damn commercials... I wish my digital tuner could at least lower the volume on them.

Viktor · Post by **Viktor** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 10:15 pm

Crow of Ill Omen wrote:The trouble is, they're in a group and I'm on my own, and all that dance class makes some of them into strapping lads. Serves me right for drinking around Chelsea, I suppose.

By the number of drama students allowed out during daylight, I take it you mean the King's Road, rather than Stamford Bridge.....

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 10:24 pm

If they did it differently it would be a good show:

First everyone is mentally un-stable, and the actual house has plain grey walls, small windows and a small bedroom and no toilet. Each week they get rations, except it misses out one person so they have to fight over it or something. Also each week instead of the stupid 'tasks' the house is set on fire, rabid dogs are sent into the house, or they aren't allowed to sleep (something similair] and finally instead of the evictions, they are dropped into a maze and given knives and stuff and blood has to be slipt on the floor for them to go back in the house.

All I watch on T.V is cartoons.

Viktor · Post by **Viktor** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 10:34 pm

Pyro wrote:If they did it differently it would be a good show:

First everyone is mentally un-stable, and the actual house has plain grey walls, small windows and a small bedroom and no toilet. Each week they get rations, except it misses out one person so they have to fight over it or something. Also each week instead of the stupid 'tasks' the house is set on fire, rabid dogs are sent into the house, or they aren't allowed to sleep (something similair] and finally instead of the evictions, they are dropped into a maze and given knives and stuff and blood has to be slipt on the floor for them to go back in the house.

Now THAT'S a show I'd watch!!!

Crow of Ill Omen · Post by **Crow of Ill Omen** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 10:45 pm

Viktor wrote:
Crow of Ill Omen wrote:The trouble is, they're in a group and I'm on my own, and all that dance class makes some of them into strapping lads. Serves me right for drinking around Chelsea, I suppose.
By the number of drama students allowed out during daylight, I take it you mean the King's Road, rather than Stamford Bridge.....

I'll let you in on one of football's best kept secrets: most of the crowd at Stamford Bridge is made up from those drama students. The club's reputation for trouble is based mainly on catty remarks about the opposition away kits.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 10:59 pm

I'm not sure, but I think our Canal+ offers us a channel called "Big Brother"... Haven't watched it, so I don't really know what the fuck it is about. But anyways, the NAME sounds nice

Viktor · Post by **Viktor** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 12:15 am

Crow of Ill Omen wrote: I'll let you in on one of football's best kept secrets: most of the crowd at Stamford Bridge is made up from those drama students. The club's reputation for trouble is based mainly on catty remarks about the opposition away kits.

I'm telling all my Arsenal fan mates that! Should make their next match quite entertaining.....

Wesley Sonck · Post by **Wesley Sonck** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 12:24 am

Viktor wrote:
As someone who has plenty of REAL stuff to occupy my time (work/money/kids/tax returns/friends/PC games/etc...), why am I even remotely expected to give a flying f**k about the lives of fictional characters in a soap opera or a group of attention seeking c**ts who've allowed themselves to be locked up and constantly monitored for 10 weeks????

Well, just like Pop Music, the TOP 40 Charts and Old Folks Homes, these things exist to keep the masses stupid and easy to control. I take some pride in that i have never EVER watched a reality program.

That might have sounded a bit Deus-Ex like paranoid, but, it could be right>>> who knows?

Viktor · Post by **Viktor** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 4:48 am

Who answered "I live in a septic tank..."????

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 4:54 am

Chris(is evil) · Post by **Chris(is evil)** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 4:58 am

talking of shit shows what survivour series are we on now? it seems that these shows are getting shitter and shitter

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