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michiecharlie brooker is brilliant..but he 'd probably criticise me for saying so. his guardian articles are hilarious
mlxI'll look them up!
plastiquemonkeyyet another reason to watch curb your enthusiasm...
winkler1So bloody true.. Megavote!
colinrsays...Fantastic! It is about time television gets out of this 'aspirational' phase. I actually don't mind the rubbish like Friends, The OC and Desperate Housewives - that is just dreck. The programmes I cannot stand are the ones that are more 'in your face' - the 'What Not To Wear' girls as if normal people should really be so concerned about people treating them badly because of their clothes! Would you ever really want to get to know someone better if you knew that they wouldn't have talked to you the first time you met if you'd been wearing some poor fitting or poorly chosen clothes? I wouldn't and in fact finding out that someone made those kind of petty judgements would be the thing that would lead me to conclude I couldn't be friends with, or have a relationship with, that person myself!
The worst example of this is that 'Ten Years Younger' show that takes a normal looking middle aged woman, shows her picture to various passersby on the streets who comment on how ugly and old she looks, then takes her off for clothes, hair, tanning and dental treatments and plastic surgery to try to prove to these various nobodies who gave callous opinions about the woman that she can look as attractive as they seem to want her to be. This all ends with (different) passersby being shown a picture of the 'new and improved' woman and - what a surprise! - they all think she looks younger! Of course she does, leaving aside selective editing that only shows passersby who think the woman looks younger she now has a plastic face, immovable because of all the botox they've pumped into it and is wearing clothes that would look slutty on a 16 year old! Congratulations you don't look your age any more, you look like every other person who's had plastic surgery - whatever happened to growing old gracefully? The fact that this show says more about the pushiness of the presenters and so called experts and the lack of self-worth of the various women somehow never seems to be brought up!
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blahpookExcellent. All of life's problems can be solved in 30-minute sitcom fashion... allowing for commercials, of course.
I'm actually comforted by the fact that "reality" TV is not a true representation of reality.
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