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Posts: 1686 (30/10/09 11:10:33) |
I'm all out of ideas Biggie, my clubbing legs have buckled, recreational drugs have burnt out me head and I'm finding myself attending more weddings.
It's like I'm in some sort of waiting room for where you are at the moment! |
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Lake Palmer aka Monk |
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Posts: 7475 (30/10/09 11:34:46) out-funnied by Big C
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Its fucking me off Location Location Location The Same fricking Location as it should now be called.
The last two episodes - I've seen already. I hate this revisited malarkey. If thats what it is and not just the fact every episode is the same. The only bit I like is trying to guess whether Phil goes Coffee, pint (ale), red wine as they 'make that call' And I'm not apologising for going low brow here...theres been about 4 pages of some politics blah di blah.. One of the singers from JLS took Stacey Solomon on a date to...Nando's! have that for keeping it real. And Joey...you loving Graeme ? Oh yeh, your one hot momma with a body that just won't quit! Classic. Can we have some F-U-N today folks ??? And crazy weekend plans that just won't quit ? |
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Posts: 1934 (30/10/09 11:41:32) |
See Jamie broke the 8.30pm curfew - he's in one one hell of a ticking off. He'll be red faced on Saturday night.
Anyway, my wife has stopped watching X Factor until the twins have gone, means I don't have to get to the pub so early now. |
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Big House |
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Posts: 3460 (30/10/09 11:57:16)
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Aidan, at this stage you need to be thinking about withdrawing from friends & family and spending a lot of time cocooned inside your flat watching reality
TV. You probably also want to develop a heightened sense of general suspicion. Have you considered moving into nurses' accommodation?
Flash, get yourself on "Eastbound & Down." FX Thursday nights. Some of the rest of you may like it too. |
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Lake Palmer aka Monk |
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Posts: 7476 (30/10/09 11:57:40) out-funnied by Big C
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Apparently they recieved more votes than all the other contestants combined last week.
Pop will eat its self. I think if they didn't have such good voices they would be trouble. |
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Posts: 2690 (30/10/09 11:59:26) Fingers A Green Bird |
You know what, I don't mean to get all deep and meaningful but I actually think X Factor is a great TV programme, not even in an ironic way.
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Lake Palmer aka Monk |
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Posts: 7478 (30/10/09 12:18:24) out-funnied by Big C
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Exactly Simba and if The Tone Deaf Twins win it will be disaster for Cowell (well when i say disaster he's made trillions from it so its not exactly of
Gudmunson proportions). As the beast he created turns on him. By manipulating every second of the show and its viewing public Cowell thought he had it licked.
Total control but then by some bizzare twist these fuckwits have pitched up and the credibility of the show and everything is at stake.
How exciting. |
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Posts: 3973 (30/10/09 12:25:27) Gary "bastard Cunting" Speed |
Lump on those squaddies for Christmas #1 for sure. And one of them was an X Factor trialist! The irony adds another twist.
Stick a monkey on it, monster, monster. |
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A Man of Constant Sorrow |
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Posts: 7624 (30/10/09 13:59:06) Got his
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I couldn't put it better than this quote from Popbitch: "You've got to love that X Factor time of year. No other institution has managed such a
carefully controlled media assault - not even New Labour in its prime. You can almost see their PR spreadsheet boxes being ticked with the same series of
stories each year. Contestants' romance - ah yes. Bullying? Tick. Judges' arguments? Yes, again."
So I won't... I'm just astonished anybody would be happy to be manipulated in this most cynical of ways. Apart from Monk, obviously - who would appear to relish the experience. So here's the question: Why is it that as a nation we're all fed up of the cynical, lying manipulation of politicians - but the same people flock to lap up this brain atrophying bullshit? |
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Rattus Rattus |
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Posts: 80 (30/10/09 14:10:42) |
The average viewer do not realise that they are being manipulated with X Factor, they do with politicians.
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Chicken Run Charlie |
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Posts: 395 (30/10/09 14:14:02) |
Because 'the public wants what the public gets'.
Independant thought - that was so 70's |
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A Man of Constant Sorrow |
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Posts: 7625 (30/10/09 14:18:00) Got his
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So we agree - X Factor is the ultimate paean to stupidity - so cynical in fact, that it preys on those too stupid to have developed an ounce of cynicism
themselves?
"The public gets what the public wants..." |
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The Skerrit |
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Posts: 4381 (30/10/09 14:45:10)
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Because once you realise all of the above and don't bother to vote, it becomes just a harmless TV show that's a bit of fun. It's a rather nice feeling being sat in front of your TV with your entire family around you, vociferously cunting off a pair of Irish twins. And another thing. The winner of the show doesn't go on to fuck up the country for five years. They get a Christmas No.1, then you never hear from them again until they pop up on Dancing on Ice. (Leona Lewis excepted) It's just a Saturday Night TV show. Nothing more, nothing less. Hughie Green's made them, Bruce Forsyth made them. Even Jim Davidson made them. It's just chewing gum for the brain..... Of course it's cynical and manipulated. What isn't? |
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SD |
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Posts: 1935 (30/10/09 14:52:57) |
I have a friend who earns a fortune working for a high st retailer that you will all have heard of, he heads a new venture of theirs starting up a new chain of
shops. He is far from stupid BUT he loves X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing and all that shit - the reason being that after a week of solid work travelling
around the country having his head fucked up by dim-witted shop workers he can switch off completely by watching these programs and they stop him thinking
about work. Until his weekly figures start arriving via his Blackberry.
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Lake Palmer aka Monk |
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Posts: 7479 (30/10/09 14:59:22) out-funnied by Big C
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Your right Skerrit, of course we know its all a load of old shit but there is a lot to love about it.
Its 90% by chance but the whole production , the whole creation of brand X factor is fucking genius. I can only thing of Take That who captured as many peoples attention and devotion in recent times with as little natural talent. If an election campaign was run with the same stratgies and as calculated as X factor they would have a landslide of a victory. |
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Lake Palmer aka Monk |
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Posts: 7480 (30/10/09 15:02:25) out-funnied by Big C
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SD I don't agree with that , a film , a football match, a book can all do that same brain out of head type thing. But there is something about X factor,
whether its Cowell or the fact everyones else watches it or the fact someone is going to get humiliated or that someone normal might become a hero or all of
those reasons that makes it goodviewing.
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A Man of Constant Sorrow |
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Posts: 7626 (30/10/09 15:13:32) Got his
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Switch off? SWITCH OFF?
It's exactly that avalanche of naked cuntery we are all swamped by on a daily basis that means I don't want yet more on the fucking telly! X Factor is not harmless - it's an insidious, cynical nastiness that encourages thousands of demi-morons to cheerfully humiliate themselves in front of millions just for their 12 seconds of "fame" in a unpleasant parody of The Hopefuls on The Word. And that's just the contestants. By watching the programme in order to laugh at these hapless cretins in a sad attempt to gain some self-worth the viewers will paradoxically watch their already fragile self-esteem crumble in a welter of self-loathing, bitterness and hatred. "Ooh look at the Twins daddy - they're hateful - but it least they're famous - unlike me with me miserable life on a miserable estate and my pathetic need to do anything, ANYTHING other than to face up to the complete and total banality of my worthless existence." But all is not lost, if you really want harmless enjoyment that isn't cynical or manipulative there are so many better alternatives - go for a walk in the park with the family, do a good turn for an elderly neighbour or plant something in the garden. You could even pickle some onions and give them to all your friends - but only if you're really desperate...
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Posts: 7627 (30/10/09 15:15:29) Got his
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Lake Palmer aka Monk wrote:What does that make you, the viewer, Monk? |
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SD |
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Posts: 1936 (30/10/09 15:18:50) |
Monk, it doesn't really matter to be honest - that's why he watches it; switch off from work time. Maybe it's the compelling thing that allows him
to switch off from work. BTW, I don't buy into the notion that only stupid people watch it, I know many who watch it who are far from stupid and hold down
excellent jobs.
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Lake Palmer aka Monk |
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Posts: 7481 (30/10/09 15:21:46) out-funnied by Big C
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A bit of a sadist at watching others misfortune, sense of humour for laughing at Cowell's big bad wolf impression, a romantic for enjoying seeing someone
do well, a sheep for wanting to watch what everyone else is watching, a bit lazy for not bothering to rent a film, loan a book, meet with friends and finally a
perve for thinking every 3 mins you do realise Damian that beneath those clothes Danni Minogue is naked...
I'm all those things and more baby! |
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