I have got into a bad habit. I usually have a cup of tea at about 10am and I have started watching the television while I drink it.
I can tell that watching TV at 10am is bad, and the Men-in-Black-Suits who control The Media do not want people to do it, by the programmes that are on at that time. Maybe that's part of the reason why I do it. My own little revolution - sticking it to The Man at 10am every morning over a nice cup of tea. Anyway...
It’s all kids’ shows with weird squeaking things running around that I actually find a bit creepy. Or, those tired house-buying programmes, which as about as helpful as those people who keeping going on about how much the value of their house has increased over the last five years (“ooh really? It’s gone up by 12 grand. Thanks for telling me that – do keep me posted”). Or, shows where people (who really should just agree to keep away from each other) come on stage and shout and cry while some haughty presenter tries to tell them to be nicer.
I have been watching the latter. I know, it’s really bad. Jeremy Kyle. The main thing I have noticed about this show is that, when the guests relay things that people have said to them, they always say that the person “turned around” before saying it.
It’s always “she turned around and called me a ferret chucker”, or “you turned around and told me to go suck a sausage”, or whatever.
Maybe if these people faced each other from time to time instead having to turn around and say stuff these misunderstandings might not happen and then they wouldn’t have to go on TV and get patronised by JK?
I really need to go back to listening to Radio 4. It wouldn’t happen on Woman’s Hour.
7 comments:
Reading this post I said to myself at least shes not admitting to watching Jeremy Vile. It's not all bad but then low and behold... LOL!
I cannot bare that man or his show. I watched it when it first came on air for a couple of weeks but then couldnt bring myself to any more.
Theres recently been stories in the press - which I am sure you've heard about - where there are claims that researchers are aggrevating situations. It doesnt really surprise me at all!
The best thing would be for them to literally turn around and head out the nearest exit.
I haven't actually watched the JK show- but from memory, whereas American shows of similar ilk (Jerry Springer et al) tend towards the outrageous ('I fathered my transvestite mother-in-law's poodle'), on this side of the pond it was more on the level of 'So- you don't like the same cheese...'.
I daresay things haven't improved much. I guess it's the famous for fifteen minutes syndrome. It's a shame some people can't find something more worthwhile to be famous for. It's also a shame that of recent years the media has force-fed us the whole celebrity thing, to the degree that people are seemingly willing to demean themselves just to be on the telly, and- in their minds perhaps- a minor celeb for about five minutes.
I'm now climbing down off my soap box with a plea for the occasional programme in which people are actually NICE to each other. And not a weird squeaking thing in sight...
I am glad groovybabe cannot bare Jeremy Kyle as I am sure he would be even worse naked than he is when dressed.
That aside, I used to think that watching TV in the daytime was a bad thing to do, then I realized I was wrong: watching TV at any time is a really bad thing to do. I am sure it turns the brain to mush.
We haven't watched TV for years. In fact, we don't even have a TV set. We put it outside and the "garden fairies" took it, bless 'em.
If I'm not mistaken Channel 4 +1 should have old episodes of Frasier on at 10am.
Of course they have to turn around - it's because they're talking out of their arses.
When I had my office at home, I had a rule not to turn the TV on during working hours. It felt like if I turned the TV on it would be a slippery slope to sloth, unemployment and a life lived on the sofa, stubbing out cigarettes into an empty Stella Artois can, clutched between my lardy thighs precisely for that purpose, so I have my hand free to prevent the half drunk can from falling off my left knee and onto the floor.
Given that I neither drink, nor smoke, you can see the magnitude of the threat posed by the TV.
I know what you mean about children's television. What happened to the good stuff, like Henry's Cat, Inspector Gadget, Fraggle Rock, or Poddington Peas?
I miss all that.
I can't stand these 'talk' (or rather scream) shows either. I don't know about anyone else, but the idea of airing dirty laundry on television is too voyeuristic. I think anonymous was right about the 'fifteen minutes of fame'.
Cheers,
Mike
Post a Comment