I am currently in exile from my television, waiting for the news to come on (honest!), but earlier I had the misfortune to catch the warm-up to this year's series of Big Brother (UK) and it made me want to resign my position as a sentient being.
I'm not a cultural snob by any means (in this forum alone I've admitted to liking the Powerpuff Girls and the B52s) and I'd probably like to be famous as much as the next insecure, attention-seeker... but what is it that drives these people to humiliate themselves on national television for nothing more than a chance at an audition for the show? It reminds me of the William S. Burroughs story Spare Ass Annie in which freaks are placed upon the highest hill in the land to display their inadequacies to God, so that he wouldn't think the human race was getting above itself.
I'm not going to rant against the show, because I do have an "off" button on my TV... I do not, however, have an "off" button on my mother, who will now gossip about the housemates for the next few months as if I have the faintest clue what she's talking about... and then she'll complain about how it isn't good as it was last year, but she'll keep watching it anyway!!
Grrrr!
Sorry.
D...
I'm not a cultural snob by any means (in this forum alone I've admitted to liking the Powerpuff Girls and the B52s) and I'd probably like to be famous as much as the next insecure, attention-seeker... but what is it that drives these people to humiliate themselves on national television for nothing more than a chance at an audition for the show? It reminds me of the William S. Burroughs story Spare Ass Annie in which freaks are placed upon the highest hill in the land to display their inadequacies to God, so that he wouldn't think the human race was getting above itself.
I'm not going to rant against the show, because I do have an "off" button on my TV... I do not, however, have an "off" button on my mother, who will now gossip about the housemates for the next few months as if I have the faintest clue what she's talking about... and then she'll complain about how it isn't good as it was last year, but she'll keep watching it anyway!!
Grrrr!
Sorry.
D...
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