Is this what television and computers were invented for?

Just clicked "videos" on youtube and this is what i was greeted with..

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/7972/picture5b.png

I've never seen anything so trivial dominate conversation and media so much as this years X-Factor.
But I have to follow it so I can keep up with the conversation in work..

Sheeps

News at 10: People like X-factor.

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No

Senna

Yep, sick to death listening to it. But as they say "the masses are asses".

Captain Havoc

Youtube suggests pages that would be similar to what you've previously looked up. If someone else is sharing your computer give them a stern look now!

If not hang your head

jerseyeire

jerseyeire wrote: »

Youtube suggests pages that would be similar to what you've previously looked up. If someone else is sharing your computer give them a stern look now!

Thought that was only on main page?

loldog

I bet Alan Turing would have been a big fan of X Factor.

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Gummy Panda

No, they were invented for porn.

Captain Havoc

Deleted User wrote: »

Thought that was only on main page?

My humblest apologies for any potential embarrasment, just took another look there and realised it was the most popular pages.

Mossy Monk

Deleted User wrote: »

But I have to follow it so I can keep up with the conversation in work..

No you don't. When at work and I hear such conversations I go to the canteen for some water.

Mike 1972

Deleted User wrote: »

But I have to follow it so I can keep up with the conversation in work..

Why bother ? Maybe everyone else in work is watching it for the same reason either way why waste your life watching mindless drivel on TV when the mindless drivel on the internet is so much better.

Up until a couple of months ago I thought "Jordan" was a river/country in the middle east

When at work and I hear such conversations I go to the canteen for some water.

Something stronger would really be more appropriate but youd probably be sacked for it ?

jumpguy

Deleted User wrote: »

But I have to follow it so I can keep up with the conversation in work..

Same! I keep track of it, and watch some of the performances, say I have favourites even though I don't give a shite (although Jamie was class, such a pity).

But that's beyond the joke. I also hate the fact that X-Factor dominates the TV for a huge chunk of the weekend.

Mossy Monk

Mossy Monk wrote: »

No you don't. When at work and I hear such conversations I go to the canteen for some water.

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Why bother ? Maybe everyone else in work is watching it for the same reason either way waste your ime watching mindless drivel on TV when the mindless drivel on the internet is so much better.

Up until a couple of months ago I thought "Jordan" was a river/country in the middle east

I'm the newest on my floor at work, even though I've been there over a year, and I'm a good 7-10 years younger than the average so unlike most conversations the people around me have, at least I can have an opinion on this topic..

I don't care about mortgages, kids or sick parents so X-Factor does the trick these days since I sit opposite three girls.
Sport and cars is all I have in common with the lads. They don't drink Buckfast or listen to French Techno.

brummytom

TV was invented for entertainment. Computers were invented (well, in a commercial sense) for spreading information/news/opinions.

People find X Factor entertaining, and exchange their views on it.

So I do think to some extent, yes, this is what television and computers were invented for.

touché brummy

The thing I hate the absolute most about this tripe is that it's timed specifically to end at just the right time so the "artist" is guaranteed a Christmas number one single.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Karsini wrote: »

The thing I hate the absolute most about this tripe is that it's timed specifically to end at just the right time so the "artist" is guaranteed a Christmas number one single.

I don't Chirstmas number ones have any esteem at all these days, so who cares when it's timed for.

Liam Byrne

Deleted User wrote: »

But I have to follow it so I can keep up with the conversation in work..

That's where you're wrong.......the compulsion to be fans of whatever the kids are brainwashed into viewing as cool went out with the stone age, or at least at secondary school.

Now I've no problem saying "No, I don't watch it - each to their own but I can't stand it".

I even said as much to a cutie on Facebook last night; not sure she'll be back in touch, but that's who I am, and I won't be fake !!!!

If more people like you stood up against the brainwashed masses there might be some hope of convincing the newspapers and radio media that Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh know as much about proper music as I do about childbirth!

PR, publicity, spin : they're experts; music and talent : they haven't a f**king clue.

Sure they use the suffix "band" as if it never had anything to do with .... well .... playing instruments. :rolleyes:

orourkeda

I bought my laptop to watch naked women w*nking and not to listen to Louis Walsh w*nking on about Jedward.

mikom

orourkeda wrote: »

I bought my laptop to watch naked women w*nking

Solo stuff just doesn't do it for me.

Gummy Panda

mikom wrote: »

Solo stuff just doesn't do it for me.

what if it was a naked woman flicking to two other naked women who are lezing out on each other?

tech77

Sheeps wrote: »

News at 10: People like X-factor.

Why is the news at 10 on at 11?

m@cc@

Deleted User wrote: »

But I have to follow it so I can keep up with the conversation in work..

BS. Find a new job.

mikom

Gummy Panda wrote: »

what if it was a naked woman flicking to two other naked women who are lezing out on each other?

Better

m@cc@

m@cc@ wrote: »

BS. Find a new job.

lol good career advice.