Eating with the Enemy, Virgin Media One

tea and coffee wrote: »

I feel like that bald lad is very naive.

Yeah he is and I think that is going mark the success of the show - they are all living in their own little bubbles and probably hear very few dissenting opinions face to face. Its one thing arguing on line where there are clear people in your tribe and against your tribe, its different when you have to look them in the eye and they are actually OK people with different views. Good to add a bit of humanity to these voices.

They really touched a nerve with the right wing young lad when they brought up the love and affection question, felt sorry for him on that one.

I thought this was awful. None of them seemed to have a clue about their arguments or worldview.

What was the fat lad with the tattoos meant to be standing for? Was he just there as a caricature of toxic masculinity?

Cringed everytime the right wing guy repeated J when saying Donald Trump. He kept doing it. I've seen people online do the same, he was giving me discount Ben Shapiro vibes. As for the guy with the Nigerian background, less said the better. Its not easy to discuss issues like this especially when your worldview is being put under the spotlight but again just seems like he's parroting others opinions. We all do it but I think it shows when a certain viewpoint has not been scrutinised enough.

The libertarian was coming out with the most generic small government statements ever with cookie cutter claims about "improved efficency" Everyone is entitled to their views that sit with them intuitively but just felt so shallow.

But tbf, the conversation format was just shallow. Whether it was the cuts or what it just came out looking very threadbare.
BTW, I think prompters like they used in the show would be a cool addition in a type of bar. Good for the convo.

tea and coffee wrote: »

God that tattoo guy is so rude and condescending.

The biggest ass on it tonight. when he made that comment about Jesus bleeding. I wanted to jump tru the TV and punch his teeth in.
Couldnt believe someone would even say something like that to a stranger let alone while sharing a meal with them. IDIOT


I taught it was a good show.. Priest was excellent and closed with an nice little speach about Bonnie.
Will definitely keep watching but the format will definitely produce some absolute morons.


That lad talking about making all schools private and the public paying for homeless housing doesnt live in the same world as me.

Seems to be a fair few reality TV rejects on this judging by the ad for it. Bashir from last night was on Tommy Tiernan bemoaning how racist the world is and how oppressed he is yet hes a law lecturer in DCU, quite a good position to be in, Hughie was on first dates last week and will be on this next week, I think Phil from Tallafornia will be on too, I'm sure there was 1 or 2 more I spotted that I cant remember now.

Also it moved way too fast. I'd have liked to see more of how the conversation developed instead of just highlight quotes.

Drag queen and priest seemed like a good chat, we just didnt see enough of it.

I watched, so far no massive arguments in this series.

Just watching this now.

The girl with short hair was alright (the singer), off with ya ride who you like, that fella with all the surgery and dyed hair, is seriously painful he has been in so many reality shows, desperate for any fame. Definition of an attention whore. I don't for a second believe he has any deeply held beliefs let alone is a devout catholic. Chicken this chicken that....eugh...the guardian "who is dat?!"...

The online health and fitness coach...you could have just said unemployed...the moustache and turtle neck..he looked like a Poundland bond villain. Painful. Pseudo intellectual nonsense. Overuse of air quotes.
The guy with the beard seemed to ramble about, but he stood his ground and made some fair points, maybe overegged things a tad...he needs to cheer up.

Student business guy, seemed pretty intelligent and very much of his generation. Clearly on for publicity bullsh#t buzz words a go go, I find that insanely painful, it's constant working in IT.
The yummy mummy "in my house we focus on experiences" - a bit out of touch with reality.
Nothing wrong with monitoring use on technology I guess...but you need to give a 16yo some leeway.
She has to be realistic, but she wasn't for moving.

David, the older fella, felt like he was on the wrong show, it was really awkward, he had a weird air of aggression about him. Men's rights now...rrrright. I don't think his generation had much to complain about when it comes to men not having equal rights..his opinions on toxic masculinity were bizarre.
The guy who has an opinion on everything was fairly flustered and confused looking occasionally, but he held his own though mostly and seemed a decent fella.

cozar wrote: »

Find it hard to believe that the mum isn’t allowing her son to go on social media at nearly 16.! Tough times ahead for her for sure.

She came across as the controlling type

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I'm not sure what age you are but I'm nearly 29 and Bebo has being around since I was about 12 and I knew parents like that lady.
Their kids were nearly always on social media and had lots of secret from their parents and they couldn't talk to them.
Those who did obey them generally went of the rails at college or went off with 40 year old men.

She should let them navigate through the ups and downs of social media themselves and not control it otherwise it will backfire on her.

Ava von rose, never heard of her until now. the lips are awful, how can anyone think they look good?