No getting away from it

Jade Goody is dying-have some sympathy.....

Other than that tv is ****E!!!! I spend most of my time on the interweb these days

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Don't worry OP. After a while Jade Goody will be gone from the redtops

aren't there obituaries in the redtops?

markesmith wrote: »

Right, so I was down in Galway this weekend, visiting friends. A good time had by all. Anyway, I woke up today, a bit hungover, and hung around for a few hours.

My friend likes her tellybox, and she reads a lot of the tabloid papers. So she got the News of the World, and settled down with the paper and turned on the TV. I sat down, reading the Observer (lay off now, quality paper).

ITV basically showed about 3 hours non-stop of this Dancing on Ice crap. There were about 8 shows on different channels where people are voted out in some tacky reality TV thing.

I had a glance at the NOTW. Jade Goody, Jade Goody, Jade Goody. Absolute tabloid trash reporting, slightly racist, very sexist, extremely cynical, and dumbed down so that a two-year-old dog would get the point.

Back to the tellybox. Over on RTE1, a cadre of song-and-dance performers trot out the lamest lightweight bullsh*t, to an asinine backing track, all while wearing basketball gear and/or cheerleader costumes.

So to my point. Is this what it's come to? People who regularly consume this soulless, vapid trash need to cop on to themselves. The TV and tabloid press. Gerry Ryan and Adrian Kennedy. Max Clifford and Jade bloody Goody. Kerry Katona and the latest star with an eating disorder. Amy Winehouse's left nostril and Pete Doherty's forearm tracks.

Karl Marx said that 'religion is the opium of the people'. After my Sunday afternoon catching up on what "the great unwashed" do in their leisure time, I'd say that Marx's line needs to be updated.

Am I the only one who thinks that this celebrity-worship, reality TV, vote-me-please culture needs to be stamped out?

Opinions please. Always feels great to get a good rant out.

Wow, I could not have put it better myself. You are a genius.

Mhmm...weetabix wrote: »

Bad fecker! I managed to not make a simular joke...enjoy the abuse!

What are ye all going to do when JG eventually dies. Who are ye going to pick on them. I love the fact once something at all mainstream comes up it immediately turns into JG bashing. Same as any political thread turns into FF bashing. Do i see a trend here.


On the OP's point: my sister-in-law when she got married & went on honeymoon, arranged for her mother & new mother in law to record all her soaps for ten days (Eastenders, Corrie, Emmerdale & Fair City) and then proceeded to watch them in order when she returned. There is something profoundly wrong with that imo.
The other thing that annoys me is when people (usually girls) start talking in details about celebs lives down to the D list. again very strange, people i have never even heard of, they would know the minutae details of their lives.

Local-womanizer wrote: »

We are all dying.


I enjoy reading them tabloids for a good laugh,but thats is about it.

Sunday TV is shocking.With all this Talent shows going for so long you would think they would have found some talent by now!

More talent at the back of my scrotum.

That's what she said. Ooooohhhhh!!!!!

*Hides*

markesmith wrote: »

Jade Goody is untouchable now though, isn't she? I don't think you can knock her anymore. I'd say Jordan and Kerry Katona are looking on and taking notes. Expect the two of them to get hit with something terminal in the next six months. I can only hope!

Bus terminal dropped from outer space should do the job nicely:)

I don't know which gets to me more in threads like this: the snobbery or the whole anti-woman thing. Because that's exactly what it is - people making snide comments about how some woman they know gets a kick out of something that's clearly quite shít, whether it's Coronation Street, Heat magazine, how Angelina and Brad looked at the Golden Globes or what they think about Jade Goody. Why not just change your posts to "I hate stuff that working class people like?" or "Gosh, aren't women stupid?".

People use these things as escapism. In the same way that we can read the New York Times for information or watch a documentary about Iran to understand what's going on in the world, we all do things to switch off. Some people go on the internet (*waves*), some do sport, and a huge chunk of people read magazines or watch television, a lot of which are aimed at a mass-market. Just because they aren't insightful or intellectual in any way doesn't make them bad. In fact, that's the point of them. It's brain-candy.

Hell, look at how many people post here in AH rather than in Humanities or Politics. Why do you do that? I'll bet all the money in my pockets that it's because you want to switch off for a while, have a bit of banter or chat about something that's in the news. What's the difference if someone does this by buying the News of the World?

I fiercely object to the idea that 1) people who do these things are somehow less intelligent or less worthy than people who choose to do other things with their time and 2) that there is anyone who is completely defined by their decisions to watch these crap programmes or read these shít magazines.

People are more than just the things that they do, no matter how tempting it is to go all High Fidelity about it and judge people for having crap taste. Yeah, I mod the Celeb forum, so I'm biased. Meh.

queen-mise wrote: »

On the OP's point: my sister-in-law when she got married & went on honeymoon, arranged for her mother & new mother in law to record all her soaps for ten days (Eastenders, Corrie, Emmerdale & Fair City) and then proceeded to watch them in order when she returned. There is something profoundly wrong with that imo.

Look at this post. Now swap the names of all the soaps that she mentioned for Mad Men or Battlestar Galactica or something else that's been critically acclaimed. She's implying her sister-in-law is an idiot; it it had been some of the shows that I've mentioned, she would have got kudos for her devotion to such a great show.

Tago Mago wrote: »

Look at the bestselling books, music and films. Look at religion. Look at how much Gerry Ryan earns. Jesus f*cking wept.

I hear ya on the Gerry Ryan thing. There's some stuff that not even an intelligent reading of Marx can explain. Maybe if popular culture is meant to subdue us and stop us from rising up and starting a revolution then Gerry Ryan is the gunpowder, the agent provocateur that always brings us right to the brink before we get subdued again. I know I always feel like hitting someone or overthrowing something whenever I hear his smug little voice.