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What age were you when you realised Reality TV was total bulls**t?

  • 21-04-2011 03:23PM
    #1
    ucdmike
    Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭


    I'm proud to say I was 7 about 1 year after I realised Star Wars was total bulls**t.


Comments

  • #2
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Where's the 'it's a ghey day on boards.ie ' option ?


  • #3
    Kells...
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Kells...


    Is this the day of the What age were you when you realised threads?


  • #4
    Bobjims
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Bobjims


    As soon as big brother started. So I think I was around 12.


  • #5
    Davei141
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,541 ✭✭✭Davei141


    ucdmike wrote: »
    I'm proud to say I was 7 about 1 year after I realised Star Wars was total bulls**t.

    Star wars...reality television? what?


  • #6
    kfallon
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    2!


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  • #7
    jester77
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    ucdmike wrote: »
    I'm proud to say I was 7 about 1 year after I realised Star Wars was total bulls**t.

    I still find rte news to be reliable and informative, not a fan of Sky News though. They really sensationalise everything.


  • #8
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    ucdmike wrote: »
    Star Wars was total bulls**t.


    what the FUCK?!?!?!?


  • #9
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,944 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Davei141 wrote: »
    Star wars...reality television? what?

    +1 :confused:


  • #10
    Buceph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Buceph


    Reality television didn't exist when I was a kid, it's really a quite modern invention. While I'm sure that there are plenty of shows we could look back on an retroactively categorise as "Reality TV" it didn't get a name and follow a pattern until I was well into my teens. It started off as "Fly on the wall" documentaries. I think Airport on the BBC where they followed people around in Heathrow was the first huge series that really launched that style of show (at least in the British/Irish universe.) After that it lost some of it's documentary airs and became more about the inter-personal drama and was coined as "reality tv." I suppose Big Brother will be forever associated as the originator.


  • #11
    Orando Broom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    Flail.


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  • #12
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    I always realised reality TV was bull****.


  • #13
    PeterIanStaker
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    Slightly off topic, but did anyone else think Big Brother was going to be a once - off, or did you realise they'd continue doing it long after it became vomit inducing? (i.e. after the first one?)


  • #14
    chickendinner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭chickendinner


    I was in my crib when my big brother bellowed big brother is on, I replied he was the biggest loser and to get a real life.


  • #15
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    When I was in the womb.

    I went into a acute breech position (which eventually necessitated an emergency Cesarean section) to protest at the crass banality of the then hit TV show Opportunity Knocks inflicted on me through the uterus wall.


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