Shoot me now - Oz big brother is starting again

[wishfulthinking]

Ok, for you guys who don't own a tv, I mean the reality tv show!

I get shudders about thoughts of social commentators in 20 or 50 years looking back and thinking this is a representation of our society.

I really didn't think it would be back after last year - they had to cut the late night adults only show because of complaints or something. And 2 male housemates got evicted for sexually assaulting [not within the legal meaning] a female housemate.

Are we suckers for punishment?

 

[rgraham666]

Ok, for you guys who don't own a tv, I mean the reality tv show!

I get shudders about thoughts of social commentators in 20 or 50 years looking back and thinking this is a representation of our society.

I really didn't think it would be back after last year - they had to cut the late night adults only show because of complaints or something. And 2 male housemates got evicted for sexually assaulting [not within the legal meaning] a female housemate.

Are we suckers for punishment?

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. - P. T. Barnum.

I believe that aphorism has a more universal meaning.

 

[starrkers]

I feel your pain, wishful. I really do. My only (very slim) hope is that when the idiots in there realise there's no prizemoney and no cars when they get out, they'll all walk en masse, leaving Killer Killeen alone and unlamented.

As I said, it's a very slim hope.

 

[glynndah]

And even if you turn it off and choose not to watch it, you'll be bombarded by constant updates from "special announcements" and the "news" programs of that channel.

 

[starrkers]

Not to mention the damn thing always runs over time so, if there's a program following it you want to watch, you get to sit through the interminable crap anyway.

 

[wishfulthinking]

Not to mention the damn thing always runs over time so, if there's a program following it you want to watch, you get to sit through the interminable crap anyway.

God yes!!

 

[hmmnmm]

As I was trying to say elsewhere...

 

[wishfulthinking]

I feel your pain, wishful. I really do. My only (very slim) hope is that when the idiots in there realise there's no prizemoney and no cars when they get out, they'll all walk en masse, leaving Killer Killeen alone and unlamented.

As I said, it's a very slim hope.

Killeen - does she look like a bloke to you? I can see her in pvc boots with a whip. But please, never allow her back on tv!

 

[starrkers]

Definitely!