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"This was a joke right?"

Waiting for League of Gentlemen to start, flicking through channels and came across a programme on Channel 4 called "What Jade did next".

A programme following one of the contestants from Big Brother after the show.
Why? Surely the whole point of that programme was to watch people locked in a house together with pointless tasks to stimulate boring interaction and to create tension for the voyeuristic entertainment of drones watching?
So why a programme about afterwards?

And why on earth a programme about this woman? A woman famous and admired for being borderline retarded?
She seemed like a nice enough person, but that doesn't excuse the fact she's quite possibly one of the stupidest people I have ever had the misfortune of sharing my planet with.
"Saddam Hussein?...who's 'e? Inni a boxer or summit?"
This, ladies and gentlemen, is an example of "celebrity". This is what we're supposed to venerate and admire? To place our unrealised dreams and vicariously live through?
A walking, talking mannequin? Since when did watching a clueless nobody merit an hour long show?
It just reinforces my loathing (and it is a genuine hatred) of Big Brother.

An utterly pointless programme with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
"It's just fun to watch" - No. It's staring at wannabes all trying to win £70,000 by doing absolutely nothing of note or merit.
"It's fun to watch other people's lives" Really? How about actually interracting with your neighbours then? Try talking to people that are actually around you? Maybe phone an old friend and catch up?

But this entire "Real-life" tv thing is an absolute farce. Is your life really that boring, that devoid of personal excitement that you have to watch someone else living and empathise? You do realise the irony of staying indoors to watch a programme about somebody else living their life don't you?
Please tell me you get that - don't kid yourself it's entertainment. It's not, it's keeping you pacified and thinking that things like Big Brother and Jade actually count for anything at all in this world.

With these programmes, I'd like to see a National system where, periodically, it would flash to someone's living room/ You'd see people slouched on the sofa, slack-mouthed watching with zero movement or conscious thought in their head. A zombie, sitting there as yet another evening of your life is flushed away whilst you watch total pond-life perform for you like circus seals for "entertainment".
Pop Idol/Star/Rivals/Fame Academy...watch another group of desperate nobodies grasp their 15 mins and cling to the notion they're "Better people" because everyone knows their face before sinking back into their lives of unfulfilled dreams and nothing to face but the fact "I was on tv once y'know".

What's wrong with not having the television on? Why not get mates round or your family and talk/play boardgames/video games...anything that requires some form of active participation or thought from you instead of just monging on the sofa watching yet another instant-celeb parade around and bark on command.
Jesus Christ, it's not bad enough that these bipeds get on tv, but some of them go on to make records in the case of Pop Zombies and then we have to suffer beyond the 15 mins.

I dont understand this fascination with celebrity in this day and age. There are magazines devoted to "celebrity gossip" where so-and-so got drunk and had a fight. Big deal, you want that then go out on any Friday or Saturday night and you'll see it.
Doesn't matter if a person is a movie star/music star, they're just like you and me. So why this worship? Especially 2nd rate zeroes like the Big Brother people. When will people realise they fade within a month of that show finishing?

Christ...I'm disgusted with 95% of television and if I had my own planet, there would never have been such an invention. It's gone from what was originally hoped to be an instrument of learning and bringing people together to share ideals to nothing more than a parade of commercials and a platform for the brain damaged to seek validation through being recognised.

Stupid bloody invention.

Goatboy wrote:
> I think it's nice that people with Downs Syndrome get their own tv
> show

*stifles laughter*

Even people with Downs Syndrome go to special school.

There was a bit in the program where they were discussing what a good role model she is.

Yeah?
Playing hide the sausage in front of millions of viewers, wandering around with a face like a gnarled tree, thinking that 'East Angular' is abroad?

Lets all be like Jade.

monkey_man wrote:
> Didn't Jade move to Harlow? It's probably the only place where she's
> considered a God. And a genius.

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She speaks better than most of the Harlow folk too. And walks upright (barely and with assistance)

I think it's nice that people with Downs Syndrome get their own tv show

I, for one, am glad I didn't watch Big Brother. Even the escapades of Jade which I heard about didn't convince me to watch it.

Give us more shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy and less "reality shows"

monkey_man wrote:
> Didn't Jade move to Harlow? It's probably the only place where she's
> considered a God. And a genius.

And good looking. Her face looks like the tip of a man's wotsit.

On the other hand, all those people who are sad and simple enough to let tv rule their lives being locked in their houses from the time they get home from school/work keeps the streets clear of them, leaving the reat of the world for the people that want to do something in it....

theres this guy, and he allways comes to parties and stuff at mine, and we all have a great time, though not too long ago there was a party on at his, and instead of having the stereo on, he had the kerrang channel supplying the music, and everyone just sat there, had beer and watched the videos. Mine was a lot more fun.

Didn't Jade move to Harlow? It's probably the only place where she's considered a God. And a genius.

You managed to say what I was trying to say in about a quarter of the space.

*shakes fist*
Damn you concise argument-boy!

I agree with Goatboy, there is far too much simpleton TV. Also celebrating someone's lack of intelligence is hardly commendable and I really hate it when people say "Yeah but they have a heart of gold". No they don't, they are just stupid and people don't have golden hearts, they have a large muscle that pumps blood. And even if they did why would gold make you a nice person? I thought that money was the root of all evil anyway.

I cannot stand the fact that anyone who appears on TV has an apparent worth or interest to society. This can only be the case if others in society harbour the same ambitions and have the same value system. Thus someone who thinks that a pop star is important is just the sort of person who would think that they are important if they were a popstar.

However the media doesn't help either.

Jade what have you made me do, I've started ranting and I was in a good mood, 3.78 minutes ago.

Agreed. Big Brother is, at best, moronic.

You sit around in your house watching TV of people sitting around in a house.

Then some fat munter gets her kit off and manages to get loadsa dosh when she comes out of the house.

Thats about it really. BB3 in a couple of sentances.