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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #225 on: 03 November, 2009, 12:12:00 PM »
I detest all that X (I will control the world Simon Cowell) Factor dross and don't watch it. Sadly you can't escape from it due to the non stop media coverage but it makes me happy to know that the British public don't mind wasting their money on voting on these two goons, just to piss off the judges ;D

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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #226 on: 03 November, 2009, 12:53:23 PM »
I interrogated my 11 year old neice over her decision to vote Jedward each and every week on x-factor (actually hastling her mum and dad to vote).  After 3 minutes of bright lights and such she capitulated and came clean - they're stupid and funny.  That's it I think. 

No idea why they GOT this far, they should have been ditched at the first audition, but hurray!  So glad the core audience of X=Factor have the same cruel and childish attitude to the whole thing as I do.
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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #227 on: 03 November, 2009, 01:15:07 PM »
What is this 'Jedward'? I don't watch X Factor on account of having at least 2 operational brain cells - explain it to me in words of 2 syllables or more
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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #228 on: 03 November, 2009, 01:23:04 PM »
Kate,

I have two operational braincells (I think, duh) and I know because I love watching morons make twats of themselves in public.  Their two Vanila-Ice-haired Irish twins with almost no redeeming features who can't fucking sing.  It's as simple as that.  For some reason they're in the later stages of a talent show despite having no talent.  I'm sure this is because they are entertaining for all the wrong reasons.  Look for John & Edward from x-factor on youtube.  You will be agog.  They're AWFUL. 

It's all very funny.

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Yeah, agreed.  Don't understand why these blokes are so common at all.  Most women I know find it rather laughable too.  

As for the vegetarianism, I'm not one myself but I wouldn't dream of asking someone WHY they didn't eat meat.  None of my business.  So long as someone's eating a varied diet that meets their nutritional needs, who cares where the hell it comes from?  If your religion, disposition or political beliefs mean you don't want to eat meat, fair enough.  
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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #229 on: 03 November, 2009, 01:26:10 PM »
Mike, I wasn't suggesting you were a brainless idiot
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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #230 on: 03 November, 2009, 01:34:10 PM »
I know that dear. 

Go and look for them on youtube, they'll make your heart sing and remind you of just how WONDERFUL you are (being that much higher up on the evolutionary scale than these jellyfishes).
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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #231 on: 03 November, 2009, 01:44:12 PM »
Well, if you put it like that  ;D
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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #232 on: 03 November, 2009, 02:51:16 PM »
I don't mind the existence of X-factor/pop idol/strictly etc, because that would be churlish - It's easy enough to just not watch a telly programme you don't like, and some people obviously do like these sort of shows.

But it really does piss me off when I open a serious broadsheet newspaper and find this crap reported as if it's NEWS or that it actually MATTERS at all!

Private Eye did a good spoof news-story about Cheryl Cole along the lines of "POP SINGER SINGS SONG: The nation was transfixed as a pop singer famous for singing pop songs sang a pop song on televison...." etc

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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #233 on: 03 November, 2009, 03:56:17 PM »
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I will not touch liver, tongue, heart...

You're a structuralist anthropologist's dream, CF!  Some parts of the burnt dead animal carcass are for drooling longingly over, others are too disgusting to contemplate.  The edible : inedible opposition maps to... discretely identifiable organs : anonymous muscle tissue /  Naturalistic : Abstract /  Wild : Domestic / Butchery : Cooking / Waste : Produce / Poor : Rich / Past : Present. 

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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #234 on: 03 November, 2009, 03:57:34 PM »
Yeah, the whole concept of telly being news (other than racist moron outed on QT, obviously) is entirely beyond me.  I expect it of rags like the Star, Sun etc, but not of the so-called quality press.  

There used to just be a PAGE of this crap, called TV page and another page of gossip called gossip.  Neither are fucking news.  

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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #235 on: 03 November, 2009, 04:12:24 PM »
Jesus pole-vaulting christ! I've been rendered speechless by this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjYKHTbDzvg

Have they actually heard the song before? They can't carry a tune in a bucket, maybe it's some new form of avant-garde tune avoidance!
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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #236 on: 03 November, 2009, 04:17:23 PM »
WARNING

The above post shows something off the X Factor. I managed to stop the link once that X came flying towards me :-[

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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #237 on: 03 November, 2009, 04:22:09 PM »
I love vegetables of all descriptions and eat a lot of them, but I despise fruit - have ever since I was young. I don't know why, but a lot of fruit just makes me feel sick - it's something about the stickiness/mushy texture. If someone sitting next to me starts eating a piece of fruit, especially in a confined space, I get pretty angry - I find the smell really quite offensive.

What's weird is that I will eat fruit if it's in a dessert, smoothie or cereal, and I can eat dried fruit or fruit flavoured things, it just seems to be fruit in it's original, raw form. There are a few exceptions, but not many. Maybe I had some sort of traumatic fruit-based experience as a young child? How I've managed to avoid scurvy is anyone's guess.

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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #238 on: 03 November, 2009, 04:25:56 PM »
You probably survived with eating Fruit Pastels and Opal Fruits ;)

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Re: I don't understand the appeal of...
« Reply #239 on: 03 November, 2009, 04:33:12 PM »
Using text speak when you're typing a message ON A COMPUTER; it's unforgivable on a phone as even the cheapest have T9 or predictive text, but when you're posting on a chum's Facebook wall? Vomit! I know of people who have A-levels in English who do this - please stop you look like a total arse
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