I saw a baffling headline on Google News: "Kathreya upset by Darnell joke" and not having any idea of who either of these are, and slightly intrigued by the name of the website (Digital Spy) I went to have a look. Turns out it's Big Brother or something of that ilk.
But the mood turned sour as Kat took offence to their comments. She pressed the Diary Room buzzer as she burst into tears, saying: "I’m very, very sad! Why do you hate me so much?
Oh, the humanity!
And just look at all that exciting recent activity:
15:13 Mohamed struggles to stay awake
13:09 Mo smashes new coffee maker
12:56 Sara, Mo clash over cigarettes
Mohamed's not the only one, for fuck's sake!
This is a perfect micro-snapshot of why the UK is fucked: vast swathes of society are actually engrossed in this drivel. Go for a walk, read a book, have a wank: anything is better than this!
1 comment:
I've never watched the show because there's no need. the Big Brother cameras are in the streets anyway. Plus, the newspapers insist on telling us the pointless details of what these idiots are doing.
This type of hideous programme, and others like it, is conditioning people to believe that having every moment of your life caught on camera is normal.
It won't be long before 'reality TV' uses cameras fitted into commercial sets to show us all what other people do when they watch TV. Reality-show fans will love that, and they'll be delighted to learn that every TV is to be fitted with a camera so nobody will know when TV is watching them.
Once the cameras start getting into your home, they'll soon be everywhere. There's already a camera available that can be disguised as a shirt button. It'll be no problem to fit one in a microwave, a toaster, a bedside clock.
And nobody will mind. It's all just entertainment.
Perhaps that's why we're going to need so many media studies graduates. There'll be a lot of footage to store and sift through.
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