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Only 20,000 complain about Celebrity Big Brother?
by loiswakeman @ 18/01/2007 - 12:06:15

I am amazed: what about all the other millions of gladiatorial spectators? Do they have no sensibilities to offend?

First, I am pleased to say I have never watched any of the Big Brother programmes, and have no intention of doing so. Life is too short to waste on such unpleasant spectacles. Especially when they are made by a company that sounds like a diarrhoea remedy – rather appropriately, I feel.

Now consider this entirely hypothetical scenario. Put a couple of gormless gobshites with a patrician from a different culture, and observe the results. They get along famously, teaching each other mutual respect and admiring the other’s values and beliefs – yeah. That would be surprising.

So, what is so annoying about a programme that I have never seen? Firstly, that the UK parliament is wasting time discussing it when there are important things to fix. Secondly, Indian protestors in Patna are burning effigies (rather humorously pathetic ones, it has to be said) in the streets, and Indian diplomats are considering lodging official protests. I find that hypocritical in the extreme, coming from a society that has disdain and discrimination against the lower orders built into its very fabric. Last of all, anyone who agrees to take part in such a parade of egotism deserves all the contempt and ridicule she gets. They are all happy enough to take the “celebrity” bestowed on them, after all.

All this teaches us that mankind evolved in a tribal society, and we still have to overcome that. Don’t hold your breath.

Read more:

Reportage from the Belfast Telegraph on effigy burning

The programme's home page

The caste system in India

Reportage from ITV on complaints - now up to 27,000!

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Jools61Jools61 [Member]
18/01/07 @ 12:16

i don't watch it either, have seen bits and pieces previously but not this one. however i have heard alot of the 'meeja' coverage, and seen it on our tv and turkish tv. the worrying thing is that, unfortunately, jade's behaviour, and that of her mother, is representative of *alot* of our society. speaking as one married to a foreigner. whether the woman laid herself wide open (and i agree that she did), whether india treats its lower castes appallingly (and i agree that they do), the fact is that this kind of mindset is indicative of OUR society and surely that's not good. what does it say about our education system for one thing? imho the reason 'only' 20,000 have complained is that the rest of them probably don't see anything wrong with it - and probably also thing that eastangular is 'abroad' (one of ms goodys -previous mistakes), don't forget the great british meeja and the great british public have made this awful young woman into a 'celebrity' - someone to be looked up to, revered and emulated, apparently.

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loiswakemanloiswakeman [Member]
http://lois.co.uk
18/01/07 @ 12:30

I agree entirely that this casts British yob society in a very unflattering light - and not only abroad.

I don't think it is anything to do with formal education though: my kids went through the state system and have emerged with perfectly decent views. That's because I brought them up with my standards. Contrarily, one of my daughter's aquaintances had a public shchool education and is an appalling racist: but so are her family. I doubt she learnt that at school!

Society is only as good as its members: and if we have an overwhelming number of bigots and racists, then they will beget more of the same. Children learn first in the home, and only secondly in school.

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Jools61Jools61 [Member]
02/02/07 @ 19:16

the education system is failing, that was my point - jade qoodys lack of education makes her ignorance worse, i agree the kids learn at home - but that is assuming they have supportive parents. one of the reasons we homeschool is because our local schools are so bad and i didn't want to spend every night teaching them what they should have learnt during the day. standards all over the country have dropped and dropped, read my post on the state of the nation. seems to me that the bigots and racists are becoming the majority.

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billyblogginsdonkeybillyblogginsdonkey [Member]
18/01/07 @ 13:44

I sent my complaint to OFCOM basically to record what I thought of the whole reality TV thing.
Do a search on Ofcom and tear into em!

Billy

xxx

menhirmenhir [Member]
18/01/07 @ 22:38

This manipulated zoo cage is a travesty of anyone's time and I am amazed and apalled that the various P.C and ethnic communities are also being so grossly manipulated to pay for expensive phonecalls to complain and plump what were failing ratings and increase profits for more of this dreadful charade. They, sadly, see it, I suspect, as supporting one of their own.

I haven't watched this stuff either and do not intend to. I know that many social scientists do, and some are the prime manipulators behind these performances we hear about.

And of course, if this wasn't a free speaking country, we wouldn't hear about this nonsene and neither would the sub-continent, which as you say, is riddled with discrimination of types that would not be tolerated here on grounds of basic human rights and decency.

We haven't evolved from a tribal society, I believe we still are one and unfortunately, the current bruhaha indicates the basest of tribal behaviours.

morelearningmorelearning [Member]
25/01/07 @ 15:22

"I want to say how horrified I am by this appalling film, which naturally I have no intention of watching..."

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loiswakemanloiswakeman [Member]
http://lois.co.uk
25/01/07 @ 16:20

Erm - my points were about side effects, not the programme, if you read the post. Or were you being deeply ironic? - hard to tell in writing!

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