Sunday, January 07, 2007
Lifestyle Cak on the Telly
Time was Channel 4 was a really good tv channel - it brought us foreign language films, the comic strip, arts programmes etc. Now its raison d'etre is to bring us an avalanche of daily trash.
I was feeling bored today, so flicked on the tv, watched this cak about a couple buying a house in Florida. The houses they viewed were as big as palaces with these gizmos and those gizmos. Most of these places had interiors like up-market health centres. One house had a garden the size of two football pitches.
The couple were the sort of people who choose to appear on such crappy programmes - extremely shallow and no doubt extremely tedious company, nothing much to talk about with them but buying houses and playing golf.
What made me laugh was that the woman complained that a bedroom the size of my flat was too small! Well, has she not heard of homelessness and that a large cardbox can be the lap of luxury to some. Anyway, the couple procrastinated and the house they wanted was snapped up overnight.
Then televisual fayre did not get any better. There was a reality show about home entertaining - throwing dinner parties. It was complete bollocks. The background music was a mixture of plinky sounds intersperesed with a Brandenburg concerto. Yep, they are dumbing down Bach. The show was completely pointless, ponsey and pretentious. Who the fuck watches this kind of shit? Is it people with a large takeaway pizza and a six pack of Stella? I think so.
I then watched "Deal or No Deal" with Noel Edmonds - gosh, Noel is so oily that I was even taken by him. Yes, he does trashy television, but he does it with a panache that does not rankle. What makes it worse is that the bugger is so skilled at avoiding going down 'trash can alley'. He has many years of experience at trashy television and Noel knows how to keep the audience on line. Yep, I was drawn into this; it was compelling. Boredom has a lot to answer for and I admit personal responsibility. Good entertaining stuff. All I can say is well done.
Switched channels to ITv 4 - 633 Squadron was on - I really love this film. Not least the aircraft - the Mosquito Bomber, what a sexy little plane this turned out to be. The fastest bomber of its time, I believe it could go at 400 mph. What makes even more extraordinary is that was made of wood.
I was feeling bored today, so flicked on the tv, watched this cak about a couple buying a house in Florida. The houses they viewed were as big as palaces with these gizmos and those gizmos. Most of these places had interiors like up-market health centres. One house had a garden the size of two football pitches.
The couple were the sort of people who choose to appear on such crappy programmes - extremely shallow and no doubt extremely tedious company, nothing much to talk about with them but buying houses and playing golf.
What made me laugh was that the woman complained that a bedroom the size of my flat was too small! Well, has she not heard of homelessness and that a large cardbox can be the lap of luxury to some. Anyway, the couple procrastinated and the house they wanted was snapped up overnight.
Then televisual fayre did not get any better. There was a reality show about home entertaining - throwing dinner parties. It was complete bollocks. The background music was a mixture of plinky sounds intersperesed with a Brandenburg concerto. Yep, they are dumbing down Bach. The show was completely pointless, ponsey and pretentious. Who the fuck watches this kind of shit? Is it people with a large takeaway pizza and a six pack of Stella? I think so.
I then watched "Deal or No Deal" with Noel Edmonds - gosh, Noel is so oily that I was even taken by him. Yes, he does trashy television, but he does it with a panache that does not rankle. What makes it worse is that the bugger is so skilled at avoiding going down 'trash can alley'. He has many years of experience at trashy television and Noel knows how to keep the audience on line. Yep, I was drawn into this; it was compelling. Boredom has a lot to answer for and I admit personal responsibility. Good entertaining stuff. All I can say is well done.
Switched channels to ITv 4 - 633 Squadron was on - I really love this film. Not least the aircraft - the Mosquito Bomber, what a sexy little plane this turned out to be. The fastest bomber of its time, I believe it could go at 400 mph. What makes even more extraordinary is that was made of wood.
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