12-03-2002, 11:04 PM | #1 |
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trash tv
what do you think is the appeal of trash tv
Jerry springer, fox and friends etc...
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12-04-2002, 07:44 AM | #2 |
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Hi Afro Elf! I don't watch trash TV, (of course!) but a while back, when Oprah did a show about what the rest of the world thought of the USA, several middle eastern, muslim types said they watched Jerry Springer (I suppose this is aired purposefully as Anti american propaganda.... Jerry, go dig a hole and bury yourself please) and thought Americans were stupid heathens.(becuase they thought we were a bunch of JS guests) Nice stuff, one reason why $ producers in the entertainment biz should set their standards higher! I know, JD, they just sell what people buy, but you can guide and nudge others in positive directions (I do it all the time as a mom! It's an important effort to keep your nose above the crap level!)
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12-04-2002, 08:18 AM | #3 | |
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Seriously, though, it's the opiate of the masses. We've got to have something to distract ourselves of the relentless tedium of our meaningless lives. I know I do. |
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12-04-2002, 08:25 AM | #4 |
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The only time I watch trash tv is either when I'm very ill and can't move to reach the remote or very bored and will watch anythignjust to escape from the silence of my lonely little house when no-one's home!!!! The rest of the time- no thank you!!! Mx
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12-04-2002, 02:33 PM | #5 |
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"Friends" is trash now? But I didn't see any trailer trash rowing.
Edit: Oh. Fox and friends? ... Never heard of it.
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12-04-2002, 08:12 PM | #6 |
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I don't watch it, I don't know anyone who watches it...Who watches it?
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12-04-2002, 10:36 PM | #7 |
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Never heard of fox and friends, but Jerry Springer.....yuck! Today my sister was watching Jerry Springer and I was in the loungeroom, so I coundn't help listening in and the topic was: I want to marry my daughter. This guy had had sex with his own daughter. That is really sick. It does not make America look good. Why do we have to get all that trash?
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12-05-2002, 12:11 AM | #8 |
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Fox and friends is a morning ( in the US) show on fox news network
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12-05-2002, 12:23 AM | #9 |
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Just want to stick this in real quick: Not all people who live or grow up in trailer courts are trailer trash. I'm sure you knew that, but just had to get it out.
My dad met a woman in Mexico who was from Denmark, I think. She was a bit of an airhead but she'd learned English by watching "The Ricky Lake Show". When she told my dad that, he laughed and explained that all of America is NOT like that. Trash TV is stupid and most of it's fake.
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12-05-2002, 12:25 AM | #10 |
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Do you live in a trailer park?
I am not trying to me funny or rude just curious if it was a labeling you may have dealt with.
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12-05-2002, 12:42 AM | #11 |
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In regards to the Jerry Springer Show, you can't take it seriously. You know that there aren't that many people who want to marry their daughters or worship the dishwasher or whatever. Jerry was on CNN and said that even he didn't take his show that seriously. Go figure...
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12-05-2002, 01:03 AM | #12 |
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I hate JS, it's so annoying, along with Jenny Jones. We shouldn't have to watch people discuss their problem on tv and be encouraged to fight. They should go see a pschiatrist(sp)
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12-05-2002, 01:24 AM | #13 |
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I saw Jerry on an interview also and he seem like an intelligent man. I and I do recall him sort slapping his own show.
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12-05-2002, 01:40 AM | #14 | |
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It's a shame that he found fame on that US show, he hosted a couple of one-on-one chat shows here and he did quite a good job with them.......he was charismatic and able to conduct both light-hearted and serious interviews with various celebraties. If your talking trash tv then I must mention soap-operas......why on earth do people spend so much time watching soaps? Gods.......nothing ever happens on them ...... they are the viewing equivalent of watching paint dry |
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Why was the San Francisco season so much more popular than the London season? Because there was fighting and bickering and back stabbing constantly in SF. People would rather see people fighting and hating each other than getting a long and having fun. I would include survivor, Big Brother, The Bachelor, Weakest Leak and all those as trash TV too. Trash TV doesn't just have to be talk shows. By the way - Jerry Springer was one time mayor of Cincinnati.
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12-05-2002, 02:55 AM | #16 |
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Forgot about Big Brother........ye Gods! What is the point of that??!!
Watching ten people sitting around in a house eating, talking and doing bejesus knows what else........has tv taken over our social lives to the point that we think watching other normal people doing perfectly normal stuff is entertainment? .......absolutely bizarre I never made a point of watching the Weakest Link (Dunno if that's the same as the Weakest Leak JD) the first one I watched I did kind of enjoy........but it's been the same format ever since I wonder if the appeal of trash tv is that it never changes it's format........week after week, month after month....you switch on the TV and know exactly what you are getting from certain shows? |
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Subliminal messages, JD?
What were you watching too much of?
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