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 Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject: Celebrity version of shows |
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Was at a friend's house and as I walked past the TV, they had some Celebrity version of Family Fortunes I gathered that it was at a very important stage, if one person had got something right, then £30,000 would be given to the celeb's chosen charity.
If however, the question was wrong, they'd only give £10,000 to charity.
It wasn't looking good.
Now, ITV are quite capable of donating £30,000 to a charity. Otherwise, it wouldn't be offered as a prize would it?
So imagine a gameshow, where you too can send £30,000 pounds of relief aid to Africa ( for example ) you could save thousands of babies dying in Africa, all you had to do was answer a simple question.
What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow? you're asked.
Because you're a bit Monty Python challenged due to you believing that all media is lies, you've become a bit disjointed from real world events and culture, or you swore never to watch another Python film again since Life Of Brian and so you get the answer wrong.
So, the gameshow host in all their cheesy smiling curmudgeonly, tells you what all those African Babies could of won.
The audience go 'awwwwww' and you're swiftly removed from the stage, and the gameshow host continues, let's see who we've got on next week... ....All in the name of entertainment.
Do you really think that this is entertainment? - a Media Broadcasting Company making people go through trials and tribulations to try to rack up 'points' so they can see how much money they can build up to give to a charity?
Well excuse me while my heart bleeds for those people who are trying, but surely shouldn't it be 'ITV has given £30,000 to an African charity' because they wanted to ? - not it was how hard someone worked on some gameshow for entertainment.
What if they had worked really hard? - oh that's £50,000 then. It's for charity! - charities need as much as what they can get, it shouldn't be an amount decided on someone's ability to do various tasks, what if they are lacking in certain areas? - should that charity be penalised?
Why has no one yet realised that ITV are in effect saying 'We were going to give £30,000 to a charity, but because they got a question wrong, we're not now'
Does that strike you as being uncharitable ?
Or have I got it wrong?
Is this barbaric entertainment what passes for television these days?
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| monty wrote: | | Is this barbaric entertainment what passes for television these days? |
You haven't watched ' I'm a Celebrity' have you? Now that is barbaric entertainment and people watch it! And enjoy it! It's been on a few times in the pub and I've just had to walk away because I couldn't watch it! *Shudders*
| python wrote: | | What if they had worked really hard? - oh that's £50,000 then. It's for charity! - charities need as much as what they can get, it shouldn't be an amount decided on some one's ability to do various tasks, what if they are lacking in certain areas? - should that charity be penalised? |
I've often wondered this. When I worked at a hotel, many years ago, there were often charity dinners on, where rich people got dressed up in very expensive dresses, got their hair done professionally at a designer stylist and ate a stupidly high priced 4 course meal, drank champagne and gave a few quid to a raffle of which the proceeds went to charity. Now, I thought, instead of all the fanciness, why not just give all that wasted money straight to the charity?! It would make far more sense to me!
I love the way you say 'as I walked past the TV' like you were innocently walking past and you really didn't mean to lower yourself to watching the TV 
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| Club sandwich deli wrote: |
You haven't watched ' I'm a Celebrity' have you? Now that is barbaric entertainment and people watch it! And enjoy it! It's been on a few times in the pub and I've just had to walk away because I couldn't watch it! *Shudders*
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My sympathies, but no i've not watched ITV's remake of the Spanish Inquisition.
| Prawn and cress Deli wrote: |
I've often wondered this. When I worked at a hotel, many years ago, there were often charity dinners on, where rich people got dressed up in very expensive dresses, got their hair done professionally at a designer stylist and ate a stupidly high priced 4 course meal, drank champagne and gave a few quid to a raffle of which the proceeds went to charity. Now, I thought, instead of all the fanciness, why not just give all that wasted money straight to the charity?! It would make far more sense to me!
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Something tells me this is just something to massage their conscience.
Rich tit : I want to go out in public and show off that i'm considerably richer than others.
Other rich tit : You can't flaunt it like you could in the old days, you have to look like you're doing it for that charity thing these days, I know don't they have those jumble sales these days?
Rich tit : Oh yeah! those things that the great unwashed have on our lovely green where we play croquet? yes, we'll have one of those it'll look good anyway.
It's a bit like that carbon offset nonsense that's going about as well. A good parody I found was the 'bad code offset' where programmers can give money to this company to 'excuse' their bad code.
http://codeoffsets.com/
| Spicy quorn deli wrote: |
I love the way you say 'as I walked past the TV' like you were innocently walking past and you really didn't mean to lower yourself to watching the TV
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But I did! I did!
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