Reality TV
It’s 7:30 pm and you collapse into the safe comfort of your recliner. You fumble a remote control in your hands whilst you point it at a glass box in front of you. Before long, you are confronted with fat people jumping up and down whilst being shouted at, bored young things sitting around a house talking about toenails, hairy guys with bandanas eating rice on some island, c-grade celebrities dancing around, or falling about on ice, a bunch of kids screwing up classic songs or some other headache-inducing garbage.
Or even worse, tune into MTV and see people invading other people’s houses with blacklights or spoilt, bratty teenage girls whining because the pure cut diamond laced, crystal punch bowl on order is running late for their super-sweet 16th party. There are even white people turning black for a few days. If I hear an American say “Oh my God!” one more time, I will headbutt my way through a brick wall. It’s painful to watch!
What sick people enjoy watching such rubbish? Worse still, who would actually spend money ‘voting’ on these shows?
I feel sorry for writers and actors who see their craft beaten by a bunch of semi-celebrities cracking bad jokes, or fat people forming ‘alliances’. I really find it sad when people decide to quench their entertainment thirst with the inane, commercially saturated bollocks they call reality television.
So here are ten things that you could do instead of watching reality tv:
1) Plant a tree.
2) Wash yours, or somebody else’s car.
3) See how many words you can make with an upside-down calculator.
4) Build a kick-arse sand castle, with little turrets and a moat.
5) Learn a song on piano.
6) Dig a hole and fill it with water.
7) Learn about Amazonian tree frogs.
8) Design your own flag for your own imaginary country (where reality tv is outlawed)
9) Bake a cake, or some muffins. Or both.
10) Make a slip-and-slide in the backyard.
Done all 10 yet? If you have – doesn’t reality TV just plain suck compared to reality?
Or even worse, tune into MTV and see people invading other people’s houses with blacklights or spoilt, bratty teenage girls whining because the pure cut diamond laced, crystal punch bowl on order is running late for their super-sweet 16th party. There are even white people turning black for a few days. If I hear an American say “Oh my God!” one more time, I will headbutt my way through a brick wall. It’s painful to watch!
What sick people enjoy watching such rubbish? Worse still, who would actually spend money ‘voting’ on these shows?
You are all voted off.......my television.
I feel sorry for writers and actors who see their craft beaten by a bunch of semi-celebrities cracking bad jokes, or fat people forming ‘alliances’. I really find it sad when people decide to quench their entertainment thirst with the inane, commercially saturated bollocks they call reality television.
So here are ten things that you could do instead of watching reality tv:
1) Plant a tree.
2) Wash yours, or somebody else’s car.
3) See how many words you can make with an upside-down calculator.
4) Build a kick-arse sand castle, with little turrets and a moat.
5) Learn a song on piano.
6) Dig a hole and fill it with water.
7) Learn about Amazonian tree frogs.
8) Design your own flag for your own imaginary country (where reality tv is outlawed)
9) Bake a cake, or some muffins. Or both.
10) Make a slip-and-slide in the backyard.
Done all 10 yet? If you have – doesn’t reality TV just plain suck compared to reality?
