television made us be mean and horrible

[woops]

better to be on it than to watch it

 

[luka]

it can be fun when you never watch it to watch it. cos youve denaturalised all the conventions.

 

[luka]

so it feels completely bizarre and ridiculous. it all looks like a propaganda broadcast from starship troopers. or that soap from twin peaks

 

[luka]

you get a buzzy derealisation effect but towards the telly instead of the world around you

 

[Corpsey]

Such disdain for the square-eyed masses!

Maybe not watching it makes you a horrible elitist?

 

[Corpsey]

I don't trust people who don't have TVs in their house.

Potential fascists.

 

[Corpsey]

If you can't name a Big Brother contestant you're heading for Hitler territory.

 

[Corpsey]

I can imagine Farage calling the TV "the idiot box".

 

[luka]

corpsey has a lot of the radical anti-elitist passions that have made this such a tumultous time in history. he wants to raze north london to the ground.

 

[luka]

the revolution starts in middle england with people who hate being condescended to

 

[craner]

If you can't name a Big Brother contestant you're heading for Hitler territory.

I only watch blu-rays of 1960 and 1970s Italian films, with the exception of Made in Chelsea.

 

[Corpsey]

Some TV is putrid, ofc. The worst program I've ever seen I think is this one where two friends design tattoos for each other and the tattoos are revealed at the climax — spoiler alert: they're usually terrible tattoos, and often they cause the on-air meltdown of the friendships.

 

[Corpsey]

I don't watch TV anyway, it's all streaming services and video games and hardcore pornos.

 

[Leo]

almost difficult to recall what TV was like before reality shows, which now make up probably 75% of US cable programming. sitcoms, dramas, pre-BLM cop shows where the police were always the good guys, sober documentaries about wildlife.

boring, but probably didn't make you hate yourself and others as much.

 

[WashYourHands]

I can imagine Farage calling the TV "the idiot box".

I can imagine Farage on Big Brother one day if he lives long enough. Bit frail so you couldn’t assault the cunt without being cast as a demon, still smoking, plus they could give him a bar to run as a reward and to shit stir.

A room without a tv is a wonderful thing. Make it law, radios only, ban the internet, get some sartorially elegant uniforms for the nation done, promote Prince William straight to king, parade marches, polished boots, invade France again.

We have to transfer a culture of cruelty to one of seizing the means of jambon beurre baguette and croissant production. You can fight among yourselves over French booze. The winners get to be cabinet ministers.

 

[version]

I still smirk at George Galloway being on Celebrity Big Brother.

 

[luka]

I remember my dad being appalled that he had taken a 'sexually submissive' role and acted like a cat lapping milk from some mature woman's bosom (or something)

 

[Corpsey]

Before every election they should put the various party leaders in the Big Brother house. That way we can get some idea of what they're like, how they make decisions, etc. Especially when they're plied with booze.

 

[WashYourHands]

That could be wondrously monstrous. The tragedy of elites mixed with the comedy of incongruity, presenters chatting live to a flummoxed Matt Hancock. Sir Bernard Jenkin doing the conga after 15pints. Appalling but bar raising. Decent targets. Make the fall deep.