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Thread: What's your favourite Reality TV show?
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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Big Brother? I'm a Celebrity ...? Dancing on Ice? Any more? Which is it to be?
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The Midge
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Originally posted by Spike:
Big Brother? I'm a Celebrity ...? Dancing on Ice? Any more? Which is it to be?
Wife Swap when they put a fundamentalist creationist with a Dawkinite atheist.
Let me not to the ******** of true minds. Admit impediments. - William Shakespeare
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Originally posted by The Midge:
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Originally posted by Spike:
Big Brother? I'm a Celebrity ...? Dancing on Ice? Any more? Which is it to be?
Wife Swap when they put a fundamentalist creationist with a Dawkinite atheist.
Would that not have been somewhat predictable?
Stating the bleedin' obvious since AN1*
*AN - Anno Navis, Year of the Ship.
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The Midge
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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
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Originally posted by The Midge:
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Originally posted by Spike:
Big Brother? I'm a Celebrity ...? Dancing on Ice? Any more? Which is it to be?
Wife Swap when they put a fundamentalist creationist with a Dawkinite atheist.
Would that not have been somewhat predictable?
Stating the bleedin' obvious since AN1*
*AN - Anno Navis, Year of the Ship.
Predicable is as predictable does.
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Mere Nick
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Hoarders, but it creeps me out in just a few minutes.
And Happy always was it for that son - Whose father for his hoarding went to hell - William Shakespeare
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"Well that's it, boys. I've been redeemed. The preacher's done warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It's the straight and narrow from here on out, and heaven everlasting's my reward."
Delmar O'Donnell
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Anglican't
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The first series of 'Bad Lads Army' which featured a bunch of young men who might go off the rails going through 1950s-style National Service. It was quite informative and you could see how the experience was character building.
The series then went off the rails a bit.
Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn - Anon
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Kittyville
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"My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding" and all spin offs thereof.
Any programme containing the immortal line "Motor oil will give you a helluva tan" has got to be worth a watch.
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Cthulhu
PRAY TO BE EATEN FIRST
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I ENJOY ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE. IT GIVES ME AN APPETITE.
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Anyuta
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Yard Crashers. I keep hopping to run into them on one of my visits to the home improvement store.. my yard could use a crash in the worst way! of course, I'd settle for the ones who re-do kitchens or bathrooms or.. well, pretty much any part of my house.
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend. -
Alan Bradley
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Lyda*Rose
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Recently, The First 48 Hours, a show where they follow various American homicide units in solving (or not) murders. No re-creations. They don't only show successful investigations. It seems like the realest of reality shows.
And next week I look forward to this season's Worst Cook in America. The trailers have been fun. Bobby Flay asks the whole group of contestants, "How many of you have set a fire in the kitchen?". One woman admits to setting fire to instant rice- in water. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Second oops!: quote:
God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.—John Taylor
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Mark Betts
Ship's Navigation Light
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IACGMOOH!! P*** P*** P***!!
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. - P*** John Paul II
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IN OTHER WORDS READ THE THREAD AT THE TOP OF THE DAMN BOARD, thankyou.
Doublethink
P u r g a t o r y H o s t
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"We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary."
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deano
princess
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The Apprentice.
Love it (the UK version, and not the junior one). Can’t wait for the next one to start. It’s not about business of course, and it makes me want to buy a shotgun and shoot most of the candidates in the face, but it is great entertainment… especially when there’s a double firing!!!
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. - P*** John Paul II
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IN OTHER WORDS READ THE THREAD AT THE TOP OF THE DAMN BOARD, thankyou.
Doublethink
P u r g a t o r y H o s t
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"The moral high ground is slowly being bombed to oblivion. " - Supermatelot
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Golden Key
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I've liked a variety of PBS reality shows: "Victorian House", "Edwardian House", "Prairie House" (?). I currently like "Marketplace Warriors", in which antiques hunters go to outdoor markets with assignments to find certain kinds of things.
I also watch Chef Ramsey's various shows: prefer "Master Chef", 'cause they're regular people and not usually too full of themselves; "Hell's Kitchen" is my next favorite.
And now a word from our epigrammist:
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11b. Latin Epigram
Tres infelices in mundo dicimus esse:
Infelix qui pauca sapit spernitque doceri;
Infelix qui multa sapit spernitque docere;
Infelix qui sancta docet si vivat inique.
Item 11b, LATIN EPIGRAM: FOOTNOTE
1 We say there are three [kinds of] unfruitful [people] in the world: / [He is] unfruitful who knows little and refuses to be taught; / [He is] unfruitful who knows much and refuses to teach; / [He is] unfruitful who teaches ******** but lives wickedly
Item 11b, LATIN EPIGRAM: EXPLANATORY NOTE
4 sancta. In many other versions of this proverb, the word is recta, “right” or “righteousness.” The alteration to sancta may direct the criticism more specifically towards morally corrupt clergy rather than teachers in general. The last line of the Latin is followed by a drawing of a fish and a flower; there is no other explicit or colophon.
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--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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IconiumBound
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Pawn Stars by several measures; one, it doesn't have the usual timed commercial breaks so it's something to watch while other channels have commercials; two, it's like Antique Roadshow with real prices. "That autographed picture of Abraham Lincoln is worth $5000. I'll give you $150".
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. - P*** John Paul II
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IN OTHER WORDS READ THE THREAD AT THE TOP OF THE DAMN BOARD, thankyou.
Doublethink
P u r g a t o r y H o s t
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Sir Kevin
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I like the national news.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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I like documentaries, much more realistic than the deliberately engineered 'reality' shows. The recent series on BBC 3, about the daily lives of conjoined twins, was exceptional.
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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L'organist
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That'll Teach 'Em
which were reality documentary programmes made a few years ago, taking 30 16 year olds and putting them in a 1950s grammar school, then another 30 in a secondary modern.
The "grammar school" children sat their first test and were flummoxed - and then crushed to be told they were questions from a 1950 11+ exam, not the O Level they'd been told...dumbing down, anyone?
The "secondary modern" children who, for the most part, felt their comprehensive education was pretty useless flourished with the more practical elements of the secondary modern syllabus - and they loved it, too. One boy even got an apprenticeship out of it!
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Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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The only two reality shows I watch with any commitment are "RuPaul's Drag Race" (sort of "Top Model" for drag queens) and "Top Chef."
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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lilBuddha
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I detest reality shows, but I do have a question: Both the Chappelle Show Trading Spouses and the original Wife Swap(UK) debuted in 2003. Which was first, anyone know? The Chappelle version was 9 April, but I do not know their lead time.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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