kirennia
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Well well well... I haven't watched random TV in a long time and catching 10 minutes of this made me realise why. The whole 'show' is based around a bunch of overweight people taking part in challenges? I think that's about it and I know, I should have just turned over but I didn't; intruige got the better of me. Bare the title in mind when reading the next part... this show is presumably about trying to help people loose as much weight as possible.
So what's the first challenge? All of the 'contenders' are led into a room filled with doughnuts...and I'm not exaggerating when I say there were at least 3000 doughnuts sitting on various tables, right in front of the fat bastards, ho ho ho, that's entertainment right there!
The host, a relatively attractive (The below picture does her a few favours 
), relatively slim (Again, picture...favours) blonde woman then stands in front of them with a smile on her face, ready to read out the challenge. Sadistic enough? Hmmk.
Okay, so basically, inside one of the doughnuts is a $5000 chip. They're given one minute rounds to tear apart as many doughnuts as they possibly can in order to try and find the chip with the winner getting to keep it. Fair enough one might argue, it's a bit of an obscure lesson in temptation but a lesson nonetheless...
She then added that in order to participate in each round, they first have to eat a doughnut each. Er... what?
Is it just me or is the whole concept kind of turned on its head at this point? What's the point in creating that kind of a round in that kind of a show? Of course, the market isn't driven by the producers though, ultimately it's driven by the consumers... those who are watching. I know it's entertainment but seriously, and I don't mean to offend but how mentally retarded do you have to be to sit and mop up this kind of shit? I've checked and it didn't fizzle out after one series; nono, it's currently on its 8th.
I did watch to the end of the round having seen one of the women refuse to take part in any of it, just to see if the show could redeem itself by rewarding her in some way but nope, for refusing to be an entertaining puppeteer for the brain dead masses, nothing happened. There was no moral lesson, nothing.
I know I shouldn't really post this kind of crap on a forum as afterall, any publicity is good publicity but I guess its better then keeping to the English stereotype of angrily writting letters... Maybe I'm just angry because the only reason I went downstairs to watch the tv was to escape after having found 989 errors in my work and instantly loosing the will to live...seriously, this shit'll send you potty. But really, wtf is this kind of tripe.
The adverts then appeared, I stared confusingly at the tv screen for a minute then thought I'd get some differing views on it.
Edit note: The program seems to go to the adverts with some ridiculously toned woman showing an exercise tip. She was holding a weight and recommended exercising on an uneven surface to work muscles harder. That's a fucking lawsuit if ever I heard one ...(cough) insert no hint here (cough).
Edit2: He done fell in the water!
So what's the first challenge? All of the 'contenders' are led into a room filled with doughnuts...and I'm not exaggerating when I say there were at least 3000 doughnuts sitting on various tables, right in front of the fat bastards, ho ho ho, that's entertainment right there!
The host, a relatively attractive (The below picture does her a few favours ), relatively slim (Again, picture...favours) blonde woman then stands in front of them with a smile on her face, ready to read out the challenge. Sadistic enough? Hmmk.
Okay, so basically, inside one of the doughnuts is a $5000 chip. They're given one minute rounds to tear apart as many doughnuts as they possibly can in order to try and find the chip with the winner getting to keep it. Fair enough one might argue, it's a bit of an obscure lesson in temptation but a lesson nonetheless...
She then added that in order to participate in each round, they first have to eat a doughnut each. Er... what?
Is it just me or is the whole concept kind of turned on its head at this point? What's the point in creating that kind of a round in that kind of a show? Of course, the market isn't driven by the producers though, ultimately it's driven by the consumers... those who are watching. I know it's entertainment but seriously, and I don't mean to offend but how mentally retarded do you have to be to sit and mop up this kind of shit? I've checked and it didn't fizzle out after one series; nono, it's currently on its 8th.
I did watch to the end of the round having seen one of the women refuse to take part in any of it, just to see if the show could redeem itself by rewarding her in some way but nope, for refusing to be an entertaining puppeteer for the brain dead masses, nothing happened. There was no moral lesson, nothing.
I know I shouldn't really post this kind of crap on a forum as afterall, any publicity is good publicity but I guess its better then keeping to the English stereotype of angrily writting letters... Maybe I'm just angry because the only reason I went downstairs to watch the tv was to escape after having found 989 errors in my work and instantly loosing the will to live...seriously, this shit'll send you potty. But really, wtf is this kind of tripe.
The adverts then appeared, I stared confusingly at the tv screen for a minute then thought I'd get some differing views on it.
Edit note: The program seems to go to the adverts with some ridiculously toned woman showing an exercise tip. She was holding a weight and recommended exercising on an uneven surface to work muscles harder. That's a fucking lawsuit if ever I heard one ...(cough) insert no hint here (cough).
Edit2: He done fell in the water!
