The public, I mean.
You know, the good old, salt of the Earth British 'man on the bus', 'woman in the supermarket' kind of public.
I've been resting at home since Christmas before rejoining my arduous assignment, in the backs of the frozen beyond, next week.
During some of that time, I have had the misfortune to witness several televisual 'Game Shows'.
Fork me! Are the British people uneducated and stupid, or what?
Take 'The Weakest Link' for example. Who in their right minds would go on that - to potentially win a pathetically small amount of money and be insulted by an elderly, failed dominatrix, just for the privilege?
I'd poke the plastic-faced, sarcastic cow in the eye if she started picking the shyte out of me, but these lamers just lap it up and grin like the morons they truly are.
Then there's Egg Heads. A show with great entertainment potential but polluted by some of the dumbest quizz teams ever. The odds are loaded in favour of the 'Egg Heads' simply because the 'top drawer' pub quizz teams from around the UK don't seem to know that Vladivostok is in Russia rather than Turkey, or some such.
Which brings me to University Challenge. Oh Christ! Where to begin with this one.
A simple premise: The top seats of learning submit a team each and see who can answer the most questions correctly.
The ancient colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, together with the redbricks and the city institutions unfailing parade a bunch of utter, utter dunces!
Anyone of my year at uni could beat any of them with their cap!
My wife has advised me to stop watching TV gameshows lest I die of apoplexy.
How stupid have we become?
You know, the good old, salt of the Earth British 'man on the bus', 'woman in the supermarket' kind of public.
I've been resting at home since Christmas before rejoining my arduous assignment, in the backs of the frozen beyond, next week.
During some of that time, I have had the misfortune to witness several televisual 'Game Shows'.
Fork me! Are the British people uneducated and stupid, or what?
Take 'The Weakest Link' for example. Who in their right minds would go on that - to potentially win a pathetically small amount of money and be insulted by an elderly, failed dominatrix, just for the privilege?
I'd poke the plastic-faced, sarcastic cow in the eye if she started picking the shyte out of me, but these lamers just lap it up and grin like the morons they truly are.
Then there's Egg Heads. A show with great entertainment potential but polluted by some of the dumbest quizz teams ever. The odds are loaded in favour of the 'Egg Heads' simply because the 'top drawer' pub quizz teams from around the UK don't seem to know that Vladivostok is in Russia rather than Turkey, or some such.
Which brings me to University Challenge. Oh Christ! Where to begin with this one.
A simple premise: The top seats of learning submit a team each and see who can answer the most questions correctly.
The ancient colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, together with the redbricks and the city institutions unfailing parade a bunch of utter, utter dunces!
Anyone of my year at uni could beat any of them with their cap!
My wife has advised me to stop watching TV gameshows lest I die of apoplexy.
How stupid have we become?
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