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James_T_Kirk

Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 357 Location: Ten Forward
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Slim Pickens

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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:12 am Post subject: |
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Lanza-Armonia

Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 525 Location: London, UK. Soon to be in Hamburg, Germany
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:44 am Post subject: |
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I agree Slim.
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Mark-O

Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 464 Location: 6000 miles from where I should be
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 8:38 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. This is one of the unbearable aspects of TV culture over here at the moment - this unhealthy obsession with what has been coined as 'Reality TV'. The whole 'I'm a celebrity, get me out of here!' and the like are hackneyed, uneventful and heavily staged simply because without an underlying plot then nothing would happen!
What's worse is how fickle the general public are. All it takes is a well-hated celebrity to appear on one of these programmes for a few weeks and they emerge with total adoration and unquestionable respect from every sad soul who has wasted the previous x hundred hours over the past 3-4 months watching this contrived crap.
Other than that, I'm not bitter ... |
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Lanza-Armonia

Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 525 Location: London, UK. Soon to be in Hamburg, Germany
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure about that Mark? Are ya having a bad day?
Maybe some Zuo4 Ai4 An4 Mo2 will sort you out....
Let's see robocop get that one huh?
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Mark-O

Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 464 Location: 6000 miles from where I should be
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry LA, my chinese is not up to that translation. Would you care to enlighten me (circumventing robocop in the process!)?
P.S. Every day is a bad day if it is spent in the UK |
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khmerhit
Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 1874 Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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What were the odds? 1 in 2? If so, it sounds pretty plausible. A middle-class high roller! |
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Slim Pickens

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Mark-O

Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 464 Location: 6000 miles from where I should be
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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Ha ha - nice one, Slim-P!
Don't worry, LA has already enlightened me. This is not the root of my current mood, however. It goes deeper than that ... a certain piece of confectionary has been troubling me today. |
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Mark-O

Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 464 Location: 6000 miles from where I should be
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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khmerhit wrote: |
What were the odds? 1 in 2? If so, it sounds pretty plausible. A middle-class high roller! |
True. He had to bet on either red or black, I believe. A 50% success rate is good odds. Nonetheless, he never stood to lose EVERYTHING did he? The earnings associated with publicity - regardless of the outcome - from the whole gimmick would probably have amounted to more than the value of his possessions anyway. |
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James_T_Kirk

Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 357 Location: Ten Forward
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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What were the odds? 1 in 2? If so, it sounds pretty plausible. A middle-class high roller! |
Not quite...47% when you account for the green '0' and '00'. Even if this story was orchestrated by television producers, I still find it rather intriguing. I am a casual gambler myself and the thought of trying something like this has crossed my mind a time or two...and then I sobered up. |
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SueH
Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 1022 Location: Northern Italy
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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Mark-O wrote: |
This is one of the unbearable aspects of TV culture over here at the moment - .. |
Well - I've managed without one since 1988, so part of the answer is in your own hands. That way when I do see it, visiting Mum or whatever, it has a novelty value I appreciate - as long as I have control of the remote and on/off switch! |
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dmb

Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:14 am Post subject: |
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Mark-o, would that confectionary be the old fashioned drifter or the orange one? |
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Mark-O

Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 464 Location: 6000 miles from where I should be
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:01 am Post subject: |
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DMB, are you TRYING to wind me up?!
SueH, point taken. But the problem is that it seems to pervade everywhere! Peoples' lives are taken over by it and so you can't get away from it, be it in conversation with you or overhearing one nearby, newspaper articles and headlines, televised news etc ... it's inescapable! |
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Tricky Woo
Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Canada
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To reinforce Mark-O's point about the seeming ubiquity of the almighty idiot box:
Summer of 2001, I'm working at the ballpark, and we packed up consessions after the 7th inning, which meant I was doing my counts during the last part of the game. One evening there was a really tight game in a hard-fought series. Once I had clocked out and headed to the bar, I found myself in an elevator with a couple of our team's players, and a couple other 'regular' folks.
"Who won?" I asked. "Frankie" (or some other name) replied a young lady, before the players had time to respond. We looked at her like she was nuts, then it dawned on me. 'oh, Survivor', I said, (last episode had just aired), and the players groaned.
I'll never forget the frightening realization of how much of their lives and thoughts some people give over to T.V. |
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