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Join us tomorrow for an online auction of stuff, hopefully we can make enough money to buy me a philipino bride!

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BigDaddyMerk Calling.....Come In Elvis

So Big Brother 4 started on Friday and already the nation is hooked, or so the media would have you belive. The papers are full of the rubbish and the radio stations are loving it. MTV are even doing one of their supurb(!) ......... WEEK's - This week, yes you guessed it, it's Reality TV week. No doubt they will just be showing a million re runs of the Osbournes.

As far as i can remeber this reality thing was started by MTV when they did their REAL WORLD series, which i used to really be into. then came big brother and a million others followed. some with celebrities, some without. What I can't understand is how and why the stupid masses get addicted to these programmes, especially when it's oboviousuly a massive money making spin for the production company (since big brother one you have been able to phone a number to hear the AUDIO from the house, and only at 25p a minute, cheap as chips, get me two phones!). What is it about seeing someone wake up, make porridge, take it outside, talk to chicken for a few mins then go take a dump! im really confused as to why people love to watch this.

Hey you can come watch me take a dump if your that interested. Is it human nature's natural curiosity that keeps us hooked or is our lack of resistance to much hyped media. Perhaps it is both. Personally i think it's down the the fact that it's live, happening right now. Isn't it? what do you mean "it isn't striclty live"? What I mean it is 5-15 mins delayed before it comes to our screens. so the fact that "anything could happen at any time" is absolute crap. you think if one of them lost it with his fellow of wannabes, picked up a knife and took it to the nearest housemate's throat, spilling blood and guts all over the IKEA sponsored floor, they would show it, would they bollocks. they would cut to those shitty little chickens and advertise the "VOTE by TEXT for only £6000000 per message" method.

nice quote from the guardian here
So great is the dominance of the celebrity/television culture, that it has started to distort the way in which we view the world around us. It is only comparatively recently that every man, woman and child in the country could realistically aspire to be on television, and their chance came as television began to run out of inherently interesting material, both for features and drama.

So how long before it goes full circle and I become a celebrity just by opening the door in my pants with my belly out, how long before the kid who delivers the Telford Journal has a full camera crew, an outside broadcast van, a stylist and a personal assistant following his every move. Not long I'm Sure.

I do have a theory that once it has gone full circle, poeple will be so sick of celebrity that to become one you would have to do somthing special, I don't know, perhaps...urmm...turning water into wine, or walking on water? who knows, all i know is that when it happens I'll be at home in my room watching re-runs of "I'm a celebrity get me out of here".

I said I didn't understand the facisnation, I never said I wasn't facinated!

I'm off to watch the new housemates sleep. check ya later.