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I'm a celebrity

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Mearabade · 04/12/2024 22:10

I've watched a bit of it over the years.

I was watching a couple of this year's episodes, and I just thought that the trials have gotten so much worse.

Yesterday they had Oti mabuse, one of the contestants, stand in a sarcophagus. They poured sand into it, up to her neck, so her whole body was covered in sand, and she couldn't move at all.

She had a tiny head space for air. Then they filled that head space with giant cockraches, ants and large worms.

I was watching it and thinking,

"When did watching people being completely tortured on TV become acceptable."

Is it not going too far?

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RedRiverShore5 · 05/12/2024 11:55

i wouldn't mind doing that, knowing I can say no and earning more than many people do in several years of hard graft. They are not children so shouldn't be compared to them

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Mearabade · 05/12/2024 11:34

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 05/12/2024 09:36

I have to say I do agree with this post. 100%. No-one makes these people go on this show, and they are paid LOADS for it. I agree with the last bit too: it's not fair on the living creatures to use them like they do. Now THAT is cruel.

Nothing the humans have to endure is cruel, nor are they suffering, and it is certainly not 'torture.'

As many people have said, it's really disrespectful towards millions of people over the world who suffer horrific living conditions (and even torture) every day of their lives.

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'Nothing the humans have to endure is cruel"?

It's astounding how people adapt to see torture as normality.

Because it's on a tv show and the contestants are paid, they think it's OK.

If I put a child in a sarcophagus and poured sand up to her neck, so she can't move her legs or arms.

If I then pour giant burrowing cockroaches, and mealworms and ants all over her face.

And I make her scream.
She's screaming and I'm laughing at her.

Am I being cruel to that child?

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Funkyslippers · 05/12/2024 11:28

For a start, they often volunteer for the trials. And if i had spiders poured on me it might help with my phobia

Sidebeforeself · 05/12/2024 10:56

Ursulla · 04/12/2024 22:47

It's not torture! They're not chained to a radiator in Iraq facing death. They're on the bloody itv with ant and Dec.

To be fair , being with Ant and Dec must be torture!

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 05/12/2024 09:36

Whaleandsnail6 · 05/12/2024 07:27

Of course its not torture...I think you are being a bit ridiculous op

Everyone who signs up for the programme knows what it entails. They have a choice as to whether they take part in the show or not before they even sign up

The trial is explained to them before they do it. They again are then given a choice as to whether they do any trial. They are not forced

They can then end the trial at any point.

They have the coice whether to take part in the whole thing and do it willingly for presumably fame and money and then once there the chance to win the whole show

If they didnt fancy going into the jungle, they can say no.
If they dont fancy the trial they can day no.

They are not exactly in desperate, vulnerable circumstances.

The only things I feel sorry for in the programme is all of the bugs and creatures that are made to do the trials. I imagine many end up dying.

I have to say I do agree with this post. 100%. No-one makes these people go on this show, and they are paid LOADS for it. I agree with the last bit too: it's not fair on the living creatures to use them like they do. Now THAT is cruel.

Nothing the humans have to endure is cruel, nor are they suffering, and it is certainly not 'torture.'

As many people have said, it's really disrespectful towards millions of people over the world who suffer horrific living conditions (and even torture) every day of their lives.

CurlewKate · 05/12/2024 08:31

I find the use of the word torture deeply distasteful. But I do hate what this show says about society. Happy to be thought a fun sponge, woke, humourless and anything else you choose!

tilypu · 05/12/2024 07:58

Nursingadvice · 05/12/2024 07:35

I think the OP might be Irish. Not sure if it’s commonly used there. Not that it matters anyway.

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I think it's used in northern Ireland, as well as in Scotland and maybe Northern England.

I don't know about Ireland.

But it's also in the King James bible and in Shakespeare. I'm pretty sure that people in England are aware of the phrase 'ill-gotten gains'. And it is useful in that it can have a different nuance to 'got'. It's more continuous - 'As I got older' is very much past tense where 'as I have gotten older' includes the present.

#TeamGotten

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tilypu · 05/12/2024 07:26

I'm from the UK. I'm in my mid 50s. I have used the word all my living memory.

It is in use in the UK. Just not everywhere.

And how bizarre to claim it's 'not a word'. A word is a word. Jugador is a word. It's not an English word, but it's still a word.

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I think the OP might be Irish. Not sure if it’s commonly used there. Not that it matters anyway.

RedRiverShore5 · 05/12/2024 07:30

They can get out of the trial whenever they want.

Whaleandsnail6 · 05/12/2024 07:27

Of course its not torture...I think you are being a bit ridiculous op

Everyone who signs up for the programme knows what it entails. They have a choice as to whether they take part in the show or not before they even sign up

The trial is explained to them before they do it. They again are then given a choice as to whether they do any trial. They are not forced

They can then end the trial at any point.

They have the coice whether to take part in the whole thing and do it willingly for presumably fame and money and then once there the chance to win the whole show

If they didnt fancy going into the jungle, they can say no.
If they dont fancy the trial they can day no.

They are not exactly in desperate, vulnerable circumstances.

The only things I feel sorry for in the programme is all of the bugs and creatures that are made to do the trials. I imagine many end up dying.

tilypu · 05/12/2024 07:26

BIossomtoes · 04/12/2024 23:13

Not in the UK where the vast majority of MN lives.

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I'm from the UK. I'm in my mid 50s. I have used the word all my living memory.

It is in use in the UK. Just not everywhere.

And how bizarre to claim it's 'not a word'. A word is a word. Jugador is a word. It's not an English word, but it's still a word.

tilypu · 05/12/2024 07:19

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False.

Gotten has been in regular use 'in this country' forever - it's just that it's not used everywhere, and so some people have decided it's an Americanism and get all snobby about it.

HTH

holju · 05/12/2024 07:17

I think it's sadistic and grim (particularly to the animals, who didn't choose to be on it) but that's why I don't watch it.

FatOaf · 05/12/2024 07:16

I've thought since the first series of Big Brother how strange it is that things that would - quite rightly - never be given approval for research are allowed to be performed and broadcast for "entertainment".

While I really couldn't care less what humiliations talentless nonentities submit to to extend their worthless careers, I am very concerned by how the public's taste for violence and torment is increasingly graphically indulged. People are no longer content with 24-hour-a-day fictional murder: they want to watch real suffering.

tuvamoodyson · 05/12/2024 07:14

Mearabade · 04/12/2024 22:35

So if I hold you down so you can't move , and pour cockroaches all over you, what would you call it?

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…being paid massive amounts of money….

KrisAkabusi · 05/12/2024 07:07

Mearabade · 04/12/2024 23:22

I think it is.

The contestants are screaming form genuine fear on the show.

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People screaming in genuine fear on roller coasters and they've paid to it. Are they being tortured?

Nursingadvice · 05/12/2024 07:07

Mearabade · 04/12/2024 22:58

So what word would you use to describe being buried up to your neck in sand , and having thousands of bugs all over your face. Cockroaches going into your ear.

What word would you use?

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Bushtucker trial.

Have you seen Danny, he bloody loves doing them.

stormee · 05/12/2024 02:13

Gangs/mafia... take note. Stop water boarding, pulling off finger nails, breaking bones... send them to I'm a celebrity. ITV is brutal 😆

TempestTost · 05/12/2024 01:32

It all reminds me of the Stephen King novel, The Running Man. (The film with Arnold Schwarzenegger was not very similar if that seems a strange comparison.)

Edingril · 05/12/2024 01:16

Mearabade · 04/12/2024 22:36

Well the producers suck people in with large amounts of money.

But my point is that torture should never be used for entertainment purposes.

It's a slippery slope.

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They can say no, this idea that everything needs to be banned people are too stupid to say no is getting ridiculous

Maybe they need to teach brains in school

Periodssuck · 05/12/2024 01:12

I agree with you. I don’t watch it because it’s so bad. I can’t bear watching what they’re put through.

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Mearabade · 04/12/2024 23:37

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Yeah they really should allow ear plugs.

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Mearabade · 04/12/2024 23:35

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Its not nice though is it.

Will we put a wood louse inside your ear?

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