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to think that Geordie Shore is the worst programme I've ever seen and to ban my dds from watching it?

30 replies

Listmaker · 02/02/2012 13:27

Well that's it really. My dds (12 and 14) had recorded this and wanted to watch it. I said I wasn't sure and perhaps I should watch it with them. Dd1 was apalled at this idea which set the alarm bells ringing! We watched something else and I thought I'd see what it was like after they went to bed.

I'm not easily shocked but I was this time - it was awful - drunken, orange skinned, skimpily dressed people having sex and being horrid to one another.

So I deleted it and said they were never to watch it over my dead body etc etc.

Dd1 was outraged as EVERYONE watches it apparently and dd2 also said her best mate watches it. I said I don't think her mum has seen it then (she's a good friend, not very strict but not a complete pushover) but she said she had.

I can't believe anyone lets their teenagers let alone pre-teens watch this or am I on my own here?

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cuteboots · 02/02/2012 13:30

YANBU absolutely awful programme . Im also not keen on the other one The only way is essex! Massive pile of cow dung...

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Listmaker · 02/02/2012 13:32

Thanks cuteboots! Never thought I'd think there was a programme more pointless than TOWIE (which they watch too and I moan about but tolerate) but this is just horrid. I felt grubby from watching it for half an hour!

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limitedperiodonly · 02/02/2012 13:33

listmaker I know you said you aren't easily shocked but you are.

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Listmaker · 02/02/2012 13:35

Maybe so limited - I've been living a sheltered life it seems if this is normal TV!

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WorraLiberty · 02/02/2012 13:36

It depends on your DD's really

They could watch it and decide they want to be just like the girls on it

Or they could watch it and decide they would be like them over their dead bodies.

You know your own kids and how they are/are not influenced.

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Listmaker · 02/02/2012 13:39

I think it would be the latter Worra but would still really rather they didn't see people having sex on TV at their age either way!

I find it sad that young people are so hungry for fame that they would appear in these programmes.........

I think I am just hopelessly out of touch and old-fashioned!

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WorraLiberty · 02/02/2012 13:41

I agree that it's sad but it's all supply and demand I suppose.

I'm careful about the things I ban my kids from watching though

Sometimes it's best to suffer and watch with them so that you can sit and tut and make cat's bum faces all the way through Grin

TV shows are so instantly accessible on the internet anyway.

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Listmaker · 02/02/2012 13:45

dd1 wouldn't let me watch it with them - she knows it's inappropriate and was mortified at the thought of me watching something like that with her.

She didn't put up as much of a fight as I thought she would about it so perhaps she didn't really want to watch it either but felt peer pressure to do so?

I've never banned anything before so think I'm happy to make a stand on this one. I shall never moan about the endless round of Friends repeats ever again Grin

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CoolRunnings · 02/02/2012 13:46

Yanbu. Makes me ashamed to be a Geordie.

AKissIsNotAContract · 02/02/2012 13:47

I like it, didn't realise it was aimed at teens though as it is on quite late.

Thankgodforcaffeine · 02/02/2012 13:50

I think you did the right thing OP, I watched a few episodes last year Blush (in my defence I was 9 months pregnant, could hardly move and therefore watched a lot of crap to pass the time).

It is rather explicit in places and not suitable for a 12 and 14 to watch imo

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Listmaker · 02/02/2012 13:51

Don't know that it's aimed at teens AKiss but they are always drawn this sort of thing I guess. They recorded it - too easy to do that kind of thing these days I guess which gets round the time it's on quite nicely.

Yes I guess if it was just me I'd think trash TV but at a stretch a guilty pleasure but seeing it through my dds eyes tainted it somewhat!

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limitedperiodonly · 02/02/2012 13:52

I'm from Essex coolrunnings. TOWIE does not describe my life though some things remind me of some of the things I did when I was in my 20s.

I imagine Geordie Shore, Desperate Scousewives and Made In Chelsea aren't intended to be taken as documentaries either.

Kayano · 02/02/2012 13:56

I'm a Geordie and although I love
Jersey shore, Geordie shore
Made me ConfusedBlushAngry

Probably because it just shows 1 side
Of Newcastle. I hate to think people think all Geordies are like that ....

Though lots are GrinWink

TandB · 02/02/2012 14:07

I'm a Geordie and I can't even watch the trailers, never mind the show....

MeconiumHappens · 03/02/2012 20:43

Its the most hideous thing ive ever seen, a real example of the lowest of the low. No way id let my children watch it. ever. ick.

Tequilamockinbird · 03/02/2012 20:44

I'm a Geordie and refuse to watch it.

That advert is bad enough "I could murda a kabab"

catgirl1976 · 03/02/2012 20:50

I saw 15 mins if the last series. It seemed to feature orange people dry humping each other.

I take it didn't get any better?

troisgarcons · 03/02/2012 20:52

Dear God - my 15yo sky+'d and put it on tonight .... no wonder the NE is unemployable if they are standard inhabitants.

doublechocchip · 03/02/2012 20:55

yanbu for not wanting your dds to see it, at least not your 12 year old but Geordie shore is the funniest programme on tv at the moment!

PippiL · 03/02/2012 21:02

Pmsl at "orange people dry humping"

Yanbu, they need to learn taste and decency somewhere. I would tell them the above comment, and see if they still want to watch it.

They may well watch it elsewhere, but at least they will know why it is so deplorable.

MateyMooo · 03/02/2012 21:04

showing my age... and location....
but my dad wouldnt let us watch brookside when it first started... said it was a bad influence. he was right!

TheOriginalNutcracker · 03/02/2012 21:06

I'd not let my 14 and 12 yr old dd's watch it.

Dd1 does watch TOWIE but that's not as bad imo. She does have to put up with me commenting on how stupid they are/the programme is, all the way through though.

mrsjay · 03/02/2012 21:06

I have seen about 5 minutes of the first series Shock my dds wouldnt watch it dd1 would watch and judge them tbh , awful programme idea It all depends though if your dds would be influenced or mock them and glad they are and never will be like that ,

limitedperiodonly · 03/02/2012 23:46

What programmes has everyone here most recently watched?

I'll start you off: the third and final episode of The Crusades on iPlayer.

Over to you OP and I will be testing you to on that crucial: 'what happened two thirds from the end' bit to see if you're fibbing.