To think trash TV should be bloody banned!

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Yes Facebook, I CAN believe what happened on DTTB last night, this is the third ‘can you believe he spent £10,000 on a piss up stag do and then made his fiancé wear a burlap sack down the isle’ article you’ve popped up on my news feed (randomly) in the past few weeks and YES I can believe it!

Why? Because this utter trash tv is just one big race to the bottom! That’s why. DDTB, Love Island, Big Brother....pretty much every reality show going is just a push from the TV channels to find ever more ridiculous, self absorbed, idiots who want fame and attention. Meanwhile we’re supposed to sit at home drinking supermarket Chardonnay and getting ‘pulled in’ by the concept that someone can ‘LOVE’ someone else after 2 days together, no real emotional involvement but a rompy snog in the hot tub? FFS!

And we the viewers are ‘fumming’ after the heavily pregnant fiancé is made to sky dive into her wedding by AWFUL fiancé using a bed sheet as a parachute because he spent the entire budget on his stag do in Budapest.
We’re not fuming though are we- we’re bloody loving it and tuning in again next week to see what borderline abusive idea the next idiot will inflict on his bride to be.

It’s trashing society and lowering standards for everyone - I’d rather watch paint dry!

I just made a joke of how uninterested I was, saying ‘Don’t care’ in response to any comment about it

Gosh the humour is outstanding

There’s nothing worse than cultural superiority.

With so much shit going on in the world and life being so stressful why shouldn't my huaband and I enjoy watching some awful reality TV.
Ex on the beach is our favourite, we'll sit down with a glass of wine and laugh at how ridiculous they all are.
Sometimes we don't want to watch dramas, sometimes we want to turn our brains off after working all day and looking after dd.
I think they're better than those god awful soaps like Eastenders thay run every day!

We don't have a telly. The programmes sound rubbish and they're designed to distract the population from the social injustice we're surrounded by. Cheap and nasty, vacuous and sexist.

It's worth searching online for more interesting stuff.

I was in the local petrol station about three weeks ago and the two young adult males in there were complaining bitterly about tv content and the constant diet of reality tv. Not just us old fogies who are fed up and bored with it.

I only watch sport on TV.

It’s fairly straightforward to say “oh I don’t watch that” when someone asks if you saw what X did last night on Y

You don't have to engage OP.

I haven't watched any of those shows and I have no idea what "DDTB" is.

You sound heavily invested.

It's worth searching online for more interesting stuff

Someone else who seems to be struggling with the radical concept that not everyone likes the same things as themselves.

I don't watch any of those programmes. Why? Because I'm an adult and I have buttons on my remote control that allows me to scroll through the tv stations, watch those I like the look of and avoid those that I don't want to bother with.

Why do you watch them if they annoy you so much OP.

I agree they are complete rubbish and contribute nothing to society or culture. However, a lot of people like them so I suspect this sort of stuff will go on being made.

You do realize that these programmes are all set up don't you? I very much doubt the people grabbing their 15 minutes of fame have a free hand to do what they like.

This is television, the people paying the money have complete control over it and want to make the most sensationalist rubbish they can so that they can reel the viewer in and get a 'OMG did you see what happened on DTTB last night' reaction. In fact pretty much how you're reacting, so that the viewer can't wait to tune in next week to see what other ghastly shenanigan the participants get up to the next time.

You've fallen into their trap OP.

I'm not struggling with the concept of people not liking the same things as me. I was sympathising with the op and suggesting they search online for a wider variety of programmes.

Meanwhile we’re supposed to sit at home drinking supermarket Chardonnay and getting ‘pulled in’ by the concept that someone can ‘LOVE’ someone else after 2 days together, no real emotional involvement but a rompy snog in the hot tub? FFS!
You do realise don't you that, unless there's someone there holding a gun to your head, you are not obliged to do anything you don't want to do in your spare time? Personally I love a bit of trash TV but if I didn't, rather than give myself a hernia over it, I would simply switch over to one of the dozens of other channels to find something of interest to watch,or just chat with the family,flick through a magazine, do crosswords,even read a book! Also there's tea,coffee,hot chocolate,cordial,water,beer,cider and many other alternatives that we are allowed to drink other than supermarket Chardonnay, you do know that right?

It's worth searching online for more interesting stuff.

The problem with that is that:

• you have to already know what you are wanting to find or you can get very locked down to one or two subjects (ie you once looked at hamsters in hats on YouTube and now are only shown hamster or other animals in hats and not something about the Renaissance that could be interesting if you knew about it)

• decent stuff is often locked behind paywalls or having to create accounts to access is

• much is cheap American tripe

• lack facts and evidence in the program (like Hitler moved to South America and I know that this is true because someone's third cousin saw him)

I personally believe that any programme that isn't presented by Melvyn Bragg can in no way provide any value to sustained human existence - and should therefore be banned, with the death penalty rigorously enforced for any TV producers who defy this very sensible law.

The vain perception that programmes should be 'interesting' is just a smokescreen which only serves to enslave us and distract us from learning what we need to know and nothing more.

On that sad day when dear old Melvyn finally leaves us, we must consider television complete, destroy all TV sets and broadcasting equipment and then never speak of it again, except to be summarily recorded in the official, government-approved annals of (Braggian) history.

It's not so much the programmes as I have the capacity not to watch them. It's the sad acts who believe it's real. I put them firmly in the same camp as those who talk about Eastenders and Corrie like they are real people.

I love fantasy and sci fi but it's entertainment, not reality. People are a bit dim sometimes.

No, I don’t think it should be banned.

Personally I can’t stand any of those programmes, or F1, nature shows, craft crap, soaps, period series and a whole host of other stuff, but weirdly I realise it’s not all about me. I set TiVo up to record things I do like to watch and easily ignore the rest ‍🤷🏻‍♀️

Your issue here is FB. Life, I find, is far more pleasant without it.

I have absolutely no idea what you're going on about. But I like intellectual programmes and I also like trash tv, even really bad trash tv.

So yes yabvvvvvu and have no right to tell me I can't watch something because you don't approve.

I have PTSD and find it very hard to watch any TV at all. I have to avoid anything medical, death, abuse etc etc. The soaps are a no go, gritty dramas and most documentaries just don't suit.

Sometimes these reality shows are "safe" watching and I put them on for background noise. I actually enjoy Big Brother. It's an interesting social experiment that I've always watched.

What I can't understand is that you don't seem to realise that people like different things. You don't have to watch them. You can't police what people talk about.

I think you need to pay some serious attention to yourself rather than post goady threads about what other people enjoy.

The existence of the sheer amount of trash is precisely why I gave up on Facebook. Whoever knew that subscribing to trashy feeds on a social media platform that's pretty much dedicated to promulgating trash.... might bring forth trash....

I had no idea this programme existed. I only watch what I fancy - good films, dramas and documentaries, and I can't stand "reality" or "celebrity" anything. I don't feel pressured to watch anything I don't like.

If there's a market for this type of programme, then these programmes are going to be made.

@pigs-
As I have already said - I don’t watch them but am unfortunately surrounded by those who do. Lots of suggestions here about turning off the channel, any suggestions on how to turn off my colleagues would be FAR more helpful - I’m no where near falling into their trap - read threads before commenting xx

*Gosh the humour is outstanding

There’s nothing worse than cultural superiority.*

I believe the popular phrase is ‘Oh do fuck off, dear’.

I wasn’t suggesting it made me Oscar bloody Wilde to say that. Um just making the point that, rather than getting pissed off at people talking about these programmes, I said head-on ‘not interested’. It’s nothing to do with superiority.

OP, why don't you play your tiresome colleagues at their own game and take up (or rather assume to do so) the most boring hobby you can possibly think of? Corner them and start raving melodramatically about what you've recently learned.

Did they know: Slazenger golf balls are purposefully designed to have 5 fewer dimples than Titleist ones for reasons of 3.7584% improved aerodynamic performance.

Were they aware: aluminium clubs may be lighter to carry, but those with titanium-plated heads have been found beyond all reasonable doubt to provide significantly better lift, however the real professionals actually consider anything other than vanadium-dipped to be a travesty of the most despicable kind.

Rinse and repeat relentlessly - tell them that you WILL be testing them later, to make sure that they've properly understood the full importance of it. Ignore what they have to say to you and talk over them, demanding to know whether they consider faux-leather, suede or PVC golf club bags to be the most hard-wearing - and they must go into detail to justify their opinion on this, as well as fully considering the pros and cons of the various alternative weather-proofing spray options, not to mention the best brand of grease to use on the golf trolley wheels.

At best, they'll look at you open-mouthed and ask why you think they would possibly be interested in that - and then you can respond "Touche!!!" and they might just get your point.

At worst, they'll stop talking to you and leave you in peace and freedom from reality-TV tedium - also a major win.

By the way, I'm not criticising any golfing fanatics out there at all - just people who have no ability whatsoever to find an appreciative audience for discussing what interests them, and not boring the very pants off folk who clearly could not care less.

Who gets to decide what is trash though? Is it all reality TV? Is it all competitions? Is it just programs you don't like?

Brides walk down a thing called an aisle.

Don't watch it, and respond to any discussion with something along the lines of 'I have a life' to discourage conversation about it.

Don't watch it, and respond to any discussion with something along the lines of 'I have a life' to discourage conversation about it

No, don't to that, you'll just come across like an idiot who thinks that they're superior. Just watch what you like to watch and quietly feel superior.

Try getting on with your work rather than gossiping maybe. Nobody at my work sits around chatting about the telly last night.