to just not "get" the X factor at all

[duchesse]

It actually makes me think some extremely rude words. Bunch of talentless wannabes being judged by some equally talentless slebs. Why why why?

Simon Cowell is on Newsnight today discussing how he wants to get an X Factor format for politics. This is it.....armageddon is here.

Whoever said upthread that despite his success, he is still quite tragic is sooooo right. But really, how many 50 year old men do you know who would genuinely like Joe McElderry?

Oh thank god people on my wavelength

The hysteria surrounding some really ordinary bland singers singing a very ordinary bland pop song or two really makes me feel I've been living in a parallel universe. It's just weird

Solid, many of the girl/boy bands don't even have to sing in tune. There are geeks to tweak everything.

ahh but I have a substantial list ofthings that other people love and I just don't get, like soaps - crappy, lowest common denominator tv for people who don't seem to mind that it is never ending and if they wantto watch dull people talking shit they could just go and spend time with theirrelatives. Or Boden - nice enough but hardly worthy of a pseudo religion and so not an indictation of poshness. Or football - as realistic and genuine a sport as WWF.
But I think it is nice to just nod and understand that we all have our foibles

its rubbish i could not stand it this year

I just don't get it ewither. or that dancing thing on BBC1

In fact I can't bear most of the "modern" output from any of the telly channels. I'd lump together about 70% of the output, including the dance thing, any programme that makes deluded kids believe they can "make it" without working, any programme highlighting the illusory achievements of z-listers, most media journalists of whom 99% actually don't have clue what they talking about (apart from war and foreign correspondents who arguably put themselves in some danger to bring us as objective a view of events as it is possible to do, and some presenters of long-standing). I bemoan the loss of experienced women presenters from the BBC and wonder why I personally have not made more of a fuss about it, and would seriously contemplate doing away with my television just to stop paying the licence fee if only I too had not been so enveloped in the same pappy apathy as everyone else.

I frankly prefer to watch film 4 or BBC3 and 4 for a glorious vision of the world before hysterical and out of place emotional outbursts on a massive scale.

I blame Princess Diana's death for the state of our society, personally. Her death was the thing that sparked off all this collective emoting afaik. It just makes me want to puke that people only like things if they have plenty of other people to back them up. When did we abandon the ability to think for ourselves?