Hahaha must be a Kilmarnock thing...........

[nedflanders]

To hate the media and the drivel it produces.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4440246.stm

What is your opinions on this article?

[woofgang]

Its like chatterbank, no one makes you answer the drivel, buy the mags or watch the programs, we vote with our feet, wallets and fingers!!

[Buddy]

My opinion is the author is very articulate and pompous and has little to do with his time if what other people are reading is concerning him

[libertie]

Kinda see what he means though.....we do seem to have a bit of an obsession with celebs as is reflected in the likes of Strictly Come Dancing and I'm A (z list) Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here etc etc etc!! But on the other hand I don't see that it does any real harm!

[woofgang]

we don't, some of us do and always have!!

[OBonio]

Rather pompous, I agree. But the man has a point. It makes me laugh what some people call entertainment nowadays. I'm sure the media moguls are laughing even more though!

[Hermia]

What amuses me is that you always seem to see loads of young women flicking through the gossip mags and saying, "Er, she's a right dog!" or "look at her cellulite!". Okay, the celebs pictured may have cellulite or not look as pretty without make-up, but I can guarantee they look better than the girls bitching at them do. It just seems an odd way for people to make themselves feel better. I am a bit overblessed in the bottom department so I'd never make loud comments about a celeb's big bum in public - it's just asking for trouble!

[jake-the-peg]

What facinates me is how some people can have a career as a celebrity.

They have no actual talent for anything but become famous by some random event and then manage to keep the ball rolling with interviews for these magazines, appearances on quiz shows etc. and the whole thing seems to feed off of itself.

It's a bit like the South Seas Bubble in microcosm. The whole thing feeding on itself with no means of support until one day their individual bubble bursts and the PR company moves on to the next wannabe and stops returning their calls.

[Buddy]

What a very dull world it would be if we all enjoyed the same reading material.

I personally cant understand anyone salviating,hypothetically, at the thought of getting their Private Eye or Tatler but thankfully I have much more important things going on in my life to concern myself with what other people do.

Its just blatant snobbery - I could do snob if necessary but my feet are firmly planted on the ground and if I want to buy Hello.OK or whatever - its my business and no-one elses.

[ronniemonda9]

Nice photo caption:

"Tabloid wares are on sale at Glasgow's Central Station"

[stevie_c2it]

Ah ha! Perhaps I'm not alone after all.

Funy how 'the chattering classes' miss the obvious irony of there �I�m not a snob�, you hateful patronising �Tattler� reading gits. �I� m down to earth and would never dream of condemning someone for what they read�. If only they could see (or understand) the reverse snobbery and hypocrisy of it all.
Oh well, to be in denial is human, to forgive�.devine.
Bless you, you my �Heat� magazine (Sun) reading chimpets!
Couldn't miss this one, could I?

[Buddy]

No but you Stevie condemned people for their reading material ie The Sun.

Apart from that you are making as much sense as I did last night:-)

Bet you thought all your birthdays had come at once !!

Happy Birthday for tomorrow - have fun and have a virtual drink on me x

[stevie_c2it]

;) Yeah, whatever happened to that thread? Buddy, did you get it pulled? 'ya bandit'! x

[Buddy]

I got moved to CB.I thought it was Newsworthy but apparently its only Gin soaked birthday girls who think that :-)

Have fun - I still feel like death.x

[Gef]

Scanned the kink. What a load of drivel. Shame on the BBC for even publishing it.

[stevie_c2it]

I think people (Buddy) may have misunderstood my take on this story; - I�m in agreement with the author.
What I find particularly entertaining is the way certain people (Buddy this means you!) try to defend there liking for this type of trivial, mass media, �entertainment � not information� culture. They are being equally as guilty of sweeping generalisations and of being patronising and condescending as they believe the author (and me) is being.
There arguments are often along the lines of �How dare you criticise me for reading: The Sun / Heat / OK magazine etc (delete as appropriate), �your just being: patronising, insulting, condescending� etc. This is usually followed by some sort of defensive counter claim (after all the inference is that there somehow a little deficient in the grey matter department) and results in a statement along the lines of �You�re just a: snob/elitist/boring broadsheet/tattler reader, and is ALWAYS followed by a �I�m better than you, because I don�t judge people, I�m down to earth/not a snob etc� type comment.
Completely missing the irony/hypocrisy of what they�ve just said! Priceless!

[stevie_c2it]

Jamie Oliver has been held up for acclaim over his healthy eating for kids campaign (stay with me on this one) because if you feed a child a diet of junk food they are going to grow up unhealthy and obese. Surely if you feed your brain a diet of junk, what can you expect? While your worrying and obsessed about what celebrity has cellulite, or who Brad Pitt is seeing on the sly, your probably not going to be too interested in boring news like the fact that your going to be made to work till your 67 (if you live that long) because the government has p****ed away your pension.
Like all things unhealthy there�s no harm in it, as long as you don�t live on that and nothing else.

Maybe that�s the real conspiracy theory here, distract the people with trivia and they�ll be too busy to notice (or care) what�s really going on. Wish I�d thought of it, I could rule the world. Nhhhh Ahhhhh Haaaaaa Haaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[Buddy]

Us people who escape the irony/hypocrisy of statements we have made perhaps enjoy light reading material to counter the hard hitting,appalling news we take on board everyday whilst digesting BBC24 or ITV News channels.

Please (thats you birthday boy) dont make sweeping statements again about people through their reading material.

I still maintain that I could be a pompous git if I wanted and slate people but I have the tenacity to stand up for what I am and dont feel the need to impress anyone.O BTW my son is doing exceptionally well at HW Uni in his Honours year - not bad on a diet of Heat (which he introduced me to).He, like me enjoys a bit of light relief.Sorry my daughter who is at college also enjoys same.Mind you we can all hold our own in spite of that.We must have more brain cells to enable us to compartmentalise "Trivia" and "Important dont forget".

BTW Jamie Oliver rocks !!!

[stevie_c2it]

Good for and the family Buddy. I guess your never going to concede the point that there are people out there who don't get much option but to 'consume' anything other than 'popular culture'. As I've already said (read again, you must have missed it) "Like all things unhealthy there�s no harm in it, as long as you don�t live on that and nothing else".

Surely YOU'VE made that point yourself, that its important to be aware of 'other' things?

[Buddy]

We are going to have to beg to differ on this.

I am NOT in anyway conceding but please dont be sarcastic about my two.I shouldnt have used them as an example but that was really in response to your Jamie Oliver thread.

Beg to differ my arse as long as it points downwards I will continue to put my point across (had you lulled into a false sense of security there didnt I?.

I am not a hypocrite.Irony does not escape me but the difference between you and I is that you care what people read and I just let people get on with their lives and credit everyone with a semblance of intelligence.That is, digest enough information you are comfortable with and can articulate comfortably with, if in company.

[nedflanders]

Buddy Ab Ed could have you banned for this comment:

"BTW Jamie Oliver rocks !!!"

and I wouldnt blame her if she did!