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I just have to have my occasional rant about this dreadful 'entertainment' that is still being shown after thirty (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) years.
Honestly, I know its cheap TV, but just how funny can a child hurting themselves - and the editing cutting the sound of crying, and the visuals before the face crumples into distress or contorts with agony - be, even for a dubbed audience that would have to be deranged to still find such nonsense funny after fifteen seconds, never mind an entire show's worth.
I find it repugnant that people are paid to send clips of their children hurting themselves for the 'entertainment' of viewing audiences, and it says something about those audiences that this pain-fest is still running and has been since 1990.
Honestly people, we are better than thinking that someone else's toddler being frightened or hurt, or both, is somehow funny - I think it should be taken off air today.
And ... breathe ...
OK - see you next year!!
Honestly, I know its cheap TV, but just how funny can a child hurting themselves - and the editing cutting the sound of crying, and the visuals before the face crumples into distress or contorts with agony - be, even for a dubbed audience that would have to be deranged to still find such nonsense funny after fifteen seconds, never mind an entire show's worth.
I find it repugnant that people are paid to send clips of their children hurting themselves for the 'entertainment' of viewing audiences, and it says something about those audiences that this pain-fest is still running and has been since 1990.
Honestly people, we are better than thinking that someone else's toddler being frightened or hurt, or both, is somehow funny - I think it should be taken off air today.
And ... breathe ...
OK - see you next year!!
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My friends daughter featured in a clip when she was getting married and having a family photo taken outside the church, it was a very warm day and a middle aged man strolled up , took off his top and used it as a pillow , lay down to catch some rays , no one noticed this till they'd got the wedding video :0))
ummmm - // Andy...you don't know if the kids were frightened or hurt. Some little ones react for the attention they get. //
Some of these tots are under two - not old enough to see attention.
You know and i know that, as I have pointed out, when children are frightened or hurt, there is a pause before they react, and as I have said, that is when they cut the clip.
I find your continued defence of this disgusting show very strange indeed.
Some of these tots are under two - not old enough to see attention.
You know and i know that, as I have pointed out, when children are frightened or hurt, there is a pause before they react, and as I have said, that is when they cut the clip.
I find your continued defence of this disgusting show very strange indeed.
roy - // I find your continued defence of this disgusting show very strange indeed
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Not as strange as I find holding on to a mug dedicated to a peadophile. //
Are you really dragging this up again, you sad man!!!
First of all, you have no idea if I still possess the mug in question, that is for me to know, and you to wonder about for strange perverse reasons of your own.
And second of all, this was discussed to death years ago and there is nothing to be gained by you dragging it up again, once again for your own perverse reasons.
Discussion on this subject with me is now closed.
If you have something pertinent to the thread, I will of course respond if appropriate.
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Not as strange as I find holding on to a mug dedicated to a peadophile. //
Are you really dragging this up again, you sad man!!!
First of all, you have no idea if I still possess the mug in question, that is for me to know, and you to wonder about for strange perverse reasons of your own.
And second of all, this was discussed to death years ago and there is nothing to be gained by you dragging it up again, once again for your own perverse reasons.
Discussion on this subject with me is now closed.
If you have something pertinent to the thread, I will of course respond if appropriate.
Andy - all children are different.
My daughter would scream like she'd broken bones over the smallest thing. My son fell out of a tree (that was funny) and jumped up and carried on playing.
Anyway...kids having accidents is only a small part of the programme. Like it was said earlier, it's the cute clips I find funny. Kids falling asleep in their dinner, animals being super cute (or not)
I find it strange you write off a whole programme just because you don't like 2 or 3 clips.
And btw....I don't like seeing anyone hurt themselves.
My daughter would scream like she'd broken bones over the smallest thing. My son fell out of a tree (that was funny) and jumped up and carried on playing.
Anyway...kids having accidents is only a small part of the programme. Like it was said earlier, it's the cute clips I find funny. Kids falling asleep in their dinner, animals being super cute (or not)
I find it strange you write off a whole programme just because you don't like 2 or 3 clips.
And btw....I don't like seeing anyone hurt themselves.
allen - // And if you don’t, he’ll close the thread? //
Threads and posts are removed of they contravene Site Rules, and I am not permitted to remove a thread I started.
// Anyway, what is the story of the mug? //
Not relevant to the thread - let's move on.
Threads and posts are removed of they contravene Site Rules, and I am not permitted to remove a thread I started.
// Anyway, what is the story of the mug? //
Not relevant to the thread - let's move on.
ummm - // Anyway...kids having accidents is only a small part of the programme. Like it was said earlier, it's the cute clips I find funny. Kids falling asleep in their dinner, animals being super cute (or not) //
The point I am making is, if one child is hurt, it's one child too many. The fact it is only 'a few' clips is not a defence, there should be none at all in my view.
// I find it strange you write off a whole programme just because you don't like 2 or 3 clips. //
I don't find adults being idiots entertaining either, but at least they are aware of what they are doing, and if they consent to their behaviour being used to entertain people, that's up to them.
// And btw....I don't like seeing anyone hurt themselves. //
Then why not avoid a programme that shows exactly that for entertainment.
The point I am making is, if one child is hurt, it's one child too many. The fact it is only 'a few' clips is not a defence, there should be none at all in my view.
// I find it strange you write off a whole programme just because you don't like 2 or 3 clips. //
I don't find adults being idiots entertaining either, but at least they are aware of what they are doing, and if they consent to their behaviour being used to entertain people, that's up to them.
// And btw....I don't like seeing anyone hurt themselves. //
Then why not avoid a programme that shows exactly that for entertainment.
naomi - // Cross-posted there barry. That's the one. Candid Camera. Shameful. //
Did you see the equivalent Japanese show that Clive James used to show on his programmes?
Having shown us Endurance, which appalled the UK audience of the time, but turned out just to be the advance guard for I'm A Celebrity - he found the Japanese version of Candid Camera which was utterly brutal!
One clip showed a woman who thought she had shot a man on an archery range, and her distress was dreadful to see, and another where a shelf of wig heads had one 'live head' which frightened a woman to the point of a heart attack. Seriously horrible.
Did you see the equivalent Japanese show that Clive James used to show on his programmes?
Having shown us Endurance, which appalled the UK audience of the time, but turned out just to be the advance guard for I'm A Celebrity - he found the Japanese version of Candid Camera which was utterly brutal!
One clip showed a woman who thought she had shot a man on an archery range, and her distress was dreadful to see, and another where a shelf of wig heads had one 'live head' which frightened a woman to the point of a heart attack. Seriously horrible.
naomi - // I remember that awful thing with Jeremy Beadle making fools of people. Some became truly distressed. Not nice and not funny. //
I remember a guy on our local commercial radio station trying the same thing.
I used to freelance at the station, and I knew the presenter, and knew he had about as much of an actual sense of humour as I have knowledge about the far side of the universe.
He did a 'prank' call with a local listener, something about her holiday being cancelled, and he still laughed during the 'payoff' when she was in tears, obviously lacking the same sense of humour as him (for which she should be eternally grateful!) and the silence at the end was utterly cruel.
He didn't last long as a radio presenter.
I remember a guy on our local commercial radio station trying the same thing.
I used to freelance at the station, and I knew the presenter, and knew he had about as much of an actual sense of humour as I have knowledge about the far side of the universe.
He did a 'prank' call with a local listener, something about her holiday being cancelled, and he still laughed during the 'payoff' when she was in tears, obviously lacking the same sense of humour as him (for which she should be eternally grateful!) and the silence at the end was utterly cruel.
He didn't last long as a radio presenter.
retrocop - // The Clive James/Japanese version just highlights the sado/masochist psyche in that country imo. Perverse to say the least. //
I'm inclined to agree - it became clear as CJ showed more and more of these clips that the Japanese audiences genuinely do find amusement in situations that we would find distressing and cruel.
I'm inclined to agree - it became clear as CJ showed more and more of these clips that the Japanese audiences genuinely do find amusement in situations that we would find distressing and cruel.
On the subject of Candid Camera, that was a much gentler time, and a lot of the pranks were really pretty harmless with people being baffled rather than hurt or humiliated.
Clips that spring to mind are the time when they rolled a car down a hill into a garage and asked the mechanic why it wouldn't go, and when he lifted the bonnet, there was no engine.
Another was when they took out the entire interior of a bubble care leaving just enough room for the driver and replaced the windows with smoked glass and filled the interior with a giant petrol tank.
They took it to a filling station, and the look on the attendent's face as more and more petrol went in was actually pretty funny.
Clips that spring to mind are the time when they rolled a car down a hill into a garage and asked the mechanic why it wouldn't go, and when he lifted the bonnet, there was no engine.
Another was when they took out the entire interior of a bubble care leaving just enough room for the driver and replaced the windows with smoked glass and filled the interior with a giant petrol tank.
They took it to a filling station, and the look on the attendent's face as more and more petrol went in was actually pretty funny.
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