In recent weeks I've seen on UKTV 'Bowling 4 C0lumbine,' Louis Th3roux's Naz1 prog, and last night a lazy Chr1stopher Hitch3ns doc on Texas, and a prog about how fat ppl in Houston are.
A lot of ppl I know, and me, in weak moments, like to sneer about Americans for being Bush-voting, gun-toting, bible-bashing, bigoted fat-asses.
But these shows had me rooting, like a tru Brit, for the underdogs. I don't like N4zis, gun nuts, or the criminally obese, but sneering at them just ain't classy.
But I ph34r these aren't isolated incidents and that we'll be seeing a lot more of This Sort Of Thing. Which is not good.
And to repeat, how lame was the Hitch's show?
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)
I could not believe how big that woman was. 44 fuxing stone for God's sake!
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)
wasn't there, in the mid-90s, a BBC miniseries called "Dumb America" or something?
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)
That woman was unbelievable. But I kind of couldn't help admiring her nerve -- basically the line was, if it's okay with me, then that's all you need to know -- a kind of parody of rugged individualism since of course she needed people to wipe her considerable ass, put on her shoes, etc.
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)
Did you see the part when she got into bed & you could see her belly and it was hanging by her knees?
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, but didn't you have an overwhleming urge to see her naked? Just to see....no? Yeah me either!
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)
Well, they did kind of avoid the issue of ass-wiping/sores/etc.
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)
this is hardly just a uk-tv subgenre.
here in canada we get both american tv (they do a good enough job embarrassing themselves)
+ canadian tv which will treat you to the odd gem of self-defeating/look at what tools our neighbours are type programing.
― dyson (dyson), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)
i am glad i didn't see the obesity programme - it will probably get a decent placing in Channel 4's Top 100 TV Treats of 2004 though.
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)