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Cutting Edge last night on Channel 4.Did you see the mess?Did you feel for Sim when he spent an hour washing up ten plates? Did you laugh when one of the boys said 'boner'?

― Jonnie, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I laughed the whole way through. And it only strengthened my resolve never to have children.

― Madeleine, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It clashed with Bad Girls but I caught a couple of minutes of it. Boys aged 4-17 are to be avoided at all costs. In fact make that boys aged 4-90 at the moment with the raging f**tball frenzy.

― Emma, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought George was remarkable - even in the midst of the chaos he kept trying to look after anyone who was miserable (Sim,Robert?). Michael should be clubbed to death.

The hedgehog bit bothered me - I was shouting for the camera crew to intervene before they did. I'm surprised one of the boys didn't voice opposition.

Now you see how Bulger happened.

― Dr. C, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Again Bad Gurls meant I had to miss this but it looked very funny.

― Sarah, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At first it looked like the boys were going to be more mature and co- operative than the Big Brother contestants. But one major sugar-rush later...

Actually since BB3 have run out of sugar, maybe they will stop being so hyperactive?

― Archel, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But does anyone feel that they were acting up for the cameras?

― jel --, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BB contestants or annoying kiddies?

― Emma, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Both!!

Though, live coverage of BB on E4 is very mundane.

― jel --, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Hey Jonnie we were watching a tape of Jackass last night and I am sure I saw you on it)

― Sarah, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not possible. I heed the warnings they have at the start of the show.Sometimes.

― Jonnie, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just couldn't watch it. Emma, imagine being a boy aged 4-17, and the guilt of having been one.

― Graham, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It was so disturbing, I thought. My brother said at the end "but what does it PROVE?" and my friend replied "it proves that India and Pakistan are going to go to war". That was quite a snappy and wildly inaccurate answer but I'm a big fan of that kind of thing.

― Ronan, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The main thing it proved was that boyz (and, may I extrapolate, many grown men) become depressed when surrounded by utter chaos and living on artificial sweetener, and yet still do not work out that TIDYING and COOKING are the solutions. I hope it made some of the boys appreciate their mum/dad/chief housework-doer.

― Archel, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Archel there will have to be a follow up programme which will no doubt show that they haven't learnt a thing from their experience & call it MEN THEY NEVER LEARN DO THEY.

This f**tball is not helping my PMT man hatred thing at all in case you hadn't noticed.

― Emma, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some of the parents looked so bloody delighted. What an experience indeed, are they those new age parents who think stopping their kids from burning things and sticking nails in other children is preventing us from having the next Picasso?

― Ronan, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ronan is right, the parents reaction was the most disturbing part of the show. One was even saying "we're so proud of you son!"

― jel --, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

To be fair they were the parents of one of the less destructive ones. And they were all looking pretty shocked when they got up close to the window and saw the ground-in jam stains and broken football table and spilt cereal etc etc ad (literally) nauseum.

― Archel, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There were less destructive ones?

― Graham, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't find anything disturbing - it told us what we already know that small boys are OK individually, tolerable if controlled in small groups, and total bastards in a pack. But as I said above, the hedgehog thing (and to some extent attacking the tent) was unpleasant.

At least half of the boys were really good kids, I reckon. The parental reaction was prob. relief mixed with admiration that they'd 'stuck it out' in there. I missed the start so didn't see anything about the kids' backgrounds, but the only obvious planks were Michael's parents. And he was a little thug.

― Dr. C, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I got the feeling that Michael's parents were the only ones who didn't watch the live tv feed that was available to them. Otherwise they would surely have beaten the shite out of him.

― Jonnie, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

were any of em fuckable?

― Queen G of the 9th Seal of the revelation of Dubya's Ass, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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