Talent TV shows

[Tyler Durden]

Watching X Factor (well a bit of it) yesterday with my daughters got me to thinking.

There were at least 3 incidents where the people in the auditions were seriously mentally not "capable" individuals. They went on the show, tried, sucked, and were then belittled with several repeats of individuals raising their eyebrows in disdain at them.

The whole thing left me uncomfortable.

So what's your take when these shows do this to people that clearly have issues? Is it just....."well they have a right to try like anyone else and if it ends up being exploited then so be it". Or do you object to how ratings are taken in these cases.

 

[Springsteen]

If you risk going on one of these programmes and you are absolutely shit, then you deserved to be ridiculed.

I had to laugh more at those 3 gangsters who said they wanted to change how teens were viewed, then when they were told they are shit, they told Simon Cowell to sleep with one eye open. I would have had them put to death.

 

[Tyler Durden]

If you risk going on one of these programmes and you are absolutely shit, then you deserved to be ridiculed.

I agree

Though I am specifically talking about people who seem to have mental illness

 

[Springsteen]

It's their choice to go on, ITV don't phone them and say "hey fancy coming on the X factor?".

 

[satinbutterfly]

I just assume they're faking to get on TV, so I can laugh without guilt.

 

[Tyler Durden]

It's their choice to go on, ITV don't phone them and say "hey fancy coming on the X factor?".

I take it you're a fan! :24:

I just assume they're faking to get on TV, so I can laugh without guilt.

Oh you're just mean

 

[satinbutterfly]

Oh you're just mean

It's about time you realized that...

 

[Tyler Durden]

It's about time you realized that...

Bloody reality show fans :cool

 

[satinbutterfly]

Bloody reality show fans :cool

Just one for me... So You Think You Can Dance...

 

[Tyler Durden]

Just one for me... So You Think You Can Dance...

And how many "simple" people are on that!?

 

[satinbutterfly]

And how many "simple" people are on that!?

You'd be surprised... :24:

Take Sex for instance...

YouTube - SEX IS BACK! DAVE KENNETH "SEX" SOLLER

 

[Tyler Durden]

You'd be surprised... :24:

Take Sex for instance...

YouTube - SEX IS BACK! DAVE KENNETH "SEX" SOLLER

LMFAO :24::24::24:

See if you'd let me carry on that booty dance....that's where we'd have been going!!

 

[satinbutterfly]

LMFAO :24::24::24:

See if you'd let me carry on that booty dance....that's where we'd have been going!!

Why do you think I stopped? :24:

 

[Springsteen]

I take it you're a fan! :24:

I'll just reply to this then leave the lovers thread

To answer yes I am

 

[Tyler Durden]

Why do you think I stopped? :24:

Because you hate me!

 

[Peter Parka]

Saw one of the acts while flicking channels during the adverts today. All I say is that if you move from Lithuania to Britain so you can audition for the X Factor and you sound like a cat being strangled, you deserve to be ridiculed.