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I tried the X-Factor
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I really wanted to fit in a bit more on the site so I thought in an attempt to ingratiate myself with some of the regulars who all seem to be fans of the show, I'd give it a go.
Tonight's show seems to be some kind of 'elimination' event.
I tried really, really hard.
I made it to the 1st ad break.
But by that time I hadn't seen anyone who's existence was anything less than a serious genetic threat to the human race.
There wasn't a single person I would not have willingly shot in the head. Many of the contestants should have been drowned at birth.
There was a girl who I thought was a boy, a boy who I thought was a girl, two mentally deranged Essex girl types, and a woman wearing so much make-up it must have doubled her body weight.
I have no idea who the 2 females judges are, but they both appear to be entirely vacuous human beings (see above 'needing shot' comment)
What exactly to people get for winning this thing, other than of course the obligatory fruit bowl full of cocaine and room full of prostitutes?
Please tell me that people are being ironic when they watch this. Please tell me there aren't people taking it seriously.
Is it actually legal for one of the judges to write a song for last years winner and then promote it on the show with a live performance - surely that breaks all kinds of product placement and advertising rules?
I tried.
But seriously, it's a fucking freak show. These people need help, not exposure on TV.
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"Does that mean you didn't like it ?  "
I wanted to give a fair and balanced account of my _iewing experience, rather than a mindless rant, so I toned my opinion down considerably in my post.
To be more truthful would pain too many people on the site who are 'fans' of the 'show' I fear. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I caught the last couple of minutes of tonights show and had to turn the volume off straight away!
I also caught sight of tonight's Strictly, and had to turn that off too as I cannot put up with the fake tans and fake eyelashes etc. etc...
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"I caught the last couple of minutes of tonights show and had to turn the volume off straight away!
I also caught sight of tonight's Strictly, and had to turn that off too as I cannot put up with the fake tans and fake eyelashes etc. etc...
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It's like afternoon tea at View's house. |
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By *umourCouple
over a year ago
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Sensi... Why did you do it? Don't you know that kind of crap can scar you for life?
And we have yet to hear any convincing arguement to watch it from any that do! Spose it's just that people like to watch the Jeremy Kyle generation on tele.. Bet the same people who watch J. Kyle, also watch X-Factor... |
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
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"Sensi... Why did you do it? Don't you know that kind of crap can scar you for life?
And we have yet to hear any convincing arguement to watch it from any that do! Spose it's just that people like to watch the Jeremy Kyle generation on tele.. Bet the same people who watch J. Kyle, also watch X-Factor... "
Tend to disagree, I occasionally watch X factor and equally I very occasionally watch the JK show but for very very different reasons. Its a bit voyeuristic, I think but it is also vry interesting to watch human behaviour, responses to stressful situations for example that sometimes make it quite interesting material. |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Angus & Findhorn |
"well done for trying.... 
Thank you.
I know you know how much it took for me to do so.
(I still quite like your dancing guy, dunnohisname, the outrageously camp one, he's a talented mo'fo)"
do you mean Jonny, I just think there is a guy who if he makes a few quid, gets a wee job on a cruise liner singing, a gig in Butlins for a year or so...
it is all good...
he is out there trying to make a living and thats all good with me. |
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"well done for trying....
Thank you.
I know you know how much it took for me to do so.
(I still quite like your dancing guy, dunnohisname, the outrageously camp one, he's a talented mo'fo)
do you mean Jonny, I just think there is a guy who if he makes a few quid, gets a wee job on a cruise liner singing, a gig in Butlins for a year or so...
it is all good...
he is out there trying to make a living and thats all good with me."
Noooooooooooooooo!
Was that the one in the silver outfit with the specs? He's FIRST up against the wall!
The other guy from the other show, he's some kind of dance dude camp as a row of tents |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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"well done for trying....
Thank you.
I know you know how much it took for me to do so.
(I still quite like your dancing guy, dunnohisname, the outrageously camp one, he's a talented mo'fo)
do you mean Jonny, I just think there is a guy who if he makes a few quid, gets a wee job on a cruise liner singing, a gig in Butlins for a year or so...
it is all good...
he is out there trying to make a living and thats all good with me.
Noooooooooooooooo!
Was that the one in the silver outfit with the specs? He's FIRST up against the wall!
The other guy from the other show, he's some kind of dance dude camp as a row of tents"
lol on the other show.. got ya... |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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lol on the other show.. got ya...
You know fine well who I mean, i just don't know his name. Short guy, bald, lisp, outrageously homosexual.
Buggered if I can remember his name
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louis spence |
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I enjoy the X factor. I know what parts give me pleasure and i tolerate or laugh at the rest.
Sensi - shut up. Coming in after the early auditions and pretending to know what's going on is like putting the last fucking Roman Tersai in place and saying the whole mosaic is shite....
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"I enjoy the X factor. I know what parts give me pleasure and i tolerate or laugh at the rest.
Sensi - shut up. Coming in after the early auditions and pretending to know what's going on is like putting the last fucking Roman Tersai in place and saying the whole mosaic is shite....
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WHOA!
Hold on. Stop the presses. just WAIT.
Early Auditions?
You mean the people I saw tonight were the GOOD ones?
These are the people who have been, somehow, chosen ABOVE other people?
Nah, you're winding me up Granny.
I fucking believed you for a minute there, you had me going.
Don't I feel like the fool now.
'Early auditions'. Pffft, as IF!
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
"Does that mean you didn't like it ?
I wanted to give a fair and balanced account of my _iewing experience, rather than a mindless rant, so I toned my opinion down considerably in my post.
To be more truthful would pain too many people on the site who are 'fans' of the 'show' I fear."
Hooray! Someone who sees this programme for what it really is, and all the hype and media frenzy which surrounds it!
This show and all of the other big name types such as Strictly Come Dancing. BGT and others like them, can only prove one thing, that TV is dumbing down far further into the gutter!
Before long, it will be reduced to people baying for someone's life to be snuffed out in a gladitorial pit! |
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"I enjoy the X factor. I know what parts give me pleasure and i tolerate or laugh at the rest.
Sensi - shut up. Coming in after the early auditions and pretending to know what's going on is like putting the last fucking Roman Tersai in place and saying the whole mosaic is shite....
WHOA!
Hold on. Stop the presses. just WAIT.
Early Auditions?
You mean the people I saw tonight were the GOOD ones?
These are the people who have been, somehow, chosen ABOVE other people?
Nah, you're winding me up Granny.
I fucking believed you for a minute there, you had me going.
Don't I feel like the fool now.
'Early auditions'. Pffft, as IF!
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Funny as you are just stop this BS right now!
You know the score the rigmaroll the order of things......
There are thousands upon thousands of auditions held across our great nation.
The sixteen survivors who pleasured you this evening were indeed the country's finest....... aren't you proud ? |
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"Does that mean you didn't like it ?
I wanted to give a fair and balanced account of my _iewing experience, rather than a mindless rant, so I toned my opinion down considerably in my post.
To be more truthful would pain too many people on the site who are 'fans' of the 'show' I fear.
Hooray! Someone who sees this programme for what it really is, and all the hype and media frenzy which surrounds it!
This show and all of the other big name types such as Strictly Come Dancing. BGT and others like them, can only prove one thing, that TV is dumbing down far further into the gutter!
Before long, it will be reduced to people baying for someone's life to be snuffed out in a gladitorial pit! "
How was songs of praise tonight ? |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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"How was songs of praise tonight ?
I didn't watch that either! 
I know. You sit in the dark and flagellate......."
What I do is my business!
As it happened, I was asleep at the time; medication is buggering up my sleep. |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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"How was songs of praise tonight ?
I didn't watch that either!
I know. You sit in the dark and flagellate......."
Jesus, I think I need that eye test, I read that as "shit in the dark and flagelleate"  |
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"How was songs of praise tonight ?
I didn't watch that either!
I know. You sit in the dark and flagellate.......
What I do is my business!
As it happened, I was asleep at the time; medication is buggering up my sleep. "
Well, i;m never going to lie on my stomach after taking meds again. Sod that. |
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The sixteen survivors who pleasured you this evening were indeed the country's finest....... aren't you proud ?
*grown man weeps uncontrollably*
Which act damaged you the least ?"
It was all a blur quite frankly.
There was a young chap who did a Beatles cover I think, he'd be shot last.
But this is no way condones the X-Factor.
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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"Is flagellating similar to flatulating?
Ask in M and S for some Flagellatio beans ..... I dare ya."
In a similar vein, a colleague of mine who many years ago went off to a weekend in Amsterdam, and after a visist to their Red Light District, came home and decided to go into Boots and ask for "Aspidistriacs".
She couldn't work out why everyone fell about laughing! |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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"I think you should be gently introduced to the only way is Essex now 
You are NOT helping."
Sensi, believe me, having worked and lived in Essex in the past (and survived!), if you watched "X-Factor", it would be far more mentally stimulating than TOWIE ! |
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Before long, it will be reduced to people baying for someone's life to be snuffed out in a gladitorial pit!
I might watch that one "
I think I have an idea to 'pitch' to TV execs.
I know EXACTLY how I would do that.
Ooooh, I could be the Louis Cowell or whoever of 'Waste the Wannabees'.
"It's my dream to be beaten to death by angry middle class pseudo-intellectuals on Saturday night TV, it's all I live for"
This could go global.
My TV company will be a pun on the wankers who started it all with 'Big Brother', Endimol.
"Enditall"
Who's with me? C'mon, the Hoi Polloi have had their fifteen minutes of estuary English lowest common denominator fame, it's MY turn now. |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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Before long, it will be reduced to people baying for someone's life to be snuffed out in a gladitorial pit!
I might watch that one
I think I have an idea to 'pitch' to TV execs.
I know EXACTLY how I would do that.
Ooooh, I could be the Louis Cowell or whoever of 'Waste the Wannabees'.
"It's my dream to be beaten to death by angry middle class pseudo-intellectuals on Saturday night TV, it's all I live for"
This could go global.
My TV company will be a pun on the wankers who started it all with 'Big Brother', Endimol.
"Enditall"
Who's with me? C'mon, the Hoi Polloi have had their fifteen minutes of estuary English lowest common denominator fame, it's MY turn now."
As another Scot, born in Edinburgh, I'll join you on this! |
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I can see the Celebrity version already.
People will tune in by the million to watch:
Liz Hurley being beaten to death for shagging Shane Warne.
Ashley Cole whipped to shreds for not realising that Cheryl was his meal ticket.
Piers Morgan forced to talk non-stop about himself until he collapses with exhaustion, and then gets shot in the leg to encourage him on.
Simon Cowell, just for being Simon Cowell - how'dya like the 'phone vote' now Simon? BANG!
The fucker who came up with the 'Go Compare' adverts.
The fucker who is in the 'Go Compare' adverts.
Michael Winner (see Simon Cowell)
The list is endless. And once I've whetted the public's appetite for blood they will be insatiable.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I can see the Celebrity version already.
People will tune in by the million to watch:
Liz Hurley being beaten to death for shagging Shane Warne.
Ashley Cole whipped to shreds for not realising that Cheryl was his meal ticket.
Piers Morgan forced to talk non-stop about himself until he collapses with exhaustion, and then gets shot in the leg to encourage him on.
Simon Cowell, just for being Simon Cowell - how'dya like the 'phone vote' now Simon? BANG!
The fucker who came up with the 'Go Compare' adverts.
The fucker who is in the 'Go Compare' adverts.
Michael Winner (see Simon Cowell)
The list is endless. And once I've whetted the public's appetite for blood they will be insatiable.
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I`ve visions of the Running Man.. |
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If you've never seen it, check out 'Monkey Dust' from the early 90's.
Produced by genius Harry Thomson who sadly died young, it predicted with utter clarity 'Celebrities on the toilet'.
Matter of time. |
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Here here, must admit I watch the very first one and anything beyond that is only if I am incredibly bored that even watching paint dry is not boring enough. As to the one female judge, I would agree with you there, even worse than can't sing nondescript Cheryl Tweety-Cole  |
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