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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Thanks for the link. Holy poo poo. Reading that has changed my opinion about Paris Hilton completely. I had never heard that she had gone through that. Between here and the 2 heirs to the Duke fortunes who were basically tortured on a regular basis and had the police ignore them and drop them off with their abusive parents when they tried to report it from how badly they were treated the more you find out about children of extreme wealth the more them being weird as gently caress makes perfect sense. Like the only way anyone inherits a wealth of 8-figures is to suffer through life shattering emotional, physical, and mental abuse on a regular basis their entire childhood.
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well why not posted:Gordon will abuse anyone who is dishonest or lazy, but is really kind to kids and amateurs. His UK show will have him go play football/soccer with kitchen staff to get to know them, or help them out in small ways. The US shows cut all that and focus on him cracking down on staff. He expects a lot of staff as many chefs do. The UK show also tends to have more chefs/owners who have potential but are making some key mistakes while the US show seems to go out of its way to find people who literally have no idea how any of this is supposed to work. There's also a heavy bias towards finding Family Drama so everyone gets all weepy and confrontational and honestly, I'm just interested in the food. (Granted, sometimes this approach does yield gold like Amy's Baking Company.)
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Maxwell Lord posted:The major problem with American reality shows is all the padding. Everything needs 8 recaps and COMING UP segments and part of this is because of commercials but also they seem to assume the audience are really, really stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFtl2XXnUc
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Solice Kirsk posted:I think Ramsey would be fun to hang out with for a day or something. Just sit there chatting about sports and food and see how many times you can make him do his silly laugh. Just kinda seems like a good guy. Absolutely, hell, as a home cook, it would probably be a blast to cook with him. The segments on MasterChef when he's showing everyone how to make things is just a joy. He'd probably call me "big boy" 
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Pead posted:They are still doing them but its really stale at this point and most of them are too old to do any of the stuff that made the early episodes good. Sad to hear; the early ones were great. 24 hour tag had me in stitches. And yikes on the blackface.
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pentyne posted:Between here and the 2 heirs to the Duke fortunes who were basically tortured on a regular basis and had the police ignore them and drop them off with their abusive parents when they tried to report it from how badly they were treated the more you find out about children of extreme wealth the more them being weird as gently caress makes perfect sense. Tiffany Sedaris, Amy and David's sister, who committed suicide in 2013, was at Elan School when she was 14. (Big CW on that link, that's the comic talking about the horrors that one guy who went there experienced, and I mean serious emotional, physical and psychological abuse.) Somehow when he writes about it David Sedaris doesn't manage to draw a link at all between her time there and, uh, the entire rest of her life or why she didn't want anyone from her family to have anything to do with her body or her memorial service after she died. Phy has a new favorite as of 00:51 on Jan 23, 2021 |
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Ambitious Spider posted:I'd also like to add that the whole leak of her sex tape was a horrible sex crime, on top of the abuse she suffered. Amazing she made it through. I've always been genuinely disgusted that the leaking of Paris Hilton's sex tape was treated as a fine source of comedy for TV comics, but the Fappening leaks were treated (properly) as an assault on the people involved. No one seemed to have the self-awareness to say "Oh poo poo, we laughed when this exact thing happened to someone else, and we're only getting worked up now because we kind of like some of the people involved this time."
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Doesn't part of that stem from the belief that when anybody's sex tape is leaked that the first kneejerk reaction is to say "Oh boy, publicity stunt.", whereas the Fappening poo poo straight up brags about how they stole the content through various means? I'm by no means trying to make excuses, it's still abhorrently lovely, but yeah, everybody always assumes that any given sex tape was a  leak and not a real invasion of privacy
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Nah, making GBS threads on women for being abused is a long running low hanging fruit for comics.
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I just remembered the reality show where people competed for plastic surgery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swan_(TV_series) Also there was a show called Cha$e on Syfy that was a lot of fun. And watch how Ramsay treats wait staff as compared to chefs. Just a complete 180.
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Speaking of early 2000’s reality tv shows, does anyone else remember “Murder In Small Town X”? It was a competition show where the contestants were sent to a small town full of mysterious characters and one of them was a serial killer. The goal was to figure out who the killer was. Although my best friend and I watched this show religiously it was so forgettable I literally remember almost nothing about it except the eliminations. The bottom two of the week were sent to two different locations in town and the killer was hiding at one of them. The eliminated contestant gets “killed” while the other one brings back a clue or something. It wasn’t bad but totally got lost in the sea of mediocre reality tv of the time.
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King of Foolians posted:Speaking of early 2000’s reality tv shows, does anyone else remember “Murder In Small Town X”? It was a competition show where the contestants were sent to a small town full of mysterious characters and one of them was a serial killer. The goal was to figure out who the killer was. You remembered as much as I could about the show. I don't remember it being good.
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Speaking of reality shows, did anyone ever watch Siberia? I feel like I'm alone in remembering it.
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Push El Burrito posted:I just remembered the reality show where people competed for plastic surgery.
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Oh my god I remember the finale of the Swan had the worst complication ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvngKV6Jmrw
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King of Foolians posted:Speaking of early 2000’s reality tv shows, does anyone else remember “Murder In Small Town X”? It was a competition show where the contestants were sent to a small town full of mysterious characters and one of them was a serial killer. The goal was to figure out who the killer was. I think it was mentioned earlier in the thread, but the one thing I remember about Murder in Small Town X was that the winner was a firefighter killed in 9/11. The real town that was used for the show put up a statue of him after he died.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I think it was mentioned earlier in the thread, but the one thing I remember about Murder in Small Town X was that the winner was a firefighter killed in 9/11. The real town that was used for the show put up a statue of him after he died. Just looked it up and the last episode aired a week before he died. That’s nuts.
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Sunswipe posted:but the Fappening leaks were treated (properly) as an assault on the people involved.
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Sarcopenia posted:Hmm. What?
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it happened primarily on reddit and (because it's reddit) that's what the subreddit was called it's a lovely name but it's also the accurate name
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Sunswipe posted:I've always been genuinely disgusted that the leaking of Paris Hilton's sex tape was treated as a fine source of comedy for TV comics, but the Fappening leaks were treated (properly) as an assault on the people involved. No one seemed to have the self-awareness to say "Oh poo poo, we laughed when this exact thing happened to someone else, and we're only getting worked up now because we kind of like some of the people involved this time." Its worth mentioning that there was 10 years or more between Hiltons tape being leaked and the icloud hacking/leaking thing (I'm not googling to find exact dates on that). Peoples attitudes had changed. (Or at least, some people. I did see too many "if they didnt want naked pictures leaked they shouldnt have taken naked pictures!" victim blaming takes, but I'd still say the majority take was "this poo poo is hosed up"). They just didnt go back and retroactively examine their takes from a decade previously, in the same way that it took a long time in the wake of "me too" for some people to realise that their takes on Monica Lewinsky may have been loving horrendous.
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Sunswipe posted:I've always been genuinely disgusted that the leaking of Paris Hilton's sex tape was treated as a fine source of comedy for TV comics, but the Fappening leaks were treated (properly) as an assault on the people involved. No one seemed to have the self-awareness to say "Oh poo poo, we laughed when this exact thing happened to someone else, and we're only getting worked up now because we kind of like some of the people involved this time." Wasn't there like 10 years between those things?
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SiKboy posted:Its worth mentioning that there was 10 years or more between Hiltons tape being leaked and the icloud hacking/leaking thing (I'm not googling to find exact dates on that). Peoples attitudes had changed. (Or at least, some people. I did see too many "if they didnt want naked pictures leaked they shouldnt have taken naked pictures!" victim blaming takes, but I'd still say the majority take was "this poo poo is hosed up"). They just didnt go back and retroactively examine their takes from a decade previously, in the same way that it took a long time in the wake of "me too" for some people to realise that their takes on Monica Lewinsky may have been loving horrendous. And even then the treatment of Tara Reade probably set that right the gently caress back, and god help you trying to get anyone to pay attention to police rape.
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does anyone remember the name of that japanese reality show where they locked a guy in an apartment with nothing and he could only have stuff he won from magazine competitions, including food and clothes? that seemed pretty bad edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_o8v88nkKc Turpitude II has a new favorite as of 16:23 on Jan 23, 2021 |
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I thought that one actually worked out.
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Turpitude II posted:does anyone remember the name of that japanese reality show where they locked a guy in an apartment with nothing and he could only have stuff he won from magazine competitions, including food and clothes? that seemed pretty bad https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi#Denpa_Sh%C5%8Dnen_teki_Kensh%C5%8D_Seikatsu
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fit em all up in there posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi#Denpa_Sh%C5%8Dnen_teki_Kensh%C5%8D_Seikatsu Wow, I've seen that dude on a few J-Dramas but had no idea who he was.
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Gordon Ramsay's persona is really played up for any of his US shows, but even in the UK he can be fairly harsh on restaurants - his key dividing line is "are you making people pay for this". Thats why he's nice to home cooks and kids, because they're not selling their product. Also does anyone remember a reality show called "Solitary"? People were trapped in jail cells and would compete in contests and the "host" was a weird robot voice.
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Aruan posted:Gordon Ramsay's persona is really played up for any of his US shows, but even in the UK he can be fairly harsh on restaurants - his key dividing line is "are you making people pay for this". Thats why he's nice to home cooks and kids, because they're not selling their product. I remember a few years back people would also just send him their kitchen gently caress ups to get him to dunk on them. He might just enjoy making fun of bad food.
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Casnorf posted:I thought that one actually worked out. it depends entirely on what you mean by 'worked out'
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flatluigi posted:it depends entirely on what you mean by 'worked out' It "worked out" the same way surviving a trap in a Saw movie works out. You endure true torture being inflicted upon you and manage to survive to return to your life, deeply psychologically scarred.
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that is not limited to saw
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I didn't say it was? I was just using a culturally recognizable example.
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i was making a depressing joke about life in general
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Fair enough. Life is so depressing that I didn't recognize it as a joke.
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if were gonna workshop it i think id change in my line 'saw' to 'movies' to make the distinction clearer
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Ambitious Spider posted:I'd also like to add that the whole leak of her sex tape was a horrible sex crime, on top of the abuse she suffered. Amazing she made it through. The remake of House of Wax she had a lead role in is decidedly on topic. The director had one of the inevitably murdered college students be packing a night vision attachment for his camera, which is unaccountably only used to film a shot of Paris Hilton.
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Grunch Worldflower posted:I remember a few years back people would also just send him their kitchen gently caress ups to get him to dunk on them. He might just enjoy making fun of bad food. Most of the time I tune in to Nightmares I'm just waiting for the segment where he tries the food. Sometimes the rest will be interesting but that's the good bit right there.
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Schubalts posted:To be fair to the Amazing Race contestants, they were literally in the middle of a race. Don't exactly have the luxury of taking in the sights and sounds when you have to go fast for a prize (which was often some travel package they could actually take their time to enjoy) The Amazing Race had some excellent seasons and some truly dire ones. Yes there were moments of stereotypical ugly American awfulness but also some great moments of nice interaction between contestants and locals. The worst season was definitely the “Family Edition “ where they did families of four instead of pairs. Because of the presence of children, they stayed in the US and really dumbed down all the challenges. The funniest part though was that the lone African American families last name was Black - so we got to see at one point Phil say “Black family - you have been eliminated!” Another funny note about that season - a young Stassi Shroeder, later of Vanderpump Rules (and possible racist?) was a member of one of the teams.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:What?
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