1/3 UK population are morons

[beanzontoast]

I'm just wondering when they start that 'Search for a Dorothy' thing whether they'll be running a parallel search for Toto the dog too?

It couldn't happen... could it???

I really hope our dog Truffles wins it. I mean, it's all he's ever wanted. He can't imagine himself doing anything else. It's his dream. It would change everything for his family. He doesn't want to let anyone down. It means so much to him. (etc, etc, etc...)

 

[upsidedown]

My careers advisor at school said..

"If you can't do a useful job of work, try learning to sing."

My careers advisor said:

"Go and work at the Rover".

So i did.

 

[CharlieB]

Apparently, as a riposte to the inevitability that Joe whatever-his-name-is will get to number one this week with whatever song he releases to line Mr Cowell's pockets, there's a facebook group in existence that promotes the new single by Rage Against The Machine.
The group proposes that if all its members (about 479,000 at the last count) each download three copies it will beat Joe whatever-his-name-is to number 1.
I can't vouch for this, as I've managed to avoid facebook altogether so far.

Or is that just another way of getting people to succumb to hype in another form?

 

[CharlieB]

I am probably down to Andrew Marr, HIGNFY, QI, the News, and any good comedy.

+1 (but rather definitely than probably)

 

[gavintc]

I'm just wondering when they start that 'Search for a Dorothy' thing whether they'll be running a parallel search for Toto the dog too?

It couldn't happen... could it???

I really hope our dog Truffles wins it. I mean, it's all he's ever wanted. He can't imagine himself doing anything else. It's his dream. It would change everything for his family. He doesn't want to let anyone down. It means so much to him. (etc, etc, etc...)

Definitely time to get the dog signed up with an agent. It would help if there was some emphathy inducing story in the dog's history.

 

[CharlieB]

Can you see TV in five years time?
From when breakfast news finishes at 8am up to 11pm (when nearly everyone will be in bed), it's gonna be end to end programmes of people making twats of themselves in the name of their 15 minutes of fame.

 

[beanzontoast]

Definitely time to get the dog signed up with an agent. It would help if there was some emphathy inducing story in the dog's history.

Like him being devastated when he was overlooked for on a trot-on part in Coro, you mean?

 

[Sam Kennedy]

Blimey... ONLY ONE THIRD?

 

[dan_bo]

Apparently, as a riposte to the inevitability that Joe whatever-his-name-is will get to number one this week with whatever song he releases to line Mr Cowell's pockets, there's a facebook group in existence that promotes the new single by Rage Against The Machine.
The group proposes that if all its members (about 479,000 at the last count) each download three copies it will beat Joe whatever-his-name-is to number 1.

Can they not do this with Leonard Cohen instead?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Apparently, as a riposte to the inevitability that Joe whatever-his-name-is will get to number one this week with whatever song he releases to line Mr Cowell's pockets, there's a facebook group in existence that promotes the new single by Rage Against The Machine.
The group proposes that if all its members (about 479,000 at the last count) each download three copies it will beat Joe whatever-his-name-is to number 1.
I can't vouch for this, as I've managed to avoid facebook altogether so far.

Or is that just another way of getting people to succumb to hype in another form?

See here for more detail. And a possible answer to your question.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Might I say that I don't give a toss who is Christmas number one. Some people will buy the record and be happy that they have. Good on 'em, if it makes them happy.... it can't be that bad.
Me, I saw Paramore on Friday night and they were fab. Saturday night I watched Mrs FF perform in Bach's Magnificat with full orchestra and soloists, some Handel Organ concertos, a new Carol written by a local man and joined in (with some gusto and tunefullness if I may say so) the singing of a few trad. carols. That'smy musical taste covered, I can't get worked-up over anybody elses.
BTW, I was on a plane Sunday evening, but if I'd been home, I'd have been wathching X-factor with the rest of the FF family.

See the happy Moron,
He doesn't give a damn
I wish I were a Moron
My God I think I am.

 

[swee'pea99]

Bet I'm the only one on here who's actually met Joe wotsisname.

Well, I say 'met'...I was just going into the gym where I swim in the afternoons and there was a bunch of teenage girls clustered around the entrance, and just as I arrived a car pulled up and this prettyboy got out and the girlies all surrounded him, all 'I voted for you and so did my mum'. And when I got back to the office I announced 'I bumped into someone famous at the gym' and he said 'who?' and I said 'I don't know, but he was definitely famous, there were teen groupies 'n everything'. And then last week I saw him in the paper, and said 'that's him - that's the bloke I saw'. And he said 'so who is he?'

That's how famous he is round our way. Still, we're like *that*. Me and Joe...um...whateverisnameis

 

[Fab Foodie]

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Joe
Joe who?
That's fame for you...

 

[ComedyPilot]

Watching it may not be voting, but it adds to viewing figures, and this means the spin-offs and repeats year in year out will be endless till people turn off.

Not sure on the moron front either.

Not my cup of tea, but just because people watch it doesn't make them moronic.

 

[bonj2]

Blimey... ONLY ONE THIRD?

my thoughts exactly.
AT LEAST one third. But we know that anyway...