Joelith's Journal

Two comments on current television programmes:

1. Good News Week: GNW is back and it's dropped the stupid variety hour gimmick it had the first time it came to commercial television. And Mikey's back as well. He's lost a hell of a lot of weight but he seems to have also lost his sense of humour. None of his 'jokes' are funny and his timing is way off. The only reason his jokes appear to be funny is because somebody else runs with it and turns it into a funny joke. Also tonight they had this American who was even less funny then Mikey (if that's possible). If they can just drop Mikey (or make sure the rest of the cast is actually funny) then the show should survive.

2. As crap as the Wedge was, are you seriously telling me that the Shane Warne parody was the one that deserved to be turned into spin-off show - 'Mark loves Sharon'. Not that any of the skits on that horrible comedy show (I think it's offensive to real comedy shows to call that bilge comedy) deserved to be spun-off. This is why even American comedy is funnier then the crap that Australians turn out. Ah for a funny Australian sketch comedy show.

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Today I was at Supabarn getting some fruit. While I was grabbing some apples I noticed 2 people in the space of a few minutes pick some grapes and eat them. And they weren't the people you would normally associate with theft. One was a well-dressed older lady and the other was a middle-aged asian lady. Has it somehow become socially acceptable to steal? I realise it's only grapes and would have only cost less than a dollar, but these people didn't even look guilty. What has happened to society or am I making too much of this?

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Is it just me or does Ten think that I am an idiot? I realise that all 'grumpy young men' posts begin this way, but I'm sicked and tired of the way Ten is treating it's audience.

Let's start with Biggest Loser. I actually enjoyed this show in it's first season. I didn't watch it religously but I enjoyed tuning in every so often to see people that double my own weight and losing large percentages of Peter (smaller percentages of me, but you get the idea). It was on once a week and the epsidoe went through the normal - exercise routines, some politics and backstabbing, a challenge and then the vote. All over in one hour.

Now Ten has the latest Biggest Loser and it's excruciating. Take tonight's episode the stupid host has spent 3 ad breaks getting the votes of 6 people. 6 frickin people! Come on. It should be over in one ad break. Survivor can do it, why the hell can't Ten? It's worse because after each vote she recaps the votes so far. Does Ten think that I can't keep 6 (less really) votes in my head? Is this too complicated for the typical TV audience? Am I some kind of savant because I can keep track of two numbers in my head?

And then there's 'So you think you can dance'. Again I really liked the American version (both times). This was a show that I did watch religously, it was a really enjoyable show. Having now started watching the Australian version I think I know why I enjoyed the American one more - they only had one frickin episode a week. The Australian show has several episodes a week. I can't keep up. I actually have a life (probably comes as a surprise to some of you) and I don't have time to watch all the episodes. To be fair the American's actually had the same problem as us. The difference is that the show we got was a packaged recap of the week (ie: they would have the dance-off and then immediately give the results (rather than waiting for a week to get the SMS results)). This is a far better approach. My time is valuable - Ten should be lucky if they get one hour of my time. Actually screw that I'll wait for the torrent.

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Pretty much everytime I walk through the city I am accosted by some random asking for money. "Man, spare change for the bus" (piss off you'll just spend it on grog). "Excuse me, can I borrow some money for food?" (despite the old man being morbidly obese). I am sick and tired of it. Just cause I live in the city doesn't mean I'll give you money! I work hard for every dollar I earn. Oh but you're a public servant, people say, you don't work at all. Except for the fact that I worked hard for 13 years in school and then spent another grueling 4 years at university. I lived on Youth Allowance for some of that time and that's only $440 a fortnight. Needless to say every dollar had to go far.

Meanwhilst these bums sit in the city and pester me for money. Get a job you lazy sod. I had one today (which is my I'm a little angry) that got angry at me since I cut him off mid sentence. "Oh don't worry about my pregnant girlfriend sitting here in the cold with no money to eat". Hey, I didn't get here pregnant and if I had a pregnant girlfriend then she certainly wouldn't be out on the street with my begging for money. She'd be at home resting!

It's not as though they have no money. They get centrelink and it's not my fault that they waste it on booze, drugs and gambling. And I'm probably sounding a bit harsh, but I give lots of money to charity plus I do lots of volunteer work. And I'd much rather give money to my selected charities then put in the hands of a drunk! Ugh so angry!!!

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