Stripey Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 " In January the Learning and Skills Council found that 16% of the teenagers it interviewed believed they would become famous, probably by appearing on a show like Big Brother. Many of them saw this as a better prospect than obtaining qualifications; 11% of them, it found, were "sitting around 'waiting to be discovered' ". The council claimed that the probability of being chosen by Big Brother and of becoming rich and famous as a result is 30 million to one. But the promise held out to us is that it can happen to anyone. The teenagers seemed to believe it can happen to everyone.And this is surely how much of our economy now works. A vast industry is devoted to selling people images of themselves that bear no relation to reality. The most obvious of these (this is hardly an original point) is the celebration of extreme thinness just as childhood obesity becomes an epidemic."http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1806790,00.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intravenous Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 I want to reply...but really theres nothing I can say that will make me feel any better about reading it. Bleah, sickening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 I want to reply...but really theres nothing I can say that will make me feel any better about reading it. Bleah' date=' sickening.[/quote']Totally agree - words fail me......but what can you realistically expect from a nation that spends it's time (when not stoned or pissed), absorbing game shows, soap opera, reality TV (fucking hate that brainless pish) and those stupid, stupid single name magazines Heat, Chat, Cunt, Arse etc "I Had My Rapist Fathers Baby", "My Histerectomy Horror", "My Uncle Was Really My Sister".Britain is shite - it's gone the same sorry route at Stupid America.Ahhhh don't fucking start me :swearing: DZL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salsadecacahuete Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 stupid' date=' stupid single name magazines Heat, Chat, Cunt, Arse etc "I Had My Rapist Fathers Baby", "My Histerectomy Horror", "My Uncle Was Really My Sister".DZL[/quote']They may be stupid and brainless but they do have a purpose: keeping me entertained when I'm using the cross trainer at the gym. Other magazines have font sizes too small to read when you're bopping up and down and covered in sweat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaseyBoi Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Education Education Education???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 I don't see any harm in wanting fame, as long as you've got a 'fallback' position (most likely your basis for a more than likely regular honest job).Sitting about waiting to be discovered? As Jeremy Kyle's biggest fan or something?What a bunch of wankers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ash. Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 I don't see any harm in wanting fame' date=' as long as you've got a 'fallback' position (most likely your basis for a more than likely regular honest job).Sitting about waiting to be discovered? As Jeremy Kyle's biggest fan or something?What a bunch of wankers.[/quote']that better not be a jibe at jeremy kyle, otherwise i think i'll have to threateningly tell you "let's take this outside"..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 that better not be a jibe at jeremy kyle' date=' otherwise i think i'll have to threateningly tell you "let's take this outside".....[/quote']Nono, Jeremy may be a fucking dick, but he's great.The kind of folk that go on there are the problem though."Look at me, I'm fucked up and lazy. Give me fame!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted September 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 who the fuck is jeremy kyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted September 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Totally agree - words fail me......but what can you realistically expect from a nation that spends it's time (when not stoned or pissed)' date=' absorbing game shows, soap opera, reality TV (fucking hate that brainless pish) and those stupid, stupid single name magazines Heat, Chat, Cunt, Arse etc "I Had My Rapist Fathers Baby", "My Histerectomy Horror", "My Uncle Was Really My Sister".Britain is shite - it's gone the same sorry route at Stupid America.Ahhhh don't fucking start me :swearing: DZL[/quote']Perhaps we are sitting on a mental-health time bomb. Perhaps in the next 10 years we will be confronted by a nation of helpless delusional psychotics, completey unable to function for themselves, driven insane by the relentless psychic attacks of the media, the advertising industry and capitalisms heartless orchestrators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 who the fuck is jeremy kylehttp://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31539&highlight=jeremy+kyleYou're obviously a shining example of the hard nosed worker to have missed the Jeremy Kyle Show for the last few years. Congratulations Take a well deserved sickday and soak up the angst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted September 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31539&highlight=jeremy+kyleYou're obviously a shining example of the hard nosed worker to have missed the Jeremy Kyle Show for the last few years. Congratulations Take a well deserved sickday and soak up the angst.I'm not a 9-5'er. I just don't watch tv. Here is a picture of a sockpuppet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swingin' Ryan Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 I'm not a 9-5'er. I just don't watch tv.This statement would be somewhat believable, were it not for the Nathan Barley avatar, the references to the Mighty Boosh in your rituals thread and your other thread about an R Kelly video you saw on Charlie Brookers USA Screenwipe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted September 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 This statement would be somewhat believable' date=' were it not for the Nathan Barley avatar, the references to the Mighty Boosh in your rituals thread and your other thread about an R Kelly video you saw on Charlie Brookers USA Screenwipe.[/quote']By "watching tv" I mean the activity of passively watching whatever shit is on the box or whatever the "zeitgeist" told you was a must-see (i.e lost/24/prisonbreak and all these other massively hyped "super-soaps"). I selectively download most of the things I actively choose to watch from torrent sites, or if a fresh piece happens to be actually on tv at a time that suits me I will actually watch it on the box. Having the telly on all the time, or just watching it for the sake of it is not an option for anyone who is serious about having a life of their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Great news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraemeC Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Hilarious yet slightly frightening statisticAm I the only one who finds these statistics neither hilarious or frightening, I go to sleep at night dreaming of what I will do when I inevitably win the lotto....that doesnt make me a basket case or dangerous in any way, it does make me an old dreamer though....still harmless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted September 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Am I the only one who finds these statistics neither hilarious or frightening' date=' I go to sleep at night dreaming of what I will do when I inevitably win the lotto....that doesnt make me a basket case or dangerous in any way, it does make me an old dreamer though....still harmless.[/quote']What, even the other statistic in the article ?A report published last week by the British Medical Association suggests that there has been a steady increase in mental health disorders among children between five and 16 years old. Today, 9.6% of them - very nearly one in 10 - suffer from psychological problems that are "persistent, severe and affect functioning on a day-to-day basis". Roughly "1.1 million children under the age of 18 ... would benefit from specialist services". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 99.9% of statistics are made up....depending on which poll you look at, of course.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neubeatz Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Am I the only one who finds these statistics neither hilarious or frightening' date=' I go to sleep at night dreaming of what I will do when I inevitably win the lotto....that doesnt make me a basket case or dangerous in any way, it does make me an old dreamer though....still harmless.[/quote']I would donate all the dosh to ..... ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MKII Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 I would donate all the dosh to ..... ???Stripey's psychologist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaseyBoi Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Stripey is to olde skool for a psycologist......pffft hes farted more info and help that any psycologist could Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveCrisis Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 99.9% of statistics are made up....depending on which poll you look at' date=' of course....[/quote']The last time I read that statistic the percentage was only 75%. Holy shit - practically a 33% increase.If there were stocks in bullshit I'd buy before the arse fell out of the market Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 The last time I read that statistic the percentage was only 75%. Holy shit - practically a 33% increase.If there were stocks in bullshit I'd buy before the arse fell out of the markettaht's true, but you forgot the fiscal offset and the d-rate phase of the 3rd quarter, so actually, your percentile is around 30, give or take a few d-railed points(averaging at around 5 percintiles, may - july (2nd quarterly projections).) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraemeC Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 I would donate all the dosh to ..... ???I would donate a large chunk to a boat builder I know of on the south coast.....another heafty sum to several publicans whos aqaintance I have the pleasure of....Aston Martin seem in the need of some generosity at the moment also...The rest I would just squander... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 Teachers should be allowed flamethrowers in the classroom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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