The dumbing down of TV
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Adrian W

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15,087 posts

251 months

Sunday 19th September 2021
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We were talking about how bad it’s getting and that maybe they are trying to cater for the lowest, then just now I spotted a new low, Britain’s favourite sandwich on channel five, that has to be a new low

peterperkins

3,304 posts

265 months

Sunday 19th September 2021
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Been going on for decades...

As a species we are shuffling along towards oblivion with mouth breathers and criminal scum becoming the dominant breeders and therefore most likely to pass on the baton of moronic mediocrity to the next under educated generation.

Rinse and repeat for a few more generations and the trashy TV will be the least of your problems.

Edited by peterperkins on Sunday 19th September 19:06

Writhing

635 posts

132 months

Sunday 19th September 2021
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Idiocracy is the film for you.

BadOrangePete

856 posts

67 months

Sunday 19th September 2021
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Spotted that and thought it surely cant take 90 minutes to say 'Bacon'

Doofus

32,942 posts

196 months

Sunday 19th September 2021
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Adrian W said:
Britain’s favourite sandwich on channel five, that has to be a new low
I'm pretty sure that's a repeat.

Bluemondy

399 posts

104 months

Sunday 19th September 2021
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Writhing said:
Idiocracy is the film for you.
Idiocracy wasn't supposed to be a documentary...

I think a degree of this dumbing down is also down to the fact we've now got a plethora of channels. They need to be showing something...anything.



take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey

7,282 posts

78 months

Sunday 19th September 2021
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Previously on.... Coming up on....

furious

lrdisco

1,678 posts

110 months

Sunday 19th September 2021
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peterperkins said:
Been going on for decades...

As a species we are shuffling along towards oblivion with mouth breathers and criminal scum becoming the dominant breeders and therefore most likely to pass on the baton of moronic mediocrity to the next undereducated generation.
You appear to have absolutely no idea of our history. Wellington called his army Scum of the earth.
We are an earthy country who through the generations have managed against the odds to beat larger enemies even though we fight drink and fk like wild animals given the chance.
We are not and have never been some middle class nirvana.

So do not look down at the people you call moth breathers but accept them as brother countrymen who will be the ones who when the day comes climb out of their trenches and terrify their enemies with foul language and raw anger.
Or something like this.

anonymous-user

77 months

Sunday 19th September 2021
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Britains dumps

Take a look of the treasure chest found in Britain landfills.

Eat st

Celebrates compete for charities to eat different animal st and guess the animal.

Couple coming soon.

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 19th September 21:30

Skyedriver

22,238 posts

305 months

Sunday 19th September 2021
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The Spruce Goose said:
Britains dumps

Take look of the treasure chest found in Britain landfills.

Eat st

Celebrates compete for charities to eat different animal shut and guess the animal.

Couple coming soon.
Is that Celebrity Jungle?

It was Britain's favourite desert/pudding the other night - jeez what a load of tosh, couldn't watch that garbage and FF'ed it to No 1, then FF'ed again.

Truckosaurus

12,896 posts

307 months

Monday 20th September 2021
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There's always been brain dead TV, at least these days there are hundreds of channels plus all the catch-up and streaming services (plenty of free ones as well) so if you watch something dreadful then you only have yourself to blame.

Stuart70

4,115 posts

206 months

Monday 20th September 2021
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Are “they” the idiots for making it, or are you the idiot for watching it?

Just checking…

miniman

29,273 posts

285 months

Monday 20th September 2021
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Monkey tennis?

Eric Mc

124,765 posts

288 months

Monday 20th September 2021
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Doofus said:
I'm pretty sure that's a repeat.
Definitely if you are talking about cucumber sandwiches.

23.7

28,592 posts

206 months

Monday 20th September 2021
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Doofus said:
Adrian W said:
Britain’s favourite sandwich on channel five, that has to be a new low
I'm pretty sure that's a repeat.
What is it?

L_G

173 posts

57 months

Monday 20th September 2021
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take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:
Previously on.... Coming up on....

furious
Indeed, I gave up on at least one programme because it felt like less than half of it was on content rather than previewing and reviewing what was going to happen or had already happened.

Mr E

22,708 posts

282 months

Monday 20th September 2021
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take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:
Previously on.... Coming up on....
That’s partly because nobody is paying attention to this sort of show. It’s just background hum.
Partly to pad for length. On commercial channels there’s an awful lot of stuff that’s 30 mins of content padded or to an hour.
And partly (I suspect) to enable the show to be resold/rerun on a different channel later with more advertising time - there’s something easy to cut to make the timings work.

Gary29

4,870 posts

122 months

Monday 20th September 2021
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23.7 said:
What is it?
Chicken and bacon surely?

LukeBrown66

4,479 posts

69 months

Monday 20th September 2021
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The big problem is, most program makers respond to what people want from surveys, and their own ideas,].

If these things keep getting made, there is a reason, people watch it! People watch embarrassing bodies, gypo weddings, pathetic wannabes being awful, so they make more and more and more.

The main people who can control this content, is you the viewer, don't watch it, it will stop.

It really is that simple

droopsnoot

14,132 posts

265 months

Monday 20th September 2021
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There used to be a programme on the Food Network called "America's Greatest Sandwich", but I had to stop watching because it just made me hungry. I remember it made me think back to when I started buying sandwiches for lunch at work, where if you were lucky in the local sandwich shop / bakers you could get one with cheese and tomato on it. I suspect this version will be a bit less interesting.