I don't understand the appeal of...

[Lord Running Clam]

I can't stand seeing people wearing hats indoors. Even worse when the hat or baseball cap is worn the wrong way round and a really weird angle.

[wild-seven]

I am that "Schadenfreude-basking c**t" and I love "stories of people whose lives are shitter than [mine]" quite a bit. 

You've forgotten the best of them all.

The mighty ""LOVE IT!"

I mourn that once mighty organ, now it's just an average chav-mag with a worrying obsession with Katie Price and Kerry Katona

[Mike Gloady]

Agreed on the hat/sunglasses points, folks.

Kate/Wild, your first thread would appear to be a riproaring success.  Nice one.

[Steve Green]

Like I say - I don't understand the appeal.

I think it's the incongruous chirpy title and the full-on process cyan, magenta and yellow combined with the frankly soul-destroying captions of misery.

Reading the covers of those is like seeing a poster for A Muppet Schindler's List...

[wild-seven]

I've never quite got over 'Cannibals ate my Mum with pasta and cheese'

[Roger Godpleton]

Women who say things without being spoken to.

[Gavin_Leahy_Block]

This "celebrity" culture we are living in. Most of these people having derived fame from doing nothing of merit or of benefit to other.

Also, all those mags that McWild mentioned.

[flip-r mk2]

The fucking Jeremy Kyle show and it's new underclass of British society, that spend all there fucking time rutting and producing even more subhuman scum.     






filip

[Christov]

The skinny jean hate is totally justified. Yeah. *ahem*

*Hides his 28' inch waist jeans*

I don't wear them below my bum! Honest!

[Dandontdare]

The fucking Jeremy Kyle show and it's new underclass of British society, that spend all there fucking time rutting and producing even more subhuman scum.     

Whoa, calm down Adolf! The people who like to parade their dysfunction on shows like JK are fair game, but you seem to have a rather Victorian attitude towards the whole lower classes. Do you hate everyone who doesn't have a job? What criteria do you use to differentiate between people who don't have much money and live in crappy areas and those who are "subhuman scum"?

[Peter Wolf]

In my own defence Skinny cut jeans and straight cut jeans are not the same thing .

Emo kids seem to like skinny cut jeans and yes they always look stupid in them and i dont see the appeal of the Emo look but then i am a 41 yr old adult so i wouldnt be expected to.

[TordelBack]

Whoa, calm down Adolf!

Godwin's Law enacted in your first thread, wild-seven!  Outstanding (if inevitable)!

[Dandontdare]

Whoa, calm down Adolf!

Godwin's Law enacted in your first thread, wild-seven!  Outstanding (if inevitable)!

Gaargh, I've unwittingly become a cliche! Oh, the shame! 

[Mike Gloady]

DDD & Flip:

Deep breaths, yeah?  Calm and serene, calm and serene.  I'm sure neither of you intended offence, let's just shake hands and move on and forget about it.  This place is only meant to errupt into misunderstandings and grumpiness when Scott's here, let's not show him we can do without him, eh?

[Noisybast]

To be honest, I'm with Filip on this one. There *is* a new underclass of Epsilon Semi-Morons who believe they're entitled to take what they want without giving anything back to society. They don't follow the rules of society, and they reproduce at an alarming rate.

Nothing wrong with being working class - I count myself, my family and the majority of my friends among them. I work for a living (modest though it may be), ergo I am working class.

For one reason or another, working class people sometimes find themselves out of work. At this point they look for another job which, granted, can sometimes take a while. I'm cool with that. Been there myself.

Sometimes, an individual may be unable to start looking for work for any number of valid reasons (disability, etc). Again, that's a-OK with me.

Now, your average Epsilon doesn't have a job. Never has, never will. The Epsilon has no intention of ever seriously applying for a job. Why work for a living when you can just squeeze out another poor sod to join the ever-swelling ranks of hooded scumbags and the government will just give you a home and some cash. Might not be much, but it's enough for fags and booze, right?

And it's an exponential thing. If the parents don't encourage their kids to do well, to develop and learn, if they feed them on a diet that consists solely of takeaways and Coke, if the only way they interact with them is to shout "Shut up, you little bastard - I'm trying to watch the telly" through a cloud of cigarette smoke, what are the chances of the child growing up to become a productive member of society?

Oh, and before anyone hits the Hitler button, I'm not suggesting any solution to the problem, final or otherwise. I'm just agreeing with Filip's assertion that there is a problem.

Anyway - apologies for further derailing the thread with that little polemic. I don't understand the appeal of, er, Soap Operas. Will that do for now?