IgnoranceI once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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Up to a point, Lord Copper.X Factor and BGT are only incidentally talent shows. The top three have already been picked before the first episode, and they'll be the only ones with commercial prospects.
Everyone else is a freak, windowlicker or bad loser. If they weren't they wouldn't be on.
A decent voice doesn't pull in ratings. Morbidly obese girls screeching off-key, shit rappers issuing death threats, desperate sunbed casualties having their hopes crushed: the sadism theatre couldn't work otherwise. If week after week goodlooking tuneful kids, whose talents are on nearly level pegging get binned the audience would soon sicken.
Give them someone they can despise, and they'll come back for more.
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