I don't give a shit about the private lives of celebrities
I don't think most people do, but the papers seem to think that if they don't write this stuff people won't buy their papers.

So yeah they have a right to privacy, but then everyone should have a right to privacy it shouldn't just be the people who can afford the most expensive lawyers.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:44, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

A fuckload of people really do care about celebrities
You can take the combined IQ of these people and still struggle to make three figures. You may know them as "the general public".
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:46, Reply)

I'm pretty sure even if you ask the general public
that if they got rid of one type of reporting from their newspaper of choice what would it be. Then celebrity reporting would be at the top of their list.

Magazines, not so much but people who read celeb magazines are beyond help.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:48, Reply)

I like to buy them sometimes
Purely to set fire to them in my garden, and then dance around them laughing manically.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:50, Reply)

Hello, after seeing your new profile pic I can imagine that well.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:52, Reply)

There is a reason behind that nightmarish picture you know
I haven't just done it for shits and giggles.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:53, Reply)

Yeah I saw the background in the comments
it was pretty funny online.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:54, Reply)

Good good.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:55, Reply)

Although if I'd said that to you, I would have just received a barrage of abuse.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:02, Reply)

You're not an ex that I still get along with.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:07, Reply)

The way you have phrased this suggests that you and Chompy got it on at some point.
Ha ha.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:24, Reply)

That didn't happen.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:25, Reply)

She have one of those colour-changing dipstick things?
EDIT - sorry, force of habit.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:28, Reply)

I've got a bad feeling that if you asked the general public they'd say "forrin news".
But you do make an important distinction. And are quite correct. A cull is the only option left.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:50, Reply)

actually politics might be top, but celeb will be near the top.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:50, Reply)

You're right
Somehow all this celebrity gossip pish actually sells newspapers, magazines etc. I have no idea why. Who actually gives a shit about Katie Price's latest relationship disaster? Well the truth would appear to be that lots of people do. People with single-digit IQs with fuck all going on in their own lives.

Unfortunately this particular demographic seems to make up around 75% of the population. Hence the popularity of X-Factor.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 9 May 2011, 10:50, Reply)

No I think that's bollocks,
I think it's a lie that the media have started to believe themselves.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:52, Reply)

There is an answer
We just have to make a genuine interest in celebrity gossip punishable by death. Might be difficult to implement but it makes perfect sense.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:54, Reply)

Well who buys these newspapers and magazines?
They don't buy themselves you know. Our shop at work stocks all the main newspapers, but then loads of Heat, OK, Now! - that sort of pish. Presumably they stock them because people actually buy them.

It's no coincidence that our building is mainly filled with vacant fuckwits.

They also stock The Rangers News, which totally proves my point.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 9 May 2011, 10:58, Reply)

Yes but the link between "sordid sex stories"
and increase in sales is false. They could just put pictures of attractive women in their underwear and it'll increase sales, they don't have to describe "sex acts" with footballers.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:00, Reply)

Eh?
So are you suggesting that 'celeb' magazines are predominantly bought by hetero men and lesbian women? I think that's 'grot' mags that you're thinking of.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 9 May 2011, 11:04, Reply)

No I'm thinking about News of the world
and The Star and the Express,

as I mentioned above I think the celeb magazines are different to the Tabloid press. The celeb mags almost have a pact with some celebs which I don't think is that bad, it's the confrontational attitude of the press that is what's wrong.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:06, Reply)

And Britain's Got Talent
Even the fucking judges don't have talent. Hasselhoff's nothing without a talking car or a legion of blonde women in red swimsuits.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:53, Reply)

You've clearly never seen his alcoholic meltdown video.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:17, Reply)

Oh well remembered.
But nonetheless, if he's not prepared to replicate it on ITV for our entertainment, it gets filed alongside KITT and Pamela Anderson's breasts in his useless back catalogue
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:23, Reply)