Category: the Rant Board
Last night I watched this documentary concerning a group of physically disabled people, attempting to cross the Nicaraguan jungle...Most of them were all too willing to help those in wheelchairs but 1, a very effeminate deaf fella, refused to pull his weight,he constantly moaned about the heat, the food and the punishing slog. Also a young woman in a chair did nothing but complain aboput how hard her life was and how she wanted to make everyone aware of the unpleasant side of being paralysed..Ok I accept that it's bloody hard but jesus if people sign up for this kind of expedition why the hell do they spend the time moaning about the conditions..did they not think to check out the terrain heat and weather, ect on the net before deciding..it's easy enough.. The only people not moaning was Adi Adepitan a member of the paralympic wheelchair basketball team, who I greatly admire, for his sheer balls. The amputees including a lad who's was in great pain, from his stump being rubbed red raw, due to the humid conditions. And a Scottish blind lad, who really worked his arse off...if any other people are thinking of accepting this kind of challenge then they should follow the example of the members, who just bloody well got on with it!.
Wow, that would have been really interesting to watch. Like you said, though, you'd think these people would have done enough research on the conditions to give them an idea of what it might be like. So why'd they do it in the first place if all they were going to do was complain? But I have to say that I admire the ones who aren't spending all their time complaining, who are putting forth the effort and helping those who need it.
Hmm, i wondered about how this would turn out... I know a few people who actually wrote in to be part of that and they were turned down after audition. I'm wondering if there was any kind of unspoken reason on the part of the makers as to why these people were chose. The stereotypical disabled person spends their life complaining about how hard their life is. I wonder if this was their aim, to portray it in this way.
I agree with you, Goblin - why sign up for something like that, and spend the rest of your time, (Or majority of it), complaining about how hard everything is? I suppose they wanted a cross-section of personalities, is the only thing I can put that down to.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? They need all their reality TV standard rolls filled, after all.
You are right peeps they need controversay but for the black fella to say that the young paraplegic girl needs a slave,is sick and very immature. Why would anyone in their right mind, knowing inflict such pain on themselves, when they are exceedingly bitter, and clearly failing to cope with such a traumatic event..Sophie needs to spend some time with my mate Stevie, he'd soon change her mind.
I think Danielle makes a very valid point, the makers of reality TV shows aim to find a certain audience. it simply wouldn’t make for good viewing if a group of disabled people all rose to the challenge and all did splendidly. Whether we like it or not, people suffering and feeling sorry for themselves, be they disabled or not, makes for good viewing. The public likes to see peoples’ emotions, likes to see them falling apart, and based on that, the producers will pick a certain type of person to go through. There will have been perfectly able people who would have applied to go on that show who wouldn’t have made it, purely because they don’t have the sympathy factor. Apart from that, let’s not forget that we only get to see a certain part of the show, I’m sure everyone will have had good and bad times, but the producers are very selective about what they show to the audience. Let's say it's more like unreal reality tv.
Exactly, just watch any X Factor or American Idol show and you'll see that they mostly show the people who are horrible and, by artistic merit alone, should not get a single second or air time but they make for more enjoyable viewing.
it goes further than that though, this week on x-factor they narrowed down the contestants in each category to the final 4, and they showed all these people going home to their families crying because they hadn't made it. All this raw emotion! they just love it!
Next weeks instalment will be, according to the blurb, an emotional rollercoaster with crying, accusations and more tantrums, and that's just the gay lad..Seriously though I just wonder who the hell is watching this, and the damage these 2 negative characters,will do to the public's image of disabled people.It does seem as if Sophie is actively looking for pity and I can't stand that kind of deliberate self exploitation..They should have come to us if they wanted someone controversial, the only thing I'd be worried about were the snakes.
ah yeh goblin but see thing is, according to your ex you don't actually have a disability so you wouldn't qualify ...
goblin asks .. who is watcing this .. and apparently he is <grin> see, it works perfectly .. even the disabled watch this .. although of course he is not disabled by aforesaid defiition.
Hmm, apparently BBC2 are planning to make some kind of run-on from this. It is to take place in January/February next year in the African wilderness for a month.