"Janet Baraclough.." wrote in message
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Hmm. When you said Big Brother, I thought you were referring to your
interesting government, and suggesting it was further along the
dictatorial
spectrum than ours.

Nah..Tony Bliar can never quite keep up with George Bush, however hard
he tries.

The sad thing is that Bush has no idea what his babysitters have gotten him
involved with.



You're talking about a TV show?

BB is more like a religion (the kind with orgies, martyrs, ritual
violence and human sacrifices) than a TV show. It's a group of people
selected for ego and incompatibility, locked together in a house with a
communal bedroom, limitless supply of booze, and TV cameras to record
their every obscenity. Each week the most obnoxious creep is thrown out
(the survivors rapidly becoming more obnoxious) and the last one in gets
a pot of money and celebrity status. Advanced civilisation is us.

Janet.

That's outrageous, but I know people who'd ignore their own kids' choking on
food in order to watch a show like that.

We have a show I find absurd, although nothing as savage as BB. It's called
"Trading Spaces". On each episode, two couples (aka "morons") swap houses or
apartments and surprise each other with their lack of remodeling &
decorating skills. The results have included such monstrosities as walls
covered with headache-inducing purple chenille. These are the type of people
who decorate their front lawns with tacky stuffed sheep.