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21/02/2008 09:29:09
 
 
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21/02/2008 08:44:17
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Forum:
Politics
Catégorie:
Autre
Titre:
Divers
Thread ID:
01294522
Message ID:
01294723
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>>>The Title must be Oprah says: No Deal
>>>
>>>Some minutes ago I saw the "Deal or No Deal" show where Oprah Winfrey was the guest. She said "No deal" till the very end. The consequence was that the winner (someone from the audience) did not get 75,000, not 50,000 dollar, but only 5,000.
>>>
>>>We too have this show in the Netherlands. There was a striking difference between the American audience and ours. The Americans all reacted like little children, yelling "No deal!" all the time and they are sooo greedy.
>>>
>>>Then finally Oprah and the host didn't give the 5,000, but the max: 100,000. It was all a setup. Gheez.
>>>
>>>The Americans can be soo childish in their behavior.
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>>I really hope you are joking about this and aren't really this stupid.
>>
>>Just to watch the show requires a certain bovine stupidity, to admit it in public among people whose IQ is presumably above room temperature ( C or F ) requires another level of doltishness, but then to critique the audience behavior and derive some notions of cultural superiority from it ...
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>>Yeah, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt ... you can't be that stupid.
>
>Only occasionally I have watched (and will watch) the Dutch version. The decision making process is not interesting at all, of course. But it can be interesting to watch some of the behaviors. The Dutch host has another style than the American one and the audience is not (or less) 'childish' and 'greedy'.
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>In the Netherlands it is almost impossible to gather the type of audience that I saw in that show. It must be an American thing, notwithstanding the probable fact that not all Americans are like that.
>
>So, my question to you is: Do you continue to criticize me for watching this type of tv, or are you going to reflect on my perception that some or many (you tell me) Americans are childish.

Obviously I was wrong. You really are that stupid.

This is like saying :

"Ah, yes, we have a Dutch version of the Jerry Springer show as well, but when *our* Lesbian midget cannibals fight with the transvestite Nazi satan worshippers the audience conducts itself with *so* much more class than the nasty American audiences who really don't see the nuance and post-modern irony the way we do."

If you really don't get it, then I think we have indeed settled on a definition for 'twit'.


Charles Hankey

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin

Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
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