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These Reality Show Contestants are surprised to learn......
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Disclaimer, I generally don't like reality shows, I find the people portrayed on them to be pretty repulsive and examples of some of the worst traits in people.

So I have to say this story made me truly laugh out loud and I am a little embarrassed at the amount of joy and comfort I gleaned from it...


https://www.thesun.co.uk/...ncelled-last-summer/
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Re: These Reality Show Contestants are surprised to learn...... [macbain_tri] [ In reply to ]
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The mass media first convinced us that the imaginary was real, and now they are convincing us that the real is imaginary; and the more reality the TV screen shows us, the more cinematic our everyday world becomes. Until, as certain philosophers have insisted, we will think that we are alone in the world, and that everything else is the film that God or some evil spirit is projecting before our eyes.

-Umberto Eco, 1992

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Re: These Reality Show Contestants are surprised to learn...... [macbain_tri] [ In reply to ]
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I'm really surprised to learn that that website can legally call anything on it as "News", where this article is found.






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Re: These Reality Show Contestants are surprised to learn...... [Tri-Banter] [ In reply to ]
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Tri-Banter wrote:
I'm really surprised to learn that that website can legally call anything on it as "News", where this article is found.

It's The Sun.. barely a step up from the National Enquirer (and a Murdoch gem!)
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Re: These Reality Show Contestants are surprised to learn...... [macbain_tri] [ In reply to ]
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That is hilarious. And this paragraph from the article wins the internets.

Now after being blind-sided by news of Donald Trump’s shock election win, Brexit and Leicester City’s improbable Premier League title success, the surviving 10 participants have also learned that the show was taken off the air last August, reports The Guardian.

Wonder which they think is worse?


"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden
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Re: These Reality Show Contestants are surprised to learn...... [macbain_tri] [ In reply to ]
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Let me get this straight... so the show was cancelled in the first month and nobody bothered to tell the participants?

WTF?

How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?
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Re: These Reality Show Contestants are surprised to learn...... [WelshinPhilly] [ In reply to ]
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It's The Sun.. barely a step up from the National Enquirer (and a Murdoch gem!)
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Reminds me of this:








Take a short break from ST and read my blog:
http://tri-banter.blogspot.com/
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Re: These Reality Show Contestants are surprised to learn...... [BLeP] [ In reply to ]
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BLeP wrote:
Let me get this straight... so the show was cancelled in the first month and nobody bothered to tell the participants?

WTF?

I Know!?!?! Isn't that amazing?? fucking hilarious, they come out thinking they are new pseudo celebrities with plans to leverage this into a celebrity career and cash and find out nobody has has watched or even can watch the Shite they did for 12 months, lol
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Re: These Reality Show Contestants are surprised to learn...... [macbain_tri] [ In reply to ]
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Was there no film crew? Did nobody tell them either?

How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?
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Re: These Reality Show Contestants are surprised to learn...... [BLeP] [ In reply to ]
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Who paid the production crew's salaries? Maybe it was funding and they thought it would find another channel. Hey, this press will certainly get it on some channel. I don't know if Britain has public access.


"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden
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