Reverse snobbery is alive and well and living on Twitter and ITV.

Simster said:

Tidy post, and not altogether wrong. I just think it's preferable to have my 13 yo and 11yo kids watching that over X-Factor which is shocking.

BTW, I think the internet is actually for on-line supermarket, shopping, NSC AND porn. Hope that clears things up for you.

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Don't forget Gambling. I don't need to put a hat and a coat on anymore to spunk my life savings on the 2.30 at Chepstow

Guinness Boy said:

Fair point. It's actually the wife and eldest that gang up on me at X Factor time and I now watch it with an air of desperate resignation. I never actually thought I'd start a thread about it either but it fascinates me what we think as a society are things that are ok to mock when people can't help them and the things that we shouldn't. It's a kind of mob morality and it interests me.

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I wouldn't dare question Guinness Girl on Saturday night viewing, like you I have no choice. So I have been watching it. As regards the boy band, you would notice them on the street-all youngsters seem to look like that now.

But apart from my middle age grumpiness, I'd say that, as one comment mentions above, Chloe's nerves got the better of her. The 'boy band' were fortunate to come up against her in that disposition. I don't think they will last. There are a few strong acts in there this year, despite the usual bile that gets thrown their way.

Brighton Lines said:

I wouldn't dare question Guinness Girl on Saturday night viewing

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Damn straight. Especially when my day up to then consisted of take boy to football training / watch training / saunter back / take boy back out to the Amex / come home in bad mood stinking of pie and Harveys.

"There's a really good documentary about how Ian Curtis learned to sing, followed by a discussion on Proust on Sky Arts. Or, y'know, Sky Sports has the football highlights."

*gets frying pan on head*