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

[Bladders]

What does she look like?

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

This weekend was the first time I have watched X Factor for years and I cam confirm that Chloe simply lost her nerve and could not sing the notes needed for the song. She did have some personality and a style, but just could not sing under the pressure even with all the help provided by the sound software.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

What does she look like?

She could have a job as a Marilyn Monroe look-alikey.

 

[Tooting Gull]

She could have a job as a Marilyn Monroe look-alikey.

That deal will already have been done. She'll be dressed as Marilyn and singing 'Happy Birthday' to someone by next weekend.

 

[Bozza]

That's actually a very fair point. It's more the enormous cheering on social media that gets my goat. "Hooray, the posh bird's been dumped! Burn the witch! Find the next victim!" I doubt she had a Facebook account before she entered that shitefest.

I have no idea about the specific people you are talking about as I don't watch X Factor. But, also, I still don't have any idea what you are talking about because I've not seen a single mention of it in my Twitter feed.

As with choosing whether to watch ITV at 8pm(?) on a Saturday night, you also choose who you follow on Twitter.

(I have children)

 

[Guinness Boy]

I should clarify that by half decent I mean by X Factor standards rather than by Ella Fitzgerald standards. That's the problem when you post something ranty. But come on, does the world really need an 8 piece boy band that look like every sixth former in the country?

 

[Adders1]

@%1;

You do know X Factor viewing is for chavs? ITV is for chavs.

Correct

 

[Bladders]

I should clarify that by half decent I mean by X Factor standards rather than by Ella Fitzgerald standards. That's the problem when you post something ranty. But come on, does the world really need an 8 piece boy band that look like every sixth former in the country?

8 piece!!

Sounds impressive, do they all play their own instruments? Or is it 5 instrument players with the other 3 doing three part harmonies?

 

[Guinness Boy]

I have no idea about the specific people you are talking about as I don't watch X Factor. But, also, I still don't have any idea what you are talking about because I've not seen a single mention of it in my Twitter feed.

As with choosing whether to watch ITV at 8pm(?) on a Saturday night, you also choose who you follow on Twitter.

(I have children)

Not even close to the point. She'll be reading the comments or her family will.

 

[Bozza]

Not even close to the point. She'll be reading the comments or her family will.

Undoubtedly, yes. Trolling by social media, particularly Twitter, is clearly a growing trend that has received much publicity in the news over the last few days.

I would still have no idea of this example though, had I not read about it from you.

 

[Triggaaar]

Its a bit like going into McDonalds and demanding to see the clown, you will just be handed a mirror.

Is this a confession?

 

[happypig]

So, a half decent jazz singer with a ready made image is hoofed off the X-Factor in favour of 8 identikit Liams with the personality of a slug that's training in accountancy, and who anyone over the age of 20 would walk past in the road without noticing. Facebook and Twitter seem delighted, mourning only briefly the fact they won't be able to spam the poor cow in to a madhouse next week as well. Yes she wasn't quite Etta James but if I see one more kid in skin tight keks and a fringe the size of Newcastle murder a song that should never have been released in the first place I'm going to scream.

Still, it's all good since she's posh. Right?

Not only has your wife got hold of the TV remote, she's also got your NSC log in too.

Sort it out !

 

[StonehamPark]

Still, it's all good since she's posh. Right?

Very different to a few years ago!

2006 Audition

 

[Guinness Boy]

Not only has your wife got hold of the TV remote, she's also got your NSC log in too.

Sort it out !

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.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

People with no talent copying songs that REAL artists worked years on, performing to huge arenas full of blood thirsty morons from the general public, Cowel getting richer and richer as "dreams/my last chance" get trashed, "judges" giving the same old comments that got boring 7 years ago, 95% of the cattle will disappear within a year.
Sounds like a perfect show for people of today!

 

[Simster]

[MENTION=277]looney[/MENTION] has nailed it, it's absolute gash. There are still people who are reasonably intelligent who watch this, but I struggle to understand why. For a start, Strictly is on BBC1, and is decent family entertainment. Just watch that if you must watch TV with the kids. It's about 100 times better.


I'm longing for the day Channel 5 buys the rights to X-Factor, along with Big Brother and Neighbours and any other example of shithouse chavtastic 10p telly that has outstayed it's welcome or main stream TV by nearly a decade.

 

[Notters]

Don't watch it.

Never watched it.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

[MENTION=277]looney[/MENTION] has nailed it, it's absolute gash. There are still people who are reasonably intelligent who watch this, but I struggle to understand why. For a start, Strictly is on BBC1, and is decent family entertainment. Just watch that if you must watch TV with the kids. It's about 100 times better.

I’ll save you the bother of strictly

- Craig will slag off the totally gash dancers and give them a 1 or a 2 and pretend he has been personally affronted by a crap Tango
- Everyone else will say they tried hard and give them a 5
- Someone will have no ability whatsoever but get through week on week because they have a personality over and above someone who is good but has the character of a lump of cardboard
- Len will protest it’s a dancing show when Dave Shite gets through to week 8
- A fat bird or bloke will lose a bit of weight surprising themselves that exercise is actually good for you
- The word journey will get mentioned a lot
- Len will say 7 in that voice and pretend it’s well funny and hasn’t been done 7367 times before and say they ‘gave it a go’
- Bruno will camp it up using the Italian book of dance cliches
- A fit bird might be the best dancer but won’t win as jealous housewives won’t vote for her
- Your wife will watch Strictly on a Saturday, Strictly Results on a Sunday, Strictly Banal from Monday to Friday plus every soap opera under the sun for good measure and then moan like crazy when sport is put on for ½ hour.

If you hadn’t guessed Saturday nights are like a version of hell on earth in my households. Basically it’s a choice of watching people ponce about doing a Jive or Chavs singing. I went to the gym on Saturday night last week to avoid all this (and before you argue there are a fit women to stare at, that’s what the Internet is for).

 

[Simster]

I went to the gym on Saturday night last week to avoid all this (and before you argue there are a fit women to stare at, that’s what the Internet is for).

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.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

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.

Having watched it at the weekend. It is rubbish. I was watching with my 25-year old daughter. You do your best Simster.