Condemned to a bus journey the other day without either reading material or MP3 player, I amused myself by making a mental list of stuff I’m fed up of:<\/p>\n
Channel Four pseudo-medical Documentaries with titles like “The Boy Who Digested Himself”<\/strong> “Behind the Scenes” Documentaries about Porn<\/strong> Articles and books by authors working “undercover” in lapdancing clubs.<\/strong> Paris Hilton<\/strong> People complaining about political correctness.<\/strong> The talking heads in celebrity documentaries.<\/strong> People saying that 1916 shouldn’t have happened.<\/strong> Misuse of the word “refute”.<\/strong> The word “Chav”.<\/strong><\/p>\n The miles simply flew past! In reviewing them I can’t help but notice a certain shallowness. No mention of global inequality, but three entries about TV documentaries. This is explainable by a general coarsening of our culture and public life, to which I am not immune. And for which Paris Hilton is to blame. Feel free to pick up the thread. I’m off to audition for Grumpy Old Men<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Condemned to a bus journey the other day without either reading material or MP3 player, I amused myself by making a mental list of stuff I’m fed up of: Channel Four pseudo-medical Documentaries with titles like “The Boy Who Digested Himself” The support group weblink at the end doesn’t stop them from being Victorian-style freak shows. “Behind the Scenes” Documentaries about Porn Don’t work either as documentaries or as porn. Articles and books by authors working “undercover” in lapdancing clubs. The reason you found it “empowering” is because you’re a middle-class Women’s Studies graduate who doesn’t have to do it for a living all year round. Paris Hilton In the context of this list, less an entry than a category all to herself People complaining about political correctness. “I’m just standing up against the PC consensus”. Oh yes? In the old days we used to call it “racism” The talking heads in celebrity documentaries. Especially that guy from Village Voice. “Then, at a party hosted by P. Diddy, Justin said….”. God help me, I’ll kill soon…. People saying that 1916 shouldn’t have happened. Unless you have a time machine handy, shut up. Misuse of the word “refute”. You denied the allegation. Whether you suceeded in refuting it is for me to judge, not you. The word “Chav”. The miles simply flew past! In reviewing them I can’t help but notice a certain shallowness. No mention of global inequality, but three entries about TV documentaries. This is explainable by a general coarsening of our culture and public life, to which I am not immune. And for which Paris Hilton is to blame. Feel free to pick up the thread. I’m off to audition for Grumpy Old Men.","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe support group weblink at the end doesn’t stop them from being Victorian-style freak shows.<\/p>\n
\nDon’t work either as documentaries or as porn.<\/p>\n
\nThe reason you found it “empowering” is because you’re a middle-class Women’s Studies graduate who doesn’t have to do it for a living all year round.<\/p>\n
\nIn the context of this list, less an entry than a category all to herself <\/p>\n
\n“I’m just standing up against the PC consensus”. Oh yes? In the old days we used to call it “racism”<\/p>\n
\nEspecially that guy from Village Voice. “Then, at a party hosted by P. Diddy, Justin said….”. God help me, I’ll kill soon….<\/p>\n
\nUnless you have a time machine handy, shut up.<\/p>\n
\nYou denied the allegation. Whether you suceeded in refuting it is for me to judge, not you.<\/p>\n