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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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How The Hell Do You Stand It At All?
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The following was crossposted over USENET to several different
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newsgroups, and I happened to run into it on rec.sport.pro-wrestling. It
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was posted by a guy named Edgar from Britain who had a job in the United
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States for a few months, and he comments on our television programming. I
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thought it was interesting to see the views of somebody completely
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impartial, and he supports a lot of what I've touched on in previous
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articles I've written for other e'zines. The commentary isn't exactly
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revolutionary (these things Edgar brings up have been said hundreds of times
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before) but I find it particularly important because it's from an outsider.
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Note that I attempted to get in contact with Edgar via email. I wanted
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to get more information so I could add to this piece; what is different
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about British television? Could you compare and contrast? Unfortunately,
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after a few weeks I haven't received a response, so I'm releasing this as
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is.
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Also note that I edited this slightly as far as simple grammar goes
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(commas, semi-colons, etc) but the remainder is as I found it. Another
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thing to keep in mind is that, because Edgar is from Britain, he uses
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different spelling (most obvious is "programmes" instead of "programs" or
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the usage of S instead of Z). Anyway, enough of the introduction. Here.
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*******
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From edc@comtex.co.uk Thu May 29 23:50:18 1997
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Newsgroups: alt.politics.equality,rec.arts.tv,rec.sport.pro-wrestling,
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rec.arts.tv.uk.misc,uk.media.tv.misc,rec.arts.tv.soaps.misc,
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alt.books.george-orwell,soc.culture.british,
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alt.renewing.american.civilization,alt.nuke.europe,
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art.fan.art-bell
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Subject: American Television is Dreadfully Stupid. How the Hell Can You Sit
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Through Endless Insulting Commercials?
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From: Edgar Carlsbad <edc@comtex.co.uk>
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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 22:50:18 -0500
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I am constantly shocked at how stupid and mindless American TV is. I have
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just returned from spending three months working there and I am
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flabbergasted at how you Americans can stand such low class rubbish. It is
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a terrible reflection of your society: crass commercialisation and poor
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quality programming. How the hell do you stand it at all?
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The sitcoms fall between retarded sexualisation or dealing with America's
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racial problems by parading stereotypes. Most tragic of all, American TV
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serves as a substitute for real friends or a proper family life.
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The sexualisation of children on American TV is shocking. Speaks volumes
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about the miserable existance American children are raised in these days.
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The latchkey generations abandoned by their selfish mothers who "did the
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whole kid thing, but now want to find myself and my career" types who give
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an endless parade of shrinks a lucrative lifestyle.
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The never-ending violence is deeply disturbing. Programmes with titles like
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"Scary Cop Shoot-Outs" and other home videos of planes falling from the sky
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passed-off as science shows just so the morbid individuals can justify
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their sick fascination with violent death and suffering.
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Your so called news programmes are nothing more than propaganda designed to
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keep the corporate state in power and your pockets as empty as your lives.
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Lots of information about how crappy life is in the rest of the world
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followed by how great things are here in the good 'ol US of A. Yipee!
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No wonder only 5% of Americans have passports; your government fears that
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you may find out that the quality of life in the US is shit next to Europe,
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Canada, Down Under, and so on.
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Sports programmes are just as retarded as the stupid meaningless sports
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programming you "enjoy" over there. I cannot understand it at all. I must
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have heard the word "EXTREME" about a million times to let me know how
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exciting American sports are. They are childish and cater to people of low
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IQ. American TV producers have a very low opinion of their viewers.
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Endless shows about UFOs and mostly 'End of The World' programmes which
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speaks to the heart in a very roundabout way that America is finished as a
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society.
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But even when I found something interesting, the enjoyment was ruined by the
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non-stop commercials that you get before the show begins, then right after
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the intro and then six (yes 6!) more times before a half hour show is done.
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A half-hour show in America is really about 16 to 18 minutes long - the rest
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is all ads!
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I don't know how you Americans can sit through such idiotic excrement, but
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after meeting you first hand and seeing how most of you are quite
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brainwashed, I see the real purpose of this TV media in your country.
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George Orwell's 1984 is about present day America as far as I am concerned.
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You are all so controlled you may as well be a nation of veal calves.
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You have my prayers.
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Edgar
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*******
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I couldn't agree more, Edgar.
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What's especially sad, though, is that nobody really cares. Edgar got
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a tremendous amount of flames from people who read this.
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Our nation is content to let the powers that be do the thinking for
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them. No, this is not the generic "fuck the government!" rant. This isn't
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about the government at all, actually. It's about *you* - you people who
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get some sort of twisted satisfaction watching Bob Saget show you home
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videos of fat people every Sunday night. You people who'd rather watch
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Jenny McCarthy shake her tits on a dating show full of halfwit fratboys and
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meat-drunk gutterwhores than READ A FUCKING BOOK.
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Don't get me wrong. Television itself isn't bad. Infact, it's the
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most efficient form of communication that we, as a species, have at our
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disposal. This was most evident during the Gulf "War." If a member of my
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family or a friend was involved in that, I'd most certainly be glued to the
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idiot box to make sure everything was going well. I would *not* be
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switching to yet another made-for-TV movie starring a pregnant Jaclyn Smith
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in mid-divorce and a coma during the CNN news breaks.
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Some people say that television is used to control the masses.
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Although this is an immature, paranoid, and very radical point of view, it
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isn't so far from the truth. Television isn't used to *control* the masses,
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but it sure is suggestive, isn't it?
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We have become braindead. I deal with people every day at work and I
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witness it firsthand. I literally have to teach people, step by step, how
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to activate a gas pump because they're so used to being spoonfed information
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by television, parents, and our school system that they've lost the ability
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to do anything by themselves. "Two legs good, four legs bad." The whole
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bit. It's frightening. You may have went to med school for 12 years to
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earn your doctorate in neurology but you can't even fucking pump gas into
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your Lexus.
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Am I saying that television should take full blame? No. Am I saying
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Edgar and his jolly good pals in England have no trouble activating a gas
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pump? No. If you don't know what I'm saying by now, just stop reading and
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go back to Baywatch. Do you have any idea how much you've missed by reading
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my tight-assed banter? Pamela Anderson is half-naked and wet RIGHT NOW.
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So hit your escape key. It's the one on the far top-left of your
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keyboard labelled "Esc." What you do is place your finger on top of it and
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push it down. It will make this disappear.
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If you're reading this in DOS Edit, the only way to get out of this is
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by pressing two keys at once. I will not bother teaching you how to do that
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because it will give you a stroke. Just hit the power button.
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- Styx
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styx@dto.net
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dropdead@mindspring.com
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