Would You Go On the Jeremy Kyle Show?

melancholly

Padstow wrote: »

Someone described it as modern day Bedlam. No, not at all, those poor people had no choice. These people love their time on camera, it's the closest they'll ever get to the opening rounds of the X Factor.

'these people' are no worse than those who choose to ignore all the social and mental health problems they have and instead jeer at them after hearing 5 mins if their life story.....JK's real life values are to make a living taking advantage of the vulnerable. To me, that is despicable. No better than those who scam the elderly. As I said, the worst part isn't the guests, it's those who shout and jeer and watch and entertain themselves with harsh and often inappropriate judgement on people, which won't help the awful situations but will make the audience feel self important and 'better' than the guests. Just plain awful.

Welshwoofs

Person_one wrote: »

Maybe when you actually meet, talk to and work with some of the people described as 'scrotes' its a lot harder to see them as subhuman and contemptible.

Why on earth would I want to spend any time with the average JK guest? I'd rather scoop my eyeballs out with a teaspoon.

They're not sub-human, they're an underclass. Yes, I think some of them are pretty contemptable; in particular the girls who breed without any thought and then go on to use the child as a weapon to get revenge on some bloke they were only 'seeing' for a few weeks before their unprotected sex ended up in the inevitable pregnancy. And the lads who so thoughtlessly father those children and then sit slouching in grubby sports clothes, grinning like morons as they blithely announce they don't give a crap that their shag of a few nights has produced a child and they don't work so can't contribute 'innit' and that they haven't seen their child because they live 4 miles away and they don't have any money (or any working pedal appendages presumably).

I'm not even going to begin to pretend that I have any care for them. I don't. I'm simply glad that I'm not one of them, don't know anyone who is and luckily don't have to associate with any of them during the normal course of my life. As far as I can see JK serves two purposes; firstly it gives others of their ilk a real-life soap opera that engrosses them and secondly it provides everyone else the televisual equivalent of going to watch the gibbons in Chester Zoo throw !!!!!! at each other. It's disgusting, yet somehow fascinating.

POPPYOSCAR

Never in a million years.

jackieb

Padstow wrote: »

For those who think the show is beneath them, do you watch Emmerdale, Coronation St or Eastenders?

Nope, and not because I think i'm too good to watch them. I just don't enjoy them.

scooby088

As I see it the show is a last resort, we all know people who should be on the show, loads of people say scum of the earth but no one says that about a contributor to the threads on here. I think it the medium it is on, you need to be very desperate to sort things out on television.

Pollycat

scooby088 wrote: »

I think it the medium it is on, you need to be very desperate to sort things out on television.

Or very desperate for your 15 minutes of fame. :cool:

jellyhead

scooby088 wrote: »

we all know people who should be on the show.

Do we?

Unfortunately I have one relative who could be a guest, but I don't think we all do.

If by 'know' you mean are aware of somebody who lives in the next street but are not best friends with them and only know them enough to nod when they are in front of you in the queue to buy milk at the corner shop, then perhaps.

This relative of mine, his ex did ask him to go on the JK show to take a lie detector but he refused.

barbiedoll

£1800! :eek::eek:


Where do I apply?




*joke*

Pollycat

barbiedoll wrote: »

£1800! :eek::eek:


Where do I apply?

Are you a alcoholic heroin-taking, single mother of 6 kids (all with different fathers) who stole your Dad's life savings and slept with your sister's boyfriend?

No?

Sorry, you're not JK material.

gravitytolls

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Why on earth would I want to spend any time with the average JK guest? I'd rather scoop my eyeballs out with a teaspoon.

They're not sub-human, they're an underclass. Yes, I think some of them are pretty contemptable; in particular the girls who breed without any thought and then go on to use the child as a weapon to get revenge on some bloke they were only 'seeing' for a few weeks before their unprotected sex ended up in the inevitable pregnancy. And the lads who so thoughtlessly father those children and then sit slouching in grubby sports clothes, grinning like morons as they blithely announce they don't give a crap that their shag of a few nights has produced a child and they don't work so can't contribute 'innit' and that they haven't seen their child because they live 4 miles away and they don't have any money (or any working pedal appendages presumably).

I'm not even going to begin to pretend that I have any care for them. I don't. I'm simply glad that I'm not one of them, don't know anyone who is and luckily don't have to associate with any of them during the normal course of my life. As far as I can see JK serves two purposes; firstly it gives others of their ilk a real-life soap opera that engrosses them and secondly it provides everyone else the televisual equivalent of going to watch the gibbons in Chester Zoo throw !!!!!! at each other. It's disgusting, yet somehow fascinating.

This is so sad. The reason many of these people have such chronic lives is precisely because no one cares. Their family may love them, but having been subjected to the same lack of societal compassion, have failed in any attempt to raise responsible human beings.

Perhaps when society starts caring, things can begin to change.