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The Most Revolting TV Show EVA

I saw the title and thought to myself, "AHA - - finally, a thread about Mister Rogers!".

Guess I was wrong.
 
I personally think wrestling is the stupidest thing ever, but if midgets want to do it, why shouldn't they be able to and even have a crowd cheering them on?

On the other hand, it's not like Hogan invented midget wrestling; it's been around a while.

What next? Amputee wrestling?
 
That's not the same thing.

These people suffer deformities and are being exploited for it...wrong, wrong, wrong.


Oh come now. 40 or 50 years ago deformed people were still working carnivals to be gawked at by spectators and making room and board for it. THAT was exploitation.

The Little People would probably not like being characterized as deformed; some of them would be quite cross with you for that. A lot of them choose to be in entertainment industries, using their small size as an advantage, a rarity and novelty factor to earn a better living than they might have otherwise. Others work as professionals in various fields like IT or business or engineering or most anything a normal-size person does... well other than professional basketball. :lol:

You're really making a big ado about nothing.
 
Oh come now. 40 or 50 years ago deformed people were still working carnivals to be gawked at by spectators and making room and board for it. THAT was exploitation.

The Little People would probably not like being characterized as deformed; some of them would be quite cross with you for that. A lot of them choose to be in entertainment industries, using their small size as an advantage, a rarity and novelty factor to earn a better living than they might have otherwise. Others work as professionals in various fields like IT or business or engineering or most anything a normal-size person does... well other than professional basketball. :lol:

You're really making a big ado about nothing.

It's not the willingness of people to act in these shows that upsets me...it's the audience's appetite for them.
 
That's not the same thing.

These people suffer deformities and are being exploited for it...wrong, wrong, wrong.

If I was making as much $$$$ you could exploit me all day. Who is really being exploited here? I would argue that it is the little guys doing the exploiting.
 
I see no problem with this.

Little guys using their size to make a living is no different than a Big ass 300+ pound monster who hunches down, waits for a dude to say something, and then pushes other guys until a ****ing whistle blows.
 
To add.....

Why is it that we are expected to fear and respect the large folks while ridicule and pity the small ones?
 
To add.....

Why is it that we are expected to fear and respect the large folks while ridicule and pity the small ones?


Hey, some of those midget wrestlers work out and are much stronger than they look. Don't laugh at them, they might punch your nads up under your chin. :lol:

Not to mention if I was half the size of almost everyone around, I'd dang sure pack a hefty pistol 24/7. :)
 
There is a show that my wife watches where 4 fat chicks stroll around. One of them is actually pretty( I think) and I would hook it up with her. But one of them is 6'3" and 350lbs. She tops it off by wearing huge hats. I'm thinking to myself "you are a 6'3" female that weighs 350lbs.......We see you. You don't need the hat to draw attention to you."
 
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Just one? Just one revolting TV program?

Here's what Newton N. Minnow the chairman of the FCC said in his first public speech in 1961. That was 50 years ago and nothing about television has changed.

"When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better.

But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your own television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And endlessly commercials — many screaming, cajoling, and offending. And most of all, boredom. True, you'll see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, I only ask you to try it."

I seriously doubt one in five people today even know what FCC stands for and certainly even fewer could even begin to fathom how the FCC relates to television.

I stopped watching television maybe a decade ago and I have enjoyed the freedom ever since. I've missed nothing.
 
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That's not the same thing.

These people suffer deformities and are being exploited for it...wrong, wrong, wrong.

They aren't being exploited. They wanted to wrestle and someone presented a stage.
 
Oh come now. 40 or 50 years ago deformed people were still working carnivals to be gawked at by spectators and making room and board for it. THAT was exploitation.

The Little People would probably not like being characterized as deformed; some of them would be quite cross with you for that. A lot of them choose to be in entertainment industries, using their small size as an advantage, a rarity and novelty factor to earn a better living than they might have otherwise. Others work as professionals in various fields like IT or business or engineering or most anything a normal-size person does... well other than professional basketball. :lol:

You're really making a big ado about nothing.

Guess Vern Troyer was being exploited too. :shrug:
 
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