Sunday 25 March 2012

Thats a good question...

When you watch TV programmes is it just me or do the questions that the hosts/interviewers ask some times really get on your nerves!! I mean they are the dumbest, stupidest questions!!

When someone wins a big cash prize on a show the first question always is ‘how do you feel?’. How do you think they feel? They aren’t exactly going to turn around and say ‘shit, I wish I hadn’t won that, that’s my life buggered now.’  They are quite clearly going to be over the moon. And then on the flip side of the coin, someone loses all their prizes, or tragically loses their home or possession in a flood/fire or something – ‘how do you feel?’ I mean what type of a question is that. Are they expecting some type of answer that will take their breath away? “This is so good, I really didn’t want any of those things so managing to lose them all at once is exactly what the dr ordered.”

When you see the look of disappointment on someone’s face at the result of something, ‘You don’t seem pleased with that result?’ Well quite clearly by the fact they are crying and punching themselves in the head. I think that would be the giveaway there. The best examples of these are during sport. When a race has been run and someone has just come 4th in the final. They just miss out on a medal. Everything that they have been training towards and they have just by the smallest of margins don’t get to stand on that podium. If they are feeling down about it fear not, there is always the intrepid reporter to cheer them up, ‘you were so close, 4th place missing out on a medal by 1000000th of a second, how do you feel?’ I just wish one of these people would turn around and say, ‘How do you think I feel. Thanks for pointing out the fact that I was a pubes width from attaining all my childhood dreams, I am now off to order Kristal by the bucket load.’ The same question would be asked if a runner got disqualified, they are not going to be basking in the glory of the moment now are they?

Sir Alex Ferguson famously went on a media ban. Who can blame him? The crap that some people spout. I was watching the biggest loser last night (yes its back again). One of the contestants basically stayed the same weight. The hosts first question ‘300g lost this week, you don’t look too pleased?’ On a programme where the idea is to drop Kilo’s every week as they are morbidly obese 300g isn’t what is going to win the competition. They slog their guts out 5 hours a day training, eat right (apparently) and then lose 300g! it goes without saying that they are not going to be doing backflips over it just let them get on with it.

It really shows how good people like Michael Parkinson are and were. They ask questions that people want to hear the answer to. They ask about controversial incidents in people’s lives, about what they plan to do next with the project they are working on. About how they came to be in the situation they were. Not ‘a tornado swept through your house destroying everything, how does that make you feel?’ There is an art to it. I love a bit of trash TV as much as the next person, where I don’t have to think to understand what is going on and can easily keep up, but even my limited little brain gets cheesed off and shuts down a bit when I hear those damn stupid questions, when everyone clearly knows the answer. That is the thought for today, tune in tomorrow for something else. Laters

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