More things I saw this week

After the roaring success of last week’s, ‘things I saw this week’ blog (that was mild, self deprecating sarcasm there by the way) I thought I’d do it again.

You lucky bunch.

So, this week I mostly watched bad television.

First up, it was Dating in the Dark.

I’ll quickly explain the premise. Not that it isn’t fairly obvious from the title.

Each week they put six singletons in a dark room and see if they can foster attractions between them based purely on each other’s personalities.

At the end of the show the singletons decide who they want to go on a date with.

This would be a vaguely interesting concept if the contestants had to select their date before seeing them, but at the end of the show they are allowed to see their potential suitors in the light, at which point personality goes out the window and people select each other purely on the basis of looks.

Anyway, the only reason I am mentioning this rubbish show is because it produced one of the most wonderfully vacuous reality show utterances of the week (second only to a discussion about a dead wasp on last night’s Big Brother)

"I came into Dating in the Dark with shallow views and I still hold them dear"

Well done you.

I also saw an old episode of Airline where they were following a group of steward recruits in training. They interviewed one of them, a fairly gormless young man, and he said:

"I’m looking forward to working with the gay stewards. I'm not racist in that way. At all. It just leaves all the girls for me"

Racist?

Racist in that way?

Finally I saw a corking episode of Paris Hilton’s Best Friend Forever. Not a sentence you will hear out of me (or anyone else for that matter) very often, so drink it in.

One of the girls who was evicted was very rude to Paris during her exit:



Almost everything she said was bleeped out – intriguing – I figured there was no way it was all swearing so I did a Google search. And so have many others judging by Google’s prediction:

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According to Wikipedia she was saying “Good luck in your next porno, because that’s all you’re good at”

And in so doing she redeemed herself almost entirely from the ignominy of being a contestant on Paris Hilton’s BFF.

During the episode Paris was making the contestants take part in a Miss Paris pageant, and was asking them pageant questions.

She asked one contestant “What organ would you give me and why?” A question that I fear may have been a genuine enquiry.

The girl said "my heart..." at which point my other half James interjected with "....BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE ONE!"

That would have been a good answer.

Other miscellaneous things I saw included:

A competition to win an Aldous Huxley book, as signed by....Rick Edwards off of T4.

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For some reason...

A top tip from Pick Me Up Magazine:

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I bet all the kids just love going round her house.

And lastly I saw the longest and poshest drop down menu of all time:

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There is another option just out of view – wing commander – that’s the one I went for.

This is gold, no? I think I should make it a regular feature.

Again with the sarcasm.