i’m doing my best to avoid reality, why would i want to watch a !@%%%@ tv show about it?
[quote=“TomHill”]The need for a kidney created the need for a show.
A man can eat a Corgi. Dutch people die from a lack of transplants.
Freedom of information is both scary and liberating.
What do you know of the kidnapped Madeline? [/quote]
That she is like thousands of other children who disappear except those distraught parents do stop enjoying their vacation to try and find their missing child and don’t usually get a private audience with the Pope.
What do you mean “we”? Reality TV has nothing to do with me. I’m proud to say I’ve never seen one reality TV show. I’ve got my own reality. Not worthy of a TV show, perhaps, but it’s all mine. There’s even nudity! 
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I doubt that you haven’t seen at least one. :s[/quote]
Not even one. 
What do you mean “we”? Reality TV has nothing to do with me. I’m proud to say I’ve never seen one reality TV show. I’ve got my own reality. Not worthy of a TV show, perhaps, but it’s all mine. There’s even nudity! [/quote]
I doubt that you haven’t seen at least one. :s[/quote]
Not even one. [/quote]
I’m certain that one has bliped up on your viewing radar. Survivor? Has that Alpha male Joe whatshisname. 
[quote=“Maoman”][quote=“Namahottie”]
I doubt that you haven’t seen at least one. :s[/quote]
Not even one. 
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Same here. Boob tube junkies waste so much time brain dead in front of the box that some of them can’t even comprehend that some of us just don’t watch it much. 
Anyway, “reality show” is an oxymoron.
What do you mean “we”? Reality TV has nothing to do with me. I’m proud to say I’ve never seen one reality TV show. I’ve got my own reality. Not worthy of a TV show, perhaps, but it’s all mine. There’s even nudity! [/quote]
I doubt that you haven’t seen at least one. :s[/quote]
Not even one. [/quote]
I’m certain that one has bliped up on your viewing radar. Survivor? Has that Alpha male Joe whatshisname. [/quote]
I don’t have cable anymore (although I used to). I have no idea about Alpha Joe, but I’m not entirely ignorant - I’ve heard of the phrase “to vote someone off the island”. Vanessa had watched one or two episodes of a modelling reality show with Naomi Campbell I think, last year when we had cable,but she will attest to the fact that the minute she turned to that I wandered over to the computer and clicked on Forumosa, which is a reality show of its own, I guess.
Oh wait, I have seen parts of “Fear Factor” before, but I could never make it through a whole show because they always have them eating gross stuff, which I find to be pretty vulgar entertainment. Speaking of vulgarity, there’s a book I read back in the eighties that had a huge impact on me called The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism. It made me realize that the celebration of the lowest common denominator isn’t something that I want to buy into completely - I’m definitely going to draw the line at reality TV.
[quote=“Maoman”]
Oh wait, I have seen parts of “Fear Factor” before, but I could never make it through a whole show because they always have them eating gross stuff, which I find to be pretty vulgar entertainment. [/quote]
i would think of that as more of a bizarre variety show than a reality show. you know it’s funny, but when i think back i don’t think i have ever watched any reality show either. not that i have watched much of any tv the last 17 years 
That’s quoteworthy. :bravo:
[quote=“Maoman”]
Oh wait, I have seen parts of “Fear Factor” before [/url]
See, I knew you’ve seen one reality show. 
Now watching it, is a whole 'nuther matter.
So you’re not a fan of Paris Hilton huh?
And now another real life kidney drama, but with some even more interesting ingredients! 
HG
[quote]Hospital refuses to accept kidney
June 4, 2007 - 2:15PM
A Canadian hospital has refused to accept the offer of a kidney to a stranger by an Australian religious cult member as a way of expressing his faith in God.
Sydney man Ash Falkingham is a member of the Jesus Christians, a group led by guru David Mckay, who believe kidney donation is the “ultimate” expression of faith.
Nineteen of the group’s 30 members living in Kenya, Britain, the United States and Australia have donated a kidney as part of their desire to “live selflessly”, ABC Television’s Australian Story reports tonight.
Mr Falkingham believes the group, led by guru David McKay, is simply following the true teachings of Christ.
Mr Falkingham’s operation was scheduled for April 30 - until the hospital questioned whether he had been coerced by the group, dubbed “the kidney cult”.
His parents, Kate and Nick Croft, say they believe the Jesus Christians had “brainwashed” their son, and contacted health authorities in Ontario to express their disapproval of a plan they see as “madness”.
The 22-year-old has spent the past 10 weeks in Canada waiting to hear whether the Toronto General Hospital would approve his donation.
Following a psychiatric assessment to determine whether Mr Falkingham was capable of giving informed consent, the hospital informed him at the weekend they would not go ahead with the operation.
He is now on his way back to Australia.
Mr Falkingham was in Canada for the operation because “non-directed” kidney donations are banned in Australia.
He said that under Australian law he would be required to have a long-term friendship with a recipient before donating.
He barely knows the Canadian woman, Sandi Sabloff, who was to have received his kidney, having met her online through the website Living Donors.
“The Jesus Christians believe that what Jesus said, he meant,” Mr Falkingham said.
"I decided to do it [donate a kidney] because I like positive things that can be done to help people.
“And I also saw that they [other members] weren’t really affected by the operation.”
Mr Falkingham said he wanted to go ahead with the donation because he likes “positive things that can be done to help people”.
“People might see me as … young and naive and idealistic … [but] I see it as a small thing,” Mr Falkingham said.
“There are 6 billion people on the planet and helping one, I think it’s just human nature.”
But his parents contacted the health authority in Ontario, pointing out that later on Mr Falkingham might feel the hospital was responsible for not picking up that he was being coerced into donating his kidney.
Mr McKay decided kidney donation was the “ultimate” expression of faith after seeing the film A Gift of Love, the true story of a boy who donates a kidney to his grandmother.
Mr Falkingham joined the group three years ago, and since then his mother and stepfather have been trying to rescue him.
His mother said donating an organ to a complete stranger was “shocking”.
“I was living in a world of aghastness,” Ms Croft said of discovering her son’s plan.
“I would say it [Jesus Christians] is a cult. I would say it’s a sect. I would say it’s madness.”
When Mr Falkingham first joined the group contact with his family was limited to email.
“It seems like it’s part of McKay’s practice to make the new recruits cut off their ties with their friends and family,” Mr Falkingham’s stepfather, Nick Croft, said.
Mr Croft also accuses the Jesus Christians of draining his stepson’s bank account - although Mr McKay says every member willingly puts their money into a “common fund”.
Ms Sabloff said she was devastated and heartbroken at the news that she would not be receiving Mr Falkingham’s kidney.
She suffers from a form of kidney disease from which her brother has already died.
Australian Story screens tonight at 8pm on ABC TV.
AAP[/quote]
I know how sad it is when my mother was talking about how beautiful my 15-year-old cousin (er, third cousin, her second cousin) was and she said that she was “beautiful enough to go on ‘America’s Next Top Model’”.
I cringed.
I have seen reality TV. It was on the internet. A TV show called Big Brother, where they get all these misfits and put them in a room for three weeks or something. Then they start kicking them out one by one and make 'em do humiliating things to piss 'em off, too, I believe.
Anyway, it just started, so I clicked on the link on the news site I was reading and saw two blonde twins screaming (Oooooo! It’s PINK!"), then a midget Indian woman weighing a fat woman’s breasts. I figure I’ve now seen enough reality TV to last me a lifetime.
Um, if anybody still cares about the OP, it turns out that the whole thing was a hoax designed to create publicity about the need for donors- for some reason the Netherlands lags other European countries
[quote]A REALITY television show in which a supposedly dying woman had to pick one of three contestants to receive one of her kidneys has been revealed as a hoax.
The show, which the broadcaster said aimed to focus attention on the shortage of donor organs in the Netherlands, was condemned by Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and sparked a worldwide controversy.
Identified only as “Lisa”, the 37-year-old woman, said to have a brain tumour, was to base her selection on the person’s history and conversations with the candidates’ families and friends.
In the last minutes of the program, she was revealed as a healthy actor and program makers stunned viewers by saying The Big Donorshow was a hoax.
The contestants were also part of the deception, though all three are genuine kidney patients.
“Their life is bitter reality,” the presenter said after revealing the deception.
Dutch Education Minister Ronald Plasterk said the show was a “fantastic stunt” and an intelligent way to draw attention to the shortage of donor organs.[/quote]