Paphos People

I have lived here for many ,many years now,
though have never been one to be bothered with UK TV...
It just never seemed important to me..

Anyway... I went round to visit my brother last night
he has everything BBC 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 .. ITV 1-100 The whole sha-bang..

I was shocked at what they have on UK television , get this .. cops with cameras
so that they can make a televisin show,, but not only that they make crime seem glamourious chasing this guy who is wanted, they have been looking for him for days, arresting someone for being drunk etc, ..
But not only where they making the criminals seem like big guys, but you could tell that they (the police) were also playing macho to the cameras..
one guy was arrested for being drunk, (rightly so) but they added resisting arrest as he was to drunk to put his hands up to be handcuffed

I was shocked at what I was watching...
There is no need to glamourize crime to millions of viewers,
what message are they sending out to people..
I really am so pleased that I choose not have UK Television
A couple of hours and I left my brothers house depressed

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There is so much reality TV unbelievable.It also makes me wonder why so many people sit and watch it.I watch education channels ie discovery and uk style rather than violence and people exposing them selves to how hard they are or i beat up my girlfriend tv programs.

Wherever you look in tv magazine it is all reality

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Thats another thing ,, I remember Trisha from the UK (Trash) ..
but I hear there is another one now !! I think its a mans name..
How can people watch that... even worse ,, how can television producers think to make them shows,, people gloating over other peoples mis-fortunes or bad ways ..
its all very sad to me !!

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Whilst the optimist and the pessimist argued that the whisky glass was either half full
or half empty ? .
I drank it .....
The opportunist..

Some of the TV that we see now in the UK is purely trash and nothing but. There are some good shows on now, which I think take us back to my childhood days of the 1970's - Dancing on Ice, Strictly Dancing, etc. We only recently got Sky in the UK but chose it because we wanted to change our broadband primarily. However, we have found that the kids now are watching better TV.

We rarely watch the news now whilst the little ones are around because we know we can always catch it later at a time to suit ourselves. They like to watch many of the shows that I watched as a nipper, The Liver Birds, George & Mildred, Terry and June ..... and they love them. They watch a lot of documentaries and natural history programmes. Hubs has also got access to his (what seems like 24 hour) Top Gear!

A lot of the other reality shows are just people behaving badly and TV companies making from it. I'm glad now that I have got more choice and more control.

It does make you wonder though if some of these programmes are behind certain youth culture. That said, I still can't get over the picture in the tabloids at around Christmas time of young girls in Cardiff going out in just their pants! What's that all about?

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The other programme that you are on about is Jeremy Kyle. My ironing programme.

A lot of it is trash, and people need their heads banging together. But occasionally there are people who are really damaged by the actions or omissions of others and I think that in some cases it might help people to see the other side of the coin.

Today there was a young woman on who was given up for adoption when she was 5 years of age. She was upset because she had found her biological mother and then she bought her biological father onto the show because her BM had told her that he might not be her father. This girl was in real turmoil because she just needed to know where she comes from, geneologically.

Phil saw some of this as it began yesterday, and although he hates the programme his comment to me was that I should text my BM and tell her to watch. At the age of (almost) 50 I still don't know where I come from or where I belong in the universe as my BM is a pathological liar.

I know the value of what I have with my family. I know my Mum and Dad loved me unconditionally, even though our biology is different. I have been lucky to have a loving home. I can rationalise things to the enth degree, but I still feel a deep need inside me that never goes away. I don't need Jeremy Kyle or Trisha Goddard to sort out my problems, but some people obviously feel desperate enough to contact them. Others just want to be on the telly - they are the trashy ones. Who is exploiting who?

The fundamental reason that these programmes are made are to make money. But I do believe that once the cameras are gone there are people who are genuinely helped to try to piece their lives together.

And just in case you think I am feeling sorry for myself, I am not. I dumped the garbage when I came out here and have very little to do with the BM. She lost something really precious when she started to create a tangled web instead of telling the truth. She lost me, and I am the most precious thing she will ever know.

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Aw Verity!

That has made me fill up!

I would imagine that in these situations when people have moved on, children grown up etc, that reuinions might not always be for the best.

From what you say you have had a good upbringing and loving parents, and what some people might not take into consideration is how happy an adopted baby makes a couple who, for whatever reason cannot have one of their own.

I used to work in the admin for the council's Fostering and Adpption Unit and used to take a keen interest in the cases, most of which had happy endings.

Good on you for leaving all the garbage behind - it's all that's going to be left in this country before long

Pam

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I have a cousin who is a social worker working in adoption. I couldn't do it. It was bad enough when I worked in a UK hospital and had babies "lodging" in the nursery who were going into foster care with the plan for adoption. I found that the most difficult aspect of my job.

It moves me to tears sometimes when I see some of these reunions. I have been there, got the t-shirt, and I know it can bring untold heartache as well as deep joy. I really feel for the people involved.

The programmes may not be everyone's cup of tea, but if you look deeper beneath the surface there are some human beings who are in real pain who are desperate for help. It is a pity that they have to be subjected to the humiliation of sitting in a TV studio to try to get some peace of mind.

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Verity.

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

http://coecyp.blogspot.com

I have found that for a good number of years now our family simply choose not to watch programmes that contain violence of any description,we don't watch tosh about police,hospitals etc cos it is simply glamourised.
A lot of programmes produced these days like Jeremy Kyle are, and this may be contentious but is my honest opinion,specifically made for the thousands of not so bright UK residents who refuse to work and have nothing better to do than sit in front of a tv all day usually with a packet of fags and a can of cider.
Gary

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I agree, Gary. But they are real people who go on there. And some of them are in real pain.

It tells a lot about the society we live in IMHO.

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Verity.

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

http://coecyp.blogspot.com

I like watching TV, I don't mind admitting it either but I very rarely watch Terrestial TV

I have a few programmes I always watch, some fiction, some reality but mainly informational TV I love watching the sci-fi channel & any other kind of TV that will take me away from what is really happening in real life, its good to let your mind wonder, I suppose others do it by reading books, I do it by watching TV

After all, that's why they invented remote controls & 6000 channels, so if you don't like whats on one channel, you can try another without getting up

Plus I can't afford to go out every night, so I need something to do

Hi Verity

Your BM sounds very similar to mine ~ although mine didn't leave me (and Dad and siblings until I was 16). The woman couldn't lie straight in bed and has been very hurtful. I gave her the opportunity last year (after a separation of over 25 years) to see what she had missed and she hurt me even more by a throwaway remark. Needless to say she has not seen me, or her grandchildren since. I guess she will never know what she has lost because she doesn't know the value of anything "real".

There are a lot of people out there who should never have had children .... but if they hadn't, we wouldn't exist.

It is terribly sad though, that for some they do have to go on shows like that to discover lost family. There seems to be too much pain. There are organisations that will track and trace, but I guess these are behind many peoples budgets.

For me, I am only grateful that in being treated in a certain way - we know how we want to be treated by others.

Thanks to these people, we have developed into being the people that we are - and Verity - that aint bad girl!

Anyway - to stay on topic - perhaps now that there is so much choice on television, there will be more people watching that as a hobby than making babies they don't deserve

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Dawn
~Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly~