Spurious complaints.

There seems a real fashion these days for complaining about anything on TV that slightly annoys you.

Prostitutes don't like Clarky making jokes about truckers murdering them.

First of all who gave them a union? They're criminals damn it! What ever next the union of rapists and serial killers.

Stop moaning, stop taking drugs and stop shagging shifty guys for fivers.

So here's a contest for the world's most pointless, idiotic complaint about TV.

Me first.

Laser vision asked me to imagine a world without glasses or contact lenses.

I am very short sighted, imaging this nightmare world.

Left me traumatised and unable to work or exercise bladder control.

Quote: sootyj @ November 4 2008, 7:09 PM GMT

So here's a contest for the world's most pointless, idiotic complaint about TV.

Me first.

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I agree.

Coincidently I read this comment today in The Sunday Times TV guide that made me weep with laughter. I've cut it out and added it to my scrap book, I love it so much.

I'm not sure if it refers to 'Jamie's Ministry of Food' or Gordon Ramsey, or possibly both. Anyway here it is...

"It is a mystery that celebrity chefs feel they can behave anyway they want: swearing, losing their tempers, being aggressive and conceited. It is not as if they have invented a marvellous machine, they are just throwing a few vegetables together. My husband and I have just been to the Falkirk Wheel and I bet the engineers involved in that project would not behave like this." T. McLellan

Mrs McLellan I salute you! Your use of your visit to the Falkirk Wheel in comparison with TV chefs is inspired (if a bit surreal).

Quote: Aaron @ November 4 2008, 7:19 PM GMT

I agree.

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Surely that would be complainer about TV?

Quote: sootyj @ November 4 2008, 7:09 PM GMT

There seems a real fashion these days for complaining about anything on TV that slightly annoys you.

Prostitutes don't like Clarky making jokes about truckers murdering them.

First of all who gave them a union? They're criminals damn it! What ever next the union of rapists and serial killers.

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Talk me through the humour of this one if you will, as I was about to comment but am not sure where you are coming from?

Well I've only got a thin strand of humour here.

In essence the group that complained about Clarkson (national trewasure that he is) is a union of prostitutes.

Prostitution is in essence a crime, that attracts a host of other crimes (child abuse, drug dealing, kerb crawling etc).

As such the BBC accepting a complaint from such a sordid organisation.

Is like a union of armed robbers complaining about Resevoir Dogs.

It's a very real example of political correctness gone mad.

I'd feel diferently if it was NACRO, or any other group reperesenting EXoffenders.

Prostitution isn't a crime. And the idea that it attracts quote 'child abuse, drug dealing, kerb crawling' makes me wonder if you write for the Daily Mail.

As I am always completely honest I never really worry.

Honestly legitimising aberant, criminal behaviour that serves no higher purpose than obtaining drugs.

Is a society in the terminal stages of choking on it's own excrement.

Of course I'd make the drugs available on the NHS.

Isn't prostitution one of the oldest trades that and blacksmithing?

I thought being a prostitute was against the law. Shows how much I know. Is paying a prostitute against the law then?
Or is it just in America?

Otherwise, where did I get that idea from?

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As I am always completely honest I never really worry.

Honestly legitimising aberant, criminal behaviour that serves no higher purpose than obtaining drugs.

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What higher purpose do you serve?

Quote: Marc P @ November 4 2008, 11:11 PM GMT

Prostitution isn't a crime. And the idea that it attracts quote 'child abuse, drug dealing, kerb crawling' makes me wonder if you write for the Daily Mail.

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That old cannard. Soliciting is illegal and thats what prostitutes get knicked for.

Check out statistics on prostitution hot spots and increases in other crimes.

The Daily Mail and the radical left are in complete sympatica on this subject.

Quote: Marc P @ November 4 2008, 11:15 PM GMT

What higher purpose do you serve?

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None.

But I don't claim the moral high ground the British Collective of Prostitutes do.

Quote: zooo @ November 4 2008, 11:14 PM GMT

I thought being a prostitute was against the law. Shows how much I know. Is paying a prostitute against the law then?
Or is it just in America?

Otherwise, where did I get that idea from?

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No being a prostitute isn't illegal. Soliciting is against the law on the street. Prostitution itself isn't illegal. Brothels are illegal where women can collaborate and protect themselves as they do elsewhere in the world.

Quote: sootyj @ November 4 2008, 11:17 PM GMT

That old cannard. Soliciting is illegal and thats what prostitutes get knicked for.

Check out statistics on prostitution hot spots and increases in other crimes.

The Daily Mail and the radical left are in complete sympatica on this subject.

None.

But I don't claim the moral high ground the British Collective of Prostitutes do.

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Make your point or don't. What you said is the most fatuous comment I have ever heard on here.

Quote: Griff @ November 4 2008, 11:18 PM GMT

Can I just point out I've watched Billie Piper's documentary on prostitution and it is not at all sordid. Prostitutes live in expensive apartments and wear designer clothes and are a bit like celebrities.

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Irony/sarcasm, take your pick.