Britains got talent

jamie uk
jamie uk Posts: 3,812
edited June 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
So, I haven't watched too much of the show, but a rained off bbq ensured I was trapped in a room full of excited people watching the final last night.
I don't mean to be a sour puss, and for sure that kid could dance like hell...but am I alone in thinking it was rather a sad showing. I mean the British public thronging 'sheep like' for a sob story and voting for a kid who, let's be frank here, could dance but no better than a thousand dancers who take to the West end stages twice a day, six nights a week, fifty two weeks of the year. I mean, big deal! Is that really the best talent in Britain? :o
The runners up were even more terrible, two Asian guys doing some sort of Michael Jackson tribute, but without the singing :) what's that all about? And a Scottish karaoke singer..well done Scotland, we will forever remember that you guys stick together, we remember the Mcdonald brothers all too well :rolleyes:
The fiddle women were good, but way too gimicky.
Surely the young girl singing the opera was far and away the most talented by a mile....or even the dancing dog :o

Just wondered what anyone thought about it all......
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  • Hinny
    Hinny Posts: 1,610
    I really like the vids of the little girl from last year who did Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    These dudes came second, I mean yes ok they can dance like Michael Jackson, but what's the point? Seriously, you got half the nation really believing this constitutes talent worthy of prime time tv....wtf?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJfVqpXZueIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJfVqpXZueI



    these two are better :D
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLMdA_PrhH8&feature=related

    I imagine the rest of the developed world thinking this is a tv clip from the 1970's.........but at least you can say, wow that dog can move :D
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    The most talented person in Britain ?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r-1f71HgYk

    A break dancer :o
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  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    there's talent. and then there's ta-lent. :cool:




    (yeah, I can't watch the videos but felt like saying something. :o)
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    If it's any consollation, none of the critics take this programme seriously... the TV guides always take the piss out of it.

    That said, it's no consollation that a large portion of the British public does.
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    That said, it's no consollation that a large portion of the British public does.

    Mark, I think that's the part that 'depressed' me most.
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    jamie uk wrote:
    Mark, I think that's the part that 'depressed' me most.

    The irony in all this is that none of the people in Britain with real talent are going on Britain's Got Talent. They're getting jobs. This programme should be called Britain's Got Unemployment.
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    The irony in all this is that none of the people in Britain with real talent are going on Britain's Got Talent. They're getting jobs. This programme should be called Britain's Got Unemployment.


    Or maybe call it 'Britain's got no f*in idea'
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  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    jamie uk wrote:
    Or maybe call it 'Britain's got no f*in idea'
    Now now Jamie...don't hold back...tell us how you really feel :p:D;)
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    urbanhippie wrote:
    Now now Jamie...don't hold back...tell us how you really feel :p:D;)

    Britain's Got Urbanhippie. I could watch that weekly. :D
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  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Oh my jamie....
    Who would've guessed?
    :p
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    TrixieCat wrote:
    Oh my jamie....
    Who would've guessed?
    :p

    Guess what? That I'm a grinch? :o That seemed to be the general opinion in the room last night.
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  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    jamie uk wrote:
    Guess what? That I'm a grinch? :o That seemed to be the general opinion in the room last night.
    No, that you were watching it.
    :p
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    TrixieCat wrote:
    No, that you were watching it.
    :p

    I got trapped, like I said, it rained on my bbq and I was forced inside :(
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,997
    yes, i've been keeping in touch with this show, since my boss plays clips from it on youtube every so often (since i am pretty sure that it's not on American television anywhere -- not even BBC America). That street dancing kid is pretty amazing, I must say.
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  • Housing Jim
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    Hinny wrote:
    I really like the vids of the little girl from last year who did Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

    Oh give me a break!! I've seen that clip and she couldn't sing. It's juts designed to ensnare sad women who see come poor kiddy wheeled out on nationla Tv to sing a song so they all reach for their mobiles and text the premium rate voting lines while tucking into their Saturday night takeaways.

    I hate Britain's Got Talent. It encompasses everything that is wrong with television today. It's cheap, utter drivel television and unfortunately what we've come to expect from a Saturday night on ITV. X-Factor is just as bad. I'm sorry, but these people are not talented. Anyone can sing in tune for two minutes.....X-factor is a glorified karaoke contest which exists solely to rig the Christmas number one.

    I'm amazed that people watch this stuff over watching something genuinely decent that's on at the same time, like Doctor Who.
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  • urbanhippie
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    Housing Jim wrote:
    Oh give me a break!! I've seen that clip and she couldn't sing. It's juts designed to ensnare sad women who see come poor kiddy wheeled out on nationla Tv to sing a song so they all reach for their mobiles and text the premium rate voting lines while tucking into their Saturday night takeaways.

    I hate Britain's Got Talent. It encompasses everything that is wrong with television today. It's cheap, utter drivel television and unfortunately what we've come to expect from a Saturday night on ITV. X-Factor is just as bad. I'm sorry, but these people are not talented. Anyone can sing in tune for two minutes.....X-factor is a glorified karaoke contest which exists solely to rig the Christmas number one.

    I'm amazed that people watch this stuff over watching something genuinely decent that's on at the same time, like Doctor Who.
    Amen. I loathe these programmes and do my best to actively avoid even catching a glimpse of them. It means I don't know what the hell anyones talking about, but I'd rather revel in my ignorance :)
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  • Jeremy1012
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    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    The irony in all this is that none of the people in Britain with real talent are going on Britain's Got Talent. They're getting jobs. This programme should be called Britain's Got Unemployment.
    :D:D:D
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,997
    Housing Jim wrote:
    It encompasses everything that is wrong with television today. It's cheap, utter drivel television

    Hey, that sounds like American television.
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  • Housing Jim
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    1STmammal2wearPants wrote:
    Hey, that sounds like American television.

    I think American TV is way better than British TV. In Britain we've got Dr Who, Torchwood, Derren Brown, Peep Show, The Apprentice, Midsomer Murders, Nevermind the Buzzcocks and that's about all of our good shows.

    In the US you've got The Office (which is way better than the UK original), Lost, Heroes, 24, Damages, Dirt, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother and loads more good shows.
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