A Glimpse into Sareet
"You are most fascinated with coke addicts, meerkats and feral children."
- Max, on what I've been watching the last few days...
- Max, on what I've been watching the last few days...
posted by S at 10:29 PM
posted by S at 10:29 PM
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OK, I'm taking the feral children to meaning watching Supernanny, coke addicts could be any number of shows...but meerkats?
Haha.
Well, I've been watching "Coked Up Britain" on the BBC and "Intervention" on A&E. Also a documentary orignally on BBC but I saw it on youtube - "Mindshock: Feral Children" (totally fascinating and really sad about feral children - in particularly a few who had been raised by dogs, and one who had been subjected to extreme neglect and isolation until she waa 13). And, MEERKAT MANOR on Animal Planet, which is really awesome, about a family of meerkats in Africa. :)
Max pointed out meerkats are animals that act like people, and that feral children are people who act like animals. And coke addicts too, if you use the term "animal" loosely. Interesting....
OK, I just had to look up "Coked up Britain", because it looked super-intriguing, and here's what one guy had to say about it:
"Worst programme ever on TV now. 'Based on real-life interviews', which almost certainly never took place, but with actors playing the parts of the real-life coke-fiends. Not just any old actors of course, but the worst actors in the world. Witless, embarrassing farrago. Time therefore to turn it off....And yet... I can't. It's so unbelievably hideous, but... Hold on a minute. I get it now. Of course! They've deliberately made a programme about coke that's the televisual equivalent of the drug itself. Unbearable, expensive, futile and offensive and yet... I must have more."
It looks like watching the show is completely beyond your control! And I definitely have to watch it now...
Aha! I knew there was a reason why I couldn't turn it off!
Seriously - I'm fascinated by the show. There was one guy who worked as a salesman in a clothing store, and there's this customer complaining and he's like "oh who messed up the order" and the customer's like "you did" and he starts apologizing - and then his nose starts gushing blood. And then he runs to the bathroom and does more coke. And explains to the camera that he's in debt for about 30,000 pounds - all b/c of coke.
Cut to five months later, the producer of the show is doing a follow up interview and he says he's much better now, and that his family has helped him out with the debts and that he explained his financial problem to his coworkers and they're not going to fire him. And then the producer interviewing him asks, "so when did you realize you had a coke problem" and he's like "i don't have a coke problem. I have a money problem, but not a coke problem."
a) feral children rule.
b) i don't have a job, and bleeding, cokehead brittish denial man is gainfully employed?
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