Ambivalence wrote:
No. Well, yes and no. I've no interest in most of the crap that's on TV, so I don't know who's won the latest Celebrity Nonsense shows or who Betty knifed last week on Eastenders, but I'm pretty good at real general knowledge, y'know, language, literature, history, geography, science, art, music, politics, religion &c. and as a card-carrying Troper I'm at least aware of the existence of a lot of pop-culture stuff I'd otherwise not be interested in.
Ditto. I have a general knowledge far greater than average but I stand in the supermarket line looking at the magazine covers and see "Harry and Beth to split up". "A new baby for Agnes" or "Irving's health scare" or whatever.
I think "WTF are these people and why should I care?". Someone must care because they sell a lot of those gossip magazines.
I know some people who read them in a more morbid, humerus way. more for the event than the celebrity.
a bit like 'you've been framed' or what ever it's called where you are. Where people send in dodgy home videos of a cat getting stuck in a spin dryer, of a child falling down a toilet, on an umbrella turning inside out.
19 Nov 2010, 9:36 pm
