Celebrity Big Brother UK
I have found myself getting interested and a little fascinated by Celebrity Big Brother in the UK. I don't know if it so for the right or wrong reason, but it is with total shock that I view these so called celebrities to whom we are supposed to aspire.
They just seem to be such small uneducated people, with absolutely no idea, of anything. Jade Goodie, swanning in her new found fame, seeming to show levels of maturity then completely shooting herself down with dumb questions about Eskimos. Her boyfriend who seems to have even less education (note I don't say intelligence), not knowing what an Embyro is! A footballers Girlfriend... Really is she a celebrity... I mean come on. A couple of whinny has beens and some stars trying to revitalise or bring new scope to their careers.
Only thing I know is that there are animals in this world that I would rather aspire to than the crop of vacuous dolts pitched to us as celebrities in this day and age on just about every reality show going on any channel.
As a news editor recently said on Question Time, the public create the celebrity market by reading trash about unimportant people, made important only by our insatiatable need for .... I don't even know what. And, I suppose, expecting anyone to actually stop buying these trash celebrity magazines is just a lost cause. I can only assume the people who read them are as shallow and vacuous as the stars publicised in them.
Aren't we all just ignorant of each others lives?
On reading a variety of posts about military accommodation standards I was stuck by how ignorant of service life many people in the UK are. I considered this and realised that I am probably quite ognarant about the working and financial life of Doctors, nurses, police officers, people on income benefit etc.. But we all seem to get really shocked and hurt when people don't know about US.
Lets face it most of us are pretty selfish and happy in our own little self enclosed lives, happy to be ignorant of others shortcomings in life. We might run out of reasons to complain about our own lives then. We all have the same expectations, success, a place to live, food to eat (not necessarily in that order) and, mostly, all of us feel we should be rewarded better for what we do.
When it comes to Service Family Quarters (SFQ) it is a popular misconception that we don't pay for it, or council tax. We actually do, it is deducted from our pay at source. Some people say just buy a house. A few things here. We're not that well paid, move to a new area of the country about every 2 - 3 years (sometimes more often) with no choice as to where we go to take up our new post. That means finding new schools for children, and spouses giving up work (they are then not entitled to much benefit as they are not sacked) and trying to find new work. Generallt it is in the lower pay bracket as local employers know that the new employee will not be a long term employment option.
Maybe we should all consider each others lives and be a bit more considerate about our assumptions before we jump to uninformed opinion.
