Diversity On Britain's Got Talent On Saturday

[iluvmargie]

Just heard on the radio news that there are now more than 10,000 complaints about their dance on Saturday night - Wow ! What do abers think?

[iluvmargie]

Oh hell here comes the second half of the tag team. Have you been collaborating?

[Ken4155]

I'm sorry but i thought the term 'snowflakes' was de rigueur for AB. My bad :-(
We're gonna have to come up with a new descriptive word for those so easily offended.

[Mamyalynne]

That's a bit personal ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

Not you Ken.

[pixie374]

Any word you've seen online recently, ken, is a valid insult:-)

[iluvmargie]

Well you would say that wouldn't you? I'm quite pleased with it actually. And I won't be drawn any more.

[sunny-dave]

When in doubt, attack the messenger(s) ...

... the concept that I'm being told what to post by gness is (almost) as unlikely as that she is my sock-puppet.

But it suits certain people to imagine that is the case and if it amuses them then so be it.

[iluvmargie]

Not you pixie.

[SparklyKid]

I am not easily offended, the routine was just a load of carp.

[iluvmargie]

They are good in their field though Sparkly, just not this time!

[gness]

Andy. You are aware that there was no audience for this performance?
What you saw and heard from the "audience" was a wall of repeated faces and canned cheers and applause.

You're a little up yourself to say that when the audience is live they have no idea whether or not what they are watching is artistically any good or not....every one of them?

[SparklyKid]

Don't rate them at all. Bit like a circus tumbling act.

Once you have seen them, what then. Same daft face pulling and jumping aimlessly around.

[iluvmargie]

Probably because I think Ashley is quite 'fit'! I'm old enough to be his big sister though … (haha)

[Peter Pedant]

// the reenactment portrayed George Floyd as lying there peacefully until a policeman knelt on him to stop him breathing.//

um in re enactments of the death of Marie Antoinette or indeed the end of the Goebbels children in 1945
they dont chop off any one;s head or really poison cute little children.

I thought I would reassure you

[SparklyKid]

That banjo bloke looked quite menacing banging his chest shouting black lives matter.

[Peter Pedant]

and Hitlers dog - blitsje - whom they test the poison on, gets up and your know eats chow at the end of the scene

well thank god for that I hear you say

[iluvmargie]

Ok pp.

[Peter Pedant]

// That banjo bloke looked quite menacing banging his chest shouting black lives matter.//
misread as
That banjo bloke looked as tho he was gonna bang his banjo on someone and shout black lives matter.

[HansUrbancka]

For some unknown reason the video clip was removed from the original thread on this issue :-

https://youtu.be/kzFNKFitHjw

Hans.

[andy-hughes]

gness - // Andy. You are aware that there was no audience for this performance?
What you saw and heard from the "audience" was a wall of repeated faces and canned cheers and applause. //

I was not aware of that - thank you.

// You're a little up yourself to say that when the audience is live they have no idea whether or not what they are watching is artistically any good or not....every one of them? //

Probably not - but I don't think I am 'up myself as you so delicately put it.

Years ago I attended my one and only (to date) ballet, to watch the daughter of some friends who was dancing - it was Swan Lake.

I was sitting next to our friends' daughter's ballet teacher, and I had no issue whatsoever in asking her if this was actually any good, because I have no notion whatsoever of what makes good, or indeed poor ballet, it's not my field of expertise.

I am not being snobbish - merely accurate I believe, when I say that the average Saturday night entertainment live audience have little if any idea of the relative artistic value of what they are watching.

It doesn't matter - it's not a pre-requisite to understand something in order to enjoy it - but I find the endless random whooping to be really irritating - or at least I did when I used to watch shows like this. I find increasingly that they don't entertain me, and since that is the idea, I don't watch them any more.