Reality TV

I'm sort of embarrassed to say that I love semi-reality TV. It's not real, it's just unscripted.

I've seen the first two episodes of a show called, "The Casino". Two internet millionaires bought The Golden Nugget in Las Vegas and the show is them running it. They follow one high roller every week, a group of partiers, as well as the new owners. It's Venture meets Bugsy.

The first two episodes of the "Simple Life 2" were also quite good. The show is a lot better than the first season because Paris and Nicole have been unleashed on a road trip across the United States. They aren't stuck in some Podunk town tormenting some poor family, they are driving around tormenting lots of new people every week.

While it's unscripted, the girls play up their blond moments and rich-girlness quite a bit. It's quite funny. The are chronically out of money, and always end up begging some bewildered guy for money and they almost always get it from the first kid they ask.

Tonight they stopped at a nudist resort where the producers had jobs lined up for them. They arrived at night and didn't know it was a nudist establishment. The next morning when they stepped out of their trailer, the first words out of Paris' mouth were, "That's not how I wanted to wake up."

"The Next Action Star" is also a pretty good unscripted show about people competing to be in a feature length action movie. I have my favorite contestants and candidates who I really hate. There is an Americanized Mexican woman...

*Tangent*

An Americanized Mexican woman is the worst kind of Latin woman. She combines all the obnoxiousness of a stereotypical "ugly American", someone who thinks that the world owes them, with not being able to speak English. I find that people who demand respect verbally are the ones who least deserve it, least understand what respect is, and are the least likely to show other people any respect at all.

I tend to give everyone I have never met a base level of respect. It's the amount of respect everyone deserves for just being a person. You then get points or demerits base on how you act. If you are polite, you get points. If you are rude, you get demerits. If you think the world is against you, demerits. (Here's a message from the world, we don't care about you enough to be against you, try a little humility.) Education scores points, dropping out and going on welfare because you are lazy, demerits. Being on welfare through no fault of your own and using it to become a productive member of society, double points.

/Tangent

...who is completely obnoxious. I'm absolutely sure that they are only keeping her around because of the conflict she creates among the other contestants. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that she was planted by the producers just to create animosity and problems.

When it shows her name and profession on the bottom of the screen, she's listed as being a "Club Dancer" *cough*Stripper*cough*. She looks the part. They gave everyone make overs before one audition and she went from looking like a whore to looking like an attractive woman. She complained that they turned her into a Selma Hayek wannabe. She would be lucky to be Selma Hayek's maid.