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     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.29.165.43 |
A horror moment on 'Deal or No Deal' this afternoon. Banker rings Noel to say he was eating his own scabs and pus. No joke. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.77.107 |
Would you rather... Eat scabs, or pus? Me, I'd pick scabs - probably less actual taste involved. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.29.165.43 |
Being a Banker, did he find the scabs crunchy? This is actually a true story of yesterday's edition of 'Deal or No Deal' on Channel 4 where the generic Banker rang up Noel Edmunds on the show's old-fashioned telephone and Noel reported that he Banker had just told Noel that he wa eating his own scabs. Later, when enticed by one of the contestants (via Noel), the Banker said he was eating those scabs that had pus on them (as reported by Noel). This is a high point of gut-wrenching Horror on family tea-time TV? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
It's certainly revolting. I should have preferred not to have seen the title of the thread. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.29.165.43 |
Apologies. It is remarkably shocking, and I feel it is interesting because the public are often called 'unshockable' these days. And I for one deal in Horror Art and am shocked/revolted by this. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.6.98 |
Are you shocked by the scabs and pus-eating, Des, or shocked by its context - in a sort of anodyne tea-time TV show? Oddly, as I (in my mind) place it in other contexts that would seem to be inappropriate - it loses its horror value altogether. For example: imagine the same joke, now as a joke moment on a kids' TV show, like Nickelodeon's "ICarly" - the concept (not the act) of the eating of scabs and pus seems to be innocuously funny when it's, say, kids kidding around about it. Bankers eating scabs and pus is the thing of madness, even as a joke. Kids eating scabs and pus is just inappropriate. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.29.165.43 |
I think you're right, Craig. It is interesting tha Bankers have become whipping-posts because of the Crunch and it seemed satirically apt that, during some ostensibly rubbishy, anodyne - but often statistically and psychologically intriguing - gameshow of luck, there should emerge this moment of pure revolting reaction to the world's encroaching meltdown. As if families needed their noses rubbed in the physical seeping crunchiness itself. Escapism can no longer work... Even Horror creativity itself pales into insipidity when faced with a silly facile childish joke from the playground injected like a foreign virus into the lounges and parlours of the watching masses for whom the penny still hasn't dropped. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
I don't get this at all. What's so shocking? I've tasted my own semen. Is that shocking? I'd like to think not. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
(Remind me to never come on here when I'm drinking whisky) | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.87.47 |
(Remind me to never come on here when I'm drinking whisky) Er... in light of your previous post to this one - remind me first.... | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.173 |
"I don't get this at all. What's so shocking? I've tasted my own semen. Is that shocking? I'd like to think not." gcw...  | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.81.231 |
I've longed for an edit button for ages - especially the morning after :>) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.29.166.151 |
This is a thread about Bankers. So less 'Off Topic' please. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.224.4 |
"I don't get this at all. What's so shocking? I've tasted my own semen. Is that shocking? I'd like to think not." A feat of acrobatic proportions, to be sure. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.222.184 |
It's not that shocking. I've tasted Zed's semen too. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
It was on a woman's tongue.  (Blimey, I'm worse sober than I am when I'm drunk). Joel, that small jar must've arrived safely through the post, then... | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.173 |
I wouldn't expect anyone to drink my Love Elixor without me declaring it safe first... gcw  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.87.172 |
I wouldn't expect anyone to drink my Love Elixor without me declaring it safe first... But it's fine if elixor love anyway.  | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.208.112.230 |
As long as they don't bring up Gary's semen on Deal or No Deal... (Over to you, Joel) | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 192.26.212.72 |
I don't get this at all. What's so shocking? I've tasted my own semen. Is that shocking? I'd like to think not. Did you just equate your semen with scabs and pus? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
""I don't get this at all. What's so shocking? I've tasted my own semen. Is that shocking? I'd like to think not." A feat of acrobatic proportions, to be sure." Not really. You just need to be a reasonable shot. You've got to be careful though or it really will send you blind |