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What drives the prurient, judgemental, obsession of the upper and middle classes with the lifestyle habits of others? Is it low self-esteem? Errectile dysfunction? Or a deeper, nastier urge?


 
Posted : 22/03/2012 10:37 am
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Posted : 22/03/2012 11:56 am
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I would't say Jeremy Kyles target demographic fitted the OP's assertion.

I think [i]everyone[/i] is interested in other peoples lives.


 
Posted : 22/03/2012 12:00 pm
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Surely not being interested in other people would be a sign of someone far weirder?


 
Posted : 22/03/2012 12:04 pm
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We're a society, everyone is interested in everyone else as we are all in it together but with different aims and targets. And much like with religion, everyone thinks their route is correct and so is scornful of others. Pretty simple.


 
Posted : 22/03/2012 12:08 pm
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I thought this thread was going to be a discussion about a great film. Oh well.


 
Posted : 22/03/2012 12:37 pm
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I'm interested in what makes folk tick but not their actual lives per se. I wouldn't click a link that took me to, say, Tulisa's Sex Scandal, for example.

Some things interest me, some things don't.


 
Posted : 22/03/2012 12:42 pm
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Who do you think is buying all those celebrity [s]loving[/s] hating magazines? Stephen Fry?


 
Posted : 22/03/2012 12:44 pm
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I don't know who's buying them, no-one I know.


 
Posted : 22/03/2012 1:31 pm
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"The life choices I have to make are different to other people." Every single person in here can say that to some extent. We're all different, thank goodness.

Being interested in other peoples' lives is surely a good thing, so long as it is to learn about those other people, not to then judge them based upon your own internal morals.

Hey, I dyed my hair bright red the other day - I'm sure that there are people making judgements about that.

Rachel


 
Posted : 22/03/2012 2:02 pm