My wife came home from her running club this morning and announced we were going to have to start watching X-factor so she can join in the conversations about it!

My reply of ‘Tell them it’s vacuous twaddle and I don’t waste my time watching it ‘ seems not to have been that well received. She has never shown any interest in it or the like before ( barring Strictly which she does enjoy)

What I need is some sort of synopsis of the show, preferably accessable online so I don’t have to watch the bloody thing.

Can’t she just watch it, while you go beat off in the shed do something else?

Does she have a smartphone? She could download the app like I did. I like to keep up with the gossip during the week leading up to the shows. Adds a bit of an edge knowing what has been going on behind the scenes.

What I need is some sort of synopsis of the show

It’s a show which often displays a surprising level of talent and is very popular with the masses, but is sneered at by pretentious insecure middle-class snobs. Often it is contemptuously dismissed by people who have never seen, who aren’t sure what it’s about, or why they don’t like it. HTH 🙂

I think he meant a summary of what’s happened each evening it’s been on ernie.

What I need is some sort of synopsis of the show

Think glorified karaoke without the beer…

I never watch it, it’s a dire turd of a show.

I can tell just from the opening sequence. I need not watch anymore to make an accurate assessment.

Me thinks you need to buy her a GIFT ?

I used to feel the same about football. It often seemed that was the only topic of conversation at work or in the pub. Me? I couldn’t care less about it, but not being able to join in made you out to be some sort of social outcast (or gay).

I never watch it, it’s a dire turd of a show.

You must be one of those pretentious insecure middle-class snobs, Ernie warned us about.

❓ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/x-factor/10372956/The-X-Factor-first-live-show-review.html

I’m so pretentious I double(maybe even triple) bluff my snobbishness.

Ernie warned us about

Why would it be a warning ? 🙂

but not being able to join in made you out to be some sort of social outcast.

Are you sure it wasn’t your big red gaiters?

Yell at her: HOW DO YOU THINK THAT MAKES ME FEEL!

It’s what she’d do if the shoe was on the other foot

Ask her if she truly understands how much this means to you.

Will have a look at the app. Thanks DD.

Sunday night is one of the few times we usually get to sit down together with the kids in bed and no work commitments and I have watched it before but it holds no thrall over me. I would prefer not to watch it and can live with being called a middle class pretentious snob for not liking it and failing to understand why so many do like it.

What I need is some sort of synopsis of the show

2 men and 2 women sit behind a desk in a large tv studios,i ex boyband member, 1 married to some pop singer, one older man, who likes boy bands,and some woman who just flaps her hands and says daft things.

various singers alledgedly then ply their skils,some can sing, some are just eye candy, and some have potential, the 4 judges then give their elequent responces to what some dont call singing, more kareoke.

Then tonight some guests who sometimes can sing appear, the ones who cant are shown in segments through the show, while guillible and sily people phone a premium rate number to vote for them to stay on the show, cue lots of tears, lots of man hugging od dermot and by dermot.and lots of long advert breaks.

and its over for another week.

Just tell her that your mates at work discuss porn… You have to spend Saturday night watching it. 😀

Porn FTW

pretentious insecure middle-class snobs

Also people who like music by a skilled singer who’s taken the time to write their own lyrics.

Porn-Factor please.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/oct/12/the-x-factor-2013-live-blog-first-live-show

The guardian live blog. Below the line (yeah, I know) will give you a good idea of appropriate talking points.

It’s a show which often displays a surprising level of talent and is very popular with the masses, but is sneered at by pretentious insecure middle-class snobs. Often it is contemptuously dismissed by people who have never seen, who aren’t sure what it’s about, or why they don’t like it. HTH

Orrrrrrr it’s exploitative television designed to both mock and sneer at people with little singing ability and place people with singing ability on an almighty well marketed pedestal whilst simultaneously making a mockery of an entire industry all in the interest of lining the pockets of one hideous, bloated man.

Like that t shirt Snaps. Bit aggressive for general wear though.

Holy Moly news feed FTW. They really don’t like it.

Also people who like music by a skilled singer who’s taken the time to write their own lyrics.

That’s why opera is shit.

Those lazy talentless wasters can’t even be bothered to write their own stuff 😐

I have watched it because my wife and daughter like it. It’s mainly a programme about young people going home in taxis to tell a horde of people within their home address some news or other. These features are punctuated by the occasional song.

ernie_lynch – Member

What I need is some sort of synopsis of the show

It’s a show which often displays a surprising level of talent and is very popular with the masses, but is sneered at by pretentious insecure middle-class snobs. Often it is contemptuously dismissed by people who have never seen, who aren’t sure what it’s about, or why they don’t like it. HTH

obviously youve never watched it then, 😳

Get a laptop. Use that in the living room. Say “yes dear” when she stops speaking.

Works for me.

Also people who like music by a skilled singer who’s taken the time to write their own lyrics.

And, just watching the collective effort by all contestants, it seems that ill-fitting syrups are currently in fashion for young men.

Get a laptop. Use that in the living room. Say “yes dear” when she stops speaking. Put your etymotic earphones in and amuse yourself as you see fit. Though no hand action especially if there are kids in the room.

Works for me.

Normally there’s one who’s been in nick for prostitution or drug dealing and is thrown out on the eve of the live shows, one who has succeeded despite a serious illness in childhood/disability, one with a sick mum/gran/cat, a mouthy one who can’t sing but has been put through anyway. And possibly some idiot who also can’t sing but is ‘zany’.

Haven’t watched it this year – any of those in?

Haven’t watched it this year – any of those in?

Not sure but one couldn’t do judges’ houses in the USA because of, erm, “visa problems”.

Adds a bit of an edge knowing what has been going on behind the scenes.

adds an edge to what?

“Did you see that ludicrous display last night?”