In our first article, we took a look at social networking sites, MMA and the rise and fall of poker. In article #2, we will take a look at tabloid entertainment programs, reality television programs featuring judges and homegrown celebrities.

Tabloid Entertainment Programs

– We used to be big fans of Entertainment Tonight. The program used to feature previews of upcoming movies, interviews with celebrities and behind the scenes footage at award shows. This was the standard until Access Hollywood launched in the mid 90s. Now, there were two programs that featured the same type of features on the entertainment industry and its stars. As if two wasn’t enough… let’s throw in shows like ‘Extra’ in for good measure to make it a threesome. The overcrowding came to its peak when the E! Entertainment channel launched and featured extended versions of these programs 24 hrs. a day for anyone eager enough to watch this stuff all day long.

The problem came when each program tried to diversify their content from each other in order to stand out amongst the bunch. The rise of the paparazzi also created an atmosphere where anybody who could get the latest gossip or fetch the latest photo would get the ratings boost needed to beat out their competition. Ratings mattered more than ever and friendly celebrity chats and movie previews wasn’t what was going to be bringing viewers in anymore. Viewers wanted the dish on their favorite celebrities and would move to whichever channel had the goods on their favorite celebrity pals.Entertainment news was thrown out of the door and replaced by entertainment gossip programming. The rise in celebrity gossip and tragic ratings news events would bring about entertainment gossip clones like ‘The Insider’ or ‘TMZ.com’ who cared more about trashing celebrities rather than honoring them. We’d love to find out about an upcoming movie or find out what a certain celebrity thinks about their upcoming flick but unfortunately shows like Entertainment Tonight now feature stories on former celebs losing 50 pounds through liposuction or what celebrities are now in rehab and we must switch over to hardcore geek websites devoted to this type of stuff.
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Summer time is just about wrapping up and for many people that means swimming time is just about over. We’ve been trying to write an article about swimming pools for sometime now but we never really had a clue what we would discuss in relation to swimming pools. We don’t consider ourselves swimming pool experts and some of us can barely swim. Heck,most of the time we just lie down on a floaty and suck down some refreshments while catching some sun. We decided to look up on google any facts or data that we could find to help our readers better understand the (insert big word here) of swimming pools and here’s some of the evidence that we’ve compiled for those of you that want to buy or are thinking of buying swimming pools:

1. Swimming pools contain water

-You would have thought that this would be a no brainer but lots of the pools that we took a look at had no water in them which led us to say “what’s up with that?”

2. Swimming pools must be maintained with chlorine or salt

-Most people use chlorine to make sure their water doesn’t turn green and nasty. Apparently, you can now use salt too. We don’t know which is worse. Chlorine was used by the Nazis. Nazis=bad. Salt makes french fries taste good; but have you ever put salt into water and tasted it? Yucko.

3. Pools can include above-ground and in-ground pools

-We took a look at both types of pools and thought that in-ground pools looked way cooler than above ground pools. That was until we took a look at the price for each type of pool. There can be as much as a 10 000$ difference in price between each type of pool. Suddenly, the bathroom tub is looking sweeter by the day.

4. You can buy a product that will change the color of the water when someone pees in your pool

-If this isn’t a good reason to buy a pool then I don’t know what is. You could just invite your friends over for a pool party then once everybody’s in the pool scream “Hey! Someone just pissed in the pool!” and watch as your friends stare at each other nervously the rest of the party trying to figure out who was the one that did it. Also, if you had your own pool, you wouldn’t have to worry about some 2 year old pissing or taking a dump in your pool. We’ve all been to public pools before and trust me there isn’t a day that goes by without some little kid taking a number 2 in the shallow end.

5. Pools are good for lazy people who want exercise

-We don’t care what kind of a pool it is you own but if you throw a 500 pound man into a swimming pool and let him enjoy himself-30 minutes later he’ll think he’s an Olympic gold metal-winning triathlete. The water is great for fat people because the water helps you to move around and also takes the tension away from sore muscles or for people with arthritis. It’s for this reason that god created belly flopping contests.

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The dictionary defines an asshole as being someone who is stupid or irritating or ridiculous. We’d like to add to this definition by mentioning an asshole as someone who’d you just like to hit across the face when you see them in public. The entertainment industry has tried to find the right combinations in order to create characters that the audience would just love to hate. We’ve rounded up a list of characters we’ve came across in television ads, music, skits and much more in order for us to come up with strong examples of assholes just for you.

Andy Bernard from ‘The Office’.

Andy came on to the show as the office employee that you just love to hate. He thought too highly of himself, sucked up to the boss way too often and would try to become best buds with Jim by calling him big tuna more times than was needed. The entire office finally tried to get rid of him by realizing his anger management issues that resulted in him leaving the office temporarily in order to receive counseling. This form of assholery results from over ambition and the need to be the best when in fact the person is a loser who should be sitting in the corner cubicle all by themselves.

The Molson Canadian ‘Oblivious’ Guy.

For all of you Canadian people out there, The Molson Canadian Oblivious Guy is what his title says he is: Oblivious. In the commercial, the man in the suit starts to tell everybody how badly the beer sucks when in fact the entire town is trying to ship him off in a plane to a distant region with him being totally oblivious to what is going on around him. This bit of assholeness results from thinking that you’re the life of the party when in fact nobody wants to talk to you or be near you. The commercials themselves are pretty bad and we hope that Molson Canadian creates a new ad campaign soon. (more…)

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