Celebrity Mags

[stripeysydney]

Nice to see to see your're back again Dibble, and good to see you're raising a relevant point or two. The thing is you do raise an important subject, most of the people who buy this bilge tend to be young impressionable girls who nowadays think the way to get on in life is to be a W.A.G. Which can be deciphered as uneducated, back-biting, grasping, lying, neurotic, anorexic/obese individuals that seems in general to be the norm nowadays; the consequences of which are now being being felt. Our offspring are frightened, paranoid,guilty, etc.
To actually want to learn something seem's nowadays to uncool, not street-cred, (WZR would possibly disagree, but then again he doesn't teach in Hackney or some other god-forsaken shithole)
The smart kids will always want to learn in spite of all the distractions, but there seems to a cult of the stupid recently, with the media selling it's soul to the devil. (didn't it always?)
This however, is not just afflicting our 'Youf', I caught a snippet of the Channel 4 news tonight, regarding the 'young un's' in China, and they were exactly the same as the one's in the West. All they were bothered about was who won the Chinese version of Celebrity X bollocks. When asked about the the Chinese Communist Party and its policies, politics, etc, they replied, "Don't know, and don't really care." But they did know who had won the Celebrity Shite contest.

[stripeysydney]

A few good points WZR, but to get back to the original thesis, does Dibble have a point?
Sorry about the typo's, it must have something to do with the last cigarette. Correct me if I'm mistaken, is it true that you never start a sentence with 'And'?
I went to Secondary School, and being a bit of a lazy sod, never took any notice of what the English teacher was saying, but I do remember that one.

Enough of 'Joshing' though, do you agree that 'Celeb Mags' are shite?

[Officer Dibble]

"I have no opinion on Celeb Mags, as I don't read them"

I'm sure you don't read them (there's very little to read), Warren. But it's just not credible that you, of all people, have no opinion on what is one of the major cultural phenomena of this decade. I just don't buy that.


"As I have already stated, I am surprised that Dibs does."

Being a man of letters I feel an obligation to first familiarise myself with anything that I hold forth on.




Officer Dibble

[Deuce Bigolo]

lets be honest Dibble these types of Mags have been around for decades

I used to buy people mag as a 14/15 year old in the early eighties and they haven't changed that much except now the word celebrity means crass and not much else

[Officer Dibble]

"lets be honest Dibble these types of Mags have been around for decades"

I guess they have. But it's only within the last decade or so that their effects have become so corrosive ? displacing real art and culture, as well as any independent, creative, or critical thought that may have been germinating in the minds of the masses.



Officer Dibble

[Deuce Bigolo]

True but I've always seen the Mags as little more than an extension of TV and the culture of celebrity which seems to be the 21st centuries new religion

Probably brought to a head by the rise of Reality TV,the
'lets launch my career with a grainy sex tape' and last but not least
the z-grade celebrities books ala Jordan

Its not hard to see how the impressionable think that theres an easy path the easy street when compared to the hard slog most adults have taken

Oh to be young and wise

Time for a sequel of 1995s Clueless me thinks