I hesitate to confess that I actually allow this show to suck up whole hours of my day with it’s inanity, but it is not unlike visiting “Rotten.com” in the creepy fascination it holds.
And I further confess that it might not be nearly as entertaining were it not for the gentlemen of the thread title. I know some of them have to be lurking around here somewhere.
Yeah, I’m talking to you, big guy.
So what is it with you, anyway? How did you get like this? What is * wrong * with you? When did this behavior * ever *work for you?
And just what is it about the desire for sex that makes you so completely and thoroughly bereft of all ability to detect the feelings of others? Is it some sort of testosterone-induced form of autism that you suffer from, or what?
There are so many guys on that show who are such boors, one fears for the future of the human race. Where do they get these guys?
So is it a choice on the part of the producers, or a weird by-product of being willing to go on a blind date for television that brings out so many really obnoxious men?
There have been some pretty priceless chicks on there, generally suffering from myshitdon’tstinkandyoumustspendeverythingonme syndrome, but they are far outnumbered by the “c’mon baby, nice body, wanna come home with me, what no kiss, c’mon kiss me, sexsexsexsexsexwordssexthoughtssexjokesanychanceillgetsomesextonight” men.
Oy vay.
One can only hope that after seeing how badly they come off on TV they get a clue.
And people wonder why I despise reality TV. Such a genre should have begun - and ended - with Cops.
A teacher from my old high school was on Blind Date once. Yeah, she was rather attractive, and the guy she was with was able to keep from staring at her breasts (as is the norm for that show, seemingly).
I guess the producers WANT people who will be pigs… kind of like how Jerry Springer wants to get people who will start a fight. It drives up the ratings, I suppose.
I used to really like that show, but maybe you’re right. Some of the couples that looked good together, had deeper conversations, they actually seemed like REAL people, that THEY were then made to look like idiots.
I think I wanted to see the dates that looked like the people had a chance to REALLY find someone and carve out relationships… even WRITING that down, sounds so totally naive. :rolleyes: I’m forty eight, and sound just like Pollyanna! Yuck
Didn’t FOX have a show called “Studs” 10 years ago that was the same thing?
But most of the girls on that show are pretty cute - so I’ll have the show on - preferably with the sound turned off. But I swear every guy on that show has the same close cropped hair cut (occasionally a ponytailed romeo breaks this monotony), mall-bought b-boy outfit, and annoying SoCal “street” demeanor (A twist of the head and a “You know what I’m sayin’” after each phrase). I’m just thinking one of these days I’ll go to a club, and the womenfolk will look at me and gasp, drop their jaws, and collectively exclaim: “Oh my God, that guy has a personality!”.
The problem is that Blind Date is more entertaining when the couple doesn’t hook up. Watching two people on a date take stabs at each other is really funny; watching two people chatting lightly and giggling is not. So, the producers have to set up dates that seem up front like they’d be good matches, but are not.
The worst one I’d seen was the fault of the woman, actually. She was divorced and evidently still very very bitter; it seemed like she decided before she even arrived that she didn’t want to be on a date, and she spent the whole night insulting and belittling her date, who displayed nigh-infinite patience at her bottomless bitch-pool. So let’s not blame the guys all the time, m’kay?
I think I’ve seen this show once. Re your comments I would reccommend less TV and more IRL observation. There are boors of every stripe and gender abroad on the dating scene but I would seriously doubt they are representative of the the main cohort of single males and are, in fact, a decided minority.
Does it really surprise you that these are the kind of people the show chooses to to recruit and use. Look at any other “reality” or “encounter” type show. Per Max Torque jerks, boors and clueless wonders are often (very often) chosen because they are more fun to watch. How long do you think people would continue to watch if it was a parade of “nice guys and gals”? It would be off the air within a few weeks.
As an real life side note, just like men, many women start doing their thinking with their little heads after a drink or three and if the boor is good looking enough the “c’mon baby, etc” is likely to get more action than the nice guy approach. Maybe not for you but in general it will and it is directly related to how studly the boor is (not that women would ever be as {{cough}} shallow as men).
One night while having a very pleasant time with my fiancee we settled back to watch some television. Hmmm Blind date is on… why not watch? The first date starts…enter female. Hmmm She looks CUTE! Hmmmm She looks familiar…
Pez Fiancee: Doesn’t that girl look familiar?
Pez: whistle and look away innocently
Pez Fiancee: isn’t that the girl you use to…
pez: Ummm yeah looks like it.
Episode continues in fine blind date style while tension thickins between pez and pez fiancee. The girl takes off her clothes and gets down to business with the guy in a hot tub then end up staying the night.
Pez fiancee: Damn she is a slut! How could she do that on national television? At least he had sex with her… guess he got more than you did.
Pez: whistle and look away innocently
Pez Fiancee: you did? I didn’t know that!
Pez: I told you that before!
Pez fiancee storms upstairs.
Needless to say I get scared shitless everytime blind date comes on now. I am afraid that she or some other sl*t I’ve hooked up with will be on there…
Nah. Considering I slept with most of her friends I dont think she thought that
She was just upset A)That she hadn’t known I had slept with that particular girl and B) She felt that I acted poorly in the situation. Of course I did. It was an uncomfortable situation. Oh well.
I was just thinking about starting a thread on this show. It’s become in recent weeks one of my very favorites. What the hell is wrong with these people? I just sit and stare at them and my jaw drops open in disbelief.
The funniest thing I ever saw on the show was “The Head Butt”. The guy went in for the kiss not one, not two, not three, not even four times, but a whopping twelve times after the woman made it extremely clear that she did not even a small peck.
The second funniest thing was when a woman fell asleep right in the middle of their date…apparently the guy bored her as he poured his heart out to her. Hehehe.
I have to confess, Stoid, I am a regular watcher of this show. Sometimes I think the losers are playing up their boorishness just for the sake of the camera, just as I hope some of the Evil Bitches are (did you see that one EVIL bitch who went on about how she’d be waking up the the next morning to her beautiful life, while her grovery store HIGH MANAGER would be returning to “Paper or plastic”? He walked out on her, and rightfully so. Oooooh, she was evil…).
Pretty much the show feeds on hot tub TNA mack sessions and dating fiascos. I’ve noticed they’ve brought some of their worst examples of the male species back for a 2nd attempt. Um…yeah. Although there was one case (the New York guy) where a man who obviously hates women (it’s unfortunate he’s straight) was set up with a woman who got his measure.
Anyway…what can I say, it’s a train wreck. Can’t…look…away…
Pez - Was that the blonde who was standing up straddling the guy in the hot tub, one leg over his shoulder and smacking her self on the ass like she was riding a horse? Was that the one? I loved that episode!
