Up the duff?
pregnant.
Oh.
lol I’m learning more Euro-slang in this thread than I did during my actual trip to Europe.
On topic: I’ve seen the show a few times, and it’s downright boring. The two fasion experts (um, one’s a punter, and one’s a bint I think) ambush some unsuspecting plonker and chuck all of her (usually her) clothes in the bin. The person then gets what seemed like an obscene amount of money, like $5000 to go out and buy new stuff. The odd thing is that the person still does the shopping themselves - so invariably they head to the same stores they always go to: Gap, Old Navy, etc.
The victims usually look a little better, although for some there’s no hope. There’s been a couple on there that I’ve seen who were downright cute birds to begin with, and ended up looking like… tossers maybe?.. by the end. 
Overall though, it’s pretty boring. I’ve also seen the somewhat similar show “The Look for Less” starring Elisabeth Hasselbeck (from Survivor) as the host. It’s worth watching for her - but dreadfully boring. The idea is to find an outfit that matches some hoity-toity designer piece for a fraction of the price. Sorry, but after seeing the show a couple of times, it doesn’t seem that terribly difficult. You just have to look around a little. 
Slacker, me old mucker, you’re doing very well there. Only the uninitiated would know you’re faking the slang.
hey Slacker , you sound like an episode of Only Fools & Horses.
oi got a pain in me gulliver
I’d prefer this now i think, if they really took the piss, ie got someone kitted out in a ridiculously unsuitable outfit. rather like most of the population and Triny & Soozanar wear themselves.
Only if you are the absolute cutting edge of fashion like myself are you allowed to rag other peoples dress sense.
rofl I think I do have a pain in me gulliver… if you can get that from laughing too hard. :D:D
Blimey! You don’t 'alf talk a lot of tosh, eh what?
[sub]Alright, I’ll get me coat.[/sub]
I’ve seen the 'Merkan version of this once - and only once. What a load of crap. The hosts are complete bastards, and it doesn’t help that the victims are usually not interested in changing. They really are made victims by the treatment they get.
Now what kind if show would be much more interesting? Putting a bunch of us Dopers in a pub to discuss the finer points cultural and national slurs sounds like a good start!
The Merkin version?!? :eek::eek::eek:
Oh… American version… shew…
Okay I sort of got lost amongst all the slang and such, but I’ll drop my two cents.
I LOVE home improvement, people/home makeover shows, reality shows, etc.! It’s a guilty pleasure and I AM NOT ASHAMED! (I’m also well read, enjoy music/concerts, I’m 5’9", blonde hair…oh wait…wrong place for that…anyway…)
I don’t get BBC channels (unfortunately) but my boyfriend does and I LOVE to watch the original, British versions of our American shows “Trading Spaces” and “What not to wear.” (Oh, BTW, for the person who commented on the guy on WNTW that was “Fabio”-like…well, he is gone and they have a new guy on the show. Apparently Mr. “Fabio” got a job as Justin Timberlake’s personal style consultant. Dammit. I wanted that job. I think he’d look cute naked in my bed. woo hoo! (Sorry…cradle-robbing, for sure!)
Anyway…don’t flame or hate me because I love those shows. I wouldn’t MAKE anyone watch them if they didn’t want to.
HAPPY THURSDAY ALL! MUCH LOVE!!
Yogini
welcome to the boards. youre absolutely wrong in loving both this program AND Justin Timberlake, but welcome all the same.
What’s a TV license? Also, “bint” is my new favorite word.
Har - paulberserker, you sound like my husband when he describes just how much he hates Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, a show which I adore and which he has renamed Black Eye For The Queer Guy. He has to literally leave the house when I’m watching it so that he won’t kick in the television set. BTW, do you folks in the UK get Queer Eye? It’s a massive hit here, so if you don’t get it, you will soon - it’s another reality make-over show for you to hate.
I laughed me arse off on this one! You UK Dopers…does the BBC still have that extremely WEIRD TV show about the shepherds and their sheepdogs? God Bless The BBC-they have come up with some of the most eccentric TV programming in the world!
I remember these two.
They were interviewed on Fresh Air a few months ago.
Cheap and nasty have been the bywords for UK television programming for some time. After all, Paxo and Robinson started it all off…
For those US Dopers who are curious (!?) about seeing this show, I have seen promos for it on BBC America. I can’t even bear to watch Trading Spaces, though, so I have so far given it a miss. I might want to see it though, after paulbeserker’s review of it…
I really like the American version. In the handful that I’ve seen, they take someone who’s a real fashion disaster and get them some decent clothes and a stylish hairstyle. Worse things have been shown on TV. At least it’s somewhat productive, unlike most reality shows, which seem to be just about pitting people against each other. Yeah, they’re a bit hard on them at the start, but I always get the sense it’s in a cruel-to-be-kind way, not just out of sheer meaness.
In the epsiodes I’ve seen, the victims seemed really grateful in the end. Maybe it’s just Stockholm Syndrome.
Haven’t seen the BBC version, so I cannot comment on that one.
Here in the UK, if you own a television, then legally you are required to have a license. This costs in the region of £118 and is renewable yearly. The money goes to the BBC, and they use it to fund their radio and television offerings.
I’m mostly speaking for the American version of this show when I say I hate, loathe, despise and otherwise spit upon this program.
Nasty elitist shills for the fashion industry, trying to make normal people feel inadequate for spending a reasonable amount of money on clothes. A thousand dollars for a freaking jacket? You’ve got to be out of your fashionable mind.
They actually told one poor schmoe to “Think of it as an investment piece.” Personally, I think of my house as an investment piece; I think of stocks, precious metals, or currency as investment pieces. I think of a jacket as somthing I wear, which will never, ever be as valuable as the day I first bought it.
Same thing goes for four hundred dollar sweaters, two hundred dollar shirts, and thousand dollar loafers.
Most people don’t spend as much for clothes in a year as one of the victims on these shows spends on a single pair of pants. And when the show is over, and those fancy clothes are all worn out, the victims will once again be back to buying off the sale racks with the rest of us.
Seriously, if these shows gave out useful tips on dressing better within your wardrobe budget, they’d be at least useful. Instead, they just make you want to get the five thousand dollars and hire a hit man for the hosts.