Television Programs Thread

[Kirsty Harris]

Originally Posted by Lemming

I'm not starting an argument about Live8 (even though I do have strong opinions on it), I'd be here all day. Personally I'm going to watch the concert from a music fans point of view.

I think the presence of one Freddie Mercury will be greatly missed this weekend...I recently got the Live Aid DVD and was blown away once again by how amazing Queen were... I hear Queen are touring with a new singer...what is THAT all about!!

I'd like to see Scissor Sister's - not sure the world needs Bob Geldof the singer now days, but I guess he'd say 'it's my party and I'll cry if Iwant to'. If he does 'I Don't Like Monadays' it might not be too bad - that was a 1st rate song.

Your probably right about not starting a debate about it.....sometimes my mouth runs away from me, both when I talk and when I type!!! I can't help myself!! Sorry all

[Maranello]

Originally Posted by Lemming

Hey come on! That's a bit unfair, remember Shakira is performing in Paris as well as Mick Fly in Tokyo!

Now apologise! Go on, say sorry!

Sorry Lemming, who are these people? I am genuinely confused, but cannot be bothered to do a Google search. In fact, you lost me after about Paul McCartney - everything else since might as well have been in Dutch.

[Lemming]

I'm a bit of a sceptic like Milo. It's easy for failing music acts to jump on the band wagon and perform at these concerts, it's a quick way to get them back into the public eye and ultimately means more album sales, publicity and attention in the future.

I'm no economist and so have no foundation to comment on what cancelling third world debt would actually do! But, I'm not going to be naive and assume that the money these countries save from not having to pay back debt will go to the native people.

Whether our country helped various despot leaders get into power is - in my opinion - a waste of time debating when people are starving. I would much prefer these concerts to raise international awareness that it is the governments crippling the people of the third world. We need to raise awareness to the UN, as well as the strongest nations, of the importance of liberating third world people of their respective governments.

I also agree Milo that aids awareness is one of the most important issues in the world today, this concert and whole campaign could go further with that, too!

[Lemming]

Originally Posted by Maranello

Sorry Lemming, who are these people? I am genuinely confused...

I was being sarcastic, the people I pointed out are indeed talentless. I agree with your point made in the last line of the first paragraph of your post:

http://www.world-a-team.com/showthre...4393#post54393

[Beny]

I think that Live 8 is oversimplifying the problem a bit. Has anybody actualy come up with a list of things they would like done? Poverty on the scale currently exsitsting is far more complicated than we would be led to belive. Companies and Goverments are also involved but not nessicarily all at compleate fault e.g Indonesia, shocking indsutrial relations laws which give the worker virtualy no rights and allow them to be exploited by factory owners contrated by big corporations. However if you take the likes of Nike, away then the jobs go with them and the problem is only worse. I've just oversimplified an issue myslef but I think you get my point.Poverty is a very complex issue and I doubt these concerts will achive anything other than making people feel good about themselves.

[Lemming]

I've just taken the decision to not take a TV with me when I go back to University this September. TV is spawn of satan I'm sure, it ruins people brains. Yep, it's the radio for me from now on, I learn alot more from it!

[Zainub]

I agree tv spoils peoples ability to think, and in general it's a pretty bad thing. But the cricket...it gets you the cricket. That's a bit hard to resist, don't you think? Take a really small bad one with, and just get sky, not anything else. All be well then.

[Lemming]

Yeah I will probably miss the sport. We'll have a TV in our living room though. When at university the only thing I really watch is BBC Breakfast news in the morning and sport. My now ex-housemates and I, last year when we were all really busy doing our finals, used to do our work and have dinner and then maybe go and watch TV and chat at 9 PM everyday, just to wind down a little. I can't resist watching the cricket when it's on, for the past three years I've had exams and have had to watch the cricket. I've usually got away with it until this year when I spent the day before an exam watching England v Bangladesh, resulting in a failed module (44%) oops! It didn't affect my overall result though. So the cricket is not that bad.

[Zainub]

Trying to balance the cricket and the rest of my life seems to me sometimes the most difficult task on earth. How am I suppose to not watch my (and, yes, it really belong to me, MY) team play - there is a long and unending history of matches I have watched a day before exams. This year though, I put my self to a strict routine. For my most difficult exams I banned TV on my self for a week - no newspapers even. No nothing. Then I got back to normal after that. That I recall it now I haven't the slightest clue how I survived. May be it helped that Physics and Chemistry always have to have soooooo big syllabia which takes ages to revise- and you completely forget about everything else.

[Lemming]

Originally Posted by Zainub Razvi

...Physics and Chemistry always have to have soooooo big syllabia...

Syllabia? (Do you mean syllabi? )

When I did my Chemistry and Physics A-Levels, I was a little lazy and in the end had to decide which to revise fully for and which to not revise fully for. As I wanted to do a physics degree I went for that. Plus there was less to "parrott-like" remember than Chemistry.

It's always better to do well in one thing and bad in another, than average in both in my opinion!

Chemistry and Physics together are very demanding at A-level and only the most dedicated (or extremely bright) can do really well in both. I ended up with an A in Physics but D in Chemistry. I think they are the two hardest A-levels to be honest.