I saw a bumblebee and a honey bee go into the same flower.
I saw a man take his wife and infant child on a “tour” of the local wastewater treatment plant. His supposed justification was that he wanted to show his immigrant wife (born in South America and had been in the US just over two months) something of the US that indicated it is a better place to live than in her country. He had lived in her country previously, had not been able to get a job there because he didn’t speak the language and has a criminal record. Now that they lived in the US, he faced the same difficulty in finding employment based on his criminal past. Homesick, loving living in poverty in an isolated rural town in the South, terminally lonely, and bored, she was disillusioned and disappointed with the decision to emigrate, and had given him a deadline of sixty days to find a job or she would take their baby and return to her home country to live with her large family. For some unknown reason, he thought a field trip to a sewage dump would lift her spirits.
Oh, by the way: it didn’t work. Plans are underway to book an international flight . . .
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A reality TV show. I don’t know them personally.
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(((((Shhhhhhh!)))))
You know, I may do the same: take a hint from you by adding “Married At First Sight” to my viewing pleasures. I’ve seen its commercials and it just may be tolerable for me.
Funny story: my wife was a 90-day fiancé, but our story is quite different than what’s on that TV show. I knew her and her family for two years before we married, for one thing. There was no internet back then, either. When she and I watch the show, we‘re equally pissed off with practically each and every couple, we can’t see why either person is attracted to the other besides for monetary reasons or immigration-related benefits, we think they should all break up and never speak with each other again. I spend half my time shouting at the TV screen due to the stupidity, arrogance, and lack of morals, and my wife is usually both thoroughly disgusted by and utterly embarrassed about the segments involving The Philippines.
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Lol. For “ratings” sake, the producers do everything they can to extract the lowest common denominator of ghetto-fabulous life or trailer park life that they can squeeze out of people, below and beyond the depths to which the low-bred may have stopped without cameras being thrust into their faces. For an example of producers’ interference, a recent ridiculous exchange between two Brazilian women, one of whom had been brought to the US by a man who married her and then divorced her, the second woman was the next girlfriend he had after the divorce. When the girlfriend broke up with him, she arranged to meet with the ex-wife so that the two of them could badmouth the idiot they had had in common. The ridiculous part was that even though both of them speak a little bit of English, neither is completely fluent as to understand nor be understood very well, yet for the sake of ratings, they stumbled through the conversation in broken English. The show normally translates entire segments either by subtitles or online translations, and in every language in the world, yet they expected us to believe this particular heated conversation wouldn’t take place in Portuguese. I rolled my eyes so much that I may need to get the alignment on my corneas checked.
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This post was edited by Randy D at September 12, 2020 9:09 PM MDT
How much dough would it take to produce a story like that for TV? I’m sure we’re talking a whole lot of bucks, don’t you think?
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Randy D 