On 2013-05-18 17:12:38 +0000, Dave Smith said:

> On 18/05/2013 12:52 PM, sf wrote:
>
>>>>
>>>>> I suspect that this show was one of the greatest reality tv TROLLS ever@
>>>>>
>>>>> Think about it... You have Gordon Ramsay and national television in your
>>>>> restaurant to prove that you are a great restaurant. Wouldn't you be on your
>>>>> best behavior for the show?
>>>>>
>>>>> But they were not. They did all the arrogant and bad things. Look at all
>>>>> the posts about the show. It's the most talked about ever. Negative
>>>>> attention is still attention.
>>>>
>>>> What was that old Hollywood saying - "Say anything you want about me
>>>> as long as you spell my name right"?
>>>
>>> True: But name-recognition isn't "customer loyalty".
>>
>> I don't think they are able to grasp that concept.
>
> I make it a practice not to buy from entitled crooks and jerks.

I got one step further, I think. I refuse to buy items or make
services from such folk even when I WANT what they have. As I've often
said, in a capitalist society you vote or deny a vote for someone or
some idea by paying or not paying for it.

> Let's be honest about these products. It is not as if the celebrities
> actually had anything to do with their design and manufacture. Someone
> just makes them an offer to use their name and reputation to flog them.
> If I think Martha Stewart I expect to see institutional sizes and the
> cooks to be wear florescent jump suit and for Gordon Ramsey I envision
> an obnoxious jerk hurling profane insults.

I don't get your comparison between Stewart and Ramsey. It's true that
his show's formula could provide a loving nanny-figure that commends
people for their incompetence or blames it on others, but I don't think
we'd get a sense of "turnaround" at the end.

No, we get a "crusty but benign"* drill sergeant enthusiastically
molding his wards into shape--without coddling and kisses--and turning
them into men. Only then are they given the embrace and reward. At
least that's their model.

It's true though, that every reality show features a real-life person
being assessed as if they were a stage actor, with requisite critiques
of their skill-set.

* Network, 1976