Embarrasing Bodies - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 05:36:07 am
content: Can someone please explain or justify to me this new phenomenon that has pale, hideously ugly English people with yellow teeth queuing up to have their gangrenous armpits, fetid anuses and prolapsed, inside-out-Franken-fannies filmed for national television?I have to say it strikes me as totally eerrrrkkkkkkkkkkk!Must make for great family viewing - "Hey look kids, Nan is on TV!".Jesus!

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 05:45:16 am
content: What show is this? A Day at Bournemouth Beach.

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 05:56:21 am
content: Show goes by the name of the thread title. I haven't tried, but I'm sure a google or youtube search could steer to towards the "best" bits.I wouldn't recommended it though.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 06:24:04 am
content: Yes, right.............Added to the Do Not Watch category.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 06:41:15 am
content: Turned on big time!Why would you want to deprive me of such depravity?

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 07:28:35 am
content: It is pretty bad, and that's just listening to the dialogue from the next room!Dave.

author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 09:54:18 am
content: blimey it crossed the pond did it ?you know some people go on that show hoping for fame

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 10:50:37 am
content: I think that's the only reason. Someone couldn't pay me enough to humiliate myself like that.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 11:08:55 am
content: I agree with the above but also find it very educational and informative. It's good that there are people like that who are willing to humiliate themselves for the benefit of the nation. Seriously, it's good to know what a normal penis looks like, what is abnormal and the same for any other part of ones anatomy.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 11:26:42 am
content: It's funny when you are in the other room and hear boobies (or whatever interests you) mentioned, so you naturally race in to take a peek at what's going on, and then your eyes are permanently burned by some horrendous sight!And of course you fall for the same trap time and time againIt's not called Embarrasing Bodies for nothing!I get that the show could have a potentially positive effect on those with similar embarrassing issues.But I have no idea how they can convince anyone it's a good idea to be on such a thing. I just don't see any upside to it?Then again, the same can be said for many reality TV shows.Dave.

author: M0BSW
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 12:46:52 pm
content: To many foriegners here in the UK getting the free hospital treatment and bugger the UK people, so they go on TV to get it fixed.

author: TheWelly888
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 01:12:47 pm
content: My colleague appreciates that programme - it gives him some quiet time to himself when his wife watches that on TV!20 years ago, I looked in some surgical textbooks in the university library; some of the case photos were truly gross which made me thankful to be healthy!

author: jancumps
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 04, 2012, 01:58:04 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on November 04, 2012, 11:26:42 am... And for your blog

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2012, 07:56:33 am
content: The worst scene I have stumbled across whilst channel hopping in the evening to see what’s on TV, was of a dude undergoing an infected anal fissure operation; a full screen close-up of a scalpel-sliced sphincter oozing enough puss to fill a margarine container.I’ve done my best to avoid the show ever since.

author: McMonster
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2012, 08:39:27 am
content: I have an advice for all of you. I have two TVs in my flat, both waiting for inverter repair. The 8" one will serve as emergency PC display (for home server and occasional PC repair), the other will return to my parents. Just scrap all your TVs and you'll be happier, trust me.

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2012, 11:24:42 am
content: I'm starting to enjoy myself now.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 05, 2012, 11:43:15 am
content: hehe - I think the real reason behind it is to encourage people to actually go to the doctors and get checked out rather than leave an embarrassing condition untreated. If these people can get their bits out on national TV for everybody to see, it makes going to actually see a doctor a piece-of-cake for the rest of us.btw: If people didn't have such perfect teeth, yellow teeth wouldn't look so yellow ;-)

author: McMonster
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2012, 11:56:21 am
content: Quote from: jucole on November 05, 2012, 11:43:15 amI think it's still mostly about popularity. Television stations, national or not, want viewers and people like to watch strange or even disgusting things nowdays. Getting people to seek medical help is more of a side effect than a goal of this show.Television is the perfect form of democracy, it shows what the majority wants.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2012, 03:59:03 pm
content: Did a fair amount of waiting in hospitals and at first aid clinics, so have seen a few of the ones that come in...Neighbour is a retired RN, and still runs a clinic at an age when most are content to sit around. A real seen it, fixed it, done it woman. They used to call Friday and Saturday night Fight night.

author: M0BSW
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2012, 05:48:45 pm
content: Quote from: McMonster on November 05, 2012, 08:39:27 amI don't watch a lot of TV, because it's mostly mindless junk, I do like the nature films especially the ocean and sharks, I watched a program on the Great White, a very interesting creature.

author: lewis
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2012, 08:34:28 pm
content: Bread and Circuses."My life might be shit but at least it's not as bad as those twats on Eastenders" or so the mantra goes.

author: steve30
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 06, 2012, 12:10:07 am
content: I usually find embarrassing bodies quite interesting.I suppose its kinda like a medical version of Teardown Tuesday.Anyway, I've started watching BBC Three's Unsafe sex in the city programme recently.