| RavenBlog |
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| Comments on Wednesday 26 November 2003: |
| Grarh! Reality TV lie detector tests are really very very annoying indeed. More specifically, 'Meet My Folks', the reality series based on the movie 'Meet The Parents'. The lie detector has no calibration questions at all, for a start. The questions asked are then mostly horribly badly phrased, such that the person will be able to truthfully answer no while thinking 'but...' - and the lie-detector-reader-man will claim that the answer is a lie, where it's not because the question was stupid. The questions that aren't flawed that way are worse still; things like (not a real example) "are you imagining my daughter naked at this very moment?" It doesn't matter how the person answers this, the machine will throw its needle around all over the shop because there's two sorts of 'stress' reaction being kicked in by the question itself. And the lie-detector-man then says the victim is lying if they say no, and not if they say yes, the latter not based on the reading but based on the fact that if you were lying to such a question you wouldn't be saying yes. Which is to say, the machine always always signifies lying, and only if the victim is giving the 'rude' answer are they thought to be telling the truth. I want to be the questioner on a show of that nature, asking questions of stress-causing over-specific stupidly-phrased nature, and then punching the lie-detector-man in the face when he claims the victim is lying. "He's fucking not lying, you twat, the needle just says that he's vibrating and oozing chemicals. Everyone does that if you make them imagine naked people." [14:09] |
| James |
| I think they should just open up the options for the guy getting grilled. Yes and No are so boring. For example, to your hypothetical question, I think it would be more fun to watch if the guy could say: "Well I am now, wise ass." |
| malevolinse |
| i ozze...uh,chemicals....when 'imagine naked people'.....huh hu |
| Nameless |
| why do u watch those shows? |
| RavenBlack |
| Because changing the channel involves getting up, and doesn't provide anything to rant about entertainingly. And don't you mean "y do u wt th sh"? If you're going to abbreviate stupidly, why not render yourself completely incomprehensible at the same time? It would be less uninteresting, too. |
| nitr0z |
| i watched that show before and found the lie detector to be moderately annoying, then i changed channel. |
| James |
| I'm quite convinced that you let any old joe post comments because you like to mock the drive-by's. :) |
| RavenBlack |
| It's more because blocking people who don't specifically log in is: 1. effort (I'd have to code a database and stuff) and 2. annoying. I hate when I come across another forum where there's something I want to say, and I can't say it without signing in. I never create an account under those circumstances. |
| AttackOfTheSpam |
| Indeed; personally, I'd love to see one of the contestants get up and cuss out the quiestiony people. And if you said something like "Are you imagining my daughter naked?" doesn't that just make the thought pop into your head? Grr. Evil fake scientific shows... the unwashed masses of American culture frighten me in their juvenility. And stuff. Man, that was articulate. |
| AttackOfTheSpam |
| Whoa... I just figured out that this thing has the newest ones on the BOTTOM... Forgive me, I'm blonde. And thank you for making this a non-sign-in forum - the ones where you have to sign in to everything and their brother make me want to kill things. Namely, the person who created the sign-in screen on their blog. |
| Digi |
| Thanks Raven! I almost watched the UK version of this show, but instead, thanks to the above blog entry, and the power of memory, I managed to get up and switch of the TV. I spent the saved hour of life tending to nice plants. |
| C. Copperpot |
| Nice plants that are imagining your daughter naked? |
| nitr0z |
| they are now. (thumb down, stupid facial expression, parents get wrong impression) |