XPost: uk.politics.parliament, uk.politics.misc   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <43cce34e$0$12837$ba620dc5@text.nova.planet.nl>, B. B.   
    writes   
   >   
   >"banana"  schreef in bericht   
   >news:dWH$dLALlNzDFwcI@borve.demon.co.uk...   
   >> House of Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, has told the national news   
   >> media about how he likes to watch 'Celebrity Big Brother'.   
   >>   
   >> How much did they pay him?   
   >>   
   >> Or did he work for them voluntarily?   
   >   
   >He doesn't work for them,   
      
      
      
   >he simply likes the show. I know that the   
   >concept that people do and like things without thinking about money is   
   >alien to you, but it is a very real concept. Millions of people like   
   >this show! They don't get paid.   
      
   What a fucking moronic thing to say.   
      
   Do you have any idea how much marketing money is spent on 'celebrity   
   endorsement'?   
      
   Do you think David Beckham would say in an interview that he likes   
   shopping at Sainsbury's without getting paid for it?   
      
   That 'millions of people' shop at Sainsbury's is completely irrelevant.   
      
   Is anyone really as stupid as you seem to like to appear?   
      
   >> Haven't seen it mentioned in the Register of Members' Interests.   
   >   
   >Which means that he simply likes the show. Endemol would use a different   
   >person to promote their show, since their targetgroup isn't interested in   
   >politics very much.   
      
   Idiot! Loads of 'Guardian' readers watch the show, and the 'Guardian',   
   like practically all of the UK media, presents watching the show as   
   being the 'standard', 'normal' thing to do.   
      
   They call that *publicity*.   
      
   Just as the alcohol companies spend millions on getting newspapers to   
   say that getting pissed out of your head the whole time is a major part   
   of what going to college is all about these days.   
      
   >> Has he got similar work lined up?   
   >   
   >Write to him if you want to know.   
   >   
   >> HP Sauce?   
   >> Ipods?   
   >   
   >When Mr Martin tells the press he likes eggs for his breakfast,   
      
   How fucking stupid can you get? Do you think you're being witty?   
      
   Telling everyone you use Colgate toothpaste isn't the same as telling   
   everyone you scratch your arse.   
      
   Go and find out something about marketing and public relations.   
      
   >> Whoever makes those nasty straps that Opus Dei put round their legs?   
   >   
   >From Big Brother via the Speaker to Opus Dei. Actually very funny.   
      
   Oh great. Not just 'potentially funny' then?   
      
   Whether you knew that Michael Martin has been involved with Opus Dei   
   (which he has), I rather doubt.   
      
   Follow-ups set, because you are such a moron.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)