Saturday 30 August 2008

All Balls


Sat through an episode of "Golden balls" today for the first time in ages, for anyone not familiar with the programme it is a British game show where lying and cheating could win you money, presented by former comedian Jasper Carrot it basically encourages the worst sides of human nature.
What the game comes down to at the end is they win a pot of money and 2 contestants go head to head and have the choice of "Split" or "Steal" to take the prize, if they both choose Split they share the prize, if they both choose Steal nobody wins anything, and if one splits and one steals the one who chose "Steal" pockets all the cash.
I vowed not to watch it again a few months back after a polite young lad who had been completely honest throughout the game believed the other contestant (a 20 something girl) that she was going to split the prize (about £25 grand).
He revealed his "Split" ball and she had chosen "Steal", so he goes home with nothing and she takes the lot, he just sits there looking crestfallen and Jasper wraps up the game.
I remember thinking "I hope someone stabs her on the way home" and I'm pretty mild mannered compared to a lot of people.
I understand the logic of the company who make this, as they get an hour long teatime slot with probably a lot of viewers and most days it doesn't cost them a penny as the greedy contestants usually both choose steal and both go home with nothing.

Anyway back to today's episode, the wife was watching it for the first time and asked me to explain it to her which I did "greedy bastards lie to each other and go home with nothing" sort of summed it up well I thought.
Certain similarity with today's game as a Mr Honest type got to the final against a guy who needed money for his upcoming wedding, the pot was £40 grand and Mr Honest says his piece and they even shake on a split and it comes to the reveal, Mr Honest has split and the other guy has stolen.
Now he just sits there looking sorry for himself, at this point I would have been over the table smashing this guy's face to pulp (which would have made great telly).
Can anyone who has just been robbed of £20 grand say they wouldn't be a little upset, because that's basically what had just happened.

Didn't see this episode below but the least he could have done was call her a lying c*nt (maybe he did and they cut it?).

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