Stop moaning about the X Factor... please!

[SeriousSam]

I like to view the X-Factor as an analogy for our political system... yes we get to vote but we have no real control over who we get to vote for...

As for Christmas No.1 then I think the best course is to just ignore it, as the point was well made with "Rage" last year. Continuing to engage in such shennigans just drags us down to their level of being deluded enough to believe it has any real meaning. I'd be hard pushed to remember any Christmas number one, but I know damn well why I wear a poppy every year!!

[TooNice]

I'm not either - my simple solution; avoid like the plague and mercilessly mock those who care about it.

I do the same without the mocking. Most of us probably enjoy some form of "guilty pleasure" and so long as it's largely avoidable, I don't have a problem with people having different taste.

[Cozwin]

Haha, thank you Nick. Unfortunately rare to see people slam these piece of crap programs anymore.

[MadduckUK]

in asking people to stop moaning about the x-factor, you seem to have just moaned about the x-factor.

[Stringent]

I'll moan about Strictly Come Dancing instead then. Why IS Ann still in, its so unfair, some 'dance competition'. If they really WANT to make it about the dancing, then ditch the public voting system and just let it rely on the judges.

[jim]

I think they proved with John Sergeant that it's an entertainment show until the judges get really hacked off, at which point it becomes a dance competition.

[santa claus]

Strewth Nick calm down, there wouldn't even be an X-Factor thread if you hadn't started it.

The X-Factor will end for good after the current series.

[razer121]

lets hope it ends up like big brother.....

[Zak33]

I like to view the X-Factor as an analogy for our political system... yes we get to vote but we have no real control over who we get to vote for...

As for Christmas No.1 then I think the best course is to just ignore it, as the point was well made with "Rage" last year. Continuing to engage in such shennigans just drags us down to their level of being deluded enough to believe it has any real meaning. I'd be hard pushed to remember any Christmas number one, but I know damn well why I wear a poppy every year!!

liar... 1971.. Ernie, the Fastest Milkman in the West.

Benny Hill... you were playing it in your Integra last time you came past

[Lowe]

I watch it - but then someone I know was in the live finals so it's hard not to see how things go for them.

[Blitzen]

The judges are all working to Cowells agenda, the show and the whole series is formulaic to the extreme. It's all looking a bit old, used and well run through... a bit like Cheryl, the talentless lip-synching Geordie clothes horse.

She is pretty fit though to be fair

[SeriousSam]

liar... 1971.. Ernie, the Fastest Milkman in the West.

Benny Hill... you were playing it in your Integra last time you came past

Err that was Jonny Cash... unless that was a reference to my driving

[GheeTsar]

I do the same without the mocking. Most of us probably enjoy some form of "guilty pleasure" and so long as it's largely avoidable, I don't have a problem with people having different taste.

You're right, of course. I think "relentless tongue-in cheek" rather than "mercilessly" would have been a better choice of word(s). Mainly it's just my wife that's the recipient (and she gives as good as she gets). Secretly I am actually very grateful for the programme as it allows me uninterupted gaming time while she watches it.

[Allen]

She is pretty fit though to be fair

I ain't exactly no oil painting, but how can anyone like these plastic, made over, tarted up dogs? Seen her without all that slap on her face? More like Chernobyl Cole...

Well said Nick, every single word, so true. I pity the fools that hand over their hard-earned to Simon Cu... err, Cowell.

[neonplanet40]

Im eagerly awaiting the single that the internet will try and make number one again this year!!!!

I hate the xfactor Its not worth ranting about.

But yes i would happily give Cheryl several

[SeriousSam]

She is pretty fit though to be fair

I believe the modern axiom is "Beauty is in the hands of an army of stylists, make-up artists and photoshop wizards"