Sunday, January 07, 2007
the toffs and the proletariat
CBB5 Day Five
Well it was getting a little tedious watching the catatonic Gerard Hugh Sayer (a three year old in a fifty eight year old body) and Cleo Rocos (who clearly shares a hair stylist with Don King) recreating Upstairs Downstairs but without Mrs Bridges there to keep them in their place. However, the cobwebs of tedium were dynamited away by the whole place being transformed into a kind of sociological study on class division and the differing expectations of strata of society across the world.
It may have been what was intended, or it may, nolens volens, have just appeared at the right time by some seismic shift in the cosmos. Or by Jade's mum.
Interestingly, the whole Big Cheese/Flunky thing has caused as much disquiet to those who are used to employing hirelings, as to Jade and her crew (oh - with the exception of Jackiey who appears to be relishing the whole deal, and clearly not sharing Jade's feelings of inadequacy with the set up).
However, Jackiey's gusto is easily confused as it swirls into a melting pot of emptiness and nothingness, because her endless, outspoken running commentary on life blurs the perimeters of any hope of sense, until we are left quivering with exhaustion unable to keep up to the challenge of translating as she fires along her narrow ploughed path of diction and idiom.
Here we have the key to the debate. There will be those who will insist such behaviour is simply 'having a laugh', and there is certainty that this form of communication and comportment is recreated across our land, and indeed is magnified, in corridor towns and urban landscapes on Fridays and Saturdays as the revellers turn out from their evening's entertainment at Rocky's or Cheekeee's (often without the apostrophe, but with a kidney bursting at the seams).
Then there are those who will insist that such conduct mirrors the decline in values and belonging, in society today. The lack of respect and the desire to renounce ownership or responsibility for our own actions.
Meanwhile, Jackiey is in the diary room requesting her medication, and asking for the heating to be turned down as it is making her itch.
Jermaine is musing that "You can't reason with stupidity".
They may as well bring in Jade's grandparents now to complete the set. Oh, they just have. Jump back up on the couch would you? Tell me about your childhood.
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# posted by Terence : 9:45 PM
