Continuing the widespread coverage of Ms. Boyle, the Sunday papers today also have a bit of Boyle. So I might well as provide my comment.
Boyle is routinely referred to as frumpy, ugly, hairy: no one it appears can refer to her without employing one of these terms. Yes its a reality show but like Australia's Got Talent, I assume Britain's Got Talent has loads of ordinary people. Its not the Idol series of manufactured pop stars as much as a weird melange of people who sing well to those who snort water up their noses. Boyle looks pleasant, slightly plump and middle aged. On BGT, she had on the kind of dress that one might wear to the wedding of an acquaintance. She's neatly turned out. In short, she's ordinary like scores of us except that she can sing far better than most. But the papers write as if she is a freak on par with a PT Barnum circus (it might be fair to say though that Britain's Got Talent conceptually is little better). I shall gag if I hear the word makeover, virgin and ugly in relation to Boyle again.
I have a colleague who is always making lists of things that suggest that Western civilization is in definite decline (Big Brother tops the list). To it can be added the fatuous coverage of Boyle. Let's just ignore the pressure and temperature conditions of Boyle's Law and say that the volume of gas is increasing.
Boyle is routinely referred to as frumpy, ugly, hairy: no one it appears can refer to her without employing one of these terms. Yes its a reality show but like Australia's Got Talent, I assume Britain's Got Talent has loads of ordinary people. Its not the Idol series of manufactured pop stars as much as a weird melange of people who sing well to those who snort water up their noses. Boyle looks pleasant, slightly plump and middle aged. On BGT, she had on the kind of dress that one might wear to the wedding of an acquaintance. She's neatly turned out. In short, she's ordinary like scores of us except that she can sing far better than most. But the papers write as if she is a freak on par with a PT Barnum circus (it might be fair to say though that Britain's Got Talent conceptually is little better). I shall gag if I hear the word makeover, virgin and ugly in relation to Boyle again.
I have a colleague who is always making lists of things that suggest that Western civilization is in definite decline (Big Brother tops the list). To it can be added the fatuous coverage of Boyle. Let's just ignore the pressure and temperature conditions of Boyle's Law and say that the volume of gas is increasing.
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