While I’ve been locked in my house for the last few months, I’ve been forced to occupy my time by watching a lot of television.
Some of the television I’ve been watching hasn’t exactly been quality since James gets pissed off if I watch something good without him, so I tend to stick to girly drama shows.
I’m now up to season three of Gossip Girl and I just have to wonder, what the fuck is up with these people? How old are these stupid tarts supposed to be? I thought they were supposed to be in high school. What sort of high school student does half of the crap they do? I get the drinking and the drugs part, that’s kind of part and parcel of the whole teenage/growing up experience and I certainly did my fair share of being a drunk bitch, but travelling around foreign countries as unaccompanied minors, throwing lavish parties, having personal shoppers and OH. MY. GOD! The scheming! The nastiness and backstabbing these kids engage in, holy crap! I love me some trashy drama and gossip, but these awful people are going to grow up and make people like Judas look like a fluffy kitten.
Then again, I have spent all bar five years of my life living in rural Australia (three of which were literally spent in the arse end of nowhere) so I have no idea if thats how people really behave in the big smokes, although if the elitist snobbery of my city mates is anything to go by I’m pretty sure it’s mostly an American conceit if it exists at all (i.e. my city mates THINK they are elitist snobs but have nothing to actually be elitist about besides living in one of the few metropolitan areas in the country).
Nonetheless, it makes for entertaining television if one can move past the utter ridiculousness of it all.
