Not the actual working guys. The camera guys and the sound guy are great. Casey, Jake, Seth and Eric do a great job. The floor manager is a cool guy but he slides by because nobody calls him on his shit because he is the cool black dude. It is the executives that are the problem.
First they hid a delivery we got from our production house because they wanted to see us panic. Then they left the subject of the episode when they called wrap to settle her bill without her "Handler." She decided she was going to hondle us to get three bras instead of the one they approve. You see we told them that if a girl wears a bra for four hours I can't sell it. So we mutually agreed that the production would pay for it at cost. This girl decided she wanted two more not included in the stipend that the show gave her. Now the wife offered to give her a 20% discount since she was buying them for herself. She calls the producer who was her handler and he goes "Ask her (Lisa) how much is the wholesale price" as though we had to sell more bras at the wholesale price. Beyond the one that she wore but didn't want anymore. That is just not cool.
Then I went outside and the front of my store was a pigstye. There were about twenty cigarette butts a couple of cans of Red Bull, tissuses and shit strewn in front of the store. The store itself is a mess. I find garbage hidden in the corners. They don't let my cleaning lady clean so no dusting is done. They write in the dust and think it is a big joke.
I need to find a better way to handle my disappointment about how some things are being handled. Other then telling youse guys about it. It helps a lot. Thanks for listening.
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How can you tell which one is which?
The mansion is the house the yacht is the boat.
One is full of garbage and needs to be taken to the landfill, the other is just a can.
The withholding of that shipment to see your reaction was just plain sleazy. Plus I don't blame Lisa for getting PO'd about the bra sales, sheesh what do they think, that your're millionaires already?
a couple of cans of Red Bull,..
Demi Moore's been lurking.
There's a bar up in Hector, NY, north of Watkins Glen, called Barney's (I'm assuming it's still there...it's been years). A group of guys known as the Hector Hogs hang out there. They work in the vineyards in the area. They don't work very many days of the year; it would interrupt hanging out at Barney's.
When I was in high school and college, we used to hang out there. We'd be playing pool, when all of a sudden the Hogs were standing around the table. We simply put down the cues and went outside to pitch horseshoes. Or we would be playing darts and notice the Hogs coming over to play, so we'd go play pool. We gave them a wide berth. Guys like that have little to lose, so they lose it often.
Anyway, those guys live to resolve issues like this. I'm certain they would be delighted to eliminate the stress that has been dropped into your lap. We had a friend who got beat up in Ithaca one night. We were hanging out at Barney's, plotting our revenge, when someone got the bright idea to just tell the Hector Hogs what happened. Problem solved. You probably don't even need to buy a round for them.
Everyone has his niche...even unemployed drunks.
I would much rather have someone tell me to go fuck myself than have them condescend. I see you are the same. Keep venting Trooper, it's healthy.
Trooper, Dumbplumber here. After a couple'a weeks hearing progress, or lack thereof, of your venture, from the DustBunnyQueen, I have determined there is the likelyhood of a pilot, 6 and a half episodes, a filmed assault and a 'pirated' release on TMZ. Obviously there will be a high bail, because of the baseball bat, and the ensuing trial on a two hour special of Judge Judy.
On the bright side, I will upgrade to HBO if they make the trial a series.
FYI, this is a one time privilege granted by DBQ, who guards her passord like a Grizzly mama guards her cubs.
Courage,Dumbplumber
Well, I WAS going to suggest that you guys start drinking early in the morning.....but after seeing my hubby's suggestion about the baseball bat.....maybe not so much.
Fingers crossed that the first few episodes click. That said, would it be possible for you to renegotiate so that you have a say (best would be final say) in the editing of future shows?
Dumbplumber, throw off the DBQ yoke, post on your own!
Well you sort of cede control when you sign on to this. I have met a couple of reality stars in my travels through this world. For instance Caroline Manzo is a perfect nice woman and her daughter is a really great girl. But they are protrayed as imperious, nasty and vindictive. Because the people running the show are the worst. She warned us not to trust the producers and she was exactly right.
When you are an adult you have to suck it up and do the job. I mean lets be honest. It is not ditch digging or working in a factory. It is making a television show. It is not the show I want to make. Maybe that will come in time. It will remain to be seen.
We had a meeting today because the show runner knew things were fucked up.
I kept quiet and let the wife talk. When he turned to me he said "I know you don't agree so what do you really think." I said "I don't like that the creative is the same thing every episode. Every episode we had a party or we are waiting anxiously for production of garments that are fucked up or some other contrived bullshit. Why isn't anything creative going on. Why are we repeating things that we did on the first episode." He said that he was insulted.
I can only pray that they know what they are doing. I would do it differently. But I am not in charge.
I just think I put more creativity into one blog post than this crack team does into the whole series.
The kids like a show called "The Colony".
It's a simulated post-apocalyptic thing. They take eight poor suckers and put them in a warehouse or burnt out building or something and challenge them to survive.
But it's just an excuse for the producers to act like dicks. Back up the plumbing, if there is any. Trash whatever they build. Try to make 'em eat crap. Etc.
"Reality TV" is a lie.
Well, maybe after the first season and it's a hit, you get to renegotiate for Season Two? Get yourselves a big bull dog lawyer.
The thing is I could tell a really great story. If they let us tell it. But they want to stick the square peg in the round hole.
Trooper York said...
The thing is I could tell a really great story. If they let us tell it. But they want to stick the square peg in the round hole.
Sliver me timbers that's gotta hurt! (and cause splinters too)
Ha! That was adorbs, Dumbplumber and DBQ. :)
Why isn't anything creative going on. Why are we repeating things that we did on the first episode." He said that he was insulted.
Because they have no creative ideas and can't step out of the pre concieved and contrived box. Every reality show is the same tired formula.
They are like the Underpants Gnomes.
Step one: make people into the stock cardboard characters....one or more of which is usually a dick or a goofy fuck up.
Step two: create a tense situation from nothing.
Step three: have an artifical deadline and more fuck ups
Step four:?????????
Step five: Profit.
And the Dumbplumber lies. I told him my password.....he just can't remember it. Hell, he can't remember his own either. :-D
One of the very few reality shows we like is American Restoration.
Yeah, they have the formula and goofy caracatures. The same stupid dickering back and forth about prices (as if it wasn't already pre arranged)
BUT during the show you get to see the workers and artists do some interesting restorations and you learn something cool on each episode.
One more thought before I go.
Maybe if you could convince the production guy that the show could be more than just artifical conflict, people would be more interested.
Showing some of the back story about fashion, design, sales, production, fabric choices etc. THAT would be interesting.
If I just want conflict I'll drink and go visit with my liberal relatives.
I want to be not just entertained, I want to learn or see something new and interesting.
That Pawnstars show from Las Vegas is an example. Dumb stuff happens all the time, but it has interest in that you get to see how the pawnshop (sortof)operates and learn about some of the stuff that people bring in.
The problem is that those people don't have any real life experiences. I doubt if any of them had a paper route, served in the Armed Forces, or did anything with their hands. Broke a sweat working? Not a chance. You learn a lot about life, when you're the lowest person on the totem pole.
Well that's what I want to do. Make it interesting by showing what really goes into something like making jeans that I had previously described. I laid that out in the last episode and as a consequence they call on me less and less. It is not a secret what they are doing. I'm not stupid. Which is fine. They are doing the phony shit. That is what they want to do.
There can be no reality in reality TV.
AllenS has it right. These guys have never done anything in the real world. Never run a business. Had to pay a bill. Had to eat shit from a client to keep your job.
They have no idea.
They might as well be politicians.
Have you guys heard the latest Republican ridiculousness?
Attacking various unnamed ladies who attended CPAC dressed "inappropriately" according to the self-appointed Skirt Police. Calling them slutty looking skanks!
I was there, and no one (besides me) was dressed inappropriately! I kid. (I think?)
Why I will never officially be a Repub.
LOL Darcy, we Democratic ladies look like nuns compared to you all! Kidding of course :)
Darce, pictures or it didn't happen!
Darcy:
Was that while you were there or post ergo impropter hoc?
Where's the original link or tweet.
Well, you're always sending me to translate, chick! lol
The kerfuffle happened after the event. I didn't hear any of this while I was there, and I thought nearly 100% of the ladies at CPAC looked stunning. Appropriate. But then I like short skirts...
(Cue Titus)
Oh I'm sure the event was cool. I just want to know who the skirt police are so that we can attach chains to their rear axles.
I just wanna find pix of sexilbertarian. Got a link?
@60
How can you tell which one is which?
He fact checks.
NSFW
Don't click on BJM's link if you are in a rush. It lasts like totally forever.
Let us review, just so we are clear, no English words rhyme with orange, purple, month or silver.
I think there was one other fact over there, but it escapes me now...
Two comments...
I *liked* the Colony, Season 2. I didnt see season 1. And Aimee kept telling me she didnt understand it because its FAKE REALITY TV.
And of course, after I told her how HGTV shoots House Hunters, Aimee said I ruined that show for her.
I'll be nice and NOT say how House Hunters is really shot. :)
House Hunters?
From watching it, I think it's pretty clear they find the house they want long before the show is ever filmed--they probably solicit people who have already started buying a house.
Then they backfill by throwing in two unrelated houses, possibly as an advertisement. The stupid reasons they give for rejecting the other two houses, or the inappropriateness of the other houses, can't hardly be explained otherwise.
Also--three houses in a week? I looked at hundreds over months. You don't spend a year's salary in 22 editable minutes. (Yeah, I bought at the bottom of the market. So sue me.)
Chip,
Here.
blake, thanks.
She's nice, but she's no Darcy.
When a country includes the word "Democratic" in its name, it usually isn't. The same principle applies here, apparently. Self gloss never works out well.
If only you could delete their comments and drive them out of your store forever... oh wait that might be counter productive.
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