***** but only because this video does a good job of showing how decadent most of western culture is nowadays.

I have always loved this show, Carr in particular. But on the short-lived version here in the States, the car was always vandalized by the losing contestants, which made it so much more funny, I thought.

Robin won a car that he's got to fix and pay taxes on. Gabriella won her dignity. Not sure who the real victor was.

I gotta go with Dub2. The clip is fascinating to watch from an anthropological sense. The Decline of Western Civilization.

And all the while, outside the television studio a formerly middle class man evicted from his flat died of exposure while back inside the audience yelled for blood, their mouths filled with maggots and snakeskin.

And I kept waiting for that priss Jimmy to release the lions. But maybe that was just me? :)

This program makes me feel like the first time I heard "rap rock." For the first time in my life, I realized there was pop culture pandering to folks younger and more debaucherous than me. And like my parents who heard to my Germs records, I don't get it.

But because I love Griff's stuff and to leave on a positive note...I very much enjoyed the fact that Robin seems to be the only person in the world who actually knows the name of the singer from Spandau Ballet.

"Bah bah bah bah bah...I know this much is true."

Captain Phineas T. Downer