"Fear Factor"-no contest. That is THE stupidest and most-revolting show I've ever seen. There's a HUGE difference, folks, in being AFRAID of something and being DISGUSTED by it! I'm disgusted by the notion of eating fried hog brains with ketchup, something that my grandfather considered a breakfast delicacy, but I'm not SCARED of 'em! I'm not going to run screaming my head off, or puke, for that matter, if I see a plate of that particular Southern dish(you can buy canned hog brains in many supermarkets here, by the way). I'm SCARED witless of tornadoes, on the other hand, having experienced those first-hand. That doesn't make them gross or disgusting, though-far from it: I'll sit and watch an all-day "Storm Chasers" marathon on the National Geographic Channel without flinching!
What I REALLY despise, with every fiber of my existance, about "Fear Factor", though, is the way they treat live animals on that show. They try to make the tarantulas and Emperor scorpions that are victimized by their stupidity out to be these deadly, vicious killing machines, all so the people doing horrible things to them will seem all the more brave. The last episode I watched, and the one that really did it for me, involved contestants having to sort a vat of Corn Snakes by color(Corn Snakes come in hundreds of colors and patterns, the result of domestic, selective breeding by humans to produce PETS)in the shortest amount of time. The people were picking up these gentle snakes, flinging them around, and slamming them into walls and stuff, resulting in several snakes winding up with badly broken jaws, broken backs, hemorraging from their mouths and noses from internal injuries, etc. Snakes actually have MORE pain receptors than most mammals, yet I have to wonder what would have been the outcry if those had been kittens or puppies, instead of snakes. We had one guy on Arachnoboards who claimed to know the people who supplied the animals to that show, but he refused to divulge who it was, since he knew that there were a LOT of very angry folks who'd love to get ahold of that person or persons.
pitbulllady
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