- May 4, 2001
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Yeah, so I was bored and devolved into watching MTV....it's not something I'm proud of.
Apparently there's a show called "Boiling Point". Basically MTV candidly sets up some believable but extremely aggravting situations involving normal unsuspecting people. For example, a flea merchant sells an item for $5 to a normal person, but an actor comes and buys the exact object for $10, after the money/item exchange has already happened with the normal person. The flea merchant gives the object to the actor and tells the normal person to pick something else out, 'cause he doesn't give refunds. Certainly you can imagine how pissed some people would get.
The idea is that the normal person needs to keep calm for a certain amount of time. Keeping calm means not threating to get the authorities involved, no swearing, no physical threats, no leaving the scene in frustration, etc...of course, they have no idea. If they can keep calm they get $100.
Is it just me, or has anyone else seen this and noticed that after each time the normal people (even the ones that don't keep calm) are invariably smiling and embarrased, but happy, etc... I'm sorry, but $100 or not, I'm pretty sure I would be fvckin irate in most of these situations.
...they must have to go through alot of film and normal people to get the reactions they want.
...hmmm, this post has no real point. Just an observation.
Apparently there's a show called "Boiling Point". Basically MTV candidly sets up some believable but extremely aggravting situations involving normal unsuspecting people. For example, a flea merchant sells an item for $5 to a normal person, but an actor comes and buys the exact object for $10, after the money/item exchange has already happened with the normal person. The flea merchant gives the object to the actor and tells the normal person to pick something else out, 'cause he doesn't give refunds. Certainly you can imagine how pissed some people would get.
The idea is that the normal person needs to keep calm for a certain amount of time. Keeping calm means not threating to get the authorities involved, no swearing, no physical threats, no leaving the scene in frustration, etc...of course, they have no idea. If they can keep calm they get $100.
Is it just me, or has anyone else seen this and noticed that after each time the normal people (even the ones that don't keep calm) are invariably smiling and embarrased, but happy, etc... I'm sorry, but $100 or not, I'm pretty sure I would be fvckin irate in most of these situations.
...they must have to go through alot of film and normal people to get the reactions they want.
...hmmm, this post has no real point. Just an observation.
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