Just about to watch Total Wipeout on BBC 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO3-sXF5VhM). Along with Motd, its the only thing I really bother to go out of my way to watch on telly. Its the closest legal alternative we have to the Colosseum. Its set in a world where everything is soft and bouncy, and watery physical endangerment is never far away. Its kind of like experiencing what the life of a skag head tramp living near the Thames on a Saturday night would be like.
Seeing people get flipped by the sweeper is amazing, seeing them hit their head on the podium on the way down is even better. I revel in the violence. Its just a shame its hosted by the occasionally funny, apparently horrible in real life Richard Hammond. He doesn't spoil it, I just cant help but think about the burning hate and disgust that allegedly lurks behind his cheeky, charismatic eyes, as another mechanic from surrey face plants into a huge rubber ball.
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