Dog-Eared

Britain's Got Talent is certainly a mixed bag of nuts. That comes as no surprise. All over the country, wannabes and dreamers push their expectations and take the time to embarrass themselves publicly, only to throw a strop when they're informed they have no talent.

All this to find our next celebrity deity.

When you hold open auditions you really do open the gates for any kind of idiot to take center stage. And as anyone who's seen it will confirm, this really does happen. Undiscovered talent rears its' little head, idiots become fools and the public enters yet another opinion war.

I feel sorry for the fools. And I feel VERY sorry for the winners.

More than that though, I feel most sorry for the fools doing dog acts. Simply because such a huge number of them seem to be an example of public naivete. Too many of these people don't realise that every dog can jump; every dog follows the biscuit; every dog will chase its' owner.

The problem is that no-one tells them this. And as a result, they take a dog on stage, with the intention to impress, and show us that it can eat food and walk around. These people have no idea, but kudos to the dog for being so cool about being paraded about like a whore. It isn't anything special to anyone but the owner. They're on television with their dog. Whoop de do.

We let them carry on though, just setting them up for the fall.
And unfortunately that's the point. The winner never gets very far, and it's always the poor weird ones suffering that we remember the most.

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