{"id":1909,"date":"2009-05-18T15:24:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2017-06-20T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T15:23:04","slug":"when-things-stop-being-polite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2009\/05\/18\/when-things-stop-being-polite\/","title":{"rendered":"When things stop being polite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commentary<\/strong><\/p>\n

I used to be a big fan of \u201cThe Real World\u201d and \u201cRoad Rules\u201d series on MTV. At one point, it was my goal to make it onto either show, preferably the \u201cThe Real World.\u201d But, after \u201cThe Real World: Austin\u201d I was exhausted. The show, and MTV as a whole, had become a caricature of what it had once been.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know when it happened, but \u201cThe Real World\u201d went from a show that tried to break down social barriers into a show where everyone gets drunk and sleeps with each other. I felt like a husband who doesn\u2019t get any fulfillment from his relationship and decides that he wants a divorce.<\/p>\n

When I gave up \u201cThe Real World\u201d I subsequently gave up \u201cRoad Rules\u201d and the \u201cReal World\/Road Rules Challenge\u201d\u2014for those who don\u2019t know, that includes \u201cThe Gauntlet,\u201d \u201cThe Duel,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n

By mid-2006 I had completely weaned myself off of MTV. It was fairly easy with MTV showing less music videos and more shows like \u201cLaguna Beach\u201d and \u201cThe Hills.\u201d<\/p>\n

I \u201caccidentally\u201d watched \u201cReal World Awards Bash\u201d which led to me watching \u201cThe Real World: Hollywood,\u201d but since then I have been completely MTV-free.<\/p>\n

Well, until now.<\/p>\n

I was at home one night. It had to be around 10:30 p.m. and for some strange reason MTV was on my television and not just any regular MTV show.<\/p>\n

It was \u201cThe Duel 2.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was fiddling around on the Internet, so I was half-watching the show. But, the longer the show was on, the more I began paying attention. Once again, I was hooked and I have been watching it for the past three weeks.<\/p>\n

I just can\u2019t get enough.<\/p>\n

I liken it to eating Krispy Kreme donuts\u2014those donuts have to have crack in them\u2014you start by eating one and before you realize it, you\u2019ve plowed through 13 of those bad boys.<\/p>\n

I feel dirty for watching this show.<\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t changed at all, in fact it\u2019s getting worse\u2014more booze, more debauchery, more sex\u2014but I just can\u2019t get enough.<\/p>\n

The next season of \u201cThe Real World\u201d will be in Cancun and I wonder if I\u2019ll be able to go cold turkey again.<\/p>\n

If I can\u2019t, I\u2019ll just lay back and let the drug take its course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Commentary I used to be a big fan of \u201cThe Real World\u201d and \u201cRoad Rules\u201d series on MTV. At one point, it was my goal to make it onto either show, preferably the \u201cThe Real World.\u201d But, after \u201cThe Real World: Austin\u201d I was exhausted. The show, and MTV as a whole, had become a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[503,1959,502,500,501],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-guilty-pleasure","tag-kamari-stevens","tag-mtv","tag-real-world","tag-road-rules"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-uN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}