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Rich Kid Poor Kid...

moomoo said:
But is it really her fault she thinks the way she does?

Surely her parents are to blame. The mother seems awful tbf. :hmm:

Awww! And the baby has a beautiful new bedroom! :cool:
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You're right about her mother, now I want to do mean things to her :( luckily I'm all mouth but I'd be pretty worried to go out in public if I was that woman
 
lizzieloo said:
You're right about her mother, now I want to do mean things to her :( luckily I'm all mouth but I'd be pretty worried to go out in public if I was that woman
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Quite. I would imagine that they have already moved though. I doubt they would have stayed in that area.
 
moomoo said:
But is it really her fault she thinks the way she does?

Surely her parents are to blame. The mother seems awful tbf. :hmm:

Awww! And the baby has a beautiful new bedroom! :cool:
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N_igma said:
Fuck the young posh girl, she's young and immature it's her mother that needs a good slapping (not literally but ya know what I mean).
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This ^^^ It's just learned behaviour for the girl, it's her parents I would like to string up for what they are inflicting on society.
 
I think if the makers of the programme read this thread to this point they'd be quite happy. You've all followed exactly the narrative they intended.

This is why I don't have a TV :D
 
gabi said:
I think if the makers of the programme read this thread to this point they'd be quite happy. You've all followed exactly the narrative they intended.

This is why I don't have a TV :D
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Are we meant to make up our own random narrative then :confused:
 
Sorry to derail but talking of rich people seeing how the other half live, did anyone read that article on the Telegraph site about some woman in Henley having to sign on. was quite LOL cause she seems the kind to think like the the girl in this programme.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...492/Life-on-the-dole-in-Henley-on-Thames.html

We thought we had all the bases covered. We paid for mortgage protection for years in case of redundancy. But when we contacted our insurance company, they stipulated that we had to sign on in order to claim.

After the initial stomach-churning shock, my husband opted for an online sign-on, assuming it would be more discreet and quicker than phoning or going to a Jobcentre. But completing the form took two hours and asked depressing questions such as "Do you have a criminal record?".
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What depresses me is that 'rich girl''s mindset is best described in her own words - 'pure ignorance'. 'Poor girl' is a better communicator, friendlier, wiser, smarter, stronger - basically more able in every way (did I get this right - she built that bed for her little brother?).

Yet rich girl asks 'what did you get for your GCSES?' - and there we have society's judgement!
 
Laney said:
What depresses me is that 'rich girl''s mindset is best described in her own words - 'pure ignorance'. 'Poor girl' is a better communicator, friendlier, wiser, smarter, stronger - basically more able in every way (did I get this right - she built that bed for her little brother?).

Yet rich girl asks 'what did you get for your GCSES?' - and there we have society's judgement!
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This.
 
gabi said:
I think if the makers of the programme read this thread to this point they'd be quite happy. You've all followed exactly the narrative they intended.

This is why I don't have a TV :D
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Exactly, I was wondering if someone on here might be involved in the show in some way. Every scene was set up to fit the producers/directors (writers?) narrative. It was glaringly obvious.

Laney said:
What depresses me is that 'rich girl''s mindset is best described in her own words - 'pure ignorance'. 'Poor girl' is a better communicator, friendlier, wiser, smarter, stronger - basically more able in every way (did I get this right - she built that bed for her little brother?).

Yet rich girl asks 'what did you get for your GCSES?' - and there we have society's judgement!
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Did they say the 'rich girl' was 15 and the 'poor girl' 17? It'd explain an awful lot.
 
Incidentally 'Lead balloon' which followed it on BBC2 was a light hearted, poorly acted sitcom starring Jack Dee. It was an awful less contrived then Rich Kid, Poor Kid and that's saying something.
 
salem said:
Thought so. Basically take an immature 15 year old and put her up against a mature 17 year old and play the class card.
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'The class card' :D

Given another two years with that horrific example of a human being as a mother, do you think rich girls' attitudes will diminish or intensify? By 17 she wouldn't have considered participating.

Which girl would you be prouder of as your daughter?
 
Laney said:
Given another two years with that horrific example of a human being as a mother, do you think rich girls' attitudes will diminish or intensify? By 17 she wouldn't have considered
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I thought maybe the opposite. I got the feeling she might have been playing up to the cameras and possibly as a bit teenage stroppy rebellion against her parents - try and make them look bad. She was only 15, maybe she had already started to question what she'd been told - eg the ridiculous "don't go left down the road"
 
Spark said:
I thought maybe the opposite. I got the feeling she might have been playing up to the cameras and possibly as a bit teenage stroppy rebellion against her parents - try and make them look bad. She was only 15, maybe she had already started to question what she'd been told - eg the ridiculous "don't go left down the road"
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She can't rebel, really. She's too scared to go left (;)). She's also going to be trapped in a private school until she turns eighteen. She's fucked, I reckon, as far as her chances of turning into a worthwhile human being go.

Anyway I am off to bed before this turns horribly bitter and personal x
 
Laney said:
She can't rebel, really. She's too scared to go left (;)). She's also going to be trapped in a private school until she turns eighteen. She's fucked, I reckon, as far as her chances of turning into a worthwhile human being go.

Anyway I am off to bed before this turns horribly bitter and personal x
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I have more faith and I'd say a good portion on urban would prove that, admit it or not.

I agree with your point about the thread turning bitter and personal though. It's why I felt uncomfortable with the way the 'rich girl' was being set up.
 
Laney said:
She can't rebel, really. She's too scared to go left (;)). She's also going to be trapped in a private school until she turns eighteen. She's fucked, I reckon, as far as her chances of turning into a worthwhile human being go.

Anyway I am off to bed before this turns horribly bitter and personal x
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i'd disagree that she can't rebel - what is rebellion will depend on the context - but maybe rebel is not quite the rightword. The point i was trying to make is she's 15 so at the age she's probably exploring being independent from her parents.

At the risk of generalising, most teenagers, whatever their background or type of school they go to, will to some extent question what they've been taught by their parents. At some points she seemed to parrot what she'd been told, but as the program went on i thought it was verging on parody (but maybe that's just because some of what she'd been taught was so ridiculous).
 
Maybe. I just found that when she started giving her views it was quite :eek: at how extreme they were and as it continued she just seemed (or presented as being) a bit all over the place in her opinions. It made me wonder why and if when she gave more extreme views she was being deliberately so for a different reason. Or maybe she didn't know what she thought but didn't want to seeem like that so just gave opnions. Maybe she was just a bit odd.
 
I feel the same way as Spark - I did feel it was a bit unfair on the rich girl who, as I said before, did come across as odious - however it felt a bit like a cheap trick on behalf of the programme makers. She was very immature and you could see by the way she kept trying to be "street" with her "butters" comment one minute and then the next coming over all "do you know the King's Road?".
 
I didn't see the (first) bit with her mum talking.. but Alice said that she was a primary school teacher - was there any elaboration on that at all?
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The bit where she came out with that downright horrible racist comment? Even her little sons who looked about 6 called her a racist.

I thought that was bad enough, but when her daughter then said later in the programme that she was a primary school teacher I almost fell off my Sofa.

Unbelievable stuff, I really do wonder where she teaches after coming out with the comments she did?
 
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