Snooki

Fake boobs, tattoos, cat fights, home-wreckers, trips to the mall, visible panty lines, Brazilian waxes, endless domestics and lashings of designer fashions.

Pick me! Pick me! Photo:Brad Hunter

Let’s not beat around the bush, we love reality shows because they’re trashy.

They’re escapist. Like a lazy person’s romance novel, with tattoos and bitch fights - so wrong in absolutely every single way. And that’s what makes them sooo good.

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  • alank says:

    04:22pm | 22/03/12

    “Let’s not beat around the bush, we love reality shows because they’re trashy. ”  Um..NO…we dont love reality shows. “Everyone wants to walk down the street and peek through the net curtains” - Um..No.. i dont give a damn - the TV execs would say that woudnt they? I’ll tell… Read more »

  • Martin says:

    03:04pm | 22/03/12

    @SF The rest of Australia feels your pain. Read more »

 

More than 90 per cent of people who finish Snooki’s book A Shore Thing reportedly Google the phrase: “If I hold my breath for 45 seconds while repeatedly head-butting a wall, will I get amnesia?”

Snooki: the vacuous face of modern celebrity.

A more pressing question for many of you, however, is probably “who or what is a Snooki?”

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is the result of an innovative reality television show called Jersey Shore which places a bunch of potential sexual harassment lawsuits in a house in New Jersey and leaves them to enjoy some good ol’ fashioned ‘roid rage, borderline alcoholism and painful acronym-inventing (eg. DTF).

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  • Gerard says:

    08:06pm | 03/03/11

    Yes, Big Brother…what I really love about that show is that practically none of the housemates would have known who Big Brother actually was. Read more »

  • Gerard says:

    07:52pm | 03/03/11

    Easier solution: make voting optional. That way, those who don’t care and the majority of those who don’t understand won’t be casting a vote which prevents those who do care and understand from influencing the result. Of course, it’ll never happen since the Labor/Liberal/National cartel with a stranglehold on power… Read more »

 

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