Balls Of Steel--Worst Thing Ever?
'Balls of Steel', that loathsome piece of shit masquerading as a comedy show, is at it again.

First there was the Tom Cruise thing, which was just pathetic. More recently this thread revealed a) the witlessness of the people behind the show and b) the fact that they hire actors to play the victims in their 'pranks', so not only is it nasty bullshit, it's not even authentic nasty bullshit.

This is borne out by my mate's experiences, who recently found himself the subject of one of their 'stings'.

"I'm in London at the moment, and have been really, really busy. I heard that there was a chess tournament on at the ULU yesterday, and as it is one of my few pleasures in life, I decided to toddle along. There were about thirty people playing in this tourney, which apparently was being sponsored by a company who were filming it all to make a 'promotional
film about the game'. About five minutes in to the first round, this black guy behind me starts complaining - in a very tedious and unfunny way - that chess is a 'racist' game because the white pieces move first, and creates a scene. All very unimaginative stuff. Before he could expand much further, one of the 'representatives' from the 'company' stands up with a big fucking E4 grin on his stupid face saying 'Hah! Okay, we're not really filming a promotional film about chess, we're actually from a hidden camera show called 'Balls Of Steel'.
At which point, I could simply not have been angrier - essentially, one my least favourite things in the world had collided with one of my very favourite things in the world - but I decided to keep quiet, for the time being, as I thought they would soon leave. How wrong I was.
'Er yeah, you lot don't mind if we do that again, to get all the angles right?'
I was not prepared to keep quiet any longer.
'Or you could just fuck off, and let us play in peace'.
'What's that mate?'
'I said that you could just fuck off and let us play'
'What's your problem then?'
'I fucking despise your programme, it's poisonous and epitomises all that is currently wrong with television.'...
...I turned back to my game. There was about a minute's respite, as the 'Balls' team talked to amongst themselves. I thought they might actually leave. No such luck....
'All right, let's roll again...'
The black guy starts doing the exact same tedious routine. I offer a draw to my opponent, who immediately accepts, and I storm out of the playing area.
By the time I had calmed down - and this is probably about forty minutes on now - they were STILL retaking the scene - real fucking 'Balls Of Steel' there. I mean, what's the fucking point of doing a 'hidden camera' 'joke' if you're just going to re-do it to your exact specifications?
I don't think I've missed too much out here; I'm sorry if this has come across as ever so slightly hysterical, but I just wanted to vomit it all out before I forgot anything. The whole thing was just overwhelmingly lame, and really shows how desperate they are for material."

Morgan wouldn't give his permission for the makers to use his image, so he's going to be pixellated out of the final broadcast. I can't imagine there are more than fourteen people reading this blog, and the chances of them being part of a 'BOS' prank are smaller still. Nonetheless, let me say this, if enough people don't give their permission to the makers of crap like this to use their image, maybe one day there will be no more crap like this.