Thursday, 13 March 2014
Deal Or No Deal versus Wayne Rooney
I enjoy watching a popular game show on television called Deal Or No Deal. It's a simple game; there are 22 boxes with varying amounts of money in them. The contestant chooses a box at random and then opens the other 21 boxes, revealing either high money or low money. After a few boxes The Banker, a character on the show, offers the contestant a certain amount of money. The contestant can either 'deal or no deal'. It's a game primarily of luck and knowing when to deal or to go for the big money. What I like about the game are the contestants. They are just good, ordinary people who deserve this opportunity to win life changing money. Their gratitude at winning, say, £10,000, is a refreshing antithesis to the culture of greed that seems rife throughout modern culture at the moment. Wayne Rooney's recent bumper contract of £300,000 a week really sickened me. No man or woman is worth that. It's unfair, unnecessary, and a slap in the face to the ordinary punters who work just as hard as Rooney but don't earn a fraction of what he is on. It's not good for Rooney either, for his ego or how he values himself as a person. It's something I get really angry about. So that is why I watch Deal Or No Deal. It keeps me sane. Most of the contestants have modest dreams and desires; a deposit for a house, treat the family to a holiday, etc. And I bet, at the end of the day, they value the money more than any Wayne Rooney will ever do.
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haha, top notch ! top notch blog from a top notch guy ! "deal" is my mum's favourite TV show :), love it !
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