Jeremy Kyle and mercy killings

I work at home on Tuesday mornings in an effort to make progress on my research plans. I often sit cosily on the couch with the laptop going through the vast data file on neurotic nutcases who are obsessed with facebook. I am hoping to get some of it published eventually. To cut a long story short, some people who use facebook are not right in the head but I’ll be more eloquent about that another time.

I had the misfortune to watch some of Jeremy Kyle today while I was working. It is possibly the worst show of that genre. The guests are bad but that is to be expected – there would be no show to watch if they were all nice people with lovely families. The hardest thing to manage is watching that fool Kyle shouting at people. He has a limited selection of catchphrases (e.g. “grow a pair”) which he spits out with faux rage. I am waiting eagerly for the day someone breaks a chair over his head. I switched off after ten minutes and decided to go into work instead.

It was at work the topic of mercy killings came up. You may have started reading this blog hoping to learn that Kyle had become the victim of a mercy killing – sadly no. In a discussion today a colleague suggested to me that being asked to commit a mercy killing should be regarded as a great compliment. I started to wonder about that. Death is often discussed at work especially as the term progresses. It’s not as depressing as it sounds, we often make it humorous! Mercy killings are all the rage these days though and everyone seems to be putting their opinions forward and admitting to do the odd one here and there. I’ve never done one and have never been asked to either. There are people who I think should be mercy killed though.

I think we should have the right to request death. As I get older I’ve come to believe we should be able to do a lot of things that I never used to agree with. I seem to be going in reverse. Most people are liberal and open-minded when they’re young and then get right wing and intolerant as they age. I started off intolerant about almost everything and now I’m just intolerant about most people. That’s not normally a problem for psychologists though.

This video is truly awful. I doubt you’ll manage the first two minutes before you have to switch it off, scream and have a drink.

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