Since the weekend, I've overheard many people expressing their outrage at Simon Cowell's manipulation of the latest vote on his show, the X factor.

It's hilarious. How naive can people be?

The whole show is manipulated from programme 1 to the end.

Why do people think the judges get to decide between the 2 folk who receive the least phone votes? Why don't they leave the decision to the public every time?

Fairness? Fun? er...

No. It's because the public can't be trusted to get it right.

Of course Cowell wanted those talentless twats to go through. Yes, they're pish, but without them, the show would be utterly bland.

When the idiots get horsed next week, as I'm told they will as some sort of mass blood letting revenge, which one of the remaining "contestants" will make millions of people tune in? er, I don't even know the remaining contestants' names, ffs.

I have been trying not to watch this show. It's on in the house and I have been drawn on occasions.

Mostly for the car crash TV that is/was the twats.

I certainly won't look up from Hibs.net when they're gone.