What pisses me off: Award shows

The awards season is upon us again, with Logies, Brownlow Medals, Oscars and numerous other prizes being handed out, more often than not to two major employment groups, show-business and sport and nearly all of them being prizes from their peers, with just a few supposedly voted on by the most important people of all, the viewers/fans/audiences.

The thing that gets my goat is the fact that these two groups, as I have said, are the ones most interested in offering these awards to each other. You don’t very often get an evening of television to watch the ‘Bricklayer of the Year’ shield, or the ‘Nicest bloke in Brisbane’ prize, or even the ‘Man/Woman Who Makes The Best Bread & Butter Puddings’ medal!

No, the rest of us have to put up with being rewarded by actually having a job that just brings in a wage; no evenings at the Crown Casino for us, no big star names, like Kylie to entertain us, as we quaff large quantities of wine we didn’t have to pay for. We just get on with life and hope we can survive until the moment arrives when we no longer have to because we’ve been presented with a nice, six-foot long wooden box to get about in, or at least to go away in!

Mind you there are a few perks in not being a famous actor or sportsman. For instance, you don’t have to rush out and buy your wife/girlfriend an expensive gown, which then gets laughed at or heavily criticized by the media, leading to your partner threatening to leave you, (permanently), because you were the one who said she looked great in it, when she tried it on in the gown shop! When will women learn that we blokes will say that ANYTHING looks great on them, just so long as we can get out of there and pop down the pub for a beer? Let’s face it; if you love the girl, anything she puts on does look great, because you aren’t seeing the dress, you’re seeing the sexy body hidden underneath it, the one you’re used to going to bed with every night. It’s not really fair to ask us, is it!

The film stars, television actors and sportspeople go to the award ceremonies for reasons other than hoping to win some award too! The fact is, most of them are there because they have to be there, (in their own minds that is). They have to be seen to be a part of what is going on, on this important night; not to be there is to hint at your own failure. If an award pops into your hands before you go home, that’s just a little bonus; the really important thing is to see your own photo in tomorrow’s papers or on the daily TV current affairs programs. Then you have the opportunity to tell the world about your dress or your suit, because they were lent to you by some big designer in the hope of grabbing a bit of free publicity for themselves, out of the event. This of course, actually creates a secondary layer of award winners, the award being the appearance on the box!

No, as far as I am concerned all these great thespians, and sports people get EXTREMELY well paid for the work they put in, during the comparatively short periods they have to toil, yet when you boil it down, they are in fact just doing their jobs, exactly like the rest of us! It’s just that they have managed, by some system I can’t figure out, to make the general public believe they are something special, to be specially awarded, on a special night every year.

I suppose I have to say, good luck to them – they have managed to con us, now they can reap their rewards. I wonder how long it will be before they dream up some award for the person who first thought of all this?

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