Many cultured viewers actually feel quite badly about watching trashy television, but they can't seem to stop themselves.
Things got so bad in 2007 an organisation called Sire, which is funded by the media industry and tries to raise awareness of social issues in the country, ran adverts on television showing parents behaving badly while watching their child play football.
One thing I am certain of, however, is the fact that we're experiencing a dangerous stock market bubble that will end very badly (please watch my presentation to learn more), so the sharp plunge of the past several weeks is quite worrisome to me.
Scrolling through images, he explained, "I am a painter, but I use a camera and I don't speak badly". The baale watched, unmoved.
"I had been up on the border near Khe Sanh, watching badly mauled soldiers retreating from Laos," Greenway told me.
Gazing at "Faithless," I badly wanted to watch Ullmann's own face again, with its smooth forehead — she was literally highbrow material — and the all too bruisable lips.
"Watching badly conceived VR can make you feel sick for the rest of the day," says Patrick Milling Smith, co-founder of Vrse.works, the VR company behind Apple's recent VR music video for U2.
It's partly because of cultural curiosity, but mostly because I daren't come home and tell my friends that I spent all my time napping and watching badly dubbed foreign reality TV.
They were a bookish family: his uncle, Ashok Mehta, remembers buying a copy of "The Day of the Jackal," by Frederick Forsyth, its binding badly worn, and watching the Ghemawat children read the broken book together, passing pages along as they finished.
"Everybody points to the fact that Brian Clough started at Hartlepool, and the one thing I've always said is that if I get anywhere near to the achievements of Brian Clough then I won't have done too badly". You can watch the full programme from Monday 7 April on the BBC iPlayer until Monday, 14 April.
