Blood, Sweat, and Luxuries.

by ScarZy • 9 Jun 2010, 04:22 • Journals
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If you're looking for interesting, educational TV shows to watch with a hint of reality, this is your best bet.

Finished watching this five episode series tonight, moved me in many ways, cried man tears, raged alot, but motivated me, and made me realise just how fortunate and happy I am to be born into a western country..

QuoteSix young British consumers swap their luxury lives for the simple mud huts and shanty towns of Africa and Asia to work alongside the people who mine, manufacture, process and recycle luxury goods


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Downloaded all of these episodes to watch with a friend over the summer holidays, i'm sure she'll rage just as much as I did, and I hope you rage too.

Link ATM is only UK but uploading episode 1 for those interested:

Stream Link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s5gct/Blood_Sweat_and_Luxuries_Gems/

Download Link:
TBA

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Shuki 9 Jun 2010, 05:46
I don't get Westerners who do these programs. I mean after a month they will return to their normal lives. Do they think they will be better from the experience? They seem to suggest it makes them more moral by acting considerate towards the plight of others, but really it just enables them to feel less guilty about it.
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evan 9 Jun 2010, 05:48
Completely agree with everything you said!
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Shuki 9 Jun 2010, 05:50
Oh shit I must be wrong then :s
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pala 9 Jun 2010, 10:04
you are right :P these kinds of guilt feeling will be gone before they will remember
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evan 9 Jun 2010, 05:47
I really, really did not like this programme (or series), and to suggest that it is educational is a tad inappropriate. While I agree it is educational in the sense that it increases awareness of the manufacturing process, so to speak, of products that westerners consume unconsciously, it is not educational in any other way. The incessant liberal dogma that the 'British consumers' repeat - why don't the workers get a bigger share of the profits, or a fairer deal - highlights their economic and historical ignorance. Seriously, think about it. The Industrial Revolution(s) took the best of a century and a half, and the minimum wage was only introduced in the UK in 1999, yet these silly people think giving workers a 'fairer deal' will help improve third-world inequality overnight; if it were that simple then it would have been done already...
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ScarZy 9 Jun 2010, 05:58
>implying I said it educated on many fronts
>implying I said change will happen quickly

It more so highlights the problems of the goods we use unknowingly everyday, which is something viewers need everyone once in a while.

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Shuki 9 Jun 2010, 06:06
I know when I drink coffee I may as well be drink the tears of Columbian Peasant farmers. But at the end of the day coffee is delicious and I'll keep drinking it.
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ScarZy 9 Jun 2010, 06:09
Green tea isn't fairtrade yet :(
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evan 9 Jun 2010, 15:15
You said it was an educational TV show, and you agreed with why I said it was educational - 'it showed the problem of goods we use unknowingly everyday' - using almost the same language too. However, I did not suggest you implied the show educated on multiple fronts or that change with happen quickly; that was my own comment. Nevertheless, I suppose your suggestion that the show had 'a hint of reality' could be aligned with the rest of my comment; personally, I could not think of a more unrealistic portrayal of the situation, and a lot of people already know what they consume negatively influences and relies upon colonial market procedures - girls all still buy from Primark and Topshop and all still drink coffee so..
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Nyke 9 Jun 2010, 13:07
because business is: 'Maximum profit for the lowest cost' this statement will grow and grow and grow as it has done in the last 20 years expenentialty. But ofc this does provide millions of people with jobs. With pressure groups ripe in the media and laws governing western society nowdays all companies and inspected. Thus in the last 5 years the working conditions of western factories and businesses has expenentialy increased in recent years. ofc there are still 1000s of people being treated badly in these factories and that wont change. Some poor countries who western society has outsourced to now depends on their business. Without it they are all back to poverty.

Wrote many papers on globalisation. My conclusion at the end of it all is globalisation provides many more benefits than not. In the future these benefits will increase for both the west and east.
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overboost 9 Jun 2010, 09:29
You are a fucking pussy Scarzee
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zzaps 9 Jun 2010, 09:51
and we all know you don't like pussies





at all
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overboost 9 Jun 2010, 10:03
Irrelevant
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nickEr 9 Jun 2010, 12:41
but still you're not denying...?
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overboost 9 Jun 2010, 13:07
Any reason I should deny? :P

www.gay.nl/FiftyoneFifty here you go :P
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nickEr 9 Jun 2010, 13:23
i wish you never replied
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overboost 9 Jun 2010, 13:24
And I wish everyone a merry christmas!
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flR 9 Jun 2010, 09:52
tl,dr

but song is very nice!
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herbal 9 Jun 2010, 10:42
the only thing interesting about this show is the blonde. i want to fuck her!

hi Scarzy!
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ScarZy 11 Jun 2010, 04:21
Mate, Alexandria in the series is hot as fuck, blonde is too annoying but id probably still tap that.
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herbal 11 Jun 2010, 12:46
this was on at like half 4 in the morning one night when i came home on the last. all i could think was i wanted to punch the shit out of them. ive never heard a bigger bunch of whiney twats!
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ScarZy 11 Jun 2010, 15:08
Oscar is a prick
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herbal 13 Jun 2010, 13:55
lol never heard you so opinionated! you should try and get on season 2!
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ScarZy 13 Jun 2010, 18:44
Not going to lie, ive thought about it, would prefer to do this thing without cameras and medics.
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herbal 15 Jun 2010, 10:32
lets go bro!
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ScarZy 15 Jun 2010, 17:18
Well up for it! :)
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herbal 15 Jun 2010, 18:05
well if u do ever let me know!
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sAs1 9 Jun 2010, 12:33
dontbeafag
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Fizmo 9 Jun 2010, 12:45
Wouldn't mind watching a few episodes to see if its good.

Would be nice if it would be avi on youtube :)
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Gabt 9 Jun 2010, 14:26
Don't take the moral high ground when your at home on a wednesday afternoon, go help them if your so concerned.
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ScarZy 9 Jun 2010, 16:40
Age: 17

Got to take advantage of my own education first.
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Cstm 9 Jun 2010, 18:22
there will always be poor and rich people on the world.
sad but true.
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