What do you think of the Jersey Shore...

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They are unattractive.
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And now there is some beauty salon T.V. show, with women sporting this some hideous *fashion*. Ugh! It is being advertised on one of my favorite websites, so I have to look at big hair & big fake ta-tas & yucky fake tans whenever I visit the site.
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I used to live about 20 minutes from Seaside in Lakehurst. Five years ago, we moved to Missouri. I've been back several times to visit family, most recently in May 2010. I always take a trip to Seaside (for Salt Water Taffy). AAAKKK!! I don't know if the young people always looked like that, and I never noticed. Or that show has a much bigger influence than I imagined. It's possible that some but, not all were Bennies. Glad I moved.
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To be honest, I like the show. LOL. I know it doesn't represent all of Jersey or the shore. It truly is not that deep. It is just mindless entertainment. I like it for the train wreck aspect I guess, just like anyone would like most of the similar "reality" shows (and this is one of only two that I watch). I think most people realize that "reality" shows do not really portray "reality". It is just fun and nonsensical entertainment. There are a few cast members that seem like they are nice people. A few that aren't. That is about all that can be said. I don't like a lot of the ways that the guys talk about girls, but to be honest, the vast majority of the "cowboys" I grew up with in rural Kansas were virtually the same way. I don't think the show reflects poorly on all of New Jersey or all Italians (recognizing that most people that watch the show also realize that not all the cast even *are* Italian). People are far too smart for that.
 
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I agree....Seaside isnt what it used to be. I was there earlier in the summer for the first time in 7 years and was very disappointed. Not sure if it went downhill because of the show, but its just not like it used to be.
 
I really like parts of New Jersey. I'm not fond of the Newark airport.

I try very hard to never even glance at TV shows that 'characterize groups' in the way that show does.

That said, I grew up in a very, very Italian and very mafia town and went to school with a big mafia guy's son. My mom was Italian and I grew up with all the food and the culture and the accents, even the clothes, and even, the macho stuff and all that it entails.

So I am aware that there is a mafia and of some of the history. The history is a long and complex one, but I wouldn't consider it fascinating.

In that town, people regularly wound up dead for 'messing with' the wrong people. There were turf wars between different groups, and people in the different groups were shot by people in the other groups. Small time non mafia drug dealers at junior high and high school, would be killed just as they left school grounds in various grisly ways.

I visited a town similar to that about 30 years ago. What would happen is that people would 'run up north' to this town, which was about an hour from Chicago, to try to escape mob retribution. And someone would be sent along behind them, following them.

I just went there for a bike ride. See the foliage.

I got off my bike, wheeled it into the drug store to get a soda*, and in the drug store, an unpleasant looking person in a black pinstripe suit with a wide collar and a stylish hat, had just shot someone. I won't describe the scene in too much detail.

The shooter was smiling.

I would presume, that he was smiling because he would somehow avoid being successfully prosecuted for the crime. Chicago Machine and all.

So I would say, that kind of thing most definitely does go on in the world, but I have no interest in watching a tv show of it or a show characterizing Italians as 'guidos', which I don't find very funny. I don't think 'The Godfather' movies are 'masterpieces' and I don't find any of it glamorous.

*soda is what civilized people call any carbonated soft drink.
 
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Wow, that must have been something else, welsummerchicks. I would have been terrified. The Jersey Shore show is not about any of that at all. It is basically just about a group of young people that go to the shore to party every summer. They all rent a house and live/work together while the cameras follow them. It is sort of like the Real World, but more focused specifically on some of the people that go to the Jersey shore. There was a lot of initial hubbub about it negatively portraying Italians and people from Jersey. This season there hasn't been nearly as much focus on that since it has come out that several of the cast are not Italian, nor from Jersey. The second season hasn't even taken place in New Jersey. They are in Miami.

Anyway, I think it is funny, mindless entertainment. I don't normally go for reality shows, but I got sucked into this one early on and now kind of like it. Obviously, a lot of people have enjoyed it since they are putting one of the guys on Dancing with the Stars and I have read that several of the kids are now millionaires from endorsements and stuff. My husband said he read somewhere that Mike "The Situation" is making like $5 million in endorsement deals.
 
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