Why does the entertainment industry feel the need to pat themselves on the back at every opportunity? The other night we had something called the Scottish Baftas, an award ceremony I did not even know existed. And I have to ask why Scotland feels the need to have it's own 'Baftas' but more importantly who cares?
Because people like to feel validated. If there's a means, a lot of people will take the opporunity to put themselves in the spot light. But yes......who really cares, besides them and their immediates.
It's just promotion. No doubt someone's job is to raise Scottish profile through culture, so they invented an awards ceremony. That's what all awards are about - advertising.
So are you saying Porkins' that when i got my employe of the month award it was nothing more than advertising. Was my boss trying to sell my body to someone.
All luvvy (entertainment industry) awards. Your employee of the month award was because your boss wants to sleep with you.
Are luvvies insecure? Well, yes, why do you think they're in show business?!? And luvvies need a lot of it.
Are Scotland not included in the other BAFTA's? After all it is the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Is it like Andy Murray is British when he's losing and Scottish when he's winning? Poor television is celebrated with everyone else, but award winning Scottish TV is celebrated alone?
Yes Scotland are included in the normal BAFTA's which is why it seems odd to have, in addition to the BAFTA's, a Scottish only version. Like kronos i didnt know they existed until catching it on the news. Bunch of narcissists and sycophants.
Well the Scottish BAFTA's only have 12 awards. The regular BAFTA's are at least double that. I am interested why you would choose a derogatory term such as luvvie to describe an actor (or actress). They are of course in the entertainment industry and somewhat thrive on endorsement. Why would they not? If you dragged yourself in front of a theatre or camera, would you not appreciate that your audience at least acknowledged that what you were doing was at worst decent? Personally I enjoy film, theatre, performance, music, etc. Fine. Occasionally egos are massaged along the way. There are happy clappers in every industry.
Are there still any words in the English language that aren't derogatory? Seems like you can't even call a **** a **** nowadays without pissing someone off.
"Luvvie" is not a derogatory term; at worst it's humorously deprecating. I've heard actors refer to themselves by that word.
Maybe the poster who sees this word as derogatory is him or herself a 'luvvie.' But there seems to be awards for everything these days. And the 'luvvies' seem to need constant reassurances that what they are doing is worthy of note. Plus of course they can parade in their finery and pat each other on the back ETC ETC. But I am surprised they found enough people to honour in the Scottish Baftas. (Ducks)lol. I worked for a courier firm up here in Edinburgh who had won the courier of the year award. And this was one of the worst firms I had ever worked for it made the Victorian work house positively inviting so I was amazed and puzzled as to the criteria for awarding the title of courier of the year. It turned out that the courier organisation handing out this award had only a handle members and they took it in turns to have on their vans Courier of the year with the year added.
This isn't that difficult. Scotland now has its own BAFTAs because the real BAFTAs are held in England. Need I say more? Lots of actors do address each other as Luvvie, Darling etc. (and yes I do know some who do) so no it's not a derogatory term.
Quite frankly, yes. The BAFTA's cover the whole of the UK so I find it a bit odd, and I'm from Scotland.
Exactly. The English don't feel the need to have EAFTAs do they. Difference is, most people consider the "n" word offensive And those I've known (actors) who do call people Luvvie don't use it exclusively to address their fellow actors, they often also address "non-actors" that way too, ergo they don't consider it offensive. Yet another "is the storage space required worth it?" if you ask me
In the same way that I've heard "the n word" used as a general term of endearment by black people towards their white friends. Complicated isn't it?
P'raps she already has. If you're good mates with black people, who use the word freely themselves, chances are you can use it too without causing offence. If you can't then that there be racialist innit.
