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Old 13-10-2013, 20:54
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I find it so cheap and cowardly. Can't even stand by your acts in the end.
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Old 13-10-2013, 20:55
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That's balls she is standing by both of them
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Old 13-10-2013, 20:56
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She refused to choose between two of her acts in a previous series didn't she?
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Old 13-10-2013, 20:57
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I find it so cheap and cowardly. Can't even stand by your acts in the end.
she did stand by them, by not voting one out!
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Old 13-10-2013, 20:58
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She refused to choose between two of her acts in a previous series didn't she?
Yeah, she stormed off the panel and shouted she was going to quit from the sidelines.

And I don't think it's balls at all. She's paid to choose, she should make her decision. To me, she's not standing by either, she's showing she doesn't believe in either. There is no conviction, she's picked the easy way out. God, I miss the days when the judges actually voted, like when Simon voted against his own act.
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Old 13-10-2013, 20:58
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Dermot is so scared of Sharon , I remember him tackling chezza when she wouldn't vote he clearly wouldn't dare start on Shazza
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Old 13-10-2013, 20:59
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I don't see why Sharon should be criticized for this. She didn't want to choose and that's her choice.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:00
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Dermot is so scared of Sharon , I remember him tackling chezza when she wouldn't vote he clearly wouldn't dare start on Shazza
I don't think it's that at all. Cheryl was a coward, but now there's a practice in place for this. It caused uproar the last time. Funny as Sharon was the first to do it, not Cheryl.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:00
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They get paid a bucket load of money and it should be part of their T&Cs to take part in the voting!
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:01
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I don't see why Sharon should be criticized for this. She didn't want to choose and that's her choice.
It's her job to choose. If I decided in my work "I don't want to do what I'm paid to do." I'd get sacked. Abstaining isn't a choice, it's the lack of choice. It's cowardly and lazy. What if all four of them decided they were going to abstain?

This doesn't bother me because of the result, they're both fodder, even though I preferred Lorna. It bothers me that it's setting up an even more frustrating process of "I won't vote."
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:01
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I have respect for Simon and Louis because they have both voted one of their acts off in the past. Even Simon voted for the Conway sisters (His act) when they faced another act not in his category.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:01
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first Lives and abstaining? bah!!
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:03
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I have respect for Simon and Louis because they have both voted one of their acts off in the past. Even Simon voted for the Conway sisters (His act) when they faced another act not in his category.
Yeah, that was the act I was referencing. I forgot their name then! It was cruel, but it's what they should do! People scream of fixing, but one of the biggest fixes within the show is the bias of judges to their own contestants.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:05
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Didn't Louis abstain last year?

It doesn't make a jot of difference who does or doesn't vote for whoever anyway, 'cos as we all know, it's just one big fix from start to finish.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:06
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Didn't Louis abstain last year?

It doesn't make a jot of difference who does or doesn't vote for whoever anyway, 'cos as we all know, it's just one big fix from start to finish.
i think a lot of them have abstained throughout
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:07
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she did stand by them, by not voting one out!
no comfort to lorna she could have saved her
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:15
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She stood by both girls. We all knew she would abstain from voting.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:26
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I can kinda understand it. I mean, if shesent home one and the other judges sent home the other..it would be really awkward for her to keep mentoring the person she wanted to send home.

I don't think it matters too much when the person abstaining votes first. Especially with this abomination of a flash vote aswell.

It really pissed me off when someone (I think it was Cheryl) had to vote last, and they said they wouldnt chose between their acts, but by not chosing they sent home one by default as the other had 2 votes already. Would have been much fairer to vote, then go deadlock to let the public decide if you REALLY didnt want to chose. THAT was cowardly, as she obviously wanted the one with 2 votes to go home, just wouldnt say it.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:32
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If the judge abstains, they should send both acts home. Or stop that judge from voting the next time they have an act in the bottom two.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:44
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How much power do the judges have anyway? Many reckon the producers tell them who to vote for so if that is the case then the producers probably told Sharon not to vote.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:44
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Dermot is so scared of Sharon , I remember him tackling chezza when she wouldn't vote he clearly wouldn't dare start on Shazza
Otherwise she might send him something very unpleasant in the post.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:44
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If the judge abstains, they should send both acts home.
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater, a bit.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:49
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Considering she gets paid an absolute fortune to be a judge, she should have voted IMO.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:50
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If it isn't the final casting vote, then if a judge votes to send their own act home but that act remains behind, it isn't good for that act to know their judge wanted them out.
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Old 13-10-2013, 21:57
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At least Sharon wasn't being bias to her own act. If it was Louis mentoring Sharon's category he would have sent Lorna home.
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