Between you and I

According to Liz Jones ; 'All writers betray people' but since, unlike Ms Jones, I prefer people to animals and have no plans to relocate to remote parts of Exmoor, I intend to maintain my loyalties. However, I do hope all my friends, acquaintances and relatives will overlook the shameless pilfering of their best ideas and remarks.
The above title is a case in point. It refers to a New Yorker cartoon whose caption reads 'It's so difficult being a 'between you and me' person in a 'between you and I' world' and was brought to my attention (I almost wrote 'shared') by a good friend whom I will call, for now, the redhead. She lives abroad and does not watch Reality Tv so I have to annoy her by passing on the latest clangers from this week's viewing. Now,it's my theory that hardly any-one wants to listen to anyone else banging on about how tired they are,how busy they are or how they really are health-wise and the same applies to prolonged rants about the poor use of the English language, but I cannot hold back when it comes to Reality TV. Not only has Simon Cowell ceased to be delightfully nasty, always his greatest strength, but I suspect he is solely responsible for the misuse of 'literally', the overuse of 'genius' and by the way, it's not an adjective and the inexplicable 'one hundred and ten percent'. These things catch on , you know. They're all referring to each other on The Apprentice as 'an irritant' which I always thought applied to bleach rather than people. It was started by last week's reject, that ridiculously beautiful Asian woman; this week they were all at it.
 Bringing me to my next point-squabbling. We are tuning in to watch people squabble. The x factor judges, the contestants on The Apprentice-this is their main occupation. With the return of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! tonight, we can add tuning in to watch and listen to people talking behind each other's backs. In poor English. This bothers me a lot more than tuneless singing and tarantula testicles.