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Tryphena Absent
23:21 / 26.05.03
I would be far more disturbed if she looked like Donatella Versace and I do forgive her, I forgive her with sticky icing, except for the Peter Andre thing because it's wrong as wrong can be.
 
 
William Sack
07:25 / 27.05.03
Panarchy - Big brother would be spiced up by the inclusion of a bona-fide serial killer. This, must be the future of reality TV.

Xoc - Ben Elton had the same thought, panarchy, and turned it into a comic novel: Dead Famous.

In fact Nigel Kneale had had the idea some 30 years previously
 
 
Mourne Kransky
09:22 / 27.05.03
hehe. I'm so old that I remember watching that when it was broadcast, H.I.R. Strange how futuristic and shocking it appeared to me in my aspirant hippie early teens.

Waiting eagerly for façades to begin to crumble. All on their best behaviour still and being far too civil to one another.
 
 
DaveBCooper
09:48 / 27.05.03
Jon seems quite articulate and bright, so I agree - he'll probably be out first.
 
 
The Natural Way
10:31 / 27.05.03
He also seems like a big geek.

Y'know, I don't hate anyone this year. This probably has something to do with my newfound dislike for BB related knee-jerk hatred (I always like them again a week later), and, well, because none of the contestants are really that annoying. Tania's made me laugh a couple of times, too.

Cherry: why on Earth would you assume that Gos'll get a booting? There's no way! He's the MUMMY! No, I don't think you need to worry about him. I bet he doesn't get nominated for aaaaages (unless he suddenly reveals an evil side).
 
 
Sax
10:45 / 27.05.03
Bizarrely, after three years of trying to ignore Big Brother and inevitably getting sucked in, this year I settled down to watch it and was immediately bored. I guess it's had its day, for me at least.

Scott is quite pleasant in a Damon Grant kind of way, but I think his wheedling about not wanting to be the first out will either get him the boot. Or perhaps the sympathy vote and Jon will go.

Sissy completely doing my swede. Not a fan. Too loud and Scouse. "On a mission!" "Tune!" "'Ave it large!" Enough.

Federico high on shit-list but will probably turn out to be most interesting.

Steph top totty so far. Floats my boat, anyway.

Not enough working class rough-trade to spark things off, mind. Bring back Craig!
 
 
_pin
11:16 / 27.05.03
Yeh, I gotta say I don't really wanna get in to hating people simply on the strength of the tabloids getting in to hating people.

Except Tania, because the people who read the Sun also want to pork Liz Hurley. Which is just plain wrong. They all like her, so I can comfortably sit here and loathe.
 
 
LMG
15:49 / 27.05.03
He also seems like a big geek.

Jon was posting to Usenet in the mid nineties...
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
17:52 / 27.05.03
i hope cameron turns out to be a cunt.

i really hope he is a cunt.

or be a kind of orcadian nick.

that'd suffice.

yeah. i want him to be a thief.
 
 
Sax
06:10 / 28.05.03
Is it the wax in my ears or does he sound like he's speaking with a Welsh accent half the time? Do Orcadians have a loopy accent?
 
 
Ganesh
07:38 / 28.05.03
Yes. They do.
 
 
Jackie Susann
10:12 / 28.05.03
Feeling left out, so I am popping in to say this year's Australian BB has descended pretty rapidly into completely open conflict and hostility between housemates, leading to the first person ever (in Aus) deciding to leave the house. She was the same one who had, earlier, freaked out her housemates by drunkenly confessing to knowing her sister had helped murder someone. It's getting to be really disturbing television. Although, Saxon is a spunk and he showers nude.
 
 
Saveloy
10:47 / 28.05.03
I'm confused, there seem to be more names flying about than there are faces to attach them to. Which one is Noush, and which one is Anoushka? Is she the one who looks a bit like Poly Styrene from X-Ray Specs?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:23 / 28.05.03
You're thinking of Anoushka. Separated at birth? Old punks will disagree, but they're a very dull bunch.
 
 
The Natural Way
12:10 / 28.05.03
Right, this is the one thing that's annoying me: Everyone gets her name wrong. It's 'Anouska'.

I thankyew.
 
 
Gary Lactus
14:06 / 28.05.03
Cameron's a winner for me. I saw him get all embarrassed and flustered when in the company of two of the girls who were talking about "coming on". He had never heared of this term for, ahem, a lady's time of the monthness, you know, down below. "But I'm a boy, I'm not supposed to know about that sort of stuff". He's a big, fish farming virgin of a hero.
 
 
that
14:06 / 28.05.03
Hang on, don't most people, like, shower nude, Crunchy?

I'm frightened now.


Have not been watching Big Brother. I saw about ten seconds of it and had an attack of the icks and had to make it go away. This thread is no doubt more entertaining than the actual show, anyway...
 
 
Jackie Susann
01:22 / 29.05.03
I dunno about overseas, but most of the BB contestants here shower in swimmers so they don't show everything. This season, I think there are only two boys (one already evicted) and one girl who shower naked.

I have the impression that BB here is vastly more conservative and sexless than overseas.
 
 
grim reader
04:30 / 29.05.03
Eugh, avoided reading this thread, having avoided the Big Bruvver phenomenon, but I thought I'd mention that apparently I know one of the contestants, Ray. He lived next to my granny in Dublin, and I used to play space adventures with him, so he at least USED to have an imagination. I don't even know if this is the same guy I used to play with; he's asian and he's irish; that, along with my sister's word, is enough for me. I just want to take this opportunity to say what a complete and utter twot.
 
 
Sax
06:18 / 29.05.03
Was he always a twot, back when he used to play space adventures with you, or has he just become a twot since he got on the telly?
 
 
DaveBCooper
09:09 / 29.05.03
Question* : Is Jon talking about a Star Wars novel necessarily more geeky than Frederico (or whoever it was) explaining the offside rule ?

*Asked a Big Brother geek…
 
 
The Natural Way
09:39 / 29.05.03
People always want the offside rule explained.

They wouldn't even think of asking about the future of the New Republic.

Jon reminds me of a very, very awkward boring guy I know. He makes me cringe. Big time. It's not that I necessarily dislike him - more that I find him incredibley painful to watch.

It's 'FEDERICO'!
 
 
Mourne Kransky
11:15 / 29.05.03
Interesting to watch Federico since he screwed up the food-earning task so expertly. His smugness and front have deserted him entirely and he barely utters a word. He must be calculating imminent departure but I think Jon will go, after which his cocky Paninaro swagger may return.

Jon's verbosity and his irritating portentousness of speech annoy me because I have similar tendencies. Out, out, damned swot! "There are lots of interesting Physics words that begin with P, like ... Physics and ... Particle Accelerators ..." *yawn*
 
 
that
11:17 / 29.05.03
Someone talked about a Star Wars novel? How sweet.

The thing I don't get is that people find the offside rule so impenetrable... like its some arcane fucking knowledge available only to the few. Why the mystery? Me no understand.

Actually, I have no idea about how the UK contestants shower...having not found anyone in any of the BB series remotely lust-worthy, it never really occurred to me to check...
 
 
The Natural Way
12:29 / 29.05.03
"There are lots of interesting Physics words that begin with P, like ... Physics and ... Particle Accelerators ..." *yawn*

No! Not 'Yawn'! 'EEEEEEuaaaaaaaiiiiiieeeeerrrGGGGGHH!!!!!' is more like it! He just makes me want to bury my head in the sand. He even holds his mouth in a dorky way! He's such a dork!
 
 
DaveBCooper
14:23 / 29.05.03
Federico, then. Whatever, he is, as Xoc says, in the Paninaro mould.

LOVE the contrast between his casual lack of concern and the mounting fear he’s naffed up the task.

And the offside rule may be arcane or it may be a doddle, but it’s still tiresomely overused as a yardstick of knowledge about football. Which is as yawn-inducing to my mind as having someone tell me about a book. Badly.

Dorks, the lot of them ! Almost as dorky as me posting about it right now !

Anyway: it usually gets better in a few weeks, when the herd’s been thinned. Is it just me, or does anyone keep forgetting about some of the people there ? Sissy in particular.
 
 
grim reader
15:11 / 29.05.03
Sax asked: Was he always a twot, back when he used to play space adventures with you, or has he just become a twot since he got on the telly?

Just since he got on the telly. I always remember him being a nice kid, although I did totally forget about him until my sisters told me he was on Big Bruvver.

I should also add by way of a disclaimer that I've not actually seen him on the telly, but I am prejudiced against photosapiens.
 
 
The Natural Way
15:20 / 29.05.03
What's so twotish about him, then?

Seems pretty inoffensive to me.

And the offside rule may be arcane or it may be a doddle, but it’s still tiresomely overused as a yardstick of knowledge about football. Which is as yawn-inducing to my mind as having someone tell me about a book. Badly.

But it IS the kind of thing people ask questions about. It's not dorky/geeky because it's not really, really involved and esoteric like Star-Fan stuff. I think Jon's Star Wars related rambling (even when it's apparent that nobody's really listening) is hugely socially clumsy. It makes people uncomfortable.

Just bad conversation.
 
 
grim reader
20:17 / 29.05.03
Remembruce What's so twotish about him, then?

He's on Big Brother?
 
 
Sax
06:07 / 30.05.03
But he was a nice bloke in your experience, wasn't he?

I think Cameron's going to crack soon. No-one can be that cheerful all the time in the face of so many Hollyoaks cast-offs. He's going to go nap and run round waving his willy at the cameras by next week. You wait and see.
 
 
The Natural Way
07:14 / 30.05.03
Calvin: Oh, right. Not too full of yrself, then.
 
 
Gary Lactus
09:22 / 30.05.03
Jon's got to stay in. Last night he sung a word perfect verse from Hotel California whilst no one laughed. Yes, he's agonising to watch but in the same way Fawlty Towers or The Office in agonising to watch. Anouska's a twart: "I pride myself on being a good listener." and similarly is good TV. That Scott has yet to emerge. Federico has to go. He's too much like regular TV to be of any interest to me. Probably not how the public will vote, though. Humf.
 
 
doughnut
10:27 / 30.05.03
Just to add something to the Jon debate. Happened to catch it last night when Jon was telling Cam a remarkable story about invading Oz from Britain in one move in a game of risk. Cam was obviously VERY interested. But it did remind me of an episode of Red Dwarf when Rimmer was telling lister some boring Risk story ("and then I rolled.......a three and a six"). Any more Rimmer/Jon similarities.


Just realised......Red Dwarf.....now who's the geek.
 
 
The Natural Way
12:25 / 30.05.03
There really isn't anything to debate. If DBC can't understand why explaining the offside rule to someone (who may well be interested) is less dorky than detailing the future of the New Republic (to people who DEFINITELY AREN'T), then, well, he can't come to my special party.

Thanks, Fraely, for providing me with an opinion. Now I know what to think. Yr absolutely right - Federico IS just generic telly head and the cringeworthiness of Jon DOES make him great to watch. Wish I hadn't nominated him now.

Bugger.
 
 
Ganesh
13:03 / 30.05.03
Has Jon rimmed anyone on-camera?
 
  

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