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Teen Big Brother

 
 
Cherry Bomb
10:36 / 15.10.03
Am I the only person watching this? Can I just say that everyone in that house is far more interesting than anyone who was in the summer BB house?

I'm very sad that everyone's voted Hassan up for eviction. He seems so nice, though I do feel sorry for him when everyone's talking about how many people they've shagged and how they're usually totally pissed on a Saturday night and poor Hassan's just there sitting his thumbs.

And what is the DEAL with Shanine?? She's "not gay anymore" but she can't seem to stop saying things like, "I've slept with women before" or "well, when I used to sleep with women..." I mean the way the show's cut you'd think she was bringing up sleeping with women and threesomes about every 2 seconds.

I don't know. At least they fight alot and are moderately interesting.

Thoughts? Or is it just me?
 
 
Rawk'n'Roll
10:46 / 15.10.03
I missed this due to an interfering boyfriend but I'll watch next week...
 
 
Mourne Kransky
13:10 / 15.10.03
Knocks spots of the terminally tedious adult version, for sure. I do feel for Hassan but his double standards over racial slurs as opposed to homophobic language pissed me off. Paul from Donegal could use a good slap.

The girl who piloted the plane (then crashed it on landing, thereby reducing their food budget by three quarters for the week ahead) I like but can't rememeber her name.

The other three girls are a pain in the kybosh, frankly, but therefore entertaining to watch. One has the intelligence and attention span of a mosquito and watching Paul trying to teach her hairdressing skills by swearing at her a lot was fun.

Shaneen (spelling?) came out with a good phrase to describe her girl on girl pudendal encounters, something along the lines of "I liked a minge wrapped round my chin..." Hehe.

The wee rotund Scottish chap is a delight.

Just a few qualms about these kids doing all this self disclosure and display in public in their most tender years. I wouldn't have liked the world to become that intimately acquainted with me when I was their age. I was full of braggadoccio and utterly transparent emotionally, whilst thinking I was suaveté personified.

Such gruesome fun to watch though. You are not alone, Miss Bomb.
 
 
mkt
13:59 / 15.10.03
Um, was it just me or was there a bit too much of the zooming in on the nubile flesh in this programme? Considering it was supposed to be an 'experiment' and shown in an educational slot (before the dirty little bastards fucked and swore their way into post-watershed glory), the amount of screen time given to jailbait girls getting changed seemed fairly gratuitous, particularly when they were getting ready for the airline challenge - there was no relevant dialogue or interaction in the segment of them getting changed, and thus it can only have been included for our titilation... With regard to Xoc's point about the poor dears exposing too much of their personalities on screen, I think it's the least of their worries - if those girls suspected for a moment how pervy some of the camera work was going to be I'm certain they wouldn't have gone ahead with the (ahem) 'experiment'...
 
 
NotBlue
20:45 / 17.10.03
Teen big brother - the experiment

via google translation becomes

Teen big brother - the exploitation of the emotionally and intellectually immature with a psuedoscientific suffix to detract attention from that fact.

Next up - s club 8 big brother - the creche.

I cannot believe how far the "arts and culture channel" 4 has descended into tabloid red top fuckwittery and barely disguised porn.
 
 
40%
21:16 / 17.10.03
It can't compare to the Boys Alone 'experiment' for sheer entertainment value.

Takes me back...Although I never tried to cook burgers in a cake tray...

Apparently they're asking some ridiculous price for a copy of it, so maybe worth looking out for a repeat.

Anyone remember this?

For people of more mature years here, do the antics of teenagers seem cute or nostalgic to you now? Cos with them being only a few years behind me, I just find them uncomfortable to watch.
 
  
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