Big Brother 2006

20:48 / 05.06.06

You bad man. Pete's Rogue.

20:53 / 05.06.06

Lea's proportionally an X-women.

Er... sorry to piss on anyone's chips but how much can anyone trust Grace's "I like Richard". Has anyone been watching Grace? Or did she create just enough enmity to survive a few weeks and now has settled down into sleeper mode.

Am I being overly suspicious here?

Tryphena Absent

20:56 / 05.06.06

Who cares? I just want to see a real power bloc on BB for once.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:05 / 05.06.06

Touche. But the real drama will come when Grace threatens the world with electro-magnetic destruction and Richard and the surviving housemates travel to her space station lair where Lisa gets her adamantium skeleton pulled out.... possibly.

21:21 / 05.06.06

Never happened. They'll amputate the future like they amputated the past. Like Dawn, for example.

"Dawn" is now "of the dead". Therefore the house is currently in a state of zombification.

Question is... are they slow zonbies or fast zombies?

21:38 / 05.06.06

Tree falling in the woods. If you shot Glynn in the head, would he notice?

21:39 / 05.06.06

He might notice he'd acquired unlife skillz.

22:09 / 05.06.06

Betfair apparently suggesting five Housemates might be nominated tomorrow: Grace, Sam, Lisa, Lea and Richard. I'm not sure about five but, cycles of "X is so two-faced, I see that now; from now on, I'll only listen to you, Y" are so rapid and unpredictable at the moment, that it must be re-e-easonably evenly spread.

On balance, I think I'd still vote Grace out, if only to see what effect her covert aggro-spinning has been having on the House.

22:10 / 05.06.06

I can't believe he's never washed his own clothes or doesn't know how to make toast or has never seen someone with bleached blonde hair or crows in delight at the achievement of making beans on toast. I really can't believe it. It's like someone's given me some butter substitute, I've eaten it and then they've told me it's not butter and now I'm saying "I can't believe it's not butter". Butter, which, incidentally, wouldn't melt in his fucking mouth.

He's a nice bloke, though, and all.

/ramble.

22:12 / 05.06.06

I've a feeling Glyn's never encountered television either. He probably thinks he's in Brigadoon or Narnia.

22:28 / 05.06.06

%Ah bless his cotton socks, though% I briefly started tenuous Brigadoon/Narnia/BB analogies that didn't really fit but then decided best go to bed. Lucky everyone. He did find the White/Queen/Witch in an oblong wardrobe-esque box, though.

22:42 / 05.06.06

I see Richard as Dorothy and Grace as the Wicked Witch.

Oh how I hope Dickithy lands the BB house on top of the Wicked Witch of West London.

00:34 / 06.06.06

God, Sam talks alot, still justifying the shitstorm from today's highlights to Lea and Aisleyne, like a rabbit in the headlights.

00:39 / 06.06.06

Aww, love of insects, is really cute.

Link

Evil Scientist

08:04 / 06.06.06

Crocodile tears?

It strikes me that, if we're Marvel-ising the Housemates, then:

Grace = The Purple Man (although obviously not in appearance).

Jub

08:41 / 06.06.06

I'm really enjoyed the psychology show the other day when they were discussing simian behaviour and the housemates. After Dicky's backing down to Sezer, they reckoned Grace has stepped up to the alpha male spot.

The constant cycles of who said what to whom are really tiring though. I can't keep up - even with the simplifed version upthread. It's interesting that some housemates just do not get involved (mainly Pete, Mikey, Nikki & Glyn).

penitentvandal

08:57 / 06.06.06

Clearly Pete is the Tick, in that he's nigh-invulnerable! At this rate I think the only challengers to Pete are Richard (who the GBP may sympathise with on the grounds that he's actually nice), and Nikki and Glynn, the poor confused lost fairy children.

Gutted that BBBM wasn't on last night, as I was looking forward to what Russell would make of Glynn's newfound ability to make sandwiches. Is his mind blown every time he orders a Starbucks panini? 'Wow, how do they make it? Do they pump the cheese in through a hooooole? Or do they bake the brrrrread arrrrroundddd the cheese? But surely that would make it a pie...'

I want to adopt Glynn, and to raise him up as my young ward.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:05 / 06.06.06

Grace = The Purple Man (although obviously not in appearance).

But with that face? Plaster Man

09:05 / 06.06.06

I used to live with a guy who every morning would buy egg, beans and chips, and was spending a fortune. One morning I suggested he just buy the chips, and fry the eggs and heat the beans himself. He didn't know how to do this. It wasn't his wonderment at seeing me frying eggs for him that really got me- it was his amazement at the beans.

akira

09:22 / 06.06.06

lol trampetunia, Pocashrek.

Eloi Tsabaoth

09:22 / 06.06.06

Lucky you didn't tell him about making chips from potatoes. Total neurological shut-down, I imagine.

Hattie's Kitchen

09:52 / 06.06.06

Richard: "I will have no bullying in this house."

Except when Richard urges Glynn to instigate a confrontation with Lisa "in front of a group of other people". That's acceptable, it seems.

Que?

Probably. It's that Richard X again, isn't it, using his two-faced, mind-bending telepathy powers to make that Channel 4 skew everything on the show his way...Visonary or manipulator? Make your stand!

Could we have some context for this, please? Joke or not? What would Glynn have to confront Lisa about?

h1ppychick

10:19 / 06.06.06

It was hardly bullying, and I don't think it's a bad thing to try and get some of the double-triple-quadruple talk out into an open forum rather than the hesaidshesaid-loop that they are stuck in now.

Smoothly

10:21 / 06.06.06

Confronting is hardly the same as bullying, is it?

What’s Glyn’s problem with Lisa? I’ve only managed to see a few hours of BB a night for the last few days, I feel out-of-touch.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:22 / 06.06.06

I saw that on the live feed, Hattie, as mentioned above, and I think all Richard was trying to do was get two very meek people (you're not going to deny that Pete and Gylnn are very meek people, are you?) to stand up for themselves a bit. Or it could all be a Konspiratorial pact between the show's producers, most of the people posting in this thread, and Richard himself.

penitentvandal

10:24 / 06.06.06

Lisa was talking about crazy fantasy places Glynn has never been, like Waitrose, where they serve mad food like Findus Crispy Pancakes and that, which Glynn finds too fantastickal to believe...

Apparently this week the housemates become temps, and will have to take jobs for BB, one such job being 'promotional assistant'. Will this give promotions girl Aisleyne some extra power in the house? And just what position will prove right for Pete, who lists himself as 'unemployed/rock 'n' roll singer/cartoonist'?

Evil Scientist

10:28 / 06.06.06

Richard, Glyn and Pete were in the bathroom yesterday and Richard was giving Glyn "advice" on how to raise his profile in the house, with the recommendation from Richard that Glyn "confront" Lisa in front of the others. I wonder if that will be cut from the highlights as well?

Are you suggesting he was bullying Glyn here HK? Or that he was trying to get Glyn to bully Lisa?

I'd suggest that his advice here may well be self-motivated, but not for bullying purposes. His allies in the house are, with the exception of Goldfish Lea, not particularly confrontational. Perhaps he's just looking for a bit of visible support from someone who has been fence-sitting his way through the house thus far.

Not to say that fence-sitting passivity is an unacceptable way of dealing with the current tension. Glyn's unlikely to be up for eviction (I'd be surprised if he gets a single nomination).

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:28 / 06.06.06

Steve - Glynn doesn't have a problem with Lisa, as far as I'm aware. When I saw the footage I believe Hattie is refering to, Richard was mostly addressing Pete, and the website agrees, although again, could be a Konspiracy. Glynn just happened to be there, and I think there was a bit of "you should stand up for yourself too" stuff going on.

10:34 / 06.06.06

Does direct confrontation = bullying, then? I wouldn't say so, Hattie; I'm increasingly thinking Housemates should only interact verbally with one another in front of large groups, preferably the whole House. Any attempt at one-to-ones or small group conversations seems to lead to OMG DID YOU HEAR THAT (S)HE IS SOOO TWO-FACED I'LL ONLY TRUST YOU FROM NOW ON. The present situation is a morass of paranoid hesaidshesaid doublethink and second-guessing, and I'm not surprised Richard and other reality/sanity-valuing Housemates are feeling somewhat stifled by it.

So no, I'm not really interpreting Richard's words to Glyn as "why don't you go bully Lisa" but a genuine attempt to avoid adding to the you'll-never-belieeeve-what-X-just-said culture of the moment.

10:44 / 06.06.06

Oh and yeah, I didn't realise Hattie was referring to the same piece of footage I saw, where Richard seemed (to my eyes) to be addressing Pete, and suggesting that Pete assert himself a little more with Lisa, if she's doing things he doesn't like (like setting fire to insects).

I think this is a problem with Pete - and, although he's been the favourite from the outset, I'll be slightly irritated if he sails through to win the thing. While there's no doubting that Pete's a lovely guy, his passivity is starting to press my itchyscratchy button: in common with most of the other males, he's content to stand back and be an onlooker; it's left to Daddy Dick to attempt to actually do anything to address the exhaustingly self-referential stigmatising triangulation that's going on in the female population of the House. Of the others who're not too stupid to question the frequent OMG!1! round robins, Aisleyne's keen to steer clear and Grace is whipping it along.

Smoothly

10:54 / 06.06.06

Yeah, Pete has basically become the House pet. I’m pretty bored of him; he does no work, he contributes pretty much nothing to the action, but everyone loves the family dog.

Sorry, slight change of subject: Can someone explain why Housemates aren’t allowed to talk about nominations? Is it just to give Big Brother a suitably vague, easily breakable rule, breaches of which can be judged interpretively by BB for the purposes of manipulating nominations?
How would Big Brother be compromised if people *could* discuss nominations openly (but still nominate privately)?