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Big Brother 2006

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22:31 / 10.06.06

Onward and upward with the Dickiehate. Following Suzie's party, Lea's strrraight into the bedroom with Grace and Lisa, giving it some venom - not toward Suzie, naturally, but evil, two-faced Richard, who's now attempting to manipulate the new girl into liking him, and "acting for the cameras". The swine! Another sign of Richard's appallingness is that, when it was suggested that at least some of the booing crowd was calling for his departure, Dickie denied hearing it. The bastard!

Lisa reports that she's farted into Richard's pillow twice, and they all have a chuckle.

Lea really seems to have nailed her colours to the mast; she's apparently now the GBP's favourite to leave the House, after Grace. She's certainly cemented her rubbish-judge-of-characterness.

22:40 / 10.06.06

Apparently Pete's Tourette's gives him SPESHULL POWERS! He discovered them when he was 8 or 9!! He can see into the future!!!

Some one will have to tell me what character out the Invisibles that makes him.

22:49 / 10.06.06

If he has ESP, then wtf has he been doing dallying with Lisa and Lea?

22:59 / 10.06.06

There's a range of options there, Stevely. More people in teh Invisibles hav spesh powers than not.

I know this is not so good - what's he ever done to me after all - but if I had the spesh psychic ability to cause pain long-range via the TV remote, the next time Glyn compared himself to 'James Bond' would I dare say be fatal.

23:14 / 10.06.06

Digital Spy would seem to confirm that there were no calls for Richard's departure on Friday.

00:20 / 11.06.06

"Girls are bitchy. They're too jealous."

Lisa explains, with a completely straight face, why she'd have preferred the Golden Housemate to be a "lad"; apparently it's the fact that there are seven females that's causing the current slew of paranoia. In conversation with Glyn, she's desperately trying to dredge some confirmation from him that Aisleyne is "very bitchy" towards her. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy with Lisa: she convinces herself that someone hates her, then goes all out to make it true.

"Trust me, I can see it in her face. She doesn't like me. Neither does Richard, he doesn't like me. You watch next time."

Glyn, bless him, is doing his best not to get drawn in. He's even trying to give advice ("just give people a chance") but she's not interested. Everything's "just watch how people are towards me and you'll understand - and it won't be me, it'll just be them". Apparently Aisleyne's a conniving bitchqueen because she "got in first" to comfort Glyn when he was crying on eviction night, when Lisa wanted to comfort him more.

It must be so exhausting being Lisa. On the one hand, she's able to appreciate how the current situation has arisen in general terms (females being bitchy with one another). Individually, however, she's addicted to character assassination, no matter how self-destructive it might be - and she's really only interested in those snippets of conversation that reinforce her paranoid worldview. Everything Glyn's saying is washing over her except when he mentions Aisleyne or Richard in passing, in which case she immediately jumps in with "(s)he doesn't like me". Every. Single. Fucking. Time.

00:54 / 11.06.06

Lisa's performance isn't so good, but the Pete and Nikki liason has seen her status in the house plummet, to be fair. It was one thing for Pete to be this saintly, mystic figure who couldn't get involved in anything sexual with anyone on the show, because he was above all that (I bought that as an implied line of argument personally,) but it's quite another now it turns out he just didn't fancy her.

Lisa's time in the Big Brother house looks like a busted flush now, but, badly for her, I'd guess she's still got a few weeks to go before she's put to sleep, gently, by the GBP.

I'm very much afraid that her behaviour's only going to get more electic.

01:08 / 11.06.06

It's the degree of amniosity Lisa's generating that bothers me. We don't need things getting any more amniotic.

I wonder whether it's the degree to which Richard hasn't engaged in partisan bitching which, paradoxically, makes him Teh Evil in Lisa's eyes. While she professes to prefer the company of males, Lisa attempts to turn every conversation - with male or female Housemates - towards malicious gossip, and seems dissatisfied with anything less than total agreement with her assertions that yes, X doesn't like her (but is civil to her therefore X = two-faced). Richard tends to resist this degree of discussion of other Housemates (the closest he came was, I think, expressing anger to Sam at Nikki's hijacking of the office party night) and I wonder whether this gives the more paranoid Housemates a relatively blank canvas upon which to project their insecurities - so Richard being pleasant = brown-nosing for g*m*pl*n purposes, etc. If he did more of the "I really hate X; I want them out" stuff with other Housemates, there might be less of the Dickiehate.

Mysterious Transfer Student

07:31 / 11.06.06

I wonder if Pete got next to Nikki solely as a Lisa-discouraging gambit, or if he had actual downstairs stirrings for her? After all, he'd failed to convince Lisa that the reason he didn't want to "be with" her (see how coyly teenage this show makes me?) was that he wasn't an especially sexually-driven person - which she could be forgiven for disbelieving, as it would make him unique among the heterosexual male HMs - and so was obliged to fall back on the traditional means of convincing a persistent person you don't fancy them, which would be to snog someone wildly dissimilar.

I feel sorry for Lisa. It seems to my untrained eye that she has a lot of self-hate and is very good at taking it out on others for their real or imagined slights against her.

07:54 / 11.06.06

Digital Spy would seem to confirm that there were no calls for Richard's departure on Friday.

Yes, they are really trying to make life difficult for him. First mishearing/making up calls for his departure, then spinning a line about how upset he is, then 'spinning' his welcome for suzie. He doesn't seem to be able to make a cup of tea without someone trying to twist his actions as being part of some evil plot. What has he done that's so bad?

13:09 / 11.06.06

Lea comforts Pete, who is mourning another dead insect:

"It might have been an old beetle," she told him, of another dead bug they found. "He didn't drown, he died of old age."

13:33 / 11.06.06

One of the DS posters summarises Richard, quite well, I think:

I can't see Richard as this totally evil scheming character.

I see him as someone who perhaps likes giving advice rather too much, obviously makes a point of being openly friendly to all new comers, does like women - his friends on BBLB were all female and part of his hostility to Sezer was because he felt Sezer spoke badly of women.

He sometimes comes across as heavy handed and goes on to much, he sometimes gets cross with people he basically likes and says so either to them and to others. Very human in my opinion. His concept of fairness and human decency means that sometimes he will say nice things to people that he doesn't like much if they are very upset. Because, after all, BB is only a game.

I would also imagine that he quite likes to be liked. And he wants to have fun in the BB House.

None of these characteristics, to me, seem to deserve the bile that some people pour on him, especially compared to some of the others. He is ok. Flawed. but ok.

I've been trying for a while to get my head around the Dickiehate: as well as his haterz within the House (Grace, Lisa, Lea - possibly Imogen and Mikey) there are legions of DSers who believe fervently that he's "devious, duplicitous, scheming and ingratiating". The word "revolting" is used of him and his behaviour - apparently his "deliberately engineered abuse" of Nikki was "much more revolting than anything Grace has done".

It's tempting to cry homophobia but that'd be simplistic. I do think his sexuality is part of it, but in an indirect way. I've been trying to formulate a post about this for ages, and will come back to it, I think.

14:06 / 11.06.06

Well, might all the friction come not out of the quality of his character but rather the way it's different from most housemates'? The general bizzarely accepted behaviour, even if pretty automatically and not critically, seems to be (OMG BACKSTABBY) bitchery bitchery, which comes to be expected. So when he makes, out of most there, an actual effort to be nice, they're utterly incapable of accepting it in terms of valid indescriminate concern and support, and twist it into playing with people's expectations - it just doesn't really fit into their ability to interpret character, so attempts to set things right are taken as attempts to hold influence because they're incapable of dealing with the ammount of space he occupies by trying to be fair to all. Isn't this the major point?

14:12 / 11.06.06

Yes... I think homophobia is part of it too. Have you read 'the book of laughter and forgetting?' Kundera talks about the concept of 'litost': something in someone else's life higlights an inadequacy in your own. As it's unacceptable to attack them on that basis, you formulate a socially acceptable pretext.

It started big time with Grace's 'freakazoid' declaration. She was testing the water IMO. If anyone from the "normal" group had the guts to point out she was talking nonsense they would have done it then. Richard's unapologetic use of conciliation and diplomacy to resolve debates stirs up homophobia within them. He's a tough looking guy - physically striking. They can't just ignore him, so they decide to try and pin some other sinister motivation on him.

It all seems to hark back to their prejudice of him as unnatural. (Mind you - this group seems to think that anyone who's routinely nice is "up to something".) I think the homophobia is exacerbated by the fact he's taken the alpha male role. Often prejudice that remains latent while the object has relatively low status will come to the fore if that status rises notably. It's as DisGrace and co. felt a homophobic status quo was doing the job for them.

17:17 / 11.06.06

"Glyn stayed erect for nine hours..."

17:18 / 11.06.06

Yay! Lisa wins the waiting task and consequently will now have immunity from nomination this week. Can't be bothered with Lisa but it means Grace is not immune, having come second, and therefore likely to be up for the public vote. 91.6% again?

17:21 / 11.06.06

She's threatening to walk if nominated - and, in her shoes, I'd be tempted to do the same.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:28 / 11.06.06

Apparently Lea's threatening the same thing... it'll be interesting if Suze nominates both of 'em, won't it?

18:08 / 11.06.06

Indeed. And, with Lisa safe, it's not outwith the realms of possibility.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:18 / 11.06.06

Bear in mind last year's was the first I watched... do they always threaten to leave (and indeed, actually leave) with such alarming regularity?

18:21 / 11.06.06

No, this years contestants seemed to have been pulled from schools of jellyfish across the land. Or ocean as it were.

Not sure if it's a "validate me"-thing or a "attention-getty"-thing so far.

18:25 / 11.06.06

Bear in mind last year's was the first I watched... do they always threaten to leave (and indeed, actually leave) with such alarming regularity?

No, they generally don't; it really is a particular feature of this year's crop - which must be starting to worry Endemol slightly.

I think the reasons have been different in each case.

18:31 / 11.06.06

Who hasn't threatened to leave, at some point? Glyn...and...Mikey...and..?

Much as I enjoyed the "Get Grace Out"ing, she might cheat justice and the executioners' boos as a result. I'm not entirely confident that Susie will nominate Grace, but if she does, it better be against someone Grace really thinks she can beat. Much as I'd like to see her get 99.6% of the vote, if she goes up against Pete or even Glyn, she'll probably walk.

Put her up against Richard - she seems convinced that the GBP will be well aware of his two-faced, backstabby, scheming fakeness, even if he's been clever enough to conceal every shred of evidence of that from everyone in the house.

18:34 / 11.06.06

Put her up against Richard - she seems convinced that the GBP will be well aware of his two-faced, backstabby, scheming fakeness

?

18:40 / 11.06.06

Stevely is presenting Grace's viewpoint, I think, logic-lite as it is.

I agree that a head-to-head with Richard would be good, but I don't think it's gonna happen. I think she'll be up against Lea or Imogen, maybe Nikki.

18:49 / 11.06.06

Well in Grace's case it's understandable. Not sure what's going on with Lea though - had there been what must have seemed like a lynch mob outside the house chanting her name, well fair enough, but as it is, the level of petulance she's displaying at the moment is only going to make her nomination even more likely, I'd have thought.

I suppose it all ties into this year's idea that being, you know, friendly to one's fellow housemates is duplicitous, g*m*p**n-type behaviour - if she was so sure Suzie had formed a bad opinion of her, couldn't she at least have tried being nice to the woman, just for a while?

But no, that would have meant arse-licking

19:05 / 11.06.06

It's all about the arse this year, innit.

19:07 / 11.06.06

Nikki's "fat ox" diatribe: a valid point, well made.

19:13 / 11.06.06

They've not had to cope on basic rations yet, have they? Since nicotine withdrawl doesn't seem likely to be so much of a problem (and is unlikely to become so when Lisa's gone) hunger is our best hope of ramping up the testiness.

19:14 / 11.06.06

Wankyfuck!

Hoho, thank you, Pete.

Grace and Mikey bickering. Might be the last straw for her although I think she is so competitive that she would have a hard time backing down from the fight/vote. Also, if she and Mikey do chill a bit, she might think that will endear her to the GBP, whom she suspects of simply being jealous that she's dry-humping the Numpty.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:17 / 11.06.06

I was quite warming to Glyn after the egg-cooking song and the Welsh conversation with Imogen, but now I find out he hates dogs. What a bad man.

19:20 / 11.06.06

What's it going to take for Lea to stop thinking she's a 'great judge of character'?

19:22 / 11.06.06

That must be a handicap for Glyn, living in shepherding, mountainside parts.

I'm a very good judge of character, avows Lea. Self Awaria's behind you!

19:23 / 11.06.06

What's it going to take for Lea to stop thinking she's a 'great judge of character'?

Bullet to the head?

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

19:27 / 11.06.06

Ah, you all got there first! I have to say, I've barely been managing to watch this lately, because it's making me SO. ANGRY.

You stay safe in that bubble Pete, I'll look out for you with my GOOD JUDGE OF CHARACTER OH GOD OH GOD, Richard's chaaaaanged.

How can we send a message to the house? Can we hire one of those planes? Sky writing?

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