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Big Brother 2006

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19:30 / 03.07.06

Watching Nikki, I'm struck by two things...firstly, that she doesn't really have any lips (given her demonstrated willingness for cosmetic 'enhancement' I'm surprised that she hasn't done something about it), and secondly, that she's going to be one of those people whose face ages really quickly - she'll be a wizened leathery dried-up 30 year old.

19:31 / 03.07.06

"This week's evictee will not only be evicted from the Big Brother house... They'll be moving in with Stoatie for six months!"

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:33 / 03.07.06

Anyone got a sofa I can crash on? I have beer...

19:36 / 03.07.06

she's going to be one of those people whose face ages really quickly - she'll be a wizened leathery dried-up 30 year old

This is true. Or rather she's like Declan Donelly in looking both child-like and elderly, simultaneously.

19:37 / 03.07.06

You could stay at mine, Stoatie, but they practically live here anyway.

19:38 / 03.07.06

I have a whole new respect for Mikey; he's a brave man.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:38 / 03.07.06

(off-topic- has anyone SEEN Ant's new wife yet? She looks more than a little like Dec...)

I feel sooo sorry for Aisleyne having to do this. She's kept everything uinder wraps for so long, then she THOUGHT she was getting kicked out and burned her bridges, now it looks like she's gonna have to get back acrosds the river at some point and it's gonna suck really badly... Jayne's already trying to whip up the anti-Aisleyne feeling...

19:39 / 03.07.06

Yeah but she can take some supporters with her now she's figured it out.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:41 / 03.07.06

Som,eone at work last night pointed out how amusing it is that they all refer to each other as "characters", and not in the "such a character" sense of the word. Bearing in mind I've only been watching this since last year, when there was a whole stalker thing going on to distract the attention, do they always get quite this far up M. Baudrillard's fundament?

19:41 / 03.07.06

Michael's a honey and no mistake.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:43 / 03.07.06

Yeah but she can take some supporters with her now she's figured it out.

That's the hope I'm clinging on to. She can ride back into town at the head of an avenging army. And possibly one of them can do some cult deprogramming, or an intervention on Pete. I think he needs it. Or maybe just a slap, and a brisk shout of "WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH YOU?"

19:46 / 03.07.06

I wrote Jenny off as a Lisa clone initially, but I think she's actually a lot more considered and articulate than Lisa, and nearly 10 years younger. I think she'll be a grower.

19:46 / 03.07.06

Ahh, the lofty heights of wisdom of the venerable 22-year-old...

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19:47 / 03.07.06

Michael's views on hip hop are positiviely Bruno-esque. And have we actually seen any indication that Jonathan IS into "the hip hop culture", or has energy-boy just made that assumption for rather, well, nebulous reasons?

19:53 / 03.07.06

And have we actually seen any indication that Jonathan IS into "the hip hop culture", or has energy-boy just made that assumption for rather, well, nebulous reasons?

I think he may have made the assumption from some singing-along to Aisleyne's 'cent' song and Jonathan taking part in a related, more general, discussion. I don't think it's just 'black' = 'urban' = 'hip-hop'.

Having said which, I'm a little worried that Michael's appeal has gone down the plughole with his bristles.

19:54 / 03.07.06

Jayne is a recruitment consultant, according to the programme quite a senior one. What's the betting she's the irritating manager who always gets too pissed-up on the team nights out and tries to snog the younger staff?

It's annoying as well because in a way it's nice to look at Jayne - nice to see someone in the house with flesh on her bones and natural-looking breasts. It's just a shame she's such a nonk of a person.

The Spoirografter is just a deeply, deeply irritating person. You know the first two pages of that Garth Ennis Punisher issue set in Belfast? I'm visualising that, but with Spoiral instead of the guy in the comic.

19:55 / 03.07.06

I thought that Jayne couldn't plummet any further in my estimation, till I heard those foghorn belches.

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19:57 / 03.07.06

You know the first two pages of that Garth Ennis Punisher issue set in Belfast? I'm visualising that, but with Spoiral instead of the guy in the comic.

Haven't read the comic in question, but if there's hideous gun-death involved then I'm in.

20:00 / 03.07.06

Lea makes me want to stab the tv these days.

20:09 / 03.07.06

Lea makes me want to stab the tv these days.

How do you think she'll cope when another programmed anti-housemate bursts into the house?

I think by the end of the week Lea will have melted into a puddle of goo that can only faintly burble paranoid nonsense.

Or did that happen already?

Isn't nice when Nikki meets someone she likes? Isn't it super-keen? Isn't it inevitable that love and friendship's going to devolve into slow-burning hatred...er I mean dislike?

20:19 / 03.07.06

Lea makes me want to stab the tv these days.

Is she transvestite, then?

In terms of itchyscratchiness, I'm finding myself torn in several different directions. Jayne fucked me off with her "I'm not pissed off with Big Brother, I'm pissed off with her" jab at Aisleyne, and both Spoiral and Michael are starting to give me tinfoil twinges. Back in House v1.0, Lea's paranoia has become a sort of background hum that I'm almost not noticing anymore.

My Petescratchiness, by contrast, seems to have nudged up a notch with regard to his interactions with women. The morning after his snogging-under-the-duvet with Nikki, the way he portrayed her to Lea was pretty shameful, really. I genuinely feel for the women who get involved with him and then start to acquire 'maneater' or 'bunny boiler' reputations as a result. Even Lisa, charmless as she appeared much of the time, didn't really deserve that - and I still wonder to what extent Pete's mixed signals (apparent more-than-friends interest then drawing back to just-friends territory) contributed to her later insecurity...

20:28 / 03.07.06

I've learned to tune Lea's paranoid monologues out at this stage. Trying to see her logic just gives me indigestion. Tonight's highlights show was disappointingly Richard-lite. It's a pity they don't show more of his every day conversation, as in, the stuff from the live feed. He's constantly on the ball during the day, with a bon mot for every situation. The Richard being presented in the highlights show is portrayed as more boring than the Richard live feed viewers see.

Michael's slightly endomorphic body is quite attractive. His desperation to enter the main house, however, is decidedly not.

20:35 / 03.07.06

Michael's slightly endomorphic body is quite attractive. His desperation to enter the main house, however, is decidedly not.

Yeah - although I guess it's reasonably understandable.

The nascent love-handles are cute. Give it a few years, and he'll be breaking chubby-chaser hearts all over the capital. He needs to lay off the Bics and Immac, though.

(God, I'm sounding repetitive on the hairy thing...)

21:02 / 03.07.06

But he did look better with the beard.

21:17 / 03.07.06

Grrreat. Judy James again on BBBB, stacking up the cliches with the ol' forming, storming, norming on top of the alpha male/female stuff. I'm increasingly distrustful of the latter, in particular: I think it works only so far when we're dealing with gayers in leadership roles.

21:20 / 03.07.06

Loving Dermot's logic that Michael and Dickie will be "combustible... because he's already said he doesn't fancy Dickie". Obviously, fucking and fighting are the two modes of interaction available to gayers.

Which is not, of course, to say he isn't correct. I just don't think it's going to be because the one doesn't fancy the other.

21:53 / 03.07.06

The psychologist on BBBB said that Michael scored almost perfectly on every test and that if someone did that in business, you would assume there was something afoot. She suggested that this may signify that Michael is extremely manipulative.

I also keep remembering about Aisleyne scoring really high on the test that signifies being manipulative and now whenever I see her crying about nominating or anything I think of that.

21:59 / 03.07.06

Yeah. It really skews one's perceptions. It suggests to me, though, that the tests were a bit Mickey Mouse; decent psychometric tests include questions designed specifically to detect second-guessing around one's answers.

22:26 / 03.07.06

I would like to have a go at psychometric tests, they sound very interesting.

22:31 / 03.07.06

Interesting you should say that, Llama - I checked Richard's profile a while back, and while I understand it's perhaps both snobbish and unfair to judge people on their reading and watching choices, he had, iirc, 'The Line of Beauty' as a fave book and Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 in films. Which is - well, after recalling BB3 contestants discussing the relative merits of Alanis Morrissette, I'm just saying I think he might well be the most, as I've chosen to judge it (terms being - erudition and 'culturedness',) intelligent BBer.

Definitely a bit different, anyway.

08:18 / 04.07.06

Yeah, Dickie wouldn't have had to have the meaning of the word saboteur explained to him, one feels.

As Aisleyne said of Imogen, when I look at her, I realise anyone can get a degree.

Michael's friends and family on BBLB were bigging up his incredible intelligence. Not seeing much sign of that, just a lot of words said very quickly. I expect he and Dick will have a bit of a tussle for House Smartie though.

I get the impression that Mikey is quite astute in many ways and a clever boy. Just turned into a turnip when Grace set her cap at him. His impenetrable accent makes it hard to judge, however.

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08:34 / 04.07.06

Michael's friends and family on BBLB were bigging up his incredible intelligence. Not seeing much sign of that, just a lot of words said very quickly.

Michael is a man who has '2006' tattooed on him (correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's in Sanskrit), because towards the end of 2005 he thought "this has been a shit year, 2006 has got to be better!" - to an extent perhaps he has been 'proved' right, and yet I still find this magik-ka-ka-kal act annoying. I imagine he's 'charged' a couple of 'hypersigils' in his time.

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08:35 / 04.07.06

Mikey, on the other hand, had the smarts to point out that Lea is a Skeksi, so he's clearly a little bit more astute than any of us realised. Mind you, even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day...

09:23 / 04.07.06

Lea is a...what now?

Which of them was eulogising about the benefits of NLP yeserday, was that Michael?

Also regarding the whole potential Michael/Dickie saga, I'm sure that on BBLB Michael's friend said that Michael would never fancy Dickie and would be far more drawn to someone like Pete. I think that the friend had based this opinion on the fact that he thought Pete was very clever and did a lot of thinking, whereas Dickie was a bit thick.

Since we know this not to be true of Dickie, perhaps Michael's friend is wrong?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:49 / 04.07.06

Michael is a man who has '2006' tattooed on him

Are you sure it's not just a reminder to help avoid those embarrassing cheque-signing incidents? (Like the one he'll be signing in January when he gets the 6 changed to a 7).

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