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Big Brother 2006

 
  

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Ganesh
11:09 / 05.07.06
I'm not sure I noticed Aisleyne being rude to everyone, Grace-style. I noticed her fighting with Lea, and subsequently doing the lion's share of making up with her. I also noticed her distress at learning she was leaving. But "rude to everyone"? Nah.
 
 
Chew On Fat
11:10 / 05.07.06
Aisleyne's name means 'Dream' or 'Vision' in Irish, which would go down well with those of the White Queen's party here.

I agree with the velvet one that it takes some kind of tosser to pronounce on how Aisleyne should identify herself. Surely it is up to the Belle Dame herself. Even if she HAD said she was Irish, which she doesn't seem to have, lots of 2nd Generation Irish identify themselves as such, or partly such. The British-born Irish are often counted as a minority ethnic after all, Russell. Its all good.
 
 
Ganesh
11:17 / 05.07.06
Predictably enough, lots of "ooh, will teh gays fight or fuck?" speculation on Digital Spy, around Dickie and Michael, with the usual round of "Richard wants to be the only gay in the village" Dickie-hate stereotyping.

From accounts of what's gone on and the little live stuff I glimpsed last night, it sounds as if their exchanged have been perfectly cordial, possibly a little stilted - which isn't really surprising when one is aware that everyone expects one to fight or fuck. Like being one of two singles invited to a coupled-up dinner party. Michael's a friend of Imogenital (as well as Dorothy), however, so I expect it won't be long before he succumbs to the Evil, Two-Faced Richard meme - if he hadn't already formed that opinion. In which circumstance, cue extra lashings of "gays just don't get on with each other in the House".
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:38 / 05.07.06
secret goldfish may also be referring to Aisleyne's response when Nikki was telling her 'threesome' story - "borrrrring!" *yawn* - which was rude, but also entirely justified and hilarious.
 
 
Peach Pie
14:46 / 05.07.06
ok, i exaggerated - it was two people she was rude to. entirely justified? I am not sure. ais was pretty mean to nik. nikki, however self-absorbed, is not someone i had pegged as the malicious type.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:58 / 05.07.06
Yes, but you also think this show is part of a sinister konspiracy to distract the masses, don't you, secret goldfish?
 
 
Olulabelle
18:31 / 05.07.06
Oh.


Is it not then?
 
 
penitentvandal
18:40 / 05.07.06
'Course not. Now go back to Digital Spy and stop bothering me. This body was here when I found it. Shut up.

*kicks sand over half-buried head of body which looks suspiciously like Dominique de Villepin and walks away, whistling*
 
 
Ganesh
19:37 / 05.07.06
Dear oh dear. Even as a fellow cranky-if-I-don't-get-my-sleep sometime beardy gayer, I thought Michael's "it's my first night, could you shut up, is that unreasonable?" moment in the bedroom was over the top - especially following his I-want-this-bed weirdism. Not the way to endear oneself to new Housemates.

Sadly, I think Aisleyne's going to pick Spooooooooiral over lovely Jonathan. Because he's Oooooooooooirish.
 
 
Ganesh
20:10 / 05.07.06
"Fine. It's fine. I'm fine. NO DICKIE JUST GIVE ME A MINUTE! I'm fine. I knew you'd all nominate me. It's fine."
 
 
Evil Scientist
20:11 / 05.07.06
Lea up for nomination whilst the White Queen struts back in.

Am I a bad person for taking pleasure in this?

Am I?
 
 
penitentvandal
20:13 / 05.07.06
Surely there shall be some twist, though - like whoever she picks to 'go next door' will get actually ee-vee-eye-see-tee-ee-dee - and that will hopefully be little Spoiral, off back to his family of other geometrically-named oddities like Hexagon, I. Soceles Triangle and poor, unpopular little Dodecahedron - they call him Dec for short, the poor soul.
 
 
Ganesh
20:23 / 05.07.06
Lea up for nomination whilst the White Queen struts back in.

Am I a bad person for taking pleasure in this?


You're only a bad person if you don't

evict LEA

Text LEA to 84444

Call 09011 32 33 07
 
 
penitentvandal
20:32 / 05.07.06
Here's the twist...

SPOILER

They open up the door to the next door house to reveal it to the housemates...

And...

It's not Aisleyne...

It's DALEKS! DA13K5! BIG BROTHER DA13K5 OMG 1!1!1!! 11! 23!
 
 
Ganesh
20:33 / 05.07.06
DAV(INA)ROS!!1!
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:36 / 05.07.06
Back to back Nikki goodness:

Her entirely cromulent demand that she be entitled to two beds,
followed immediately by (as she picked threads of weave from her stiletto):
I still have remnants of Aisleyne's scalp attached to my shoe.
 
 
Ganesh
20:45 / 05.07.06
Poor Aisleyne. Poor, mistaken Aisleyne.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:47 / 05.07.06
I think I'm getting old, drunk, and easily moved toward displays of emotion, but that was really, really hard to watch.

Especially seeing as how she didn't boot Spiral.

Fuck Jonathan, I'm feeling really sorry for Aisleyne at the moment. Especially considering the reception she'll get from, at the very least, Jayne and Nikki when she goes back in.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:48 / 05.07.06
OK, as usual, Trunky put it a lot better than I did.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
20:53 / 05.07.06
I think Endemol have got this a bit wrong. Aisleyne's having an emotional breakdown, Jonathan's walked out to nothing, Spiral's weeping silently, Nikki and Jayne are bitching about someone who's looking incredibly fragile. Yikes.
 
 
Evil Scientist
20:54 / 05.07.06
Aislyene did look rather fetching in her truck-driver chic get up though. Poor gal, losing the comforting cloud of anonymous nominating is tough.

Jonathon just didn't want it badly enough. Scratch that, he was too damn polite.

Now Aisleyne has to face an entire house of people that fear and hate her. But the girl's an X-Person, she'll survive!
 
 
Ganesh
20:55 / 05.07.06
I think Endemol have got this a bit wrong. Aisleyne's having an emotional breakdown, Jonathan's walked out to nothing, Spiral's weeping silently, Nikki and Jayne are bitching about someone who's looking incredibly fragile. Yikes.

I agree. That was just a little bit stomach-pit-sick-deadening. Weirdly, the thing that shocked me the most, I think, was Jonathan walking out to silence. All seemed like one twist of the screw too far.
 
 
Ganesh
20:58 / 05.07.06
Now Aisleyne has to face an entire house of people that fear and hate her.

They may well fear (in a paranoid way) what Aisleyne might've seen and heard them say in her absence. But an "entire house" of "hate"? Nah.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:00 / 05.07.06
It's not just us- a friend just sent me a text message to the same effect, begining with the words "d'you know what... this just isn't funy any more".

Oooh, that was horrible.

And yes, the silence for Jonathan leaving really was a bit too much.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
21:01 / 05.07.06
Rather impressed with the way Spiral told them off then.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:02 / 05.07.06
Okay, Spiral (can I call him Steve or something? PLEASE?) has just redeemed himself a little.

This is really fucked television entertainment.
 
 
Ganesh
21:02 / 05.07.06
Hardly the triumphant return of the White Queen we'd envisaged, is it?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:05 / 05.07.06
Even if I wasn't gonna vote for Lea to go already, I will now. Aisleyne needs someone like Richard now, whether he's genuine or not is irrelevant (I tend towards thinking he is, but I occasionally have my doubts).
 
 
Olulabelle
21:06 / 05.07.06
Oh deary, deary, deary me. Poor Aisleyne. She really doesn't want to be there, does she?

Jonathan saying "Alright mate" to the security guard was fairly heart-breaking too because there was no-one else there.
 
 
Evil Scientist
21:10 / 05.07.06
Fucks sake. Couldn't they give her a night to compose herself? Did they have to throw her in like that?

Spiral's absolutely the best person to send in there with her.
 
 
Cherielabombe
21:10 / 05.07.06
Hardly the triumphant return of the White Queen we'd envisaged, is it?

No, pas de tout. And I do think they've put Asylene through a bit much - she was nominated, thought she was going to be evicted, then thought she WASN'T, then found out there were other housemates, then found out she had to evict them, then found out oh wait you don't have to they're going next door, then found out oh wait you do have to get rid of one really, and as soon as that's done and you're a quivering human wreck, time to go face all the people that 'evicted' you.

I think just for decency's sake they should've given her some time to calm down before they moved her. I have to say I felt pretty sorry for her.
 
 
Ganesh
21:11 / 05.07.06
... whether he's genuine or not is irrelevant (I tend towards thinking he is, but I occasionally have my doubts).

I'm a little wary of suggesting that a given person may not be genuine, because that seems to feed into the common House sentiment that individuals, in their entirety are "fake" (replicants? pod people?) I know it's linguistic pedantry on my part, but perhaps we need to be more specific about the hows and circumstances of Housemates appearing inauthentic (since, presumably, we don't believe anyone is inauthentic at all times and in all situations).
 
 
Lugue
21:13 / 05.07.06
Would asking for a fuller account as to what's been going on be a bit much?
 
 
Evil Scientist
21:14 / 05.07.06
Hrrm. Now Depp-Clone is making my fists itch.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
21:14 / 05.07.06
Jonathon just didn't want it badly enough. Scratch that, he was too damn polite.

Was there something that was shown on the live footage that we didn't get here, then? Because from where I was sitting he was throwing a bit of a petulant silent strop while doing the dishes, Spiral explaining to him that actually, dude, if you wanted to go in there and you knew that was what was going to happen to the two people being 'evicted', you should probably have said something at the time instead of moaning about it after the fact.

ANd Spiral seemed geniunely pleased for Jenny and Michael when he realised that they'd made it into the main house. Jonathon, not so much. Based purely on tonight's show, I'd have to say that Aisleyne made the right choice.

Still an utterly fucked piece of television, though, and more than likely to generate a fair amount of bad press and complaints.
 
  

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