Big Brother 2006

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:08 / 11.07.06

Poll. It's not looking good for the tiny dancer.

12:19 / 11.07.06

Nooooo...

I'm not too bothered about Nikki getting evicted per se, I just want her to get kicked out on one of my weeks off so I can actually watch the eviction interview. It'll be great.

Although Spiral is my choice for lynchi- evicting this week. (Sorry... getting carried away with Mafia).

haus of fraser

14:50 / 11.07.06

Sorry Nikki's probably getting my vote this week- She is making the program pretty unwatchable due to constant crying and whining.

The tennis task was pretty cringey- and it seems like its really a battle between her and teh white witch this weeks so Nikki to go....

buuut i'll hold off voting till the end of the week to see if someone else pisses me off more.

Peach Pie

15:10 / 11.07.06

Spiral - good as gold till things fail to go his way. Not a good sign.

I'd be perfectly happy to see Richard or Ais win it based on the last week, but i apparently glyn and pete are the favourites. the winner to be decided by the housemate most easily likened to a cute, non-threatening furry animal.

BBBB was really interesting this week, IMO. apparently there's a direct correlation between how stressed an individual is and how soon they leave the house. The most stressed housemates at the beginning (measured by the amount of cortisol in their blood) were Sezer, George and Sam, while the least stressed housemates are (in this order) Richard, Pete and Nikki.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:18 / 11.07.06

Copey (and the rest of you, and indeed the rest of the viewing public)...

...please don't get Nikki out on a night when I have to work. Please hold on just one more week... she'll be up again. Of course she will. She's Nikki, ferfucksake.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:22 / 11.07.06

Sorry, Stoat: Aisleyne is coming third in that poll, and I can't risk a Nikki drop-off putting her at risk.

15:24 / 11.07.06

DAMN YOU.

Wonder if they'll let me turn up late? I seem to recall the day shift got to leave work early to watch England games... on the other hand they took a dim view of me not being able to do short-notice overtime cos I was going to the opera...

15:37 / 11.07.06

the winner to be decided by the housemate most easily likened to a cute, non-threatening furry animal.

I suspect Pete'll win it by a diagnosis (being Welsh doesn't count).

Mourne Kransky

16:31 / 11.07.06

cute, non-threatening furry animal

Would that be the escape-goat Mikey mentioned to Jayne? She's all agog, awaiting its arrival apparently. Eructative arsehole.

Jayne's only consolation was her belief in the imminent arrival of a mythical-sounding animal. She revealed: "Mikey was nice, he said there would be an escape goat.

The Falcon

17:54 / 11.07.06

Susie's second fave to go, eh? Oracular partner thinks she'll buy it rather than Nikki, but it's hard to imagine people picking up a phone to bother, really.

19:12 / 11.07.06

If I vote for anyone this week, it'll be Suzie.

AGH@Spoiral. Yes, it's Aisleyne that's making you look like a "desperado", not the fact that you clearly feel she owes you something, and can't seem to drop the matter. Boo fucking hoo.

19:15 / 11.07.06

She humiliated him on national telly, G! He's NEVER going to let that happen again! Until he's evicted, obviously, which will probably be soon.

I think it's fair to speculate that if Spiral has a copy of the Bible, certain passages in Revelations are underlined in red pen.

19:16 / 11.07.06

Hats off to him for telling her how he feels, but Aisleyne handled it about right, I reckon.

19:23 / 11.07.06

christ sake nikki. it's all about you, isn't it.

19:31 / 11.07.06

Hats off to him for telling her how he feels

Surely you jest. Anyway, he didn't actually say "I fancy you", did he? He said "You've been flirting with me and you've rejected me", adding "You're a tease" when she was no longer in the room. This is in stark contrast to his "I fancy her but I know nothing's going to happen and I'm cool with that" speech in the Diary Room prior to spin the bottle...

19:33 / 11.07.06

his numbers are rising on the poll, up to the fourth most hated after Nikki, Susie, Aisleyne and up on Richard. Not enough though.

Text 'Nikki' to 84444

19:33 / 11.07.06

I think it's fair to speculate that if Spiral has a copy of the Bible, certain passages in Revelations are underlined in red pen.

Mmm. If I were a Dublin-based prostitute with similar facial features to Aisleyne, I'd be considering early retirement about now. Or at least giving up the peroxide. I suspect Little Mickey could nurse his grudge a looong time.

19:37 / 11.07.06

Surely you jest.

Well, denying he was upset with her, sulking and throwing looks of disrespect of his own would be par for the BB course.

Jawsus-son Starship

19:40 / 11.07.06

A) Can Jayne put a top on.

B) Can Big Brother provide her with a tin foil hay to stop the alien reading her brain waves.

Maybe that fucking beret has got tinfoil lining - if so, point B is moot.

Jawsus-son Starship

19:41 / 11.07.06

Not quite sure what tin foil hay does, so probably best to make it a tin foil hat.

19:42 / 11.07.06

I'm becoming a bit of a softy in my old age, and am finding imogen 'n' mikey in the garden quite endearing. oh dear. the brainwashing seems to be working on me.

19:43 / 11.07.06

Well, denying he was upset with her, sulking and throwing looks of disrespect of his own would be par for the BB course.

That's true - but there were still strong elements of aggression there, and a sense of aggrieved entitlement that was only really halfway mollified by Aisleyne claiming she wished the previous night had never happened. He still felt he could legitimately comment on her behaviour ("you shouldn't have done that" re: the kiss with Nikki) and I wonder whether his ire has simply been redirected toward the scrunch-faced one. I fear there's a bit of madonna/whore splitting going on here. Aisleyne probably hasn't helped things in this regard, by shifting responsibility onto Nikki (the kiss was her idea).

19:44 / 11.07.06

Astonishing visual image: Nikki sitting on Aisleyne's knee, looking exactly like a dummy. No, I know she always - I mean the other kind of dummy.

19:48 / 11.07.06

I've never seen someone inhale a banana like that before. Now you see it, now you don't.

19:53 / 11.07.06

B) Can Big Brother provide her with a tin foil hat to stop the alien reading her brain waves.

I was just thinking Jayne would have a really low threshold for developing a full-blown psychotic disorder. While not actually psychotic at present, her 'analytical' thinking seems to tend naturally toward the sort of beyond-leftfield connections that are seen in individuals with psychotic disorders (Spoiral/"twisting" + carpet patterns = Spiral's a plant; helicopter passing overhead + chance remark from Aisleyne = Richard's a celebrity). If I were her, I'd steer well clear of hallucinogens and speed for, like, ever.

20:10 / 11.07.06

That's true - but there were still strong elements of aggression there, and a sense of aggrieved entitlement that was only really halfway mollified by Aisleyne claiming she wished the previous night had never happened.

Oh yeah, he's a donger alright. And I was relieved by Aisleyne's initial 'Oh fer fuck's sake' response, given that she tends to err towards conciliation whether she's at fault or not.

I'm finding myself strangely fascinated by Jayne, and am kinda pleased that she's in for another week, perversely.

Jack Vincennes

20:17 / 11.07.06

Smoothly: I'm finding myself strangely fascinated by Jayne

Can you define why? Our office conversations -never sparkling -have been reduced to "Do you hate Jayne?" / "Yes." She's become a kind of surrogate boss, we bitch about her rather than taking our frustrations out on each other.

20:20 / 11.07.06

And I was relieved by Aisleyne's initial 'Oh fer fuck's sake' response, given that she tends to err towards conciliation whether she's at fault or not.

Yeah, I was pleased that she did that - but disappointed that she backtracked slightly with the "Nikki suggested it" stuff.

I'm finding myself strangely fascinated by Jayne, and am kinda pleased that she's in for another week, perversely.

I can kiiind of see that, but I can't feel it, myself. I'm faintly curious about whether her twitchy dopamine receptors will twitch her further into ICD territory, but would rather she were out. I think the eviction 'punishment' was a fairly cynical ploy on Endemol's part to keep her in another week: she lacks sufficient empathy to feel true survivor guilt, and I think the other Housemates are relieved to have a level(ish) playing field with no requirement that they nominate this week.

Mourne Kransky

20:21 / 11.07.06

I'm glad I'm leaving the country. Otherwise I'd be digging out my balaclava and heading for Borehamwood with the German Police teddy bear under one arm.

Tryphena Absent

20:23 / 11.07.06

if Spiral has a copy of the Bible, certain passages in Revelations are underlined in red pen.

I'm confused. There's something else to do with a bible?

20:26 / 11.07.06

There's other colours of ink, certainly. Red is best, though.

20:29 / 11.07.06

"She fancies Pete" is becoming a fairly common means of triangulating/'othering' females within the House...

20:29 / 11.07.06

Not sure that I can, satisfactorily, Vincennes. On one level I despise her - her self-involvement, her 'intuition', her sprawling, "it's my house now" egomania, the ghastly overfamiliarity - it all makes me *shudder*. But on another level (a mezzanine, admittedly) she's compelling. Partly for the reasons, Ganesh mentions above. She's a force within the House and her ghastliness and unpredictability is engaging, in a pantomime grotesque kind of way. There's an element of savouring the awfulness here, I admit. It's a weakness of mine.

Olulabelle

21:00 / 11.07.06

I don't understand what's happening with Aisleyne and why other women keep feeling like she is giving them 'looks'. Jenny strikes me as prety level-headed but has been feeling the Aisleyne distain, as Nicki previously did (although Nicki's was based on the fact she's fairly annoying and Aisleyne pointed this out).

Aisleyne denies this and just appears to want to be friends with everyone. Is it jealousy? Does Jenny fancy Pete? And is Aisleyne really manipulative (so far I've seen little evidence of this) or are the tests wrong?