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Big Brother 2006

 
  

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Alex's Grandma
23:05 / 30.05.06
He's behaved pretty much unimpeachably, he's fantastic with Nikki, and he just makes me think that too many people like him work in bars and not enough in schools.

And this is why Gordon B should be the next PM.
 
 
Ganesh
23:29 / 30.05.06
Imogen and Sezer banned from nominations for conspiring to put Richard up for the public vote. They're keeping it secret, but presumably there'll be questions asked when they're not called to nominate. Bad news for Team SmugHet...
 
 
Smoothly
23:34 / 30.05.06
Ooh, interesting. Is it too early to make nomination predictions? Grace up? Nikki?
 
 
Triplets
23:41 / 30.05.06
Nesh:

Each was called to the diary room as usual at the correct juncture of the nominations process - but was instead informed that they could not vote.
 
 
Ganesh
23:45 / 30.05.06
Ahhh. So they've been able to keep it secret - which might actually be more problematic in the long run, if Grace is up for nomination. I'm genuinely unsure which way it'll go. With Slezer and Imogen, I was thinking Richard and Lea, but it could be anyone now. Except Pete.

Speaking of Pete, the air-clearing talk seems to have worked wonders. He's back in bed with Lisa but much less nervous, the two of them carrying on like kids again. Which is cute.
 
 
Smoothly
23:47 / 30.05.06
I was just about to say. I'm still optimistic for them. They could be a nice het couple who don't have sex on Big Brother, talk about having sex on Big Brother, or mope around within fingertip range of one another slagging off everyone else.
 
 
Ganesh
23:52 / 30.05.06
They could be a nice het couple who don't have sex on Big Brother, talk about having sex on Big Brother, or mope around within fingertip range of one another slagging off everyone else.

Indeed - and whose evolving relationship doesn't seem to overlap with the gaining/maintaining of alpha influence within the House or an OK! deal when they leave it.
 
 
Smoothly
00:01 / 31.05.06
I'm always a bit puzzled by this. Why do they find it so hard to have a wank?
 
 
Ganesh
00:09 / 31.05.06
Yeah, I know. S'what duvets are for (memo to Craig: it's always advisable to cover one's face in the run-up to vinegar).

Back on Sezer, his being banned from nominating makes a bit more sense of his insistence that he'll be up for eviction this week. I guess if he can't count on himself or Imogen, he may well be. Irritatingly, however, he's still cocksure about his chances of staying:

"I think it's me and Lea, I hope it is," he said. "I'd love to go up against her, because I know I'd win. The girls and the public will keep me in over her however bad I am," he boasted.

He believes Lea's fate is set, should she be up for eviction. "As long as it's Lea I'm happy, as long as she is one of them it's safe, as the public will get rid of her," he said. "All we can do is wait till tomorrow, as long as Lea is up we are all safe."


He's probably right but can you imagine the look on the little wankyfuck's face if he went up against Lea and lost?
 
 
Smoothly
00:17 / 31.05.06
The latest odds suggest that Sezer is only likely to beat Lea and Grace. If he's up, I dearly hope it's not against Leah. And because I'd like to see the back of Sezer first, I hope it's not Grace. Put him up against Nikki. He would take that badly.
 
 
Ganesh
00:21 / 31.05.06
Did the newbies get to vote? Sam's been a bit gushy over Grace, but Aisleyne might have nominated her. Richard's still unaware of Grace's eeevil but might nominate Imogen after their conversation the other day...

Gah, I'm finding it impossible to predict. I wouldn't have thought Sezer would be up, but here's hoping. Of course, there may be more than two going up for public vote.
 
 
Smoothly
00:30 / 31.05.06
I don't think so.
Lea, Grace and either Sezer or Richard would be my prediction.
 
 
tea and biscuits
00:51 / 31.05.06
The main betting site (betfair) have recently shuffled the odds for the second housemate to be evicted to:

Grace 1.57
Sezer 4.4
Nikki 5
(Imogen 19)

Here's to hoping.
 
 
Ganesh
01:01 / 31.05.06
Grace's departure would decimate Team SmugHet right enough - but Sezer thinks she's mega-popular with the public so, if the two of them were nominated and he stayed, he'd likely conclude that he was Teh Hero of the Great British Public. Which might be briefly amusing but would get old very fast if he didn't get nominated again for a while.

Meanwhile, I see today's Sun included a photo of Pete "at a 2002 Brighton gay pride rally" which raises interesting speculation about Pete's sexuality. I know he's talked about cross-dressing interests, but does he identify as bi - or has he done so in the past?

 
 
Triplets
01:14 / 31.05.06
Give me back my torso, Pete.
 
 
Ganesh
01:15 / 31.05.06
Give me back my penis, Pete.
 
 
Ganesh
01:17 / 31.05.06
Choice DS comment on Imogen and Sezer's somewhat strained-looking pillow-talk:

Sezer knows he's cocked it up for both of them. And he's not doing a fantastic job of rescuing the situation ("It's like this, Imogen. I would beat you dead easily in an eviction duel, as you are basically stupider and less widely appealing than I am. However, Grace, who is more attractive and clever than you, would provide me with sterner competition so let's hope it's you instead. Night night, sweetheart.")

Hadn't looked at it like that before...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:01 / 31.05.06
I thought Pete was bi- I'm sure I read that somewhere. Either way I've assumed it throughout for whatever reason.
 
 
Evil Scientist
06:19 / 31.05.06
Richard, after beating Sezer in arm-wrestling: Sezer you're an embarassment to heterosexual men everywhere.

Nice to hear someone in there saying exactly what I'm thinking.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
10:05 / 31.05.06
When Richard was trying to settle Sam in, just after her entrée, Pete wandered in and Richard said, And there's Pete. He likes everything. In context, I interpreted that as meaning that Richard found Pete's sexual inclinations spread more broadly than his own. I assumed that Pete had made this claim to Richard, of bi-curiosity at least. Girls and boys and gentle woodland creatures too, perhaps, all compete for Pete.
 
 
Smoothly
10:24 / 31.05.06
I’m not sure that’s true. Or at least I’m not sure that Richard meant ‘likes’ in that way. Yesterday’s Daily Star’s front page splash was “BB Pete: I Swear I’ll Have A Sex Swap”, a story based on a conversation between Pete and Lisa which (apparently) went something like this:

Lisa: “You’re a moaning old woman and a bitch”.
Pete: “You’re not wrong there. I’m going to get a sex change. I’m going to ask Big Brother for one”.
Lisa: “If you’re having one, I am as well. I’m going to be a man, a real one”.

The rest of the piece is an excuse to talk about Pete’s penchant for cross-dressing, bondage and S&M, the fact he was in a male beauty contest at Pride and how he is “totally comfortable with his sexuality”. Also the line, ‘Glam rocker Pete – who comes from Brighton where there is a huge gay scene – has had a string of sexy girlfriends”.
Point being that if his mighty schlong has swung both ways, The Star (strangely) neglects to mention it.
 
 
Ganesh
10:27 / 31.05.06
I thought Richard's line was "Pete loves everyone", which could simply be a comment on Pete's placid, accepting nature (as opposed to his lust icon status among badgers of every stripe).
 
 
Triplets
10:40 / 31.05.06
The girls in work are saying they heard Pete say (to George) "I like a bit of everything" or summat similar.
 
 
Ganesh
10:45 / 31.05.06
I also had the impression that Pete was vaguely pansexual, but am not sure that anything especially explicit's been said along these lines.
 
 
Ganesh
11:08 / 31.05.06
More gender confusion, with Sam being given male clothing as part of the Geek Task. On the one hand, this seems rather insensitive of Big Brother; on the other, I can appreciate their problem. Sam's been somewhat equivocal in terms of whether she wants to be viewed as female or male, and I think she herself made the point that she tends to avoid overtly feminine clothing (skirts, dresses, etc.) in favour of more gender-neutral stuff. Oh well, I guess she can always take it to the Diary Room and request a change, if she's that unhappy.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:50 / 31.05.06
I think a lot of the confujsion around Pete's sexuality stems from one of the traits that makes me like him- he's a BB contestant who deosn't spend the whole time talking about fucking.
 
 
Ganesh
13:09 / 31.05.06
I think it's more that his sexuality isn't his 'badge of entry' to the House. Arguably, his Tourette's is.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:12 / 31.05.06
There is that... and I guess he does talk about masturbation a lot, but that's involuntary.
 
 
Smoothly
13:20 / 31.05.06
It’s interesting how the house seem to have pretty much desexualised Pete. He’s never included in the SmugHet’s bada-bang conversations, Lisa is the only Housemate to express even a notional (and ultimately abortive) sexual interest in him, and even Richard doesn’t flirt with him (and he’ll flirt with Slezer). All that despite being quite open about his sexual adventures, being arguably the best looking man in the House, and having an enormous penis that he’s willing to windmill around on demand. What’s a boy got to do?

Glyn’s sexuality is hardly his badge of entry, but even he seems to get more overtly sexual attention than Pete does.
 
 
Ganesh
13:24 / 31.05.06
I think some of that may reflect Pete's passive 'mascot' role...
 
 
Alex's Grandma
13:33 / 31.05.06
That's a bit harsh. One could say that Glyn's 'badge of entry' to the house is his Welshness, but that hasn't stopped him from dreaming wistfully about Leah's decolletage. Whichever way he swings, I'm guessing Pete just isn't all that sexually-motivated - whatever relations he's had in the past, I'd imagine they were more sort of thing he graciously submitted to, in his saint-like way, rather than particularly initiated. It's a bit distressing to think this in a Big Brother context, but Pete probably does 'really look at the person', rather than the tits, arse, lunchbox etc.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
13:36 / 31.05.06
Apologies cross-post, these wrinkled old fingers need to speed up.
 
 
Ganesh
14:30 / 31.05.06
That's a bit harsh.

Is it? I ought to clarify what I mean by 'badge of entry', because perhaps it seems I'm claiming Pete actively pimped his Tourette's to get into the House. That's not what I'm saying; I'm saying I think it's the element that's been fastened upon by the show's producers as novel, fascinating, view-friendly, potentially conflict-generating, etc., etc. We're generally sold Housemates, at least initially, on the strength of no more than three factors or adjectives - broad strokes. Thus Pete is Wacky Touretter, Nikki is Spoilt Princess, Richard is Muscle Queen, and so on.

I'm not sure what Glen is. Welsh Virgin, maybe. My point is, sometimes sexuality - or rather sexual attractiveness - is hyped up as one of those ingredients (think of the pretty-but-tediously-underachieving I'M GONNA FLIRT WITH EVERYOBDY!1! maybisexuals of years past). In Pete's case, it really isn't. The Tourette's diagnosis is his primary 'feature' (from the point of view of how he was presented to us at the outset) and sexuality hasn't really featured as part of the package.

Whichever way he swings, I'm guessing Pete just isn't all that sexually-motivated - whatever relations he's had in the past, I'd imagine they were more sort of thing he graciously submitted to, in his saint-like way, rather than particularly initiated.

I think his passivity's part of it, but his 'mascot'-like qualities are another part. By 'mascot' I mean the tendency for other Housemates to view him as "sweet" and "loveable" but almost as a pet rather than a human equal. Some of this perhaps stems from innate prejudice against the idea of 'disability' (the 'disabled', like children, pets and the elderly are generally not viewed as sexual beings). The fact that he resisted anything more than platonic from Lisa, and that he's yet to make any major statement regarding who/what does attract him tends to reinforce the sense of Pete as sexually nebulous, unformed - potential yet to be realised.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
15:26 / 31.05.06
Hmm. Yes, fair enough. I suppose Pete's status is a bit totemistic, like a scottie dog - Nikki was upfront enough about loving him very much, but not in 'that way,' and, as seems to be quite often the case, she was perhaps only being the unrepressed inner child on behalf of the rest of the housemates. But in that respect, it's surely hard to blame Pete for being a bit reticent about his sexuality, for, in effect (consciously or otherwise,) trying to remove himself from the sexual arena in the context of the Big Brother house. Hazarding a guess as to what his life's like in the real world (being in a punk band, going to lots of all night parties, squat culture etc,) he seems to be a genuine *outsider*, as opposed to a semi-repressed exhibitionist (Kamal, Shabaz, Kitten,) who still lives at home with mum and dad, and in that sense, not someone who's really interested in doing anything other than keeping his head for the next ten weeks, when all about him are losing theirs. Either that, or he just doesn't fancy any of his fellow housemates.

Then again he did get his cock out that time, I suppose.
 
 
Ganesh
18:30 / 31.05.06
Nominated for eviction: Lea, Richard and Sezer.

Team SmugHet's reaction:

"It's obvious that Lea's going to go or Richard will go," said Grace as the younger group debriefed in the bedroom.

"We could be in for a shock," Sezer warned, but added: "I don't think I'll go because I'm a young boy and girls won't necessarily vote out a young boy."


Where was Grace in the nominations? I guess she's covering her tracks well.
 
  

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