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"Hell is other people." - Sartre. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Henry David Thoreau.

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20:45 / 04.06.08

Challenges including;
Chugging down the blended remains of their favourite dead pets for extra shopping money.
Shark wrestling for a message from home.
Synthesising a vaccine for the toxin Davina’s introduced into their water supply on a one-off Saturday night special.
It is a competition, like, and I assume these people sign a liability waiver.

20:55 / 04.06.08

Confidentially, I'm just upset that I'll be out of the country for most of it.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:45 / 04.06.08

Tomorrow? Fuck, I'm gonna miss the launch...

Whisky Priestess

23:06 / 04.06.08

Damn, that's come around early.

Alas I will be in a bar in Farringdon tomorrow night. Never mind, I expect they'll repeat the bloody thing ad nauseam over the weekend ...

23:28 / 04.06.08

I think they've been a bit low key on the ad campaign this year.... or maybe its just that I haven't watched television in a month..

Good god, I hope I have channel 4 in this dungeon.

00:15 / 05.06.08

They've had flashes of a shattered Big Brother eye, gradually piecing itself together, ads for the launch night and various audition tape compilations. It feels a little quieter hype-wise than previous years, but perhaps that has something to do with my attention for and interest in the show waning thanks to last year's overlong and boring affair.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:11 / 05.06.08

It's worrying that the "punishment" quarters are way more luxurious than my own house at the moment. They even have more storage space for papers and stuff.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:26 / 05.06.08

It's even more worrying that the big red BB eye leading to the Diary Room looks like Goatse...

19:29 / 05.06.08

Hmmm. I'll lay it on the line here this year, people. I'm trying to go Buddhist. I'm trying to practice right speech, thinking, and action. I'm attempting to let compassion be my guiding principle, to avoid leaping to judgement on others, and, most of all, and I can't stress this enough, to avoid alienating everyone on this site with yet another rant that makes me look like Hitler with his balls caught in his zipper. This series is a test for me, a chance to prove that I can actually be sensible and compassionate about the kind of people who go on BB, and I intend to take that seriously.

Having said all that, though, Mario looks to me like the kind of guy who has got someone to have sex with his wife while he watches. Don't ask why, I just have a feeling.

19:37 / 05.06.08

Can I just also add, I'm not making a value judgement about 'the kind of people who go on BB' there - what I mean is, historically, many of the people we've had on BB have been people who I have found myself becoming really wound up by. So I am testing myself this year by not letting such winding-up occur. Sort of like when I meditate outside and focus on not being bothered about my neighbour's dog barking at me all the time. And that's worked. I mean, seriously, I hardly ever think about punting the thing into a chainsaw factory now. Hardly ever.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:17 / 05.06.08

I'm being uncharacteristically snarky on Barbelith at the moment, for which I apologise, but...

... I've missed the last couple of housemates, but the first five gave me the red mist.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:36 / 05.06.08

...wants to be reincarnated as a Pokemon? I have a favourite already. Just as long as she doesn't want to be a fucking Blastoise or something.

20:43 / 05.06.08

I heard she really likes Jigglypoof...

That is the cool thing all the kids say on the interweb, right?

20:48 / 05.06.08

Mario seems quite nice, despite my misgivings(1), and is doing the gentlemanly thing by ensuring Mike is included.A bit worried that some people seem to be 'helping' Mike by dragging him around the house rather than just supporting and guiding, but I assume he'll educate them as to that.

(1) Tho to be fair, I have met a guy who did that kind of thing and he was a pretty sorted guy, too. And before you ask, no, I didn't.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:49 / 05.06.08

If she wants to be a mudkip, or possibly even a seaking, then I shall flood the lines with "save" votes.

00:53 / 06.06.08

Dale is already emerging as a hate figure for me and I've only seen 30 minutes of him. He's pretty much a carbon copy of Anthony from a couple of BB's ago. A hateful, cardboard cut-out with a haircut on top that uses phrases like, "I'd nail that." Also, courtesy of Digital Spy more evidence for the prosecution.

13:50 / 06.06.08

I hope the week 5 contestant is a a swarm of angry wasps.

Whisky Priestess

14:45 / 06.06.08

At last a winner we could believe in ...

16:28 / 06.06.08

'So mate, ow, how are ow you doing? Are you fuck into Jesus Chist ... do that again and I'm gonna twat you threesomes? Ow

The tearful discussions in the Diary room, afterwards - 'Big Brother, I take people as they come, like. I'm not one to judge. I've done some crazy things meself, in me life. A lot of my friends think I'm totally mental ... In fact I've escaped being sectioned only narrowly on a couple of occasions. But, briefly, enough about me ... Big Brother, I do not like the new housemate.'

'Really? Are you prejudiced?'

'Well I think I've a right to be! Look at my wounds ... Other people don't like the bloke either.'

'Other, yes. You don't think you're othering the angry cloud of wasps?'

'What does that mean, Big Brother?'

'Oh, just stuff. You should learn to get along with the angry cloud of wasps though, because in week nine, they'll seem quite vanilla.'

'Why, what are you going to do? Unleash a load of ... of fucking rats infected with the bubonic plague?'

'Thank you for talking to Big Brother, Lisa/Shaun/Michael/Stephanie' etc.

16:48 / 06.06.08

Well, we can but dream.

Janean Patience

18:44 / 06.06.08

It was bound to happen one day, but I can't help feeling that it's the dawn of a grim, shameful chapter in my life. That I'm somehow besmirched and lessened by the fact.

I know one of this year's housemates. One degree of separation...

19:10 / 06.06.08

I've got the list of them in front of me.

It's not Dennis, is it?

20:51 / 06.06.08

Which one do you know?????? Sordid details, etc???

A friend of a friend (type thing) backed out because her parents didn't want her going on.
(They bought her off with a car, apparently).

My flatmate got reasonably far in the audition process and I was coached for BBLB interviews:
"No, he's completely not being himself, he's normally horrible, he's being so insincere, he'd never speak to any of these people in real life." "Don't vote for him, he owes me a lot of money." (etc)
We also were at liberty to sell pictures of his drug binges to the tabloids. (Hee, hee).
(Alas, it was not to be).

21:58 / 06.06.08

(They bought her off with a car, apparently).

They sat her on the gearstick then, or ... Sorry, I, I now realise, misunderstood. I read that as 'they brought her off with a car.'

Perhaps I should talk to someone, about my concerns/problems?

Janean Patience

22:03 / 06.06.08

Through my brother I knew the Scouse girl who was a bit of a trance hippy a few series ago. Maybe called Sissy. That's two degrees of separation. This year I know Rachel Rice, the Welsh brunette who was always in the papers down in South Wales modelling various High Street items. She was nice enough and usually so tanned she looked almost burnt.

One degree of separation. A sign of a personal apocalypse to come. Continue the sequence? I'm in Big Brother within the next couple of years. By which time they'll just dress all the contestants in giant rat suits and have them run an electrified maze.

23:15 / 06.06.08

I think Rachel Rice would be (justifiably) angry about this; that she was not described, on Barbelith, as a busty welsh brunette. It's not too late to make things better though, JP.

You know what to do.

15:03 / 07.06.08

'How motivated are you for this task, Stephanie?'

Not motivated enough, apparently.

20:55 / 09.06.08

Mario : "Mikey's got a disability, open your eyes"

18:56 / 18.06.08

Phone votes have been suspended for this week.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:49 / 18.06.08

Alex is out for threatening other housemates.

22:00 / 18.06.08

Good riddance. She was particularly nasty and a classic bully. I had read elsewhere that her boyfriend had been jailed recently for something gang related.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:10 / 18.06.08

Be that as it may, her own behaviour in the house (which is all that's relevant, really) was appalling.

I was kind of in two minds as to whether she should be kicked on Friday or stick around so I could get my yearly Schadenfreude in a stronger dose than usual. I kind of came down on the "she should be kicked on Friday" side of things. That said, I'm a little disappointed she doesn't have to face the crowd and the interview. Although the interviews are usually somewhat LESS than probing ("do you know what a probing question is?" OH FUCK OFF ALEX!!!) so that's maybe no great loss.

Although "take your bra off first, Mohammed" is quite possibly the most unintentionally funny line on television so far this year.

22:22 / 18.06.08

Be that as it may, her own behaviour in the house (which is all that's relevant, really) was appalling.

Well, yes, other than making statements like "I just can't wait to see my mans and them and see what their plans are, who they got...I'm not talking about those mans, I'm talking about my gangster friends. They got some instructions to follow out" and "I get to go out, see everyone's friends, I get to see their family. I get to do the s*** that I wanna do. Pow, pow, pow" very very scary with a real sense of menace.
I'm not sure Allah or any other deity would be very happy with her frankly.
Agh, I'm just very glad that her and her warped sense of ethics are out of my living room.

Whisky Priestess

22:47 / 18.06.08

The fuck ...?

Damn my intrusive real life of going out and doing stuff when there's Big Brother to watch!

And bless TV On Demand.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:41 / 19.06.08

I also didn't quite get that she could admit that drinking and smoking was wrong, but refused to let someone else choose where they drew their own lines.

And when you've just been warned about intimidating behaviour, to then go ahead and threaten to have someone killed seems a little... stupid.

She's one of the most unpleasant people they've had on in a while, and that's saying something.

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