Obligatory Big Brother Post
Ok, I admit to 'missing' the opening show, but having viewed some of the 'live' footage.
Unsurprisingly disappointed, but somehow the BB bosses have managed to not fulfil even my low expectations...
Every single person seems reasonably attractive, they all seem to be 18-25 clubby types, horrifyingly extrovert, although I guess you wouldnt choose to be on BB if you weren't. It seems all the stereotypes have been filled, laddish males, over the top camp gay man, some kinda of page 3 parody woman, and this year a Tourette's Syndrome sufferer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not above laughing at other people's misfortune, but it doesn't seem right to use mental illness as a way to sell more premium rate phonecalls.
I read a few of the profiles, it sounds like everyone cant wait to wave their 'bits' at the camera, have a fight, and hump the rest of the 'housemates'. As for the girl with a '30M' breast enlargement, doctors, if someone comes to you with such low self esteem, that they want to be carved up, perhaps consider prescribing therapy and drugs? Oh hang on, plastic surgery is more profitable, isn't it...
My suggestion for Big Brother 8 though, and it comes from the admittedly interesting idea of having one person go in from a kit kat wrapper... Pick 12 people at random from all the people that apply, and run the show with them. You'll still get fights and roma-, uh, pointless nudity and sex, and all the other stuff, but it might actually be faintly interesting to watch different social groups living with each other, instead of 12 people that could have all been put on the bus from a single nightclub.
Unsurprisingly disappointed, but somehow the BB bosses have managed to not fulfil even my low expectations...
Every single person seems reasonably attractive, they all seem to be 18-25 clubby types, horrifyingly extrovert, although I guess you wouldnt choose to be on BB if you weren't. It seems all the stereotypes have been filled, laddish males, over the top camp gay man, some kinda of page 3 parody woman, and this year a Tourette's Syndrome sufferer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not above laughing at other people's misfortune, but it doesn't seem right to use mental illness as a way to sell more premium rate phonecalls.
I read a few of the profiles, it sounds like everyone cant wait to wave their 'bits' at the camera, have a fight, and hump the rest of the 'housemates'. As for the girl with a '30M' breast enlargement, doctors, if someone comes to you with such low self esteem, that they want to be carved up, perhaps consider prescribing therapy and drugs? Oh hang on, plastic surgery is more profitable, isn't it...
My suggestion for Big Brother 8 though, and it comes from the admittedly interesting idea of having one person go in from a kit kat wrapper... Pick 12 people at random from all the people that apply, and run the show with them. You'll still get fights and roma-, uh, pointless nudity and sex, and all the other stuff, but it might actually be faintly interesting to watch different social groups living with each other, instead of 12 people that could have all been put on the bus from a single nightclub.
posted by SenseofTumour at 7:38 AM
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Oh God, you should have watched it, at least 70% of them were booed on the way from the car to the front door! It's worse than ever this year...
Same here? (urm...)
And the person who won the Kit-Kat ticket thing was a fraud. The whole buying Kit-Kats stunt was fixed. Not that I actually an iota!
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