Keeno
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Yesterday Big Brother started again for the year in the UK. Yes... yet another one.
It's a programme I have usually dismissed as being too much for "sheeple", and at the business end of what to my mind is already a morally decadent culture. And so, I have never avidly watched Big Brother - I'm about the last person who would watch such a thing. But I like one particular housemate, Scott, mostly because of whom I've become unusually interested in the show this year. It's a solidarity thing - on entering the house Scott was clearly the most despised housemate and was strongly booed. He has this upper class persona, when he doesn't identify as upper class and indeed says he socialises with chavs. So he clearly isn't sure where he fits into society - I can relate. He is also gay - something I'm absolutely not, but could easily be accused of. Again I feel a solidarity.
Other than that, Big Brother reflects a culture I can't relate to, having the usual liberal supply of posers and bigheads. I'm sure the situation is similar in other countries' versions of BB, but housemates are well above average in competitive drive. One housemate, Lydia, was saying, "On a scale of 1-10 in competitiveness, I'm a 10". They are feisty - as such, I wouldn't last 5 minutes in the house. They are socialites, and tend to be local celebrities where they live. For example there's a housemate, Sara, who's from Edinburgh where I live. She was Miss Edinburgh in 2010. Not that I have any interest in her, chances are someone like that certainly wouldn't give me the time of day.
At least, with me so ashamed to be British, the housemates do not represent typical British people. This gives them as much distance from typical UK culture as I feel, and that makes them marginally more palatable than I'd otherwise find them. |
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iggy64
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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Never was captivated by the idea of watching bitchy people bitfh about each other for a couple of months.....l
However, I remember once I turned on the TV and they were all sitting in upside down cardboard boxes, waiting each other out to try and be the last one there. Quite entertaining, I remember thinking I'd have been good at that challenge as I looked for something more interesting to watch :p
Also, I thought they had announced the last series of this infernal programme 2 years ago..... 
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ZX_SpectrumDisorder
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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I really want to be a contestant, always have done. 
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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I would really like to put a LSD filled Boris Johnson in the room and just see what happens. That is the only thing that'll get me watching this pile of crap.
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TheDarkMage
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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its a program that could be relatively good but they just want to put forward the idea of the viewers getting their cheaps from the housemates. i can just imagine the application form:
will you take your clothes off?
will you have sex on tv?
are you an arrogant twat?
are you stripper, porn star, criminal etc?
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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I remember when it wasn't just shallow people who want five minutes of fame at any cost. I mean, literally a normal person won BB4 and both three & two weren't overly controversional and a bit of a laugh. I think it was five and that "fight night" that started the downfall. I barely watched any of six and stopped watching altogether after seven...it's a shame the series has kept going, ruined the legend of the first years.
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kra17
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Yuck, the Swedish big brother finished a few days ago, so I won't have to hear about that crap for another year or so.
The only season of UK big brother that I've seen was the celebrity one when Basshunter participated. 
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Keeno
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:00 am Post subject: |
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are you stripper, porn star, criminal etc? |
This is an aspect of Big Brother that gets very old, very quickly. It's a repeat occurrence to have UK-born gangsters deported from the US. It's a repeat occurrence to have gender reassigned housemates. And porn stars, and so on.
Unfortunately I don't know what Big Brother was like in the early days with "ordinary" people, because I didn't watch it then. |
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Aspie_SE10
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Interestingly, the first season of Big Brother offered the opportunity for some good, interesting and original science.
Naturally, this was eschewed in favour of sensationalism.
Now? Now I follow Frankie Boyles' view - that when one of them is evicted from the house, there should be no cheering, no applause, no fireworks, simply the crack of a high velocity round. |
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duncvis
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godawful tedious dogshit, which gave the world such charmers as Jade Goody. I blame BB and shows like it for helping drive the culture of people becoming 'celebrities' for no reason other than having been on telly. Nuke the house.
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roccoslife
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God why did they not just let this show die when channel 4 dropped it. Do people even still watch it? Whats entertaining about a bunch of dull wannabe "celebrities" sitting in a house chatting sh** for hours on end?
Bah humbug etc etc
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Keeno
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Well. I know it's supposed to be a common symptom in Asperger's, but talk about a transient special interest. Already, even if I try to watch this year's Big Brother, I can't pay any attention to it and can't get any interest together. BB is curing my insomnia. Scott, who I was mainly interested in, has proved an unremarkable housemate and has sensibly stayed out of the arguments which I must say have been just inflammatory at times.
Now, it's back to being a normal Aspie again. A normal celebrity hating, pop culture hating, sheep mentality programme hating Aspie.
It's music to my ears, and actually gives me some pride in Britishness, that most British people are derogatory about Big Brother. Not just the Aspies replying to this thread, either. |
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Keeno
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The UK is a land where hate is held dear. I don't think people there hate love, but they sure do love hate. Therefore it's especially logical to expect particularly severe hate when it comes to Big Brother.
Even though I hate hate, I pretty much support hate in this case. |
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