Is BB bad for you?

[WhiteNoiseMaker]

I've been starting to get a little worried when I've been watching BB. Now don't get me wrong, I like a perverse Orwellian torture-dome as much as the next man, that's not my problem at all...

It's more the noxious wave of hatred and rage I feel entering me every time I watch the awful, awful people on it. This year feels especially bad, like almost nobody is genuinely likeable and there are so many people who make me want to put my fist through the TV. I hate Grace and Nikki so much I almost actually voted for both of them, before I had a little think about the logic behind that.

Anyway it makes me feel stressed out - but I can't stop watching! Does anyone else feel their blood pressure shooting through the roof during a BB watching sesh?

[SweatShop]

I've started trying to spot the bits taken directly from the book Nineteen Eighty Four (the whole brotherhood mention) because i'm reading it right now for School. Guess why I chose it...

I can't even abandon the Lowculture thinking when picking school books.

[WhiteNoiseMaker]

Aye, the next thing they need to do is set up an emmanuel goldstein ten minute hate, or whatever it was. With Grace before she goes, and then... anyone I don't like. Oh, that'll be the eviction interviews won't it, no need to change things round.

Interestingly enough Apple have been patenting technology to make 1984 telescreens real - cameras built into the screen between the pixels. If my blood pressure is high now, when Davina starts actually winking directly at me... my head's gonna pop.

[SweatShop]

Well, y'know. We've got to read it over the Summer. I'm only 60 pages in, but good plans. The ten-minute-hate thing especially.

[Nicholas]

whitenoisemaker said:

It's more the noxious wave of hatred and rage I feel entering me every time I watch the awful, awful people on it.

I know exactly what you mean. I for one can normally be pretty much relied upon to take a view directly opposite to that of the general public, and mob mentality gives me the creeps. Nevertheless, the baying crowd on Friday evening gave me a feeling of comfort and warmth. All's right with the world. This was a positive expressionof my hatred and rage.

This might, of course, be because it is a fairly safe bet that in other circumstances, Grace is the sort of vile creature that would be at the front (perhaps two or three rows back, now that I think of it) of any rent-a-mob going.

[audrey notwhatsheusedtobe]

I just feel depressed more than enraged when I watch it. Especially now I watch it on my own while himself is in the spare room watching the World Cup. Last night I really felt like packing it in and reading a book instead. Is this what my life has come to - sitting on the floor by myself, with the lights out, watching a bunch of boring fuckers whinge?

It seems to be taking on an opposite developmental pattern from previous BBs: i.e. start out boring and then warm up once the bores have gone. It really peaked with Sezer's eviction, although hopefully Grace's will brighten up my Friday.

[ruthie]

I’ve been kind of obsessed with it for the last few weeks as I’ve been revising for exams, and its given me a feeling of having something exciting going on in my life when actually all I’m doing is learning about tax –actually quite sad when I think about it... Last night was my first night in with exams all done, and I found I couldn’t be bothered to watch one more minute of the bitching and backbiting of these people…not sure how long this feeling will last, given I’m hear chatting about it but still…

People have sneered for years about my Big Brother watching, and I’ve always defended the programme, but this year with Shabaz and Sam etc I’m beginning to feel perhaps they’re right – this is the first year when I’ve watched for people I hate rather than people I like, which can’t be good.

[Tracy-Ann Oberman]

whitenoisemaker said:

Does anyone else feel their blood pressure shooting through the roof during a BB watching sesh?

No housemate has ever enraged me and made my blood boil like Science from last year. Whenever he appeared and started talking shit (which was every time he opened his mouth) I started to seethe uncontrollably and had the urge to reach through the screen and throttle him.

No-one this year comes close to that level of hatred.

[LoveMusic]

Agreed! I LOATHED Science. I actually felt enraged.

[starchy]

I quite liked Science, perhaps because he gave Maxwell such a hard time. He attempts a synchronized swimming with Orla were quite cute.

Nush from BB4 on the other hand filled me with an unhealthy amount of rage. Simpering little snide. The fact that she didn't inhale when she smoked used to have me shouting at the screen and my flatmate's thought I had gone insane.

And when I read that she had been mugged after she got out of the house I didn't even feel sorry for her. God, I'm going to hell.

[booers]

It probably isn't good for blood pressure. I get very aggitated watching Pete as he is so fidgety. And Nikki The Twat does my head in. Last year I got really annoyed with Maxwell and Saskia, two of the vilest people ever on the show (I think Nikki is level with them right now). Old whinger Jason irritated me in series 5. And I remember being really annoyed when Penny didn't stand up for herself properly after Stuart was a bastard to her in series 2. Why do I watch it every year?!

[WhiteNoiseMaker]

starchy said:

I quite liked Science, perhaps because he gave Maxwell such a hard time.

It's so interesting to see people have violently different reactions to housemates, cos I too liked Science. Actually, I loved him - he's responsible for one of my all-time-favourite BB moments: when he threw a bin at Maxwell. Bin justice, I still label it in my head. It was marvellous because he then claimed it just slipped out of his hand - and even better than that, they sent him up to the loft, and he went in and I thought 'what would make this moment perfect would be if he appeared at the window and shouted 'Power to the people'. And he did! Well not shouted, petulantly mumbled, but it was sooooo good.

I hated Federico so much I started to make myself feel sick. I was in good company - the article that turned me into a raging Charlie Brooker fan was the Screen Burn in which he wrote 'I hate Federico. I hate him so much I'm already fantasising about killing him' before going into detail about how he'd do it. Still can't believe he got away with that onoe!

[somethingbiblical]

This is the only year that I've really avidly watched. I've only actually missed one program so far. I don't feel like I'm a big geeky freak or a voyeur as my mum calls me or anything. And I don't care if it's "trash", it genuinely gives me something to look forward to each night.

Kate Lawler I despised more than any other housemate. I really started to hate her after the Jade-exploiting they all did when only Jade ended up naked and the rest of them just watched and laughed. That's the only time I've ever screamed at Big Brother, when Johnny the Kate-perver and Kate the THICK BITCH came top over Alex and Jade, the only two likeable people of that entire series.

Favourite BB moment ever EVER is Alex hiding behind the door and singing "That's the way uh huh uh huh", and I don't think I have a favourite moment of this series. Maybe either Nikki's half-alphabet or Glyn admitting he had a stiffy after his Lea-lapdance.

[Essexgirl]

I never liked Jade.

My 75 year old mother was on the phone on Tuesday ranting about Grace. She hasn't been that het up since the Galloway/Barrymore vs Jodie/Chantelle arguments in Celeb BB. I hope it calms down a bit or she'll have a heart attack before the end of the series.

[drooboy]

I find my blood boiling every time Richard opens his mouth. Supercilious arse. Easily my least favourite housemate this year.

"Well what me and you do, it's not bitching, it's observing ..."

But of course it is.

My rage is doubled if he is wearing his Thunderbirds hat and quintupled if he also has on the one black glove.

[xenomaniac]

You have to treat it like a nature documentary. You know the poor little animal with the limp is gonna get ripped to shreds by the pack of wolves but you can't affect it. Emotional detatchment.

[somethingbiblical]

That's a good way of putting it. We all know exactly what we would say if we got put in there for a day, and it's enraging that we can't, but hey, the worse they get, the more we have to talk about. And at least people like Nikki (who I just wanted to help during the Mikey thing) will know exactly what went on when they get out.

[SweatShop]

I think it's bad if you have dreams where you're in the diary room facing the camera. Which I did. The only tiny bit I remember is seeing the camera facing me and the microphone in front of me.

Definately this year's house as well. I remember the seat having gold edges and the room being all black-padded.

[somethingbiblical]

On the subject of the diary room (and because I don't know where else to write it), the floor in there looks BOGGING... do these people never hoover (oh and I lol'd at Pete hoovering the grass when he did hoover)