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Post by marknyc on Jul 7, 2006 14:28:33 GMT
It just began in the US last night. A few weeks back they gave the public twenty former houseguests to vote on and the the top 14 have moved in.
Unlike the UK version, ALL the housemates do is discuss is voting, since they do the evictions among themselves (the public hasn't been trusted to vote since they kicked out the stripper in the first week of the first season).
I used to be a huge Will fan, but there is something less sexy about him some five years later. James is my favorite now, but that guy will never have a chance in hell. Poor James.
I'll keep everyone posted on any 'turkey-smack' business.
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Post by WhiteNoiseMaker on Jul 7, 2006 22:01:45 GMT
Isn't it 'turkey slapping'? And correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that somebody has made that term up after it happened on Aussie BB because the only references to it online are directly linked to that, and I asked loads of people at work including some people who would definitely have heard that term if it really existed... and nobody knew.
Anyway enough turkey slap/smacking. I watched an eviction from some US BB show on youtube and it seemed so bizarre, a presenter in some studio with no audience calmly talking to a load of very normal looking folk calmly sitting around, and then one of them very calmly leaving. Then I watched a bizarre house task quiz show thing that had more rules than Adam and Joe's Quizzle Stick and took about three hours to explain before a bout of po-faced gamesplaying began.
So in short I started to think that for all the hideous crassness of our show, I would miss the freaks if UK BB was more like US BB. Then again I would quite like to see more US BB action just as a further comparison - so is it actually any good Mark?
Hmm have they already done an 'allstars' in the UK? There was that BB pantomime a while ago at christmas, right? Anyone remember Teen BB either?
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 7, 2006 22:20:06 GMT
So LCers, if you could pick 14 former housemates for the UK allstars, who would it be, and why?
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Post by WhiteNoiseMaker on Jul 7, 2006 22:45:53 GMT
So LCers, if you could pick 14 former housemates for the UK allstars, who would it be, and why? Aah, Friday night, lowculture and Big Bro entries on Wikipedia: BB1: Anna - sweet and funny and I fancied her a bit Nasty Nick - 'life is a shit sandwich, and everyone has to take a bite' - the man, the myth, the made-up stories about his dead wife Darren - 'five thirty. Darren suggest the group carve barnyard animals out of potatos' For this alone he shall always have a place in my heart. BB2 Dean - bird rescuing, banana smoking brummie legend Helen - again, sweet and funny BB3 Spencer - loved how he sat alone in the garden for half his time there BB4 Gos - Did nothing but I liked him anyway, and anyway nobody else did anything on that series either Gaetano - not a proper housemate but I remember him calling someone 'a pig' was hilarious. Cool name too. Anouska - I admit as a filthy straight I enjoyed her bouncing pedalo antics far too much. was gutted when she was kicked out straight away BB5 Ahmed - missed nearly the whole series but this guy made an impression as being a bit unhinged BB6 Science - doled out bin justice and disagreed with everybody about everything for no reason in between doing a Citizen Smith impression Makosi - just awesome, so lowculture, perfect artifice and ridiculousness Derek - a studied eccentric rather than just a mad loon, nice change BB7 Can I go for current housemates? Yes I can given that nobody cares. Aisleyne - a diamond who cuts down the right people in the right way at the right time and calls people 'mantiefs'. I've also slowly started to find her prettier sans-slap as time's gone on That 14? well that's pretty much the only set of people I would like in there anyway. |
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Post by Bungle on Jul 7, 2006 22:48:08 GMT
The dead wife - I had forgotten that!
I'm going to dig out my BB Uncut VHS.
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Post by WhiteNoiseMaker on Jul 7, 2006 22:52:46 GMT
The dead wife - I had forgotten that! I'm going to dig out my BB Uncut VHS. how much big bro has changed is insane. We can never go back. If all that happened now there would be a massive eviction for Nick with baying hate mobs everywhere, not a quiet back door exit ('oh my god they've even got a camera there' exclaims Mel as Nick is led away) there were only eleven housemates on that series, and one of those was Clare who replaced Nick. This series there's been nine million people! |
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Post by Bungle on Jul 7, 2006 22:55:56 GMT
It has all changed so much. My abiding memory of the first series is Craig telling Anna about shagging his mate's wife on the car bonnet, then telling his mate that the car had just broken down. I remember thinking 'you're on national telly, and your mate is going to kill you!'
I wouldn't put Darren in, he was too dull. Doesn't anyone remember how boring the last week of Darren, Anna and Craig was? I remember people overhearing his nominations once, and him being allowed to redo them, which was not fair. It was Mel, I can't remeember who he changed it to.
People also hated Mel for very little reason.
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Post by Adrian on Jul 8, 2006 9:52:57 GMT
"She woz a slahhg, wa'n't she?"
Standard reason for hating most women on Big Brother. They're all either slags or bitches.
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Post by back to discos on Jul 8, 2006 11:44:38 GMT
the first series of Big Brother was such a huge deal, and rightly so.
I was in Holland but I still found out through the newspapers that Nasty Nick had cheated and was being chucked out.
How things do change indeed!
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Post by jode* on Jul 8, 2006 14:40:39 GMT
The housemates nowadays rarely talk about themselves, only about each other. And if they do it's only piss/sex stories. You never really get to know anyone anymore. Lea was there for six weeks and I don't even know the name of her son. I have no idea about peoples hobbies/interests etc, and I hate that.
I also used to like knowing what they were making for dinner every day and all of the genuine day-to-day living tasks. In the first series they only had one way of knowing the time - on the oven - and were not allowed any electrical razors/straighteners or a washing machine.
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Post by marknyc on Jul 8, 2006 15:30:38 GMT
Isn't it 'turkey slapping'? And correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that somebody has made that term up after it happened on Aussie BB because the only references to it online are directly linked to that, and I asked loads of people at work including some people who would definitely have heard that term if it really existed... and nobody knew. Anyway enough turkey slap/smacking. I watched an eviction from some US BB show on youtube and it seemed so bizarre, a presenter in some studio with no audience calmly talking to a load of very normal looking folk calmly sitting around, and then one of them very calmly leaving. Then I watched a bizarre house task quiz show thing that had more rules than Adam and Joe's Quizzle Stick and took about three hours to explain before a bout of po-faced gamesplaying began. So in short I started to think that for all the hideous crassness of our show, I would miss the freaks if UK BB was more like US BB. Then again I would quite like to see more US BB action just as a further comparison - so is it actually any good Mark? Hmm have they already done an 'allstars' in the UK? There was that BB pantomime a while ago at christmas, right? Anyone remember Teen BB either? Well, the show certainly isn't the public feeding that the UK version is. There is no weekly lynching equivalent. Instead, all the action happens among the housemates who must scheme, form alliances, scream, cry, lie and cheat in order to escape eviction. Come eviction night, everyone puts on their smiling faces because that is what they do all day: lie. The fun for the audience is watching the overall action and knowing more about what is going to happen than the housemates. The weekly cycle: Thursday: Head of Household competition - everyone competes individually to get the sole power to nominate two for eviction and a special bedroom. This time, there will be two 'HOH' each week and they must agree on who to nominate or they will be put up for eviction themselves. Friday: Food competition - In the past, if they lost they had peanut butter and jelly for the week as their only food. Apparently there is a twist on that this year. Saturday: Nomination Day - The Head of Household places the big gold house key of each member into a cylinder thing. Each person pulls their key until two people are left and then the Head of Household explains why their keys were withheld for nomination. Tuesday: Golden Power of Veto Competition - Here, the nominees for eviction, Head of Household and a houseguest each of their choosing compete for the power to block a nomination (they can choose to save themselves, obviously). Wednesday: Golden Power of Veto Ceremony - The winner of the competition announces if they are going to use the veto and which nominee they are going to save, if any. If they use it, the Head of Household must immediately nominate someone else other than the veto winner. Thursday: the housemates vote on who will be evicted. The Head of Household only votes if there is a tie. The nominees do not get a vote. When Julie Chen announces the result, the housemates only have a few minutes to prepare for the next Head of Household competition on live tv. They introduce a twist to each stage every year, so it may all change. |
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Post by somethingbiblical on Jul 8, 2006 21:14:49 GMT
Lea was there for six weeks and I don't even know the name of her son. Henry! I only found that out in the eviction though. And she called him 'H' too... is she TRYING to gay him up? |
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 8, 2006 23:30:02 GMT
I thought she was only calling him H to protect his identity.
But talking of Lea, in her porno she said her name was Lea Walker. Most pornstars use a false name. And since she has a son as well you'd think that would be even more of an incentive to use a porn name.
Then that got me to thinking whether her name isn't actually Lea Walker and that is her porn name?
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Post by somethingbiblical on Jul 8, 2006 23:34:32 GMT
Someone told me her name was Lisa
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Post by JJ on Jul 9, 2006 15:32:57 GMT
For a UK one, I'd pick:
BB1
Anna - because she was absolutely hilarious, and - a rarity on BB these days - a nice person.
Nick - don't think this really needs much explanation.
BB2
Narinder - a gobby cow and she would stir things up.
Paul - would be interesting to see him without Helen, and erm basically because apart from Brian I seem to remember all of the boys from this year being pretty crap!
BB3
Jade - she may not have been the original Big Brother Bimbo, but she was certainly the best.
Sandy - to see if he'd do a runner over the roof or piss in the bin this time. And he's the token older one.
BB4
Ray - a nice bloke, pretty entertaining. Would probably argue with the psychos of the latter BBS.
Lisa - well, she can kill someone with her two fingers, can't she?
BB5
Vanessa - a nasty little cow - we all need someone to hate.
Victor - he'd play the game, hate people like Jade and Narinder, cause shit etc.
BB6
Makosi - probably the best BB housemate ever. She'd do it all.
Kemal - to fight with Makosi. And bitch.
BB7
Aisleyne - would fight with Sezer and 'keep it real'. Picked her over Grace, because Grace just wouldn't bitch on her second time round!
Sezer - why not throw a prick in there, just for fun?
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Post by Joel on Jul 9, 2006 22:35:21 GMT
14? Right.
1-Anna; Caroline; Mel - to see how nice the people we used to think were bitches are; Andrew because he was fit though I reserve the right of veto if he's gone to seed in the meantime.
2-None of them. Narinder if I have to veto Andrew.
3-Jade: because she's Jade; Alex: for 'Sandy, be careful!' and hiding behind the door and for being quite fit.
4-No-one. They were all shit.
5-Nadia of course, Stuart and Michelle for the attendant trauma, Emma to reprise the bedsit.
6-Makosi so she can bitch-slap Davina when she goes out again
7-Aisleyne because she's awesome, Sezer because he's vile but Michelle would want to fuck him, Nikki because she's still hilarious.
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Post by ruthie on Jul 11, 2006 13:15:12 GMT
I would put Paul and Helen back in, to see if they could get back together. And because Paul's 'I have lived my life like an international pop star' is my favourite BB quote ever.
Alex from BB3 would have to be in too. We need someone pretty to look at.
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Post by Steven on Aug 9, 2006 14:37:19 GMT
Okay, now ruthie's pointed me to the right thread (thanks ruthie!), here are my 14:
S1: Caroline (because I loved her), Anna (because I loved her too, and want to give her another chance to actually win).
S2: Penny (hilarious), Narinder (ditto), Paul (to remind us what it was like when housemates were deluded in an amusingly painful way, rather than just a painful way)
S3: Kate (so we can correct history's dreadful mistake and vote the useless bint out first this time), Alison (in honour of her actually making an honest post-show living in showbiz without being annoying), Adele (I never understood why everyone thought she was evil, so let's give her another chance), Jade (can't not have her), Alex (I just liked him, okay?).
S4: None of those boring bastards, thanks.
S5: Nadia, dahling (again, she can't not be there), Shell (for naked lawnmowing).
S6: Didn't watch, don't want.
S7: Didn't watch, but must have: Nikki, Aisleyne.
And the whole thing would be commentated upon by Michelle and Emma from S5 in the bedsit.
Hmmm...mine is rather light on the men, isn't it?
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Post by smellslikesomeghost on Aug 9, 2006 18:55:05 GMT
I may change my mind, but off the top of my head I'd say;
[In off top of head order]
Anna ~ possibly the most likable contestant ever.
Alison ~ fun and bubbly and out too soon.
Victor~ I still think he was being ironic. he cracked me up and was way more lovely than that fool Jason.
Alex ~ hygienic, handsome and individual.
Nikki ~ screamy princess
Helen ~ cute and sweet
Grace ~ I like a bitch.
Stuart ~ I adored his childish flights of fancy which were marred only by his association with that hooer.
Richard (I know! But I have come to enjoy his pithy bitchy comments at nominations time.)
Nick ~ in some ways I think he was the only one to understand that it was a game show.
Makosi ~ until Makosi came along and showed everyone the art of manipulation
Mel ~ unfairly maligned. Interesting and gorgeous
Jon ~ Sweet and nerdy and imagine the chats he would have with...
Eugene ~ sweet and nerdy mark 2.
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