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Post by Chris on Jul 15, 2008 7:59:29 GMT
I know I was wrong last week, but it'll be Belinda. She's hated for such heinous crimes as jazz hands, singing and snoring, wheras Rex can happily sit there saying he feasts on the misery on others and stick his tongue out at a blind guy and it's still SEXXY REXXYY AND HIS DRY SARCASTIC HUMOUR THAT YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU ARE STOOPID! I'm really disappointed that Heaven and Hell is just the normal house divided by a fence. I wanted Luke to be accidentally set on fire by flames shooting out of the eyes of a giant portrait of Alex hanging in the bedroom. Or at least a chubby angel playing the harp.
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Post by pauliepoos on Jul 15, 2008 8:24:04 GMT
wheras Rex can happily sit there saying he feasts on the misery on others and stick his tongue out at a blind guy and it's still SEXXY REXXYY AND HIS DRY SARCASTIC HUMOUR THAT YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU ARE STOOPID Maybe I'm one of the STOOPID people but I like Rex and his dry sense of humour. He's not the best housemate ever, but he's probably the most interetesting and shrewd in there at the moment. He also still has his dignity, and dare I say it, a bit of class about how he conducts himself. That he's good looking, rich and posh will mean people hate him automatically And is there really any need for spoilers? It seems that most people in this thread reads digitalspy, if only to be able to mock it and it's members, so none of the comments are likely to spoil the enjoyment of the show for anyone.
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Post by coxy1979 on Jul 15, 2008 8:52:00 GMT
I also sometimes appreciate Rex's sense of humour and dignity, but the constant cries of "I hate it here", "It's all so dull" and "This is so beneath me" just makes me scream.
If you don't like it, just bloody leave.
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Post by Feral on Jul 15, 2008 9:18:03 GMT
Belinda will almost certainly go. Not least because all the SEXYREXXY fans will vote a thousand times each to make sure their beloved hero stays. I think its a bit of a pity, cos she seems fundamentally quite nice and quite smart. But I can totally understand the other housemates nominating her because of the snoring thing. Rex's sense of humour is occassionally fine when he actually displays it. But unfortunately he usually just concentrates on boring everyone in the house to tears with tedious tales of his allegedy fanscinating life. Mostly consisting of him boasting about how wealthy he is. And how much better he is than everyone else in the house. At everything. I don't think he's actually particularly interesting, particularly shrewd, particularly smart, particularly dignified, or particularly classy. He just thinks he is all of these things, which is quite a big difference. He's not the worst in the house though – Mikey pisses me off more than any of the others I think, because he is quite happy to demand special treatment while going on about how he doesn't want special treatment, and take advantage of Rachel's kindness and then slate her behind her back. He's not even ocassionally entertaining like Bex (or even Luke, to begin with) are. Dale's voting for himself with a massive tick and an proud wee smile was so sweet. Of course inevitably some of the DSers were slating him for the unconscionable arrogance of voting for himself. How utterly shocking.
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Post by joshjones on Jul 15, 2008 9:25:52 GMT
I think Rex can be very patronizing and treats his supposed friends with little respect, but I don't quite know why his sticking his tongue out at Mikey was bad. I went over to DS and saw a long thread saying how outrageous this was and Rex had gone too far. Didn't Mikey say he wanted to be treated just like anyone else? He's rude, selfish, ungrateful, he relies on the good will of other people in the house, but if anyone ever treats him with the same contempt he treats other people with, suddenly he's a victim.
I know everyone in BB can be a walking, talking hypocrite, but Luke and Mikey make a practice of saying one thing and doing another, along with playing the victim. I also think they both have a much more condescending attitude about the housemates and the show itself than anyone else there, even Rex.
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Post by cathybradford on Jul 15, 2008 9:41:54 GMT
It's a bit anybody's game at the moment, usually by now we can see a clear winner or two. Kat, Darnell or Dale could quite easily snatch it but are not in a position where they couldn't complety fuck it up too (especially Dale and Darnell). I think even Lisa and Rachel might be good outside bets too, sort of under the radar but popular enough that given the right defining 'Big Brother Winner' moment to shine could take it. The others barely stand a chance, it's only Rex I'm not sure about. When I look at the betting odds, Luke and Mikey are in the top three or four. I think Luke's second favourite to win now. I know Luke gets all the airtime and some people might be amused by his constant bitching or by his "journey" with Bex, or by the rampant self-righteousness about gameplaying from one of the fakest people in the house, but is this enough to make him one of the most popular? I know Mikey is blind but he just seems to bitch, expect people to give him special treatment (then when Rachel did help him, he went on about her behind her back), and behave oddly. The rest of the group isn't that bad, surely. Are these based on opinions from early on and the betters are reluctant to change them because they got last year's winner wrong? Or do Luke and Mikey just have a lot of fans? I think it's because betting odds depend on many things. Not just us fans on the outside world. Part of the reasons why Dales odds have shortened so much is because no-one's nominating him in the house which if continues guarantees his place in the final thus putting him in a position to win. And that's why Mikey is so high I think, kinda this thinking 'no-one's gonna nominate the blind guy' and as such he's a shoe-in for the final too. And I think the same goes for Luke somewhat, he's a bit of a joke in the house and as such avoids the nominations. If he was being up (or almost up) for eviction every week ala Rex/Mario his odds would soon drop.
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Post by Rad on Jul 15, 2008 10:18:06 GMT
And is there really any need for spoilers? It seems that most people in this thread reads digitalspy, if only to be able to mock it and it's members, so none of the comments are likely to spoil the enjoyment of the show for anyone. Yes please, I am one of the saddos who doesn't like to know who's up for eviction until they've seen the nominations show.
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Post by raven on Jul 15, 2008 15:21:38 GMT
Is really Rex really that popular? I would love it if Belinda Belinda Belinda stays. Mainly because it would annoy the house.
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Post by Muinimula on Jul 15, 2008 15:32:14 GMT
Someone in "the other place" just used the phrase:
"Rex IS Mr Darcy."
Without irony. Or sarcasm. There aren't enough LOLs.
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Post by pauliepoos on Jul 15, 2008 17:42:20 GMT
Maybe it's just me but it seems like this thread is becoming more focused on the Digital Spy forum's take on Big Brother than it is about Big Brother itself.
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Post by joshjones on Jul 15, 2008 17:46:46 GMT
Nomination spoilers I think it's stupid for Darnell to nominate Rex. Not only because he will seem two-faced even if genuinely does think Rex wants to go, but if Rex does leave, then Darnell becomes the #1 target of many other people in the house.
Dale's nominations were much smarter, since now people can't say he does the same nomination every week. If he'd been in some of the other series, he probably would have won. This one, I don't see it happening, but we'll see.
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Post by Chris on Jul 15, 2008 18:11:50 GMT
I can't believe I'm pissed off with someone for nominating Rex, but if Darnell hadn't been allowed to use the "he just wants to go home to see his girlfriend" bullshit excuse that I thought was banned after it was literally the only reason anybody ever nominated anybody in BB1 then Bex (HATE!) would probably be going home instead of Belinda (LOVE!).
Unless he'd nominated Lisa instead, leading to Lisa vs Belinda and me putting a hit out on him.
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Post by Muinimula on Jul 15, 2008 21:35:18 GMT
Maybe it's just me but it seems like this thread is becoming more focused on the Digital Spy forum's take on Big Brother than it is about Big Brother itself. Sorry. Working a lot of evenings recently, so don't tend to see BB live, but rather catch up in internet places, hence comment on what I hear rather than what I see. What have we learnt today: > Lisa peeled thousands of potatoes when she was in catering. > Lisa saw a "little green man" when she was a teenager. > Rex delights in other people's misfortune. > Rex spends £80 on an average day. > Ignoring all the snoring and the jazz singing, Belinda is wonderfully articulate and it's a shame she's being targeted. > Lisa drawing our attention to the fact that Rex has 3, not 2, restaurants was the best laugh of the episode. > And I smiled at "Big Brother reminds housemates not to sit on the fence" being turned on Rachel. I admire Dale if he actually planned that. > Dear God, I'd hate to clean all that up. > I liked when Bex tried to look demure for two seconds after the "respect the fixtures and fittings" announcement, before hurling even more chickpeas.
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Post by emma on Jul 15, 2008 21:53:07 GMT
What IS it they've all got with Rachel? Okay, she's not a sparkling conversationalist but she's gone out of her way to be basically nice and calm and decent in the face of outrageous bastardry and all it does is get her accused of the underhand shit EVERYONE ELSE is doing.
Then the evicition interviews basically go:
EVICTEE: Rachel's a sly bitch DAVINA: No, she actually is just nice EVICTEE: Meh
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Post by Feral on Jul 15, 2008 22:13:43 GMT
Bloody hell, that was a proper food fight. I would so have loved that. Also, Dale runs like a total girl when he's excited.
I think the thing with Rachel is that she is trying to avoid ever having to express an opinion on anything, which is bound to get a little annoying after a while if you're actually in the house with her.
Rex was being particularly smug and vile in the first half of the HL today. I was desperately willing somebody to trump his "I spend, y'know at least £80 on an average day... maybe £100", with some ridiculous figure: "Well thats nothing, I spend at least 5 grand, maybe 10 grand. An hour." And so on... But nobody did. Boo.
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Post by Steven on Jul 15, 2008 22:55:52 GMT
What IS it they've all got with Rachel? Okay, she's not a sparkling conversationalist but she's gone out of her way to be basically nice and calm and decent in the face of outrageous bastardry and all it does is get her accused of the underhand shit EVERYONE ELSE is doing. Then the evicition interviews basically go: EVICTEE: Rachel's a sly bitch DAVINA: No, she actually is just nice EVICTEE: Meh I'm fairly certain the concept of a nice person with no real agenda is utterly incomprehensible to 99.9% of the people who go on this show. I have to admit, even I'm wondering why a nice person with no real agenda would want to be on this show.
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Post by cathybradford on Jul 15, 2008 23:27:37 GMT
I think the thing with Rachel is that she is trying to avoid ever having to express an opinion on anything, which is bound to get a little annoying after a while if you're actually in the house with her. This is the thing that bugs me. The only reason people think she doesn't have an opinion is because it keeps being said she doesn't and that's just because she won't tell the likes of Rex what she hates about Belinda and doesn't get involved in pointless little arguments which mean nothing to her anyway. I mean she was one of the first to take on Alex, when Bex and Jen were stirring trouble she was the one who went up to them and said they were being pathetic, when Stu was whinging about how everyone in the outside world must hate him and thinks he's arrogant she told him he was. Those are opinions but quite unusually she says them when they need to be said to the person they need to be said to. It's very telling that most of those who have called her 'fake' (Bex, Jen, Lisa, Stuart) are the very ones she has truthfully confronted and has made to look like fools. Often when faced with honesty in a way that isn't liked people try to attach a sense of duplicity to the person delivering it. Also I think she also makes it quite obvious about who her 'mates' are and who she hasn't got time for in just the way she conducts herself, not in a nasty way but a sort of 'keep away and don't play with' way which of course is faker than if you fawned all over them in a 'I love you all, even if I hate you' Sara/Belinda way. It's the law (well for some) that if you think that someone doesn't like you they're fake and paradoxically the more you think they show they don't like you the faker they become.
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Post by Chris on Jul 16, 2008 7:19:17 GMT
According to post-show interviews with Mario (so y'know, cellar of salt required) some people who were in the house were at the same call-backs as Rachel and she was VERY different. Loud, bolshy, and a bit of a bitch.
Apparently this has lead them to believe that she's faking it in the house. I think it probably means she was faking it in the call-backs.
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Post by Feral on Jul 16, 2008 8:37:45 GMT
Apparently this has lead them to believe that she's faking it in the house. I think it probably means she was faking it in the call-backs. Probably. Most people who get in seem to have acted up in the auditions, presumably on the basis that they know they only put you in if you act like a bit of twat. Its a bit like the VTs they show at the start, which rarely bear much resemblance to what people are actually like. I don't necessarily think Rachel is fake. But I know she would annoy a bit me if I was sharing a house with her. Though with Mikey and Rex and Mo and the like in the house, she'd not exactly be top of my list of irritations....
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Post by cathybradford on Jul 16, 2008 10:57:08 GMT
And also considering they all go on about how they dislike Rex and/or his behaviour and considering that unlike Rachel they are upfront people not scared to say what they think why does it only seem to be Rachel who'll actually pull Rex up and put him in his place when he's being a twat (well without flying off the handle ala Bex and Jen and thus giving him exactly what he wants anyway)?
And Rachel is one of the few who does actually seem to quite like Rex.
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Post by fused on Jul 16, 2008 11:23:50 GMT
Rachel seemed a bit hyper in her introduction video, but she's hardly the only one who was ever different than they turned out to be on the show- Dale and Maysoon are two other examples from this year.
Rachel seems a pleasant enough girl and she can be funny. The only thing that irritates me about her is that she tends to patronise everybody.
Was Rex's ancient "7,8,9" joke an example of his "dry, ironic humour"? Was it his "HELL no" from another episode? Is it that he's a bit nasty to people "but doesn't really mean it, lolz"? Is it all because some people fancy him? I don't mind Rex sometimes, but I don't think he's particularly witty.
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Post by emma on Jul 16, 2008 11:47:43 GMT
See, nominating her because she's boring or you just plain don't like her-that's the whole point. But apart from the fact that people constantly decry her for stuff she's not doing-IN THE FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY THEMSELVES ARE DOING THE SAME STUFF-it irritates me when they get out, slag her in the post eviction interview for being "two faced" and show absolutely no remorse or embarrassment when they're informed that not only did she not backstab anybody, they themselves did and everyone in the country saw it. The level of unwarranted self importance here is breathtaking even for Big Brother contestants.
On the subject of unwarranted self-importance, Jen's got three pages in Heat, of which two and nine tenths are about Dale and when asked if she missed her daughter: "Oh...yeah I mean...totally" then went back to burbling about being misunderstood.
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Post by Muinimula on Jul 16, 2008 23:53:54 GMT
I heart Rachel as a mime. Can she just be like that all the time?
I didn't understand what Rex's diary entry with "I've learned so much, I'm a different person" was all about.
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Post by Feral on Jul 17, 2008 7:09:29 GMT
I didn't understand what Rex's diary entry with "I've learned so much, I'm a different person" was all about. Winning, I think. He's been on a journey in the house. Allegedly.
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Post by Steven on Jul 17, 2008 10:51:16 GMT
I wonder how long it'll take him to break out Pete's infamous "there's no God if I don't win" routine.
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