Big Brother 9 - general thread and sweepstake

[Adrian]

Jul 18, 2008 22:46:18 GMT mcqueen said:

why Lisa is now my favourite housemate.

Oh. I liked that, but I had imagine a "get that cock down ya throat" scenario, and nothing could live up to it.

[Chris]

Plus she looks amazing in a bin-liner. Not many women can say that.

Kudos to Belinda for getting the word "vulva" into her eviction interview.

[emma]

Kudos indeed, though it put me in mind of Jen's saturated fishy knicker rant.

[audrey notwhatsheusedtobe]

Stu's crying in the diary room will definitely see him to the final at least. I do feel really bad for him, he does seem like a genuinely sweet person. His guyliner didn't run, maybe he uses the same brand as Jen?

I loved it last night when Rex was asking the group if they knew what an artichoke was and Dale got all defensive, because of course Rex is the only person with this mysterious knowledge and he's lording it over the others... it's an artichoke man! Post-BB Rex should bring out a cook book about how to create meals from the crappiest contents of your cupboard - I'm intrigued to see what he's going to do with all that plain flour, eggs and tuna.

I felt a bit sorry for Darnell because he does have a sight problem and that would have made the shopping task pretty hard. But he should just SAY he can't see properly instead of pretending there isn't an issue. I guess he doesn't want to be tarred with the Mikey brush and admittedly, who would?

[fused]

Belinda's eviction interview was probably the best so far this series. Admittedly that's not hard as with the exception of Sylvia all the others have been dull. But Belinda was pretty good with getting her "vulva" comment in and the way she completely overshadowed Davina. It's a shame she was never that entertaining in the house, but I suppose she's someone who needs "an audience".

Lisa is a lot better since Mario left. I liked her in her bin-liner outfit.

[Feral]

I thought Belinda came across really well in the eviction interview. She genuinely seemed to be a decent intelligent person with a warm heart – I was dreading the crowd doing their usual booing thing, but she seemed to get the first non-hateful reception of the series, which was nice. Loved her description of Lisa: 'incredibly fake, but one of the most genuine people in there', and loved the fact that when she was asked who she wanted to win, she didn't listen to the crowd all shouting Darnell etc, but chose Dale (despite the fact she knew he'd nominated her), "because he's honourable, he has great integrity, he's not playing a game, he's a nice-looking man. He's a clever man; you talk to that guy, he's an extraordinary fellow." It was perfect fodder to wind up the Dale-haters.

I want Mikey to go next. He was such an arse over the shopping, just demanding chocolate with no thought of the limited budget or anyone else in the house. I doubt he'll be up, but he absolutely deserves to. He adds nothing much to the house other than moaning and complaining.

Rex was on a bit of a roll last night post eviction, flipping between self-pity, agression and being actually being quite entertaining. He, Stu and Dale were very funny trying to sneakily cook and eat a pizza. Rachel got it pretty harshly from him though: link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1513658766/bclid1527697126/bctid1676369108
I think he sort of had a point, vaguely, even though I do like Rachel. All those pent up opinions are surely going to burst out spectacularly at some point in her life.

[al]

I'm with Feral BB on both counts - Belinda was awesome, and Mikey to go next.

Davina actually seemed to be struggling during the eviction interview - God forbid she encounters a housemate that actually displays personality, or doesn't give her the opportunity to get on her high horse. It's sad Belinda's gone. I initially had her down as just Jayne Kitt with class, but in hindsight, she was brilliant.

Mikey, however, is vile. The whining and griping is just getting too much. And worse, I can't get that image of him performing cunnilingus on the Sun-Pat out of my head.

[Muinimula]

New task going on at the moment to decide the next Head of House. 3 housemates have to hang from a tyre, and the winner becomes HoH.

It's between...

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Dale, Maysoon & Rebecca.

I actually hope Maysoon gets it, just to see what she'd do.

[adamski]

I don't get the love for Belinda at all. She came across as v. insincere, as though she is literally playing a role all the time. I did, however, love the montage of her singing.

I think both Bex, Lisa and Stuart are great value, for different reasons. Darnell's treatment of Sara was unforgiveable. I love Sara for her accent alone.

Mo and his belly can just fuck off.

That is all.

[amphibian23]

Jul 19, 2008 12:32:25 GMT Feral said:

Rex was on a bit of a roll last night post eviction, flipping between self-pity, agression and being actually being quite entertaining. He, Stu and Dale were very funny trying to sneakily cook and eat a pizza. Rachel got it pretty harshly from him though: link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1513658766/bclid1527697126/bctid1676369108
I think he sort of had a point, vaguely, even though I do like Rachel. All those pent up opinions are surely going to burst out spectacularly at some point in her life.

Just when I was starting to get Rex's appeal a tiny bit....Mr 'I love throwing away mobile phones' has no right to tell other people about living in the real world.

Isn't it actually pretty normal to express your opinions about other people in a reasonable and non-obsessive way? It's not like she's never said anything bad about anyone.

I can see how her primary school manner annoys her housemates but this supposed 'fence-sitting'? No. She approaches issues w/other people in a way that suggests she wants to resolve them - e.g. with Lisa after Mario was evicted - rather than bitching for the sake of bitching.

[emma]

This is what I keep saying. If they'd just say "Rachel annoys me" then fine. Why do they have to construct this huge Machiavellian gameplan?

[Deleted]

Darnell, stop moaning that everyone is grew up in England and how you're the odd one out because it's your fault that you're stuck in England and was deported from where you grew up because of your illegal activites you cretin!

[fused]

I really like Rachel. She was right when she was telling Darnell to stop feeling sorry for himself, and I thought she kind of pwned Rex as well- she's happy with herself, which is more than can be said for Rex.

[joshjones]

I enjoy the bond between Rex and Rachel, on those rare occasions when he isn't being condescending to her. She listens to him and lets him be the person he is behind all that bluster. I'm also glad she's there to help Kat, who otherwise probably would have had a full scale Cookie Love Crumble by now.

Not sure if this needs a spoiler, but just in case:

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I'm surprised Dale wanted to be HOH. He's made himself a potential target now. Is Dale just going to make the easiest choice and have all the Hell people go over to Heaven?

Mikey and Luke insist Mo and Kat be strongly punished for jumping a fence. I don't remember Mikey and Luke moaning because Bex wasn't really punished for breaking a mirror. They could at least try to pretend they aren't two-faced.

[Feral]

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Maysoon and Dale basically worked out who to take into Heaven while they were competing in the HOH task, I think. They both agreed to pick each other at least. But the suspicion seems to be that they'll cut the number of heavenly housemates to 5, so he might have to ditch someone from the list.

If I was in the house, I think I'd avoid HOH like the plague. But he seemed to really want it last week, and I guess seeing Darnell basically self destruct with power hasn't put him off. I'd still be interested to see someone like Maysoon or Rachel doing it, but at least it isn't Luke or Mikey.

[Feral]

HOH's picks for heaven this week:

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Dale chose Rex, Stu, Luke, Maysoon and Bex. Only 5 allowed this time round.

[joshjones]

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I thought Lisa was sick from the food she's had to eat on the Hell side. All the work she's done and people who just lay on the bed and whinge are the ones who got the reward. I guess Mario was right about how the others in the house see Lisa.

I wonder how Mikey will cope without his moaning partners, and if Rex is going to join in more with Luke and Bex since he doesn't have any friends in that group. I wouldn't be surprised if he walks or gets voted out after another week on the Heaven side.

[Feral]

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Rex, Stu and Dale have been hanging about together quite a lot for the last couple of weeks, and he enjoys winding up Bex, so I don't imagine he'll be too unhappy necessarily. He was saying the other night he was wanting away from Mo etc anyway.

I think Lisa just suffers from the fact that she is vaguely able to cook, so if Rex is in Heaven she pretty much has to be in Hell to cook for them all. Dale nommed her last week, so I suppose she was always likely not to get chosen. Its a bit of a pity for her though, given how hard she worked. Being stuck with Mikey in Hell can't be much fun...

[mcqueen]

Im not opening those spoilers- but will the HOH task be on the show tonight with the head and heaven revealed then?

[Vinegar Tits]

Apparently up for eviction this week are

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Mo and Darnell