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July 31, 2006
BB
Blimey, but then -given the extremely male chauvinistic ways he was so quick to show to the world, this piece of news comes as no real surprise.
By the by the best Big Brother Blog comes from Grace Dent at the Radio Times website. I particularly agree with what she had to say about the recent evictee the priggish gay (“but I’m not just about my sexuality“) Michael.
by groc at 05:49 PM | Comments (0)
July 25, 2006
Undoing Thatcherism - - -
one piece at a time.
So it's bye bye the ill-considered Child Support Agency.
by groc at 01:53 AM | Comments (0)
July 20, 2006
Big Borefest
This year’s Big Brother has got to be one of the most boring ever. Somehow or other Endemol in their increasingly strained efforts to keep things interesting and through their constant shit-stirring have ended up with the biggest group of uninteresting non-entities going (bar the one single person -that‘s Pete).
The thing is - this year no over-arching story has emerged to keep anyone’s interest. In the past two years we’ve had the triumph of the trans-gendered Nadia seeking and gaining a measure of acceptance from everyone. That year also had the back-story of the preying mantis-like Michele getting her mandibles into the poor hapless ‘Stu’ and not letting go - not until she’d got every last penny she could from selling her ‘love story’ to all the papers and celebrity magazines.
Last year it was the cringe-making car crash spectacle of gay Craig’s creepy unrequited fawning and stalking of the resolutely heterosexual go-go dancer Antony. (If I think hard I can just about remember characters like Makosi, and some geeky boy character and something about a fat girl doing something unmentionable and totally uncalled for on the lawn with a bottle... *shudder*)
In fact from week one this year it’s pretty obvious they’ve all been treading water until Pete wins. They could have just given him the prize money at the end of the first week. Shut the house down - left the inmates in there without telling them the show was over (they would never have noticed) - and we’d all have been happier.
So -off the top of my head, we had the first week of a hyperactive near-psychotic Asian queen who annoyed everyone in the house so much that they had to start bullying him to protect themselves - until he evicted himself. (Making me wonder if Endemol hadn’t again crossed the line and brought in psychologically fragile people just for the sake of the whole freak show element) Not so long after two other non-entities walked - well one was ’pushed’ out-(in a ’you can’t quit - we’re firing you.’ sort of a way.) Who’s left? There are so many invisibles there - no one bothers to evict them because they simply forget they’re there. Doing not much - just taking up space and eating food. There’s the two poufs - one Canadian, tall and just ordinary - everyone in the house seems to hate him. The other is younger and has obviously read far too many self-help books and gone on too many courses. The other thing I’ve noticed has been the usual innumerable giant fake breasts and over bleached hair on some of the women. Someone at Endermol must have a rather unhealthy fixation/fetish on women with unfeasibly large silicon enhancements. Oh, I also remember there was the endless mind numbing, totally retarded bitch-fests that went on amongst the women Oh yeah, that was so entertaining my hand kept hitting the remote to check what else was on.
Then there was the whole Kit-kat ticket fiasco. Mmmmm -so out of a number of random tickets the housemates -totally by chance manage to pick the one person there who’s previously been through - was it two auditions for the show? To the point where a few of the housemates had already met her? Yeah. That sort of thing happens all the time… *cough* Now piss on my chips and call it vinegar. I’ll believe you. Oh and by sheer coincidence she has melon sized breast implants - mmmm?
In short this is a show long past it’s prime - it’s gone from interesting and diverting to freak show and back round to desperate and boring again. It needs to be put to rest now.
The trouble is that there’s nothing else on any other channels anywhere to watch now (especially now the Doctor Who season has ended) - it’s the quiet-as a grave Summer season mired in endless repeats.
*sighs* I guess I need dvds - and by the bloody crate full to get me over this dreary period.
by groc at 02:33 PM | Comments (2)
July 10, 2006
ID cards doomed
What? Has good sense finally started to prevail?
Have a few ministers realised that as with all the other previous computer projects that they've been sold a lot of obscenely expensive snake oil?
Or is that being too optimistic?
by groc at 01:59 AM | Comments (1)
July 03, 2006
everything except credit cards...
by groc at 01:51 AM | Comments (0)