Are Big Brother Viewers Worse Than Daily Mail Readers?

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ultros

02-08-2014

Originally Posted by Alrightmate:
“Oh no!! Please don't unleash ULTROS???

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It's too late... ULTROS CANNOT BE STOPPED NOW !!!

Originally Posted by xNATILLYx:
“What plan? - create another 200 anti-chris threads
He should be quaking in his flip flops then with fear”

That is the start of my plan yes... but I'll come up with something else by Friday

ultros

02-08-2014

Originally Posted by moogester:
“It was discussed on The DS live show thread for 25 July at 21.56, BB May not have shown it chronologically, but it was aired after Zoe had been saved - more producer manipulation ”

Damn

Annsyre

02-08-2014

Originally Posted by ultros:
“Daily Mail readers are notorious for jumping on bandwagons.

The comment Zoe was shown to have made happened at the beginning of last Friday's eviction/highlights show yet she ended up receiving the least votes to be evicted that day in a 4 way vote and got a pretty good crowd reception.

Fast forward to this week after a bit of rabble rousing saying people should be outraged by what she said and she is public enemy number one being evicted and booed.

It's echoes when the DM told people they should be outraged with Russell Brand & Jonathan Ross over Sachsgate (which was admittedly a pretty shitty thing to do) yet nobody seemed bothered with when it actually happened a week earlier.”

The Daily Mail is the best selling daily paper in the UK.

BB is one of the least watched programmes in the UK

No comparison

Enidan

02-08-2014

Originally Posted by PercyBysshe:
“I am both a DM reader and a BB viewer and I don't jump on bandwagons. I think for myself and feel sorry for Zoe.”

So what do you think about the Daily Mail?

wonkeydonkey

02-08-2014

Originally Posted by ultros:
“But all that changed when the rabble rousers told their sheep they should be offended by Zoe saying she wants to burn Tesco workers

The truth is Zoe was one of the nicest most unoffensive people in BB this year who didn't seem to have a bad bone in her body, didn't bitch about anyone, didn't pick on anyone or talk smack behind peoples backs like most of the others do... yet because we were told we should be offended by an out of context at best, misguided at worst comment she made she was vilified evicted & booed.

I feel sheepish just being a witness to it all ”

It's never very polite to jeer at and pass judgment on other people just because they didn't vote the way you hoped. I am not sure which of the three evictees you saw as bad and bitchy, but people obviously didn't agree with you.

Where do you imagine the rabble rousers address their sheep? On BBOTS, which has about a third the viewing figures of BB? Or on here, perhaps, which probably has less than 100th as many people? Or could it be that people just voted because they had watched BB and formed an opionion, and that you are not actually the only viewer capable of independent thought?

Originally Posted by Annsyre:
“The Daily Mail is the best selling daily paper in the UK.

BB is one of the least watched programmes in the UK

No comparison”

Oooh I don't think it is. I once watched a (terrestrial) programme which had official viewing figures of zero. The Mail is not the best selling paper btw; it has the most viewed website, but the Sun still has more paper readers.

ultros

02-08-2014

Originally Posted by wonkeydonkey:
“Where do you imagine the rabble rousers address their sheep?”

On a hill of course (twitter)

Theredendi

02-08-2014

I couldn't say, but I'd say making sweeping generalisations about groups of people is quite Daily Mail-ish.

aggs

02-08-2014

Originally Posted by ultros:
“It's too late... ULTROS CANNOT BE STOPPED NOW !!!

That is the start of my plan yes... but I'll come up with something else by Friday ”

So people are only sheep when they don't jump on your bandwagon?

Conehead

02-08-2014

Trolus. Anag.

Annsyre

02-08-2014

Originally Posted by wonkeydonkey:
“It's never very polite to jeer at and pass judgment on other people just because they didn't vote the way you hoped. I am not sure which of the three evictees you saw as bad and bitchy, but people obviously didn't agree with you.

Where do you imagine the rabble rousers address their sheep? On BBOTS, which has about a third the viewing figures of BB? Or on here, perhaps, which probably has less than 100th as many people? Or could it be that people just voted because they had watched BB and formed an opionion, and that you are not actually the only viewer capable of independent thought?

Oooh I don't think it is. I once watched a (terrestrial) programme which had official viewing figures of zero. The Mail is not the best selling paper btw; it has the most viewed website, but the Sun still has more paper readers.”

You are right, it is the second highest selling newspaper.

Penny Crayon

02-08-2014

Originally Posted by ultros:
“Rubbish!

Nobody seemed to take offense to her as a person and how she came across when she was saved first with the least votes to evict & cheered barely a week ago last Friday.

But all that changed when the rabble rousers told their sheep they should be offended by Zoe saying she wants to burn Tesco workers

The only other comment people seemed to take offense to came days after the 'get evil Tesco bashing Zoe out' campaign started, and was when SHE WAS TRYING TO HELP THEM WIN THE TASK by innocently saying that maybe she may be a bit further up the line because of her interesting stories... in the most interesting housemate poll.
And this little thing gave the sheep an opportunity to not feel so sheeplike and say 'see I knew she was stuck up' in their little sheepy minds

You could even tell that Emma was embarrassed that she had to tell Zoe she was voted out because of a single comment that she obviously didn't mean maliciously. Her only other reasoning was Ashleigh's excuse that Zoe was too happy all the time, which she later conceded to Rylan was a crock of sh*t considering people have been complaining that this series has been too miserable & nasty.

The truth is Zoe was one of the nicest most unoffensive people in BB this year who didn't seem to have a bad bone in her body, didn't bitch about anyone, didn't pick on anyone or talk smack behind peoples backs like most of the others do... yet because we were told we should be offended by an out of context at best, misguided at worst comment she made she was vilified evicted & booed.

I feel sheepish just being a witness to it all ”

when you put it like that it does all seem ridiculous doesn't it?

Zoe was the sacrificial lamb this week to save Chris as Jale was a few weeks ago to save Ashleigh.

Zoe didn't offend me in the slightest. I do think she's genuinely a nice person. The way characters are assassinated to manipulate the programme dynamics is getting ridiculous I agree.

paralax

02-08-2014

At it gets closer to the end, anyone more popular than your fave has to go. So bashing the others happens but it goes too far when it is a campaign by the channel

If us plebs do it, understandable, but not producers and presenter.

sammyvan

02-08-2014

Originally Posted by GazzaBB:
“It's a bit too generalised to say 'the same' because both situations are completely different.

I disliked Zoe before the comment and disliked her a little more after it. People are people at the end of the day and I have no respect for anybody who has elitist thoughts or thinks that they are above anyone else or that their life holds more value than someone else's.

I strongly disagree with the idea that Chris is a creep and feel sorry for some people who can't look beyond this strange obsession with the fact that Chris is a man and Ashleigh is a woman and therefore they can't be around each other. Perhaps the world has just become way too focused on sex or something. I'm only a young'un myself.. but would find absolutely nothing wrong with being friends with an older person, male or female, in the Big Brother house and I'd also attempt to learn from them as a person if I could.. because humility in such situations is, in my opinion, an admirable trait.

EDIT: Just to give an answer relevant to the OP.. I agree to the extent that I believe people are much too easily led. Whether or not we want to admit it or not, it is human nature to follow the crowd. It's easy to believe what we want to believe or what we are told by others to believe, because that is the way of least conflict. Heck, the majority of the developed world have a world view that is significantly fabricated.”

A very wise post for a "Young'un".

PercyBysshe

02-08-2014

Originally Posted by Enidan:
“So what do you think about the Daily Mail?”

The DM is an excellent newspaper which is read by independent thinkers and hated by leftwing reactionaries.

Firewalker

02-08-2014

The Daily Mail is a right wing paper that loves to create fear and stir up righteous indignation amongst its small minded readership

BB is a show that is in its death throes, murdered by C5

poles apart in my view

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