Oh, has he been on Big Brother then ?

I am pretty sure most of our politicians are good at spelling but that does not stop them from behaving like brainless morons.

Intelligence is not about how good you spell its about how good you think.......

But it all fits together so perfectly. I'll bet at the age of 29 his mother still takes his dinners to him in his bedroom. He's never washed a dirty plate and he'd suffocate under a pile of dirty clothes if someone else didn't put them in the washing machine for him.
He's most likely never stuck a job for more than a few months and failed miserably at school.
But for all that he still thinks he's the voice of reason and the rest of them must never question his words of wisdom.
Like most z-lister wannabes he has absolutely zero credible life goals because that would involve doing some real work.
He's a bit tragic really.

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What you're saying would be all well and good if Danny was not pompous. He's the dumbest and most arrogant house mates. The intelligent house mates (Nick, Marc and Joel) could be reasoned; Danny would just fly off the handle and has always been too arrogant to consider the possibility that he was in the wrong.

What is really disturbing is that whenever the occasional intelligent housemate is put in they are automatically the subject of derision and suspicion as though knowing who the Prime Minister is or what the War was about, is a sign of being some evil and dark necromancer.

As a viewer, I'm not embarrassed by the stupidity of people I have only ever seen on the TV.
They should be embarrassed for themselves though (although I don't think any of them are self-aware enough).

Couldn't agree more. Well said.

Sadly we now live in a world which has indeed 'dumbed down', whether or not that's put on I'm not too sure. I do think BB contestants (& other reality shows), want people who aren't that bright, or who are good at pretending to be stupid (think Brian Belo), he's made a career out of appearing to be thick. It gets them to places they could only have dreamed of before. Little wonder more & more aspire to that when that's all producers are looking for!
Stupidity is applauded nowadays, people want to be 'famous', not to be famous for something admirable, but, 'just famous', & clearly think all that involves is being on the front cover of a magazine. Doesn't matter if said photograph/s involves salacious gossip, compromising pics, fat/thin pictures, anything like that is considered to be 'making it'.

I agree with you, maybe next year bb should ask for intelligent people to apply, so one does not upset the viewers

I am more embarrassed for people who open thread after thread just to show how stupid certain housemates are. Yeah it´s really funny to mock people who aren´t that intelligent isn´t it? Especially when it´s about the housemate that is hated because he wasn´t a fan of the forums fave.

It's a combination of "the Forrest Gump/ Bambi effect" whereby those of us who can spell simple words and know the difference between the sun and the moon are supposed to go "Awwww, cute"... and if we don't there is always the Inverted Snobbery card to play: we must be discriminating against the Deliberately Thick and are therefore cruel and stuck up.
There's little to be gained in BB from revealing you know some stuff, but potentially quite a lot from pretending you don't.

I asked my 7, 9 and 11 y.o. granddaughters, how to spell canoe, plus a few other more difficult questions, and was glad to say they passed. I began to worry about what sort of state education they were getting after watching the show.

I think it's more concern and disappointment than mocking. Tbh there's nothing that's hilarious about someone in their twenties being ignorant of basic things that an 11-year-old is able to grasp. Also, I think that a lot of people are tired of over saturation of the dumbing down and worship of stupidity.

Well props to your family. Obviously the children in your family are being raised right.

Yeah thats the thing. Why does everyone assume he is ignorant and doesn´t want to learn? When did he ever say that? What he said was that he learned so much from Joel and thinks that is a great thing. Maybe he has a learning disability and it takes him longer to learn something new.

And who worshipes stupidity? I never seen anyone who does that.

Have you read the thread? No, it's not even vaguely funny that a grown man is that ignorant and is so arrogant about his ignorance.

I do think it's become more accepted recently, though. I recall Jade BB3's hms having that facial expression somewhere between astonishment and amusement when she came out with some of her worse statements. Contrast that with the hms' apparently genuine high regard for Danny spelling canoe. Apart from Nick, who was definitely finding it hard not to laugh, they were genuinely impressed. Watching it, I felt like an alien visitor.

Because sometimes actions speak louder than words. Does someone who doesn't even know how to spell an easy 5 letter word, who the 1st man on the moon was or What Issac Newton is famous for sound like a person that's adequately versed in basic knowledge? Don't you think that someone who actually wants to learn and build on knowledge would already know basic level facts as the one's stated above?

Society worships stupidity. That's why in part Jade Goody, Brian Belo and Joey Essex have done so well.



Well if he has a learning disability then fair enough but i doubt BB would be that callous to assault someone with a diagnosed learning disability with a spelling task.

It didn´t look like he was serious about that. He just said the first name coming to his mind at this moment. And i bet a lot of people under 40 don´t know the answer. I am not english and i didn´t know how to spell canoe either because i never ever had to use that word.

I remember a BB contestant asking if there is a train from England to New York. Now THAT is what i call dumb. That are things that annoy me. Not beeing able to spell and not knowing who was the first man on the moon is not good but isn´t the most awful thing either.

That's complete different if English isn't your 1st language.

Seriously?? Folks don't know about Neil Armstrong Or Buzz Aldrin? If that's true that, no wonder there's a panic about young Brits not being up to scratch in terms of education.

I'm more concerned at the rise of the 'tell it as it is' and 'only I tell the trooth' type of nasty HM, and the support they garner because its "entertaining" - perhaps it may be true that people who like the "dumb" HMs identify with them, it is also the same for those who love the nasty ones.

Canoe is not a word that crops up everyday. In fact, a HM stated when is Canoe ever really going to come up in an everyday sentence. If I had not seen it written before I'm pretty sure I'd struggle to spell it.

Good points Harry. agree with you. Downright nastiness and abusive language is admired and applauded & a spelling error or perceived lack of intelligence/education is deemed embarrassing

Absolutely. What world is this where people support nastiness and want people to walk over people just for entertainment or "expose the truth". I rather watch the stupid ones, because they are harmless.

I don't think Danny revels in his inanity at all. On the contrary, I think it's a major sore spot for him and why he reacts so defensively and aggressively when something or someone highlights his ignorance.

He's the oldest in there, but easily the least intelligent, with the most limited vocabulary, and is acutely aware that not being able to spell the simplest words or being utterly clueless about what should be basic general knowledge is impacting on his self-appointed 'wise old owl' status.

All you need to look at is how angrily and defensively he reacts in the aftermath of saying something really stupid. It's a big deal for him, hence attack being his first and only line of defence.

And I don't think his fans appreciate his dimness. What I see on here is mostly fans disliking attention being drawn to it.