Nnnooooo - you must stay!

Once you've taken off your wellies after The Farm, it's back on with the smoking jacket and braving it over here!

Swing - don't abandon us! We need some reason here

Quite frankly, I think some of us don't take it seriously enough. It has come to my attention that some forum members have been using irony, puns, and other forms of humour on these boards and I am here to say that it is no laughing matter!

You're barking up the wrong tree there, FB.

How DARE they use irony, puns and humourous witticisms!!!

Hi swingaleg! I'm practising posting on different threads!

The housemates are real people aren't they?
Are they 'playing a part'? I'm not sure that anyone could do that for that long.

I watched last year for the first time, and thought that I could see through the 'acting' quite quickly.

For example, Jason's insecurities were (for me) quite embarrassing to watch ... and yet were stangely fascinating.

Maybe that says more about me than about Jason!

I've been barking up the wrong tree, ever since I came here, lulu

I should have been a "Vanessa iz well fit; she iz lush" person!

Hi, again..........I like the cut of your gib, remind me of me when I first turned up here.........I hadn't a clue how anything worked........and I still don't know what 'advanced' is...........


Yes, of course the HMs are 'real people' but we don't know them well enough to know 'the real people'.

When we use that irony, satire & occasional cruelty directed at the HMs it's aimed at their persona on the show rather than the real person behind it........who we don't know.


That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it................


I don't mean to leave the forum I just drift away because I can't be bothered to keep up with trillions of new threads every day.

See, this is something I find really interesting. I'm just not sure that an HM can keep from showing who they are, what they're about, for all that long.

Surely the type of persona adopted in itself tell us a lot about the 'real' person behind it?

i don't take it too seriously but i know what i do and don't like about it

And i like the owl/sun house idea

but i hate the wacky house idea

What do all these heads mean at the top?
Are they going to be pictures of HMs?

Yes they will be

I think I'd agree with that. Surely what they deem an acceptable way of playing the game gives an insight into the HMs character? That's why I tend not to like the ones who don't care whether or not they hurt someone in order to win.

Yes, of course we take it too seriously. It's a trivial, silly programme with trivial, silly people, and we are fools for spending as much time as we do in thinking about it and posting about it. Frankly, I often feel ashamed of myself for wasting my time in this way.

And yet I have to admit that I often enjoy posting on this forum. Many of the threads do seem painfully mindless, but some threads and some of the more creative posters do amuse me.

The posts that I don't enjoy on this forum are the ones where some clever-clever (or so they imagine) posters smugly express their contempt for particular HMs. These posters take the housemate's mistakes or character flaws and exaggerate them into major crimes in a quite ridiculous way. What also annoys me is the way these posters repeat themselves: once they've hit on a formula for expressing their dislike of a particular HM, they go on and on and on about the same thing in a pitifully unimaginative way.

I was new to DS:BB last summer. I'll probably go on posting, but I'm enjoying it less than I did.
Last edited by Sigurd : 06-05-2005 at 01:06

Yes, I agree. But surely nobody would like that kind of person?

You would think not, but there have been some who I would put in that bracket who have proved to be very popular in some quarters.

Not picking on you Sigurd, but this is amazing. You are not the first FM to show signs of burnout & there is still 3 weeks to go until it starts.

I have never seen such a huge buildup on here since I have been visiting these forums. Its not even advertized on Telly yet.

is it the Big Brother show we get so addicted to or the event its self, ?e.g. Like Terry wogan Day (the eurovision song contest) LOL

I know exactly where you are coming from on this one. I often feel the same - but have come to the conclusion that I am just going to go with it - perhaps its my character flaw.

I think with me its that I am naturally a "people watcher" and extremely nosey. Given this, BB presents us with a golden opportunity to sit in the comfort of our own homes, watching people. Seeing how they react in certain situations (many of them contrived). Not only are we allowed to watch them, but we are also allowed to listen to them, which then leads us to start reading things into everything they do and say. I have to confess that even in normal life I rarely take anything done or said at face value, and I just take this further with BB when I have the privilege of watching and listening to them 24 hours a day (if I wanted to or had the time). These HMs are not "normal" people (whatever that is) but they are as near to it as we are ever going to get - and I think that is what intrigues me.

Plus as others have said, there is no way they can keep up a persona 24 hours a day 7 days a week for such a long time, and as the real characters start showing through (I agree re the Jason insecurities thing - Victor was the same to a certain extent) it just becomes even more fascinating. To me the game is almost incidental.

It's because there's no football on.

i think its because we really grow to care about the housemates for how ever long there in there, they do kinda become part of our lives and we all want the person who we feel is most deserving to win.

exactly. It's the time filler between seasons

OT - I posted on GD thread yesterday.... I AM SO EXCITED.... Got given tickets to see Chelsea lift the cup today

I've noticed some people take it VERY seriously but like to pretend they don't.They defend HM's they like and attack those they don't without any balance or concession which I think gives the game away.Even if there is the odd witty or lighthearted remark(Forum posting I was thinking of allied to the watching experience)

That's not true though as we have had a World Cup and a Euro championship whilst BB has been on and we are still hooked.

it helps fill the time between domestic seasons. I never said you've got to watch one or the other. When the major tournaments on I watch both.....