george galloway in the middle of his now-legendary ted rogers impersonation.
Nice,
But as an elected Member of Parliament, shouldn't he really have better things to be doing with his time (like working for his constituents) than hanging out with the likes of Barrymore, Rodman, Alam etc?
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quote:Originally posted by Kira: [QUOTE]Ok so on Barbelith its very popular? whats your point?
Just that there's some discussion of it over there which might appeal to some of you. As ever, I find myself peculiarly hooked.
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george galloway in the middle of his now-legendary ted rogers impersonation.
Nice,
But as an elected Member of Parliament, shouldn't he really have better things to be doing with his time (like working for his constituents) than hanging out with the likes of Barrymore, Rodman, Alam etc?
oof! that's totally shot down my whole argument. in flames!
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Hey Ganesh. What's Barbelith like these days? Do your highbrow Big Brother threads also get tainted by inane football chate? Does the forum regularly die, as members would rather pretend to kill zombies than contribute? Are you taking new members?
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quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Are you taking new members?
I think kyou have to audition for it - prove your worth and so on. So: unlucky.
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Carved TMO on her clit just to make you feel bad
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You have to jump through seven fiery hoops then recite all of Tennyson's maud whhilst doing the Highland Fling. I thought about registering but it takes me a good ten minutes to consider what I might want for a new username and the prospect of justifying my existance was so wearing I went back to reading Handbag news instead.
And c'mon, no-one can possibly fail to be gripped by the bloody and desperate finale to the Urban dead threads, can they? The despair emanating from the Games forum is energising my soul.
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OK then, lets try and pull ourselves out of the doldrums and zombies (though I myself am quite enjoying UD) and start posting more on a wider variety of subjects yes ?
So far as this years Big Brother goes:
It's too car crash television for me. Barrymore is too tragic, a massive emotional cripple looking for the safe warmth of the (spot)light(s) like a cold lizard on a rock, Galloway just a massive walking c.untsack you would willingly pay to punch, Jodie Marsh makes me cry, the way she was yesterday with Rodman (hasbeenandneverwillbeagain) on the countertop laying back with legs akimbo while Big Daddy D thrust back and forth against her mildewed mimsy grunting nonsense, then sitting up and looking so, just, so disgusted with herself, as though just for a moment she had seen herself through our eyes and felt the pity. (On Channel 4 this morning bearded comic Dave Gorman said "her nose look like it's caught a Frisbee" which made me LOL)
Preston, Oh Preston, I have both your albums, I liked you, why have you forsaken Ska for Skank and taken up with (and I can't believe I'm actually going to say this) Paris Hilton's uglier look-alike Chantelle ?? She boggles my mind and turns my stomach that one..
Rula ?? I thought you were dead, you certainly look it. How is Dennis Waterman these days ?
Pete Burns, Burns victim more like, what has he done to his face ? That's some fucked up shizzle right there that is.
Faria looks like a dirty waitress, the sort of woman who'd suck you dry while you stand picking bits of dried rice out of her hair, maybe that's what gets Sven off but it doesn't work for me.
Traci do you have a personality with you or did you forget to pack it ?
I hope this spells the end of this sort of low quality TV and that newer odder shows from Endemol here in Holland make it onto your screens. My current fave show here (for which I wait with baited breath) is one where five former prostitutes from the Dam's red light are given the chance to open and run a restaurant on the Overtoom and three of them look like men, I'm hoping that's the twist in the tail..
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Misc, I'll talk about SlebBB, as it is repellently fascinating, at least a good deal more so than Futba.
Celebrity, eh. Who ARE these people? Someone famous solely for shagging someone else mainly famous for shagging Ulrika Johnnson, someone else 'famous' for getting her baps out and having a tabloid-fuelled, and created, argument with another bap-displayer... It's all so desperate. The famous for being famous circle of madness was well demonstrated by Chantelle being voted by the other housemates as more famous than the two band boys, even though she's a 'nobody'. But not any more, because she's on Big Brother.
And most of the housemates are less famous than previous BB contestants such as Jade Goody or Nadia. Maybe that will be the next up-the-concept's-fundament programme - ex-winners and 'stars' of BB all together in the 'celeb' house. *head explodes*
Anyway, this lot of 'celebs' are surely the most loathsome and childish and attention-seeking collection so far. I could scarcely watch the one-eye on-the-camera 'flirting' between Jodie Slag and anyone else that would pay her attention. *barf*
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For those of you slagging off Dennis Rodman for being a has-been - let's not forget he starred in shit martial arts film Double Team with Jean-Claude Van Damme. Starring in this ridiculed action flick with a past his best nightclub bouncer is still a greater level of success than most people on here will ever achieve. I want you all to think about that for a second.
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I do agree that Double Team is a classic movie of it ouvre, but that was the last thing Dennis Keith Rodman did that was any good.
Mind, I bet we see "Inked" on the telly before the year is out, his first reality program that spotlights the touching personal stories and saucy confessions of patrons, along with the sizzling celebrity exploits and the dramatic mounting tensions amongst the store's colorful staff, as the worlds first tattoo parlor inside a major Las Vegas casino resort opens its doors to the public.
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I can't bare this kind of thing. I remember curling up with herbs a couple of years back to watch a late night dispatche of Imma celeb, get me outta here, and that was just about the limit. It's straight out porn without giving you anything to wank over. Mutually exploitational, a soul reaping tool for ad man who fell from grace. I watched a couple of minutes the other night - Barrymore and Burns were staring at each other. That was it. Excellent. The show seems like a trial, like this is a form of punishment for their desire to be a celebrity in the first place. A Willy Wonka Experience, and armed with their golden tickets, we grimly watch as one by one, the contestents reveal their weaknesses and vices, so only the chaste remain. It's a highly moral exercise, underpinned by our latent hatred of anybody who has made money of our of incurable desire to feed the egoists. Yuck. Nobody can really win this one.
I once 'met' Pete Burns, and he is amazing to look at. Like a beautiful alien.
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I'd love to get onto celeb big brother, or - to a lesser extent - the actual big brother. I think it would be incredible. The opportunities are endless. You could begin with something basic, like wanking into the communal milk and then just take it from there. Celebrity terrorism. That non-celeb Chantelle girl can wreak havoc, if she chooses, and it will all be documented and broadcast to the nation. What a waste.
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Anyone who watches this show, and particularly anyone who writes about it, is in a very real way part of it -- part of the whole culture and experience of Celebrity Big Brother. As audience and commentators, you are integral to this monstrosity. Big Brother needs its viewers and this daily chorus of commentary to be what it is, as much as a circus or a gladiatorial battle doesn't fully exist without an auditorium of spectators.
That sounds rather glib and obvious as I write it, but I'm surprised people who seem to hate this spectacle don't remove themselves from it.
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: I know that's a mind-blowingly obvious and facile observation, but it's one that I can't get past.
Funny -- that's how I felt about my last post. Perhaps Big Brother has that effect. Any criticisms you can come up with are just bug-eyed staringly obvious, and so somehow diluted. Perhaps the phenomenon is obviously fully-aware of all these criticisms, and carries on all the same.
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I always liked the idea of trying to tunnel out using a spoon, just to see how deep you could get the hole, how long it would take them to evict you, would they even try.
Problem is, I think if you have any spark of true anarchy in your soul they wouldn't let you in.
The rules seem to state that you have to be bland.
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I think I'd be very watchable on Big Brother, though. I wouldn't want the world to see exactly how much effort it takes to make myself physically presentable every day, but I think I would provide telly-value-for-money.
quote:Originally posted by kovacs: I think I would provide telly-value-for-money.
Why? Because you could provoke interesting conversations between the housemates? That might be tv4m for us, but would the wider Big Brother audience care? Perhaps I'm expecting too little from the general public but judging by Davina's commentary, all they seem to want is gossip and frottage.
I heard George G say something along the lines of:
quote:I thought people might ask me questions. Something like 'What's that Tony Blair like then?' But they haven't. Chantelle asked me if I work in 'the big room with the green seats'."
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Why? Because you could provoke interesting conversations between the housemates? That might be tv4m for us, but would the wider Big Brother audience care?
If I was on BB I think there'd be an interesting dynamic between my obvious private hatred for every other housemate, and my insincerely chameleonic attempts to pal up with each of them, modifying my own behaviour to suit them.
I think the only way to get by would be to try to be liked by everyone -- it would be hellish enough without having to avoid or blank people in that close environment -- but internally I would be crafting poisonous assessments of the others to be unleashed in the diary room.
I would be one of the older and uglier housemates, but I can't think of anyone on a non-celeb BB who I'd regard as more intelligent than me. So I'd bring that "USP" to the "table".
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: I can't bare this kind of thing. I remember curling up with herbs a couple of years back to watch a late night dispatche of Imma celeb, get me outta here, and that was just about the limit. ... plus insightful comment
Dr B, wasn't the most soul-destroying part of that ImmaSleb viewing the test messages scrolling across the bottom of the screen, such as Chelsee - I luv u wil u mary me? Such romance.
Also, your comment re trial, Willy Wonka was, to me, one of those insights only obvious once pointed out. In other words = clever.
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quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Hey Ganesh. What's Barbelith like these days? Do your highbrow Big Brother threads also get tainted by inane football chate? Does the forum regularly die, as members would rather pretend to kill zombies than contribute? Are you taking new members?
Yes, no, I dunno.
Not sure about the new members thing. It had become relatively free 'n' easy, but the trolls they are a-returnin'...
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george galloway in the middle of his now-legendary ted rogers impersonation.
Nice,
But as an elected Member of Parliament, shouldn't he really have better things to be doing with his time (like working for his constituents) than hanging out with the likes of Barrymore, Rodman, Alam etc?
oof! that's totally shot down my whole argument. in flames!
Om sir,
My post was meant to fulfil 2 different functions.
1. To Let you know how much you're 3.2.1. style comment amused me
and as a separate point
2. To raise my eyebrows at an MP deciding to spend his time wanking about on a show like this.
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