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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Dale seems a very strange creature of the impulsive quirk. His gesture towards Rex's private parts after squirming in face of Rex's questions about what he had meant .... was quite bizarre. Dale is a pixie in disguise.
Rex and Bex...
Rex is King-in-his-own mind.
Marion's portrait of Bex as a St Trinian's girl is a simply brilliant observation.
Stuart (like Dale) is typical of men of his age who speak in riddles. In comes from a lifetime of texting and emailing, coupled with a male pride in paradoxically voluble terseness.
Mario was rabbiting on again last night about risk assessments.
Rachel met the first tragedy in her cocooned life. Not being able to prance around on moving escalators.
As to me being on BB, Gary, I would end up spouting, like Luke, as if I'm writing one of these posts to this thread. Moments of rare original observation but essentially detached, essentially not there, immune to any real human advances that the rarefied internet (where I live these days) cocoons me from.
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Painting smudged, face splashed.
A combination of events - (mainly Jen's incapability to accept Rex's apology (an apology that had been seriously given) regarding an admittedly stupid act of vandalism but, after all, an act done in the context of the Big Brother Show) - led to all sorts of repercussions and already pent-up emotions to explode. BB was right to evict Dennis and Dennis was right, eventually, to be ashamed of his behaviour. I was also dismayed at behaviour by Stu, Dale and Bex.
Quite sorry to see Sylvia go. She had a bit of spirit, although two-faced and petulant and childish.
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I thought BB did a good job in drawing the line under the previous night's events - as did the HMs themselves, eventually.
At first I thought Darnell and Mohammed came out with best credit, but I did not like their triumphalism when Sylvia went.
There are a lot of lessons for human behaviour in recent events.
The chocolate in Luke's ear incident was light relief. However, I have gone off Luke, big time. And I have more regard for Mario.
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Tedious and maddening tonight.
Rex is right. I think he probably wants to leave. I sense viewers also feel they are entangled in the meaningless backbiting and will also want to leave, by switching off. It's like watching a family gradually grow dysfunctional. Bex, Dale and Jen are becoming monsters of deliberate negativity. But some of the nices ones like Kat, Darnell and Luke are becoming part of the downward spiral.
A nightmare of convoluted arguments.
For a change Mikey was good in the DR tonight. And one can forgive his uncothness. Beginning to think Mario should win!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still bewildered by Rachel's blank slate, despite some trial chalk marks upon it tonight.
I'm beginning to like none of them.
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Yes, flat, flat, flat...
If the summary shows the interesting bits, what must the rest be like?
It still gives me lessons in life and artifice, though.
Mikey's description of blind person's dreams, for example.
What are they doing at Mario's workplace without him for 3 months? Health and Safety gone hang? Risk assessment and Facilitation dropped for darts matches with human darts-boards?
Lisa is something out of a Bosch painting.
And it's official - I no longer understand the sexual politics of this group of Housemates. It's an avant garde film that was once one pretended to understand in the Sixties but now makes as little sense as it ever did.
Jen now begins to look like an evil Snow White, as her mind begins to create pitfalls from once smooth skin. Mind over matter. A Hammer horror film where chronic, cronic truth shows through youth by black magic.
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Luke is court jester, dramatic chorus, shakesperean clown, repressed soul, sometimes malvolio -in-turpitude...
Bex is the Clod-of-the-Remove who'd try and entice even Billy Bunter further than he would like to go with girls, even with the temptation of a cream bun...
Jen is the silver-tongued foundling elfess who leaps from forfeit to forfeit in a game of Touch-me-if-you-can-understand-me-long-enough...
Dale and Stu are doleful elves who've lost their selves, but perk up when they they think long and hard enough about perking up - but it's a slow ignition and nobody is sure if they have any sex drive at all, except the show kind.
Rex to go, simply because he's not eye candy.
Mario and Lisa are not tenuous clowns in the Luke mode - they are real circus slapstick roustabouts. Tit and bum and mock-cuddles laced with moments of pseudo-seriousness when they show that even tumblers have some regard for safety.
Mikey sees it all.
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Zoo task - all a bit flat, despite the colourful costumes.
Throwing buckets of tuna fish brine all over Jen is rather appealing, though.
Hard to decide on the eviction - I think Luke is right in saying it will be the public's vote on who they blame for picturegate and its repercussions. I personally blame Jen. But I think Rex is more suitable for going - for his own sake -
The Kipling task sounds a difficult one to me. I wonder if, generally, blind people can learn poetry by heart better than sighted people.
The description of Rachel as someone with 'Gordon Brown' smiles was quite intriguing. Can't say I've noticed it in her.
Rachel and Kat in a rendition of Happy Happy House is both cringingly awful and strangely uplifting...
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Mikey was hirrarious extemporising Kipling and then shaving his eyebows in an attempt to get nearer the 'satiable curtiosity'.
Kat screeches out loud and then screeches quietly inside.
Bex and Rex clash antlers.
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Missed the new arrivals.
And the eviction.
Horror! And video was mistimed.
Thanks for keeping me up to date above, Marion.
Rex must have been astonished!
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Goats and Monkeys!
Tribes and Constellations!
Balanced stars: Luke Luke Luke and Belinda Belinda Belinda.
Two articulate giants.
The game indeed starts now. Flat has become full.
The two younger new ladies seem very nice.
Rex has perked up.
I have perked up!
Bex's wild flaming has been doused.
I note Mario was a postman for 22 years.
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A complex house.
Burning Rex's pizza on purpose seemed a bit nasty.
Luke is either quite nasty in himself or has become that through the unnatural focres of reality TV. Mario has a cynical streak... and a power to self-believe beyond the margins of his eesence as a cipher.
Out-of-the-body Lisa - why am I not surprised by that?
Belinda 'Vanessa Felz' is a real show-woman. Snores like Ken Russell. And will cause ructions.
The personality forces are tightening into knots of unpredictable tentacles.
Quite like Sarah and Maysoon. Rachel, too. All in a quiet way, allowing me to relax and not worry too much about the tentacles tightening elsewhere.
Darnell is still my favourite for winning (from day one).
Mind-over-Kat is one dream too far .... watching her float towards the ceiling. I don't know if Kat is genuine or just another Belinda with a better disguise?
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I'd've thought Lisa - with her mind-over-matter powers - would have been able to get out of a paper-bag more efficaciously.
This season of BB is indeed Pinteresque, almost fustian to the nth degree.
Luke is my old auntie.
Weepy, creepy, inscrutable, immutable - the collective consciousness creature of BB9 squirms upon a crumbling plinth like a Lovecraftian Old One knitting its own tentacles. Meanwhile, the House's genius loci defaults to an aura of BelindaBelindaBelinda. Or BeLukeBelukeBeluke. Or BeLisa Beacon. The Bebex and Berex of the shallow night.
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The trouble is I keep hearing Luke's intonations and timbres and sing-song nagging speech-vocals in my mind's ear all day and all night. It's like a nightmare.
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I enjoyed Stu and Dale's imitation of Belindax3 in the DR.
Her rendition of 'Over The Rianbow' was over the top, more like. She sounds as if she is at home pretending to be famous into an old reel-to-reel tape-recorder.
Belisa Beacon Big-Ears is an unwilling partner I guess in the M/L relationship. It is indeed a (show)business reationship.
Luke, as Gary suggests above, is indeed a bit like Paul O'Grady. Or more Lily Savage. I can see Luke one day sitting at his TV show desk with a white doggy doing a cheap imitation of Mikey!
Maysoon to win. Or Darnell.
Bex to go. We can save Mario for another day. We need to maintain this show as the ultimate Horror that even true Horror specialists (populating some of the Discussion Boards I attend) cannot stomach. |
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And the two priate-ship bedrooms approach, stowaways, drummer-boys and boarding-parties readying themselves to come alongside amid all the loose cannons.
Belinda is highly strung, on the brink of caterwauling Lloyd Webber favourites, also in a deep ricochet of loose gunfire from Mario and Mikey - with Lisa torn between her own common sense and Mario's.
Paranoia and Conspiracy stalk between the bedrooms.
Bex or Mario? I don't think we've wrung sufficient hot air-mail from Mario: the post-office messenger who conducts recorded delivery betweeen his head and the health&safety valve in his backside. So Bex to go.
Did Bex accuse Kat of being over-the-top?!
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Biblical too in their nonsense-speak (just one rung below Street Speak). Biblical too in their inappropriate references. Pontius Pilate.
Wash the face with flour. Crucify the Rebecca. Rachel Mildeyes. Darnell - White Icon. Mario Iscariot. Maysoon Magdalena.
Luke was good in the DR - spelling out Rebecca and Mario as acronyms of their personalities.
For me, if I were in the DR, Luke would be Lily-livered Underhand Kiddy Eunuch.
What were all those shenanigans with the alcohol at the end. i think all of them are underhand!
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Your description of the task, Marion, reminds me of how the whole event approximated the dark absurdity of a Ligotti tale with over-made-up clowns and puppets - driven by an ill-timed beat from the the malleable anvils of a soft-furnished Hell.
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Mario facilitates his own exit as well as future puppy love between Bex and Luke, removed the custard cream from the biscuit and passed it over for others to ooze.
I loved Lisa's rendition of Schoenberg songs in the Diary Room. Genuine modern classical vocals. No joke. Lisa is indeed a dark horse, now. With her steely glances, big ears and mind-over-matter skills, she could be the new novelty act to beat. The new clockwork clown with marionette muscles padded by silicon.
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Having slept on it, I feel that Lisa is not only a dark horse but someone upon whom the Universe has endowed winning, simply becauase the Universe deems it so. Who knows what motives underlie the Universe. We should rename Lisa as Gaia. Or Pontius Pilate.
Yes, I've ceased warming to Darnell. And Luke is far too clever for his own boots. Posh and Bex? Can't see it really.
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Mario didn't really *get* the connection with Ricky Gervais during his interview last night. Lisa will know, though. Lisa is beyond human frailty. The washing-up etc is just an Earth Mother front for stern, unwavering, MrSpock-eared Goddesshood.
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The caryatid that is Lisa
Indeed. But there is no accounting for the reverse-Medusa effects of the Universe. She will outstare anyone.
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I think Maysoon is Michael Jackson in disguise.
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can't say I remember noticing Lisa's underwear - even less noticing it with a discerning eye. But Lisa is fast becoming an underworn, understated force in my book of BB9. One of those characters - when writing a fiction - who starts off as a minor character but grows exponentially, in an autonomous fashion, beyond the control of author or reader.
Bex as bunny-boiler? Luke's burgeoning sexuality (another autonomous force growing exponentially?)? Yes, one needs to unsuspend BB disbelief in order to live with oneself even to observe this objectively!
The balance of Bex and Darnell - instinctive assumptions back and forth in destructive symbiosis. Another glimpse of a a monster or ghost even beyond the shock of glimpsing Michael Jackson in the House!
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Everyone gradually defaults to character. It's like a life time from birth (entrance) to death (eviction or victory) with fast-motion personality-changes that point towards the end result of their BB self rather than their real self.
Darnell has become BBD. Luke BBL. Bex BBB. Lisa BBL. Rachel BBR. Dale BBD. Kat BBK. StuBBS. Maysoon BBM. Sara BBS. Rex BBR. Mikey BBM. Mo BBM. Belinda BBBBB.
I've become BBD. Marion BBM.
BBM and BBD win! Three each.
EDIT: Sorry. BBM wins with four!
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There was something very Fellini about the Heavenly costumes, hugely buzzing around like Piers Anthony or Cordwainer Smith creatures sufficiently clownishly done also to be Ligottian.
I agree that sparks are going to fly.
Bex eating 'penis' in the DR was a BB moment to ... cherish or forget?
Darnell is an emotional bloke, with a body that autonomously reflects both his highs and lows. I suspect his mind knows what his body's doing. And I suspect he knows what he's doing vis a vis the ultimate prize. Heaven? No, the £100,000 prize
Darnell is now the Facilitator!
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Does Darnell have the authority to move housemates between Heaven and Hell. Only William Blake can do that?
I always enjoy Mikey's nominating in the DR. His voice and Luke's haunt my dreams. And Rex's sometimes. Bex's is in my nightmares.
I must say the apparent non-punishment of wild vandalism with water-bombs ete etc is not a good message when we are all concerned with youth crime. It looks as they often damage property during their high jinx.
And talking about jinx, it is good they have Lisa still among them keeping any boogies at bay with her stern spells.
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Just caught it on Channel 4 iplayer. Merci pour excellent reportage, Mme Marion. Oooh la la.
I love the mime by Rachel and Maysoon. They did very well; it's harder than it looks. Also loved the music to this. Ensemble Wind is one of my weaknesses.
Rex could now mature into an interesting BB contestant. Don't like him, though.
Mo was very good when acting a Frenchman, as you say.
The Bike task is overall a bit cruel. But Belinda was over-acting her distress, I feel, Marion, in an attempt to capture sympathy after the announcements of nominations... |
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Rebecca slithering like a snake (having just swallowed an ass) along the corridor was another Biblical moment.
Darnell was either very clever or very stupid in the gratuitous rudeness trick he played on Sara. I wonder if that will be considered, in hindsight, as BB9's turning-point.
Stu, Lisa and Mikey, as you say, came out well from the French task.
Must also sympathise with Dale finding various brands of red wine as tasting of ... surprise, surprise ... red wine. But did not sympathis with his don't-care attitude.
The baguette task was impossible.
I was conceived over a Baguette Bar.
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Belinda Belinda Belinda Bye Bye Bye
Stu's performance should win an Oscar. Almost believed him.
I also suspect Darnell suffers from action-implementation at cross-purpose with intention.
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Belinda
Able Din
Bad Line
Dale Bin
The Universe speaks in riddles.
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I found it all a bit bitty tonight. Too many oblique, sometimes inaudible, conversations.
They've certainly rumbled Kat. I agree with Mikey there.
And Rachel's incantation: "But I'm happy" is indeed a self-persuasive philosophy of life that may catch on. But if she's an average person, she's ceased to be that simply by being chosen for BB. A paradox.
Maysoon's rare DR appearance wasn't inspiring. She's certainly taking the art of pacing herself to extremes.
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Rachel, Darnell...
All very Shakespearean: BB has ever been thus. A modern Amorality Drama - with morals and immorals playing hide-and-seek with guile and guilt disguised as innocence (innocence in the two senses of being the opposite of both guile and guilt), all seasoned with mock soliloquys and even mockier death-scenes.
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A lot of rash gamesmanship tonight. Brinkmanship with bananas: eating the fruit only leaves the skins, and we all know from our childhood comics what the skins can do to one's health & safety! Or maybe they will bake the skins then smoke them? I wonder if Mario is watching.
Lisa gone back to low-key mode.
Maysoon, Mo and Kat tried to cut loose tonight. Strange motivations and gambles.
Bex has enhanced the persona she's moulding for herself by spending less time hanging up as a gorilla than dressing up to be one !
Rachel, too, with her designer-averageness and preening boringness.
Darnell, I repeat, is either very clever or very stupid. Still not convinced which.
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I'm still recovering from the final 5 minutes last night! I thought I then dreamed of Zeppelins and Barrage Balloons and wind-socks and Dali-esque (not Dale-esque) visions of Hell. But hopefully I didn't.
Judging by all your posts this Summer, Marion, particularly your last one above, you are finding a lot of complex and interesting motivational matters to get your teeth into (and how wonderfully you are indeed doing this for all our constructively creative benefits and thought-provoking 'self'less character-building (real life and fiction) when reading this thread).
I find I only see many of the points you raise after you raise them, and then I say to myself: "Ah, yes, Marion is right." Do you think this is the best BB ever? Or do you really have a soft spot for the erstwhile Jungle Cats?
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A lot of 'good' cameos last night. Mikey 'stabbing' Rex in the literal back (in full 'sight' of both participants). Luke showing his true nature (as you suggest) beneath the normally water-tight Paul O'Grady veneer. Darnell, Dale and Mo speed-biking round the inside of a metaphorical cylinder of death (just like in the old fairgrounds). Except Mo is too pot-belled to stay on for long. Maysoon's slow fuse ... err ... still slow. Kat sliding into repetitive happiness syndrome - less and less convincing. Woman of Steel, Lisa, still a quiet stoical force. Sara & Rachel aberrant contributors to Interaction. Stu stuck in second gear.
Out of the 3 for eviction, taking all into account (only a very small consideration in which process of taking into account is worthiness as a human being), I hope Mo do go.
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Dr Who time travelling is like memory: never able to measure, never able to estimate... a thousand clocks in a Ionesco play. Scampering elves forgotten their true selves in the search for time's ringing blows. And Kats have nine lives each.
The Shakesperean tragedy that is Darnell: once Head of House, now in prison with eviction over his head, questioned as to his true race: the race to the finishing-line beyond time, beyond cone zero, beyond any motives or emotives as are lost by slipping memory.
Rex is King. He is emerging as the one who is playing the cleverest game.
Dale also played a clever game in giving the booze to Heaven. Heaven is where one is rewarded. Hell punished. Rex was logical about this. Dale aspirationally Machiaevellian.
Rebecca and St Luke in near-concupiscence ... Time will reveal what cogs have been set in motion. The dark Watches of the Night's Movements.
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Rachel not the average nice girl, after all? I wonder if we believe the cast rather than the playwright.,,
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All is riddled with truth and lies, separate and over-lapping, in the BB House.
Rumours included.
I think Rex was test-driving the rumour to see if it sparked a truth or lie from Rachel, rather than her stone-walling as she has done heretofore.
Rachel, apparently, in real life, was badly assaulted just before entering the BB House. That may underlie any change in behaviour.
But of course I learned that from a lying-machine called a newspaper.
Apparentlly, Luke and Bex are now considered to be conniving. There is nothing natural about their relationship and they have a secret language going re nominations etc.
Riddles, half-truths, play-actings and full-truths mix and mix again in something that cannot be believed but also cannot be ignored as an Art Happening or as dolls-witthin-dolls-within-dolls psychological insight.
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Big character Bex has gone and Maysoon remains who - as Davina said - may soon but probably won't....
A big problem for BB.
I can't stand Bex but she has been the heart of the BB scene.
She was being very deceitful with Luke in the last conversation we saw - but I suspect Luke was, too. It was not a convincing performance from either of them.
You see the cogs turning in his head, as Luke said his goodbyes. A whole new ball game for to him to hatch up. He is clever enough to do so, but he is also naive.
The drinking game was disgraceful, not least the use of eggs.
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Seemed like the aftermath of a storm.
Dale getting into nots about double negatives vis a vis making himself disliked. Referring to voices that are 'withered and haggard' and squirting Fairy Liquid into his own eyes.
Luke bitching ...
Darnell and Kat almost in a new aura of Charismatic Religion.
Maysoon - now noticed by others because of the storm's disappearance - is quizzed as to whether she is a real person or an icon. Big Brother should take astrological charts of all contestants as part of the audition process. Maysoon is unsurprisingly Libra Sun Sign.
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Happy Hell, Happy Hell, Happy Happy Hell:
The negatives are positive and so is Darnell
Luke is a great mover and articulator of trends. Which is one step above manipulation (in kat's case, manipulation of gimmicks).
A great phrase from Luke spoken aloud to all to describe who is left in the house: gimmicks and deflation. He speaks innuendos aloud but bitches behind backs.
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So Kat is a celebrity back in Thailand... Figures. Gimmicks like cookie love already prepared.
I have crushed chillies on all my meals, but I don't think I would have been able to get into Heaven. Remarkable performances from the 4 winners.
Good to see Luke and Dale - like two old age pensioners on a holiday at Butlins - so utterly cheesed off.
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First things first, Luke's poignant, tearful performance in the DR. A choice toe-curling cutlet from the BB canon. 75% certain that Luke is a fraud, but a good actor, or a bad actor inasmuch as the acting appeared to be better than it was. As Marion says, it is easier to fabricate a legendary Romance in hindsight rather than in situ.
But now I pine to differ from Marion. Rex last night was a man of steely magnificence, with not a care for repercussions but simply for his view of the truth. His view may indeed be wrong. But Rex is King this morning.
Rachel and Maysoon are just ciphers amid the World's bigger plan. Self-deceived young ladies? Or just vulnerable humanity on the hoof?
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Rex and Dale seem to be self-destructive characters by nature. Dale is the queerest fish of all: even his face is like a monkfish. I hope and expect him to go on Friday. Rex is just as inscrutable, but one can get a handle on Rex. He is a professional chef emulating televisually that F Word Cock-of-the-Cooks whose name I forget.
Lisa is quietly coming to the fore again.
Rachel was certainly trying to be more feisty last night.
Maysoon is still sunk in a swamp of beauty.
The task of sorting pastel-shaded hundreds-and-thousands was the most artistically pointless BB task of all time, stoically performed by good teamwork.
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Dale has boosted his chances for survival with a well-executed secret task.
The 'football' discussion was acting one play with the words of another play. But BB was dribbling with glee in the prompt box. Entertainment! Punishments! Multi-nominations public vote! It was BB's lucky day. It was almost as if BB had scripted it.
Rex's girl friend in the House. Certainly a boost fo him to know this. I wonder why he was chosen to be so lucky
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I am prissy enough to cringe when people start throwing eggs around as part of a drunken game...
Dale was effectively cheating with the spirit of the secret task when saying "On my mother's life, it will be bad for the whole house if you choose me."
The first time serious immorality has been born from the light-hearted amorality of a game show.
Dale must go.
The polce interview with Sara was a hoot and a half. Beginning to like her more.
Interesting to imagine a hybrid voice made from Luke, Sara and Mikey. The stuff of nightmares.
Maysoon has left her slough of beauteous despond. She probably did over-egg her audition vt. Rex was right.
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Indeed, as it turned out!
He rose and fell with Bex. Too clever by half.
Dapper young man with voice of strident bakelite.
Mikey - in monkish mode - tonguing like a dog that's swallowed a hot shalott.
Rex about to see his girl friend. All sounds like a put up job. Rex who swaggers then careens round the rim of risk. He who dares...
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Lisa's image of Rachel ogling Mario is quite beyond the reality / unreality spectrum of even BB at its best (or worst?).
That and Mo lounging like an overfed dog-slug ...
Both quite beyond the pale of Darnell's pierrot-dodging ... slipping past the otherwise amply clogged safety-net of Mario's custard-slicked flannel of a tongue
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Yes, Rex wasn't too chuffed at the arrival of Nicole. (I do prefer No. 6 but Nicole has become the Prisoner!)
Luke shouted too much during his interview. Not so enamoured with him as you, Marion. But, as you say, others should have gone before he did.
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Soppy kissy-kissy Rex has become the 'lad' in love - not squashed by Mario (as in Lisa's threat) but by the fine-toned aquiline Valkyrie called Nicole.
Their canoodling over the fence like Pyramus and Thisbe..
Meanwhile, exeunt Lisa and the ghost of a bear called Mario straight into an Extra in the flies.
Nobody was really pleased to see her back. They were hoping for fresh blood.
The more I think of Luke and Bex, it was truly such an unlikely liaison that the public saw straight though their cynicism.
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The Ziggification of the King.
It's Wagnerian as well as Shakespearean in that House now.
And Darnell and Sara are getting closer.
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Rex and Nicole suitable cases for treatment.
This can only end in tears.
Darnell & Sara hot up. This time you can believe it's real (unlike Luke pretending to have a crush on someone he would have considered a slag in outside life).
Struggling through the alphabet like Mr Ramsey in 'To The Lighthouse' was interesting task. Rachel did well. As she says, she now has to make decisions!
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