Big Brother is dead!

[Dr Mindbender]

Yes! The cancer of british television is gone!

http://www.websmileys.com/sm/party/fest30.gif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs

[Rusty Shackleford]

what?:confused:

[Dr Mindbender]

what?:confused:

this shit. (http://www.youtube.com/user/bigbrotheruk?blend=2&ob=4&rclk=cti)

[Rusty Shackleford]

oooooh ok haha i thought you were talking about the orwellian big brother

[RHIZOMES]

Wow, to be the cancer of British television is saying something. The majority of British television is some of the stupidest mind-numbing crap I've ever seen.

[Bilan]

Wow, to be the cancer of British television is saying something. The majority of British television is some of the stupidest mind-numbing crap I've ever seen.

Nonsense.

[RHIZOMES]

Nonsense.

Eh the comedy is alright, i'm more talking to reality shows, the cooking shows, the soaps, etc etc etc

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

leave our cooking shows alone

[Chambered Word]

I hope that stupid cancer never comes to Australia again. It was so shit even John Howard hated it.

[Bilan]

Eh the comedy is alright, i'm more talking to reality shows, the cooking shows, the soaps, etc etc etc

Where don't reality shows suck, though?
Except of course...Shipwrecked. :cool:

[Wanted Man]

Another widely celebrated Dutch invention!

[RHIZOMES]

Oh and the game shows, mustn't forget the game shows.

I dunno British shit TV grinds my gears more than American shit TV, probably due to my own country's shit TV closely emulating British shit TV's style.

[bailey_187]

Fuck you all, Big Brother is good.

[bricolage]

This one was quite funny actually, if only for the tree.

[NecroCommie]

Hmph! Lucky you. Finnish television is so horrible I didn't even bother to get myself a TV once I moved on my own. There are exactly two channels (the state owned ones) capable of producing quality programs, and even those do it a bit randomly.

[Sasha]

apartheid & bigbrother, the dutch bringing you quality entertainment for centuries.

[Intifadah]

Its back on British screens in the summer, so its merely hibernating

[Honggweilo]

apartheid & bigbrother, the dutch bringing you quality entertainment for centuries.
you're forgetting rollercoasters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vekoma

[Sam_b]

The easiest solution, I find, is to not watch television.

[bailey_187]

The easiest solution, I find, is to not watch television.

Can all the Anti-Big Brother idiots please follow Sams advice and stop moaning about the show.

[Dr Mindbender]

Fuck you all, Big Brother is good.
Good for what, thats the question.


Can all the Anti-Big Brother idiots please follow Sams advice and stop moaning about the show.

No i will moan about the 'show'[sic] because its this sort of X-factor/American Idol banal reality shit that is degrading the collective IQ of the working class.

I think even Davina McCall summed it up herself when she joked ''this year theres only one question on everyones minds, was Blair right to take us to war... ...no, only joking, lets not ask that question!''



The easiest solution, I find, is to not watch television.
Youre quite right, let us all sleep in a cardboard box full of straw and hibernate like a tortoise.


Its back on British screens in the summer, so its merely hibernating
Nope, i believe you'll find this monstrosity has already lurched its way onto the air for its final bow.

Davina has already performed her pièce de résistance by participating as a cameo housemate.

[RHIZOMES]

No i will moan about the 'show'[sic] because its this sort of X-factor/American Idol banal reality shit that is degrading the collective IQ of the working class.

I think even Davina McCall summed it up herself when she joked ''this year theres only one question on everyones minds, was Blair right to take us to war... ...no, only joking, lets not ask that question!''

Right on brutha

[Sam_b]

Youre quite right, let us all sleep in a cardboard box full of straw and hibernate like a tortoise.

It says a lot that you're equating not watching TV with something primative or isolationist. Sorry if my not watching television makes me a tortoise.

[Dr Mindbender]

It says a lot that you're equating not watching TV with something primative or isolationist. Sorry if my not watching television makes me a tortoise.

Television and radio, for the most part lets me know whats happening in the world at the point of demand. Its also the main port of access of information for the blind and illiterate.

Ive said it before, its not that the televisions the problem but the shitheads who control the airwaves.

[bailey_187]

The hour a day that Big Brother is on hardly makes a big difference. Its just an entertaining program that is on for an hour a day in January and again in June to August.

I do hate Davina though, she is not funny at all.

[Pirate Utopian]

All I know about Big Brother UK I know from Dead Set.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I'm glad I don't watch television. Except for Top Gear. But even then, you can watch it on the internet, I think...

[Chairman Wow]

X Factor to go next please.

[Black Sheep]

dead in britain or did the whole franchise go bankrupt? :wub:

[Dr Mindbender]

I do hate Davina though, she is not funny at all.

She's not talented at all.


dead in britain or did the whole franchise go bankrupt? http://www.revleft.com/vb/big-brother-dead-t128262/revleft/smilies2/001_wub.gif
Fingers crossed, we can but hope... :(

[bricolage]

No i will moan about the 'show'[sic] because its this sort of X-factor/American Idol banal reality shit that is degrading the collective IQ of the working class.

Elitist leftism ftw.

Suppose we should all be doing collective exercise in the mornings too.

[RHIZOMES]

Elitist leftism ftw.

Congratulations, you missed the point.

[bricolage]

Congratulations, you missed the point.

I missed the point at which it was decided someone or other was able to speak on behalf of the 'collective IQ of the working class', I also missed the point at which anyone gave them a right to tell others what they can and cannot watch on tv.

[RHIZOMES]

Cool class analysis of TV bro

[bricolage]

Cool class analysis of TV bro

suck ya mum sideways.

[Chambered Word]

Elitist leftism ftw.

Suppose we should all be doing collective exercise in the mornings too.

But you don't deny that they're shitty shows, am I correct?

[bricolage]

But you don't deny that they're shitty shows, am I correct?

Meh, sure they are shitty, so is most of what is on tv, doesn't mean I didn't enjoy watching dane fake a nightmare or steven doing his preaching. It's entertaining.

[Dr Mindbender]

Meh, sure they are shitty, so is most of what is on tv, doesn't mean I didn't enjoy watching dane fake a nightmare or steven doing his preaching. It's entertaining.

To me though, BB is something other than entertainment when people en masse have the energy to stay static for half an hour or more, gaping open mouthed at a group of people sitting on a couch. Its subliminal brainwashing if anything. Don't you find anything remotely sinister about the way that large sections of the working class have been conditioned to indulge this shit with almost religious gusto?

[bricolage]

To me though, BB is something other than entertainment when people en masse have the energy to stay static for half an hour or more, gaping open mouthed at a group of people sitting on a couch. Its subliminal brainwashing if anything. Don't you find anything remotely sinister about the way that large sections of the working class have been conditioned to indulge this shit with almost religious gusto?

Ok if you want to discuss this properly yes there are issues surrounding big brother, most notably that it is symptomatic of the decline in community, where many people feel more connected to those living their lives in a confined house on a television than their own lives and the lives of others around them. However that being said you can take pretty much every show on tv and there are issues with it, mostly through the propogation of societal norms such as masculinity & femininity. However if you take part of a revolutionary strategy going around telling people to stop watching tv because it has made them stupid you descend into puritan, elitist leftism and might as well be, as I said, forcing people collective exercise or getting them to sing songs round campfires. The problems inherent in the way media functions will die when they have nothing to build upon, so yeah if you want to go and start building better community relations its a good thing (there is an interesting thread developing in strategy section here about gardens related to this) but mostly all I see is snobbish attitudes like 'look at these plebs with their lowbrow tv, they've never heard of althusser...'

[Dr Mindbender]

..but mostly all I see is snobbish attitudes like 'look at these plebs with their lowbrow tv, they've never heard of althusser...'
My anger is with the execs that make this shit, not the people that choose to watch it.

[bailey_187]

To me though, BB is something other than entertainment when people en masse have the energy to stay static for half an hour or more, gaping open mouthed at a group of people sitting on a couch. Its subliminal brainwashing if anything. Don't you find anything remotely sinister about the way that large sections of the working class have been conditioned to indulge this shit with almost religious gusto?

Most people dont watch it anymore tbh anyway, i get taken the piss out of for still watching it lol

[Dr Mindbender]

Most people dont watch it anymore tbh anyway, i get taken the piss out of for still watching it lol
Its foul legacy of 'i'm a celebrity' and ant & dec still lingers like a fart.

[Intifadah]

Nope, i believe you'll find this monstrosity has already lurched its way onto the air for its final bow.

Davina has already performed her pièce de résistance by participating as a cameo housemate.

She said live on air during the final 'we'll see you in the summer for the last ever big brother'.

[Chambered Word]

To me though, BB is something other than entertainment when people en masse have the energy to stay static for half an hour or more, gaping open mouthed at a group of people sitting on a couch. Its subliminal brainwashing if anything. Don't you find anything remotely sinister about the way that large sections of the working class have been conditioned to indulge this shit with almost religious gusto?

It kinda made the idea of 'Big Brother' look cool to people. To be honest, it is rather sinister. :(

[bailey_187]

It kinda made the idea of 'Big Brother' look cool to people. To be honest, it is rather sinister. :(

lol, no it didnt. People didnt sit there watching Davina be a twat and think "you know what, we should have a dictator like in George Orwells novel"

[Redmau5]

Nope, i believe you'll find this monstrosity has already lurched its way onto the air for its final bow.

Davina has already performed her pièce de résistance by participating as a cameo housemate.

I'm pretty sure the final BB is this summer, unfortunately.

[Patchd]

How could this series have been shit when Vinnie Jones was in it? Vinnie Jones > everything.

[Dr Mindbender]

How could this series have been shit when Vinnie Jones was in it? Vinnie Jones > everything.

I can debunk that in 2 words,

Mean Machine.

What a shit movie.

[cb9's_unity]

I find the dutch nationalism in this thread to be quite disgusting :p