Following on from Friends on Friday night was the return of Big Brother on Channel 4. This year they have managed to assemble the most vacuous extroverted collection of inmates housemates imaginable.
There’s one in particular - Kitten who is actually quite spectacularly annoying.
She’s one of those radical-feminist anti-capitalist Socialist Worker’s Weekly-reading morons who establish fierce political ideas without even glancing at the facts. The sort that were previously thought to have died out with the 80’s. Within 2 days of entering the house the trotskyite was trying to establish a ‘revolution’ against Big Brother.
Ok. As if I don’t laugh at these people enough in Real Life, one of them has to sign up for a frikkin’ gameshow and try to rebel against it. Doing things like ripping microphones from the walls and failing to attend weekly tasks - that’s just ridiculously lame.
She was talking about how interesting the power dynamic was between the housemates and Big Brother. That just proves how inattentive she is.
The politics between BB and the contestants is in fact the most brilliant display of misdirection ever conceived. The actual political bout is between the housemates themselves - BB is merely the dancers who distract the audience from the elephant being led out of the studio. As long as the housemates have some ever-present and obvious overlord hanging over their heads they seem blind to the astonishing levels of conniving and spin that pervades throughout the 10 weeks amongst their own party.
What’s more, because Kitten was chosen in a nominations-style secret ballot task, she won’t be getting her suitcase for the entirety of her stay. When searching through the case, Davina McColl found a roll of tin-foil that Kitten was planning on using to cover the cameras. Perhaps it would be better used to fashion a hat for her.
Lat-Waittaminute..
I forgot to mention my little sister and brother’s first holy communion on sunday. It was lovely, pics are available in the snapshot archives.
Right, that’s out of the way.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at May 31, 2004 07:36 PM