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to be dreading big brother starting again

23 replies

Chirpygirl · 24/05/2007 20:37

I will lose all decent tv, I will not be able to have a sensible conversation for weeks and I will feel all left out when other people start talking about it and I don't know who they mean!

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Carmenere · 24/05/2007 20:39

I am going to make a real effort not to watch it for the first couple of months(it is on for about 6 months isn't it?)

Othersideofthechannel · 24/05/2007 20:41

Don't dread it. Just come on mumsnet and start a thread where all of us beings too intelligent to see the attraction can feel superior together!

80sMum · 24/05/2007 20:41

Surely no-one actually watches it?

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Chirpygirl · 24/05/2007 20:42

It's on for fucking aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages!

I was living in Spain when it first started over there and loved it as I learnt loads of really good conversational Spanish and slang from it. Came back to UK just as it was starting here and raved about first series...then it all went a bit weird and now I just can't bear it!

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Chirpygirl · 24/05/2007 20:47

What I am really frightened about is I have only known a lot of my new mum friends for under a year, and if they all like Big brother I am going to have to find new ones!

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lizyjane · 24/05/2007 21:41

I hate it too. I also hate the X Factor, Pop Idol, Strictly Come Dancing, etc boring etc. I feel all the embarrassment the participants should feel but don't. It is all too painful. YANBU.

Kevlarhead · 24/05/2007 23:50

I wish, I wish, I wish...

"THIS year's Big Brother house is to include quirky new features including a toilet in the middle of the livingroom floor and a room full of tigers."

"Bengal tigers overpower their prey before applying a 'suffocation bite' to the neck. The compound, at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, has been described as "topsy turvy" with beds nailed to the wall, a fridge at the bottom of the garden and a beanbag instead of an oven."

"But the producers admit the the most controversial aspect will be the six ravenous, 30 stone, man-eating Bengal tigers, housed in a room marked 'chocolate storage area'."

LoveAngel · 25/05/2007 06:55

I always get sucked in about halfway through and the spend the summer hating myself for being such a fucking sap. I refuse to do it this summer. REFUSE!

zippitippi · 25/05/2007 07:04

I wish it was consigned to a bad phase of tv history where it belongs

I hat the way it has to take over everything everywhere and it is awful...can't think of anything to say about it and it has such a strong influence on everyone who watches and news??? tv and life in general

yukyukyukyukyuk

I've been dreading it too

Furrymummy · 25/05/2007 10:32

I hate it too, have watched only a few snippets, it is totally peurile. And it's hard to avoid! People are always talking about it on the radio, or on TV, in newspapers and magazines!
Maybe we should all just go into hibernation until it's all over.

clumsymum · 25/05/2007 10:35

Oh I agree, where IS the appeal in this programme?

I once watched about 10 minutes of it, it was boring, at the same time as being repulsive.

Life is too damned short to waste it watching a load of people trying to be famous

PetronellaPinkPants · 25/05/2007 10:38

Oh god it's not it is

TV for morons

LieselVentouse · 25/05/2007 10:39

There is a solution to this you know
TURN THE TELLY OFF AND GO ENJOY THE SUNSHINE

GrumpyOldHorsewoman · 25/05/2007 10:44

My cousin works for the TV company that produces it, and had to assist during the selection process for contestants. She said it was absolutely awful - they have just gone for every kind of freak. Yes, you can turn off the TV when it's on, but what about the papers, the news, the conversations of others.... I dread it, too. It's like it takes over the country every summer and it's so BOOOOOOOOOOORING

Desiderata · 25/05/2007 10:48

I just don't get that programme. Total and utter shite

HonoriaGlossop · 25/05/2007 11:37

yup, totally agree. I can't WAIT till this programme has had it's day.

HonoriaGlossop · 25/05/2007 11:38

yup, totally agree. I can't WAIT till this programme has had it's day.

HonoriaGlossop · 25/05/2007 11:38

As you can see I REALLY can't wait.

IntergalacticWalrus · 25/05/2007 11:40

I can't bear it!

There can't be many people left who do watch it, surely?

Desiderata · 25/05/2007 11:44

I can't believe that people have got the balls to talk about it IN PUBLIC ... to openly admit they watch it and then compound it be inviting another person to discuss it with them

'Did you watch Big Brother last night?' has got to be one of the greatest show-stoppers in the history of social conversation.

LIZS · 25/05/2007 11:44

It has had its day , and some. Heard Davina was quitting after this, presumably while she was still ahead.

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Chirpygirl · 25/05/2007 11:50

Ah, but the problem is you can turn the telly over, but it doesn't stop it being in every paper, on all the news, in all the magazines and in every conversation for fecking weeks!
So there is no escaping it...(!)

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HonoriaGlossop · 25/05/2007 11:50

Hopefully she will quit and it will die it's death then. i can't believe that someone like her who appears to have a brain, can have settled for presenting this kind of thing.

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