Big Brother 2011

[Fluttereyes]

Aaron is passive aggressive with her, she can't see it because she's too close, that's how they manage to control people.  She will see it when she watches it back perhaps.

I really think he was yawn worthy last night and I can't believe people can't see that.  Everyone has to walk around on eggshells because of him.

[Watilla]

It's been funny watching Alex recently, more funny that she sees the funny side as well and can laugh at herself. Like with her making that cake, dropping those drinks and trying to get over the obstacles in that dress, lol. And Faye and Lou just thinking "oh well we failed anyway, blue shower here we come!" hehe. Those were fun tasks to watch.

[Fluttereyes]

I couldn't believe how stupid Faye and Lou were with that task.  The blue stuff was only in the middle of the room, had they just stayed back they would have been fine, that was £100 they lost for the gang.

Alex is really funny and watching her last night with Louise when she was comforting her showed she has a heart.  I felt Faye was thinking she'd be able o beat Lou tonight and didn't feel her words were real.

Isn't it amazing how when either Faye or Aaron are up, their relationship gets better?

Really routing for Lou tonight

[Fluttereyes]

Justice was served.  Aaron was trying to split Jay and Lou as he knows their relationship is strong so people will like them, I also think he sees jay as the competition and as Lou keeps Jay calm, he might have been able to rile him to a bad state by the end of this week.

Now Aaron has to go around all week with no Faye as his tool to get more air time and he'll have to lie in bed on his own, he's had enough in that bed anyway.

Next eviction Thursday and I think Aaron should go, the rest are all more fun than him.

[Watilla]

I couldn't watch this weeks eviction, it wasn't going to be fun seeing either of them leave. I did this when I thought Anton wasn't going to leave as well, just couldn't watch, lol. My mum told me the winner would only be getting 50k instead of the 100k. They really shouldn't be allowed to mess with the end money like that, but nothing is left alone where BB is concerned, so not surprised.

I hope Aaron goes Thursday, but I've an awful feeling Tom will. I'm not big on Tom, but I want Aaron gone first.

[Fluttereyes]

You should watch it, it was fine when Faye went, she expected it.  Lou had no idea and couldn't stop giggling with nerves when she went to see BB after it.

Just to see what they're doing to the 100k too, it's nasty what they're doing, but if the housemates stick together and make a plan to split it properly outside, it will be fine.  I just don't think that's going to be it though, I see something coming from BB due to whatever choices they make.

I'm not really enamoured with Tom either but I'd rather see Aaron go first too.  I wish I hadn't voted for Aaron the first time he was up, I want my money back 

[Watilla]

I seen how they sorted who got what, pick from a hat deal. Best way, as no fingers are pointed.

Those 3 months have flown by come Friday. It's going to be weird for a little while.

[Fluttereyes]

I thought Aaron was a little funny over the cash.  He even asked BB if he would help them distribute it equally into their bank accounts, I don't think he trusts the others, nobody else seems to be concerned at all. 

I always hate when BB ends it leaves you with an empty feeling and it's one of the reasons I didn't watch it the last couple of seasons, I don't think I watched it for about three years, last time I watched it straight through was the year Nadia won it.  Since then I've just caught bits and bobs, haven't missed it this year though.

[Watilla]

I know what you mean with Aaron being odd in the whole money situation, and his reaction to Tom and Alex getting given gifts the other night. I can see and understand his point, but I can also see and understand Jay's and Lou's point. However, him casting suspicion on their nice gesture trying to make them look/feel bad may prove one grave error too many with the public. This could actually spell the end for him come Thursday.

It does leave you with an empty feeling when the show ends, and that eerie echo they do with the housemates' voices as they do a playback at the end is kinda sad. Next years BB will soon whiz round and I'll either not watch out of frustration with the fixing/editing or I'll be a masochist and endure it all over again. lol.

[Fluttereyes]

Aaron was asked in the diary room if he wanted to get Alex and Tom a gift too, he threw the book behind him with a resounding "NO".  I know the other two didn't want to do it either but they though better of it, Aaron was just as able to change his mind but he didn't.  He's a miserable old man.  I hate that Jay is taking the bait but I do feel for him and I think my temper would have snapped before now.  Aaron is deliberately trying to get him to break his temper and hit him or something and it's a plan to get Jay out on Thursday.  I think Aaron has totally ruined the last week for them all. I was surprised to see him eat Indian food last night, was it not just last week he said he couldn't eat it when the rest chose Indian as a treat from BB?

I don't think we'll miss this years show the way we did in the past, it's only an hour a night, whereas before we tuned in at other times too so it became like a ritual.  I know I won't miss seeing Aaron's miserable face.

[Watilla]

I'm glad Jay didn't lose his head, and credit to BB, they finally put their human suits on realising crunch time was coming by easing the pressure and opening the bedroom door for him.

I am confused by something though, when Jay was talking about kicking other peoples heads in, getting angry in the outside world, he doesn't appear to see/associate that with "showing emotion, getting emotional" yet he'll see himself crying as showing emotion, being emotional. Lashing out/aggression and showing anger is no different, it is/shows emotion, being emotional. I have a few theories as to why, on a very large scale people grow up blind to this fact, but it smells like double standards/excrement all the same, you know?

Wont miss this years as much as the previous years, you're right. Even if we all refused to watch, they still wouldn't get it through their skulls and comprehend that it's not their show that has ran its course, it's the blatant meddling and lack of footage. Ironically it is their own hunger for max profit which kills any profit coming to them in the long run. Same goes for The Sims series, it wasn't the original format that was at fault putting people off. While companies certainly think for the now, they're terrible thinking long term. The mind boggles.

2/10 on the scale today.

[Fluttereyes]

I don't think Jay was able to explain his feelings.  My own view of it was that he was crying from frustration at not being able to go down his usual route and method of dealing with anger.  My son regularly changes from outward anger to tears, this is his way of trying to stop himself from lashing out, to me that's what Jay did.  Though I wish he'd done that from the start and not said the things he said.  At one point I saw Lou give him 'the look', I think she was surprised by him too.  I think that if Jay gets the chance once they are all out of the house, Aaron is going to be a very sorry man.

I'm just glad Jay didn't go out all and punch him, though on the inside I have to admit I'd love to have seen that.

I'll be glad when this season is over, I only watch it now out of habit, it's boring me senseless and Aaron steals people's energy through the TV too.  All I know for sure is that if I were in there, I'd have been thrown out weeks ago as I would have given Aaron a good wallop.   It's a pity they're leaving the first eviction so late, a couple of days without Aaron would have been great, then again there are so many muppets out there still voting for him (allegedly).

[Watilla]

I've the feeling I came off as a pompus get in my last post. I want to make clear that I do not look down on someone for wishing they could lash out when they feel wronged. Afterall fighting is just another form of communication isn't it. Today it is preferred that we do the verbal assault course dance with eachother instead, to sort things. I can see this kills Jay. He doesn't feel confident enough to tactfully fight Aaron verbally, so he wants to pan his head in instead, but he's unable to do this either. So, what's left to do in such a situation? Feel helpless. Which in turn leads to being frustrated, so I am in agreement with you that it was frustration which drove Jay to tears.

What I meant in my last post by double standards is, is how I see people all the time viewing the act of crying Vs the act of fighting as two completely unrelated things. To do either of these, it is us showing emotion, being emotional. Yet, only crying is ever called out as "being emotional"? Hope what I was trying to say in my last post makes sense now in this one. 

I remember my nephew coming home in a foul mood close to tears, he'd been verbally got at in school and didn't feel able to get them back for it, I took him out to the punchbag that was hanging up in the backyard at the time and told him to just go for it, go wild. We all could use our very own punchbag, in this world most definitely!

 

[Fluttereyes]

I didn't think you were being pompous at all.  I agree that anger is as much of an emotion as heartbreak, it's just that one is mostly out and the other is mostly in.  The in one being the most dangerous to the person feeling it.  I'd love to get my son a punchbag, I'm sure he could benefit from it and I know I could get benefit from it at times too.

I'm only going by what I see in my son and what I know of myself.  I have to attend meetings with people who should be sentenced to burn at the stake.  They give me hell in my life while I'm doing my best to care for an adult with Autism.  Now I know fine well that 25-30 years ago I'd have waited outside their work for them and literally ripped the hair out of their heads, as well as trying to pull their faces right off their skulls.  Age and experience has taught me that this is not the right way to go about things.  So I try to talk the talk during the meetings and I do give quite a verbal tongue lashing when it's needed, it doesn't stop me wanting to rip their faces off though.  So I go home after the meeting, hold it all in, like holding a deep breath all night, just because I don't want my son to see how I feel, when I finally get to bed the emotions take over and I usually cry myself to sleep.

In an ideal world I'd be given the right to just punch people, but I'm not able to do that.  I know that sounds bad, but I don't believe that there is anyone on this planet that doesn't want to smack someone around at some point, it's just that most of us internalise it until it comes out in tears of frustration.

Only last week one of my younger sisters said "you want me to go down to her work and batter her for you?", I of course declined, but she reminded me that I used to deal with things so differently to how I do now.

I can actually see Jay breaking at some point and giving Aaron a kicking, but to be honest I can't blame him.  I do hope that he doesn't do it as that's what Aaron wants.  I even think BB is fed up with Aaron and his garbage.  They could never let Jay away with that though, so let's just hope he holds it all in.

I still think Alex might win but I'm routing for Lou, she's saint in the way she puts up with stuff and the way she handles Jay is excellent, she can always bring him back to earth.

[Fluttereyes]

"I have exercised the demons", That quote from Jay gave me one of the biggest laughs of this series.    He obviously knows what Aaron is trying to make him do, good on him for trying to clear the air in front of the public, Aaron didn't do very well at all, did he?