July 31, 2006

It's not that bad - none of the following will win:

• Michael
• John
• Dino
• Ashley

But mainly Michael.

bugger. I wanted camilla to win. no tv access, so if someone could fill me in on what the prizes for runner up are that would be muchly appreciated (my brother's convinced 2nd will get a car, holiday, scooter, a gazillion phones etc.., I think big brother's too cheap.

Jamie is the new Logan Greg.

Oh look, Quizmania is on.

Mwaah! BOOOOO!

I'm soooo glad I taped the finale, it's fascinatingly funny watching Camilla kind of have a meltdown into whiney(oh my hair, oh my dress, oh me, me, me) and everybody trying to avoid her, and the final vision of the announcement where little miss entitled and it's my house thinks she a shoe in to win, Jamie thinks Cam's going to win too, and hooray it's not her. There's excellent snarky stuff to watch in this finale, plus Maxie & Dave dancing on podiums in pirate outfits. And it's full of strange dynamics - the orwell quote (yeah right, honesty, funny stuff) BB speech to Hms profiling other hosts - hmm Gretel is in trouble Michael - mentioning JOhn & Ash whenever he could & setting off all the beeping. Fascinating werid stuff, & to think I once actually could feel something for these people (Timmy!Timmy!Timmy!). Since they broke my heart last year I am dead inside; & then they compounded it with this years crap. Lets hope next year is spectacularly bad & it self destructs in an explosive way not wimpy.

BB06 is no more, but it lives on in our memories. A brief eulogy:

Background music: Danielle’s ‘Under The Radar’ – hmm, maybe not!

I knew you three months, and in that time you made me laugh and cry; yawn and sigh.

Some who didn’t really know you at all – John Howard, Kim Beazley, Rove McManus, and most of the media – were scathing. Your Adults Only show was forcibly removed (and John Howard isn’t done with his axe).

But viewers who knew you well – over a million of us – saw things quite differently, going on the journey with the Housemates.

Thanks to AO, we found out that Dino got to third base with Danielle (he’s allegedly since scored a home run!), and we thought that Krystal’s made-up chicken technique actually sounded pretty wild...

And there’s no better example of why you were important to Aus culture than your treatment of David & Sharif’s reunion and the rapturous crowd response.

We will do our best to ensure that your son, BB07, thrives, and gets to know his cousin BBUK really well. And we won’t rest until there’s a new AO (screening sometime after 11pm this time).

• bows in front of symbolic headband, turkey and lump of reindeer poo *

Rest in peace.

you suck

Lucky buggers in NSW you can see Timmy tomorrow night- if somebody does go please post a report.

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Amy, that’s SO true. Sometimes I like a thick, cool vanilla milkshake with a straw. And I suck hard.

I’m guessing you blow well?

i hope it never get kick off i wiil die with big brother

Amy, I notice that on the turkey-slap thread you wrote:

“They [John & Ashley] should be ashamed of themselves. We women have to fight against this type of thing every day and for them as role models to people just shows what pigs they are.”

Guess you’re kicking yourself now that you didn’t get your facts straight first?

Big Brother Australia might not be perfect, but BB06 has done a lot of good in terms of spreading tolerance and understanding, as well as highlighting an alarming lack of tolerance and understanding from John Howard, Kim Beazley and you.

“I never judge anybody and I never judged John Howard, so why should he judge me in the show?” – Camilla Severi