Banners Over Big Brother - Also, Jen Sucks
They've flown a banner over the Big Brother house again. This one says:
"J-Blo & Yapril - America wants your DOR."
DOR means "departure on request." Presumably, the househamsters know that. April can probably figure out that "Yapril" means her, although I wouldn't put it past her to be confused. I have no idea if they would figure out that "J-Blo" means Jennifer, who has a new "Jennifer sucks" website devoted to how much unlove is felt for her.
But it doesn't matter much, as the hamsters didn't get to read the whole banner. Big Brother locked down the house before they could see it, and Maggie and James only saw the end of the banner.
I guess that Big Brother used to have people staked out at the airport to watch for planes taking off with banners. In previous years, banners were all the rage. In 2000, Season 1, a banner was flown saying, "Big Brother is worse than you think. Get out now."
Banners are pretty obvious, and the producers act quickly if they're seen in time. That's the thing about a banner... You can't really keep it hidden so as to only reveal it once you're on top of the house, where it could be read easily. Planes pretty much have to drag it all the way from wherever they're coming from. I love banners.
Hey! Here's an idea! Propose to someone, or tell them you hate them, with a nice banner plane, flying over London at 2000 feet for an hour, for only 899 pounds! That's, like, $1622.12 in American money. More or less. Don't live in London? Well, don't do that, then, because they probably won't see it. That would be a waste of money.
Banners definitely are fun. Not subtle. But fun.
A more subtle approach to telling the househamsters that we hate them is the tennis-ball method. Some guy cut open a tennis ball and stuffed it full of fake news stories. One said that the president called Big Brother a "national disgrace." (Like that's news?) Another said that an evicted hamster signed a record deal with P. Diddy-Puffy-Combs-Daddy to record a new rap album taking aim at his former roommates.
While this is very amusing, what was most enjoyable is how "disturbed and angry" the hamsters got over it. Not that anybody hated them at the time. But, what's more interesting than happy househamsters is freaked-out househamsters. I mean, if you've GOT a little box of people, and all they do is drink beer and talk about themselves, you're gonna want to shake them up once in a while.
"J-Blo & Yapril - America wants your DOR."
DOR means "departure on request." Presumably, the househamsters know that. April can probably figure out that "Yapril" means her, although I wouldn't put it past her to be confused. I have no idea if they would figure out that "J-Blo" means Jennifer, who has a new "Jennifer sucks" website devoted to how much unlove is felt for her.
But it doesn't matter much, as the hamsters didn't get to read the whole banner. Big Brother locked down the house before they could see it, and Maggie and James only saw the end of the banner.
I guess that Big Brother used to have people staked out at the airport to watch for planes taking off with banners. In previous years, banners were all the rage. In 2000, Season 1, a banner was flown saying, "Big Brother is worse than you think. Get out now."
Banners are pretty obvious, and the producers act quickly if they're seen in time. That's the thing about a banner... You can't really keep it hidden so as to only reveal it once you're on top of the house, where it could be read easily. Planes pretty much have to drag it all the way from wherever they're coming from. I love banners.
Hey! Here's an idea! Propose to someone, or tell them you hate them, with a nice banner plane, flying over London at 2000 feet for an hour, for only 899 pounds! That's, like, $1622.12 in American money. More or less. Don't live in London? Well, don't do that, then, because they probably won't see it. That would be a waste of money.
Banners definitely are fun. Not subtle. But fun.
A more subtle approach to telling the househamsters that we hate them is the tennis-ball method. Some guy cut open a tennis ball and stuffed it full of fake news stories. One said that the president called Big Brother a "national disgrace." (Like that's news?) Another said that an evicted hamster signed a record deal with P. Diddy-Puffy-Combs-Daddy to record a new rap album taking aim at his former roommates.
While this is very amusing, what was most enjoyable is how "disturbed and angry" the hamsters got over it. Not that anybody hated them at the time. But, what's more interesting than happy househamsters is freaked-out househamsters. I mean, if you've GOT a little box of people, and all they do is drink beer and talk about themselves, you're gonna want to shake them up once in a while.
posted by annekat at
7:35 PM
2 Comments:
I am frustrated with Jen, too, and am ready to see the last of the Jen/April team.
One problem with reality shows like this, where the contestants vote each other off, is that they tend to promote mediocrity. The lamest, weakest, dumbest players quickly figure out who the bright stars are and gang up to vote them out.
Jen's lie to Kaysar in the contest was contemptible. I'm hoping that he manages to stay in and get Janelle booted, but I'm not counting on it.
Ack. I've had enough of Big Brother for a while.
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Rob Rogers, at 9:54 PM
Yes, you're right. The cream rises to the... um, door. Perhaps that's not a very good expression for this purpose.
Odd there's no good cliche for this kind of thing, as it seems to happen so often. There probably is, and I just can't think of it.
The interesting thing about the show this year is the level of involvement people are having. People are mad! Up in arms!
What I kinda like is how so many people really like Kaysar, the Iragi-born Muslim, and so many dislike Eric, the self-righteous firefighter.
To me, this shows that people aren't discriminating against Kayser for being Iraqi. They're discriminating against Eric for being jerky.
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annekat, at 10:58 PM
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