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BIG BROTHER: DECLARATION OF WAR Posted Fri Aug 18 21:50:57 BST 2000 by Al

I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at the SOTCAA forum.

This morning my ambassador in Fucking-la-la-Channel-4-land handed the C4 controller a final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw 'Big Brother' from their schedules, a state of war would exist between us.

I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently I am now at war with Channel 4.

May God bless us all. May he defend the right. It is the evil things that I shall be fighting against - stupidity, bad taste, Davina McCall - and against them I am certain that right shall prevail.

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Posted By Al on Fri Aug 18 21:58:33 BST 2000:

Honestly though - how has this piss poor show with a grand total of 4 million viewers (allegedly) won so much press coverage? Why is it allowed to disrupt regular schedules? Why is it even on when it is simply several objectionable 'I wanna be on TV' wankers locked in a house, bitching and talking bollocks, occasionally interrupted by one of them being kicked out and being interviewed by the pointless Davina McCall? Then they go on every other fucking show to be interviewed about the whole vacuous experience. This programme is utterly, utterly shite.

It seems to me that if this site is about the terrible state of TV comedy then it is also about the terrible state of TV in general, and Big Brother is the absolute embodiment of this.

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Posted By Joe on Fri Aug 18 22:03:36 BST 2000:

Yeah, but it beats watching a static.

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Posted By PJ on Fri Aug 18 23:07:42 BST 2000:

Al - you should stop reading those tabloid papers - they only mess with your mind you know...

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Posted By Al on Fri Aug 18 23:55:57 BST 2000:

Who said anything about the tabloids? Front page, G2 and editorial column in the Guardian (Fri) and I'll bet the other broadsheets have done the same...

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Posted By Slightly_outrageous on Sat Aug 19 00:12:46 BST 2000:

yup was all over the guardian today...but at least there coverage is intelligent...I liked how the leader line on it ended..:-)

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Posted By Al on Sat Aug 19 00:14:48 BST 2000:

Do you think they are that self-aware? I have my doubts. It should be buried away somewhere on the TV pages and that's it, slow news day or no slow news day.

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Posted By PJ on Sat Aug 19 00:33:02 BST 2000:

sorry; i don't read the papers much
How ironic, considering i live in a newsagents...

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Posted By Slightly_outrageous on Sat Aug 19 00:35:59 BST 2000:

mmmm...

of course i'm having an illicit affair with nick...oh yes I am...

frontal is dropping to new lows...I think the pilot was actually BETTER!!

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Posted By Jon on Sat Aug 19 08:49:41 BST 2000:

Al, the media is destroying your mind...

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Posted By Pliny (oh, alright, Justin) on Sat Aug 19 12:11:50 BST 2000:

The thing is, though....what is this Big Brother thing, Histor? I egg feather bird of it.

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Posted By Al on Sat Aug 19 12:35:36 BST 2000:

>The thing is, though....what is this Big Brother thing, Histor? I egg feather bird of it.

At last - the coverage 'Big Brother' truly deserves.
"Let's go back to August 2000... as the crow flies..."

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Posted By Anonymous on Sat Aug 19 12:38:46 BST 2000:

Frontal really was astonishingly bad. I hope somebody dies a horrific death from that Nutmeg recipe.

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Posted By sheep on Sat Aug 19 21:09:11 BST 2000:

By careful selective viewing, I have managed not to see Big Brother as I guessed from the outset that it would be poor, crass and universally loved by the tabloids. The closest I've come to seeing it has been accidentally reading a few bits about it on Ceefax.

So, I am all the more eager for Histor and Pliny to explain it to me.

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Posted By Slightly_outrageous on Sat Aug 19 23:59:13 BST 2000:

I have an always stay on top app which keep's it permanently in the top right corner of my screen displaying the webcast...so I now watch it WHENEVER i'm online..somebody slap me...

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Posted By Al on Sun Aug 20 13:11:48 BST 2000:

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Posted By Slightly_outrageous on Sun Aug 20 14:38:21 BST 2000:

bloody hell...

*falls unconscious*

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Posted By londo on Mon Aug 21 22:10:27 BST 2000:

he does look sweet lying there,with that jewel of spit glistening on his tongue"...goes through his pockets

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Posted By Slightly_outrageous on Mon Aug 21 22:19:20 BST 2000:

*mutters*

take what you want...just leave behing the family heirloom...

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Posted By londo on Thu Aug 24 17:47:01 BST 2000:

examines moldy rollo wrapped in damp string...sigh

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Posted By Sam D on Thu Aug 24 17:57:21 BST 2000:

>examines moldy rollo wrapped in damp string...sigh

WEll, I'll have it if you don't want it.

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