Poof
Hang on. Emily is chucked out for saying the 'n' word, which is apparently never acceptable even if - as Emily claimed - said in a playful, non-bigoted fashion. Laura says 'poof' - she would claim in a similarly playful, non-bigotry-intending way - and is allowed to stay in after a stern-sounding talking to. So the 'n' word is always wrong, while the 'p' word is frowned upon but seemingly not as bad. Right. OK. Glad we got that line on "offensive" language sorted out, BB.
And she repeated again, immediately saying "Oops". But else would we expect but double standards.
Posted by: LONGSHOT | 5 Jul 2007 11:13:23
As a poor, beleaguered bloke who has been given way more than his fair share of grief by an assortment of increasingly dreadful girlfriends, I cannot help but feel brotherly compassion for Ziggy, despite his silly name and his silly face. Thus, I hope that the current architect of his misery is voted out on Friday. Fare thee well, Chanelle. Let’s get your fifteen minutes over with as quickly and painlessly as possible, and you can piss off back up north, never to trouble my consciousness again.
THEN, as has been posited on this blog already, we face the intriguing prospect of a romance between Charley the Orc, and Ziggy.
This is something that I would simply have to watch, but obviously not in a good way.
Like televised surgery. Like a beheading video.
Gak.
Posted by: hansgruber | 5 Jul 2007 12:49:55
Methinks we need a dictionary of 'acceptable offensive words' for the next series of BB.
Who wants to start....
Posted by: JB | 5 Jul 2007 13:06:10
Er, so what about the fact that Jonathan Ross has a support band for his chat show called "Four poofs and a piano". And that's on the mega-PC beeb, no less.
Think your unwillingness to spell out the n-word also tells its own story.
Posted by: Jimbo | 5 Jul 2007 13:20:56
Oh, Lordy, that was truly hilarious. Poor old Zog (I'm only 26, honest) and his spinning little pea-brain. Like all nice boys, he was just trying to do and say the right thing, but he couldn't cope with the emotional fall-out. He only tells Chas & Chaz what he thinks they want to hear, so he can't understand why it always goes so horribly wrong. Obviously, he can't tell them what he really thinks - that would require an honest and genuine adult conversation, and he can't find that section in the index of his 'It's Nice To Be Nice' manual.
Posted by: Scared Eyes | 5 Jul 2007 14:27:13
If the producers had got rid of the beached whale there would have been an Emily-style furore, but still we complain a keeping her in. To be a Big Brother producer...I'd chuck her out, but then she's bound to go on Fri anyway.
Posted by: That Guy | 5 Jul 2007 14:37:10
Are you seriously equating "nigger" and "poof"?
Posted by: Rotwatcher | 5 Jul 2007 14:42:43
I agree. The 'N' word and the 'P' word are both offensive. Chuck the Welsh One out NOW - then evict Channele on Friday and give Charley her chance with Ziggy!
Posted by: Gabrielle de Pauw | 5 Jul 2007 18:49:46
Yes, I am equating the use of the words 'nigger' and 'poof', particularly in the 'playful' contexts they have been used in Big Brother.
Posted by: Tim Teeman | 5 Jul 2007 19:08:57
Can I say "boxy suits" playfully. I love it when everybody gets stern, it makes me come back from the dead! Back in crazy technicolor!
But on a serious boxy suit note, I mourn the passing of Lesley, none of this lot could pull off a nice white number from Jaeger. but then Lesley probably couldn't have pulled off being dipped in a chocolate fountain face first either. So fair's fair I suppose.
While I've been away (not in any white coat sense) I must admit nothing much really seems to have happened. Apart from Charley being locked in a room screaming like a tantrumming toddler, as everybody else threw some talcum powder around and showed their bottoms and wore black bras and leather boxers in tight clothing. Well I can watch that at home on "Scarlett Tuesdays" thank you very much, and I didn't see Channel 4 giving me the usual £100 per head for the privilege of entering and prancing round my red-lit front room dressed like that.
I plan to stay in and watch Chanelle go tomorrow. We all know how horrible girls can be and, seeing as it's all girls voting, and it's a vote to go rather than stay, it's clear to me that unless everyone has had a full frontal lobotomy and "relates" to Chenille, or Chavelle, or Chernobyl, or whatever, then they'll be jealous she's got a boy band boyf and kick'er orf.
At least we'll hear about her in the Daily Star and "Nuts" and not our Laura who, judging by the state of her headband/nighty/dressing gown/slippers/mouth, should probably go straight to a special with Kim and Aggie. Who can take spore samples.
Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara | 5 Jul 2007 22:52:21
what about that band "four poofs and a piano" ? the fact that we would never allow a band of black men called "three niggers and a piano" on a prime time slot on television outlines that the n-word is more serious.
poof is not as offensive as nigger- i'm sorry but it is not.
Posted by: kera | 5 Jul 2007 23:28:17
Paint.
Tits.
Charley.
WRONG!!!!!
Posted by: hansgruber | 6 Jul 2007 01:14:16
I thought Charley, on last night's 'highlights', looked rather good in all that body-paint. And I thought when she smiled it was a really genuine, happy smile and I realised she is in fact a very pretty girl. But would a happy smiling Charley have lasted as long on BB as the ranting, raving, snarling Charley? Discuss.
Posted by: Gabrielle de Pauw | 6 Jul 2007 07:29:49
Fair enough.I'm neither homosexual nor black, and I don't use either word, certainly not in jest. But I think the history of the word "nigger" puts it in a different league of offence to "poof", though maybe "queer" has some equivalence. Still, we're just rearranging the deckchairs on the Herald of Free Enterprise, really.
Posted by: Rotwatcher | 6 Jul 2007 08:13:36