Day 4 of 71 - Bank Holiday Monday's like a Sunday...
Posted by Simon at May 31, 2004 09:42 PM
It's a Bank Holiday Monday, and despite the housemates being away from the action of the real world for up to 71 days, the do-nothing-ness of a Bank Holiday appears to have followed them in to the house.
However it's not been totally un-eventful. At just after midnight last night Big Brother requested that housemates return their empty suitcases to the store room.
Kitten, of course, took this as a great opportunity to blackmail Big Brother in to getting her suitcase full of clothes, and told the housemates that they should all rebel against Big Brother by not returning them.
It's getting a bit tired, all of this rebelling - at least make it something interesting. Big Brother probably couldn't care less if the suitcases are returned 24 hours later than they first wanted them or not. Fact is she's not going to get her suitcase as that's part of the punishment for failing the task. Live with it.
The housemates finally gave up holding the suitcases "hostage" and less than 24 hours later they'd returned them to the store room, admitting that "they were getting in the way in our room anyway." - exactly the reason why they needed to be taken back, they looked a bloody mess on tv!
After that she then went on a rant about all the two-bit causes that she apparently supports, this-ism and that-ism, anti-this and anti-that, blah blah drone drone drone.
I can imagine viewers switching off in their dozens. I did, for a short while.
And would you believe it, later in the day it's Kitten again (along with Stuart), who is trying to tell "about 5 or 6 of the housemates not to nominate". Yes she thinks that there's a loophole in the rules which state you have to nominate sometime during the week, and not specifically at the time when Big Brother says. Clearly she doesn't quite get the idea that it's Big Brother that made the rules, Big Brother that can change the rules, and if she doesn't nominate she'll just be in the shit.
But then surely she should have been kicked out. She's already vandalisd the poolside microphone, climbed on the roof of the house (and made a second repeat attempt later in the day), broken the rules of the live task and not taken part, and it'd appear that when housemates were being called in to the Diary Room earlier today, she decided to go outside - against Big Brother's instructions.
Clearly Big Brother doesn't want to kick someone out so early, and it'd be seen as a major cop-out by the producers if they kicked out one of the most rebellious contestants yet, but surely it's got to get to a point soon (probably by the end of the first week) where Big Brother gets tough with the rule book and gives the first official warning - climbing on the roof alone is dangerous, and surely reason alone to bring an end to the childish behaviour.
Oh, and last night Emma, the girl from Oldham, told a few of the group how "I'm a bit... dippy". Sure are.
The Eye will get back to you...