The 'jail' on Big Brother....

[diplodocus]

spitting in someones face is legally classed as common assault, it carries a max sentence of six months, if someone has complained about it then the police are obliged to follow it up

[Sam Slater]

Stop being sensible, diplo. You can't win an argument on technicalities!

[max_tranmere]

On the subject of whether BB is cruel and vindictive, I would say so. I watched on YouTube the incident where that Dennis guy had an argument with Mohammed and then gobbed in his face. There was almost a fight. The new guy with the beard (who wears eye makeup) squared-up to one of the other male housemates at the same time as well because that guy had squared-up to one of the girls. He kept saying 'you don't square up to a girl' and doing it so seriously it was like he was going to punch the guy. All BB did was demand that the main protagonists go to another room - some of the production staff should have rushed into the house and got between them. It looked like it was going to go off any second. This is what the programme makers hope for and sort of encourage, they create a situation where everyone is couped up together for so long and with few distractions that they will fight like rats in a cage, which is what this lot are really. The oriental girl tonight was sobbing because two other people were arguing near her, like she was so wound up after weeks of being in there that she cracked. Also tonight, and this is the most abusive thing I've seen on the show recently, was Mario and Mikey (who is blind) were locked in the jail for over SIX HOURS!! The narrator quoted the time when the programme came to an end - it was something like six hours and 18 minutes or something. They were still in there when the show finished so they may have been there for 7 or 8 hours in total. One of them can't see, the other one wore a jacket as it is presuamably so cold there! I thought that was an abuse by the programme makers and something I am still not sure they are even allowed to do at law.

[Sam Slater]

It seems you missed my 'loaded' question.

The obvious question I have, in reaction to your conclusion BB is both vindictive and cruel, is: What do you think about the psychology of a person who religiously watches something they see as vindictive and cruel?

[max_tranmere]

I don't religiously watch it. Tonight I watched about 40 minutes only, and this is the first I've seen since Wednesday or Thursday of last week. Tonight was so boring that I may give up watching, but if someone does watch something and enjoy it there may not be enjoying every element of it and can flag up the bits they don't enjoy and talk about things they think are an abusive - like the jail.

[Sam Slater]

Ah right...

Didn't answer my question though. What do you think about people who watch this stuff?

[Deuce Bigolo]

Their bored senseless with other TV programs in the main

Closet voyeurs

[max_tranmere]

There are millions of people in the UK who live on a diet of Big Brother, Holiday's From Hell, Jeremy Kyle, 20 Stone Boy (and other such rubbish that ITV1 likes to have in it's peak viewing slot thesdays), Britain's Got Talent, X-Factor, and that series about that bimbo Jordan and her Australian Boyfriend. These are people who rush out to buy the new book that Coleen Rooney has pretended to write, which documents the life she has with her husband - and they would rather read a book like that than to read the new book by Irvine Welsh or Martin Amis. These people buy Heat, Now, Closer, and other celeb trash mags. They live in towns and suburban areas just beyond the edge of cities, which usually have an orbital or bypass motorway going past them. There are legions of these people in the UK and those are the kind that religiously watch programmes like BB and all the other ones I've listed. I don't regard myself as any better or any worse than them. I do regard myself as differnt.

[michaeldon1]

Is it within the law....I'm a Celebrity..is it within the law to make people eat kangaroo balls just to get food...YES IT IS...they sign up for the show knowing they are at the whim of the producers...and the financial rewards when they leave can be very good,so make them earn it I say...