[porkmarras]

Originally Posted by Hip Priest

Ah, the Sunday bells. Splendid. I'm glad they are involved.

Perhaps the birds shouldn't fly past. Perhaps they should stop and peck.

In that case i'd require the crumbs of ageing and mouldy bread to be glued to her face for repeated assault.Hitchcock style.

[porkmarras]

Originally Posted by the ikara cult

You dont really believe that do you? Im from an area of London that has a National Front candidate in every election, i know that my area is very racist, but Britain as a whole is nothing compared to it

Do you live in Putney or somewhere in West London by any chance?

[fishmonkey]

Originally Posted by Pookie

OK, confession time.

Who's voted?

you cant vote in Ireland, but i did the next best thing which is to stand in my back yard and shake my fist in a style of protest in the direction facing London and therefore the Big Brother house.

[porkmarras]

I'll be preparing a cake made of cat poo and offer it to them when they come out of the house.Either that or a pissball.

[sonicl]

Originally Posted by fishmonkey

you cant vote in Ireland, but i did the next best thing which is to stand in my back yard and shake my fist in a style of protest in the direction facing London and therefore the Big Brother house.

To vote from Ireland:

To evict JADE: Call 1514 106 009

To evict SHILPA: Call 1514 106 014

(calls cost 75cents, mobile and other network rates may vary)
All proceeds from this vote will go to charity.
Republic of Ireland voting will close at 8.30pm tonight.

[fishmonkey]

Originally Posted by sonicl

To vote from Ireland:

To evict JADE: Call 1514 106 009

To evict SHILPA: Call 1514 106 014

(calls cost 75cents, mobile and other network rates may vary)
All proceeds from this vote will go to charity.
Republic of Ireland voting will close at 8.30pm tonight.

well that shut me up then.

i'll vote for Jade while i shake my fists.

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by sonicl

To vote from Ireland:

To evict JADE: Call 1514 106 009

To evict SHILPA: Call 1514 106 014

(calls cost 75cents, mobile and other network rates may vary)
All proceeds from this vote will go to charity.
Republic of Ireland voting will close at 8.30pm tonight.

Glad to see you're taking this seriously.

And in order to ensure fairness, you've listed the number to evict Shilpa, Well done.

[sonicl]

I've listed a number, but I haven't necessarily listed the number.

[eatmychild]

I think it's stupid that so many people phone to complain about racism. If they don't like racism they should watch something else, but you can't watch a racist show and expect it to change just for you. What about the people who enjoy the 'dog' and 'eat with yo hands' comments.

In referendum, ratings control the shows, so if dipshits stopped watching, C4 would do something about it. As it is, the ratings probably increased, so C4 are hardly gonna evict their biggest attraction.

[Glice]

I'm reticent to comment on this. BB is, in many ways, the absolute apogee of everything that's awful, but my saying that only contributes to the culture of discussion which engenders the vile machinations which repulse me and make me shake catatonic with rage. However, I'm impressed with the British media, and Jade's sponsers, in some sense, for pulling out support at the merest hint of racism.

I'm sure Atari will tell you what the secret of good comedy is, my memory is frail and brittle.

[porkmarras]

If anything(and it's not often that i get genuinely angry about this),it's the media treatment of the whole thing.The tyrannical tactics of certain sections of the media in Britain is unbelievable more often than not.I still scratch my head in disbelief at how certain sections of this society truly believe what is fed to them.Sorry,i'm kinda ranting but i do feel it has an effect on samples of the population here.

[SynthethicalY]

Oh Poor british people, learn to live with it.

[porkmarras]

1)I'm not British and 2)What does that mean?

[SynthethicalY]

We know that this thing called racism will never end. It goes through cycles. Problems leading for the rise, The Big rise, The problems leading to its downfall, the downfall. And it starts all over again.

[SynthethicalY]

Well the story finally got here. It was on CNN on right now.

[Hip Priest]

Originally Posted by eatmychild

I think it's stupid that so many people phone to complain about racism.

In a country whose populist newspapers are full of bigoted nonsense about immigrants and foreigners, I found it reassuring that society is still prepared to denounce this kind of thing, and demand an end to it.

Originally Posted by eatmychild

If they don't like racism they should watch something else, but you can't watch a racist show and expect it to change just for you.

It's not a racist show; it's a show with some racists in.

Originally Posted by eatmychild

What about the people who enjoy the 'dog' and 'eat with yo hands' comments.

What about them? They shouldn't enjoy those comments. They shouldn't endorse bullying or racism.

Originally Posted by eatmychild

In referendum, ratings control the shows, so if dipshits stopped watching, C4 would do something about it. As it is, the ratings probably increased, so C4 are hardly gonna evict their biggest attraction.

Very true. The programme makers will ultimately gain from the whole sad episode, because the publicity will mean more attention for the next series.

[porkmarras]

It is very true that a large amount of people say things but don't know what they are talking about and say them on the spur of the moment.My main concern is in the media highlighting them and manipulating them so that they become the can of worms that generally puts all parties concerned into a bad mood and in need for more confrontations.This goes on and on and it creates a climate of distrust amongst people from different communities that is only and truly dealt with in reality with varying degrees of outcome.

[Hip Priest]

I agree wholeheartedly. I think I said last night I think its a shame that BB didn't try to show the bullies what they were doing and give them the chance to change. We can now ensure that the lives of those people will be made very hard when that was perhaps not neccessary. Allowing it to drag on unnattended because it was 'good television' was very wrong.

[Norma J]

I saw it on the news here. I thought that BB would have called the dicks into the 'diary room' and told them that racism is not allowed. Considering that is one of the rules of the house, no?

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by Norma J

I thought that BB would have called the dicks into the 'diary room' and told them that racism is not allowed.

They did do that eventually, but WAY too late, and only after all the media attention.