So Brian wins big brother, the message to young people is be ignorant and stupid, don't read or have anything to do with culture and you can win a national reality contest. Why do we always vote for losers in this country.

Ah, Big Brother!
Never watched it in full, never will.
But Orwell's Big Brother from 1984, on the other hand, a stunningly accurate and perceptive prediction of life as a human being in the new millennium, is well worth rereading.
Yet again, the original is a far better and bigger hit than the pale imitation copy.

I got home just to catch the final 5 minutes which is the only bit I have seen of this "series".

All credit to the camera crew, they made that small cheering gathering look huge, but then they are the experts in strategically placed cameras.

On a sadly serious note, which music mogul has tried to sign the twin girls yet?

That's the only thing which has caught my attention re this Big Brother. I saw a piece on AOL about some guy and the twins being tipped to win a 'duets' contest. Then I heard how the three Big Brother finalists were the twins and two other people.

Aren't twins two people?

How can three people be a duet?

Head explodes!

There must be an Orwellian or Burroughs verb for "triette".
Or maybe I just invented one.

JK2006 wrote:
Ah, Big Brother!
Never watched it in full, never will.
But Orwell's Big Brother from 1984, on the other hand, a stunningly accurate and perceptive prediction of life as a human being in the new millennium, is well worth rereading.
Yet again, the original is a far better and bigger hit than the pale imitation copy.

Same here - have no time for this boring and trivial TV show. It seems to get longer each year and has become a summertime TV irritant. As Mart fears, I too shudder to think who may snap up those twins since I get an ominous feeling we haven't seen or heard the last of them yet.

As for the Orwell novel, I must dig it out again. A superb novel and eerily accurate. Maybe we should make it compulsory reading for everybody in this country to perhaps make them think again about what is happening and where we are heading.

Keep meaning to re-read "Animal Farm" too and then read JK's extra chapter since I'm intrigued by the sound of that.

I magine it was Napolean that dun it, and made the "must try harder" horse into a patsy, who is later martyred in the second volume.

Napoleon was framed! And all posters are equal but some are more equal than others.

Quite right, two posts good three posts bad.
Where do we stand on the fourth on this subject?

Back to the farm before the revoloution of course.

Celebrity Big Brother was cancelled, lets hope this is the beginning of the end and the real big brother will go the same way. I don't wan't to see another bunch of innnane talentless wannabees, hogging the tv and newspaper schedules next summer.