dr peter collett must go!!

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"Psychologsts have discovered that tears are a mechanism for the release of people's emotions"

― mark s, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

also: "Scientists have learnt that women tend to cry more easily than men"

― mark s, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait...crying causes the release of emotions? Not the other way around? (I'm willing to entertain either option.)

― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i may have remembered it less stupid than it actually was

― mark s, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And crying releases toxins!

― jel --, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ssshh jel that bit is actually a teenytiny bit not TOTALLY KNOWN BY EVERYONE ALREADY!!

― mark s, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah, it *was* that banal and obvious. We were substituting every 'scientists have discovered...' with 'idiot men's wives and mothers have told them that...'. Wonder when scientists will work out why Tim's so obnoxious?

― ellie, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Was he the Alex-and-Kate-sitting-in-tree fellow?

― Tom, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that was the smoove Beattie fellow (can't remember his first name). He's taking that line to corroborate his earlier 'Kate+Spencer = comfort not sex' line. Or maybe that was Collett.

― ellie, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes "alex+kate" = beattie => he and collett are peas in a pod, lookswise, so presumably this is why they shoot collett against a difft background!!

― mark s, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They are the same person Mark!

Why haven't the psychologists explained Jonny's behaviour by the fact that he has the most stressful job (I assume being a fireman is quite stressful) and that he is just making the most of it, considering there is no TV, internet, pub, books, shops etc. (as perviously mentioned). There seem to be only a few behaviour archetypes that BB people can adopt:

1. Having a laugh and being involved in general silliness
2. Deep and meaningfuls (gets boring after a while)
3. Being two-faced
4. Being a sex-starved letch
5. Being a moany git
6. Being daft and drunk

I could be a BB psych-dude!

― jel --, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the psychologists are even more dumm abt "keeping it real" than i don't know who => they are only insightful when they say things i said before them

― mark s, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

I HAD FORGOTTEN!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 8 June 2003 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

The psychological analyses are very lame. The boys are acting territorially and claiming all the space so the women retreat into their bedroom. As proof of this huge difference in male-female behaviour, here are the girls taking over the tent.

This starts from something vaguely true and then won't countenance any complexities in it, to the point of interpreting something as the opposite of what it is to fit it in.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 8 June 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but scientists have discovered it martin!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 8 June 2003 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

rubish telly science deserves a thread. We were wowed some week ago by a scientist talking-head on Saturday Kitchen (the OU bit with the odd chef/science couple) explaining the popularity of Chicken Tika Masalla because "it's tasty"

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 9 June 2003 09:57 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/news/images/jball.gif

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 9 June 2003 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

It's odd that Collett seemed to be saying that the men bonded, excluding the women. It seemed to me that it was the other way round, or at least the group divided at once (rather than the chaps banding together to exclude the poor helpless ladies).

Am I the only person who finds this 'boys'/'girls' terminology uncomfortable?

I agree that jel should be a bb psych-dude.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 9 June 2003 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/media/p_persaud.jpg

Dr Raj to thread

― james (james), Monday, 9 June 2003 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I find boys / girls terminology deeply unsettling. On our BB psychologist bingo cards last night we had
Boys v Girls
Federico's guilt
Girls feeling victimised
Boys food martyrdom.

Bingo in half an hour. Mopre importantly Tania for stealing those chocolate footballs and fags must GO. (Sissy is going to get a nomination from Steph this week for being marcy about losing the task and EATING ALL THE CRISPS).

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 June 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i thort that was the first half decent thing Trania has done. Her annoying larf, her petulancy, her "ladies what lunch" attitude, briefly eclipsed by thort for ppl other than her.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 9 June 2003 10:52 (twenty-three years ago)

the lady psych-dude called him "frederico"!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 June 2003 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i missed it except in the recap last night but jon's "negotiating technique" re the snacks gender-divide was awesomely inflammatory (for further thoughts on this see the Fed Fred) — and therefore worth every penny of the "shit-loads of money" he is paid

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 June 2003 10:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually Jon used a very good technique which was thoroughly seen through and deconstructed to a large degree by Nush. Rather than discussing it with the whole group he discusses it with the most popular woman (Nush) both allowing her not be associated with the bad people in her mind, but whom as an insider then gets to diseminate the information for him. Unfortunately Nush's "Yes you are pissing me off a bit"did the job. However the effectiveness of the technique was shown when Steph mentioned to Big Brother Sissy's profligate crisp habit.

Jon's technique effectively removes blame for the argument from him, whilst leaving those it is aimed at uncertain to the seriousness of it. In an institution with a proper heirachy of power this kind of sureptitious bullying is nearly always effective.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 June 2003 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

pete i totally agree as regards removing the blame from him (cf the fed thread and what i wrote last night)

as regards sorting out the snacking problem, yes it may get somewhere - but this is a symptom of a deeper syndrome anyway

viz: as regards tamping down the intersex war, i think it will fail (he is setting himself up as the mediator)

(the blameshift for lack of food from fed to sissy is also a symptom)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 June 2003 11:20 (twenty-three years ago)

instead of collett et al they shd hire emma, me, ptee and dom

(one of us to be voted off by the others after a week)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 June 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know why they haven't thought of the Pure Big Brother rip-off on BBC Three yet.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 June 2003 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate the lady psychologist. She explained at pathetically earnest length only the most facile interpretation of Justine's volte-face re. Jon. The idea that Justine might have geniunely become pissed off with him over time is far more convincing than the 'sheep instinct' theory. In fact everything she says is hideously dull and earnest - get drunk and THEN watch it dear, trust me.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 June 2003 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

When Davina paused before announcing the evictee and Jon said 'well it'll start with a J' I am ASTOUNDED that the housemates didn't viciously assault him on the spot, live cameras or no live cameras.

― Emma, Monday, 9 June 2003 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

it was worse than that: he said "here's a clue: it'll start with a j"

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 June 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

his tension-defusing line was rub to the point of hatecrime but his instinct wz korrekt: that pause must go

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 June 2003 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

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