Big Brother Rolls Around Again…
Published April 24th, 2006 in Questions of FaithReading the paper today and saw the news that Big Brother started for 2006 last night. With everyhing going on at the moment, I had no idea they were even thinking they’d do it again after the saga last year.
Now let me say it straight - I am not a Big Brother fan. Quite frankly, it bores me to tears. The times I have watched it, the contestants have been so mind numbingly uninteresting that I wonder whether the producers look for the best or worst people to stick in the house. Maybe I’m getting old and crusty…(older and crustier?).
Anyway, what I was interested in last year, and in the paper today, was the discussion about the ‘lessons’ the Big Brother folk learnt about last years show. Supposedly they crossed a ‘few’ boundaries with the housemates engaging in copious amounts of sex talk, masturbation competitions, more nudity than ever before and just general low morals and bad taste. And all of this aimed at the 12 - 25 age group.
No wonder western culture slips further down the toilet every year.
So this year, it’s meant to be cleaner and promoted more honestly. However, again the house is full of young, good-looking people that will inevitably see the show become a repeat of previous years. It makes me wonder what they won’t show this year if they are supposed to be making it cleaner. If ratings are the driving factor, you can almost bet there will still be lots of sex and nudity - what then will they leave out?
I have no idea. But I wonder what sort of reaction there would be if they decided to show a group of housemates praying. Would this be seen as inappropriate and offensive to religious minorities? What if it were a group of people talking about plans to carry out an act of terror? Would that be seen as against the best interests of the nation?
It worries me when I see what the media tells me is appropriate and what is not. With a generation of lonely and isolated people that hardly know how to make real friendships, let alone lasting relationships, how can the rubbish that is Big Brother have any sort of positive contribution to make to our society or ‘the good of our nation.’
If BB 2007 gets a gurnsey, I’ll be gunning for a Christian, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Wiccan, an athiest, a corporate CEO, a soldier returned from Iraq, a school principal and a taxi driver (those last four can be whatever faith they like!). At least then it would be interesting.
OK. I’m getting of the soap box now, but I’m not putting it away…
12 Responses to “Big Brother Rolls Around Again…”
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I can’t watch it. I just can’t. I avoid the articles that talk about it as well. It’s not uplifting.
Grandma rules the remote anyway.
(oi! when are you going to fix up the ad formatting?)
If BB2007 had this line-up of contestants I reckon even I would watch it. I’d probably throw a jew in as well. Maybe the taxi driver can be a jew? The whole concept of the show though is based around what you can see not just what you can hear so the nudity would still have to be in there to keep the ratings?!
They should put in a Cartoonist.
If you could pick any combination of ten peopel, present or past, to be in the house, who would you pick?
pick 10 people from Mitcham Baptist… could be interesting.
10 people-
George W Bush. Wil E Coyote. Osama Bin Laden. Margaret Thatcher. Prince Harry. Billy Graham. Germaine Greer. Britney Speers. Tom Cruise. Tamsyn Lewis.
that would be interesting!
Tamsyn Lewis! A sure thing to see the first reality television murder…who could possibly spend three months locked away with her?!
Ten (present day) People:
Robin Williams for some good jokes
Bryce Courtney for some good stories
Dan Brown for a few more good stories
Peter Carey for even more good stories
Ian Hewitson for some good food
Peter Jackson to make a decent movie out of it
Scott Martin (the discuss gold medalist) because he seems like a nice guy
WEG (cartoonist) to draw everybody
Darren Rowse from pro-blogger to blog the experience
Sandra Sully to do the cleaning and dishes…plus to find out if she really talks like that.
Present Day
Bono (music\, politics & stories)
Desmond Tutu (to find out if he really talks like that. Oh and his political views)
George W Bush (to see if he is as random as he seems)
Bill Clinton (I just like the guy)
Neneh Cherry (music & political views)
Kevin Smith (The King of geeks)
Charlize Theron (cos I’m allowed one shallow selection)
Albert Einstien (I know he’s dead, but he’s tops)
Boris Yeltsin (Party animal)
Geoffrey Robertson (To tie it all together)
If I can’t have Einstein, I guess I’d sub in ummm… Robbie Williams.
Dan Brown! Matt… what were you thinking?
Bono (couldn’t agree more General)
Kofi Annan
Saddam Hussein
James Woods
Jason Gillespie
Natalie Portman
Condoleeza Rice (Tell me she wouldn’t beat up Saddam?)
Goran Ivanisevic (Possibly the funniest man alive)
John Butler
Rove McManus (I know it’s not still cool to like him, but I still reckon he’s fun)
Don’t worry Matt-I’ll be putting my hand up again next year as the token Christian. Everybody I know who tried out says I could have gone that one step further this year and got on the show, so we’ll see next year…
nah stuff Robbie Williams, put in George Foreman. HE is the funniest man alive.
Thank you Matt for saying something! I was beginning to think that I was the only one who had (& has) a problem with it!!!
Matt i’m trying to talk to my youth about big brother and what would god say? do you have any advice or media that you would recommend using?