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derspatz said:
From here: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsit...y-destroyed-the-lefty-weft/16081#.VFeLqGfDXWa

"Has Russell Brand really destroyed the lefty weft?
Nope – he’s merely the bastard child of the left's own self-induced decay.

...

There’s a weird contradiction in the media mauling of Brand. On one hand they want us to believe he’s not a serious person, what with his stupid mockney wordplay and his penchant for thinking with his dicky wick, but on the other they tell us his wild political emotionalism is dangerous and destructive and could damage the left forever. You get the impression that what freaks them out most about Brand is that, because he’s a Sleb, which is basically a modern-day Saint, it’s possible the little people will heed his warped words. We know he’s churning out populist codswallop, but do they?

...

To accuse Brand of warping what it means to be left-wing, especially among impressionable yoof, is crazy. For in truth, Brand is merely a hall-of-mirrors version of what the left itself had already become in recent years: an illiberal, increasingly naturalistic outfit that has ditched its old demands of production and freedom in favour of calling on the Byzantine modern state to control corporations’ antics and curb ordinary people’s material desires. To put it in saucy Brandspeak, if the modernity-haters of the 1990s anti-globalisation movement held an orgy with the conspiratorial bank-bashers of the Occupy protests and the misanthropes of the environmentalism that is absolutely de rigueur among every leftie on the planet, and one of them got preggers, Brand would be the baby. Far from fathering the decline of the left, Brand is the hollowed-out left’s bastard offspring.

All that Brand does is regurgitate to the twenty-first-century left, in super-flowery lingo, its own thoughtless prejudices and feeling of exhaustion with humanity.

...

The left once embodied a faith in mankind to use his mind and his hands to create a world of plenty, to exploit nature’s resources in the name of creating what Sylvia Pankhurst described as ‘plenty for all… a great production that will supply all’. Not anymore. Now the left demonises production (it harms the planet) and consumption (it makes us mentally ill) and has embraced the very naturalistic nonsense about scarcity and limited resources that a cockier left once explicitly challenged. And the left once trusted that the man in the street (and woman) was capable of determining his destiny without requiring the scaffolding of state or the moral hectoring of priests to constantly guide him on his way. Not anymore. From Brand’s concern that corporations have captured our minds to other leftists’ bleating about the brainwashability of the tabloid-reading hordes - whose minds are ‘orchestrated from the shadows’ - the left now libels the little people, believing they must constantly have their awareness raised by experts, celebs and advertising-immune Occupiers.

...

Far from destroying left-wing thought, Brand embodies the misanthropy and naturalism that were once characteristics of Romantics and the right but which now pass for ‘left-wing thought’. You’re a leftist who has been rattled by Russ’s book? Then pull up a chair, plonk it in front of a mirror, and take a good, long look. For it was your own movement’s jettisoning of its principles and positivity and progress that paved the way for the rise of the ugly misanthropy of Brand and all the rest who have turned ‘left’ into a codeword for anti-humanism. Brendan O’Neill is editor of spiked. He will be speaking at the debates ‘Should even hate speech be free speech?’ in New York on 30 October and ‘Press freedom in the twenty-first century’ on 5 November in Washington, DC, as part of Free Speech Now!’s US event series."

regarDS
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Where do I sign up? LOVE HIM.
 
In the freeze task, you threw your burger at the mirror after Big Brother swapped it, creating a classic moment of the series. Did you do little things like that with the sole intention of entertaining the viewers?

Because I think without that crazy moment we would've never seen that scene, evident in this years series where we barely see any of the weekly tasks. Also, would you ever deliberately fail a task to entertain viewers and keep things interesting?
 
davidftw said:
@Timdormer, I have to ask, were you sent into the house with specific instructions to get David to "lose the beard"? Also, was it always going to be a one day/night deal or was there a possibility you may have stayed in the house longer?
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I was told to pack for 5 days. Daves shave was my own doing. The producers actually said they didn't think I would be able to do it.
 
derspatz said:
From here: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsit...y-destroyed-the-lefty-weft/16081#.VFeLqGfDXWa

"Has Russell Brand really destroyed the lefty weft?
Nope – he’s merely the bastard child of the left's own self-induced decay.

...

There’s a weird contradiction in the media mauling of Brand. On one hand they want us to believe he’s not a serious person, what with his stupid mockney wordplay and his penchant for thinking with his dicky wick, but on the other they tell us his wild political emotionalism is dangerous and destructive and could damage the left forever. You get the impression that what freaks them out most about Brand is that, because he’s a Sleb, which is basically a modern-day Saint, it’s possible the little people will heed his warped words. We know he’s churning out populist codswallop, but do they?

...

To accuse Brand of warping what it means to be left-wing, especially among impressionable yoof, is crazy. For in truth, Brand is merely a hall-of-mirrors version of what the left itself had already become in recent years: an illiberal, increasingly naturalistic outfit that has ditched its old demands of production and freedom in favour of calling on the Byzantine modern state to control corporations’ antics and curb ordinary people’s material desires. To put it in saucy Brandspeak, if the modernity-haters of the 1990s anti-globalisation movement held an orgy with the conspiratorial bank-bashers of the Occupy protests and the misanthropes of the environmentalism that is absolutely de rigueur among every leftie on the planet, and one of them got preggers, Brand would be the baby. Far from fathering the decline of the left, Brand is the hollowed-out left’s bastard offspring.

All that Brand does is regurgitate to the twenty-first-century left, in super-flowery lingo, its own thoughtless prejudices and feeling of exhaustion with humanity.

...

The left once embodied a faith in mankind to use his mind and his hands to create a world of plenty, to exploit nature’s resources in the name of creating what Sylvia Pankhurst described as ‘plenty for all… a great production that will supply all’. Not anymore. Now the left demonises production (it harms the planet) and consumption (it makes us mentally ill) and has embraced the very naturalistic nonsense about scarcity and limited resources that a cockier left once explicitly challenged. And the left once trusted that the man in the street (and woman) was capable of determining his destiny without requiring the scaffolding of state or the moral hectoring of priests to constantly guide him on his way. Not anymore. From Brand’s concern that corporations have captured our minds to other leftists’ bleating about the brainwashability of the tabloid-reading hordes - whose minds are ‘orchestrated from the shadows’ - the left now libels the little people, believing they must constantly have their awareness raised by experts, celebs and advertising-immune Occupiers.

...

Far from destroying left-wing thought, Brand embodies the misanthropy and naturalism that were once characteristics of Romantics and the right but which now pass for ‘left-wing thought’. You’re a leftist who has been rattled by Russ’s book? Then pull up a chair, plonk it in front of a mirror, and take a good, long look. For it was your own movement’s jettisoning of its principles and positivity and progress that paved the way for the rise of the ugly misanthropy of Brand and all the rest who have turned ‘left’ into a codeword for anti-humanism.

Brendan O’Neill is editor of spiked. He will be speaking at the debates ‘Should even hate speech be free speech?’ in New York on 30 October and ‘Press freedom in the twenty-first century’ on 5 November in Washington, DC, as part of Free Speech Now!’s US event series."

regarDS
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Never thought I'd need to pull out a dictionary in order to decipher an article about Russell Brand. Mind blown. :laugh:
 
Walden said:
In the freeze task, you threw your burger at the mirror after Big Brother swapped it, creating a classic moment of the series. Did you do little things like that with the sole intention of entertaining the viewers?

Because I think without that crazy moment we would've never seen that scene, evident in this years series where we barely see any of the weekly tasks. Also, would you ever deliberately fail a task to entertain viewers and keep things interesting?
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Haha I didn't know they showed that! That was a genuine tantrum out of severe frustration. Yes there were MANY moments like that. I wonder if it made the air my giant tantrum at the first ever Friday night games. I was so angry that I refused to leave the holding cell, I had to be coached out by ninjas, then I sat with my back to the game and cameras for the rest of the contest.

I never deliberately failed the tasks. I liked food way too much.[DOUBLEPOST=1415024622][/DOUBLEPOST]
Polix said:
Yeah Marina was such a fizzer...

Your curls are looking good Tim
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Thanks! Haha you just reminded me, I was supposed to do a monthly shampoo tonight. Dammit
 
Timdormer said:
Haha I didn't know they showed that! That was a genuine tantrum out of severe frustration. Yes there were MANY moments like that. I wonder if it made the air my giant tantrum at the first ever Friday night games. I was so angry that I refused to leave the holding cell, I had to be coached out by ninjas, then I sat with my back to the game and cameras for the rest of the contest.

I never deliberately failed the tasks. I liked food way too much.[DOUBLEPOST=1415024622][/DOUBLEPOST]
Thanks! Haha you just reminded me, I was supposed to do a monthly shampoo tonight. Dammit
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They never mentioned your tantrum but we did see you with your back to the game. It's so awesome knowing you freaked out because you didn't agree with the rules/game - no one else in that house would've had the courage to complain.
 
Do you know, or can you talk about the circumstance of Ben leaving the sanctuary this year from being with Travie. We never got to see him again, he just disappeared the next show.
 
@Timdormer: What was the main cause of the breakdown of your friendship with Boog? Because when her and Madeline were first in the house, it was presented as a big divide between the house (you, Drew, Boog, Tahan vs Mikkayla, Ed, Jade and Madeline). It seemed as though you and Boog got on quite well originally, but gradually ended up at loggerheads.

And what was the real reason you gave her 3 points that time when you had to nom publicly?
 
...hey Tim you legend... do you ever check out the 'Photoshop thread' within these forums?... if so... have you ever checked out last years one with you in it?... the reason that I'm asking you for is that when we do some Photoshops of housemates... (whether good or bad)... do they actually make you laugh or make you get mighty pissed off?...

...I know that if I was a housemate that was just evicted the main thing that I'd do when I got evicted was to check out that thread first... reason being?... that usually is a good litmus test of a housemates popularity in it's true form I believe... I wouldn't get annoyed with them no matter whether good or bad... I'd take it in my stride regardless methinks... but then again... that's just me... lol!...

...anyhow mate... my questions are just pure curiosity on my part... and just to let you know... a massive Tim Dormer fan here my friend... you were brilliant in your gameplay you champion... I'm so glad that you won it too!... cheers.
 
Tim, did you see Tim Brunero in BB 05?

I think of the two of you as the best and most ingenious players of the game ever.

It could be argued that you were the better player because you won, but I had no idea - until reading a "confession" of his on this forum last year - that he went in with a detailed strategy, and played the game very hard without really appearing to (at least to me).

If you did see him, what did you think?

:)
 
Tim, if you had been HoH in this years BB, you would have done magnificently!! Priya and Katie where given $10,000 or so and they both decided to hold onto every cent for themselves (well as far as they could take it without upsetting the rest of the house). I can only imagine the cool parties you would have provided in that week as head of house, it would have been funny being (possibly one of the partners) to shower the fellow housemates with love and pretty expensive meals.... ;)

Do you share those feelings with regards to how Priya and Katie handled that week? The jump-in poll suggested 50% of viewers felt they handled that well..
 
Timdormer said:
My crew mentioned we would have loved to have had support from 2012 housemates because nobody, not even the producers or psychologists can fully understand what's going on in our fucked up heads when you walk out of that house! I've since met a lot of the 2012 housemates, most are lovely and willing to share good advice! I think I've found it kind of awkward reaching out to this years housemates, you don't want it to seem dis genuine, and in my case I've found some think they know it all anyway. I'm always open to sharing everything I've learnt to those who ask.
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Because I believe in you!
 
Tim: congratulations on funding your trip. I know you had put in a lot of effort to make this happen.

May all your hopes and dreams come true.
 
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