I'd Like to go to Bed Earlier on Friday's Too.

Unfortunately the current situation with the henhouse means that's not possible. On the plus side though it means that I get to watch several hours of the live Big Brother feed just after an evictee has left or a new housemate has entered.

On Friday (20/7) Ben was evicted from the house. This is a shame for a number of reasons. Firstly Ben's mannerisms were starting to become reminiscent of Peter, now Lord, Mandelson. As the architect of the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown New Labour project Mandelson spent a decade stalking the British corridors of power causing so much terror he was nicknamed "the Prince of Darkness." Now he's out of government and lost most of his power the British media are enjoying taking their revenge. Secondly Ben's eviction has made Mario sad. This suggests that Ben's infatuation with Mario ran more then one way so it would have been entertaining to keep them both in the house for as long as possible to see how the relationship developed. Most importantly though Ben is not Andrew. Andrew is hopelessly socially inept with little idea how to behave around other people. This causes chaos in the house and puts extra pressure on the other housemates. This is especially true of Corin who seems to have been lumbered with the job of looking after him although I don't think anyone in the house is really equipped to deal with Andrew. In preforming this role Corin is picking up some of the patterns of behaviour that remind me of someone I used to know and a story that I'm sure a lot of people would like me to tell.

Friday also saw the introduction of a new housemate who was picked by an anonymous member(s) of the Big Brother production team with no input from the viewers or the other housemates. The new housemate is;

• Sam. 21, white, straight. Although he lacks the talent Sam desperately wants to be part of Britain's arty counter-culture that includes graffiti artists and musicians. This is evidenced by his stupid clothes and awful tattoo work. He is what people in Britain would call a try-hard. Apart from his personality Sam is going to annoy the other housemates, especially the original ones, because he seems to be doing a poor impression of Shabby. This brings back memories of the Shabby/Caiomhe unpleasantness that created such a toxic atmosphere in the house. It won't be long then before one of the other housemates decide to reduce Sam's resemblance to Shabby by giving him a haircut. This will reveal him to be a lookalike for a young man called Joel Wiener. After winning a prize for young, Jewish, politicos the 17 year old Mr Wiener has appeared on a number of political discussion shows including the BNP edition of the BBC's Question Time and one of the Leader's Debates just before the General Election. He has also given speeches at pro-Israel demonstrations making him one of the foremost spokesmen for Zionism and apologist for Israeli policy on the British political scene. Obviously making the voice of Zionism in the UK a snot-nosed 17 year old boy with no experience of the issues he's lecturing everyone on is not the best PR move. Therefore there are a variety of things that may be going on regarding Mr Wiener's career.
  

Also when he entered that house Sam brought with him news of how the housemates are being viewed by the outside world. This means I've upset Corin by referring to her as straight and JJ by referring to him as a low rent gay icon. Josie has also been made sensitive about her weight by a TV reviewer who referred to her as "The Outlaw Josie Whale."


I'm now going out to have dinner with my mother. In order to avoid accusations that I'm getting legal advice from her government solicitor partner I should recommend now that people go and read up on The Hollywood Silver Fox Farm V Emmett (1936) case. Not only does it set an important precedent in nuisance cases it tells of a chicken or hen farmer who fell out with their neighbour, a fox farmer. I can barely believe that the Brits have yet to assign a number to a case that will feature this delightful precedent.