I have been ranting on in one of the threads about how I find BB a load of trash.... then I got to thinking perhaps I am operating on double standards here. After all, I like to read about the happenings in peoples lives on here. Is that vaguely voyeuristic? I'm not really sure, but I don't feel it is in the same league at all.
With the blogs it is just like you are walking past a house with the lights on and the curtains left open......it is an invitation to look in. If the occupants valued their privacy and didn't want you to look at their Christmas tree, then they would have closed the curtains. You could say that the occupants of the BB house feel like that too as they have accepted the terms of the contract...so why do I feel like a peeping tom?
I think maybe the answer to that is that the occupants have been chosen with the idea of promoting conflict......and that the producers can manipulate the conflict and the inmates......and they truly cannot choose privacy even if they want to......well, other than walking out.
Another disconcerting angle is that they are doing it for self agrandisement......MONEY. No, reading the blogs is not in the same league at all. It is more like reading and autobiography......the people who write it can put in the elements that they feel comfortable with....and leave out any issues that they feel would be too personal to publish.
Anyway, now to a totally different subject....Fishing. I don't mean the wet bum on the canal bank type of fishing......the type where you have to impale maggots on a hook.......I am talking about the Fishing Game in the arcade. I am totally hooked.....if you pardon the pun. I am absolutely useless at it.....in fact I think my hook is magnetic because I don't seem to have a problem hooking the tin cans. Maybe I can get the waterways authority to employ me as a recycler of discarded metal......I certainly don't seem to have the knack of catching fish. Mantrabooks is the champion with an unbelievable score......I think he must either be drugging the maggots or using a depth charge to get the fish out of the water.
Not that I am implying dubious practices are being employed by him......I am just JEALOUS!.
With the blogs it is just like you are walking past a house with the lights on and the curtains left open......it is an invitation to look in. If the occupants valued their privacy and didn't want you to look at their Christmas tree, then they would have closed the curtains. You could say that the occupants of the BB house feel like that too as they have accepted the terms of the contract...so why do I feel like a peeping tom?
I think maybe the answer to that is that the occupants have been chosen with the idea of promoting conflict......and that the producers can manipulate the conflict and the inmates......and they truly cannot choose privacy even if they want to......well, other than walking out.
Another disconcerting angle is that they are doing it for self agrandisement......MONEY. No, reading the blogs is not in the same league at all. It is more like reading and autobiography......the people who write it can put in the elements that they feel comfortable with....and leave out any issues that they feel would be too personal to publish.
Anyway, now to a totally different subject....Fishing. I don't mean the wet bum on the canal bank type of fishing......the type where you have to impale maggots on a hook.......I am talking about the Fishing Game in the arcade. I am totally hooked.....if you pardon the pun. I am absolutely useless at it.....in fact I think my hook is magnetic because I don't seem to have a problem hooking the tin cans. Maybe I can get the waterways authority to employ me as a recycler of discarded metal......I certainly don't seem to have the knack of catching fish. Mantrabooks is the champion with an unbelievable score......I think he must either be drugging the maggots or using a depth charge to get the fish out of the water.
Not that I am implying dubious practices are being employed by him......I am just JEALOUS!.