Blog - ETTDR MS40/2007

Erk to the Diary Room (Episode 40, Erk falls asleep)

Not much has happened in the house this week. There is the cop task which is just another version of what BB has done to the HM's before. The daily show hasn't had much at all so this hasn't lead me to watch Up Mike. But I'm glad I watched Thursday night's ep as the funniest thing of the season happened.


Intruder 69 had Zoltan as a partner. While Zoltan was in the toilet, Intruder 69 had to wait outside as during the task, you had to be 2 metres or less away from your partner.


In the meantime, ATB was dressing as a Ninja and she hid outside. The HM's decided to play a trick on Intruder 69 and made it so it was her turn in the car on stakeout with Zoltan. So with ATB in place, the duo made their way into the car.


So when Intruder 69 was not ready, ATB ran from her hiding spot and Intruder 69 sees her and acts very un-cop like and screams "there's a f**king robber" and variations thereof and decides to go after ATB the Ninja. Zoltan (playing along) tells her to stay in the car but she doesn't. She puts her coffee cup on the dashboard of the car which spills and then she chases ATB into the bedroom. The rest of the HM's are laughing in there when she says something like "did you guys see the f**king robber?"


She took it will and came out with the comment that "Big Brother must be in there p***ing himself laughing at that", as was I. It sure was the highlight of yet another dull week. Maybe BB needs to keep the HM's busier and give them more to do.


I'm pleased that they had better (and more original) games on FNL this week. The first game in particular was good with a blindfolded sleepwalker having to avoid a blindfolded boogeyman while carrying a pillow with a noise maker in it. I had to laugh when BB told Zacho to get into the closet and also when BB told the Ninja to put Ian Thorpe into the closet even when Ian was taller than the closet!


In a shock that partly came about because the HM's didn't listen to the rules, Mr HTB didn't win FNL again this week. Instead that title went to DanYELLa who defeated BTB but she decided to take Intruder 69 into the Rewards Room. So DanYELLa has the FNL Super Power next week and she'll probably need it to save herself. Interestingly, DanYELLa was eliminated in a game but she was given another chance to even up the teams when the HM's had to scream into a noise meter and she screamed the loudest. If Intruder 69 was not already in the game, she would have won easily but DanYELLa sure lived up to her name.


Speaking of names, Mike slipped up with Lara Bingle's name and called her Lara (instead of Laura) so I had a little chuckle to myself.


In the double male eviction this Sunday, Mr HTB, BTB, Ian Thorpe and Rove are up for eviction and I really could not care who goes. In fact, I am looking forward to more intruders (yes, I know I said I was against it but this mob needs a shakeup) so can we please have a couple of lesbian or bisexual females in there? It will address the gender inbalance and it will introduce the female side of homosexuality to the house for the first time this year.


Myspace friends: Up 8 to 147
Stand Up Update: Bumped into my long lost train driver mate Arthur who would be a brilliant stand up comic
BB Update: DanYELLa wins FNL
Erk Pod Update: 2 new eps tonight now online, recorded for the first time on my laptop with a proper mic and proper intro music

Blog - ETTDR MS39/2007

Erk to the Diary Room (Episode 39 - Massive delay, thanks Vista! NOT!)

On Thursday, I purchased a new laptop and a new phone. It is only Monday night that I am managing to catch up and getting things to work OK due to various Vista issues. So this episode and the associated Erk Pod podcasts are running late.


In summary:


* HM's passed the task because they were able to judge it themselves.


* BB returned for FNL and Up Late but the result of the task and how BB returned wasn't shown until Sunday's show.

* There was some good quad bike action on FNL but some HM's nearly didn't get a go

* JTN won FNL (the final game was a quiz!) over Mr HTB but he took Ian Thorpe into the Rewards Room.

* As I predicted on the podcast, Lara Bingle was evicted and BB decided to make noms so only males can be nominated. However, the boys are steaming about that but they don't know it is a double eviction!


* Somehow Zacho has been in the house for a week now so he was immune from noms last week but is also immune this week!


* For noms, JTN, Billy (BTB?), Mr HTB and Ian Thorpe were up but not surprisingly JTN saved himself and put Rove up instead. JTN made it look like he had to think long and hard about saving himself.


* I got to watch some UK BB (see next episode in a day or two)

Myspace friends etc will return from the next episode.

Blog - ETTDR MS38/2007

Erk to the Diary Room (Episode 38, Erk Recaps & BB Podcasts Update)

For anyone who has just started reading my BB blog this year, this is a good chance for you to catch up. There is this blog called "Erk to the Diary Room" and this is Episode 38.


This section of the blog deals with some of my abbrievations and HM names that I have come up with and refer to in various blogs. Some of them are purely based on their personality or something that has gone on in the house but others are merely to save me typing (and/or learning to spell) the HM's name.


HM (or HM's) - Housemate (Housemates)

BB - Big Brother

xTB - The x stands for someone's name with "the blonde" added. For example,
HTB is Hayley the blonde.


Mr HTB - Andrew. So named because HTB (Andrew's partner) was basically controlling him during her time in the house.


Team HTB - Refering to both HTB and Mr HTB together.


Rove - Joel. Some people say that both Rove and Joel are the funniest thing but I've seen no evidence of either.


BWNR - Brodie with no R. HM Bodie got called Brodie by some of the HM's because they thought that was his name just like Brodie from another season. So Bodie said that his name was Brodie with no R, shortened by me to read BWNR.


DWNT - HM Demet's name has a silent T but on some occasions, both BB and Gretel pronounced the T so I called her Demet with no T (or DWNT) like BWNR.


Jamie the Nerd (JTN) - Easy peasy. He basically called himself this from zero hour. JTN is my recent short hand.


Ian Thorpe - HM Thomas looks like Ian Thorpe.


FNL - Friday Night Live


Up Mike with Late - A spoonerism of "Up Late with Mike", sometimes I call Mike Late.


Lara Bingle - HM Laura likes getting around in her bikini like Lara Bingle and her name is so similar.


The Brazilian - HM Daniella is from Brazil.

DanYELLa - How Gretel (and now Mike) pronounces HM Daniella's name.


Travo - HM Travis puts the letter O on the end of a lot of words so I thought I'd do the same to him.


Zacho - For the same reason as Travo but I did it to Zach merely for my own amusement and to fit my headline that Travo was the first to meet Zacho

Intruder 69 - New Intruder Michelle seems like she is Intruder 69 for the series. When she becomes a HM, she'll probably become HM 69.


Zoltan - HM Zoran. I can't (and never have) claimed credit for this one. I think it was the boys from the Behind Big Brother podcast that thought of it and I think it is good.





There is also the podcast version of this blog (also called "Erk to the Diary Room" which is a part of my podcast family called "Erk Pod") and it is available at http://erkpod.mypodcast.com and that is currently up to episode 14. I have only been podcasting for a few weeks and the early pod episodes sum up the first 5 weeks of this season of BB and later episodes look at the events in the house just like other members of the BB Podcast community but with no bells and no whistles but just all Erk, all the time.


I actually scored a mention at the end of the current episode of Big Brother Weekly (episode 8) after I left the team a message during last week. Thanks, guys. Also, I was interested to hear in the current episode of Reality Cast that the guys were thinking along similar lines to me in relation to last week's so-called environmental task.


In addition to Big Brother Weeklyand Reality Cast,. Behind Big Brother and "Oh Brother" with former BB HM Tim Brunero continue to give their opinions on all things BB as well.




Also, I decided to check out some of the previous HM's who are now on radio (and podcasts) and listen to their podcasts. FNL's Frysie can be heard via Nova in Adelaide, Nathan from BB02 is doing the breakfast shift as well for Nova in Perth and Camilla from last year can be heard on B105 in BrisVegas. There may be others that I haven't heard on podcast but these three are three that I listened to over the weekend on podcast. As is usually the case on the breakfast shift on Australian radio, these aren't solo shifts with at least 1 other on-air person as well. In addition, BB HM interviews continue across the Nova and Austereo networks.

Myspace friends: Up 3 to 139
Stand Up Update: Thinking of doing another "material podcast"
BB Update: The Leader has control of the house
Erk Pod Update: Next episode due to be recorded soon.

Blog - ETTDR MS37/2007

Erk to the Diary Room (Episode 37, BB leaves the house and Erk talks Simpsons)

Some readers may be familiar with the website Jumped the Shark based on when good TV shows go from good to bad. As an example, some people say that on Happy Days, that show jumped the shark when Fonzie jumped the shark on his motorcycle and it went downhill from there. Sometimes it occurs when a major character leaves the show just like when Maggie Doyle left Blue Heelers.


Did BB jump the shark when BB was nowhere to be seen on the Wednesday night daily show? The HM's woke on Tuesday to find that the Diary Room door was open with a lot of supplies inside and when Intruder 69 (Michelle) went and sat in the Diary Room chair, there was no answer. So she wondered out loud if BB had a heart attack or something. Eventually, she woke the rest of the HM's up after debating for 2-3 hours if it was OK to put the food away or not.


There was two main groups that formed after the theory was that BB had disappeared. The "Bart Simpson" group was Intruder 69, Zacho, Lara Bingle and the Brazilian. This group wanted to eat the food and have a good time and act like their parents had gone away for the weekend. Needless to say, no original HM's were a part of that group and it fits - the last two lots of intruders want to have fun but the original HM's want to sit on the couch.


The "Lisa Simpson" group consisted of most of the other HM's who were worried about not breaking the rules and not eating the food and it reminded me of the Simpsons episode where Homer and Flanders were stuck on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean and Flanders wanted to ration their water and Homer points out that they are floating on an ocean of, well, water. Homer calls Ned "Mr Let's Ration Everything" and eventually Homer's sense of smell saved them as they found a Krusty Burger joint on an oil rig off Mexico. It was the same sort of situation here, there was some food and Bart wanted to eat it and Lisa wanted to save it and share it evenly.


Rove's sense of hearing saved the HM's from imploding when the often wondered about phone rang. It was pointed out on the first night of the show and several people on the interweb wondered what it was going to be used for and when it was going to be finally used.


The phone rang and the conversation went something like this:


Rove: Hello, Joel speaking (he doesn't know I call him Rove)
BB: Joel, this is Big Brother. (he doesn't call himself BB). I've left home.
Rove: What do you want me to do about it?
BB: I've left you a Dear Joel letter in the backyard that will explain more. From time to time I'll be phoning to check on you (just turn on the TV, BB!)

It's pretty bad when the main character decides to leave. BB's voice and character has been a constant throughout the years and it is strange for me not to hear him and it would have been strange for the HM's.



The HM's went outside and they had a Tribal Council meeting and offered Zacho as a gift to the gods as he was the last one to enter. No, not really! They had to pick a leader. In the end, Ian Thorpe was elected as The Leader. I wonder if that is because he is the biggest? They had to decide on the rules of the house as a group because all of the BB set rules were placed on hold.


You'd think that they'd be smart and decide on some rules that are the total opposite of the rules in the house. For instance, they could decide if the BB rules were on hold that they did not have to wear microphones or that from now on, they could live in the Rewards Room. But no, they decided to decide on a lot of different rules and impose more rules on themselves than Marge (BB) had ever done.


But then again, it was the powerful Lisa group that were making a lot of the rules and then a couple of the Bart group were saying that they are making too many rules and that if you make more and more rules, it is going to be harder to follow them and the task will be harder to pass. Smart thinking, Bart!


Ian Thorpe finally exploded because he was The Leader (reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer joins the Movementarians and the only way they could convince him to join the cult was to change the Batman theme to "Leader") and Lara said that she had the stick so she was allowed to talk. One of the BB rules that he set before he left basically said that while you are at Tribal Council, the HM with the stick has the floor. (I should try that at my next RFS meeting!)


So Lara had the stick and she used her sticktime ("It's Stick Time!") to try and argue her point and Ian Thorpe swore at her and told her to grow up even though she had the stick and she is allowed to argue the point. It was at this point that maybe the true personality of the Thorpedo came out after 7 weeks in the house because he has the power. Too bad if they decided that Mr HTB had the power because he is the regining FNL winner. That would have been interesting.



Later, it was revealed that Ian was allowed to live in the Rewards Room for the week (I remember reading about this from an overseas BB some years ago) and he was allowed to have 2 overnight visitors each night if he wanted. He eventually used the RR to apologize to Lara for his behaviour. Was this partly because he realised that he could use the power to sleaze onto her? Now Up Mike last night makes more sense.



So has this latest task meant that BB (the show, not the guy) has jumped the shark or is it a good move? I have to say that I enjoyed the Daily Show for the first time in a while and I am looking forward to see Up Mike tonight as well. Will The Leader be followed or will Bart and Lisa still be at war? No wonder BB decided to leave home! Maybe if they were smarter, they could make it a rule that the task is unlosable but then again they aren't that S-M-R-T!


I think that this task is a good one. It is different to what the HM's have experienced before and BB needs to keep the HM's on their toes. He needs to challenge them and not just do the same thing the whole time. After all, the HM's are used to leaving work, going to Moe's for a couple of drinks and then staggering home. And maybe just like the action of Marge cracking the sads and leaving home has saved the Simpsons on more than one occasion, maybe the actions of BB this week will save the show..............we shall see.


Myspace friends: Up 3 to 139
Stand Up Update: Thinking of doing another "material podcast"
BB Update: The Leader has control of the house
Erk Pod Update: Next episode due to be recorded soon.

Blog - ETTDR MS36/2007

Erk to the Diary Room (Episode 36, Travo meets Zacho, ETB is human, Noms 7 review)

During episode 36, I mentioned that the second intruder would be going in during Up Mike and Bree on Sunday night. And that show in itself was interesting and due to a technical issue (someone fuddling wuth the swutch?), the HM's heard and saw a bit of Up Mike during the first brainteaser. They saw that the time was 2310 EST and that they knew that the first brain teaser's answer was Lara. The male HM's also thought that Bree looked hot (duh! Have they been locked in a house for 7 weeks? LOL).


Then there was the voices from the grave from the two evictees and ATB (the only original female HM) and the Brazilian and Lara had a heated discussion in relation to bitchiness and ETB and talking about people behind their back and poor ATB could not see any fault in the recently departed ETB.


Speaking of poor person, Zacho was kept in the Rewards Room until about 3 minutes to midnight and Up Mike finished 3 minutes later. Another poorly handled intruder entry, BB. Interestingly, Travo was the first person to meet Zacho and Travo took Zacho around the house and was very accepting of him which was a surprise.


Nominations were interesting. They were told that they could nominate for Under the Radar, Strategy or Personality and even with that hint from BB, a few HM's struggled especially Ian Thorpe and JTN. Just on JTN, he no longer looks like the obvious fat guy in the house. Well done to you, Jamie.


It was no surprise to see the HM's continually nominate Lara and the Brazilian and they were in the top 2 spots. Despite Mr HTB having the Friday night Super Power yet again, some HM's nominated him and he was the third possible evictee. Not surprisingly, he elected to save himself, partly to save himself (in my opinion) but also because he nom'ed the other two evictees. BB brought up the fact that Mr HTB chose to save someone he nom'ed before (Zoltan from memory) but in the end despite M HTB struggling, BB accepted it and Mr HTB saved himself and put Rove up instead.


Finally to close the ETB and her dead father story from my point of view, the daily show showed that she did get the news prior to eviction and it does show that she cried (which is good, considering the circumstances) and ETB appeared for a moment to be a real human with real emotions rather than a cold, heartless, detached biatch like she had been shown during a lot of her stay. Also to her credit, she did appear with RTB on Noms with Gretel tonight. I am not sure how many radio interviews they did today as some states had a public holiday today.


So let's tune in and see what the joint is like now that it isn't the Big Emma House and let's give the new intruders a chance to see what (if anything) they can do.



Myspace friends: Up 2 to 136
Stand Up Update: Watched Noms instead of going to the Sando. Watched some guys on DVD though with friends
BB Update: Rove, Lara and the Brazilian up for eviction, Mr HTB saves himself
Erk Pod Update: Ep 14 recorded based on the above and last night's eviction this morning and being uploaded now

Blog - ETTDR MS35/2007

Erk to the Diary Room (Episode 35 - Eviction 6 Review)

I predicted that there would be a lot to fit into a 90 minute show with a double eviction and 2 intruders going in and I was correct. And it did not happen. The 2 evictees were evicted and one intruder went in but the other intruder will be going in on Up Mike with Late and Bree.


This episode isn't in the order in what happened but for the ease of reading, certain topics are together.


First to the eviction. I predicted that the Brazillian would be certain to go and the other spot would be either ETB, RTB or JTN. But that did not turn out to be the case. This afternoon, I recorded a podcast prediction for the eviction and then 5 minutes later my mate Leigh called me. He predicted that if ETB was to be evicted, her eviction would be announced first and she'd get ushered away to get told about her dad's death and I'd read reports that she'd be given the option to appear on stage or not. Then the other evictee would be announced, go direct to the stage and do their thing. By this time, ETB would have had an extended chat to her family and a counsellor if she needed it and I joked that the NRMA (or RACQ, really) would be on standby in case she needed a jump-start. And then if she decided to go onto stage, she would.


And to Leigh's credit (he's appeared in another piece!), he was pretty much correct. ETB was announced first and she went off in a golf cart and then there was a break. Gretel then said that she was speaking to her family off camera and then they did the remaining family loved one's bit. Later after evictee #2 was evicted, ETB did return to the stage, seemingly as if nothing had happened. So Gretel welcomed ETB to the stage and ETB said that she wanted to grieve in private which is fair enough. Interestingly though, she did say that she was told yesterday and not during the show tonight. Apart from that, you would have thought that nothing had happened. I do have to say that I am glad that ETB has left the house as I was getting sick and tired of watching the Big Emma House and maybe some of the tension will disappear. ETB had a rather large set of numbers, the total evict vote in the end was over 70%, daylight second and then the other HM's.


Joining ETB on the stage was RTB. I was really shocked, I thought that the Brazilian would be gone but because ETB's numbers were so large, the rest of the totals were very close and it could have been anything. However, it was time for RTB to leave the house and I think that is a shame. I thought that being an intruder would have had the Brazilian signing her eviction papers but some people probably thought DanYELLa who? RTB has come a long way in the house and to me at least, she was less and less annoying as the weeks went on and it is a shame that she won't get to experience an ETBless house.


Now to the intruders............


As usual, they promise the world and promise to be up vibe and interesting but in the end they usually turn out to be a less interesting version of Homer Simpson sitting down, smiling politely but doing not much else. Intruder #69 for the series is Michelle and she is now the oldest person in the house, not that she acts it. She is married with a child and based on what I saw of her, her husband will be glad for the peace and quiet for a week. I get the feeling that her outness and her loudness is an act and she is loud but not as loud as she is tonight. But yes, she is loud. Did I mention she's loud? She's loud and proud but not as proudly out there as Intruder #70 in the form of Zach.



Even people without a gaydar didn't need one. BB has had some gay HM's in his time (not that there is anything wrong with that) but this guy is surely the gayest and campest HM ever. Zach meeting Travo, that will be an interesting experience. And Zach has the hots for Ian Thorpe who has a new sleazebag target in the form of Intruder #69. But Ian knows that I69 has a husband so he might back off now.


Overall it was an interesting night but also a long night starting with the daily show at 6.30pm and stumps being called at 9.20pm instead of 9pm. And that was without one intruder going into the house!

"Attention passengers, the 9pm service to Rove has been delayed by 20 minutes for today only. Big Brother apologies for any inconvenience caused."


Myspace friends: Steady at 134
Stand Up Update: Might go to the Sando tomorrow night
BB Update: ETB and RTB gone, intruders 69 and 70 in
Erk Pod Update: Eps 12 and 13 produced over the weekend.

Blog - ETTDR MS34/2007

Erk to the Diary Room Episode 34 - Camping Out and Welcome to the Jungle FNL

You may be pleased to know that I have calmed down after the last ep (33) of Erk to the Diary Room where I discussed the upcoming double eviction and the double eviction on Sunday. In this episode, I look at this week's camping task, Jungle FNL and preview the double eviction.


The task this week was supposed to be based on World Environment Day. For some reason, BB thought that meant that the HM's needed to rough it outside and they had to camp and be on staples (again).


Under normal circumstances, that might not have been too bad for the HM's but this last few days, there has been a lot of rain at the BB house and also along a lot of the East Coast of Australia. The rain and the lack of shelter outside meant that the task was that little bit harder for the HM's.


So the HM's only had a couple of minutes to grab what they could before BB slammed the doors of the house shut. I dare suggest that for most of the week that there were Ninjas wearing HazMat suits working in the bedrooms. Boy it must smell in there by now with no windows that can open and no fresh air in there. Maybe they should have spent the week locked in the Rewards Room or something. I'd like to see 20 people share a little space like that room.


Now this year, BB has said that the house and the HM's have to be friendlier to the environment but part of the task this week was transferring one lot of water in a barrel to another. And they didn't have buckets to do so but little shells. 2 HM's had to watch barrel A because BB would activiate it at will. Now I didn't think that wasting water in an inane task was good for the environment but it could have led to an interesting incident but according to the Daily Show, it did not happen. According to people who saw the incident on the live stream and then relayed the incident to Behind Big Brother, Lara Bingle (my new name for Laura) threw a shell as part of the task which all of the HM's were doing. The shell from Lara hit ETB and Lara said sorry but ETB actually hit Lara in the arm.


Now you might remember that KTB was warned during her short day for threatening violence against ETB but here we have ETB actually hitting a HM as a reaction to an incident. It appears to have gone un-noticed in the official BB world but some forum members on Behind Big Brother have called for ETB to be booted. Now it can't be said that the hit was meant in fun or that Lara wasn't a participant unlike a time that Joel, Zoltan and Thomas were joking around and one of Joel's shirts got ripped a few weeks ago. It could have been a perfect way to re-inforce the expected standard of behaviour in the house to the HM's but BB has seemingly ignored it. I wonder if the fact that ETB is up for eviction is a factor, after all if she is evicted early, those votes to her would be in effect wasted and there would be one less evictee.Also, there is the ETB's dead dad situation. I wonder if BB had that in his mind.


While all of this was going on, BB set up an "Ice Room". Filled with luxuries, there was 4 HM's picked (Travo, Ian Thorpe, Mr HTB and RTB) to go in. Part of the task was for the newly re-titled Ice Mates (IM's) to chip away at ice and fill an esky. BB showed footage to the non IM's of the IM's chipping away at ice and filling buckets and filling an esky (or a chillybin to any Kiwi readers out there!) full of ice. The room was set to sub-zero temperatures but the IM's also had use of an air hockey table and various food and part of their task was to ensure that the HM's did not catch on. Again, I have to question the expense and the environmentally friendliness of this part of the task simply for the sake of a task.


Needless to say due to the cold conditions in the Ice Room, the IM's could not stay there for long periods and when they exited into the backyard, the HM's felt sorry for the IM's, unaware at first of the IM's luxuries.


Midweek, BB told the IM's and HM's that BB needed ice production to be stepped up and two HM's had to become IM's. In a good strategic move by the IM's (mainly thought of by Mr HTB), they decided to take Brilly and JTN into the room. Again, JTN was proving to be smarter than the average HM and the nerd entered the Ice Room.


Meanwhile, the HM's are struggling outside but to be fair, the IM's were sleeping outside too. And in a rare move by Channel 10 this year about showing anything resembling adult comments or boobies this year, the same shot of ETB in a pink bra (with it looking like a couple of soccer balls under not much material, not that I'm complaining) was shown on 3 separate occasions - once in the daily show itself and then twice in the "previously on BB" snippet at the start of the show.


On Thursday night on Up Mike with Late, Late promised that the HM's would be seening the IM's on the screen and it would be revealed that the IM's are living in relative luxury. BB even got Dougie the Pizza Boy to deliver some pizzas to the Ice Room. So Late kept promising and the night got longer and later and after several false starts, it finally happened about 15 minutes before the end of the show. The HM's saw the IM's on the screen and the HM's thought of revenge (including urinating on the IM's stuff, which wasn't shown on the daily show) but BB said that the HM's had to keep the fact that they saw the IM's on the screen to themselves. If the HM's did it, they would be rewarded.


But because of all the stuffing around, by the time that it happened and that the IM's returned to the HM's and after some short banter, it was time for Up Mike to finish. So now we we have to wait until either Up Mike on Friday or Sunday's show to find out the conclusion and to find out if they passed the task. Again, BB has reused ideas and went for the Masters/Servants or Haves and Have Nots idea. Will the HM's be rewarded by a visit to the Ice Room? It only seems fair and BB can get more use of the Ice Room before it is taken down.


FNL was it's typical self and my usual comments stand. They decided for the first game to reuse the "Giant Fan at the end of the Slip & Slide" game of previous years with predictable results. Jamie outlasted ATB, Rove (aka Joel), Travo & the Brazillian on a game of hanging onto the monkey bars for the longest time (another reused idea) as a way to get back into the game after being eliminated and boy oh boy I have to give Jamie this, he was very pumped up. In the end it didn't help him as Mr HTB beat Zoltan in the final game but Mr HTB elected to take Jamie into the Rewards Room as he is the only male that hasn't been in there for the weekend.


And as I type this, Up Mike has just started and the non IM's are now in the Ice Room enjoying it while the IM's are sitting on the couch watching the action in the Ice Room - as I predicted!


There is a double eviction on Sunday and I'll predict now that the Brazillian will be gone as she is the only evictee up for eviction and she will be joined by ETB as a lot of people are sick of her. But really, the other spot could really also be filled by RTB or Jamie or Ian Thorpe as well. I think that Travo and Mr HTB are quite safe at the moment.


Myspace friends: Up 2 to 134
Stand Up Update: Could go to two venues as a punter next week
BB Update: Mr HTB wins FNL again!
Erk Pod Update: Episode based on the above to be recorded Saturday or Sunday

Blog - ETTDR MS33/2007

Erk to the Diary Room (Episode 33 - Noms 6 review, more f**king intruders!)

I'm deadseto mado as hello! I've just finished watching noms and BB had a great idea and he f**king ruined it!


insert calm blue pool water *here*


Anyhoo to recap the most explosive noms for this year (and that's only *my* opinion here), BB decided that the HM's have formed alliances and that they are talking in code about noms and who they will nominate. Just BRING IT, BIATCH! You've encouraged them all season to do it in the Rewards Room after FNL so of course they are going to take advantage. Just declare "GAME ON, MOLES" and let them talk about noms all they want. After all, only Jamie the Nerd, RTB and the two new chicks don't know about it, the rest do. It is one thing that BB Australia has been missing compared to other BB's around the world, or so I've been told.


So BB says that you can't vote for personality, under the radar or for what pisses you off about someone but only for strategy and he announced it at the start of the noms show. So far, so good. Good move, BB. Kudos to you. So far tonight, AAA+++, will buy again.


Gretel announces that there will be five evictees and that there will be a double this week. Still AAA+++ will buy again. Then while the halfwit HM's are nominating intruder chicks (who by the way are no longer intruder chicks, they are HM's 999 and 1000 this season) because they are trying to say that the intruder chicks who are now HM's are a bigger threat when we all know that intruders rarely if ever last an eviction or two (for an example, please go ahead and ask nick@evictionville.bbaustralia07.com.au - if you can find him) so why wast a vote? However, still AAA+++, will buy again.


But I'll bold the next point that made me cringe and so f**king angry:


GRETEL SAID THAT THERE WILL BE TWO MORE F**KING INTRUDERS!


As if we haven't had enough HM's this year! So on Sunday, two arses will feel the eviction door slamming and 2 more people (HM's 1001 & 1002) will be entering! The way they are going, every viewer this year will be a HM and if SSE and Channel 10 and BB keep going on with this s**t, the only people watching will be the former HM's and the BB crew!! FFS, how many people are you going to throw in! Is this an admission that the good ship Big Brother is sinking fast and that the crew (ie the HM's) were poorly selected and were just hired for their looks rather than for their shipping abilities?



So this week before Billy's FNL super power, there was Travo, Mr HTB, ETB, ATB, Mr Mirrors (Thomas), JTN (Jamie the Nerd) and DanYELLa up for possible nomination. So Billy saved ATB and nuked RTB instead so there are still 7 people up for eviction. Of course with that many people up, he was going to nuke RTB rather than Joel (now aka by me as Rove) or Zoltan and he can't nuke himself. And he's probably still wondering who that treehugging chick is.


So I thought that with 7 people up for eviction and 2 going that Late (from the Up Mike with Late show) would have 5 minutes of 1902 numbers to say. So he did but for some reason he said that Zoltan was up and gave Zoltan's name, face and number instead of Travo! Maybe Late didn't record a Travo piece of audio or someone in the control room was fuddling wuth the swutch.


It's a double, the HM's don't know it but my predictions for noms tonight were totally out the window when BB changed the rules. But please oh please BB, no more f**king intruders!



PS: I'M NOT CRYING! (seriously, I'm not). There was a cryfest last night when STB got a room onstage with Mr STB. Lucky Zoltan and Mr Mirrors didn't see that "delightful" bit of TV.


Myspace friends: Steady at 132
Stand Up Update: Unchanged.
BB Update: Double eviction. 7 people up. More f**king intruders!
Erk Pod Update: Erk Pod eps 9/10 up and ep 11 based on the above to be recorded tomorrow.

Blog - ETTDR MS32/2007

Erk to the Diary Room (Episode 32 - Eviction 5 Review, Noms 6 preview)

I can't say that I am surprised that STB got to look at herself in the eviction mirror last night. I don't think that she will be missed by the viewers or the HM's. Gretel interviewed the boyfriend that STB has been keeping herself for. Zoltan and Thomas would have been interested to see that Ken didn't appear to be in Barbie's league. Gretel asked Mr STB how long they had been going out for and he said 6 weeks. I thought that they'd been in the house for 6 weeks so he'd been going with her only for the time she'd been in the house but I've been told this afternoon that he meant that he had been going out with her for 6 weeks before entering the house. So the guy has had 6 weeks on, 6 weeks off. And boy, did they need to get a room when they were on stage!


Anyhoo, Billy has the FNL Super Power and I think that ETB and ATB will be safe from nominations. Both intruders can nominate and be nominated for the first time so they are both easy targets. I reckon that the evictees will be RTB, Jamie the Nerd and Laura the wannabe hippie and that ETB will be saved. However, anyone who nominates ETB while Billy has the FNL Super Power is a fool.


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Stand Up Update: Steady
BB Update: STB out of the house. Mirrors in the house don't need to be cleaned as often now but cameramen upset (I presume)
Erk Pod Update: "Erk to the Diary Room" episode 5 (Erk Pod 09) and Erk Pod 10 recorded today and going up soon.

Blog - ETTDR MS31/2007

Erk to the Diary Room (Episode 31 - Jamie cracks it, Oz FNL, Eviction 5 Preview)

We were trundling along when BB finally finally fired up for the week on Thursday night on Up Mike with Late. This week, they have been doing a Bollywood production and eating Indian. If that isn't enough (and surely that is!), there was a variation of the old Masters and Servants task as well. The actors were the masters and the extras were the servants. And boy oh boy, didn't some people in general but ETB in particular hate being a servant!


But the biggest crack of the week was Jamie the Nerd. On Thursday night, BB decided to throw the actors a party in the Rewards Room while the extras were outside. In possibly the longest time that ATB has been away from ETB, ATB finally has shown some independant form of life after having some booze. So her and Jamie the Nerd and Mr HTB were having a discussion about how Jamie sits around and analyzes people. ATB said that she likes fun Jamie but not nerd Jamie. But I think that if that is who nerd Jamie is, that is who he is. In the end, ATB kept going, Jamie kept going and both of them ended up in tears even though Jamie fired up and shouted "I AM NOT CRYING!" - I think the fallout will continue until at least nominations on Monday.


Anyhoo, FNL was not Indian night as I thought it would have been given the task this week but it was Outback Night. The tasks were pretty much the same as usual but there were some funny bits where the HM's had to make human damper and ETB got penalised for not finishing the wheelchair mounted dunny race properly. But come on BB if someone cheats like ETB did by not finishing and getting out of her chair to pull the finishing string, you penalise her arse more than 5 seconds!

In the first event, they finally realised that the second team gets a huge advantage by watching the first team. So the second team didn't see the first team and it worked well except it lasted for only one game. Then it was situation normal. Also, Laura was the last person picked and wasn't allowed to play until BB needed someone to even up the second last game. So instead of saying simply that she could play like everyone else in that situation, BB said that she had to eat a witchity grub first. So Laura did eat the grub eventually (she is SO not a hippie!) and she made it through to the final but Billy won and took Zoltan into the Rewards Room. All my usual comments about FNL remain, it goes on too long and the games are very similar each week.


Finally, it is time to predict who is going to be evicted tomorrow. It has been hard because on the daily show at least, you have hardly seen STB or RTB so the main potential evictee that has been seen is Jamie the Nerd and after Thursday night's outburst, I think he might go but I would not be surprised if STB goes for simply being a mirror loving princess.


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Stand Up Update: More practice material reported
BB Update: Billy and Zoltan in the RR
Erk Pod Update: Latest episode is Erk Pod 08