Booze

[InOne]

Will they still have to stick to that silly low limit? Will be **** if they do cos they just get bored really easy

[Pyramid*]

In fairness: given the booze culture of the UK's younger generation: it says a lot that a great many think the only way to good entertaiment is getting pissed out of their heads, acting like assholes and the inevitable fighting and aggression that then takes place.

Personally - it's about time they had a booze free house - if people can't come alive and have good fun without getting tanked , it's a pretty sad day.

If I want to watch that...... I can go to any town centre any night of the week and watch it for real, without the benefit of editing.

[Stu]

I couldn't give a toss about the morality behind getting the housemates pissed. I'm not in there. Watching a drunk house is a hell of a lot more entertaining from a TV perspective than watching a sober one. Booze has fuelled most of BB's biggest nights.

[InOne]

So you want another BB11? :bored:

[InOne]

That was to Pyramid ^^ lol

[Pyramid*]

I couldn't give a toss about the morality behind getting the housemates pissed. I'm not in there. Watching a drunk house is a hell of a lot more entertaining from a TV perspective than watching a sober one. Booze has fuelled most of BB's biggest nights.


Oh yes..... watching people fighting, spitting, booze fuelled anger is really entertaining isn't it.....

There are a shed load of other real life documentaries if you want to watch that stuff.

As I said: it says a lot that this is seen as 'entertainment'. You don't have to wait for Big Brother come around to see that...... you no doubt will have it in your local town every weekend.

[Jack_]

Personally - it's about time they had a booze free house - if people can't come alive and have good fun without getting tanked , it's a pretty sad day.

:joker:

As if that's ever going to happen.

[Pyramid*]

:joker:

As if that's ever going to happen.


Never say never Jack. Never say never.

[Jordan.]

In fairness: given the booze culture of the UK's younger generation: it says a lot that a great many think the only way to good entertaiment is getting pissed out of their heads, acting like assholes and the inevitable fighting and aggression that then takes place.

Personally - it's about time they had a booze free house - if people can't come alive and have good fun without getting tanked , it's a pretty sad day.

If I want to watch that...... I can go to any town centre any night of the week and watch it for real, without the benefit of editing.

Are you even a fan of the show?

Isn't seeing people 'pissed, acting like assholes and the inevitable fighting and aggression' the best part.. :L

[InOne]

BB is trash tv. It's not about sitting around drinking tea having intelligent chats :nono:

[Patrick]

Never say never Jack. Never say never.

http://www.wallpaper23.com/data/male-celebrities/justin-bieber/1600x1200_justin_bieber_singing.jpg

[Jack_]

BB is trash tv. It's not about sitting around drinking tea having intelligent chats :nono:

:worship:

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Oh yes..... watching people fighting, spitting, booze fuelled anger is really entertaining isn't it.....

There are a shed load of other real life documentaries if you want to watch that stuff.

As I said: it says a lot that this is seen as 'entertainment'. You don't have to wait for Big Brother come around to see that...... you no doubt will have it in your local town every weekend.

So you didnt enjoy fight night? Or Brian Belo and Charleys raging argument?, Jade and Adelle over verruca gate?

Watching people fighting and making tits out of themselves is very entertaining.

Why wrap them in cotton wool if this is supposed to be real life then they should be allowed to have booze just as they would outside the house.

[Patrick]

In BB9 when Fight Night II happened, where they drunk then?
I can't remember if they had a bit to drink before or not LOL

[Stu]

A dry house would be hell.

[Pyramid*]

Are you even a fan of the show?

Isn't seeing people 'pissed, acting like assholes and the inevitable fighting and aggression' the best part.. :L

I've been a fan of the show since it's first showing....and I'd say this was part of it's downfall.

BB is trash tv. It's not about sitting around drinking tea having intelligent chats :nono:


If you can't have fun and have a good time without booze..... I'd say that shows a pretty limited intelligence.

So you didnt enjoy fight night? Or Brian Belo and Charleys raging argument?, Jade and Adelle over verruca gate?

Watching people fighting and making tits out of themselves is very entertaining.

Why wrap them in cotton wool if this is supposed to be real life then they should be allowed to have booze just as they would outside the house.

No i didn't enjoy watching people fighting, being aggressive and being violent. I found it pretty sick, disturbing and completely uncomfortable. As a fan of the show: it plunged it to new depths. and i have to say: it raises more questions as to how 'some' find that entertaining.

[Jordan.]

I've been a fan of the show since it's first showing....and I'd say this was part of it's downfall.

We can always get you a re-run of BB4 :xyxwave:

[Jessica.]

I think housemates can be entertaining without alcohol, it's not a big deal really.

[Pyramid*]

We can always get you a re-run of BB4 :xyxwave:

I'm entitled to voice my opinion. Tough if you don't agree. BB4 had personalities that were boring.

There are plenty of good personalities out there who don't need to be pissed out of their faces to be entertaining.

[Patrick]

I think housemates can be entertaining without alcohol, it's not a big deal really.

Only:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/uk_big_brother_housemates/img/1.jpg


and


http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00676/big-brother-group-4_676666c.jpg


Can make a whole series entertaining and memorable without having drinking nights.

[Stu]

Such a commment proves the opposite. You are a smart chap, but wanting people to be drunk....that's low.
Drinking is a routine part of life for most people - especially those that frequent these types of shows. There is no great cosmological mystery or hidden connection behind the fact that watching drunk people do dumb stuff makes for entertaining TV in a lot of peoples eyes. Drinking is a relatively normal activity. Why is it low to take entertainment from watching strangers on the telly drink? Wouldn't that make it a despicable act of depravity to then want to go out with my friends myself and drink? No? Why? Because it's normal?

It's vaudeville, sure, but that's Big Brother for you. If you are going to take this rat arse serious a view of it then having to rely on strangers interact with each other in a house in the first place could be said to be a bit sad. Sober or not. I'm sure you are willing to argue that point though.

[Jordan.]

I'm entitled to voice my opinion. Tough if you don't agree. BB4 had personalities that were boring.

There are plenty of good personalities out there who don't need to be pissed out of their faces to be entertaining.

I never said you couldn't all I was doing was replying with my own. It's clear from the replies you're alone here with your opinion.

Some of the best and most memorable BB moments have happened because of alcohol. Taking it away all together would be a boring mess. We can still have good personalities AND alcohol to provide entertainment.

If you don't like it BB obviously isn't the right show for you.

[Smithy]

Probably not, it's C5, they care more about ratings than anything else, the more controversial the housemates are, whether thats down to booze or not, the higher the ratings, so they'll probably ply them with booze everynight

[InOne]

[double post-.

[InOne]

I've been a fan of the show since it's first showing....and I'd say this was part of it's downfall.




If you can't have fun and have a good time without booze..... I'd say that shows a pretty limited intelligence.



No i didn't enjoy watching people fighting, being aggressive and being violent. I found it pretty sick, disturbing and completely uncomfortable. As a fan of the show: it plunged it to new depths. and i have to say: it raises more questions as to how 'some' find that entertaining.

What you don't get is BB isn't about that, I watch it for the escapism. Don't have to all act like pretentious twats all the time.

[Patrick]

Probably not, it's C5, they care more about ratings than anything else, the more controversial the housemates are, whether thats down to booze or not, the higher the ratings, so they'll probably ply them with booze everynight

I bet the housemates do what they begun doing in later seasons;
They'll save up on the booze and keep it all in the fridge until one night and then just get completely and utterly smashed.

[Stu]

And it wouldn't be Big Brother without the inevitable hiding of the almighty one can of cider under a bed.

[Smithy]

I bet the housemates do what they begun doing in later seasons;
They'll save up on the booze and keep it all in the fridge until one night and then just get completely and utterly smashed.

I suppose thats better than them just having a pint each every night and not getting anywhere

[BigBrotherfan4ever]

I bet the housemates do what they begun doing in later seasons;
They'll save up on the booze and keep it all in the fridge until one night and then just get completely and utterly smashed.

I loved when they did that, & just have a right laugh one night a week, it was great to watch, i seem to remember BB9 were famous for doing this.

[_Seth]

I couldn't give a toss about the morality behind getting the housemates pissed. I'm not in there. Watching a drunk house is a hell of a lot more entertaining from a TV perspective than watching a sober one. Booze has fuelled most of BB's biggest nights.

This one hundred times over.

**** the morals of teenagers watching and copying. :)

[daniel-lewis-1985]

FFS Fight Night was so tame to the reality shows in America where they have actual punch ups.

[DigitalSid]

Will they still have to stick to that silly low limit?

According to The Star, no. And if they do go back to basics, most definitely not.

[arista]

A dry house would be hell.



Well they better Pass the New Harder Tasks
then.

[joeysteele]

So you didnt enjoy fight night? Or Brian Belo and Charleys raging argument?, Jade and Adelle over verruca gate?

Watching people fighting and making tits out of themselves is very entertaining.

Why wrap them in cotton wool if this is supposed to be real life then they should be allowed to have booze just as they would outside the house.

You make a very strong point for more alcohol being allowed,good examples of some of the most popular conflicts.

The one I have to support totally that you make is that they should be allowed to have alcohol as they would outside the house,if people didn't like the way they were under the influence of alcohol they can always try to vote them out.

[Stacey.]

I hope they give them a lot more this year :amazed:

[Tony1111]

You have to think of the situation if you live with 11 others the agression builds and tension starts then the only way to escape it is the psychological need to drink what leads to the way out for many people. In the house you are never alone and seperated from society and your family constantly paranoid about what is going on so drinking is inevitable and finally we get to see the tension release and who is fake or not. It is all the way the public interfene. :D

[Tom4784]

I think alcohol plays an important part in BB, before they got scared to be controversial they used to always plow the HMs with drink and it was always more entertaining for it.

[Beastie]

I should have guessed Joe Joe would do a thread about Booze :hugesmile:

Anyway yes.. f uck Ofcom!! Give housemates plenty of Booze!! Okay.. I am not saying like an unlimited bar they did in the early series!! But still.. give them plenty.

STOP PUSSY FOOTING AROUND.

[Doogle]

They should definitely have a lot of booze.

As much as I enjoyed BB11, after seeing previous HM's drunk on YouTube it was no contest.

[Zippy]

I don't think the occasional booze party should be a problem. Its not like theyre ever permanently drunk. Its just for a few hours here and there. They still have to mostly entertain when sober. Well, those that can.

[InOne]

Just should let them buy their own off the shopping list, and actually deliver it all to them. And then every weekend throw a massive party or something.

[Niamh.]

yeah, I think they should, it always gives us a bit entertainment /drama

[_Seth]

Alcohol should be given every eviction night as a regular occasion.

[InOne]

Any update on this seen as we're getting closer? :suspect:

[Sophiee]

I hope they're allowed more alcohol this year. the amount they had last year was silly.

[bbfan1991]

I hope they're allowed more alcohol but BB will definetly be keeping a strict eye on the distribution because they certainly would not want a repeat of BB5 and some people can get very volatile, aggressive or emotional when they have had one few too many:).

[Joelle.]

If Desmond wants high ratings, he will give them booze on tap and make sure they get plastered every night. Wouldnt be surprised if they installed a bar available 24/7. With no live feed they can obviously afford it.

[Doogle]

But then C5 have no reputation with BB yet bar adverts and stuff, so I dont see a problem with them giving the housemates booze, cos they have nothing to lose really :joker:

[daniel-lewis-1985]

In fairness: given the booze culture of the UK's younger generation: it says a lot that a great many think the only way to good entertaiment is getting pissed out of their heads, acting like assholes and the inevitable fighting and aggression that then takes place.

Personally - it's about time they had a booze free house - if people can't come alive and have good fun without getting tanked , it's a pretty sad day.

If I want to watch that...... I can go to any town centre any night of the week and watch it for real, without the benefit of editing.

:rolleyes:

[King Gizzard]

Sorry if probbly been mentioned but isn't there a certain amount theyre not allowed to give more than?

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Oh yes..... watching people fighting, spitting, booze fuelled anger is really entertaining isn't it.....

There are a shed load of other real life documentaries if you want to watch that stuff.

As I said: it says a lot that this is seen as 'entertainment'. You don't have to wait for Big Brother come around to see that...... you no doubt will have it in your local town every weekend.

And why do you think when someone drinks all it results in is fighting and spitting.

Not eveyone is an aggresive drunk lol

[Jords]

I don't think the occasional booze party should be a problem. Its not like theyre ever permanently drunk. Its just for a few hours here and there. They still have to mostly entertain when sober. Well, those that can.

:worship:

[armand.kay]

yes i want them to have a sepret frige fore booz like bb5, ther is a bad side to too much booz (Kinga, wine bottle :/ )

[DigitalSid]

Only:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/uk_big_brother_housemates/img/1.jpg


and


http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00676/big-brother-group-4_676666c.jpg


Can make a whole series entertaining and memorable without having drinking nights.


BB9 couldn't.

[aliacid]

I agree with both sides of this debate, I'm doing a Rachel Rice and I'm sitting on the fence.

It is terrible that we only find HMs properly entertaining when they're pissed but at the end of the day, it's Big Brother. It's been a TV show before a social experiment for years now, it's a trashy TV show, not some snotty documentary. Big Brother needs to stay entertaining and to the disappointment of some, alcohol usually results in entertainment.

Like somebody said above, being pissed doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to become aggressive and start spitting and acting like a plonker, I've certainly never been like that when pissed. Most people I know are happy drunks, we tend to have more fun and are happier and high-spirited as a result so I don't see what the problem is really?

[Livia]

I don't think the occasional booze party should be a problem. Its not like theyre ever permanently drunk. Its just for a few hours here and there. They still have to mostly entertain when sober. Well, those that can.

Exactly.

[Marc]

Give them loads of booze. I love watching it

[InOne]

Sorry if probbly been mentioned but isn't there a certain amount theyre not allowed to give more than?

Yeah but they never followed it until recently. Unless the law changed D:

[*mazedsalv**]

I'm sure Five is more known for its madness, so I think they should have more booze that they had on C4 for the last few years. I want another BB3 on our hands. I mean Kate was drunk 70% of the time and was drunk during her win and her interview, it was better.

"Are you ready to meet the crowd, Kate?"
And she was refusing because she was scared :p

[Maia]

I had a dream last night that their parties involved them drinking cola and being completely sober lol [/random] I hope they do get alcohol like in BB3.

[daniel-lewis-1985]

I'm sure Five is more known for its madness, so I think they should have more booze that they had on C4 for the last few years. I want another BB3 on our hands. I mean Kate was drunk 70% of the time and was drunk during her win and her interview, it was better.

"Are you ready to meet the crowd, Kate?"
And she was refusing because she was scared :p

Kate throwing up all over the bedroom carpet was pure sex.

I remember the BB3 finale they had a ****ing massive bowl of home made punch and she offered Davina some but she very proffesionally refused to drink on the job.

Dork.