The Live Task - 05/06/2004

[dustmite]

Following Davina's indications of the live task today, Big Brother has delivered the first part of the task... a large children's style party food collection. This party consists of lots of sugary food... which all of the housemates have taken to eating with much joy.

Big Brother has decided to tell them that it is a party and there is no catch at all... oh how little do they know :hugesmile:

Now, I think it's time we start looking forward to the bit with the roundabout... especially now that paranoia begins, particularly with Victor's decleration of 'I feel mega paranoid now'.

[Dan_]

I wonder what the task is all about? It could be something to do with not being sick. Im would be paranoid and all plus only eat some of it.

[dustmite]

At present the housemates are preparing for the challenge by putting on the protective clothing, once they have done this, they are to remain in the bedroom until further notice.

Clothing so far consists of helmets, wrist pads, knee pads and elbow pads. Housemates are recommended to wear trainers for the task.

[dustmite]

The housemates stand looking slightly confused as they are instructed by Big Brother to go into the garden, where they must not touch any of the equipment.

The 'roundabout' appears to be in the centre of the garden and is covered.

Housemates are currently being informed that the prize fund can decrease if they fail the task.

The first part of the challenge involves markers placed within the garden, numbered from 1 to 11. Housemates must now rate themselves from 1 to 11 on the basis of their intelligence. With 1 being the most intelligent.

[dustmite]

Stuart placed himself as the most intelligent, and was then instructed to go the bench. One of the remaining housemates was instructed to read the second envelope of instructions.

For this part, they are to rate themselves in terms of personal strength.

Jason was ranked as the most strong housemate, and then made to go to the bench alongside Stuart.

[dustmite]

Envelope three instructs them to remove the cover from the roundabout, all of the remaining 9 housemates have to sit upon the roundabout.

The strongest housemate is now to rotate the roundabout at a constant 15RPM.

The most intelligent then must go to the diary room and answer 9 questions. For each question answered correctly, one person is allowed to dismount the roundabout and one thousand pounds is kept in the prize fund. The final question is worth two thousand pounds.

For each question answered incorrectly, money is lost and no housemate is allowed to dismount the roundabout.

[Mervi]

EXCELLENT task, thank you, dustmite, for letting me in on what's happening!!! Since I don't have either C4 or E4 or 4Broadband...

[dustmite]

Question 1) If you were climbing mount kilimanjaro, what country would you be in?

Stuart answered incorrectly with: Kenya
The correct answer is Tanzania.
£1,000 is lost from the prize fund.

Question 2) Who is the president of France?

Stuart answered correctly with: Jacques Chirac.
Victor dismounted the roundabout.

Question 3) "Two households alike in dignity" are the opening words to which Shakespeare play?

Stuart answered correctly with: Romeo and Juliet.
Daniel dismounted the roundabout.

Question 4) In the 2003 MOBO Awards, who won best R&B act?

Stuart answered incorrectly with: Dizzy Rascal.
The correct answer is Justin Timberlake.
£1,000 is lost from the prize fund.

Question 5) Jimmy "The Whirlwind" White is world famous for which sport?

Stuart answered incorrectly with: Boxing.
The correct answer is snooker.
£1,000 is lost from the prize fund.

Question 6) Which cartoon family live at 743 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield?

Stuart answered correctly with: The Simpsons.
Ahmed dismounted the roundabout.

Question 7) What is the capital city of Australia?

Stuart answered correctly with: Canberra.
Marco dismounted the roundabout.

Question 8) Name three of the six central characters in the US hit comedy show, Friends.

Stuart answered correctly with: Joe, Chandler and Ross.
Nadia dismounted the roundabout.

Question 9) Who did Will Smith join forces with in the 1991 hit "Summertime"?

Stuart did not answer this question within the time limit. The correct answer was DJ Jazzy Jeff
£2,000 was lost from the prize fund.

Housemates have lost £5,000 from the prize fund, the total prize fund now stands at: £86,000

[Mervi]

Didn't anyone throw up?!!

[dustmite]

No one was sick, no, despite many declerations of "I'm going to be sick!", much groaning from the housemates, and a decidely ill looking Marco.

[Hooly One]

It was an evil task, but very funny.:hugesmile:

[Amy]

Originally posted by dustmite
No one was sick, no, despite many declerations of "I'm going to be sick!", much groaning from the housemates, and a decidely ill looking Marco.

I watched Marco throw up???

[dustmite]

Oh yes, you're right, I missed that, was more concentrating on typing away like a happy fairy :blush:

[Hooly One]

Originally posted by Amy
Originally posted by dustmite
No one was sick, no, despite many declerations of "I'm going to be sick!", much groaning from the housemates, and a decidely ill looking Marco.

I watched Marco throw up???

Yes he did throw up, you should of seen his face. he turned green!:hugesmile:

Hilarious :hugesmile:

[Amy]

So they are at 86.000 I believe! They could have been down to 96,000 but thanks to Kitten they were at 86 bless her :rolleyes:

[dustmite]

Originally posted by Amy
So they are at 86.000 I believe! They could have been down to 96,000 but thanks to Kitten they were at 86 bless her :rolleyes:
They are indeed. I'm waiting for someone to insult her.

The live feed is very funny at the moment, a number of housemates, *cough* shell *cough*, are curled up in pain groaning... I guess they reap what they sow... or in this case, throw up the sugar they eat.

[ribbonstring5145]

ughh seeing marco throw up was DISGUSTING. just looking at them all made me feel sick:bored:

[dustmite]

Big Brother has just informed housemates that due to Ahmed not being on the roundabout at the start of the task, that they have been fined £1,000.

The prize fund now stands at £85,000

[liliacqueen]

it was funny though maco was like green lol

[Amy]

Shell looks very green right now, I think she's feeling very ill bless her

[liliacqueen]

i want e4 so i cn watch big brother all the time:bawling:

[AndyJK]

I knew as soon as the first instructions was read out, Stu would immediately head for no. 1 position :laugh: He didn't too badly to be fair.

Originally posted by liliacqueen
it was funny though maco was like green lol

I couldn't believe how green Marco was. I knew just looking at him any moment he was about to chunder and then...http://www.cheesebuerger.de/smilies/eklig/2.gif They all looked pretty ill at the end.

And thanks for that Dustmite nice presentation :thumbs:

[liliacqueen]

it was funny i neva seen sumone dat green berfore there isick i always thought people didnt go green but obviously they do lol.

[James]

Want to relive that task - take a look at the pictures in the gallery (including Marco losing his dinner!)

http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=124

[Sticks]

If prisoners of war in Iraq were treated in such a way, there would be an additional outcry to the abuses already done out there:nono:

This kind of treatment would be banned under the Geneva convention.

Is it right to deliberately make someone ill, for entertainment purposes.

Am I the only one here that questions this? Why do people like to inflict suffering?

C4/Endemol seem to care very little what lines they leap over in order to chase ratings:nono:

[LEE]

I actually agree with you on this one Sticks, I thought the whole thing was tasteless.

[Sticks]

Originally posted by LEE
I actually agree with you on this one Sticks, I thought the whole thing was tasteless.

Any thoughts on further action against C4/Endemol. One hates to think that they are getting away with this. To stop watching will not achieve anything, save remove ones right to hold them to account.

[James]

They could of got off the roundabout at any time. Depends how much they want the money.

[dustmite]

Originally posted by James
They could of got off the roundabout at any time. Depends how much they want the money.
Exactly James, anyone that says "Endemol's fault!" is forgetting about people's right to choose, yes, the money is in it... but if everyone's really true about saying they don't care about it...

[LEE]

Yes that is true, but it doesn't make it something I want to watch. I don't particularly want to see the housemates throwing up and doing revolting things and as much as I like this years bunch (apart from Michelle) the more they do of this sort of thing the less I'll be watching.

[Julia L]

Poor housemates, I'd've hated to be on that roundabout. I dunno, I'm half thinking that it was entertaining to start with, but the other half of me says it was a bit TOO cruel. I don't think I want to see them being put through cruel tasks, to be honest with you.

[kaphc]

What I don't understand is why they got all the blokes off the roundabout first. Jason seemed to have no problems keeping the required rpm in place, and therefore surely it would have been kinder to get some of the girls off?!

[LEE]

I hadn't thought of that, but you're right it does seem off that he got all the guys off and left the girls on there.

[BigSister]

Yeah I thought that too i mean the girls were suffereing
I couldnt watch when marco was sick :rolleyes:

[steve_o]

Suppose it's all part of the eating insects and and throwing up thing, trouble is the more they show of this thing the more indifferent we become to it. Sticks has a point if this was done to prisoners of war to get them to talk there would be outrage. But this is being done to wanabee's so the do gooders couldn't care less. Where's the outrage in the papers, there isnt any, where's the morals of the thing there arn't any. It seems we are starting to go down the nick as civilised human beings. What will be next live gladiators to become indifferent to. :conf: Is it a good thing to use the word evil, when being evil is about doing horrible things to people and animals for the fun of it. There's a lot of thinking and questions to be asked about this years bb I'm afraid. :conf: Sorry to the people who are enjoying it, maybe I'm getting old. :shocked: