This weeks task: Stinging Challenge

[Mark]

Press release - I'm shocked!

Big Brother will test the housemates' physical endurance during the third Saturday night live challenge, tomorrow night at 9pm on Channel 4.

At the beginning part of the show, the housemates will be told to split into teams of four and five. The team made up of four housemates will be told to pair up for the first half of the two-part challenge. One will assume a wheelbarrow position while the other will be the 'pusher' and in a race against time they will have to collect as many tokens as possible. Each token will be worth an amount of time and the total time accumulated will make up the length of time of the second part of the task will take.

Then comes Big Brother's evil twist. For the second part of the challenge, the remaining five housemates will have to hang from a bar above a patch of stinging nettles and remain there for the length of time that they accumulated during the first part of the challenge.

£2000 will be lost for each housemate who falls from the bar. This means they could potentially lose a total of £10,000 if they fail this task, so they will need to hang on tightly if they want to preserve the £85,000 that currently stands.

Will the housemates keep a firm grip to their prize fund or will they face a prickly reception from the wheelbarrow team? To see how the housemates get on, tune into the live show on Saturday 12 June at 9pm.
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Surely there is danger implications here? I don't know anything about the damage stinging nettles can do, but I imagine it's not nice having all your ankles and feet covered in stings :conf:

Maybe BB will use fake looking nettles, to make the housemates think they are real.

- Mark

[Amy]

:shocked: :shocked: I thought that this was a joke at first but.... :shocked: :shocked: Evil BB they are :shocked:

[Amy]

Originally posted by Mark
I don't know anything about the damage stinging nettles can do, but I imagine it's not nice having all your ankles and feet covered in stings :conf:


They hurt when you slightly brush by one so to land in a pile of them must bring a lot of pain, rather them than me :shocked:

[Hooly One]

Yep, it's very evil:spin:

[liliacqueen]

very evil

[Hooly One]

Very very evil:elephant::spin:

[dustmite]

Originally posted by Amy
They hurt when you slightly brush by one so to land in a pile of them must bring a lot of pain, rather them than me :shocked:
I think if they hit them with force, it wouldn't hurt that badly, afterall, nettles are only really effective when they're brushed against. One thing worth considering, though, is whether they're going to be real nettles...

Health and safety would be particularly against them being real nettles.

[Amy]

I suppose it could be a mind over matter thing, put fake nettles in see if they claim they hurt or not but I cannot see BB being that thoughtful this is, after all, evil BB.

[BigSister]

Yeah Amy
This is Evil BB

[ribbonstring5145]

i think that if they had fake stinging nettles that once one housemate has fallen down, they will tell the others that they are fake and theyl all just jump down. It wouldn't work.

[Amy]

Sorry to go off topic for a moment but loving the avatar Mark :laugh:
http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forum/images/avatars3/Mark.gif

[rachb]

I know I'm a bit sick but at least big brother are at last getting evil:shocked:
I've been waiting for them to do something really bad:laugh::laugh:

[kaphc]

This sounds a little bit more like Survivor than Big Brother!

I think some of this year's lot would be more suited to a show like Survivor, where nominations can be discussed and proper alliances formed - particularly Jason, Victor and Vanessa who seem to be the most ruthless.

It will be interesting to see who is hanging onto the bar - I would back some of them to stay on, but others, no way!!! (Marco, this includes you!)

[Mark]

Originally posted by Amy
Sorry to go off topic for a moment but loving the avatar Mark :laugh:
http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forum/images/avatars3/Mark.gif

It makes me laugh every time I watch it :hugesmile::blush:

[Amy]

Originally posted by Mark
Originally posted by Amy
Sorry to go off topic for a moment but loving the avatar Mark :laugh:
http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forum/images/avatars3/Mark.gif

It makes me laugh every time I watch it :hugesmile::blush:

It's hilarious!

[Markys_angel]

lol Can't wait to see it!

[Sunny_01]

I am liking the evilness of it all :devil:

[Kanye_West]

id landed in a pile of nettles when i was a kid/younger, i fell backwards into em, believe me it DOES bloody hurt!!

[Kore]

Mark where did you get it from, i wanna show sum friends, rofl!!, Yeh this new stinging challenge, wud be a bit like dirty sanchez wudnt it, :spin::hugesmile: ROFL

[Di2001]

I'm looking forward to tonight's live task - should be good fun :thumbs:

My mum and dad are coming over for dinner but I've told them they'll have to sit through it!!

[LEE]

They are so going to regret wearing hardly any clothing for this one. :laugh:

[Amy]

Originally posted by LEE
They are so going to regret wearing hardly any clothing for this one. :laugh:

:laugh: bless them :laugh:

[dustmite]

I do like how they tried to claim that Big Brother changed the rules... considering a platform is something that supports something... like the bars... and it did say that housemates must not be assisted...

One day, they will learn.

Still, did like Dan getting irritated at the loss of money, then quickly saying he wasn't bothered... a lie methinks?

[kaphc]

BIG respect to Shell for being the only one who could hang on for long enough!!

Poor Marco with no shoes on - he had no chance of not getting stung, did he??! He couldn't be hanging from the bar if his knees were wrapped around that pole!

[Sweetpea]

LOL I think it is soooooo funny how they all think they can outwit BB & I agree with you Dustmite. I think Dan is a wee tad peed off at the challenge. I loved the way he had to use Armani & then swear live just to get back at BB. Me hopes Michelle & Emma get to punish him for that or BB gives him a warning for being so childish :laugh: (I love Dan but I hates losers lol)

[BigSister]

yup i agree big to Shell for being the only 1 to do it
Still if the others gave less time *shrugs*

[LEE]

I've just put lots of pics of the task up in the Gallery.

CLICK HERE (http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=128) to view them. :thumbs:

[ribbonstring5145]

guess who:
"you can SO totally do this"
lolll could she have said it ANY MORE times?!

[Sticks]

Has anyone ever heard of an very ancient concept, which I belive is the most vile profanity known ever.

I will probably be banned for mentioning this but does the term "Duty of care" ring any bells?

The challenge could have been done with out the nettles. These inflict a chemical burn which results in a rash and swelling. Suppose someone went into anphylactic shock?

There is no reference to treatment for those who have been stung ?

I am also amazed that people here on this very board want people to be physically hurt or injured?

Why not next week bring in a guilotine and if the housemate gets a question wrong, it automatically chops a limb off or hey, lets not mess around. Chop their heads off and KILL them.

We know it's a matter of time before we want to see people die in a game show as all part of the fun ?


Next year for BB6

Big Brother gets Lethal
Watch live the chance to see a housemate you hate be dispatched live.

Text your least favourite housemate to suffer an execution

Text in your favourite method of execution

Do you want them to:

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Be placed in a Guillotine and have their head chopped off
Be shot by a trained sniper
Be grabbed, have their hands tied behind their backs and hung by the neck until they stop kicking
Electrocuted by an electric chair as they think they are about to be interviewed by Davina
Killed by cyanide gas between the doors
[/list=A]

The remaining housemates will not be told what is happening. Who dies and how You decide...


BB5 Evil

No

This is sadistic and I am surprised that they have got away with this with out the Health and Safety executive coming down on them :mad:

Those egging them on to be so cavileir about the housemates welfare should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

Well it has been nice posting here:rolleyes:

[dustmite]

1) The nettles were dead,
2) Paramedics are always in the yard,
3) The housemates medical histories are fully disclosed to the Endemol,
4) They signed an agreement.

[AndyJK]

Sticks, I understand Big Brother producers in Saudi Arabia have already suggested your ideas for their next series.

[signature_maker]

I think you have over reacted a bit, with the health and safety bit...

It was only some stinging nettles, not broken glass, or metal spikes.

So no real long lasting harm will be done, just a little stinging for a while.

:wavey:

[Sunny_01]

Sticks I think we need to keep it real - my kids get stung by nettles playing in the field and dont die so I reckon they will be ok

:devil:

[boox12]

great gallery

[LEE]

Originally posted by Sunny_01
Sticks I think we need to keep it real - my kids get stung by nettles playing in the field and dont die so I reckon they will be ok

:devil: You'll get used to Sticks Sunny, he's our resident Prophet of Doom and we love him for it :thumbs: TiBB just wouldn't be the same without him :laugh:

[Hooly One]

Lol! yep that's good old sticks for yeah:hugesmile: