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M X 11-07-2015 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Marsh. (Post 7987819)
I haven't but thanks for the input.

Haha you've still missed the point even if you want to be rude about it.

It doesn't matter if they opened the envelopes before Big Brother revealed the twist, the producers still saw which housemate had which amount through which colour envelope they chose which means they could pick and chose which scenario they wanted to go with in order to get the result they wanted.

It's not complicated at all - basically it just means that it's likely they had three different questions for three different scenarios.

RichardG 11-07-2015 01:47 AM

Marsh is right, I don't see what the problem is here. It doesn't matter what colour the envelopes are, the housemates opened them and read their amounts before BB announced the twist. So, even if all envelopes were the same colour, BB still had enough time to look at the amount of money that each hm read about and THEN decide to alter the question they would ask to suit their agenda - that is if you believe the conspiracy theory anyway, which I don't. Emma had been saying all night the twist would leave one hm "without any money" or w/e. It would've looked well odd if they changed the twist last minute to being one of GIVING a housemate money instead.

M X 11-07-2015 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by RichardG (Post 7987924)
Marsh is right, I don't see what the problem is here. It doesn't matter what colour the envelopes are, the housemates opened them and read their amounts before BB announced the twist. So, even if all envelopes were the same colour, BB still had enough time to look at the amounts each read about and THEN decide to alter the question they would ask - that is if you believe the conspiracy theory anyway, which I don't. Emma had been saying all night the twist would leave one hm "without any money" or w/e. It would've looked well odd if they changed the twist last minute to being one of GIVING a housemate money instead.

You've just contradicted yourself.

The whole point that we are making is that they could change the question based on what colour they picked. It literally makes no difference that the envelopes had already been opened when the twist was read into the house.

Nobody is saying that they would have changed it into giving a housemate money instead.

NotARylanFan 11-07-2015 01:57 AM

The different colours were probably used to give production a little extra time just to confirm 100% what question they would ask to have Sam evicted.

RichardG 11-07-2015 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by M X (Post 7987966)
You've just contradicted yourself.

The whole point that we are making is that they could change the question based on what colour they picked. It literally makes no difference that the envelopes had already been opened when the twist was read into the house.

Nobody is saying that they would have changed it into giving a housemate money instead.

How did I contradict myself??

Whatever people think the alternative questions or scenarios are that they could've asked doesn't matter, I was just assuming there that people thought the alternative scenario would be that they would 'give' money to their favourites rather than 'evict' their least favourite based on the post I just read beforehand by camertone above, not the point I was making.

I still don't see what the problem is though?? Unless I'm delirious from being awake at 3am and totally missing the point of the thread, people seem to be suggesting that the fact the envelopes were three different colours means the producers knew what amount was in each one, and so they could alter the question they ask accordingly depending on which housemate picks up which one to suit their needs based on who they want evicted.

However, they still only asked the question after they opened up the envelopes, so even if all three envelopes were the same colours, the producers had time to see what amount each housemate picked up when they opened them up and read them out, and then they could still alter the question accordingly just as they would have done earlier if the colours were different. The only difference is that they have to wait an extra 30 seconds to see who picked what and therefore have a tiny bit less time to check their list of questions to see which is most appropriate, but I can't see how that would be a significant problem cause they could only have a maximum of two anyway.

Marsh. 11-07-2015 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by M X (Post 7987847)
Haha you've still missed the point even if you want to be rude about it.

It doesn't matter if they opened the envelopes before Big Brother revealed the twist, the producers still saw which housemate had which amount through which colour envelope they chose which means they could pick and chose which scenario they wanted to go with in order to get the result they wanted.

It's not complicated at all - basically it just means that it's likely they had three different questions for three different scenarios.

Yes, I got that but the point I was making with my posts clearly went over your head.

Marsh. 11-07-2015 02:05 AM

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Originally Posted by RichardG (Post 7988041)
How did I contradict myself??

Whatever people think the alternative questions or scenarios are that they could've asked doesn't matter, I was just assuming there that people thought they would 'give' money to their favourites, not the point I was making. I still don't see what the problem is though?? Unless I'm delirious from being awake at 3am and totally missing the point of the thread, people seem to be suggesting that the fact the envelopes were three different colours means the producers knew what amount was in each one, and so they could alter the question they ask accordingly depending on which housemate picks up which one to suit their needs based on who they want evicted.

However, they still only asked the question after they opened up the envelopes, so even if all three envelopes were the same colours, the producers had time to see what amount each housemate picked up, and then alter the question accordingly just as they would have done earlier if the colours were the same. The only difference is that they have to wait an extra 30 seconds to see who picked what and therefore have a tiny bit less time to check their list of questions to see which is most appropriate, but I can't see how that would be a significant problem cause they could only have a maximum of three anyway.

It's nice to have someone else who can process what I've tried to say in the thread.

*high five*

Rob! 11-07-2015 02:07 AM

Coloured envelopes =fix.

That's a new one.

M X 11-07-2015 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Marsh. (Post 7988043)
Yes, I got that but the point I was making with my posts clearly went over your head.

Nope, I understand what you said and the same goes for RichardG.

I just don't agree with it. I do think you are missing the point, but hey ho. :)

Marsh. 11-07-2015 02:27 AM

MY GOD!

What point have I missed?

M X 11-07-2015 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by RichardG (Post 7988041)
How did I contradict myself??

Whatever people think the alternative questions or scenarios are that they could've asked doesn't matter, I was just assuming there that people thought the alternative scenario would be that they would 'give' money to their favourites rather than 'evict' their least favourite based on the post I just read beforehand by camertone above, not the point I was making.

I still don't see what the problem is though?? Unless I'm delirious from being awake at 3am and totally missing the point of the thread, people seem to be suggesting that the fact the envelopes were three different colours means the producers knew what amount was in each one, and so they could alter the question they ask accordingly depending on which housemate picks up which one to suit their needs based on who they want evicted.

However, they still only asked the question after they opened up the envelopes, so even if all three envelopes were the same colours, the producers had time to see what amount each housemate picked up when they opened them up and read them out, and then they could still alter the question accordingly just as they would have done earlier if the colours were different. The only difference is that they have to wait an extra 30 seconds to see who picked what and therefore have a tiny bit less time to check their list of questions to see which is most appropriate, but I can't see how that would be a significant problem cause they could only have a maximum of two anyway.

Your contradiction is that in your explanation of your theory you prove the original point that was made in this thread. By having different colours and knowing which value was inside each envelope, they could change their question no matter which envelope each respective housemate chose.

Yes, they asked them the question after they opened the envelope but that means that they still had the time to literally pick one of two or three questions based on which housemate had which.

I guess in layman's terms our disagreement really comes down to the timing of it all.

RichardG 11-07-2015 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by M X (Post 7988176)
Your contradiction is that in your explanation of your theory you prove the original point that was made in this thread. By having different colours and knowing which value was inside each envelope, they could change their question no matter which envelope each respective housemate chose.

Yes, they asked them the question after they opened the envelope but that means that they still had the time to literally pick one of two or three questions based on which housemate had which.

I guess in layman's terms our disagreement really comes down to the timing of it all.

I totally understand the point about timing, they had maybe a minute to pick which question to ask with colours rather than say 30 seconds without colours, but when there's only a couple of questions available to them based on a very limited set of possible outcomes i'd like to think that wouldn't be much of an issue if they really were so adamant to fix/manipulate. Without colours they'd still know after the second had been opened what amount the third hm would have so between watching Sam open the final one and then waiting a little longer to ask the question, that's still a fair amount of time to pick which question when it's a very simple situation to analyse. If they had prepared the twist at all then this shouldn't be a problem, they could still very easily change the question based on which envelopes were picked up if they were all the same colour by the time Jack opened the second one.

Then again they've proved time and time again that they're not very clever through the mess they've made of this season so it's not impossible to believe that they really do need a full minute to get their head around the situation. :joker:

MartianMark 11-07-2015 05:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Marsh. (Post 7987304)
But, again, there's no need to "dick around" at all if they had two questions ready for two different scenarios.

If they needed to "dick around" then obviously they weren't very well prepared, which then begs the question of why they'd bother with coloured envelopes if they're so sodding useless.

Yet again.... live television. (and since quotes seem to be flying around) "LIVE" television. Did you see how long it took them to open up those envelopes?? Using the colored envelopes gave production enough time to make absolutely 100% certain no mistakes were made.

I'm not saying this is a conspiracy theory. In the end they can can pose whatever question they want. Maybe they wanted Sam out b/c Chloe and Jack will bring in more phone calls.. who knows (or cares). All I'm saying is, in all likelihood, using a color coded system simply bought them an extra 60 sec's just to be absolutely certain no one screwed up since they have very little time after the reveal.

ConnieLingus 11-07-2015 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Marsh. (Post 7988166)
MY GOD!

What point have I missed?

Just about every one.

Don't ever go for a job demanding logic skills love. :laugh:

Ammi 11-07-2015 08:29 AM

..I didn't actually see the envelope thing or what the colours were but surely it would be quite an easy think to 'fix' /I'm not saying that it was a fix but it wouldn't be too difficult for them to choose colours based on an application form and a favourite colour question as that would be a safe assumption of what colour a housemate would be more likely to choose...so always 'knowing' that Sam's would have £15,000 in it...

Kizzy 11-07-2015 08:36 AM

I just mentioned this on another thread, the electric blue matched sams outfit or a colour that maybe lads might be more inclined to go for too maybe?

bots 11-07-2015 08:50 AM

The biggest fix was them not telling the public what they intended to do before doing it. It could be completely innocent, but it leads to conspiracy theories. They could easily change the question depending on what envelope was picked by whom

Ashley. 11-07-2015 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ConnieLingus (Post 7988382)
Just about every one.

Don't ever go for a job demanding logic skills love. :laugh:

Do you seriously not understand what he's trying to say? :laugh:

The question of who to evict was asked after the three housemates had already revealed their money amount, therefore it wouldn't have mattered if the envelopes were colour coded or not.

REDCROP 11-07-2015 09:40 AM

K
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Originally Posted by just thinkin (Post 7986062)
They had different questions prepared depending on who too which amount...if jack had the 15000 they would probably say it would have been deducted rather than added... if it was fair...they should have had aame colour envelopes.

Makes no difference anyway ...The game is to fight 3 apponents ...you gotta get your house mates on side so that they don't nominate you...you gotta get the public on side so that they don't evict you...and you've got to get BB on side so that he doesn't send you to the cutting room floor or engineer a way to get you out .....BB is every house mates apponent not just Sams....if they did already decide to use the twist to get her out then it would have been because she didn't get get them on her side ...which takes us back to the original point and that is she wasn't as good a game player as Chloe or Danny or the others ...like them or not they were all better game players than her

REDCROP 11-07-2015 09:46 AM

The public was never gonna back her either ...not at this stage .. was a miracle she got this far ....why can't people accept defeat instead of keep saying it's not fair ...like little children....like Jack.....my fave was Harry...I'm gutted she went but it was her time...not in my opinion but i understand it....

Jamesy 11-07-2015 10:07 AM

It's true they could have easily fixed it to change the question. So if Sam got the lowest amount the question could have been "whoever you choose to go will take the money out the prize fund", so they pick Sam who is holding the lowest amount of money.

Do we know that was the plan though? No we don't. As much as I dislike the twist these theories are coming out of thin air and just seem to be an attempt for fans to justify their reasons for hating the twist.

I think Sam would have gone whatever amount she had in her hands. She arrived in the house late and naturally with the rest being originals they just won't have as big of a connection to Sam as they do with Jack and Chloe.

I don't even see why this is a problem, the show is over in less than a week, Sam seemed more than happy to leave, she's got £5k in her back pocket to take home anyway, and she was hardly the life and soul of the house or the highlights, so her loss isn't a massive blow to the last week.

I agree it's massively unfair but people are really overreacting.

REDCROP 11-07-2015 10:11 AM

Who gives a sh-t...Sam obviously didn't work hard enough or entertain enough to stay....If she had played a better game and there is such a thing as BB engineering twists to protect housemates or evict housemates then that would mean Marc was protected because he impressed BB and Sam was evicted because she didn't ... so it always comes back to the fact that she wasn't as good a game player as the other 6 remaining house mates...to win the show you have to fight 3 obstacles ...your housemates ...The public. ..and Big Brother ....

Griffin5779 11-07-2015 10:12 AM

would think they asks the contestants all kinda question before they enter..whats your favorite food..who is your favorite band...whats your favorite color...

kinda lets them stack the deck if they make the envelopes different colors don't you think?

Pete. 11-07-2015 10:18 AM

I think they had to sell off the TimeBombs so they could only use the envelopes

Marsh. 11-07-2015 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by ConnieLingus (Post 7988382)
Just about every one.

Don't ever go for a job demanding logic skills love. :laugh:

Coming from you that obviously has completely missed what my point is? :joker:

Good one.

Go back and read the thread slower love.

T* 11-07-2015 01:09 PM

jesus f-ing Christ @ this thread

Marsh. 11-07-2015 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Tøm (Post 7988975)
jesus f-ing Christ @ this thread

:clap1:

Marsh. 11-07-2015 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 7988531)
I just mentioned this on another thread, the electric blue matched sams outfit or a colour that maybe lads might be more inclined to go for too maybe?

:smug:

brisbanebroncos 11-07-2015 01:13 PM

Everything about it seems like a plan to evict Sam. Especially the fact that they didn't mention what the twist was beforehand. I don't seem to recall them not letting the fans in on what was about to happen. I could be wrong.

The only reason why I think it's probably not a conspiracy is what was the point of getting rid of Sam? She wasn't going to win anyway. If it was Chloe that went, then I would be 100% on board with the conspiracy.

Rob! 11-07-2015 01:16 PM

There was an episode of The Colour Of Money years ago presented by Chris Tarrant and one of the machines with money in was the same colour as Sam's eyeliner.

Such a ****ing fix :bored:

Jay. 11-07-2015 01:17 PM

i read that apparently they chose colour envelops because it looked good omg could you imagine, mad idea i know

now onto a more important matter, why did they decide to have a gold kitchen?

Ross. 11-07-2015 01:18 PM

Is this really still going on? :joker:

Marsh. 11-07-2015 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Jay. (Post 7989017)
i read that apparently they chose colour envelops because it looked good omg could you imagine, mad idea i know

now onto a more important matter, why did they decide to have a gold kitchen?

Obviously to make them have sex on the kitchen table.

y.winter 11-07-2015 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Marsh. (Post 7989030)
Obviously to make them have sex on the kitchen table.

Harry couldn't resist it with her thong. :hehe:

goldensunlight 11-07-2015 02:46 PM

How exactly does a colour of an envelope determine a 'fix'? :unsure: I'm failing to see the correlation here.

Sure they could have changed the question, but I don't know why Big Brother would want Sam out anyway.

Marsh. 11-07-2015 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by goldensunlight (Post 7989259)
How exactly does a colour of an envelope determine a 'fix'? :unsure: I'm failing to see the correlation here.

Sure they could have changed the question, but I don't know why Big Brother would want Sam out anyway.

Because.... just because....

Griffin5779 11-07-2015 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by goldensunlight (Post 7989259)
How exactly does a colour of an envelope determine a 'fix'? :unsure: I'm failing to see the correlation here.

Sure they could have changed the question, but I don't know why Big Brother would want Sam out anyway.

i haven't even been watching but from what i gather i think you could argue it points to a manipulation...as i said..i'm sure bb knows their favorite colors..i saw a picture and sams envelope was even the same color as her dress lol...

sure u can argue sam was most likely to go..but what if she had picked only a 1000 and one one of the other 2 pick 15 000? would they have been tempted to go for the 15000?

fix or not...i certainly don't think bb is above using a little psychology to try influence who picked what envelope

Marsh. 11-07-2015 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Griffin5779 (Post 7989309)
i'm sure bb knows their favorite colors..

i saw a picture and sams envelope was even the same color as her dress lol...

http://i.imgur.com/e0mBItn.gif

y.winter 11-07-2015 03:19 PM

One of the producers came to sam's bed at night and whispered to her ear"choose blue! choose blue!". Big Brother: Subliminal Trip.

goldensunlight 11-07-2015 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Griffin5779 (Post 7989309)
i haven't even been watching but from what i gather i think you could argue it points to a manipulation...as i said..i'm sure bb knows their favorite colors..i saw a picture and sams envelope was even the same color as her dress lol...

sure u can argue sam was most likely to go..but what if she had picked only a 1000 and one one of the other 2 pick 15 000? would they have been tempted to go for the 15000?

fix or not...i certainly don't think bb is above using a little psychology to try influence who picked what envelope

Something tells me that people are looking too hard into this trying to find 'manipulation' that isn't actually there at all.


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