Gary fans
 

What?

say that again

I agree

He is Gary, with previous memories, doesn't mean he is still a Roman. So there is nothing to deal with. He doesn't have a chariot or a sword with him :shrug:

I'd probably find him fascinating compared to the rest of the vacuous, shallow, self-satisfied knobs... with a couple of exceptions.

He would be interesting to talk to.

Oh.

I would be interested in what he had to say tbh.

He'd be the Danielle to my Ashleigh. The Winston to my Ash.

hes be fabulous company, absolutely fabulous
hes funny, warm , gregarious, humourous, wonderful anecdotes, endless philosophies, hes a great pontificator, hes imaginative, utterly unique, kind, forgiving, devoid of any vindictive, great conversationalist, open minded, talented, multi faceted......id be happy to just hear the great man talk about his experiences and the movies and the stories and the great people hes worked with and the great places hes been.....love original characters like the busey

I could learn a lot from him so would like to be around him. The people in the house who don't give him the time of day are absolute gorps for not realising that.

My only issue would be his toilet habits :yuk: maybe he could teach me not to care? :laugh:

You are putting me off him, tbh. (But you're not the only one). I prefer flawed human beings whose faults are acknowledged by others.
Gary is always in the right...always in the right....always in the right....always in the right...and it's boring as hell to read.

He isn't always in the right though jet, there are plenty of posts saying that.

Agreed. Lots of Gary fans accept that he isn't always in the right :conf:

hes not always in the right always in the right
but unlike the bullies in there hes not always in the wrong always in the wrong either

he is flawed youve missed the point. he has 100s of flaws we all do, but gary recognising he has 100s of flaws and looks to work on them and takes criticism. the others do nothing of the sort

I'd love to hang out with him.

I'm glad someone of his age, of his experience and of his uniqueness has got a platform on British TV - there are too many predictable, boring, self-centred talentless sheep on TV these days and hardly any rugged wild old souls like Gary

There isn't though. Is there even one thread that deals with something negative about Gary? I honestly see very few posts that admit Gary is at fault for anything. I love the guy because he drives people round the bend - just as he did in the celeb apprentice usa - but now he's portrayed as a pitiful figure who nobody cares about or some sort of spiritual guru whose every word should be hung onto as if he has the key to the mystery of life. All way OTT for me.

You gave about 20 glowing examples of what you see as his good points. Give me 20 of his flaws.

Give me examples of when he was wrong in the house, in your opinion.

Gary is far from pitiful. In the real world he had been described by his psychiatrist as being "without filters". We have seen little of that because either he (or his medication!) is reining it in.

A dear old sweetie? I think not - and nor do those who have to actually share living space with him.

Problem is there are too many fans of his films willing to overlook the fact that his fellow housemates find him a bit of a pain.

Yes, James is an idiot for constantly trying to get someone aged 70 and set on his ways to change his ways. It ain't gonna happen.

But that doesn't Gary a lovable dear man.

See I notice you keep saying this when you have nothing really to back it up with..

One or two of them have complained about him yes, like say leslie saying he hasn't cooked or cleaned etc but then past housemates have been forgiven for things like that due to age/illnesses and so on, the others are just taking the easy way out and following the pack, for example...

Dee during the task using his hearing problems as an excuse, saying she was 'sick repeating herself'

Dee whilst nominating, done the same thing.

George whilst nominating him used the interrupting and again the hearing thing as an excuse.

This doesn't make someone unbearable to live with, it's the easy way out for them.

Jet why would you keep asking people that like him to list things they dislike about him that makes no sense whatsoever.
You are moaning about there not being enough anti Gary threads which is strange just go and make one if you want one :shrug:

Why on earth would people that like him start listing negatives about him :conf:

And remember Jet.
Gary loves you. :cheer2:

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ACTUALLY PICKing his disability as the reason to nominate him is disgusting. but when one ignorant english sheep does it, the rest of the cowards soon follow

I dunno why I should have to give a list to "prove" I have a balanced opinion of Gary :laugh: but on the forum I have accepted that he can be rude at times. He does have a weird thing where he doesn't like to be interrupted but will quite often interrupt others. We've also seen him do the "ssh" thing a few times that hms seem to hate. He can be quite forceful with his opinions, like the CGI thing, he could have just dropped it but had to keep on at Leslie that it was Graphics, which was wrong anyway! :laugh: When Leslie mentioned his toilet habits I could have vommed, eww. That's definitely disrespectful of his housemates. His behaviour when David offered to give him the ice pack was a little weird, but I don't think it was "wrong" actually, just too abrupt.

I have seen other FMs who are fans of Gary admit these faults too, and yes, there are always some people who don't accept that their fave is ever in the wrong. I think it's just because Gary is a forum fave and has a lot of airtime so a lot of forum discussion that it seems that nobody accepts Gary's flaws. I've also seen fans of other hms who don't seem to accept they're ever in the wrong or that Gary's ever in the right and I agree it's dead frustrating.

In a post above you said "I prefer flawed human beings whose faults are acknowledged by others", and one of the great things about Gary is that he does acknowledge his flaws in discussions and agrees to work on them.

Because they said they know his faults yet I haven't seen them ever mention any? ....and I am not moaning about not enough anti Gary threads, I was pointing out there wasn't even ONE - different thing.

We see about 5% of what goes on.

You have to ask yourself why would the housemates not like Gary to the extent that he gets 8 nominations.

James, who attracts much hate on internet forums, got no nominations.

It must be a bitter pill to swallow for web warriors who just blindly like or dislike and cannot pick up on the nuances.

I could almost guarantee that most of Gary's fanclub on here would nominate him for eviction if they were actually stuck in the BB house, eating, sleeping and sharing washing and toilet facilities with him. ;)

theyre pack bullies like nearly every other bb house
the bullies will get picked off one by one and the decent , or in garys case the legendary housemates will remain to the very end......when justice wil be served cold:cheer2:

There was one posted which suggested that Gary must be at fault if so many housemates have a negative opinion on him. J sayin.

Gary got 8 and Leslie got what 5? is he a nightmare to live with too then? is he unbearable in the house?

Or is it the fact that the housemates are taking the easy way out, going for the easy option and jumping on the bandwagon.

Surely if he was this awful housemate that was completely loathed by everyone else then he would have 12 nominations, not 8?

And James got no nominations because the housemates can't see what he is like behind other peoples backs, they can't see how nasty he can be at times but we can.

and voted as the publics favourite and cheered?

Thank you for your honesty and taking the time to respond! :clap1:

(I'm a Gary fan too, but not for the same reasons as most I think.)

Speaking of nuances, don't you think there are more to nominations than people genuinely picking the two they dislike most? Especially face to face nominations. Examples:
- housemates could be too scared to nominate James if they find him intimidating... Or want to avoid a boring lecture :sleep:
- James is tied to more people in the house whereas Gary has no strong friendships, so it is easier to nominate without backlash
- Gary is a popular housemate, therefore a rival
- Nominating a more obvious target who lots of people will nominate means they're less likely to be in the firing line from that person next week.

I'm not saying any of these are reasons that I believe affected nominations, and just picked Gary and James as easy examples. I'm just highlighting that nominations aren't as simple as picking who they like least.

yes they really are. it depends if youre brave enough to do the right thing

I thought it was likely Gary would be heavily nominated before the series even started. Did you watch celeb apprentice USA? He drove them all up the wall on it as well . :hehe:

No I didn't actually but I'm definitely going to! Sounds fun :dance:

Also, what are your reasons for liking Gary? You said they'd be different from most.. I'm intrigued!

I'm a fan because he entertains me. IMO he's a true eccentric, smart as hell and a real wind up merchant. Imo he has no social skills (or pretends not to) which amuses me, he doesn't give a hoot what anyone thinks but pretends he does while laughing to himself and he drives people mad. I like to observe his manipulations and the effect he has on other people and how they deal with it. If he got voted out, I think I'd lose interest.

Now if I had to live with him myself -- no thanks!