RACHEL: SCHOOL DAZE
 

Don't get me wrong - I love Rachel. She's so friendly and so positive and I hope she wins (especially as it'll annoy Luke, Bex, Nicole, Rex and Darnell so much). But come on – I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I hear a trainee teacher reveal that:

1. She doesn’t know how many days there are in a year.
2. She doesn’t know if a potato’s a vegetable…
3. …and thinks a tomato is one.
4. She thinks London’s a village.
5. She’s never head of Boris Johnson.
6. She doesn’t know what a walrus is.
7. She thinks Belgium is a city.
8. She doesn’t know what condiments are.
9. She doesn't know what the word 'peril' means.
10. She's never heard the phrase "toilet humour".
11. She thinks Mexico is a Caribbean island.

Rachel, you’re a great gal but come on – get it sorted! Our children’s futures are in your hands, lol! :whistle:

Children don't learn that stuff at school though.

She did the Alphabetic backwards really quick, that's enough.

She frickin does know what these things are

trying to forge out a character for herself in the last few weeks

with the chirpy baby goo goo and stupid card

who is that girl fooling?

Not that many it appears as she is unbelievably popular

sigh

WORSE THAN CAMERON

WORSE THAN CAMERON

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Been a while since you were at school, lol? :pat:

She wants to teach drama and English most of that stuff isn't really necessary, especially not for the former which I take it she's more interested in.
Most primary school teachers aren't masterminds, and they don't need to be, they need to be caring, emotionally intelligent and able to teach (Obviously) and Rachel is all those things.

They also need a range of qualifications and its hard to see how Rachel was intelligent enough to obtain them! :shrug:

I've supported her all the way through but the last couple of weeks I've noticed a load of things about her... she is fake!

she thought mexico was a carribean island

Did she? Thanks - I shall have to add that one! :xyxwave:

your so right im glad im not the only one on here who can see it,oh yeh not forgetting

'darnell are you black?'


well freaking daarrrrh!she knew fine well he was black god shes SO fake its unbelievable!!!

you didnt do geography at school then?:joker:

Yeah, but teaching qualifications are mostly about childcare with basics in the subjects she'd be teaching.
Dale got a degree, that madwoman on the X Factor got a degree and Bex managed to get qualifications to look after toddlers *shudders*. Rachel's is believable by those standards and judging on what the qualifications are based in.
And she thought Mexico was in the Carribean not that it was an island, which it technically can be defined as being in:thumbs:

I dont even know what toilet humour is, can someone help me out here?

The things Rachel has been questioning such as is a potato a vegetable,whos boris johnson are all common sense!she KNOWS these things she just being fake and putting on a great bit act!

"Who's Boris Johnson?" ~ Rachel

Would that be the Boris Johnson who's the Mayor of London, occasional TV presenter, Tory MP, shadow Education Minister, former editor of the Spectator, frequent topic of controversial headline news and all-round media celebrity? Nope, sorry, never heard of him!
:pat:

Other housemates have been cripplingly stupid over the series though.
Rex thought being proud of curves was 'sexual' and has made countless mistakes
Dale made a million and two mistakes about everything
Bex thought Luke was a 'politic' and that Hilary Duff was running for President as well as countless other much more mindless things than the dubious list on Rachel up there
Why is Rachel fake and they aren't?

Lisa's grasp of language has been amusing too and she's invented a wealth of new words, such as "interpretated", "fyansay" and "criticalism". :joker:

LOL Lisa was hilarious, I want her back :sad: But i don't think she was fake either...
I just think BB attracts people who are a bit dim!

god your clever:whistle:

Rachel is ditsy..

not getting mikeys joke tonight lol... so slow.

shes fake - get over it!lol jokin

A bit dim? it is a marvellous example of where our education system is going!:whistle:

I thought it would be a more polite way of putting it than 'a bunch of complete and utter thickos' :whistle:

Forgive the cliché but I blame the parents. Teachers’ hands are tied. :nono:

I never knew tomato was a fruit.
I never heard of Boris Johnson.
I don't know what condiments are
I didn't know what peril was.. I forgot what it was though
I didn't know what toilet humour meant.

Not everyone is the same.

You ever considered a career in rocket science? :whistle:

“I never heard of Boris Johnson.”

Would that be the Boris Johnson who's the Mayor of London, occasional TV presenter, Tory MP, shadow Education Minister, former editor of the Spectator, frequent topic of controversial headline news and all-round media celebrity? Nope, sorry, never heard of him!



http://www.boris-johnson.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson

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to be fair i don't know 8 and 10..
and im supposed to be a grammar student!

"I don't know what condiments are."

It means salt and pepper!

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she was a teacher at my brothers school! :spin2:

I have been saying that she is fake for weeks now glad someone else is seeing how Fake she is getr her out PLEASE

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Incredibly modest, though. Check her out on imdb or youtube. She's been in quite a few movies, TV dramas and - ugh - adverts, yet you don't hear her boasting about them, unlike Rex and his bloody restaurants or Lisa with her zillion so-called claims to fame.

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yes but her being modest is all part of the plan

To be honest, I don't think she is fake but it's academic anyway - there's been far too much negative hype about "gameplayers" this series. But it's an, er, game! I wonder if Ronaldo gets criticised for gameplaying during matches or called fake when he tricks defenders into going the wrong way!

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Well imo Bex was just extremely daft and liked to make herself look daft to amuse the others,Dale,well he was just a bit of a numb skull from time to time and as for Rex i think hes right sometimes being proud of curves CAN come across as sexual.The thing is though Rachel is not stupid,she says these things becuase its all part of her plan bex did it in a way that it was obvious she was playing up the dumb act from time time.I wish i could get my point across better but i hope some of you at least can understand what im trying to get across.I just wish people would see through Rachel,i was nver a fan of her but didn`t particularly dislike her up until about a fortnight ago when i eventually relaised what a great big game shes playing.I went off Rex because of the way he treated Rachel but now im actually glad he spoke to her the way he did becuase it made me notice that Rachel is fake,any normal person would have eventually stood up for themselves or at least made some sort of comment!

No sara is not a fake. She is like several on this thread a victim of a terrible educational system which qualifies people who should not be qualified.....

Basic knowledge as described by the OP is imperitive and no one should be in further education until they have it........Sorry to say it once more. State of the nation....

I have noticed on other BB series complete dim wits who can't even boil an egg talking about being at university.......When in fact they should not be allowed withing a thousand miles of a university.....

1) She actually does, she said there were 356 but got the numbers mixed up instea dof 365 and corrected herself afterwards

2) Neither did I, actually (I'm 21 lol)

3) Tomatoe CAN be classified as a vegtable (Source: http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexper...utother/tomato)

4) Never heard her say that

5) Neither have I, untill I looked it up (Mayor of London woop woop!) I live in a rural village called Petherton and Rachel lives in a rural area called Torfean in wales. I think alot of people wouldn't know who he is IF you didn't live in London - can't really laugh at her for that

6) Darnell did an impression of a seal when she asked, so I'm not really going to comment on this one :wink:

7) Never heard her say that one

8) Of course, but one could easily not know what they are if they are told the object in questions alternate name. For example, if people always said Salt/Pepper which is the common word to use instead of condiments, then that's not really a big deal

9) That's actually not true, she said she didn't know what they meant by "At your peril", meaning she didn't know what they meant by the WAY they said it; the context it was used in; what they were going to do if she continues to washup. She was questioning the exact meaning not the actual word, etc

10) Neither did I really, like Rachel I gathered it was some form of dirty humour but again it's really not a big deal

11) No, she said she thought Mexico was in the Carribbean - and in actual fact some parts of Mexico's coast do overlap in the Caribbean sea :tongue:


She has led quite a sheltered life up in the valleys, and when she was acting at the age of 11 she said she didn't really study that much because she was always working.

Most of these gaffes are either misconstrued, misinterperated or exaggerated to make her seem more ditzy than she is.

I would expect alot of people's focus to wade slightly living in that house for 3 months with little to no sense of mental stimulation and boredom for days and days, not to mention the late nights/early rises for people to watch them - the brain is bound to be strained and a little out of touch.

You. Are. Amazing

You are just like the best Rachel fan I have ever seen, I could not have put it any better myself. You are completely right about all of them, I guess people are just looking for a reason to dislike Rachel and not actually see the real facts behind them. You sure put em in there place.

High five :hugesmile:

I'm a digital spy member, what do you expect. :dance2:

Reply to Shep:

I don’t agree with everything you said, Shep, but my compliments on such an extensive answer! However…

1) I think you should re-watch it. She mentions a number of different numbers and gets very confused! She doesn’t mention 365 until someone hands it to her on a plate!

2) With all due respect – and you aren’t the first on here to imply this – but why is whether or not you know something a good mark of how well known something is? You assume that if you don’t know it, it must be really obscure. But this may not be the case.

3) What it actually says is:

“…Scientifically speaking, a tomato is definitely a fruit…As far as cooking is concerned, some things which are strictly fruits may be called 'vegetables' because they are used in savoury rather than sweet cooking. The tomato, though technically a fruit, is often used as a vegetable…”

In other words, it’s a fruit but can be eaten like a vegetable and put in a salad, etc. This is not a new idea. After all, this is where the confusion comes from in the first place. Other fruits include cucumbers, aubergines, beans and corn on the cob!

“tomato: noun (pl. tomatoes) a glossy red or yellow edible fruit..." ~ Compact Oxford English Dictionary

4) I have compacted it but that was pretty much the gist. It was hilarious because she didn’t get how the Londoners in the house could walk around the West End and never bump into each other!

5) I vehemently dispute this. I know who George Bush is but I don’t live in America. I know who Mugabe is but I don’t live in Zimbabwe. How do I know? Because I watch the news (Boris Johnson has been barely out of it this year and was already a household name before that). Why do I need to know (after all, I don’t live in London either)? Because people being out of touch with what’s going on in the World is dangerous. That makes it easy for people like the tabloids or the BNP to dupe you into believing whatever they want you to. They pray on our ignorance. It's why, for example, so many Americans think we only invaded Northern Ireland in the last few years (it was over 800 years ago) and end up financing the IRA.

7) It was during the ad-hoc capital cities quiz the housemates did.

8) The word “condiments” is widely used in homes, cafés, restaurants and pubs. It’s an everyday word. Sorry, but it is!

9) She did later ask what the word meant, though.

10) See 2

11) Yeah, it was more the fact that she thought it was an island that tickled me rather than its location. It is mostly by the Gulf of Mexico but just touches the Caribbean in the South-East.

She has indeed led a sheltered life. My contention isn’t that she is ignorant on such a broad-ranging subjects but that she’s ignorant on such a broad-ranging subjects and training to be a primary school teacher. Some people on here have made the point that you don’t have to have much knowledge to be one but that is patently untrue. It always has been but it’s even more so now in these days of NC levels, standardised testing and Ofsted inspections.

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