Yayyy for Ash
 

They threw the kitchen sink at Ash tonight with that Machiavellian cobblers.

But I think she will have gained more support if anything.
She came across as very human and I'm sure got a big sympathy vote

The British love an underdog and BB are making Ash one.

Keep it coming !!

No, she came across as pathetic and childish for crying and moaning about it for hours on end.

lol true

"No, she came across as pathetic and childish for crying and moaning about it for hours on end. "

Yeah right the sort of reply I'd expect given your sig LOL

Err remind me how did Grace react to the chants

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Fair enough question. But let me just ask you one thing, what would get to you more, hearing thousands of people chanting that they wanted you out, or having BB tell you that you were the most shrewd person in the house? :wink:

Ash was stitched up proper tonight. I felt sorry for her. But never mind Pete was pleased with himself. Big bro is definately influencing the game. I think they want Pete to win shock, shock!
I like to make my own mind up about people. :mad:

IMO Aisleyne totally over reacted. It wasn't a big deal atall, Mikey was second he did complain atall? no.

Suzie was called the thickest housemate, she just laughed.

Richard was told he want the most un-stable housemate! did he care?

These were just silly little tests and wern't a big deal.

Aisleyne is just playing the victim again, which she has done time and time again since she got booed.

Its getting really boring.

What's Grace's vile behaviour got to do with Ash?

You seem to be excusing Ash for her behaviour because Grace was worse?

How weird?

I was sure on BBLB they said that Suzie was machiavellian champ.

I think all that bit did was make the housemates look stupid for having no idea how to pronounce it or what it meant.

I didn't think this was right to do that it could influence people in and out of the house.

Why did she have to cry about it in the diaryroom she didn't even know what it meant. The tests were done before they entered the house maybe they have changed.

Any sympathy I felt toward her was removed by her crying again.

No it was *ASH* Suzie was the least intelligent


Only for stupid people. You don't need a test to see that Ash is fake. It's sooooooooooo obvious!

These tests were shown on BBLB before I thought they had said Suzie was top I guess she just scored high.

I remembered her as being thick and manipulative (though not the real meaning of the word).

Err because the reply was from a Grace fan having a go at Ash for crying and i pointed out Grace did the same.

Try and keep up. Weird you couldn't work that out

lmao that was harsh

Grace never cried at the drop of a hat like Aisleyne, yeah she cried when she heard those chants but she got over it and when she was evicted, she didnt let it bother her she handled it well. Compare that to Aisleyne's track record, and how she reacted when she was thought she was getting evicted. Completely lost count of how many times shes cried

I agree with the OP, but I don't neccessarily think it was entirely a bad thing.

Because Glyn was unhappy at being Machiavellian as well, although only 4th admittedly, there was much explanation of what it actually meant and entailed. Susie did a good job, (employing her Machiavellian side) of explaining that it didn't neccessarily mean that you were a bad person or that you went around lying all the time. This helped Glyn and I think will also have a reflective effect on Aisleyne.:thumbs:

I would have complained about not being Number 1 :devil:

Really Big Brother needlessly over simplified things, this is all based on Niccolò Machiavelli and his work
The Prince, still available from Penguin (I may look at getting a copy)

Basically, it was how to get power and keep it

according to Wikkipedia

Machiavellianism is the term some social and personality psychologists use to describe a person's tendency to deceive and manipulate others for gain. Whether the gain is personal or not is of no relevance, only that any actions taken are only important insofar as they affect the results.

I enjoyed watching Ash's "I keep it real" philosophy being crushed and flushed lol :hello: She is fake IMO, and to watch her squirming at the thought of the public unhinging her mask was enjoyable lol :thumbs: I don't dislike Ash,but I'm not too fond of her either.

I think she handled it badly..she should have just laughed it off like the rest and escaped suspicion. Now, I don't know about anyone else,but I feel she's more Machiavellian than i would do if she had of shrugged it off.

And Yaay @ Glyn being the most intelligent!! I liked watching Pete trying to fight his corner, with his creativity intelligence...

oh god i hate aisleyne!!! i really hope shes evicted this friday:colour:

As soon as the Machiavellan 'test' was announced she had a worried look on her face. The worried look continued all the way through the HM's discussions about which order they should stand on the podiums. She did not know exactly what Machiavellian meant but she had a pretty good idea, and she knew she was going to be high in the list.

But, it was another chance for her to turn on the 'tears and snotters'. How can there be a water shortage in the South when this human reservoir is leaking water all over it?.

totally agree. get her out:thumbs:

Well said Sticks. I'm no expert on Machiavelli but I know a little from my politics/history days and I was a little disappointed with the very simplified and crude explanation that BB put forward as to what it means to be Machiavellian.

The basic principle of The Prince (i think) is that the "means justifies the end", basically that if you achieve the result then it doesn't matter how you achieved it. It's the result that matters.

But the result itself doesn't have to be connected to a personal gain. For example, someone who is prepared to kill a 100 people which would affect a change in government so that thousands or millions benefit would be Machiavellian as the result would justify their willingness to kill. Some would view such a person as wrong, in that killing is always wrong. Others would view it as acceptable, because in the end, more benefitted from the death of a few.

it's an interesting concept, but I was a little disappointed with BB's rather simplified explanation of it, and the conspiracy theorist in me thinks BB are engineering the situation so that Ash is even more disliked and they can be guaranteed a nice high week of voting when she's eventually nominated.

After watching it the show seemed designed to affect the images of the housemates. Focusing on the extremes and to enhance each housemates image from the outside world.

Aisleyne totally destroyed any sympathy I would have felt for her by her reaction.

What they do not realise is that they have all shown incredible Machiavellian traits by getting into the house in the first place.
They came through an audition process that started off as c.100,000 wannabees, by sending their audition video, in which most of them acted zanier, wackier and weirder than they were in real life, thereby fooling the BB production team.
Even Susie co-erced her husband into buying a £4,000 ticket into the house.
Machiavellian, every single one of them. It doesn't matter who is 'The Most'

Many of them misrepresented themselves on their videos, so score extra points on the mach test.

Bur BB totally fluffed the descrition by emphasising deceit and manipulation, effectively questioning her integrity. How would you feel if someone called you a liar and a coniving manipulative person infront of others?

This is what was done.

The suspicion is that the test was flawed if it was a ticky-boxes exercise, because people just tick boxes at random if they get stuck.

Sorry but Ashlene is not the sharpest tool in the box, and it takes high intelligence to be truely Machievellian.

Meanwhile, this is what I managed to get from Waterstones today for £3.99