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Originally Posted by joeysteele

Some people don't act young though.
He is very held back and possibly boring too, however, I was like him at 19 and still am to a degree, I was always serious, preferring to talk about politics and world affairs than go out drinking and partying.

I actually hated the student thing of always socialising, I preferred one to one conversations and discussing serious issues.

Even on here when I joined, as well as off here, I used to get,'have a laugh',or 'take humour as it was meant'.
I was always more serious.

I can relate to Joel in that, I said however earlier, that I do have a wilder side than Joel has shown so far.
He is very serious,he does come across as older in his thinking and how he acts, then again we know little of his background.
All my Brothers are much older than me, I was born into a family of adults,maybe that is how I got so serious.

Also perhaps with Joel, he is hoping to advance his political career,he knows eyes will be watching him so maybe is treading carefully so as not to jeopardise any chances of the furthering of his career.

Of course, I can see why people will find him boring,many people at Uni found me to be so as well.
I still am to many people and I still am very serious near most of the time and have little humour really,neither do I get other peoples humour a lot of the time too.
So I can more easily relate to Joel in there,as I would possibly be more like him in there myself.

He has maybe gone on the wrong show to be so serious, however for me at least, he is not boring me to death chasing after this girl or that one and subjecting us to 'duvet' talk,duvet talk that frankly just gets worse each BB series now.

So he wouldn't be boring to me because in there, he and I would be having loads of chats and debates and arguments at times too on politics alone.

I agree. I don't consider anything the other's do as 'fun'. I can't say I'm very similar to him, but I'm generally considered 'boring' because I prefer to do solitary things and live in my head. The attention seeking losers in the show don't interest me one bit, THOSE people are boring. I can't stand that type of person IRL and I can't stand them on the screen either. If you can't sit still, keep your voice down and hold a conversation, I'm really not interested.

Joel unfortunately doesn't really have anyone to play off and doesn't get much air-time, so we don't get to see much of him. But he has shown he has a "fun" side and is often doing random silly things as well. He is by far the most entertaining and interesting person in there, to me. He is a bit serious and his sense of humour is very dry - I thought it was bizarre when people were whinging about his bedroom interview with Marc because he was being too serious, when it was clear to me that he was just having a laugh - so I think it's easy to overlook him or not understand where he's coming from, but he is also the wrong type of person for Big Brother these days because they want loud, aggressive attention-seekers and he is none of those.