arista - Sent me a very nice Abbey Road fridge magnet and a bottle opener and what can I say? I'm easily bought.
MB. - I'm not sure it's logical me placing him the highest I ever have without him having done even ONE Brazilian brantsteele Big Brother simulator this year, let alone one with people I've heard of, but half of my regulars haven't made the cut so I'm having to improvise. I deeply suspect that MB is a long lost twin - his tastes are faultless and not at all shared by the masses. He appears to have a great Google function for celebrities about to die on New Years' Eve and I do slightly envy that. But mostly I vote for him because behind all of the snark and sarcasm is a forum member with a great set of values and tastes and a 10/10 sense of humour.
Drew. - You have caught me at a bad time for trying to say anything nice about Drew because he has briefly gone AWOL. I feel like a mother of a bird that is about to desert its nest with Drew sometimes: he is far too good a person to be associated with me and a lot of the time we have zero interests in common (still looking forward to him teaching me how to ride a bike, although I would rather he just let me sit in the basket on one). I still owe him a milkshake (although he tells me he'd rather have the Kelis kind). But I am voting for him mostly because of that fight he had with some christians over me and it made me feel like a damsel to his hero. I do sort of strive to be the Rose to his Jack: he's the loveable scamp that I wouldn't normally be seen dead with but now that he's drawn me naked I can't say no. Drew is one of the best people I know and certainly the best Arsenal fan. <3
Firewire - for services to the Jayne Connery fanclub, for not letting Babayaro drag him down, for existing
_LucasMichael_ - When you actually want to listen to him he is OK. The other times... not so much. But these times. He can be very funny, he has a sort of vulgar Alan Bennett way of taking his terrible life apart and describing it such that you feel like you're listening to a Dickensian nightmare, or a Podcast lecture on the third world. It's very eye opening stuff and a lot of the characters you hear of through him - the elusive Steven, his battleaxe grandmother, Mr. Five Years Ago - prove to be terrifying antagonists. Through the journey of Lucas Michael, however, you cannot help but root for our hero, our Lucas, because although he makes crude and horrible remarks about Simone Battle or Drew. or any child currently on television, you just know that, deep down in your heart, Lucas has taken up residence and won't budge. Sort of like a tumour. Lucas has popularised "iya luv" and there is indeed no higher love than mine for this bizarre homosexual.
Dezzy - When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long, and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong: Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow lies the seed, that, with the sun's love, in the spring becomes Dezzy.
Ninastar - If you can imagine the reverse of Estelle's American Boy then that shall be the single that Caitlin and I release in the slow build-up marketing campaign for Most Loved 14. Caitlin is cool and stuff - she sometimes gets annoyed by silly things but then I do too so that's fine - and fingers crossed she'll end up being the only TiBB member who's asked me to adjust the bulge in their pants. Caitlin is great and she already knows what I think of her and I'm trying to hurry this up so I'll just say that she's hugely supportive and funny and opinionated and interesting. Forget Brexit, TiBB are now most frightened of Caitxit.
Jake. - The mind does still boggle at the idea of a man with his accent and his demeanour being a huge fan of La Roux and Lily Allen and I don't think any number of meetups and holidays are going to change that but that is fine. Jake is tremendously caring, has a great sense of humour... could tone down the weird Big Brother quotes a bit because he has a habit of coming out with one and then getting frustrated when I stare at him blankfaced-ly... and I think everyone else is over seRVANTS now, sorry Jake... but whenever I'm working he's great for the odd text here and there to take my mind off the fact that I don't want to live any more. He keeps saying he looks bad in photos but he never does and that is a bit annoying really: YOU LOOK LOVELY JAKE. Finally: as the only TiBBer who has met Jake in 2016 (unless the rumours I am hearing of a fling with Ross. have some substance) I feel I am best equipped to describe him. He is nice. And that is about it.
Nathan - Can't place him too highly really since I don't think he's posted at all this year oops, but offsite he has been a delight. I don't know if I can tolerate many more complaints about Pokemon Go eggs (or eggs in general really) but so long as there is the odd mention of Fabian Delph being a snake, the Conservatives being awful or 9/11 being an inside job, I am content with hearing from him on a daily basis.
BigSister - a TiBB veteran and seems to have been around since the very beginning... how many others, aside from James and Sticks, can you say that of? She's always getting the prediction games going, pesky eye appointments aside, and is generally a sweetheart to match.
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