[Beth.]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

It is really hard to argue against all that post Jet and for goodness sake if Charlie could find the £99,000 board then it is beyond all belief that Dexter didn't see it.
They were pretty easy boards to see.

That is really where his argument fell flat on his face but prepare yourself for the backlash,good luck.

He saw all the boards ,he was shown to be the liar some of us knew he was

[Beth.]

Originally Posted by Jimrod

Dexter would be a pretty terrible gambler if he based his strategies on "4's and 8's", it's all bull - he absolutely saw all the numbers on that board and everyone here knows it.

The 4s and 8s were the way he tried to wriggle out of the hole he dug ,but he failed

[Marmalite]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Not absolute certainty though is it. The housemates didnt know they all had the same board..could have been changed. Also they all thought there was a twist to what BB said. They were right.

Nothing was certain.

I think it would be safe to say that they all knew they were selecting from exactly the same board.

1. They had to agree to an order, which made it obvious the first would have first choice of choosing the amount they would be prepared to leave with.

2. They were asked to go to the diary room when it was there turn.

3. There was no way that BB, in the time it took for a HM to choose and get back to their podium, would have been able to put a new board up.

4.There were spaces where amounts were taken by the other HM's.


But I think we shall agree to disagree on this one as I think he tried his luck and hoped to walk out with 88k or thought he would at least get half of it.

[KingPrawn]

Originally Posted by Marmalite

I think it would be safe to say that they all knew they were selecting from exactly the same board.

1. They had to agree to an order, which made it obvious the first would have first choice of choosing the amount they would be prepared to leave with.

2. They were asked to go to the diary room when it was there turn.

3. There was no way that BB, in the time it took for a HM to choose and get back to their podium, would have been able to put a new board up.

4.There were spaces where amounts were taken by the other HM's.


But I think we shall agree to disagree on this one as I think he tried his luck and hoped to walk out with 88k or thought he would at least get half of it.

So what did you think of the Twins behaviour during the twist? They did not pick the £99,000 card and they, more than once, asked BB whether they would leave with the money if they picked lowest.

[Issac]

Always new he was a con man everytime he conned himself up for eviction; conned to be the most untrusted housemate; conned the public to think he is the most entertaining housemate and conned Big brother to get him into the final.

[Videostar]

The lowest thing any HM could do is to use disabled children as an emotional blackmail tactic to win 100K , No matter what Dexter or any of the others have said or done to get into that house and while in the house it's nothing compared to Sam's actions.

You lot can call Dexter every insulting name under the sun but he's still not in the low level of behaviour than Sam.

[jet]

Originally Posted by KingPrawn

So what did you think of the Twins behaviour during the twist? They did not pick the £99,000 card and they, more than once, asked BB whether they would leave with the money if they picked lowest.

I think they were going for the middle ground as they didn't know what Charlie or Dexter would pick - (they still picked quite high) but Joe had been desperate to leave so I'm sure they were hoping they would get it!
If they had got it, I don't think they would have pretended to be devastated though, like Dexter. Or made up one lie after the other about it. That's the difference.

[Antibinary]

Originally Posted by jet

Very very WELL SAID. I do feel very lucky indeed to be on the side of common sense
That's why I'm not bothering to post about it any more.

And as well all know, the common sense of the majority doesn't make much sense at all.

Originally Posted by Jimrod

Dexter would be a pretty terrible gambler if he based his strategies on "4's and 8's", it's all bull - he absolutely saw all the numbers on that board and everyone here knows it.

He is a terrible gambler, he ran up millions in gambling debts. Just because you're crap at something doesn't mean you don't keep the same mentality. That's why addiction is so dangerous, it locks you in to the same patterns. He's a recovering addict, but still has the same hard wired mentality to betting and luck situations in daily life, hence his approach to the money boards.

People don't like to think critically about the mentalities of people generally, they'd rather play psychiatrist and diagnose them themselves by their own standards, that's the trouble.

[Winkie Expand]

Originally Posted by Videostar

The lowest thing any HM could do is to use disabled children as an emotional blackmail tactic to win 100K , No matter what Dexter or any of the others have said or done to get into that house and while in the house it's nothing compared to Sam's actions.

You lot can call Dexter every insulting name under the sun but he's still not in the low level of behaviour than Sam.

[AEC]

Originally Posted by Marmalite

Dexter is not "partly Chinese".

His biological father was from Singapore. His parents divorced when he was 8 and he was brought up in the UK.

I very much doubt whether he can speak or understand Malay or Chinese (Mandarin) which are two of the languages spoken there.

AEC replies:-

Dexter IS ALMOST CERTAINLY PARTLY of Chinese descent:-

WIKIPEDIA:-

Main article: Race in Singapore

Ethnic composition of resident population (chart)


Ethnic group


Chinese 77.0% 78.3% 77.8% 76.8% 74.1% 74.1% 74.2%
Malays 14.8% 14.4% 14.0% 13.9% 13.4% 13.4% 13.3%
Indians 7.0% 6.3% 7.1% 7.9% 9.2% 9.2% 9.2%
Others 1.2% 1.0% 1.1% 1.4% 3.3% 3.3% 3.3%

Thus that will almost certainly make Dexter a partly Chinese Singaporean.

He also has got the classic general oriental-Chinese-Japanese looks - he certainly does not look like a European!

Since Singaporeans have been strongly influenced by Chinese culture for
centuries?,Singaporeans also regard the number EIGHT to be lucky:-

WIKIPEDIA again:-

Singapore Airlines reserves flight numbers beginning with the number 8 to routes in China and Korea.
In Singapore, a breeder of rare Dragon fish (Asian Arowana) (which are "lucky fish" and being a rare species, are required to be microchipped), makes sure to use numbers with plenty of eights in their microchip tag numbers, and appears to reserve particular numbers especially rich in eights and sixes (e.g., 702088880006688) for particularly valuable specimens.[3][4]


People who not like Dexter will use any excuse to drag him down,even if that "excuse" is weak or has no substance at all!

Furthermore,it has been suggested on this forum that Dexter might be suffering from Pseudologia Fantastica - but again it's just a shallow excuse to get at Dexter and has no substance at all. Not one of the at least four or five Big Brother Bit On The Side psychologist-body language experts have mentioned Pseudologia Fantastica not only in regard to Dexter,but also in regard to anyone!
Dexter acts like,and is,a normal human being with no mental illness.
At least one anti-Aaron Allard-Morgan person said that Aaron might have been suffering from Asperger Syndrome,or some such mental illness,while he was in the Big Brother house. As this person saw it,it would account for his lack of communication with other housemates - again,any old excuse to bring Aaron down.And,needless to say,this person was wrong!

I'd like to see Dexter win!

AEC

[KingPrawn]

Originally Posted by jet

I think they were going for the middle ground as they didn't know what Charlie or Dexter would pick - (they still picked quite high) but Joe had been desperate to leave so I'm sure they were hoping they would get it!
If they had got it, I don't think they would have pretended to be devastated though, like Dexter. Or made up one lie after the other about it. That's the difference.

Two questions:-

a. Why would they have to go for the middle ground?
b. Why did they jump on Dexter along with Sam?

[Marmalite]

Originally Posted by AEC

AEC replies:-

Dexter IS ALMOST CERTAINLY PARTLY of Chinese descent:-

WIKIPEDIA:-

Main article: Race in Singapore

Ethnic composition of resident population (chart)


Ethnic group


Chinese 77.0% 78.3% 77.8% 76.8% 74.1% 74.1% 74.2%
Malays 14.8% 14.4% 14.0% 13.9% 13.4% 13.4% 13.3%
Indians 7.0% 6.3% 7.1% 7.9% 9.2% 9.2% 9.2%
Others 1.2% 1.0% 1.1% 1.4% 3.3% 3.3% 3.3%

Thus that will almost certainly make Dexter a partly Chinese Singaporean.

He also has got the classic general oriental-Chinese-Japanese looks - he certainly does not look like a European!

Since Singaporeans have been strongly influenced by Chinese culture for
centuries?,Singaporeans also regard the number EIGHT to be lucky:-

WIKIPEDIA again:-

Singapore Airlines reserves flight numbers beginning with the number 8 to routes in China and Korea.
In Singapore, a breeder of rare Dragon fish (Asian Arowana) (which are "lucky fish" and being a rare species, are required to be microchipped), makes sure to use numbers with plenty of eights in their microchip tag numbers, and appears to reserve particular numbers especially rich in eights and sixes (e.g., 702088880006688) for particularly valuable specimens.[3][4]


People who not like Dexter will use any excuse to drag him down,even if that "excuse" is weak or has no substance at all!

Furthermore,it has been suggested on this forum that Dexter might be suffering from Pseudologia Fantastica - but again it's just a shallow excuse to get at Dexter and has no substance at all. Not one of the at least four or five Big Brother Bit On The Side psychologist-body language experts have mentioned Pseudologia Fantastica not only in regard to Dexter,but also in regard to anyone!
Dexter acts like,and is,a normal human being with no mental illness.
At least one anti-Aaron Allard-Morgan person said that Aaron might have been suffering from Asperger Syndrome,or some such mental illness,while he was in the Big Brother house. As this person saw it,it would account for his lack of communication with other housemates - again,any old excuse to bring Aaron down.And,needless to say,this person was wrong!

I'd like to see Dexter win!

AEC

OK... wow that's a lot of copy and pasting.

So you belive he chose the 88k out of all the other numbers, including the highest on the board, due to his partial Chinese heritiage because the number 8 is considered lucky in China.







So, why did he ponder over taking the 44k then? As the number 4 in the Chinese culture is considered unlucky?

.....or was the interest in the 4's coming from his Partly British heritiage?

[AEC]

Originally Posted by Marmalite

OK... wow that's a lot of copy and pasting.

So you belive he chose the 88k out of all the other numbers, including the highest on the board, due to his partial Chinese heritiage because the number 8 is considered lucky in China.







So, why did he ponder over taking the 44k then? As the number 4 in the Chinese culture is considered unlucky?

.....or was the interest in the 4's coming from his Partly British heritiage?

7th post.

AEC replies:-

WIKIPEDIA:-

Number 4 (四; accounting 肆; pinyin sì) is considered an unlucky number in Chinese because it is nearly homophonous to the word "death" (死 pinyin sǐ). Due to that, many numbered product lines skip the "4": e.g., Nokia cell phones (there is no series beginning with a 4),[6] Palm[citation needed] PDAs, Canon PowerShot G's series (after G3 goes G5), etc. In East Asia, some buildings do not have a 4th floor.


I think Dexter did actually consider £44,000 - two 4's added together equals eight,BUT,WIKIPEDIA,has said that Chinese people probably feel that more than one eight is more lucky.Hence Dexter chose £88,800 as a lucky charm

SYNCHRONICITY Spirit! - this post is No.88!

AEC

[jet]

Originally Posted by KingPrawn

Two questions:-

a. Why would they have to go for the middle ground?
b. Why did they jump on Dexter along with Sam?

A. Because I think they wanted to get the lowest if they could, but they weren't DESPERATE for it. They could have chosen a much lower number, eg, in the 80's like Dexter did, but they opted for a number that might get them the money, and might not, as they had no idea how low Charlie or Dexter would go. If they HAD got it, I think they would have been thrilled though. Joe wanted out of there at that particular time in the series.

B. Because Dexter went for the lowest when there were higher numbers on the board, because he wanted the money. Then instead of admitting it, he waffled about and made different excuses one after the other. This showed he was lying and being dishonest and they didn't like that any more than Sam or Charlie did.