[Chuck]

The only reason I often love watching vile housemates is because I'm able to be disconnected emotionally to them.
I'm aware that I wouldn't like living with them, that their actions are disgraceful and disgusting but if I'm entertained by them, then I don't care.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by chuck.pass

The only reason I often love watching vile housemates is because I'm able to be disconnected emotionally to them.

I'm aware that I wouldn't like living with them, that their actions are disgraceful and disgusting but if I'm entertained by them, then I don't care.

Fab way of putting it over. We can be entertained - and chose whether to like or dislike due to the entertainmant factor (or not), without becoming emotionally connected.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

Fab way of putting it over. We can be entertained - and chose whether to like or dislike due to the entertainmant factor (or not), without becoming emotionally connected.

Yes but if you watch and like a HM enough defend them regardless and dislike HMs enough for them to make you feel angry or disgusted or whatever, then that's an emotional connection of sorts imo. It's the same as what you said but you don't consider that being an emotional connection but some people do.

[Black Dagger]

I do get attached to my favourite housemates and try and follow them after the show...

I still regularly talk to Rachel on Facebook

And tweet Ben every other day.

Normal behaviour?

[fruit_cake]

seems to me that some people consider themselves above emotions, but I personally think that is there own loss, but c'est la vie.

you can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by fruit_cake

seems to me that some people consider themselves above emotions, but I personally think that is there own loss, but c'est la vie.

you can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink

No post I've read on this thread suggests that.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yes but if you watch and like a HM enough defend them regardless and dislike HMs enough for them to make you feel angry or disgusted or whatever, then that's an emotional connection of sorts imo. It's the same as what you said but you don't consider that being an emotional connection but some people do.

Nope, I regard that as an emotional reaction - not a connection. I regard a reaction wholly diffferent from a connection.

I react if I am alone in the house and suddenly the door slams shut. That doesn't mean I have a connection with the door. I reacted to what happened, but not to the door - no connection: emotional or otherwise. An emotional reaction yes, but connection? No.

Originally Posted by fruit_cake

seems to me that some people consider themselves above emotions, but I personally think that is there own loss, but c'est la vie.

you can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink

I'm unclear where you get the idea that some people consider themselves 'above emotions' (whatever that's meant to mean?)

You are correct abot leading horses to water.... You can't force someone to have the same opinion or views that you have. It would be a boring place if we all thought the same.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

Nope, I regard that as an emotional reaction - not a connection. I regard a reaction wholly diffferent from a connection.

I react if I am alone in the house and suddenly the door slams shut. That doesn't mean I have a connection with the door. I reacted to what happened, but not to the door - no connection: emotional or otherwise. An emotional reaction yes, but connection? No.

I take your point but the difference is you don't make excuses for the door and defend the door for giving you the fright because it's just a door and you don't have any connection with it (*thinks this is the strangest sentence I've ever written*) where as you forgive and defend HMs because you've grown to like them over their time in the house and even though they may behave badly sometimes you make excuses for them because of the emotional connection you have with them

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I take your point but the difference is you don't make excuses for the door and defend the door for giving you the fright because it's just a door and you don't have any connection with it (*thinks this is the strangest sentence I've ever written*) where as you forgive and defend HMs because you've grown to like them over their time in the house and even though they may behave badly sometimes you make excuses for them because of the emotional connection you have with them

Not so. (laughs at the door sentence though...).

I like Aaron but I find that his way of dealing with things to be as poor as Faye and both of their actions in the same light (ie: the crying as a good example) - yet I like Aaron, and disike Faye but am able to reach the same conclusion - because I have no emotional connection.

If I had, I would not be able to have that same opinion on the same acts carried out by two housemates for whom I have differing regard to.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

Not so. (laughs at the door sentence though...).

I like Aaron but I find that his way of dealing with things to be as poor as Faye and both of their actions in the same light (ie: the crying as a good example) - yet I like Aaron, and disike Faye but am able to reach the same conclusion - because I have no emotional connection.

If I had, I would not be able to have that same opinion on the same acts carried out by two housemates for whom I have differing regard to.

lol, again it's how you look at and interpret it, for me I would say that seeing the same behaviour from two HMs but liking one and not the other is because of the emotional attachment you have to the HMs, If you had none then surely you would not like one more than the other?

[fruit_cake]

Arron seems to be quite an emotional person to me

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by fruit_cake

Arron seems to be quite an emotional person to me

Very, as does Faye, not sure if that's a good or a bad thing though!

[fruit_cake]

when I read what you say about emotions Pyramid I understand what you say but I see your actions representing something else, I'm not attacking you at all, just saying how I see it, what do you think about that??

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by fruit_cake

when I read what you say about emotions Pyramid I understand what you say but I see your actions representing something else, I'm not attacking you at all, just saying how I see it, what do you think about that??

I think it's about time you stopped playing coy, stopped trying to antagonise, and stopped trying to turn your threads into discussing me - and start sticking to the subject matter which is emotional connections to housemates. That's what I think.

[fruit_cake]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

I think it's about time you stopped playing coy, stopped trying to antagonise, and stopped trying to turn your threads into discussing me - and start sticking to the subject matter which is emotional connections to housemates. That's what I think.

[Locke.]

Don't have any. Usually just support the housemates I like the most as people