Comments on: Talk about bad timing…

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:05:42 +0000

Update: Eye on Big Brother reports on some intertubes snooping into incidents of bullying BB doesn't want to talk about, or wants to lie about.

By: philiptravers

philiptravers — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:02:52 +0000

I cannot take advantage of name type sakes at this time of night.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:16:21 +0000

our former PM and current Opposition Leader shrugging it off as lads letting off steam.

Yep, and Eye has done a fine job in his post of drawing the (gendered) links between “tolerance” of “lads” on BB and in the broader public sphere.

By: silkworm

silkworm — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:30:11 +0000

Sorry, Ben is a law student.

Tigtog is right. He would be thinking about his future employment prospects.

We still don’t know exactly what it was that Ben put in Travis’ eye. Was it shampoo or something nastier, like cleaning spray? If you examine the pictures of Ben before the incident, you can see what looks like a spray bottle rather than a shampoo bottle. What is for certain is that you cannot trust anything BB says about the incident.

By: Debbieanne

Debbieanne — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:19:38 +0000

This show is truly sad. Why is still going?

By: Umm Yasmin

Umm Yasmin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:50:31 +0000

And we wonder why we have troops boozing and dressing up like the KKK and our former PM and current Opposition Leader shrugging it off as lads letting off steam.

By: Down and Out of Sài Gòn

Down and Out of Sài Gòn — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:34:04 +0000

Ben is a lawyer, and may be thinking about possible legal action from outside the house, by Travis’ family.

A law student, I think. A real lawyer would be looking at disbarment.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:27:53 +0000

A law student, I think.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:20:56 +0000

Ben is a lawyer? and he sprayed caustic liquid into someone’s face?

He’s probably worried about his future employment prospects as well.

By: silkworm

silkworm — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:56:17 +0000

Eye on BB may have fallen into a trap. According to Behind BB, the attack on Travis happened in the toilet, not in the shower, as BB is making out.

Eye is right, however, as seeing Ben’s freaking out as meaning Ben is selfishly seeing he will be thrown out by the public for what he did to Travis.

Ben is a lawyer, and may be thinking about possible legal action from outside the house, by Travis’ family.

Speaking of Travis’ family… I don’t believe Kyle has a respiratory problem. I think he and BB may be threatened with legal action by Travis’ mum for repeating the slander about Travis’ sexuality.

There is also still the unresolved problem of Rima’s absence. Will BB be compensating her for loss of earnings? What about Rima’s prizes on exiting the house? Does Rima have a case for legal action against BB?

The show is falling to pieces.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:20:38 +0000

Travis would have to succeed in a private lawsuit against the attackers. Negligence and reckless indifference to the potential harm in spraying “shower gel” (the bottle didn’t look like a body care product to me) into someone’s face.

I hope he recovers from his shingles quickly and that he doesn’t lose the sight in that eye.