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Djinn
#1 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 6:28:00 AM
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....if you watch and follow the happenings in Big Brother Africa...eish People!...that is one step away from voyeurism (and on the participants part,a mild form of exhibitionism with a tinge of megalomania).


Sorry if I am causing offence but anyone watching and FOLLOWING BBA really needs to get out,meet people and do different things - the world is bigger and there is a lot more to discover...

The problem with equality is that we desire that it be with those that have more than us rather that those that have less
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mtaalam
#2 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 6:44:00 AM
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There's nothing wrong in watching. I'm sure even you will be following the proceedings once in a while...

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aemathenge
#3 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 7:00:00 AM
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You do not like it,change channels. Leave me alone. It is my life. Do not tell me how to live my life. My life.

Live hard,die hard.
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Djinn
#4 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 7:14:00 AM
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Well,I've oft thought that its sometimes the hollowness of our personal lives that cause us to put other people on pedestals and glorify (or even deify) them. This itself has had its negative effects (the paparazzi that chased down lady Diana and Dodi Fayed is a good example - it has been fed by that petty voyeuristic need to know all the juicy things about OTHER people's private lives since our own lives are rather dull - or we make them dull). And we still feed on such material,helping the media lower the bar...

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mtaalam
#5 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 7:19:00 AM
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I didn't mean it in a bad way but @D sometimes there's nothing interesting to watch and especially if you have a spouse it's not a bad compromise. I'm happy that it's on coz our fights over the remote have reduced but I'm sure the cease fire won't last long now that the hot chics have entered the house...

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mtaalam
#6 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 7:43:00 AM
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@Djinn
You're reading too much into this.
The participants in BBA have signed contracts and are winning cash. It's entertainment just like TPF,Pop Idols,Fomula 1,Premier league etc.
It's very different from Lady Diana's incident.

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Djinn
#7 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 8:18:00 AM
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@Mtaalam - yes,I understand about the contracts and all that...but its a stepping stone to put them in the limelight even after BBA is over - they will be the objects of ridicule in those pull outs like Buzz/Pulse - their personal lives will no longer be personal. Meanwhile back at the farm...... you turn to your spouse and try to rediscover the magic but because of the events unfolding on your screen,your life is dull in comparison - you used to be the hero but now you are part of the landscape - an extra. THEIR lives seem more glamourous. The other thing is,people sign up giving certain credentials that are rather suspect (recall the participant who said he had written a book? Only for it to turn out that it was publishing on DEMAND (vanity publishing) and that he paid to have the book printed and published!!!! Ay dios mio! So while it is 'reality TV' its reality TV with fake actors...and a lot of pretense....true?

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Djinn
#8 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 8:23:00 AM
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But seriously,someone tell me how much different watching BBA is from the neighbour who peeps discreetly watching what all the others are doing - knows who came home late,who had a fight,whose kids missed school,etc....And while BBA is entertainment,unlike TPF,Survivor,etc...this is lame - with TFP we get to realise talent - good stuff. With Survivor or Amazing Race we see people roughing it out and when they leave,they have discovered something they never knew abt themselves - and in an environment where it builds them spiritually also - with BBA,whats the take away? debauchery,treachery?

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mtaalam
#9 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 9:27:00 AM
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@Dijnn,If the events unfolding on the screen are making your life seem dull to your spouse when compared,then with all due respect believe me it was already dull,you just didn't know it.


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Djinn
#10 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 9:39:00 AM
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@mtaalam - I meant in the sense that being too much 'plugged in' will invariably cause us to not notice (or create) the glamour needed in our lives. So we both look outward at the screen and forget that we too have our won existence and could instead look at each other and rekindle old flames...be the protagonists in our own script...

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JkMwatha
#11 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 12:19:00 PM
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What is the criterion (or criteria) that determine(s) what 'having a life' is?
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FundamentAli
#12 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 12:28:00 PM
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Let us do a census. Who watches it and who doesn't?

I do not.


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McReggae
#13 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2009 1:15:00 PM
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The census can only be carried out after we determine the number of people that have dstv installed coz without dstv one cannot be able to watch it!!!!


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