My Stay in the BB House
Since signing up for BOC Brother many weeks ago, I have enjoyed numerous experiences and have thoroughly enjoyed my time in the now slightly-worn-looking BOC Bro housemate. However, the time that most sticks in my head, by being the most memorable time in the BOC Brother house definitely has to be the first week! There was so much going on, so many posts, so many people, it was so busy that it was brilliant to quickly write a post, then quickly nav. back to the tMP BOC Bro House to find a mammoth amount of orange flags! Thank the Lord that I was on study leave – and I’m blaming tMP if I fail all my GCSEs!
I’ve also enjoyed getting to know everyone in more detail, and knowing how each other gets wound up, that was funny! I’ve also enjoyed seeing how tMP members can unite as a team – that’s been quite a nice experience, as well as seeing a side to different people that I’d usually expect. Being totally honest, I sort of cringed when I read down the list of fellow housemates, and in retrospect I think that the dynamics of the group were really well chosen

tup), and hopefully it made it enjoyable for the public to read (except the people who detested it in the Random Thread … Jez :evil: :?) and from my point of view, it certainly made reading it great too – the Kitten/DP thing … pure genius!
Now what didn’t I like about this whole ordeal? Hmmm…, as it was probably perceived (oh my god, I’m using big and posh words :cry

I, myself didn’t particularly like the issue of Groovy’s holiday, and hopefully BOC Brother could see past the angry threats and rants, and luckily (for BOC Bro …) it did all get sorted. Also failing most of the tasks, and even the forfeits for tasks failed was quite a downpoint too, I mean we weren’t even good enough to pass a single task till about week 6! (Ok .. maybe a slight exaggeration, but hey, it’s a monologue, I bet none of you read this anyway :?)
The tasks that we completed were, on the the whole fun and enjoyable, even if we did fail. Overall, they were pretty funny, and amusing, although, as was shown by our inability to pass them, fairly hard (either that or we’re just all thickos, ok, don’t answer that …). As for the truth about the “Tune Association Thread”, here it is: Super_Sop and myself honestly did stay up through the night, and luckily for me I was on school holidays, and poor old Craig, almost everynight he went to bed early (I say it’s his age, but he insists that it was the task!), poor love!
So you want the methods huh?
- For the majority of the quizzes I used www.google.com :tup – and for the pictures my band! (So many banding boffs …
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- The Xmas Pressie one – type and hope. As you can see, this probably wasn’t the best method
- The Tune Association Thread – an alarm clock couldn’t do it without one.
- For me, the hardest one was the suitcase task – why did I choose to organise it?! (Foolish, foolish me!) Thankfully, 3/5ths of the housemates decided to help me, so it wasn’t that hard, although Super_Sop and I think too similarly, the amount of duplicates…
Right, this section could be quite lengthy, so I’m shortening each to about 20 words (right….).
2nd Man Down: Great bloke. Honestly thought you were against me, and am sorry for nominating you in the first week. Great example of someone who I would never have talked to if I’d not been in the house (no offence), but this then shows that if I hadn’t been in the house, then I’d never have made a great friend!
Groovy: Cool Scottish type person. Really random, and funky. Nice to meet you!
Jo Elson: Really sweet person. Always nice. Hope you pass your exams, and I hope that this little experiment hasn’t messed up your life!
Kate_the_Horn: Randy, randy, up for anything.. did I mention randy? Who else gives their bra size in their first message :O! Cool girl, :tup.
Seedhouse: Cool Git … can play the euphonium like a pro. Sorry to see him go right at the last minute, sorry matey…
Sellers_Bird: Nice lass, up for a laugh. Sorry about the Vodka. Really wasn’t too sure of you before the house, but this ordeal has opened my eyes, and feel ashamed of any precursive thoughts I may have thought about you.
Super_Sop: DUDE ON LEGS! Great bloke, been there through thick and thin. Made the house extremely enjoyable, the tunnel – ingenious, and thanks for taking the flack for all of my mischeviousness!
Trombelle: Nice girl, rather quiet, but nice none-the-less.
WhatSharp?: Sorry for all the grief I gave you at rehersal! Why did you nominate yourself, you were so funny, but c’est la vie (ooh, french, I must be learnèd!)
Now to the nitty-gritty. What do
I honestly think of the great, the powerful BOC Brother? Overall, he’s cool, kind, compassionate, however it’s funny when his mean streak kicks in. It was nice to see some niceness when he extended task deadlines, or noted how much effort certain housemates put into the the tasks, so in that respect he was a funky monkey, but then when it came to missing letters, or apparently ‘being up to something’ he could switch. One thing that I did miss, which made the 1st week really nice was the use of the diary room, I think that BOC Brother didn’t use this room to it’s full potential, a lot of secrets, etc. could have been excavated from us in this room, if only BOC Brother had been slightly slacker in his rooms. The best thing about BOC Brother was his attention to detail and to following the rules to the ‘T’, especially in regards to the diary room, I was in fits of laughter when the chair broke, and when BB kept asking people to leave! LMAO

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So, here we are, at the last point to prevent triggering eviction, what have I learnt?
Overall I’ve learnt that you can work as a team, even if you’re not in the same county! I’ve learned that first impressions can be extremely decieving, and that talking to people that you wouldn’t usually talk to can be an extremely rewarding experience, even if you find that they’re horrible. I can safely say that everyone that participated in tMP BB 2004 was extremely great and I really feel that I have made 10 new friends, I realise that this could sound extremely cliché-ish and corny, but I genuinely believe it, and in the case of friends, I feel that we know each other better!
One last thing, writing this little speech has really brought back some lovely memories, and I am
sooo glad that I pm’d Dyl. It has been really great – my bandmates have no Idea what I’ve been on for the last 6/7 weeks, but apart from that and the psychotherapy sessions I couldn’t think of a better way to spend my study leave, shame it has to end.
A Sad Bunny. x