Are the Big Brother psychologists getting more inane?
Mon. July 26, 2004Categories: Abstract Dynamics
Or is Psychology genuinely as stupefyingly self-evident as they make it appear? Straight from the Professor of No Shit, this week: ‘Nadia has had trouble sleeping… Her sleeping patterns have been broken … These are clear signs of insomnia.’ Really? Fuck, they don’t give you a Psychology doctorate for nothing, do they? Some other penetrating insights last night into how ‘exposed’ and ‘isolated’ the housemates feel (what, on a reality TV show in which they’re denied contact with their family and friends? I can hardly believe it); and that old chestnut about ‘Stockholm syndrome’ (in which hostages form attachments to their captors). I’m sure they’ve trotted out that one every series since the first one…
Right. I won’t mention BB again this series. I promise.
my favourite is from BB3: “Tears are a way for people to show their emotions”
not from the psychologists but my favourite ever big brother comment was when Anouska (first out last year) said that she “used to be addicted to passive smoking” – a gloriously confusing line.
Lord knows what these psychologists would make of my latent desire to take Nadia up the arse in the middle of Brent Cross Shopping Centre
They’d probably have you down as a rapist, Martin.
Err, yeh, TMI, Martin…
mark s: LOL. The thing I also enjoy about the psychologists is the way they way ‘this is what psychologists call ‘x’….where ‘x’ is without fail some high-falutin synonym for ‘gettting angry’ or something…