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Archive through April 22, 2007

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Callasin
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06-21-2005

Friday, April 20, 2007 - 5:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Callasin a private message Print Post    
I'm so glad BBAU is about to start again. Someone just put photos of the housemates up at BBBA. Looks like Harrison is wearing a "mandana".

Care28
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05-01-2005

Friday, April 20, 2007 - 5:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Care28 a private message Print Post    
Dipo, the site I think is still working out some kinks. I got an e-mail saying that my payment had been received....but I can't remember if I got an e-mail welcoming me to the site or not. My payment also did clear my account yesterday, too, so I HOPE I'm all set.

Care28
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05-01-2005

Friday, April 20, 2007 - 5:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Care28 a private message Print Post    
OOOOOH Calla, I just went to BBBA and hmmmm, I want to believe those are the HMs 'cause....well....a couple of those boys are extra yummy, lol, but I could swear I read somewhere the HMs were older this year.....and unless some of them do NOT look their age AT ALL, that looks like a group of maaaaaaaaany 20somethings.

Bourque77
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05-02-2006

Friday, April 20, 2007 - 6:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bourque77 a private message Print Post    
Here is a quick "all in one place" Beginners Guide to enjoying BBAUS for folks who are tuning in to the Down Under Aussie Fun! for the first time this season:

here is the BBAUS home page, where you can sign up ... similar to the US Feeds.

http://registration.bigbrother.3mobile.com.au/index.cfm?action=news

Note that you will need an australia postal code to register, use this list:

Sydney is 2000-2999

Melbourne is 3000-3999

Brisbane is 4000-4999

Adelaide is 5000-5999

Perth is 6000-69999

and remember to type your phone # thusly:

1xxxxxxxxxx

with a "1" and no hyphens

Here are a couple of BBAUS sites to bookmark:

http://www.behindbigbrother.com/

http://www.eyeonbigbrother.com/2007.html

http://disc.server.com/Indices/154694.html

and finally, for those of you, like me, SO bad at math that you can hardly figure out what's what in Ozzie Land:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=47

and I will leave the explanation of downloading the daily shows from torrents and newsgroups to someone who can give a more cohesive explanation than me!

Care28
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05-01-2005

Friday, April 20, 2007 - 7:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Care28 a private message Print Post    
Okay, I'm putting a CALL OUT RIGHT NOW for some people that have been noticably missing......and with just 2 days to go, I'm getting a little nervous!

Scazy, OnlyHuman, Scorpiomoon.............attention attention!!! Where are ya?

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Friday, April 20, 2007 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
thanks care, I haven't received an email, I signed up for the whole thing, but everytime I get on the site it asks me if I want to register and buy the premium service. My Visa did get charged 6.95 which doesn't match any of their charges. Hmmmm, I should go and check to see if any other charges have come in.

Since you are signed up can you access anything or do we have to wait until tomorrow for that.

Scazy
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05-17-2005

Friday, April 20, 2007 - 12:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scazy a private message Print Post    
Hehe.

You didn't think I'd miss this - did you?

Hope all is well with everybody - I'm excited for BBAU to get rolling!

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Friday, April 20, 2007 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wilsonatmd a private message Print Post    
well it looks like they are going to do the "individual accounts" thing...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21591815-2,00.html

and apparently they will have 18 people at launch night. 10 are automatically in, the other 8 will have to go to an audience vote for 2 spots...

Flagg
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06-01-2005

Friday, April 20, 2007 - 10:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Flagg a private message Print Post    
Hello everyone, back for some new BB Australia.

Already paid for the full premium access.

From that article linked above:

"There is a wider age spread, every state and territory will be represented," a spokesman said.

A wider age spread will be welcome indeed, after seeing the complete lack of an age spread in every single BB AUS h;ve seen.

I'll bet most of them are still 18-23 like every other BB AU..



Bourque77
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05-02-2006

Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 7:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bourque77 a private message Print Post    
what newsgroup(s) does everyone use to download the dailies from?

Flagg
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06-01-2005

Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 8:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Flagg a private message Print Post    
there's a big brother binary multimedia group I believe. I don't know the exact name as I don't do newsgroups that way any more. It's FAR easier to use a search site like newzbin.com and use the .nzb files. No millions of headers to load and sift through.

Anyway, they just recorded the launch show and it will be broadcast sunday night in Australia so expect it to show up on usenet some time sunday morning US time.

Flagg
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06-01-2005

Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 9:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Flagg a private message Print Post    
Wow all kinds of drama during the launch show taping.

They stopped shooting a couple times because people from Behind Big Brother were streaming the audio over cell phones.
Mike Goldwin offered prizes to audience members for turning in people next to them using their cell phones. They banned all phones and digital cams and legit digicam users were all upset that they couldnt take pictures.

Apparently there is some evidence that Bodie and Thomas are brothers, and they are friends with Katie and Ashley from last year.

I'm hating this last 24 hour wait until the streams show up and the launch show is viewable.

Care28
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05-01-2005

Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 10:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Care28 a private message Print Post    
Flagg, apparently BBBA reported that most of the HMs are early 20s with ONE person over 30. So the promise by producers for more "worldly" and older HMs was false.

Unless they count the fact that one of the HMs played college basketball in the US as "worldly".

Flagg
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06-01-2005

Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 11:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Flagg a private message Print Post    
Care28 -

Yea I noticed that. Not only is only ONE person over 30, most of the others are in that 19-23 range that covers about 95% of BB AU housemates.

It also seems to be the usual array of personal trainers and bartenders as well, which seems to hold true for pretty much ANY BB. =)

Well, I'm still looking forward to it, and I am VERY glad that TEN hasn't blocked access to foreigners like BB UK has done for the past couple years. (Well, AFAIK, of course nobody has seen the feeds yet so we shall see. It is hopeful though, since they have already taken our money after all)

Wilsonatmd
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01-23-2001

Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 11:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wilsonatmd a private message Print Post    
You would think by now the producers would have realized that if they don't do the show live, things like the BBBA updates are going to happen....

BBBA also says the 6 people up for the final 2 spots are (1 from each sex goes in):
Zoran, Cruz and Harrison are the boys.
Kara, Sussanah and Demet are the girls.

Care28
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05-01-2005

Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 11:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Care28 a private message Print Post    
I hope so, too, Flagg. Part of me is hoping that the only reason they asked for post codes is because they were running that thing for people who signed up early to win launch show tickets, or maybe it was finale show tickets.....I'm not sure. Either way, it was some drawing to win.

I'll be incredibly mad if we can't watch the streaming, but I guess lesson learned. I'm the type that can get by on the shows and reading live feed updates....I did it for BBUK, so I won't be that heartbroken over it. It'll just suck that I spent the $33 already, lol.

Yanno, thinking about the fact that most BB HMs in ANY country seem to be those that don't really have demanding jobs (ie. more flexible) and are younger, I think it all has to do with the fact that they have the ability to "quit life" for about 3 months or so, depending on how long they stay, to do this.

Can't wait for tomorrow!!

Flagg
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06-01-2005

Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 11:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Flagg a private message Print Post    
I wish they would quit with the stupid "secret relationship" bit that has been done to death and never really worked anyway.

...and I REALLY hope we don't have another "David" this year. I know the aussies liked him for some reason but I couldn't stand him.

I wouldn't worry about the feeds, if they were going to block us they wouldn't have let us sign up for premium. I think it will work just fine like last year.

I hope I won't be forced to remember how to get by the timeout they always put in...



Flagg
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06-01-2005

Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Flagg a private message Print Post    
Another Jamie this year, though this one looks to be the polar opposite of last year's Jamie.

It's rather embarrassing, but I actually have 2 rats named after people from last year's cast. They were born the day last year's show started, April 23. I named the litter after contestants starting on BBAU that day, before I knew anything about them.

So I still have 2 of them, Jamie and Claire, both black berkshire rats. Their birthday is monday. =)

Strangely enough, Jamie is the alpha male and the biggest.

Bourque77
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05-02-2006

Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 3:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bourque77 a private message Print Post    
thanks flagg...

haven't quite mastered the .nzb files yet ... perhaps that's what I'll learn this year for BBAUS!

Callasin
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06-21-2005

Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Callasin a private message Print Post    
Borque - alt.binaries.tv.big-brother

Flagg that's cute you named your rats after BBAU contestants. I have a rat but he's just called Mocha after the color of his fur.

Flagg
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06-01-2005

Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Flagg a private message Print Post    
Just one? You should always have 2 or more rats together.

I'm bad at coming up with names so that was as good an excuse as any other. It was interesting that Jamie imitated his namesake and became the alpha male.

Flagg
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06-01-2005

Sunday, April 22, 2007 - 4:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Flagg a private message Print Post    
Anyone have any luck with the streams yet? Or even just logging in to the official site?

The site seems mostly up, but whenever I try to log in I get a blank white page.

I tried logging in via the TEN home page and it says login failed. It worked this way in the past week.

Flagg
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06-01-2005

Sunday, April 22, 2007 - 4:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Flagg a private message Print Post    
This is a bit scary. On BBBA there are posts from some people who somehow did get logged on, and they are showing up as different users, not themselves, and they have access to all the private data stored on the BB site. Email, phone number, address if you entered it, etc.

MAJOR screw ups here by BB. All mine has is email and phone so I don't mind that, but it had better not show my visa number.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Sunday, April 22, 2007 - 4:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
OMG, I got the live stream. Just woke up to go potty and went to check. Do have a little concern that the site isn't showing as secured, but I am receiveing the feed.

I wonder if it times out every 20 minutes this year. Anyone else up and watching?

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Sunday, April 22, 2007 - 5:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Well I saw about 20 minutes of feed, they were talking about 9/11; one of the guys was in Texas going to school when it happened.

Now the feed went to those annoying tapes of the houseguests then it froze and I can't get back in. Going back to bed! Hope they work out the bugs soon.