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Tukuul

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 11:26 am Click here to edit this post

Taken from interview with Dr. Drew Pinsky:

http://www.bigbrother2000.com/NON/article520.html


DP: No, I think your Internet population is different from your voting population. I'm a practicing physician so I don't pay attention to what I do in media, but my wife does. She's all
over me about everything. She has this thing she calls "appeal." People that don't have "appeal" tend to "bug," she says. When somebody "bugs" they get voted for.

So it's the negative you vote for. You don't vote for positives. You don't protect somebody. You vote when somebody 'bugs.'

BB: It has nothing to do with the way they feel about other people in the house? It only has to do with the one that 'bugs'?

DP: It's the net negatives that cause you to pick up the phone. It's not 'I'm going to protect Curtis, so I'm going to vote that one out this week.' It's all the negatives. What makes you call and complain about anything? You've got to
have something motivating you and it's a negative
motivation. That's fascinating to me. That says something about how people vote. It's huge. All these people love Brittany, but they didn't pick up the phone.

BB: In fact, her percentage of votes was twice as high as the next person.

Snogrl

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 11:34 am Click here to edit this post

How could he have been surprised that we vote out who we don't like to begin with - we are wanting them to be banished. Then the final 3 we finally get to vote for who we want to win. I don't get his fascination with this.

Zappre

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 11:34 am Click here to edit this post

Tukuul: Nice to see you put so much credence into what the good doctor has to say. Like this about George, for instance:

"BB: We recently learned that George is an amateur thespian. Do you think that might explain his skits in the Red Room and how he's managed to enlist the sympathy of the other House Guests?

DP: Everything I say about George you're going to have to clear through legal. (Laughing.) Seriously. Because I'm worried about George just let me say, as a preamble, just because somebody develops psychiatric symptoms in a stressful circumstance doesn't mean they have emotional problems. He seems to be developing psychiatric symptoms. He's seems to be getting very paranoid.

BB: Why are the others unable to see through his creepy histrionics? Or are they simply choosing not to?

DP: He's called upon his histrionics. Those really are histrionics. At the breakfast table the other morning he talked about what motivated him to do some of those skits. He thought he was being cute and having fun. He didn't show great judgment and [it showed] some interesting qualities in terms of his belief system. He lives in a disconnected, small part of the country. I believe if he understood how some of that stuff was perceived he wouldn't do it and he'd feel bad about it.

BB: He didn't admit everything he had done. He admitted to the signs, but not to the skits.

DP: I know. I thought it was interesting at the breakfast table when they were talking about walking out together, what Joshua knew was spilled and went past without even a comment or anything. This was the big news that Josh has been holding in all this time.

BB: In addition to that, the banners that have been flown over the house have exposed George again and again. I don't understand why they don't probe George about it.

DP: Yeah, they love George. Even I'd want to make excuses for him. I want make excuses for his behavior in relation to race, homosexuals, women, even his wife's behavior. I want to excuse it all. Maybe it's because we all have such affection for that fantasy of Middle America, the working man supporting his family and stuff. He's not a bad guy. He's a good guy. And he's a nice guy. I personally watch myself being very forgiving to him. I'm afraid for him. I think that's what the household is reacting to. I think they see him that way. He's "dad."

BB: How do they miss how manipulative he is?

DP: Think about the fact that he's exactly my age. He's 42 and yet I respond to him as "dad."

[Uproarious laughter.]

BB: That's interesting.

DP: That's the way he's presenting himself. Connected to his family and all that stuff. So you want to give him some slack because of that. By the way, I think he's terrifically manipulative. The first glimmer I had of that was when he manipulated Eddie over Curtis. It was sinister. "I don't like Curtis. He made me feel bad, Eddie." "You don't worry about that, George. I'm going to take care of him." "No, Eddie, you don't have to. You really don't have to. But he made me feel bad."

BB: His body language after that conversation -- lying on his stomach on his bed with his head cradled in his arms -- was that of a child.

DP: I noticed that, too. "

It's good to know you've seen the light on this subject. :) :)

Tukuul

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 11:39 am Click here to edit this post

Yeah, I've already read up about George.

The part I was posting was about how everyone on here likes to vote based on negatives and they don't protect their favorite HG.

I always protected my favorite HG by phone voting instead of JUST talking about it online. You have to put your money where your mouth is. Most people don't.

Petunia

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 11:42 am Click here to edit this post

>It's not 'I'm going to protect Curtis, so I'm going to vote that one out this week.'

I guess I must be in the extreme minority, then, because every vote I've cast has been to protect Curtis.

Katie

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 11:55 am Click here to edit this post

It is the way the contest is set up. You are voting out peope from the beginning instead of voting to keep people in. They should have the people up for banishment but have people call in for the one they want to stay in the house not the one they want to leave. That would have people working to point out the positives they see in people instead of the negatives.

Marysafan

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 11:58 am Click here to edit this post

I am with Petunia...the only vote I ever cast was to protect Curtis.

Dr. Drew is "assuming" a lot. His "expertise" in this matter just took a huge hit.

Webrover9

Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - 12:14 pm Click here to edit this post

I certainly would vote to protect Curtis but that's not to say I didn't vote to get someone out that bugged me. Maybe that makes me not honorable but I am honest. Some of those people possibly reminded me of someone in my real life that had given me a problem and that was my revenge!