George Banner Overload

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Hosewater

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 01:47 pm Click here to edit this post

I think George has a point about the banners centering on him these past few weeks. It's a bit too much, and it is something that none of the houseguests expected to be an influence on "the game"...

Going into the house, they all expected NO OUTSIDE CONTACT but we all know that went out the window right at the start.

Since this is a GAME, what's wrong if George does have a strategy? And if he does have a strategy, I do think it's unfair for outsiders to advertise it to the other houseguests. Can you imagine if at a football game one of the teams listens in on the other teams' headsets?

I have gone from liking George to disliking George and now am leaning back toward hoping he wins the $500k... But only because I don't think it's fair for any one of the houseguests to be singled out by outside influences, especially when some of the banners are outright lies (like pointing to the mask).

Kiari

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 01:53 pm Click here to edit this post

I too feel VERY bad for George. I have never hated him like most on this site but I dont really care for Teresa. He has no control over how bad she made him look. I hope he does get some money out of this I I too wish the hurtful banners would stop.

Murphy

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 01:55 pm Click here to edit this post

Hosewater: I'm a bit surprised that Teresa & the Rockford support group have not ponied up 300. to send a positive banner for George. It's strange that so many people have donated all this money for banners...and Rockford remains silent...did they get their phone service cut??? :)

Hammer

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 01:57 pm Click here to edit this post

The problem with George is that he has been getting away with things that other houseguests don't try, like skits in the RR, continuing to write signs when he was told several times to stop, wasting food on props, and being very borderline on the "no influencing votes" rule (ask Nick in UK about that one). If BB would have called him on a few of his actions, it would have headed off some of the outrage that is causing all of the banners. I personally think that the anti-George banners have gone way overboard, but I'm not going to fall into the sympathy trap that he has set.

Hosewater

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 01:57 pm Click here to edit this post

I think that if it had been someone else's family, say Josh's, who was organizing their hometown to vote against one of Josh's opponents, there would not have been the hatred spewed toward Josh.

George's red room antics, which probably are hilarious to his bowling team, were nothing worse than what I see on The Simpsons or Malcolm In The Middle (great show, by the way).

Creamynougat

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 01:59 pm Click here to edit this post

All the anti-George banners have turned me around, too. I'm certainly not a George fan, but I would no longer vote against George if he came up for banishment.

Glen506ny

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 02:06 pm Click here to edit this post

I dislike all the anti-George banners, too, but they won't be affecting my voting. I intend for my banishment votes to be based as purely as possible on my judgement of the HG's themselves, not on anything that comes from the outside world. And I have seen enough of who George is for me to not want him to win this contest.

Deni_San

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 02:07 pm Click here to edit this post

When people started talking about sending anti-george banners, I saw this as a risky endeavor because it could force the houseguests to have sympathy for George and not nominate him. Negative banners have caused the houseguests to circle the wagons, and it can have George gain sympathy votes from those who think the anti-george banners are going too far. George and Teresa did make some miscalculations that endangered their chances at the 500k, because they became targets. George would have been in a better position if he didn't freak over being nominated, and if Teresa didn't reveal her campaign too early. These banners may keep him in there longer, than if the anti-George people picked one banner that stated a fact without malice.

Jombie

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 02:12 pm Click here to edit this post

I wonder WHY they were centering on HIM... everyone else in the house is up front!! Pooooor Georgie, caught with his hand in the cookie jar and then upset when he's not trusted with the cookies!!! He probably BURIED the TP in the garden...

Bijoux

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 02:14 pm Click here to edit this post

While I agree that the anti-George banners have gotten out of hand, it doesn't change what his own behavior was inside the house before they started flying. I found it petty and two-faced. If he is up next round, he still has my vote.

Rufusgriswold

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 02:25 pm Click here to edit this post

What makes you so sure that Teresa hasn't sent any banners. The negative banners seem to be helping George to win this game. Now that's a strategy.

Sasha

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 02:33 pm Click here to edit this post

Personally, I don't agree with any of the banners. I thought that the purpose of the "game" is to make your own opinions about people and based on these opinions strategically nominate your fellow hgs. Many fans believe that the hgs are intelligent people. Shouldn't they be given the opportunity to decide for themselves who to trust?? IMO CBS says no outside contact, yet they are continually trying to influence the hgs. Let them live in their fishbowl and find out how smart and intuitive they really are.

Fruitbat

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 02:52 pm Click here to edit this post

George is a 42 year old man. He is going home to a loving family and lots of support from his friends. He will be fine.

There is nothing wrong with coming up against the consequences of his actions. We all do. It is called life. And I speak here of his ridiculous behavior, not about plots, strategy or plans.

Stop to consider that he is getting negative banners and Curtis, Eddie, Cass and Josh are not. Why is that? George is not an innocent victim here. He has created this situation and he is the only one that can get himself out of it. No one is picking on George. The banners are in direct response to his actions, behavior, vibes and contradictions.

Teresa protects him, the HG's protect him, now we are supposed to protect him? This is his modus operendi and I want no part of it.

He sets this up in almost everything he says and does. He elicits sympathy as the poor unfortunate victim.

I'm not going to play.

Novasea

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 03:10 pm Click here to edit this post

Has anyone noticed that he has NOT denied any of these banners??? He just goes on about getting wacked, etc.

It appears that he did look at the Curtis mask, that was comfirmed on another topic.

Also, he absolutely knew what wifey would do, if they talked about it or not does not matter. He even knew that it backfired cause he told Josh before hand what Brit told him. Now, how'd he know that? Since he felt he should go said he would, several time, before his walkout save *ss theme took over. He tried to take everyone with him. Not nice at all.

No matter - the group-mind-think with him as leader if OVER. He does NOT deserve to win any $$$. He will get local endorsements and be semi-famous in his state - dats enuff fer da ol' man.

Remus

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 03:11 pm Click here to edit this post

These Banners are ruining the game!!!

George actually does something to try to win. He puts on skits, gives real reasons for nominations.....but the George haters decide that everything he does in the privacy of the Red Room is going to be broadcast to the Houseguests

Big Brother is a total joke for publicizing these banners.

Creamynougat

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 03:15 pm Click here to edit this post

>There is nothing wrong with coming up against the consequences of his actions.

Sure, but the banners are an attempt to defeat much of the premise of the game. It's clear that part of George's game plan has always been to seek sympathy from both the HGs and the viewers. This should either succeed or fail on its own merits and without interference from fans with too much time on their hands.

If George is nominated for banishment, it may be because of undue influence from the sky. And under these circumstances I am inclined to refrain from voting. It's not out of sympathy for George but rather because the nomination process has been tampered with.

Katie

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 03:19 pm Click here to edit this post

What makes you so sure that Teresa hasn't sent any banners. The negative banners seem to be helping George to win this game. Now that's a strategy.


I don't think Teresa would do or help anyone do something that would hurt George and these are upsetting him.

Ginap

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 03:19 pm Click here to edit this post

The no outside contact thing IS a joke but it's nothing that hasn't happened before. From what I've heard these kind of things happened in all the BB houses. The producers I'm sure are very happy because they stir up drama and this house in particular was needing some.

Fruitbat

Saturday, September 16, 2000 - 03:21 pm Click here to edit this post

Remus...The banners are lousy and confusing for the most part. His antics in the RR would have been better left alone. They mean nothing other than he has a corney, unsophistocated sense of humor and he is ignorant.

I do not like him and want him gone because he is a solicitous, obsequious man whose personality and behaviours irritate the shit out of me.

Enbwife

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 06:19 pm Click here to edit this post

The plane banner flown on Sunday (shown on tonight's TV show) was too much, personally. I think it's time for George to go too, however, that message that read "Wake the F up - anti-G banners true - Fans not CBS" was over the top and visibly upset the house guests. I don't agree with it anymore.

Chris

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 06:30 pm Click here to edit this post

I agree with you, that was way over the top.

Twiggyish

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 06:33 pm Click here to edit this post

They are pushing him over the edge. I don't know if I like the negativity either. Who is to say the banners didn't influence this last round of voting?

Veggrrl444

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 06:43 pm Click here to edit this post

I like the banners. They have actually made this show interesting and exciting. This game is all about the mind. Can you handle it or not? These people have been in that house for a month and a half and that is not easy. Mind games, and I think it is fun as hell to watch. IMHO

VOTE GEORGE - VOTE OFTEN

Sleepless

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 06:47 pm Click here to edit this post

The banners are one thing...but to watch
j-ME read them out loud is another. She can hardly wait to get the message out on camera...make sure everyone sees her...
she doesn't care whose expense is at hand as long as she's looking good for "Bob"

Mysteri

Monday, September 18, 2000 - 06:55 pm Click here to edit this post

She was the one who blurted out the banner that the other HG tried not to let him see too..I forget which one that was. Remember though, they told him to stay inside and he peered through the windows, was able to read the first couple words, then Jaime, oh so helpfully read out the rest of it for him.