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The ClubHouse: General Discussion Archives: Archive One: Its a game..it's a game..it's a friggen GAME folks...gawwwwwwwwddddd: Archive through July 21, 2002

Whit4you

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Banging head on the table.....

geez geez geez..what part of this is a game to win 500,000 over 12 other people don't THEY and many of the posters GET?

Sheesh how many people have been shot in robberies over a few grand or so..how many women have put up with phychotic abusive husbands for cause of the $... how many people have stepped on FRIENDS toes to get that promotion?

This is a TV Game show not "Lets make a friend" What drives me crazy about this and has for the last two shows... I had more friends then I knew what to do with and would have NO problem making MORE friens anytime I wanted to if I felt like it was something I wanted in my life. I don't need to friggen lose 500 grand to make a friend for christ sakes... all 3 BB shows and survivor as well .. it's like no I can't do my "FRIEND" wrong.. they aint friends they are fellow CONTESTANTS... if you WANT to make friensd with someone trust me there are millions and millions...even BILLLIONS of people out their to choose from why would eny body be so desperate for a friend that they will lose 500,000 for it?

It's bullshit... I think Weakest link has the right idea perhaps.

GET REAL ... THis is a GAME show these are contestants NOT your friends NOT your lovers... it's not about a summer of morality it's about WINNING a game no matter what it takes. Will had the right idea perhaps that's why he went from being the most hated to most loved in 2 months?

All this talk IN the game amongst the players about being "moral" and not betraying a friend and the stuff I read on this board about those that lie and so on drives me batty.

And now it's like gee I'm a good lookin gal but I can't FIND a man out there I have to focus my time this summer on a MAN rather then the 500 grand... grrrr

can I scream...

@#$)U*@#)$(*)@Q#$*()@#(*$@#()$pokjdflskjdf:lsdjkf:jkldf

Shianname25

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I know what ya mean. It's crazy!

Jesse

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<calling 911 for Whit>

Zachsmom

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's why I love it..:)

Dipo

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
great post. LOL

Twiggyish

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We know, but we do it anyway =)

Scorpiomoon

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
AMEN!!!

Ryanc2002

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Post of the F'N century!

Bbadict

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Do you feel better now that you got all that out of your system?
Got any valium handy? LOL

Rabbit

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whit, no use putting all that good head banging to waste. Can I send you over a bag of walnuts I need cracked open?

Scorpiomoon

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
RYAN!!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!! I missed you!

Niceguy

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Can I send you over a bag of crack?

Whit4you

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 07:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tell you what I might as well SHAVE my head now cause I'm gonna be bald by the end of the summer pulling my hair out.

@#$OULDKFKLSJN@#o$*&)ojksflkjh@#($*&)@#*$sd;'ljo0234u983290230978432089432-03

only helps so long!

(My son shaved my grandson's head BALD....(he's 20 months) and then his OWN..so why don't I just join them now since I'll be bald ANYHOW by end of summer....)

Maris

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 08:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It is a great post whit. Its like watching a soap opera and then instead of getting together over a coffee clutch in someone's kitchen we have a cyberspace coffee clutch talking about all the evil characters. It is just fun. Me, I dont care who wins as long as it isnt any of those "two penny you know whats".

I do have one question, and it isn't asked all too seriously but I am curious. How how the heck did you manage to type the word bullshit and no problem with it but I typed two letters with stars in between and that got moderated.

Neat trick.

Whit4you

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 08:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I typed bullshi*? OOOPS didnt realize it in heat of the moment LOL.

Your right it does beat the f'n soaps ....even if I do end up bald!!!!!

But I cant take it anymore I so can't I'm gonna go outside and start screaming...if they lock me up well...... then you wont see me posting for a while ..nobody to bail my buns out LOL

Pirate

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 08:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Don't hold back Whit4you, tell us how you really feel! LOL!

Great post, you said it for a lot of us.

Curlyq

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 08:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I get equally frustrated by the "it's just a game" cliche that the players use when it so obviously is more than that to them. It's 3 months of their lives that they'll never get back. It's 3 months of a national (and international) audience watching their every move and the majority judging them for it. It's having everyone they know and care about watching to see just how far they'll go for money, and having to answer for their actions when they get out. They eat there, they sleep there, and they spend every waking moment there. It's not just a game. For the next 3 months it's their lives.

Their opponents are all they have to socialize with. We are human beings and it's human nature to want to find at least one person you can trust. This is why they are making friends.

Personally, I wouldn't care if it was just a game. I don't believe a person changes their character just because they're playing something. I don't throw my values out the window every time I play cards or checkers or any other game. Why are we constantly being told now that all is fair in a game? Most of us were brought up being told "It's not whether you win or lose, but HOW you play." That's why so many of us react to these little betrayals the way we do.

At least that's the way I see it. It's no big deal if we disagree.

Lurknomore

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 08:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok maybe it's just me, but when I learned to PLAY GAMES it included fair play, not cheating, and liking who I played with.

IT'S ONLY A GAME!!! Ok, I'll give you that. When in America did it become a rule that games had to involve nastiness, backstabbing and disliking your opponents?

Twiggyish

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 08:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Whit!

Pirate

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 08:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When they started having "reality" game shows, Lurknomore.

Whit4you

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 08:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK OK OK... I have morals and limits and I wouldnt go beyond them for 500 grand HOWEVER.. this is a GAME show.... I would NOT be on the game show to make a friend or a lover.. OR to prove that I'm an HONEST person those who KNOW me KNOW I'm honest.. I don't need to LOSE 500 grand by playing a GAME stupid to PROVE I'm an honest person. I don't NEED a game show to prove my morals or my values. IF I were to go on a game show to win 500 grand I'd play it to WIN. All who are there to make friends or find a man need to get a CLUEEEEE!

Game - 12 people - last one standing 500 grand - the rest gee get a few new FRIENDS.

Sanfranjoshfan

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 08:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This IS just a game...one that began with 12 strangers. They all went in willing to do whatever it took to win a half mil. I don't think any of them expected that the isolation and/or competitiveness would drive them into friendships with one another. That was something that I think most HG don't expect (well, at least after the first BB1 which was so tame and sweet, basically a lovefest with a love bed and everything)

Now it is still just a game....but it is a game against new "friends".

I've been in Monopoly games with the sweetest people that turn into maniacal egomaniacs as soon as they rack up a few hotels. They started out nice, loaning money to other players pr whatever....but ended up a monster!

Yes, it's "just" a game....but it is a game with the only link to reality any of these hamsters have left! The psychology of isolation and competitiveness changes people in ways that I doubt *I'll* ever understand, not having been in BB or prison or weeks in a loony bin. (yet)

:-)

Oregonfire

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 08:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I think all of the making of friends, the intrigue, the bedhopping--it all counts. Making friends IS important in this game, not making enemies even more so. People make choices based on who they like on an instinctual level, I think. You can't have a "pure" game without all of the other stuff because these are human beings and not robots.

Karuuna

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 08:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Guess I can't put a $ value on friendship. I'd take a few new friends over any amount of money any day.

Just call me quirky.

Whit4you

Sunday, July 21, 2002 - 08:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Karu - that's EXACTLY what I mean the friends I had and the ones I might make in the future are worth more then anything.

However the concept of THIS game is like lets go spend 3 months making friends and f the 500 grand.. you can MAKE friends anywhere you don't need to lose 500 grand to do so!

Imagine a Judge... well I'd like to make X virdict but I might lose a new friend (this guy they just convicted of murder..) I don't wanna lose a friend tho soooo.....