susie_flo | This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores

Happy Friday lunchtime! Triple hoorah for two impending days off work :-)

So - how about a spoonful of square-eyed inanity to ease you into your weekends? I have two things to waffle to you about...

Starting with some CBB muck-spreading

In the cultural airlock that is the BB house, I can gleefully report that old Billy-Bob Baldwin is starting to grate on the rest of the group, with quite a few of them taking the piss and Heidi expressing outright dislike. Bring on a sleb fight!

Last night we were treated to yet more "Bible with Bubba", much to the Chagrin of Heidi who had been holding the group spellbound for quite a while by describing her life in prison. Unfortunately for Balders, she was doing this during his allotted daily hour of bible time, which meant that she used up 45 mins of his preaching time. He sat there, pointedly ignoring her and itching with frustration until finally grabbing his chance and reading aloud the last few sentences of his chapter... to the general blank bemusement of the group.

So then Steph asked him whether he was a creationist and a rather moronic 'debate' followed, where Bubba explained to the others that it was clearly not possible for evolution to be true, because there were still apes in the world. Er... right.

But these are not his only talents, dear fiends. Thankfully for us, the man has an ego the size of Heidi's upper lip and is never happy unless he's teaching or preaching in the slow, over-emphasised tones of a breakfast TV presenter. It makes you want to throw a shoe at the telly. Last night he left people aghast by lecturing the cage fighter at length on how to throw a punch... (am only amazed that the chap did not test out his 'new found skills' on Bubba's face).

In other news, the Swede has gone into twat overdrive and seems to think that he is the new Joan of Arc. Big Bro had asked him to play a childish prank of putting sand in someone's bed, in order to win 1000 percale sheet for Lady Steph, as long as he didn't tell anyone. So he called all of the inmates into the living room and announced with great solemnity that he was going to protect them from sand in their beds and take whatever punishment BB had to offer... to which they all went "Er, right. Meh. Whatever..." (apart from Lady Steph who was a bit cross about missing out on the sheets).

He clearly found this reaction disappointing and spent the rest of the episode going on and ON and ONNNNN ad infinitum about his 'sacrifice' and 'altruism' and basically made me want to throw the other shoe. The best bit was that his punishment turned out to be being locked in a room for hours and forced to listen to his own record over and over again, with Lady Soverystupid locked in there too, cursing and gurning at him about what a crap song it is (tee hee!)

At one point, with no warning, there was an appalling, ear-bleedingly horrible noise that made G and I go "Eeuuuurrrgggghhhh - Make it stop! Make it stop!" This turned out to be the R'n'B singer showing off his 'talent' to the other slebs in a warbly acoustic stylie. Do people actually PAY to have this horror on their iPods? My ear drums will not forgive BB for quite some time.

The P3G continues to act as a vacuum for all things intelligent or interesting. At one point she started explaining that this is "because I have a very short concentra..." (which she illustrated beautifully by not finishing the sentence.

Meanwhile Vinnie Jones is continuing to perturb me by being raher sweet and likeable. Damn! (It still doesn't excuse the terrible hat and shoes, mind)

So, moving on, I wanted to mention that I saw Avatar last night. (Don't read on if you haven't watched it yet...)

My main reaction was to agree with Dave on FB wh said that it is basically "Dances with Aliens" (...with a bit of Braveheart thrown in)

The Good:

Exciting second half
Understated use of 3D (a general feeling of depth, without endless pointy things sticking out at you)
Rousing battle scenes - yay for dragons fighting helicopters!
Visual imagery v. pleasing on the eye

The Bad:

Overly long first half (almost nodded off in places)
Utterly devoid of moral complexity or shades of grey (and lack of subtlety re: liberal didactic messages)
They might as well have given GI Joe a black cape and twirly moustache
They didn't play Billie Jean in the bit in the woods where the ground lights up as they walk

That's all I can think of to say right now, apart from a moment of excited cooing because our new coffee maker has arrived! I shall look forward to some lovely rich coff mixture when I get home this evening.

And now it is time for me to tootle off and bid you all happy weekends! :-)