I used to watch Big Brother in the UK, until about Season 4… that’s when I got annoyed with the selective editing my Channel 4 resulting in the eviction of a housemate, which proved detrimental to the enjoyability of the programme. Sometimes Big Brother does not always know what’s best.

So, until this year I’ve never really watched it. However, during our time in Australia, Yuko started watching the Ozzie version of it, and rather enjoyed it (pretty much because it was kinda new to her… they certainly don’t have Big Brother in Japan).
So, I ended up getting drawn into again, and now we have Series 4 of the UK Celebrity Big Brother.

AND BOY IS IT A CONTROVERSIAL ONE!!!
Here’s some links for you. It all started when there were a series of complaints made to OFCOM about alleged racism against an Indian actress (Shilpa Shetty). This situation of escalated somewhat… links here, here and now here.

It’s a tough one to call. There certainly is a bandwagon starting up, and I suspect a lot of the complaints are now fellow Indian’s living the UK, who haven’t even seen the show.

Today, things started to get worse… here, here, here.

Also, is this just an over-reaction by the Liberal Left?
Me, what do I think. Hmm, normally I have a distaste for PC attitudes, and nothing overly racist has been said in my opinion.
But, being in Japan for a number of years has certainly made me aware of the situation where you have some people who may not do something obviously racists, but are certainly motivated by racist attitudes.
The bullying THAT is going on seems (and can’t be proved) to have racial motivations (but those motivations are not being shown, hence it’s all subjective.)
In Jade’s case, I think it’s a matter of ignorance, stupidty and jealousness of Shipa. However, I do wonder about Danielle’s and Jacks own thoughts. Danielle did manage to let out a “She should just f*** of home”. Maybe a comment just to leave the house??? Not sure about that.

So called special relationship

Hmmm, interesting to see that Blair is respected by the US Government… NOT!

More phones

Looks like Japan has some funky new phones…

And finally

What the hell was MS thinking when it produced this advert for Windows 386 (wow, that’s a long time ago, good old early 1990′s technology).