Monday, July 04, 2005

Saskia, end of

With the eviction of Saskia the Big Brother house has lost its alpha male. "Like a dude with tits" ruminated Anthony, though not until she was safely outside.

To see her off Maxwell adopted the Vivian from The Young Ones look.

It does look like her departure signalled to Endemol that it was safe again to introduce significant volumes of alcohol into the house. Saskia may be remembered as the housemate that stifled all the fun and games for 5 weeks (I always knew it was laregely Team Saskia not poor old Roberto doing this), though one of the banners waved at her on Friday taunted "Saskia, we've already fogotten you".

When asked about the 'racial divide' in the house Saskia retorted with an enhanced version of the "some of my best friends are Jewish" argument. You can learn a lot about what racism is and isn't from this spontaneously-occurring situation - in truth a variegated instance of us-and-them-ism, including ageist, homophobic, xenophobic, ethnic, sexist and regionalist prejudices, general envy and other petty resentments.

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