Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/17/unaware-of-widespread-coronavi.html
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Will someone just fucking tell them, already! FFS!
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Will they even believe it?
Is it even responsible to “evict” them now?
What a mess.
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I mean, let them all stay there instead of doing the “evictions”. That’s probably a wise move to ensure their health, but at least let them call or email and check on family!
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It’s not Promi Big Brother in germany. It’s also called Big Brother.
Promi Big Brother is the shorter version with celebrities.
see https://www.sat1.at/tv/big-brother
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It’s so fucked up that Big Brother contestants might be the safest people out there right now.
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It’s like a lighter version of Dead Set.
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And in germany they tell them about corona at the moment live on tv
Now I know more about this show than I ever wanted to know.
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What was that voice over the loud speaker telling them to stop talking about?
I would think there would be some serious doubts, like it’s part of a game being played on them.
I was in boot camp in the summer of 1991 and we were told that the Soviet Union had just collapsed and would be no more. I definitely had a serious doubt of that being true at the time. Sure felt like something like a gag being played on us know-less folks by the drill instructors.
I could see a flavor of that incredulity coming into play here as well…
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Opened the BBS just to look for this reference.
I’m now remembering how much I enjoyed seeing Big Brother contestants being eaten.
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Doesn’t this end with Randall Flagg springing them, like Lloyd Heinrich, and spiriting them away to Las Vegas?
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They ran into the same issue back during 9/11 https://ew.com/article/2001/10/05/big-brother-and-september-11ths-grim-reality/
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For some reason I thought this show had burned out a decade ago.
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I was in a military camp in 87 and my father told me that the Edmonton Oilers had just traded Wayne Gretzky. Nobody believed anyone would do something so mind numbingly, colossally stupid.
The last 33 years have been an ongoing exercise in ‘hold my beer’ one upmanship.
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I think the set is in Ontario, where they just banned evictions during the outbreak. Though I’m going to guess this isn’t covered under that.
(Ontario freezes evictions, temporarily halts scheduled orders due to COVID-19 | CTV News)
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