While not a forgone conclusion, Pepper has annoyed enough of his housemates that his nomination seems guaranteed by his fellow housemates, Big Brother has put restrictions on who can nominate Pepper.

In the past, the general rule of thumb in regards to discussing nominations in the house has been to deny said rule-breaker from nominating at all. However in the last few days, (and yes, I understand that Big Brother can punish at their own discretion and choose the nature of the punishment) it has been Big Brother’s choice to prevent Sam Pepper from being nominated by some of his fellow housemates.

In my opinion, the execs at Channel 4 are MORE than aware of how unpopular Pepper is and the best way to get even more people voting in the Friday night eviction is to deny them what they want. Prolong the amount of time Pepper is in the house almost guarantees more votes for when he is finally up for eviction.

This feels underhand, though this is all of course complete supposition; it is simply how it looks from both my wife’s and my perspective. Much as I certainly wanted to actually vote for Pepper to be evicted (I rarely vote it should be noted) it now seems a complete farce. Yes, some of the money goes to charity from the cost of the viewers’ calls but if even 10% more of the public have voted, this could be an extra 15 pence times almost 200,000. (Based on viewing figures for this season, available here: http://www.insidebigbrother.net/ratings.ibb) this would amount to almost £30,000! Whilst perhaps not a huge amount of money to the machine that is Channel 4, I feel this is an extremely dishonest way of making money; exploitation of the public.

Perhaps they could donate the extra money to the charity they already donate to…

Rant over.

We have since factory reset the phone and gone back to the beginning. All we can say, is thank goodness for contacts being synced with Outlook. It could have been a whole different story otherwise. Sigh.

In the meantime, substitute cows are being drafted in from Australia. It is Winter over there, so they will prefer it in sunny England anyway.

On another note, we find it obscene that not all trains have air conditioning. At this time of year, it is just plain wrong. We are glad however, that we don’t use the Tube. We have read the horror stories, and reckon our methane tank probably smells better.

Right, off to watch the Lost finale.

Things we are looking forward to today: Lost and Modern Family.

In other news, it is Friday and the Grand National tomorrow. Happy days, and maybe even the weather will be nice. Here is hoping that we win some money…

It is the bank holiday, and therefore a long weekend, and therefore time for some bacon and eggs. Hurrah!

We shall try and be better about blogging in the future…for some reason Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising and Team Fortress 2 seem to have been taking up valuable working time…

All in a good cause, and we shall be blogging about it when it has finally been released.

Worse, is it’s use in an advert currently on TV to advertise some form of gossip magazine, and worse still, is the fact that it is used in a jingle. The agency responsible for this advert should probably also be placed in Room 101, but it is possible that the client deliberately asked for it. We may amend our terms and conditions that this word may never be used in any piece of work that we produce. Money IS money, but pride is perhaps more important.

In more exciting news, today a radio station in America is using our A-Team remix trailer as their video of the day! Total result! Link to come later when they have woken up on that side of the Atlantic.

UPDATE: It’s up!! See the link here:

We also finally saw Avatar at the weekend. Disappointing is the word.

We had a spare morning, so thought that this might be fun…