# Good idea or not? I've applied for Big Brother **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2001, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933 "2001-07-02T08:42:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/1 "2001-07-02T08:42:19Z")
I’m still in doubt… In a moment of lapse of reason I visited the Big Brother site and applied for the third season. I figured what the heck, I’m not ashamed to make a complete fool out of myself for three and a half months and run the risk of earning 1 million guilders in the process (about half a million dollars). I will be losing my job in a few weeks time and don’t have any clue on what I am about to do next, so I thought this might be a good transitional period. The family was not too thrilled though. Although my parents let me do whatever I want to do, they made it quite clear that they wouldn’t feel too happy about it. My friends on the other hand think it’s a great idea. And if I win I can pay off my house in one go as an added bonus. But I wonder, is the money worth the embarresment I might put my family go through? On the other hand, every embarrasing thing I might do, will be forgotten in a few months time, whereas the money will be permanent. Let me throw this at the always discretionary SDMB. What do you think? Should I go through with this? It’s not like I’m in yet, I still have to pass the first selection, so maybe I shouldn’t worry too much… ---
**Author:** ![amati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@amati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amati)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/2 "2001-07-02T08:58:42Z")
when in the face of big decisions i always like to, well…not be decisive. if you’re supposed to be on, you will be. [sub]yea, i know, i’m a fucking fatalist[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/3 "2001-07-02T09:53:35Z")
Depends how you feel about exes and acquaintances selling stories about you to the press. ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/4 "2001-07-02T10:13:13Z")
Well, I don’t care too much on what others might tell or think of me. As said, those embarrasing moments will be forgotten within a few months time. I don’t care. I’m happy to felch a goat on national TV as long as it can earn me 1 million guilders (yes, I’m that much of a slut). However, I wonder what to do with the people who do care for it. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/5 "2001-07-02T10:25:55Z")
Is competition not pretty fierce in order to get onto the show in the first place **Aghris**? pan ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/6 "2001-07-02T10:33:47Z")
Yeah, maybe, but remember that Holland is a much smaller country, so in stead of a couple of hundred thousand competitors, I will only have a few hundred to maybe a thousand or two. That, and my charming personality (ahum), plus the fact that I have something that hasn’t been shown before, makes me a rather good candidate I think. Dunno, I’ll see where it will end. (Oh, and of course the fact that I’m such a slut, I’ll do anything for money ;)). ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/7 "2001-07-02T12:38:14Z")
Did anyone else reading this think he’d signed up for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization? Maybe they don’t have that in Holland, but it would be a better use of your time… ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/8 "2001-07-02T12:40:55Z")
I have no idea what you mean **TroubleAgain**. Can you please explain? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/9 "2001-07-02T12:53:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aghris \* > \*\*I have no idea what you mean **TroubleAgain**. Can you please explain? \*\* Big Brothers/Big Sisters is a nationwide (U.S.) organization that pairs up kids with older kids (or young adults) for the purpose of giving them someone who can be a solid role model. This, of course, would be for children who don’t have such a person in their lives already, such as orphans or kids from destitute families. It’s a very worthy organization. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/10 "2001-07-02T12:56:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TroubleAgain \* > **Did anyone else reading this think he’d signed up for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization** Yes, and it made reading the OP _very_ interesting and a little confusing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/11 "2001-07-02T12:57:06Z")
Heh, I doubt that they would want me there… I hardly would make a good role model if I’m willing to felch a goat 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/12 "2001-07-02T18:12:26Z")
**Aghris** , I’m sure you’ve got something to offer a young person with no role-model, goat-felching aside ;). The only reason I haven’t signed up yet is because there is a minimum time commitment that I am not sure I can meet at this point in my life, with my job commitments, studying, marriage, etc. (Thanks for the explanation, **dantheman**. I was away from the boards for a couple of hours.) But hey, if you want to go on TV and let people see all sorts of private things about yourself, then go for it. I just would NOT want to give up my privacy that way. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/13 "2001-07-02T18:21:31Z")
Actually, **Aghris** , one thing they’re doing with BB (the show) this year is infusing more sex into it. From what I’ve heard, contestants will be given freer reign to do whatever they want. 🙂 [NP, **TA**.] ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/14 "2001-07-02T18:55:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by TroubleAgain \* > > **Did anyone else reading this think he’d signed up for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization** > > Yes, and it made reading the OP _very_ interesting and a little confusing. > > 🙂 \*\* Hehe, I know what you mean. I was thinking that if big brothers was offering half a million, I might suddenly develop a new devotion to charity work. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/15 "2001-07-02T19:04:08Z")
Remember, dear, I think you’d be cut off from the SDMB for your stay on Big Brother. Could you go cold turkey? Why not apply for season 11 of The Real World? Are you young enough? Do you have to be a U.S. citizen? At least on Real World you get to keep your phone and teevee and computer. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/16 "2001-07-02T22:03:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aghris \* > **plus the fact that I have something that hasn’t been shown before, makes me a rather good candidate I think.** What, the fact that you’re gay? Dude, you’d better break out the boas and fake eyelashes already. As it is, you’re _way_ too “normal” to be considered interesting Gay Material[sup]TM[/sup] for BB. 😃 Althoooouuuugh… there IS an option. See, they kinda select the people on possible sexual compatibility, right? OK, here’s the deal. Get the most flaaaaaaaaaming gay man you know to sign up. It will give you good odds on being selected. That way, they can have a 3 month drama series on the “AGGRESSIVE GAY MAN” seducing the “TIMID, SHY GAY BOY”, with all the thinkable resulting emotional outbursts! Think of the RATINGS!! Ugh. I just typed an entire post thinking like a TV HotShot. I feel kinda dirty now. 🙂 Anyway, good luck. If you get selected, I’ll call in every week to vote for you! [sub]Even though I absolutely HATE that show…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/17 "2001-07-03T08:13:54Z")
Thanks, **Coldie**. I must say that I hate the show too. Luckily I was in Scotland during the time they broadcasted the previous two seasons, so I have seen very little of it. But the fact that I don’t like the concept doesn’t keep me from wanting that 1 million guilders ofcourse… Also, you’ve only seen me one night in wich I was mostly sober. Really, you don’t know what a drama queen I can be. I’m an attention slut extraordinaire 😃 (No seriously, you haven’t seen the best of me that night). (And to be honest, I already did think of your suggestion, but I don’t know any gay men, so it’s a bit hard. What are _you_ doing the next couple of months, coldie? ;)) I’ve also already thought of the SDMB absense. Well, so be it. What do you think? If I’m willing to felch on TV, I’d surely be willing to go cold turkey for three months… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/18 "2001-07-03T11:00:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aghris \* > **What are _you_ doing the next couple of months, coldie? 😉** After that post of yours? Either covering my ass 24-7, or buying call options in the lube industry. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/19 "2001-07-03T11:22:01Z")
Isn’t it nice to see two Dutchmen connecting like this 😃 Anyhoo, The gay card could work given how things are working out on the current series two UK BB - seven left, of which two are gay men (not that I’m watching or anything…). I’d say, get friggin fit (bodies seem to be very important) and show them _a lot_ of humour. BB wants a lot of things from the contestants but the most important thing is ratings – in the view of BB, audiences seem to love good bodies, people who ‘ooze’ personality and the _potential_ for a little hanky-panky. If they take the gay option this series, they’ll be two gay men. Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933/20 "2001-07-03T13:10:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TroubleAgain \* > \*\*Did anyone else reading this think he’d signed up for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization? Maybe they don’t have that in Holland, but it would be a better use of your time… \*\* Guess it shows how little I pay attention to the current television “fads”. I did too 😃 Good luck with whatever you decide, Aghris! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-or-not-ive-applied-for-big-brother/70933.md?page=2)