Tony Blews

Big Brother Is Still Rubbish

I see Jon is blithering on about Big Brother again, so its time for a blast fro the past...

Back in the dark days of 2004, I wrote this letter to Nuts magazine. I won a phone for my trouble.

It says:

“DEAR NUTS,

One way to make Big Brother more interesting would be to shutter the housemates in, thereby depriving them daylight, then to enforce random artificial day-and-night cycles on them. Within three days, you’d have a house full of paranoid, gibbering, psychotic wrecks, all itching to get theit hands on any nearby weaponry and run amok in an orgy of bloodletting. Well, it worked for the KGB, if you believe Tom Clancy

Tony Blews, Stafford”

(Page 96, Nuts 23-29 July, 2004)

“Dear Nuts,

The only way to make Big Brother more interesting would be to shutter the housemates in, thereby depriving them of daylight. Then, after hiding a variety of both blunt and bladed weapons in the house, enforce random artificial day-and-night cycles on them while lacing their food with caffine and hallucinogenics. Within three days, you’d have a house full of paranoid, gibbering, psychotic wrecks, all itching to get theit hands on any nearby weaponry and thence run amok in an orgy of bloodletting. Which would be nice.

Tony Blews, Stafford”

I still prefer my version, but thanks for the phone. Can I have a new one now? I'm sending you this letter again...