Day 37: This week's shopping task is Rules Are For Fools! This week, Big Brother wants to teach our housemates the importance of obeying the rules. Not just any old rules, mind you. Big Brother's seen fit to introduce some new House rules to see how the housemates cope.
Three of the gang will be made wardens and their task will see them monitoring whether or not their fellow housemates break these new House rules and whether or not the task is passed or failed will depend on the decisions of the Wardens.
They'll be asked to keep an eye out for and correctly identify all rule-breaks over the next two days. To add to their woes, the wardens will incur fails if they don't spot rule breaks or if they dish out their penalty tickets unfairly. If any single housemate is issued with two tickets, they'll be sent to the punishment area to think long and hard about what they've done.
The number of fails that the wardens are allowed to incur will be kept inside an envelope in a glass case and, come the end of the task, it'll be broken open to reveal the result.
As ever, Big Brother will be watching and will reveal how many fails have been incurred at the end of the task.
If it seems a little harsh, remember: we don't make the rules. Big Brother does (and you know what he's like sometimes).
After yesterday's relief at Turf Wars drawing to a close, it's all change again in the Big Brother House.
Housemates woke to find the place absolutely plastered with signage telling them how to behave. 'I love this task' said Lauren, having not even heard what the rules are. Soon Luke A, Adam and Luke S were in the Diary Room picking up the instructions (and some rather authoritative outfits) and, after getting into their fresh new outfits, were reading out the rules to their increasingly confused housemates.
There are quite a lot of rules, you see? So many rules, in fact, that the next hour saw a huge amount of bafflement as basic activities like eating, smoking and swimming were accompanied by a whole host of new health and safety procedures.
Scott and Becky struggled with the enormous tongs now required for food preparation and eating. Lauren, Ashleigh and Shievonne spent a smoke break bouncing on a trampoline, as dictated by the rules, before washing down in a compulsory, post-cig decontamination session. Later, Becky and Caroline enjoyed a dip in the pool but, safety first, they donned rubber rings, goggles and arm-bands to make sure there was no danger of drowning.
At first, housemates were loving the novelty of a whole new way of living. But as things stand, having decontaminated several times each and struggled to make food in a kitchen that's wrapped in red tape, the cracks are beginning to show. Especially for those who have already broken the rules. Step forward Conor and Caroline, who were made to paint lumps of coal white for a number of missteps – including some petty vandalism that instantly undermined the scowling wardens.
They do say rules are made to be broken but, the way things are going, it may be the housemates that are broken by the time the results for this one come in.
Clearly.
Rules Are For Fools.
Sounds hilarious!