Trig Brother 2004 Saturday 31 July

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Housemates, this is trig brother('s mate).

as previously announced this year's Tirg Brother will take place around central london on Saturday 31st July, probably starting around 2ish and going on until way past everyone's bedtimes, no doubt.

frankly, i think this is the best day out all year, it's NOT about getting slaughtered (honest) and it's NOT about competitive drinking. It is about spending a whole day talking rubbish with interesting people. it is definately about new people coming and joining in if they would like to (in fact they generally do quite well).

anyone else who wants to join in, sign up here.

Trig Brother will get back to you shortly

― Trig Brother (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I have ever had properly explained to me the concept of Trig Brother. How do you play? (Bear in mind, you have to explain it to someone who has never seen Big Brother.)

― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Trig Brother III - Saturday August 2nd

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(in fact they generally do quite well).

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm ... *thinks*... I get paid the day before this. I promised the mister a weekend in London sometime. I wonder if he would like to spend it in the company of drunken mentalists? (Likely answer: no chance, but it might be worth a try anyway)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I won't be drunk or drinking at all probably, it's a surefire way to be evil and win the game.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i was toying with the idea of getting as drunk before the start as i was at the end last time, surely guaranteeing either victory, death or both before the day is thru.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I especially liked the concept of txt updates in the 2003 edition. You'll have to improve. perhaps live mobile video clips???

― gizmo (gizmo), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Or at least texting photos around!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

no! Carrier pigeon!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 16 July 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure you can text carrier pigeons, but my phone is a pretty basic one.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 16 July 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

there is talk of all sort of multimedia shennanigans, as i type Big Brother is meeting in secret to discuss quite how evil they are going to be...

also quick recap:

trig brother is a competitive pub crawl. the 12 competitors meet in a central london pub and are set tasks and asked questions (usually in the style of ilx threads). at each pub, based on the other competitors answers and general behaviour each competitor votes for who they would like evicted. those evicted go back to the base pub (in previous years this has been the glasshouse stores and blue posts newman street), whilst the rest move on to the next pub (usually two people are evicted per boozer, so even if you're out first you don't have to sit in the pub on your own). eventually the surviving two or three contestants return to the base pub where a final round of questions are asked and then everyone (spectators are welcome to sit in the base pub all day too :)) get to vote on who they want to win.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Sunday, 18 July 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Housemates, this is trig brother

i have been asked to read out the following information on behalf of trig brother:

So far the following have signed up to play:

Tom
Matt DC
SteveM
Jel
Carsmile Steve
DaveyB
Anna
Starry
Lixi

We're looking for a group of 12 or so to play, so if you want to
play (do! it's fun!) then let us know here. If there is a big demand
to play, then some of us named above are prepared to make way for
newer people.

[msg ends]

so yes, join in innit.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

*pokes colette*

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!!!!!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, OK, can I sign up, please?

I was considering it last night, and thinking I shouldn't, cause I'm not one of the popular kids. But then I thought I should do it cause I'm *not* and that makes me a dark horse. Or something.

― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not a popularity contest! oh wait...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

We might actually have a 50-50 m/f ratio in this Trig Bruv, just like the real thing.

Unless Trig Brother has us drinking a pint of pureed fish guts, in which case the less like the real thing the better.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never been to one, but I can't imagine it being anything *other* than a popularity contest!

― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

you should probably play but not if you're going to get all paranoid if you go out in the early stages. that's to everyone really.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

But being the most popular makes you #1 target for your Machiavellian rivals! Have Jason and Victor taught you nothing?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Unless Trig Brother has us drinking a pint of pureed fish guts, in which case the less like the real thing the better.

Unlikely tho I am now wondering what the TV equivalent will be: Maybe someone will be required to drink a bottle of Reef with crushed, grinded and crumbed pork scratchings in it?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Argh, see, I don't know anything about the real BB, so that's me at a disadvantage. Strategy? I thought it was all about just going out and getting plastered with your mates! I know I'm not popular! I'll probably be disappointed if I *don't* get knocked out early, coz then I would have to face the idea that maybe I'm not an ILX Outsider. ;-)

― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

But that sounds tasty good! Crumbed pork scratchings, mmmmmmm.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

oh tits.

― alix (alix), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, get off my PC you slack-handed harridan (or whatever it is)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going, I'm going. Just let me download some more porn first.

― alix (alix), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

As regards trig brother, it turns out I'm working til 3.30. so i won't participate, but I expect I will come later to point and/or laugh.

― alix (alix), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not "slack" handed, Steve...

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 19 July 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

oh bollocks, i can't bloody do this cos i'm in brixton at a bbq, but my irritatingly uncontrollable scary competitive streak (in pubs at least) is itching to take part. can i txt my presence in?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

dedicatio, that's what you need

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, is that an X-Men character or something?!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, if last Thursday's discussion was anything to go by, lubrication, that's what you need, if you wanna be a record breakeerrrrr (trumpet bit)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I remember when Stevem was so very shy before the last trig brother!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, after getting vritually poked by stevem and recriuted at the pub (was that before or after the long discussion about wanking?), i'll say i'm in.

but a little scared.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

[snurk] "poked by stevem" [fnarr] etc

where's rob bolton? he was talking about playing (ie i was trying to persuade him to ;))

any more for any more?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This Trig Brother needs more BARRY!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)

that's so very, very true.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

this here thread needs a bumpin'

do we have twelve victims, sorry, participants yet?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

um, moving house, wimping out, prolly join for spectating later, soz like...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

you will be found and dealt with, evilly

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

bout 10 playin' now?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe the coolest man of the third millenium is playing.

A new favourite has been installed. (For going out first).

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, but after everything it looks like I won't be able to play after all.

My band's singer and pianist (heh heh, I said pianist) are going on holiday for most of August, so it's the last chance we have to finish our demo thing.

I might come out drinking afterwards, but I doubt it, as when I've got my studio goggles on, I tend not to do anything else. Like yesterday. Like Tuesday. My god, I'm spending my whole life in the studio, yay, I've turned back into me!

― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Friday, 23 July 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

So we now have:

Myself
Tom
Stevem
Starry
The Coolest Man Of The Third Millennium
Colette
Dave B
Anna
Jel
Rob B?
Magnus?
Whoever else... Toby? Cis? RickyT? Someone New And Exciting?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Who is the CMOTTM? It is early and I am hayfeverish and stupid.

I really just want to know which is the base pub so we can turn up late in the evening to laugh at the drunkards and be smug about our healthy day in the fresh air (and pub, naturellement).

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

liz, he may have lost his phone number, can he have yours?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, he is quite the slick man.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 July 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

CM3M = danger now!

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 23 July 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

F#CK. And the Hawaiian shirt he rode in on.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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I should bloody well hope so

― Head still hurts (daveb), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I've jackpotted Pepsi Chart Quiz seven times in my life.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 1 August 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I too only have myself to blame for my early eviction - there was genuine anguish in my eviction cry of TOO MUCH META. I sang Here Comes The Hotstepper to myself as I left the pub.

Somehow, I managed to carry on drinking until 3am, and have still not recovered. Ph34r my 48-hr hangover.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 2 August 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Tee hee hee, in the end my recording session ended at 4pm, so I got to the pub and got to watch the Eviction Angst in glorious technicolour. It's astonishing how seriously people take it! (OK, they're drunk, but still!)

Next year, I shall play, and I shall make it my quest in life to be the first evictee! Mark my words!

(And I finally returned the Satan book to Mark S, what... THREE YEARS LATER....)

((That's not even the latest that I've returned someone their book, either, is the pathetic part...))

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 2 August 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Satan book rather good so far. Thanks Kate!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 2 August 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i enjoyed saturday(well, until people started getting a bit mean at the very end back at the champion), and didn't even mind that much when i was evicted against anna, since we were obviously being punished for being so damn smooth.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 2 August 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oi! Jel!! I wanted that Clea CD but left it for the Grecian Earn fund - return it to Trig Brother else I will be very upset at the rest of my great records I had to leave behind! Waaah!

― Sarah who has been logged out and can't remember her c#nting password and WHERE , Monday, 2 August 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

My ILX Top Trump card was TEH RUB. The fact that it failed to win a single round of the game hurt me far more than my eviction.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Congrats Rob! Good work!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Grudging congratulations to the Canadian minx. Bah first non-Sinister winner. I want to see these fabled TT cards.

We arrived after all the fun had been organised, but were too full of tasty Chinese food to care. Also I had a wild boar sausage in my handbag.

Pete (in a refreshed state) was drawing excellent crayon portraits on the bus home - I think Robster's going to scan our one and post it.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, I will return the Clea CD at the next ILX event I intend, or I could post it back. It just sorta ended up in my bag, honest guv ;)

This must be the first time in history that a Clea CD single has been coveted so. Foxy would be proud.

― jel, Monday, 2 August 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Liz and I as rendered by Barang:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/rob_brennan/ilx/OnTheBus.jpg

― robster (robster), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

oh the TT cards, ha oh dear. 101, hmmm.

― jel, Monday, 2 August 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

So, when are the headlines/scorecards going to be scanned and posted for our ~~laughing~~ viewing pleasure?

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, please don't scan the headlines I wrote, please. Please?

― jel, Monday, 2 August 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The photos will be put up as soon as NTL can plug us into broadband at home, hopefully the end of the week.

I was a little refreshed too, so saw sense and piled home relatively early.

well done to all the competitors, there was some high comedy this time.

A certain competitor was robbed too, by the general public (not literally of course), no wonder Davina made me announce that one.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

is rob dressed as a viking in that sketch?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you Chris. Evicted for being the face of "sexy evil" bloody bar maid.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

robster and liz look like mary and joseph looking for a stable!

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Apologies for being a rubbish Jon Tickle. The heat was getting to me, or something.

― alix (alix), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Rob - we did forget. I still have your photos.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

anna - how silly of me... yes - the glasto photos. damn you bouze! i'll have to snag them off you at some future FAP (which according to recent trends will probably be in about 1.7 days)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

so am i the first 'foreigner' to win the illustrious trig brother? first the canadian flags fly high above the mighty selfridges and now this! what other british institution will us wacky canucks infiltrate next?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, there were mutterings of xenophobic resentment regarding the two finalists i'm sure...or maybe it's just cos you weren't Sinisterites. i still think you should've been 'inconvenienced' for tardiness tho.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(Do some work)

― alix (alix), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeh...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr Bolton was inconvenienced for being late, he was up for nomination because of it, can't remember which point though

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

for some reason i was hoping 'inconvenienced' would mean the removal of fingers or something. this was indicated subversively in the content of my top trump card.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Rob was up for nomination against starry and dave, when dave went.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

of course, Toiletgate

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

If I'd managed to stay past the third round I'd have been up for nomination for:

- Arriving late after being confused by Starry and Anna going into a different pub.
- Making an unlicenced toilet trip.
- Giving myself the second highest total on the Top Trump card (after Stevem, who was already out)

Frankly, it was a lucky escape - I couldn't have done with that sort of emotional rollercoaster. Also Trig Brother hates me.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Colette, I'm calling you out.

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm finding it hard adjusting back to real life...today was just so long and lonely.

Also, where did whoever get those pop-out animal shapes from? They are really nifty, I could use them in artistic projects.

Also, on a more general note, does anyone have any magazines with Pokemon pictures, as I could also use them for same artistic purpose!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

pop-out shapes were part of the glittery pens in a see-through satchel affair that was on the table.

could you not print out some of the thousands of pokemon pictures that adorn the modern internet?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I could do, but I has no printer, and am worried about printing out at work as our printing often goes of to some unknown printer due to network problems...

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

hurrah, we're getting broadband tomorrow, and as long as I can sort out the wi-fi stuff, I should be able to scan in the top trumps, and type up some evicition interviews. (I only did them from Dave, did some other endimol bod do the first lot?)

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I got some quotes from Tom. I dunno who did Stevem and MDC.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 06:51 (twenty-one years ago)

'no comment'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I interviewed Stevem and I think MattDC, am tinkering with my PDA to open up the notes. There was bitterness though, which may have crashed the blooming thing

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

As far as I'm aware no one interviewed me.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god, i woke up in the middle of the night last night thinking i was still playing, and trying to figure out what the hell the task/question was in my dark bedroom. i was very confused.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally C., I am calling you out.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 5 August 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Lauren, I am calling you out.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 5 August 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yes?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 5 August 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

RJG, I'm calling you up.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 5 August 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

when? when? ich bin scangrig!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

stevem, i am calling you down.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

holla!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

dane bowers you're out of your mind.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

expensive lies but you're playing for free

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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