The weird-o-rama just goes on and on

What happens when you go away for four days? Stupid stuff like this:

From BBBA: “Audience members at FNL have confirmed that they were indeed told too (sic) boo Nobbi, even when he won.”

Of course “audience members” confirmed nothing. There wasn’t even a story to confirm until a random thread, created by a BBBA forumer, popped up insisting “friends” were right there and they saw, first-hand, Big Brother employees themselves hand down a BOO NOW directive at any mention of Nobbi’s name.

And it all gets woefully predictable from this point on.

Yep. In the trigger-happy tabloid style Behind Big Brother aspires to aspire to, the above mentioned random post was duly pounced upon and sensationally shoved onto the front page.

Well, for a little while, anyway. Soon after:

“Conflicting reports are coming in on the wake of news that audience members of last night’s Friday Night Live show were encouraged to boo for Nobbi.”

How bout that “Live Breaking News” voice in the update, eh? Reports are coming in!! Actually, what was coming in was a thread full of BBBA users hollering “Bullshit”.

Cue the damage control team – think Alvin and the Chipmunks, here – who snuck that retraction in and made sure the word “rumour” (that idea suggested by one of the more savvy BBBA members) was hastily attached to the wild front-page claims of manipulated Nobbi booing.

And how do they eventually wrangle their way out of this mess? In typical fashion, really. Give everyone the finger, lock the now offensive thread and shut down all discussion:

So we were wrong. Bite us.

(Thanks to Leaper)