It's better than falling in love in Asda or World Of Warcraft I suppose.

It's a bit like online dating/romances, neither world is real although it feels like it. People who've never physically met and spent time together chat and and a relationship develops. For some it works out for others it doesn't when they finally get together. Then again in the every day world relationships either work or don't in the end. What's meant to be is, I guess.

My friend got a girlfriend in an online game and it went  disastrously but in a really hilarious way.  I shouldn't mock him but at least he didn't die or anything.  Or end up on Big Brother.

He is ace.   It is my favourite 'running off with a random from the internet' story ever.

It involves Norway and everything.

I have never endured a Norweigan love I never fancied Morten Harket (I did like the fella with the big blonde curly hair though - Mags or Fags or summat?), but when I think of Norway and it's peoples I visualise hairy women with pencilled black thick eyebrows and taches and clogs.

More norvern that Norway, immense!

Clogs?

I saw a mouse, where in the stair..

etc etc etc...internet stuff.

I meant than NOT that

Brisket did you not see Paul and Helen fall in love in BB?  It was genuine and very touching.

squiggle - thanks for bringing the thread back on track.
Strangely, Paul & Helen is all a bit of a blur to me now.
It turned out not to be a lasting relationship though did it? 

There have been a few relationships, marriages even children come out of BB. I don't think any of them have lasted. But that doesn't mean they weren't real. It just means it wasn't the right person at that time. It could have happened outside the house and had the same outcome.

It did, 5 years or so if I remember rightly!

I think in the house spending time with someone 24/7 you could or maybe think you are in love with someone,being realistic in the real world I dont know if it would work or not  but I do know nothing in life is certain especially regarding relationships, you could be in love get  married and that may not last.

It was a very valid relationship.  5 years nowadays seems to be fairly good going.  Although having been married almost 45 years myself before losing my soul mate and hearing of people celebrating Golden and Diamond wedding anniversaries you do wonder whether all this is going to die out.  Is anyone from recent years going to have a relationship that long?  And I have heard talk of being too young to be married in the early twenties but I fell in love with my husband to be when I was 17 and loved him more on the day he died than on the day we married.

But getting back to Paul and Helen what was so wonderful was that they really did fall in love 'before our very eyes' it was lovely, and for me unforgettable.  Paul if you remember was very very vain and believed himself to be a legend and Helen was very ditsy "I love blinking I do". Magical BB the way it should be and not the fake stuff we have had to endure.

I think BB romances are no different to holiday romances

some work on return to RL some don't..

Oh except those that only work til the Mag deals run out...

I think Marguerita (above^^^) captures it.
On reflection I think what I should have said in my Opening Post was something like:-
Maybe housemates think they are in love - or as much as they can tell in such strange circumstances. But it can only be truly tested in the ordinary everyday outside world. 

That is the niciest thing i've heard in along time