I'm with you...what muscle is he flexing butt after seeing his nude caps...I think I know and it is impressive!

Wow. Okay. I guess I would have to agree but with a proviso. It's very impressive... for a steroidphreak.

They had to spell muscle names?
Performance enhancing drugs?
Bodybuilding supplements?

Well, Jeff (sigh) supposedly threw the competition and made it clear that he did so. Jesse isn't happy with him.

OMG how hot is Jeff? *fans self* If he gets voted off anytime soon I will be pissed! I need the pretty!

PS- Good to see you again, Vols!

Already with the in-fighting...tsk

While in the backyard sunning, talking and working out, Russell and Jeff have a fight. Well moreso, Russell tries to goad Jeff into entering into a fight. Bad mouthing ChiTown, offering first punch, etc.
After a couple minutes of "no response" from Jeff, Russell gives up and goes inside.

Natalie then starts in on Jeff.
Going on an F'bomb littered tirade claiming Jeff is a backstabber and a liar and she has never lied and he's signed his own eviction papers and *pant-pant* she's gonna make sure he stays an outcast, etc.
Jeff once again refuses to enter into the fight and eventually Natalie gives up and goes inside.
She storms straight into HOH, where Jessie is unaware of the recent Backyard goings-on.
Natalie, through heavy breathing and evident shaking, begins to shove her head right up Jessie's gluteous maximus about how much of a loser Jeff is. How Jeff is a meanie and deserves to be taught a lesson. How she just about kicked the holylivinpoo outta him.

Jessie then does some difficult decision making on the toilet.
He finally plops a reason off at the pool and decides that since he missed the big fight, he will just have to create his own, even bigger fight. And he does.
The topic?
Jesse he's gonna yell at Jeff for picking on a poor-defenseless 18 year old.

Oh, did I forget to tell you all why they got in the fight in the first place?
It's all over spelling.
Apparently, we're not the only ones who can't believe Russell won a spelling challenge. *goes to look up "technotronic".

Hmmm...nope, aside from a music group. Ahhh...but there is Technetronic:
tech⋅ne⋅tron⋅ic {tek-ni-tron-ik}
–adjective pertaining to or characterized by cultural changes brought about by advances in technology, electronics, and communications: a technetronic era.

Oops, looks like Jeff may have been right.

Once again the hamsters prove that high school is way more mature than they are capable of.

Junior High really fits much better.

I missed the first fight with Russell, but Jeff was definitely doing his fair share of yelling and cursing at Natalie. He wasn't standing there refusing to fight. I don't know who started it, since I missed the very beginning, but from Natalie's side of the story, she was sitting there minding her own business when Jeff "attacked" her. Not that I really believe her. She (along with Jessie) are the only HGs that I actively hate right now. She is Michelle re-incarnated. It's scary really, how much they are alike. They have the same hair (although Michelle's was prettier), the same fiery temper, the same penchant for re-hashing stuff over and over and over and over, the same non-stop game talk, and most importantly, they were both Jessie's lapdogs. Natalie even sleeps in the same bed that Michelle did! And she's constantly up in HOH with Jessie, just like Michelle was. I can't stand the 2 of them. WHY did they have to bring him back?!

Phew. Sorry, had to rant.

Yes, I did kind of paint a pretty picture for Jeff.
Afterall, he did call Russell shallow and yelled "F*** my team!".
Yet I don't really blame him.
Russell and Natalie are complete roidrage stereotypes and really who would want to hang out with Jessie and them two?

Oh and feel free to rant anytime. This show deserves it. And I lvoe hearing it...er...reading it.

LAST EDITED ON 07-12-09 AT 09:24 AM (EST)

The second episode hasn't aired and I am so over Natalie it isn't even funny. Why Jessie get lapdogs...WHY?

Russell? Eh...I have come to sort of want to follow him through the house butt maybe it is because of the nudie caps I saw...prolly is!

Jeff? I think is the person I would like to know more about. He doesn't seem to be all high skewl. I think he has a college boy mentality. You think?

He (Jeff) doesn't seem to be all high skewl. I think he has a college boy mentality. You think?

Actually, my thought is he is soo high school while everyone else is soo elementary. But as long as he's at least 18 I don't care.

So far Jeff does seem the best. Russell and Jessie seem jealous of Jeff.

Russell reminds me of Cappy. I wonder how long until they talk about if he needs evicting for losing it?

And Natalie is so much like Ivette it annoys me.

As planned, Lydia was taken off the block and Braden was put up in her place to be sent out the backdoor.

In other news, here's a gift for Tribe and Vols (and me!)

Mmmmmmmmmmmm...

Thanks for the info butt more importantly thanks for the pic!

I have been watching the Big Brother After Dark from last night and they were planning to use the veto so I guess they went thru with their plan.

Is everyone going to go with the plan to backdoor Braden? Lydia was talking last night that who ever they put up they would send Chima home. ??????

LAST EDITED ON 07-12-09 AT 07:42 PM (EST)

You're welcome.

The way I see it, as of right now, here's how it will break down.

Votes against Braden: Natalie, Russell, Ronnie, Michelle

Votes against Chima: Jeff, Jordan, Casey

Unknown: Lydia, Laura, Kevin

Ronnie is hardcore playing both sides (and WAY overplaying, running around like a maniac, telling everyone everything-- he's GOT to chill the hell out or it's going to bite him), but I think he and Michelle will vote to keep Chima because she's in their clique.
Up until yesterday I would have thought Lydia would definitely vote Chima out, but I think she made a promise to Russell to vote for Braden if she was taken off the block. Laura seems to be in with the Jess/Russ/Nat crowd, but Braden is part of her clique so it might be better for her to keep him.

Edited to move Kevin's vote. I keep forgetting that he's supposedly friends with Chima. He's so rarely on the feeds that I don't really have a handle on what he's thinking.

Huh. Now what did Braden do that made him a target that early? Opened his mouth and coherent words failed to come out? Boasted about his acting career using sign language? Jessie's secretly a master hacker and used his Twitter account to get into the IMDB?

Either way, so much for the Popular crowd. 'Everyone loves us! -- okay, they just love sending us home.'

Are you ready for this one? The talk amongst the decision makers (basically Jessie, Russell and Natalie) is that Braden is some sort of mastermind and he's controlling everything behind the scenes. Now, I've been watching the feeds pretty much all day for 3 days now and the only time I've really seen Braden talk game is when Jessie point blank asked him who he wanted to keep between Lydia and Chima, and he said Lydia. So it seems once again, unfounded paranoia has caused people to make stupid decisions. Some things never change. Sort of comforting, isn't it?

And also, Braden has been bragging about his modeling and stuff, so everyone thinks he doesn't "need" the money.

Honestly, for as much I thought I would hate Braden before the season started, he really hasn't been that bad. He says stupid things and tries too hard to be the laid back guy, but he hasn't done anything offensive. He's just sort of there. The only reason I don't want him to go is he is more on the "underdog" side of the house and I like those people far more than the ones in power.

the decision makers (basically Jessie, Russell and Natalie)

...the Brainless MisTrust.

Honestly, for as much I thought I would hate Braden before the season started, he really hasn't been that bad. He says stupid things and tries too hard to be the laid back guy, but he hasn't done anything offensive.

Quoting myself here from yesterday because this is just hilarious after what happened this afternoon. Guess I know now that I am NOT a good judge of character! LOL

Fight! Take 2. And 3. And 4.

I don't have the energy to recap all the fights right now (I'm worn out from screaming at my laptop along with them) but we had:

Braden vs. Lydia and Kevin
Jeff vs. Lydia and Kevin
Lydia vs. Jordan

The Braden fight is the one that everyone is most upset about. Braden called Kevin a "beaner" which I guess is some racist comment about Mexicans. I don't know, I've never even heard someone called that before, but the funny thing is Kevin isn't even Mexican (as we know, he's Blackanese or Blasian, half black half Japanese) but Lydia is hispanic so that set her off so she started calling him a MF'ing gringo (apparently that's ok, because no one has said anything about it or called her on her hypocrisy.)
But anyhow, you'll notice that Lydia is the common thread in all these fights. I'm beginning to really loathe her. She's the type who stirs up all the crap and then blames everyone else and plays the victim.

So Braden just put the nail in his coffin. He was most likely going home anyhow, but now everyone hates him and thinks he's a bigot, so he's a goner. Unless people decide to keep him around because he's an easy target since he's universally hated. You never know what crazy ideas these people will come up with.

I need some aspirin.

LAST EDITED ON 07-13-09 AT 06:34 PM (EST)

Yikes. Ok, after re-watching the footage (I was in the bathroom when the whole beaner thing started) Braden's comments were much worse than I thought. He told Kevin to go back to Mexico and called him a beaner and then Lydia jumped up and told him not to disrespect people's culture and Braden said "I don't care. I'm white and American." and he threw water (or whatever was in his cup) at both of them.

Whooooo boy. This stuff gets ugly, fast.

Oh, and then later Braden went up to HOH where Lydia and Kevin were (supposedly Jeff told him to go apologize) and his first words were "So, the whole race thing is completely irrelevant because I grew up in a Spanish town", which might be the absolute dumbest and most ignorant thing I've ever heard anyone say. *boggle*

What a charming casting department they have.

Which once again brings up the question 'How much will the editing try to shield?' They've hidden the worst of contestants before this -- but at the same time, they have to try and justify Braden's potential ouster. And they have to do it fast. Right now, we've got too many fights on the board from the post-veto period to get them all in without resorting to montage. The editors need to pick a villain and stick with it: who's better than the guy heading home anyway?

But that means someone's getting major shielding this week, just from omission. Lydia? Jessie? Everyone not appearing in bad soap operas?

It's already been a long season.

Idiot! He's going home for sure!

Belle Book

'cause at the rate they seem to be going, I'm not sure all the hamsters will make it to Thursday.

Right now, the only room not shown is HoH...... 2 cameras on one room with a couch with a sleeping hamster, one on the Have-Not room, one on the "Pool" room........ 12 blanketed lumps seen.

Heya, vince, you might want to check your PMs...

Lydia apparently told Kevin that just a few months ago, she tried to commit suicide.

If she's not lying as some sort of strategy play, anyone who had a shakeup on that level in that time frame should not be in the house. And if she somehow was lying about it, anyone who would use that play never should have been cast...

In other news, Jeff & Jordan use slurs as part of their everyday vocabulary, Kevin continues to whine, and Jordan has no idea what the Vatican is.

This is what she and Kevin were discussing right before they had their blowup with Braden yesterday. She was talking about an ex of hers who really messed with her head and I think she may have said he abused her (mentally or physcially, I'm not sure, I wasn't really paying attention) which caused her to become depressed and attempt suicide. Now, usually whenever someone talks about a person who hasn't signed a release, the feeds are blocked from us. None of this conversation was blocked and I highly doubt that an abusive ex-boyfriend signed a release saying Lydia could talk about him. So that leads me to believe that she may have been lying. Either that or the feedmasters weren't paying attention. That is pure speculation on my part though. It probably should have been blocked either way, because how would they know if she was lying or not? Or hell, maybe the guy did sign a release form. I have no idea.

LAST EDITED ON 07-14-09 AT 06:38 PM (EST)

Jessie & Casey met outside the house: Casey was hosting a bikini contest, Jessie judged it.

Gee, wonder if we've got up to six secret pairs. Again.

Oh, and Russell wanted all the hamsters to play a really fun game called 4-4-40. You play by drinking a gallon of water (four quarts) in four minutes and then keep yourself from throwing up for forty seconds. Russell believed an all-out hamster pukeorama was just what the show needed. Apparently the Powers That Be told them not to do it due to one simple problem: people have died playing this. (The contracts probably cover it, but it makes Endemol look bad.) And yet Russell still wanted to play.

Intelligent bunch this year.

Well, that does explain how a "school teacher" was so good on that beauty pagent/bikini show on the first night of the feeds........

I'm voting for bad casting. Remeber, Erika's still in charge of that department, I think........

Which leads to a really horrible barely-connected segue -- but this is something people need to know about Chima. Pasting from Hamsterwatch's description of the event:

'She told her shocking true story of being raped, beaten, and nearly murdered by a serial killer tonight, and she made it obvious that she hasn't let it turn her into a professional victim. She might not have wanted to tell it so soon, and some of them might think she did tell it (or made it up) for votes, but it is true and her resiliency shows she's a very strong person. However, she complained that she didn't know BB would be 'like this' which is surprising, considering there's only one small degree of separation between her and BB4/7 Erika Landin who, coincidentally (or not), is now involved with reality TV casting.'

I researched the part involving the serial killer and -- well, as Hamsterwatch said, she's not making any of it up.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1936092/big_brother_11_houseguest_chima_benson.html

*closes eyes*

So she's tough. In a lot of ways, she's beyond tough. She has a level of strong Jessie couldn't reach with access to the BALCO labs. But I don't know if she should be in the house either...

Here is a cold case episode on the History Channel about it

http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/tv_guide/HD_full_details/Crime/programme_2742.php

That would work as well....... see below.

If BB had an inkling of...... I'm not sure what, they should do this: The day after Chima's eviction, BB would give the houseguests a newspaper article about her story....... and show it also to those who get evicted before her......... exception being the jury, if she makes it that far. She brings the article with her to the jury house, then.......

That would make the houseguests be remorseful about their thoughts about that story for a second or two......

http://hamsterwatch.com/ is reporting Lydia and Jessie were under the covers and it looked like some hanky panky going on.

Well, she's been cozying up to him the whole time he's been in the habitat........

From the sound of it (not quite the full Joe Millionaire background music, but...), this was a strictly manual operation, and read that however you like. Lydia wouldn't even let Jessie kiss her. And her comment on the situation? "With these two fingers, I'm coming back this week." Her pre-show interviews had her saying she'd basically sleep (or not sleep) with anyone in order to advance, male or female: an advantage to being bisexual with no scruples is that you can at least attempt to play anyone you see. Odds that Lydia cares about Jessie? Just about zero. Odds that Lydia cares about that half-million? 100%. Chance Lydia cares what anyone will think about her? Possibly less than zero. As noted on some feed sites, she has absolute control over her tears: weeps when she wants to and stops on cue. This just might be a manipulator on a Maggie-like level -- and being willing to use sex as a weapon makes things that much worse.

In other news, Jordan just may be too stupid to tell time.

First, I'd like to thank you guys who give us something to read. This is often more fun than the chopped up version we see on TV.

Now, I'd like to know your impressions of who is playing a good game.
From what I've read, I have a feeling that only Michelle is staying off the radar. She is part of the brains and athletes alliance but not a target of the other cliques.

A few other questions:

- Is Laura full of it when she says she knows this game? Has she positioned herself well or is she someone's target?

- Is Kevin as invisible to the others as he is to the cameras? Is it strategy or is he simply too boring for them to show and for you to write about?

- Will Jordan keep her word and have no booger or will Jeff stay long enough to get some?

- Is this the least likable cast ever?

Thank you in advance.

My thoughts:

-I think Michele is playing the best game so far. She sits back, doesn't get involved in the drama and everyone likes her. AFAIK, she hasn't made any secret alliances yet, but I think it's smart not to tie yourself to people so early in the game. Ronnie was bitching about her yesterday, but he tries to stir up so much stuff that I don't think anyone believes a word he says anymore, except for Jordan because she's as dumb as a bag of hair.
Russell is also a pretty smart player, actually. I mean, he can spell shotgun! No, really, I think he's playing the mental game better than people think he is, but he's going to be a huge target because everyone is so worried about him physically.

-Laura's pretty good, too. I do think that Laura is a huge fan of the game and she knows what she's talking about. I saw a pre-show interview with her and picked her to win it all in my PTTE just off of that. Her name has been thrown around a few times, but pretty much everyone has had their name mentioned by someone. She and Ronnie both seem like they've watched the feeds and are big fans of the show. For instance, they are the only ones who knew (or admitted to knowing) that the HOH gets a camera every week to take pictures. Everyone else was like Huh? How do you know that?

-Kevin is very boring and he's rarely on the feeds. I don't think he's a target for anyone though, so maybe he's playing it smart. He is very close with Lydia, so that makes me dislike him a little bit. He's definitely not the fabulous, fun guy that he claims to be.

-I don't know what's up with Jordan. She is very flirty with Russell, too. I could see her getting drunk and making out with either or both of them, but I don't know if she'll go all the way to "booger." If I were her, I don't see how I could resist the hotness of Jeff. And she doesn't care about his homophobic slurs because she uses them too! (Really though, I don't think they're homophobic, just ignorant. They haven't said gay people are disgusting and are going to hell, they just say things like "That shirt is so gay." It's still wrong, but I don't think they're malicious about it.)

-Least likeable cast? Hard to say. I've only watched since season 8 and it'd be hard to top Evel Dick. Then again, it's only day 5 of the feeds and I already had to take a break from them because I couldn't stand to see those people today, so...

>My thoughts:
>
>-I think Michele is playing the
>best game so far. She
>sits back, doesn't get involved
>in the drama and everyone
>likes her. AFAIK, she
>hasn't made any secret alliances
>yet, but I think it's
>smart not to tie yourself
>to people so early in
>the game. Ronnie was bitching
>about her yesterday, but he
>tries to stir up so
>much stuff that I don't
>think anyone believes a word
>he says anymore, except for
>Jordan because she's as dumb
>as a bag of hair.
>
>Russell is also a pretty smart
>player, actually. I mean, he
>can spell shotgun! No,
>really, I think he's playing
>the mental game better than
>people think he is, but
>he's going to be a
>huge target because everyone is
>so worried about him physically.
>
>
>-Laura's pretty good, too. I do
>think that Laura is a
>huge fan of the game
>and she knows what she's
>talking about. I saw a
>pre-show interview with her and
>picked her to win it
>all in my PTTE just
>off of that. Her name
>has been thrown around a
>few times, but pretty much
>everyone has had their name
>mentioned by someone. She and
>Ronnie both seem like they've
>watched the feeds and are
>big fans of the show.
>For instance, they are the
>only ones who knew (or
>admitted to knowing) that the
>HOH gets a camera every
>week to take pictures. Everyone
>else was like Huh? How
>do you know that?
>
>-Kevin is very boring and he's
>rarely on the feeds. I
>don't think he's a target
>for anyone though, so maybe
>he's playing it smart. He
>is very close with Lydia,
>so that makes me dislike
>him a little bit. He's
>definitely not the fabulous, fun
>guy that he claims to
>be.
>
>-I don't know what's up with
>Jordan. She is very flirty
>with Russell, too. I could
>see her getting drunk and
>making out with either or
>both of them, but I
>don't know if she'll go
>all the way to "booger."
>If I were her, I
>don't see how I could
>resist the hotness of Jeff.
>And she doesn't care about
>his homophobic slurs because she
>uses them too! (Really though,
>I don't think they're homophobic,
>just ignorant. They haven't said
>gay people are disgusting and
>are going to hell, they
>just say things like "That
>shirt is so gay." It's
>still wrong, but I don't
>think they're malicious about it.)
>
>
>-Least likeable cast? Hard to say.
>I've only watched since season
>8 and it'd be hard
>to top Evel Dick. Then
>again, it's only day 5
>of the feeds and I
>already had to take a
>break from them because I
>couldn't stand to see those
>people today, so...

Least likable cast???? No way. That goes to the season...and I can not recall the names of too many people....because after two episodes I stopped watching, but the one with James on it.....the first cast before All-stars that James was on.

Big Brother 8, the sesson of the Donatos.......

Was it season 6 or 7 with April, Maggie and Howie? That season absolutely kicked my butt. I haven't had live feeds since...it really got to the point of where I gave up.

I think BB6. I tried to watch a bit of BB5 but pulled out early. Six was the first season I really watched the whole thing.

That's it...April, Howie, and Maggie season. I watched two episodes and couldn't do it no more. Only season I quit watching.

Oh, the other James.........

LAST EDITED ON 07-15-09 AT 11:27 PM (EST)

Thanks for the answers.

I'd just like to add that, for all the hated players, BB6 still had some likable ones. Kaysar and Janelle, for two, had many fans. This season might not have players as hated as the Maggots but does it have anyone likable? Reading the live feeds leaves me with the impression that no one is liked and that no one is playing a good game.

LAST EDITED ON 07-15-09 AT 09:27 AM (EST)

- The quote from Laura sounds like "famous last words". Anytime someone makes a similar statement, it usually means they've watched BB in the past. Just that. It also indicates (IMO) that they still don't have a clue about how to win. If she did she certainly wouldn't be advertising that fact.

Laura's paranoia with being singled out because of her boobal dimensions doesn't say to me that she is a particularly intellectual individual. I loved Casey's comment regarding her implants.

- IMO the season with Maggie was the worst. That season incorporated several of the worst characters this show has ever seen. Evil Dick and Danielle's season was pretty bad, and the season Boogie won was difficult to take. But Maggie's season had such evil characters and stupid plotting that IMO it wins the cup. Vols still has a involuntary twitch he developed during that season.

I believe she had said she either got them or got bigger ones like a month before the show started.

Almost sounded like the timing could have been once she knew she might be on the show, like having made call backs, but not gotten the final word.

I wonder if she had some unrealistic expectations of what upping the bust size would do for her.

My guess is that if you look deeply into Laura's past, you will find someone in her life with a higher bra size than she herself originally possessed -- someone she was envious of, had a rivalry with, and couldn't beat. And this person may have been in her immediate family.

Honestly, every size alienates as many people as it attracts (although the percentages on turned away/brought towards vary). If you're getting enhancement surgery, it's a question of what you're really after -- and if you think that's 'more people romancing me', forget it. It'll just be a different group. As for modeling work -- bikini and lingerie models come in a fairly wide range of somatypes (at least as far as models go): she's probably not getting a significant number of extra jobs and she's definitely taken herself out of a few shoots.

If the primary consideration was influence in the hamster cage, see above and follow it up with a sanity check.

I have no way of knowing what she was really after -- but intuition says upmanship may have been it.

I think that is a likely scenario, and just make sure I'm the biggest in the house could play into that one-upmanship scenario.

Generally I think the number on a piece of clothing usually has little to do with why person A gets more jobs, more fame, more lovers than person B. Sure certain body sizes fit the expectations of certain things, but there is always someone that defies that expectation even when too short, too curvy or too whatever.

Even when someone suddenly gets what they want after a surgery (and there are a few that lost what they had from surgeries as well) there usually is some other thing that plays a part in the "but they got what they wanted".

There's not too many industries where an increased bust size = bigger bucks, but the majority of them (if not all of them) are in entertainment........

True, but you can size yourself out of a lot of jobs, particularly in modeling.

High fashion (and usually bigger bucks) modeling even for the sorts of things where you show off the breasts tend to have a limitation on what size you can have and still be acceptable. Bigger than that and you can do bikini modeling for men's magazines, but you aren't going to get much in the way of high fashion shoots.

Even for acting there usually is a limit on how big you can get before you are cast to be the boobies, and those often aren't the award winning or highest paying acting jobs. I know there is always type casting in acting, but if you willingly pay to be the boobies you have to be willing to live with being nothing but the boobies.

Going from flat to average/just above average tends to be the most lucrative, IMO, of the size changes. It gives you enough to play sexy, but not so much that you start limiting everything else you can do. However there are plenty of flat women that make a pretty good living on TV.

But if you're willing to sell yourself, there's always adult stuff............

And even (and especially) then, you can enhance yourself right into the margins. Which are sometimes well-paying margins. But they're still margins and if you're reaching them via surgery, you have to decide if you really want to be there.

As said, I don't know what Laura's intentions are as far as her working life goes -- but at this point, she has very little hope of going modeling mainstream. (Which is stupid in and of itself, but let's not start on this, okay? It's already going to be a long summer.) Still, there's good work at the edges -- there just might not be a lot of it.

Either way, betcha one of her first moves post-cage is releasing a calendar, followed by listening for that Playboy call...

A better enhancement for her would have been dental. There are cute overbites, there are sexy overbites, and there are scary overbites.

Quick question to those considering breast implants for the purposes of sexual attraction...Would unasked for advice be useful here?

If so, those concerned should know that it isn't the size that really counts, but the location. And that location is (holds out hands) "here"!

Whatever size is "here" is the sexiest. By far.

Shoe fashions and breast implants and are more often (IMO) to impress other women than to impress men.

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