Aaryn as HOH? Now that will be interesting! How many TV sets will be destroyed?

(4th Reich? Really?? Feels just a wee bit disproportionate but, then again, it does follow Godwin's law)

Have-Nots: Amanda, Candice, Judd, and GinaMarie. It was a team challenge with construction and balance elements, and those names make it sound like teams were randomly assigned -- it's hard to see Aryan letting GinaMarie go on slop.

Nominees... Howard (surprise!) and Spencer. So it sounds like Aryan is currently trying to avoid too much in the way of payback next week, at least for the quantities beyond what she'd already earned. (Anyone want to call a Candice win on Thursday and save the trouble of watching it?) I would guess Howard's the primary target there, but they're all more than a little paranoid about who the MVP is going to put up and I'm not sure they're expecting a public vote two weeks in a row.

Meanwhile, Amanda has taken her own dive deep into Lake Inappropriate with some comments about Candice. Hair was prominent, and if you believe the word 'nappy' is on the racist list (many do if it comes out of a paler-skinned mouth), then the line has been crossed so often that we've barely got a series of dashes left in the road.

Getting more fun in there every day.

On the bright side, since Aaryn kept her word to Helen, I don't have to call her any nasty names -- for now.

Ilike it. Nappy is the new "N" word.

Sounds like Amanda got nominated by America.

And the parannoying about who the MVP is dialed up to 11.

LAST EDITED ON 07-27-13 AT 04:40 PM (EST)

Which tells me the frau may have controlled this vote.

I'm serious. There are a lot of female viewers who think exactly like Elissa does. 'One-piece. Attack!'

Actually, those women would have attacked if Amanda had worn a habit.

ETA: Extra Veto players are Candice and Jessie. Aryan is already freaking out about the possibility of Candice winning and taking Howard off the block: in that scenario, she's said she'll put Elissa up.

Discussions of whether this will be another prizes/temptations Veto. Judd has said he might give in for a $10 Walmart gift card.

Wow! The voters are really Elissa fantards. One fight that Elissa starts and they forget about GM.

teehee...

*crack open my 2nd beer of the season.

LAST EDITED ON 07-27-13 AT 10:42 PM (EST)

This just ended: the feeds came back up a couple of minutes ago to find Spencer with the necklace and show everyone Aryan talking to Helen and Elissa in the storeroom, telling them her plan is to put up Candice as replacement to keep Howard from trying anything.

Oh, sure... that's her motivation...

So it looks like the target is solidly Howard under the ongoing Eat The Strong policy. However, given the sheer amount of Candice-bashing in the cage... well, one flinger is HoH and another is a nominee, so take out those votes and it's probably still Howard.

I'm anticipating a whole lot of ugly.

ETA: And the ugly begins. Aryan is now declaring that she knows Candice will call her racist for putting two non-Caucasians up together, and -- get ready for this -- Candice has said Aryan is racist one million times. Candice is trying to destroy Aryan's life and Aryan has never said a single racist thing. And if Candice confronts her, Aryan will directly accuse Candice of working to destroy Aryan's life. Candice has single-handedly ruined Aryan's reputation in the cage.

Everything is Candice's fault. Ev.Er.Y.Thing.

*closes Jokers window*

That's all the delusion I can take for one night.

I betcha the producers didn't see this coming. Aryan putting up both of the non-whites. LOL

LAST EDITED ON 07-27-13 AT 10:58 PM (EST)

Alison Grodner: when your press corps needs to greet someone who claims not to anticipate sunrise.

Oh dear, oh dearie dearie dear.

Oh to be a fly on the wall at the PR firm her Mom hired about now.

Good ol' PR boy #1: Well buddy we've got our campaign she must of got the message to go white bread.
Good ol' PR boy #2: Yup pardner, we're in.
Good ol' PR boy #1: All nice 'n tidy-like, only one thing left to do.
Good ol' PR boy #2: Yup, only one thing.
Good ol' PR boy #1: Have the girl write up the bill to Mama Warbucks.
Good ol' PR boy #2: Yup, and add 50% for a rush on that damage control.
Good ol' PR boy #1: High five buddy.
Good ol' PR boy #2: Yup, I'll get the whiskey.

And there goes any faint hope I might have had that this leopard might have changed her spots. I wonder if the others will stand keeping Aaryn the Racist Witch around till the Final 2, even if she is the perfect goat! I might want to get rid of her sooner than that, just for my own sanity!

But, but, she's blond. You know that dye color makes you incapable of error or meanness. It forces you to be the nicest, kindest, sweetest, most generous person ever who is incapable of wrong doing. It also makes everyone completely misunderstand you and think only evil thoughts of you.

So much power in a little bottle of color.

You wonder why anyone bleaches their hair, it causes nothing but trouble and renders you incapable of fighting back in the effective and evil ways of the darker haired. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilBrunetteTwin

{/snark}

Or the fumes make you delusional...

Who should she put up instead? There are three strategists in the house: Helen, Amanda and Spencer. Since Aaryn has some sort of deal with Helen, it was wise to go after people that aren't close to Helen.

Howard and Spenser are close allies so nominating them was the best move. Spenser got veto so who else should be nominated besides Howard's other close ally? Strategy 101 really. I guess it's more amusing to see racism but don't tell me Candice wouldn't vote to keep Howard around. Putting her up takes one vote away from Howard.

Since Aaryn has some sort of deal with Helen, it was wise to go after people that aren't close to Helen.

THIS is exactly why Helen thought they should align in the first place. "We can't take out our own alliance members, so, I will take out yours and you can take out mine."
The farther away from Helen's alliance members Aryan gets the harder it's going to be for Helen to make it to finals.
And if I were Helen, I'd almost be insisting she sticks to the original "plan".

Thank Cow I'm not Helen.

>THIS is exactly why Helen thought
>they should align in the
>first place. "We can't take
>out our own alliance members,
>so, I will take out
>yours and you can take
>out mine."
>The farther away from Helen's alliance
>members Aryan gets the harder
>it's going to be for
>Helen to make it to
>finals.
>And if I were Helen, I'd
>almost be insisting she sticks
>to the original "plan".

It's WAY too early for Helen to be going after her alliance mates especially since none are very cunning. There's still what? 12 people in the house? Helen will need to get rid of the allies that aren't in her inner core at some point but not this early. At this stage, she has to go after the other strategists, the ones that can form counter alliances.

Spencer and Howard have been the most active and none of their alliances have included Helen, Elyssa, Amanda or Aaryn. They couldn't get Spencer, they need to make sure Howard goes and nominating Candice increases the chances of that happening.

Incidentally, maybe I should clarify my position.

I'm not necessarily saying that Aaryn put up Candice (this week) mainly because of racism, although it might have been an additional reason. If I was in Aaryn's shoes, I'd put Candice up too for the simple reason that she's allied with Howard (and Spencer) -- and I'm white and anti-racist!

What I'm complaining about is Aaryn's remarks that Candice will accuse Aaryn of racism for putting up two non-whites and Aaryn's denying that she said a racist thing in her life! Strategy I can accept, self-delusion is something else.

And to clarify my position; I'm not saying that Aaryn isn't a bigoted idiot just that she's only a DAW playing a game. The uproar I see directed at her would be more useful if directed at all our corrupt politicians, shady business leaders and criminals.

I read that some of Kaitlin's worse detractors hated her because she had an abortion. Isn't that crossing the line between the game and real life?

LAST EDITED ON 07-29-13 AT 12:40 PM (EST)

Twitter has been having fun with this. The game? #blameCandice for anything and everything throughout the history of this universe and any fictional ones you might want to invoke. For example, the Red Wedding? Is now her fault. Even though it's red. Huh. Go figure.

I'm dearly hoping this makes the actual show. It's a Bashers thread waiting to happen.

go ahead, I'm working on my list already

Early this morning:

Aryan: "I do not say racial slurs, that would be in front of America, that could harm me."

A few minutes later, GinaMarie said her Twitter account is private. (Verified by Hamsterwatch.) Aryan told her that's not good for publicity. Aryan's Twitter was public when the season began and then went private. PR team, yay!

And a few minutes after that:

Aryan: "Do you think I should do a tweet that says White Power or no?"

Judd: "Hell no."

Aryan "OBVIOUSLY! Did you think I was serious?"

...yes?

Some more of the #facepalmheaddesk conversation from Jokers.

" Aaryn "So you guys think I should do a tweet that says white power?” Judd says she shouldn’t she then cracks up and says she was kidding. She then says she wishes she had a hoodie. Aaryn brings up the Confederate flag. She says people think it’s racist and Judd says he thought it was just a Southern thing and Aaryn says she thought that too but she guesses there is some stuff behind it (but she doesn’t have any idea why people would think the Confederate flag is racist) Aaryn then says " You can’t do anything..... you can’t breath or you’re racist”

Aaryn starts bashing on Candice and says she’s going to say something like saddle up to her when she is finally evicted.

Cognitive dissonance overload.

She then says she wishes she had a hoodie.

I'm trying to find a place I can take that which isn't bad.

I'm failing.

Just when you thought that the hole couldn't possibly be dug any deeper...

Aryan finds a way to dig her own hole even deeper.

Dig? DIG?!

Digging is for peasants, she only uses the most pure of high explosives to blast her way down.

Sexting Alterego by Pepe LePew