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I’ve been convinced for a while Kyle’s trying to channel Cleopatra-era Elizabeth Taylor and tonight’s costume sealed it It’s a total fail, all the way down to her over-contoured & highlighted nose. UHD TV isn’t her friend.

Hey @Auntie Velvet - it won’t let me use the quote function on your post, so it definitely had a hiccup. As for what Christie said prior to dropping the movie title, her quoting things Bella had said don’t become dog whistles simply because she’s listing them as examples as to why the perception exists that Bella’s family has money. If anything, discussing the financial situation of someone else’s family is showing poor judgement and poor taste as it’s not their business regardless of what’s been said or alluded to by Bella. Christie has done plenty already in being herself. It would’ve created a different storm had she abruptly ended the conversation. Jessica would likely have been flailing, still trying to figure out what they’d been talking about along with why their talk ended so suddenly. Neither scenario ends well.

Snackson is 24 to Beth’s 30/31. Kat’s been using her face to supplement her diet for days now. If she’s in a conversation, even as a spectator, for more than a few minutes, she starts picking, inspecting, and snacking. I thought she was unaware she was doing it until I saw her trying to be really discreet. Yeah, no. She knows.

I’m gonna preface this with acknowledging that I’m not happy with me for posting anything in Christie’s defense. Having said that (and prepped the shower with snacks as I’ll be in there a long while trying to wash away the squicky feelings), there was some context that’s yet to be mentioned. She didn’t just drop the title of the movie equating Asian to mega old wealth. Jessica was part of the conversation and wasn’t getting that money didn’t appear to be an issue for Bella, so Christie got really specific listing things Bella’s said that she’d interpreted to mean Bella’s family has been well-off going back a generation or three or more. Because it was the empty vessel known as Jessica, she wasn’t understanding and Christie finally dropped the bit about how it’d be like Crazy Rich Asians and everyone in the family has money, which Jessica seemed to understand. Being that it was Jessica, she then ran with the idea Bella was like the good sister in the movie, giving away expensive things and doing other good works because she could, since money wasn’t an issue. I’ve no clue where it went after that as I took out the earbud for that feed before Jess’ inane rambling like, literally, you know like, literally, broke what was left of my brain.

In the HN room last night (shortly before lights finally went out), they’d all just returned from the kitchen (Tommy and Kat were keeping eyes on Snackson) and were getting into their beds when Snackson asked if there were any slop cookies left and no one answered, so he asked again a bit louder, again, to no one specific. There was the briefest of pauses and then Tommy/Kat resumed talking. Snackson was getting pissy, so Kat said yes when he asked if there were still any cookies for a third time. S: where are they? K: in a tupperware container. S: but where are they at? K: (looking at Snackson like he’s an idiot) they’re in a container. S: I get they’re in a container. Where’s the container? K: in a cabinet. S: (on the verge of losing it) which cabinet? There’s like forty of them? K: a white one. And that’s when Snackson lost it. All he wanted to know was where the cookies were at and why won’t they tell him? Kat and Tommy explained they were tired of the haves eating all of their slop snacks, so they’d put them away, prompting Snackson to recite all of the food available to the haves this week and how they need to not touch anything slop because that’s rationed to the HNs for the week. (His obsession with food/slop being rationed is...unusual.) S: I’m a HN so why won’t you tell me where they are? Which cabinet? Is it to the left or right of the fridge or the oven??? T: ummmm, it’s to the left of the oven. K: yeah, it’s to the left of the oven. S: WHERE TO THE LEFT OF THE OVEN??? Why is this so difficult? Christie finally chimed in to say they’re in a cabinet below the breadbox. S: why didn’t you guys just say that in the first place??? K: (starts laughing) I don’t know. Snackson huffed and puffed and pulled the headband down to cover his eyes while silently calculating how long it’d be til he could sneak downstairs and eat the cookies.

They’re made from the powdered slop base, a load of seasonings, and then fried in oil. Same with the slop cookies except vanilla extract, sugar, and topped with powdered sugar, cinnamon, or whatever, after they’re baked. As HNs, they’re limited to slop so the hamsters get creative because while it’s nutritionally sound, the taste isn’t all that (and they’ve said the taste gets funky the longer it’s chewed). As an aside, Snackson has mentioned 1/4 cup = 240 calories (“that’s more than 1000 calories/cup,” according to math whiz Tommy; and yes, Snackson corrected him).

Right?!? He went from Pouty NoSnacksferyouson to how much slop would a woodchuck eat if a woodchuck only ate slop? There were fried savory balls, then the bowl of slop porridge, then a fresh batch of 12-15 more savory balls (and assorted dipping sauces), and then minutes later, he’s inhaling slop cookies. Then he topped it all off with a whiny rant about how there’s more food this week then there’s been since they’ve been there and it’s not fair because there’s seven fewer people eating. He then began reciting a thorough listing of foods he most definitely won’t be sleepwalking his way to the fridge to inhale in the middle of the night (my money’s on the tuna being the target and him taking whatever punishment comes after a penalty nom).

Shortly after Snackson came out of his 4a DR sesh and Cliff finally booted the women out of the HOH, they had quite the chat while everyone else slept, including where she clued him in. Her alliance with Beth is still her main priority while the one with the three of them is next because Snackson is a bigger target than either of them.

While it’s an ever-changing scenario he’s telling others trying to get them onboard with his plan, the one constant is his belief he won’t be voted out because “they” have the numbers and he’s convinced there’s no way he’ll be booted (I guess blindsides only go one way in his twee mind).

Gah! I just tapped out of the meeting in HOH with Cliff, Kat, Nicole, and Jessica because I couldn’t take another minute of Jessica’s nonsensical interruptions and ramblings. She’s very much like Christie in wanting to use all of the oxygen in the room for noise she makes except she does it in a baby voice rather than christie’s 2-pack/day voice. At this point, Boss Hogg’s trying to convince them (and Sam in the am) the only way they move forward is to stick together against the couples and use his week to create a bigger fracture on whichever side they decide to go after. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out given the side alliances and loyalties everyone he’s trying to pull together has with various individuals in the other groups. He did tell them that Christie told him about her power, saying she threatened him with it (lol) and how it could be problematic, so they might have to roll with that side for this week, but otherwise, no decisions were made and he’s no closer to making one than he was when he started talking with them. As for Snackson, he might be overplaying this plan he thought up as he gave a different version to each person he’s tried to pull in. And in food news, Snackson was called to the DR around 4a and I hope they railed him about his food consumption given his fussing about how they were out of food yet he’d been eating, non-stop, from the moment he left the HOH; there was another trough of rice, more yogurt, cereal with peanut butter & soy milk, 2-3 apples, and 3-4 ginormous spoonfuls of PB while he surveyed the contents of the fridge.

When is Snackson going to clue them in that he and Cliff already have a plan or that’s what his private chat with Christie was about? He and Cliff (and probably Christie) are supposedly meeting tonight after the room clears from the HOH oooh/aaaah-fest to plot the rest of the week that ends up with Nick/Bella in the hot seats and how Christie’s DPOV might factor in if needed.

Earlier today Christie said Jack is her type while chatting with some of the others and no one acknowledged it, so it seems they’re tuning out her non-stop blathering, too. If Jack finds out she said that, Christie will be the cat to his Pepé lé Pew until she either self-evicts or gets him evicted, so win/win.

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Right??? Unfortunately, in Jessica’s world, the one where she’s said her family has expressed concern and her sister has told her she’s worried about her, all because of things her husband has said and how he speaks to her, she brushes it all off. She’s said her husband doesn’t remember things he says to her and he gets angry when he hasn’t worked out (that’s how she knows it’s a thing that happens), and and and, she has excuses for behaviours that shouldn’t be tolerated, much less, excused. Red flags look like ordinary flags when viewed through Jessica’s rose-coloured glasses.

The argument was about things said in the DR. First, Kat was telling Beth some stuff she’d said in the DR about Jackson including how he shouldn’t bother calling her after the show’s over because she’s not gonna answer. BB told them to stop talking about their DRs, they didn’t, and finally got the “what part of stop do you not understand” one. Then, Jackson found out what Kat had said and that’s when he went all Hulk smash Kat, and he was given another warning by production, presumably for getting aggressive, as Kat was crying after and said it wasn’t what he said to her but how he was so aggressive and that scared her. So, it’s not so much that they’re protecting Snackson (™️ someone on reddit), but it all revolved around what was said in the DR and, of course, we’re not supposed to know any of that. In the aftermath of all of this, there was Jessica defending Snackson, telling Kat his temper was because he’d not worked out in six days and she needed to let it ride because he’s a guy and that’s how they are.