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@Callaphera - we had a male cat many years ago who came very close to dying from cystitis, but had the very same surgery and lived to be 21. He'll (she'll?) be just fine!

Thank you to everyone here - the feed-watchers and non-feed-watchers alike - who made watching this season so enjoyable. Y'all kept me laughing and thinking and laughing some more. I can't imagine watching the show without you. :-)

Agreed. We call her Pinterest Lady in my house. The Floating Islands round was a trainwreck! We watched with hands over our faces, lol. Love this show!

Pathetically begging would be my bet. We've seen him do it before. God I wish I could have seen that!

Johnny Mac, in a nutshell: https://twitter.com/alk3faerie/status/644190686179409920 If he goes tonight - and he probably will - I hope he leaves a trail of chaos behind. I'll miss you, Johnny Mac!

If Austin is evicted today, I will - on a personal level - be happy with any of the remaining HGs winning. He has played a very good game, but I cannot stand that strutting peacock.

Vanessa- Are you starting to feel like a bad person? John- I hate all of you. You all need to go. I dont feel bad at all This is why I just can't quit him :-). From what I can tell from the updates, Vanessa said she's fine with whoever he votes out, and he's going to vote out Steve. Or not. After last season, so much uncertainty at f5 is awesome.

This is the first time this show has made me happy in a very long time. :-)

Yeah, I can see that. John and Vanessa are the only two players left that I can tolerate/root for, and I think that was clouding my judgment and throwing me into a spiral of wishful thinking, lol. My only hope right now is that JM was BSing A&L about throwing veto, and he wins and Vanessa has to put up one of A&L, and he somehow convinces her to vote one of them out in the tiebreaker. Yeah. I know.

Could Vanessa's real target here be Steve? The only two people voting are Austin and Liz, who want Steve out after last week. Maybe Vanessa is using them, in her patented convoluted way, to take him out. Hear me out: So Vanessa tells everyone her target is JM; but then Steve doesn't win veto (this is the crux of the plan); Austin and Liz will come to realize - not on their own, of course - that they should vote Steve out; Vanessa gets minimum BOHH (sorry, can't say it). It's the only way her keeping A&L makes any sense to me. Thank GOD this is a short HOH.

I bet if Austin just let the twins' decision stand - that Liz would be evicted - Vanessa would seriously be considering keeping him right now. He blew his game by keeping Liz. I hope!

I want V to pick a fight with Austwins, a la Jeff. It would be glorious.

THIS. I just wish Vanessa - all of them, really - would just own their individual game. I want them to say "you know what? No, I won't evict Julia because it's not good for MY game. Good luck to everyone in the remaining comps!" I'm really tired of the excessively convoluted game play this year. It was whacky and fun for a while, but it's worn me down, lol. Steve's sketchiness and inability to just answer a damn question even when it's posed by an alliance member, even at this stage of the game, probably doesn't help Vanessa's confidence in that alliance. Also, I've never been a fan of Steve, but I kinda feel bad that his HOH has been completely gutted by Vanessa. (If they do end up keeping Liz).

At this point, where it looks like we're heading toward my worst case scenario - an Austwins F3 - it's the schadenfreude that's going to get me through. (From Jokers) Liz wonders whose hometown they've gone to. She thinks James because they love the country but Austin thinks he might be unpopular for going against Cellie and they would have gone to their hometowns instead. Austin thinks they definitely went to Austin/Liz's hometown "because we're running the house. The whole show is us." (08/22/15 11:50 AM)

James' special segment on last night's show and JMac's frequent DR visits are really getting to Austin. He's dying for some attention: https://twitter.com/BB17Dani/status/634784604520624128 I can't recall - did Julie even mention the Austin/Liz showmance to the HGs?

Ah but wait! From Joker's: 12:59 PM Vanessa now says she's going to try "really really really hard" to win HOH this week. -AdamAndEvel I don't have the feeds, just following along here, at Joker's and Twitter, but...I don't know if I can do it anymore. lol These people.

John is my favorite but Jesus! He needs to snap out of it. I see Vanessa is right back to her post-Veto self.

What is he doing?

A couple of items from Joker's: This made me laugh more than it should have: 2:01 PM Austin talks with tuna in his mouth, chokes and spits it all over the glass table in HOH. He's a tad flustered & flummoxed. -AdamAndEvel 2:01 PM Twins laughing at Austin because he has tuna in his hair now. -AdamAndEvel Like his hair doesn't smell bad enough! Also: 2:02 PM Twins whining that now the HOH will smell like tuna. Austin told Steve to tell JMac to not throw it but not use it if he wins. -AdamAndEvel Is he for real??

My ideal Final 2s: Becky and Johnny Mac or James and Johnny Mac. My prediction for the actual Final 2: Julia and Vanessa. I have enjoyed this season immensely thus far, and I'm so afraid that the remainder won't be nearly as enjoyable for me. I'm relying on you all to help me through it! ;-)

Not sure if anyone will know what I'm talking about, but Liz/Julia remind me of Mirage, Syndrome's assistant from The Incredibles. (Elizabeth Pena voiced the character).

I was wondering if perhaps Vanessa's insistence that Audrey is America's Player might be her way of fabricating a reason to evict Audrey, considering her assumed aversion to being the person to evict the first transgender houseguest. Laying the groundwork for a future nomination? Maybe?

True. I won't mind seeing the back of her, but I will miss her snark.

Sharing because it made me laugh out loud. From Joker's Twitter: @JokersBBUpdates 1h1 hour ago under her breath, audrey says "freakin' morons" while lookin at shelli and clay #bb17 #cbsbigbrother #bblf And this is why I'm not quite prepared to let Audrey go!

This is a good one: 16 Lingering Big Brother Questions Answered Covered: Caleb's Instagram comments; Amber's thought on him; what was behind Christine's boos; did any of the HGs really care that Frankie was Ariana Grande's sister? etc.