Irritable

Yeah, I can see not wanting to infuriate Christine because it's not worth it in the long run to make an enemy out of her just because she's putting on this disgusting display. To me, the thing with Verbena and Derrick is that her fixation on him doesn't come across as being anything to do with a sexual attraction. I think she finds him comforting, because he is older, he's married, he's a father, he keeps his wits and temper about him, he's polite, he's kind to her. She seems to me like a girl who runs to her daddy about every little damn whiny thing in the world, and now Derrick is filling that role for her. When she needs hugs, she goes to Derrick, when her feelings are hurt, she goes mumbling off to Derrick for a pep talk, when she doesn't feel well, she goes to tell Derrick and asks him if she should take an Advil. Last night I really got the feeling she wanted him to tuck her in and read her a bedtime story about a fairy princess who won $500,000 for being the prettiest girl in the castle, went right out to spend the money on new shoes, and lived happily ever after at the mall. The thing with Christine and Cody is...quite the opposite. And it appears to be a perfect example of what a social experiment this show really is. Things that people would not do in regular life, they might do in this house, especially after a certain amount of time, because they are deprived of outside stimuli. They crave the same things they always do but are limited as to the resources to satisfy those cravings, and nearly 60 days in we have Cody wrapping himself around Christine in a Kama Sutra pose in the back yard, that is only slightly acceptable because they are clothed, but still nausea inducing. I hold them both equally responsible, they both know she's married, they both should not be doing any of this. The way it's accelerating, if they both stay in the house, I expect within 2 weeks there will be some kind of under-clothing shenanigans taking place. Ew.

Holy crap. That shot is...wow. So far over the line. I wonder if they just continue to do this, and take it a little further each time, because no one in there actually says anything to them about it? They talk about it amongst themselves, but has anyone actually spoken directly to Christine and Cody's faces and said, "WTF are you two doing with all this intimate touching? Has Christine decided to leave Tim for you, Cody?" eta: I take it from Brian's post, no one has said a word to them yet. How odd. You would think at least Zach would have thrown something at them.

I feel even more dumb and lost than the rest of you, because not only do I not have a clue what's going on, I don't even know how everyone else can see that this show sucks and is definitely going nowhere. Every week I feel like I just watched a pretty good episode of a pretty good show that makes no sense, so far, but I'm not mad at it yet because I think surely the answers are coming. The characters and intrigue have me hanging on pretty tightly, but then if I really think about it, there have been other shows like this which I didn't understand at all but stayed faithful to, until either I realized it was fruitless because David Lynch is an evil prick who just wants to screw with people's heads (Twin Peaks), or the show got cancelled before any of the mysteries were answered (John From Cincinnati). I hope this one doesn't let me down like those did. Tonight I decided that I really should have read the book first, to fill in some of the blanks. Guess I'll just read it after the finale, which also has its benefits...I like to already have images of characters in my head from the screen versions, because when I read a book first and come up with my own vision of the characters, I find it very distracting to see a completely different version on screen than what I had imagined. Speaking of distracting, I wish they would dress the actress who plays Aimee differently. I think her looks are striking, but her body is shaped in such a way that the "sexy" bedtime/around the house clothes they've got her wearing make her look like SpongeBob Squarepants. I really hope she and HotCopDad haven't been doing it, but yeah...they probably have. Ew. I love Nora.

I think Michelle and The Putz only had connecting rooms in the days before official shooting began at the beach location. After the rose ceremony, when she supposedly had to "leave paradise FOREVER" (does Chris H. say this? I might be making it up because it sounds like something he would say on this show), she went back to stay in the same hotel as before, and The Putz snuck over to her room for a booty call. Someone must have either tipped off production so they sent the handler over to verify he was there, or she knocked on the door for some other reason and Michelle wouldn't let her in because The Putz was freaking out and getting dressed in preparation to fling himself off the balcony. I like to think that the reason The Putz allowed himself to be filmed laying in the bed with broken ankles, saying it wasn't worth it and being forced to spell out his last name so we can all be extra sure that it really is Putz, is because they offered him a chance to keep his job if he agreed to this flogging and humiliation. I assume that the lack of any mention of his and Michelle's "special connection" after the jump tells us all we need to know about that.

Almost forgot to mention that production must really hate Michelle K. a lot, because they made sure to point out no less than 3 times that Ryan Putz said "it wasn't worth it". So much for finally finding that true love, Michelle. Did you really want your last name to be Putz, anyway? The guy that showed up tonight and is currently with Clare...wasn't he the guy that won $50,000 on Wipeout last week? Don't know if that was filmed before or after BiP, but either way, free vacation, frolicking about with hot, dumb, sweet Clare, and winning $50K all in the same short period of time? He's having a decent year.

Oh, Caleb and his free hunting trips! He was talking one night about rewarding his "biggest fan" with a free hunt of their choice with him and his brothers. His father would foot the bill for it, of course. I was dying to hear what kind of data would be used to determine who this "biggest fan" was, but I don't think he ever specified. I would almost be sad for Caleb when all this comes to an end and not one of these people ever wants to see him again, not even for five minutes, but I know that he would manage to turn their shunning him into some kind of compliment for himself.

Heather told the women that Tamra wasn't doing well when she went to check on her, but that's not what I saw. Tamra wasn't crying. She wasn't even fake crying! She was just hiding out from the pack of women who figured out her game and decided to call her on it.

I think another reason Vicki may not have jumped in on that issue is because she was just sitting there on the verge of shrieking tears over how Tamra wronged her, because it was so bigger and harder than any of the other wrongs Tamra had done to the others. Vicki was just sitting there stewing in her own self-centeredness, unable to process anything beyond her own feelings. I think I'm going to have "Love Me, Love All My Decisions!" put on a pillow.

I don't think Heather is anorexic. She looks extremely healthy to me, thin but fit. I've seen anorexic, and even if we couldn't see Heather's body in the bathing suit like we did, her hair, skin, teeth, and bright eyes tell a story of someone in good health. It nearly killed me to have to watch all those amazing scenes in Bali with Vicki and Tamra ruining the beauty and zen. Does anyone know the official address in Bali where I can send my handwritten apology for their truly horrific behavior? I am mortified by them, as a woman and an American. Everything except for the spa would have been heavenly to me, even the fish pedicure, just because it's different. I watch a lot of reality shows where people get to go to fantastically beautiful places filled with rich culture and one of a kind sights and experiences, envisioning myself and Mr. Irritable in the same spots, enjoying ourselves tremendously, smiling the whole time and talking about how we can't believe how lucky we are, and then bitches like this show up and scream and complain and shudder and spit food out and flinch dramatically at holy water, and I could just cry at the injustice of it all.

This show is E V E R Y T H I N G. I loved the episode so much that I want to have a meaningful and super special connection with it, even if it tells me it would be really happy if I would please go watch other shows. Damn, even if you hit Elise with a stick and run away, she just keeps on coming so she can ask why you hit her with a stick and ran away. I'm glad Chris B. is staying and Dylan left, because Dylan is the most boring, expressionless muppet head I've ever seen in my life. At least Chris is entertaining.

Oh, there were actually two of these conversations, because the one with Frankie happened in the kitchen later. Ha! I love (hate. love.) how he will go from one person to another to another and say a lot of the same things until he finds someone who will agree with him about how incredible he is (sometimes running out of people before that happens). Every time I think about him assuming that on finale night Ariana is going to walk up and start singing to Caleb and then beg him to sing on her next album I want to hug something, it's so delightfully delusional. It's weird, normally narcissists push a button in me that causes feelings akin to rage. I have a couple in my life that have been thrust upon me due to family ties and work, and find nothing about their arrogance, attention-craving and entitlement amusing. Quite the opposite, in fact, I normally find narcissists to be some of the most abhorrent people on the planet, and yet with Caleb...I don't know, it's just funny. I'm always waiting for the next thing to come out of his mouth that makes me say, "OMG that's one of the best yet. More! More!" like he's a dancing monkey. I should feel guilty about this, but I don't, yet. I should also feel guilty for wishing I could be a fly on the wall when he finds out that he's not going to get any of the giant fame opportunities he expected out of this. You know, I take it back, I did have those rageful feelings towards him when he was being a Beast Mode Controlling Asshole with Amber. Once she was gone, his egomania became entertaining, because it no longer seemed threatening or dangerous. That reminds me, he actually asked someone while he was out, a driver maybe? to look up his Instagram and tell him how many followers he's up to. His IG name is "Insane Physique", and that's funny. Also, he got to weigh himself on the field trip, and thought people would be very interested to know how much he weighs now, and how much he weighed when he came into the house, as well as a detailed description of how the scale went back and forth by one pound on his final weight, blah blah blah. Riveting, Caleb! PLEASE TELL US MORE!!!!!!!!!!!! (rubs hands together with evil glee) I did hear Frankie tell Zach he wants to have sex with him, but didn't think much of it because Zach has said it to and about Frankie so many times, I just figure it's their schtick and is now something to just say casually, like, "Pass the salt, I want to have sex with you". Part of me thinks that after the show Frankie would actually be down for it, because it would be a big notch in his belt to "turn" a "straight" fratty broski dude, but until then he just throws out enough of this seduction (like the rather intimate hand holding after they made up the first time) to keep Zach strung along. My guess is that Zach has feelings in his nether regions for Frankie that confuse and excite him, but that once they are let out of the sardine can the intensity will wane and he will go back to thinking he's probably just straight, not bi. When Christine was bitching about how obnoxious Frankie was outside the house, I first thought she was talking about Caleb. In some ways, the things you can say about each of them are interchangeable. Hilarious that Frankie was all "OMG, someone get me a coffee, I must have coffee!" and someone actually fetched it for him! I suppose Christine could have diva'd her way around that excursion too, but the one nice thing I will say about her is that she truly doesn't seem the type to ever feel comfortable demanding people fetch beverages for her. What was Frankie's plan exactly, talking so much about how it was great to get away from the BB house because he absolutely HATES everyone in it? Did he really think Christine wouldn't pick up on that and repeat it to someone? Odd for someone who is so intensely aware of how he is being viewed and perceived at all times to think he could run around basically calling all the houseguests a pack of assholes that he can't stand right in front of two of those assholes, and there would be no repercussions of that in the house. Maybe there won't be any actual blowback, but just that he would do it at all seems like he lost a wee bit of self control.

Thank you, Andrea! When Caleb was wandering the house alone a few days ago while the others competed for HoH, and said he wants ALL OF US to be his Facebook friends, I said out loud, "You bet your ass I'll be your Facebook friend, Caleb. I don't want to be cut off from you when the show is over." Has it already been discussed here and I missed it, when Caleb said something about meeting Ariana and blowing her mind by just, you know, showing her who he is, and Frankie tried to tell Caleb to slow his roll because Ariana is stunningly gorgeous? Because that exchange gave me so much life. Caleb said don't worry, he has PLENTY of super hot looking female friends back home, he's used to that, but now, when (not if! when!) Ariana starts singing to him? Well, then he just might fall in love. Then he said he might bust out a lick of vocals himself, and she'll be all, "Um, will you please come sing with me on my next album?" I think if anyone should still be leery it should be Zach of Frankie more than the other way around. But I suspect if Frankie tries to act like Zach is still on probation, then Zach will try that much harder to please him and prove his loyalty is back to full strength. Could be a ploy on Frankie's part, he knows Zach is totally in love with him and will use every bit of that to get his way. For the first time, I might actually feel a little bit sorry for Zach. This feeling is strange.

I now hope that they were just taken somewhere for a screening of that football movie, and not to an actual game like they assumed. Caleb was getting so worked up over it, and even talked about needing time with no cameras to get some drinks in him. He probably imagined a private booth (?? is that what they are called where you watch a sports game match thing from a room inside the stadium, with windows, TVs and food service? I have LITERALLY no experience with these things, so the proper term escapes me) with Playboy bunnies as their waitresses, bringing them unlimited food and alcohol, rubbing his arms and telling him how hot he looks and what an incredible guy he is. To see him come back all pouty and dejected because it was just a movie with no fresh women to interact with would be fun for me.

Morbs? Putting that soundbyte up was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Didn't know we could do that. I Zankie you! Also, thanks for clearing up that grey area. Zach keeps up his solid record of freaking out during a challenge and then berating himself later for not keeping a level head. Maybe there will be a consolation prize for that.

I was personally bummed that they edited out my favorite part of Frankie's talk in the Bee Hive with Nicole and Christine, which was in the middle of all his important statements, he sniffed and said, "I just farted, and it smells like death. It really does smell terrible." Zero reaction from the women, but I laughed at how deadpan he was. Serious talk means everyone needs to be very serious when someone floats an ass bomb! At this point, I can't even remember if it's true what Nicole said about Amber - that Frankie told her to lie about what Amber said to pit Caleb against her. These people have flopped around and lied so much that I am honestly not sure if she just "revealed" that to make Caleb mad enough to throw the competition, or if it actually happened. so...hey, I just realized that I got so screwed up by the huge delay in airing the episode, that I thought it was over after the nominations ceremony and cut the TV off. And missed the BoB. GREEEAAATTTT.

Hell to the Yes.

Yes, I agree that Mario is the obvious answer to "who would be interested in marrying Ramona". But since he did that and they are presumably getting divorced now, my comment was about who else, besides Mario, would want to sign up for Ramona's very specific brand of crazy.

She looks great in photos and when you have the TV on mute, but what kind of a man who runs in the circles that she thinks are the end all, be all would be willing to deal with her personality just to be able to have sex with her, or possibly spend the rest of his life with her? There are lots of attractive women out there who aren't mean, shrieky, demanding banshees. She looks good for her age, but by this age she should also have honed herself into the person that she truly is at her core. In my opinion, we don't really start develop into our whole selves until our 30's, and in our 40's we learn to love and appreciate who we have become based on our past mistakes, lessons, kindnesses, accomplishments, etc. By 50, we know who we are, we show who we are, it's habit to just be who we are because it's too much work to do otherwise, and if who you are in your 50's is a shitty, obnoxious, shallow, poison-tongued, entitled, hypocritical person, well...sorry about that, Ramona. Good luck in the dating world. For the record, I don't at all excuse Mario for cheating. It's never okay. I can understand the desire to cheat on Ramona, though. I think she is a miserable beast, and her behavior during this segment of the reunion made my blood boil. She really does think that she deserves special treatment from everyone, and that she should be handled with kid gloves during this NOT AT ALL DIFFICULT TIME, while the same situation for any of the other women deserves her smarmy, bitchy comments, her "oh, you don't really matter to me" shrug, and her complete dismissal of them once she is finished demeaning them. I had totally forgotten that clip with LuAnn about the blackmailing, and seeing it again reminded me that that was exactly the moment when I knew Ramona was a monster. And that she did exactly what LuAnn said, her oh-so-casual mention of shellac on her nails was to deflect some of the tension, and if she weren't guilty of what LuAnn accused, she would have been a dog with a bone and not let up until LuAnn was bleeding out of her ears. It pleases me to see karma at work, and by this I don't mean Mario cheating on her, I mean that she is now in the seat that gets to see what all of her cruel, smug comments feel like when they aren't coming out of her own mouth, but instead coming back to haunt her.

Are we going to be able to watch the HoH competition happen tonight? I feel like I've been left hanging. I need to know who wins before I go to bed!

God decided He wanted me to watch Jocasta act like a circus clown on live TV after all. Thanks, God! My cat peeled out and probably left claw damage in the flooring when I screamed for Donny's win. I feel so bad that he may have been hurt, and was at the very least probably thinking he was going to stroke out or have heart failure right there on the spot. If they go ahead with a new HoH competition tonight, I assume it will be endurance, and if so, there is no way Donny will win. Dammit. I have to admit there was a part of me that wanted Caleb to win the HoH for this week because I'm ready for more of his stories. And by stories I mean tales. Tall tales. The big kind they tell in Texas. I hope he gives Donny back his overalls now. Enough is enough. Zach is going to be such a nightmare that I may not be able to watch any of the feeds for a few days. I figure his shirt is already off for the week, and I'm so done with his nipples. I loved Julie's use of the word "literally". I firmly believe that was a little wink to those of us who care.

I am about to go into an involuntary fit. A storm whipped up with hail and lightning and maybe some tornadoes or whatever, and has done FUCKED UP MY CABLE BOX. If I miss Double Eviction Night, I'm going to need some kind of medication. Our cats are so used to me dragging them to the downstairs bathroom during hailstorms that now they just go in there by themselves when they hear it, and I know Mr. Irritable and I should probably join them in case death is impending, but all I can think about is how close it is to time for Big Brother. I'm practically pacing and panting. Why couldn't this happen last night? Or tomorrow? Jacosta is from a town that is right next to mine, and in fact lives something like 6 miles away from me. Should I assume this is some kind of message from God to her people?

MEEEEEEE TOOOOOO!!!! And wasn't he in the bathroom near the door to the toilet when he said it? I thought he might have finally used the word correctly for the very first time, but sadly, no.

Like, Iiterally I cannot listen to Cody say literally, like, one more time or I will literally explode. I have figured out what has happened to cause me to be so bored and impatient with all the constant whisper-wheeling and dealing this season. We have been marathoning Seasons 1 and 2 of House of Cards this week, and to go from a show where all of the plotting, backstabbing and campaigning for votes is done so concisely, smoothly and ruthlessly to...this? Well, let's just say it's pretty tough to adjust back to watching these people play their little game compared to watching high stakes chess with human pawns being played in the White House. Because even the most interesting game talk in the BB house right now keeps turning into static for me, I find myself delighted by things like Frankie reading the Tampax box aloud in French, and trying to figure out if that's Cody's stomach I can hear growling, or Christine's. When Christine said "I hate Donny", I wanted to send Kevin Spacey into the house to work his magic on her.

Awwww, MAN! You're right, they don't get to see the CD case anymore. They ruin all my fun! :(

I'm so bored, you guys. I've built up a tolerance, and now for me to enjoy these people at all I need for them to be extra whatever they already are, and they're just being regular amounts of themselves. Sigh. At least Zack has been wearing a shirt more often. Now I need for Hayden to start wearing one. All nipples, all the time gets icky for me. Since Victoria does seem to know about Frankie's sister, and is itching for someone else to climb aboard, I now want her to win the second HOH on Thursday and request Arianna Grande as her CD so that everyone can see the cover (that I assume has a picture of her face) and make the connection. I also hope Frankie is still in the house when this happens so he can deal with everyone knowing.