By: Kimba
Day 20 begins late for most of the HGs who stayed up into the
wee hours of the morning after a long, drink-infused night. Erika and Jack are
up first, as usual, but they stay in bed and whisper. What is on their minds
today? They hope that Nathan won’t use the veto—if he does, he will only be
further splintering an already splintered group. Although Alie ~is~ capable of
winning competitions, Jack concedes, he believes Nathan only wants her around
for flirtation and comfort. Furthermore, Nathan’s ties remain with the queen of
his Harem rather than with David, Erika and Jack. Jack laments that he didn’t
try to strengthen their bond more. Erika, meanwhile, wants to blame everything
on Justin: “It’s not Dana, it’s Justin. He does the thinking for her. It pisses
me off. Bitch.”
BB attempts to wake the HGs up at around quarter to
eleven, but to little avail. One by one, however, they slowly crawl out of bed
and begin their usual morning routines of teeth-brushing and face-washing and
looking generally like they’d rather sleep another day.
Nathan, as soon
as he gets to the washroom and finds Erika there, broaches the idea again of
pressuring Jun to vote with them (he considered this last night). Erika,
however, would rather see Jun nominated were Nathan to use the veto, but Nathan
doesn’t think this is very likely. Jack comes in and asks Nathan if he is,
indeed, going to use it, and much to Jack’s displeasure, I am sure, Nathan
replies in the affirmative saying that it is in their best interests to keep
such a strong player. Dana, meanwhile, is outside talking to one of her cronies
and expressing how she will be the “meanest mother ***** to that bitch” if
Nathan uses the veto. And so sets the melody for the day.
David, too, is
concerned that Nathan will use the veto and understandably so. He is quieter
than usual, but still manages to throw in a joke every once in awhile. He
mentions that he will talk to Dana about it, but the others tell him that she
doesn’t know anything; she is, however, “pissed” because she doesn’t want David
to go. David doesn’t take much comfort in this. Erika even admits that she can
understand why Nathan will use it—if it were one of them on the block and she
had the veto, she would use it, too.
Erika then heads outside under the
pretence of getting some sun, but immediately veers for the ManTroll herself to
talk about what is coming. To be precise, she asks Dana that, if the veto was
used and David nominated in Alison’s place, would Dana be willing to have Jack
voted out over David? She adds that it is more about sequestration and whom
they’d rather be with for those weeks—David or Jack. Though Dana doesn’t answer
it, she does appear to be mulling over the idea in her head.
Back
inside, we get our first guffaw of the day when we hear Alison tell David that
she wasn’t drunk last night—that the problem last night was not her interaction
with Justin in the hot tub, but how the others, who were wasted, reacted to it.
Uh-huh. She also suggests to Dave that he flirt with Dana in order to try to
sway her from either nominating him or voting him out. I guess after her success
with seduction last night, she figures she can give advice about it—puh-leeze.
Though the veto meeting is less than an hour away and the question will
be settled then, the HGs don’t take a rest from talking about the “what-ifs.”
Jack heads outside where Dana immediately asks him if he wants to stay. When he
says yes, she tells him then that he will stay, guaranteed—whomever she
nominates in Alison’s place will be voted out, of that he can be sure. Jack then
asks who it is exactly she will nominate, and she replies, “I don’t have much
choice; both of them are good players.” Obviously she is only considering David
or Erika.
If it were up to Nathan, however, this wouldn’t be the case.
In fact, he approaches Dana in the HOH with a deal to try to keep David, Erika
and Jack safe. He starts off by saying that what he is proposing is not a
threat; it is just an offer and she can think about it and do what is best for
her. The deal proposed is: Dana “redeem” herself for betraying the original
alliance by nominating one of the Stooges in Alison’s place ~if~ he uses the
veto; if she does, none of them will nominate her next week. It is important to
note that he reiterates several times that he doesn’t know for certain yet
whether he will use it or not. Dana retorts that it would be stupid if she did,
for next week she will be Alison’s primary target; to this, Nathan assures her
over and over that Alison, who will have owed him a favor if he vetoes her,
will do ~exactly~ as he says. Dana doesn’t trust this and begins to blather on
about how she nominated Alison for specific reasons—she is immature and won’t
fit in well with the group that has to be sequestered; she also is the “kind of
girl” who would vote against Dana in the final vote just because of her
relationship with Justin. Furthermore, “Would you want to be sequestered with
someone you knew hated you?” she asks Nathan. Nathan agrees that he wouldn’t,
but he doesn’t play the game with emotions, unlike Dana. “All you think about is
the final vote; who says you are going to get that far?” He tells her that her
safest move was to stay with them, but she disagrees—she doesn’t feel
particularly safe with either side. After they hash it all over and Nathan ends
by saying, again, that she should do what she needs to do, but “think about it,”
he leaves the room and murmurs quietly to himself, “Got her.”
Nathan,
smug as can be, heads over to Alison to tell her the details of the
conversation, while Dana heads out to Robert and expresses a very different side
to her perspective on the convo than we had seen during it. While talking to
Nathan, she had seemed to be considering Nathan’s proposal in a calm manner.
Outside with Robert, however, Dana is ~mad~ and he joins right along with her in
being pissed as pissed can be. “That stupid mother *****,” he utters. “He must
think you are stupid to accept a deal like that!” Dana paces back and forth and
says, “Who do you think it would hurt him more to see go? Because that is my
main goal right now—to hurt him.” Dana doesn’t just get angry, she gets
vengeful. Robert answers her and it is what we feared: David. Dana nods her head
in agreement and then says, “Exactly. And don't worry about what he said, that
deal, because I am not doing it. I wouldn't do that and you know it.” The Stooge
tosses his hand in unconcern and replies, “Oh no, I know.”
The two then
walk over to the HOH room where they are joined by other members of their
alliance and, let me tell you, their talk is BIG. Nathan, as far as they are
concerned, is a “stupid mother *****” who is as good as gone next week. Dana
rants about how angry she is that Nathan offered her a “second chance” (“who
does he think he is? Better than the HOH,” Robert bites out), so much so that
she wanted to “kick him in the nuts” or “smash his pretty face in.” She adds
that her speech (when he uses the veto) will be so big that it will make the
Daily News. “***** loser.” Throughout all of this, we hear Nathan called all
sorts of names from bitch to worse words that will be fothed here. Robert, in
particular, sounds angry and bitter enough to actually do someone physical harm.
Justin is not so bad, but he does offer the comment that “Alie has him so
brain-washed. She pushes her breasts in his face and rubs his ***** and he can’t
think for himself. He’s not a man.”
About this time, the veto meeting
occurs. We don’t go to FOTH, however; BB is considerate enough to let us see
four different camera angles of the backyard (*sigh*). Soon enough we see some
movement as some HGs trickle outside, and as Nathan and Jack sit down to talk,
we clearly hear that Nathan ~did~ use the veto and that David was nominated in
Alison’s place. Nathan: “I did what I had to do. She lied to us; she lied to
Alison and told her she was safe 5 seconds before nominations. I did what I had
to do.” Jack tells him that he understands, but he is evidently disappointed.
When Jun comes out, however, her reaction isn’t as forgiving. Though she doesn’t
dare to let anger or, really, any emotion lace her voice, she does tell Nathan
that she doesn’t understand why he said “all that stuff about betrayal” when
they were going to turn on Dana and vote her out if they got a chance. Nathan
doesn’t really respond to that; he only looks upset and says, “It sounds like
you are defending her.” Jun backtracks a bit, but maintains that his speech was
a bit harsh.
David, meanwhile, is not outside with his alliance members;
instead, he is in the HOH room getting as buddy-buddy as he can. Dana is
experiencing a bad case of verbal incontinence as she bashes Nathan every which
way she can: “Insecure, whimpering little man. He’s ***** pissing his pants
right now. I am not even sure if he has a ***** penis between his legs. I’ve
seen him squat to pee,” and “I will not be ***** civil to him anymore. I will
make that bitch cry every ***** day.” She then blasts herself for not having
nominated him alongside Alison this week; “I am so ***** pissed. SO ***** pissed
right now!!” The other Stooges join in (Robert the worst of all), and David,
though he doesn’t disagree, doesn’t say much as he sits back and listens to
them. Eventually, however, they offer him a deal: they will keep him over Jack
if he agrees that next week, were he to win HOH, Alison and Nathan will be
nominated. David replies, “If Erika is down with it, I am down with it.” Dana
seems happy by this arrangement, but the second David leaves, the others start
placing doubts in her head. To make it short, Robert, Jun and Jee (Jun most of
all) think that David is too strong of a player to keep around; he could ally
with Nathan and they would be a hard team to beat. Justin and Dana, however,
both want Dave to stay—Dana because she has the hots for him and wants to hurt
Nathan (assuming Nathan wants Dave out because he is competition), and Justin
because he wants to cut Nathan’s strategic move off at the ankles.
Erika
comes in at some point during this conversation, and while most of them are
ready to talk to her and ask her if she is willing to sacrifice Jack for David
~and~ vote out Nathan next week, Jun delves right into bitch mode and says
something like, “Is there any point in asking her? She doesn’t give us anything,
so why should we sit here and pretend to share information? I mean, really.”
What’s important to note about this is that she said that directly in front of
Erika while referring to her in the third-person. Erika replies somewhat
snottily herself, “Well, Jun, I am not sure yet what I want to do. I don’t
really know.” After she leaves, Jun does some more of her smooth-talking, and
Dana, who must hum “If I Only Had a Brain” to herself over and over, finally
agrees that David is toast.
Whew. This is a lot before two in the
afternoon! Fortunately, the afternoon settles down somewhat. A few interesting
bits to note: Alison wondered if “those internet nerds” could really capture
stills of her naked and share them—is that legal? Erika and Nathan remind her
that she signed a clause coming into the house saying that she is a “public
figure;” if she’s naked, she’s naked and that’s all there is to it. “I will
never be nude, damn it,” Erika adds. “I mean, I have my morals. I only get naked
for money.” The others laugh at this, but Alison is visibly upset since, as she
maintains, she didn’t do it on purpose. A bit later, the group gathers for their
Burger King lunch and David remarks that the tension is so thick one could cut
it with a knife. A poster thinks they overhear Alie tell Nathan that Jun said to
her, “Don’t talk to me. I want them to think I hate you.” Hmm. A bit later we
do, in fact, overhear her talking to Alison and Nathan as though she is still
aligned with them. Jun tells them that she is voting out David; that she “blew
up” at Erika earlier; and that they (Alison and Nathan) “did the right thing.” I
have to admit, Jun ~is~ playing a good game; I have never seen someone play both
sides so effectively before. It may come back to bite her on the ass, but right
now it is working like butter on toast.
Other afternoon tidbits: Dave
rubs and squeezes Alison’s backside as the men admire her posterior; she says
for the umpteenth time that there is “no way” she has a boyfriend anymore. Both
Alison and her brother have lost their licenses for driving too fast; her father
then bought her brother an Explorer (gotta love those parenting skills). Nathan
sees a dentist in the DR; he may have a cavity. Jee tells the others that his
dad had a circumcision without anesthesia in the Korean army (ow!!). He also
admits that he has never applied for US citizenship. He then regales the others
on how “good” his “girl” is because she does his laundry and, when they go to
his friend’s house, sits alone reading a magazine, not saying anything at all,
while he plays games. (I bet Jee can find a woman Nathan would like. Losers.)
Justin thinks Dana is cool for eating sunflower seeds (color me confuzzled??),
and Dana replies, “I will be the coolest girl you will ever know.” Jee calls Jun
“a hamster with a little pouch.” (Anyone else suspect that, while he
congratulates himself on staying with her while she was fat, he was one of those
boyfriends who constantly made fun of her and criticized her?)
Throughout the night, David and Erika whisper back and forth about how
they are going to save David; Dana and her Stooges, however, also whisper back
and forth about how they are going to vote him out. The three Stooges also plan
how they will stick together and be the final three and how they can’t “*****”
people over since they will be voting for them in the end. They then bash their
Queen and say how “anal” and “weird” she is—and “that’s how it’s going to be
when you have sex with her, too.” Seems like the ManTroll is only good to them
as far as she can help them get in the game. We also learn around now that
Robert admits to having used the “white stuff” daily—but apparently he doesn’t
anymore. Uh-hmm. Dana, meanwhile, is cleaning the bathroom (one of the HOH's
duties) and complaining every inch of the way.
As the night progresses,
Jun makes dinner as usual, Jee repairs the backyard hose, and Alison informs us
that she is constipated—the prunes aren’t working, apparently. David wanders
around being his normal odd self babbling: “Monkey mother lovers; monkey mother
monkey lovers. Spam, spammm. Spam, spammm,” and flipping off the camera.
Eventually they eat, and a few of the boys do the dishes afterwards. David heads
off to the HOH room to listen to some music; Jun follows close behind to molest
him. She rubs his bum and says, “I am playing piano on your ass, Dave.” She
mentions that she gets lonely and horny in the house, but he doesn’t respond.
Later he hightails it out of there and goes in search of Jack to strategize
(strange that, since one will be gone on Wednesday). As they converse, it is
apparent that David thinks he will stay—he says as much to Jack. He knows that
the Stooges are only stringing along Dana and Jun and will cut them loose at the
first opportunity. He also mentions that he wants Alison or Nathan to win HOH
next week (so much for his deal…lol; but this way, if anyone from the other side
wins HOH, David and Erika are safe for a week or two; if Alie or Nathan win,
they are all back in the game). Jack in the meantime comments how he can’t flirt
with Dana the way David does or hang around too much with “them”—it would just
be too obvious. David laughs and admits that whenever Dana hugs him, he makes
faces at a nearby camera. He is surprised that she is so easily fooled. As for
Jun, David’s visible distaste for Jun’s overtures of affection is not
misunderstood: “Every time Jun touches me, I want to slap her and tell her to
get the ***** off.”
Around 12:45am in the morning, Erika joins the two
guys and they do a little bashing themselves—though I have to say, it is rather
tame in comparison to the HOH-room talk. At most, there are some “they are so
stupid” comments and “what morons” remarks, but they are kinder to Nathan than
the others. Despite being put into a bad position themselves, they understand
why he did what he did—after all, were the situation reversed, they would have
done the same. Erika tells the others that Jun is on her *****-list now; Jack
comments that he and Dave need to prepare a strategy that will work for either
of them whoever stays; Dave considers throwing the HOH competition next week.
As for the Berts, they are strategizing, too, mostly saying that Dave,
no matter how nice and charismatic he is, has to go. They slam Alison and Nathan
(surprise) and agree that Nathan should go first, since Alison is “nothing
without him.” Again Dana bemoans not putting up Nathan; again they remark on
what a “tool” he is. It will make “great TV” when he is nominated. And on and on
until late in the night. Maybe they would do better to take their cues from
Alison and Nathan who are actually studying various facts in order to prepare
for the upcoming HOH. (I am so not a big Alie-Nate fan, but MAN would I like to
see one of them win the next HOH!)
And that is Day 20. Now it’s time to
settle down for a couple of days until the vote. Will Dana choose David to stay
over Jack? Let’s hope Dave’s muscles and boyish charms will do the trick.
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