Originally Posted by Nosaer:
“I think the 'menopausal' comment may have some relevance, not in terms of hormones necessarily but in terms of that age group. It is a difficult age for many reasons, possibly including; looking back on achievements (or lack of), children flown the nest (or never had children), the deterioration of the body, diminishing sex drive, death on the horizon, time running out. A lot of stuff comes up and I think Linda is carrying a fair bit of anger, she does not seem at peace with herself or her lot.”
What 'age group' contains Linda and not Jim? He is 6 years older than her, said himself that his career is over, and is probably finding it hard to adjust to his lack of attractiveness and fitness. And he does seem quite an angry person, glowering at one person after another. I guess one might say that he is menopausal, though it is not entirely polite imo to speculate about peoples' hormonal state.
Originally Posted by Odette Valmont:
“I did find it odd. However, we must not forget that Luisa was on the bed with Linda, being manipulated and fed lies about Jim. .”
Exactly what were these alleged 'lies'? I can't remember any at all. You will have to remind me.
Originally Posted by
Bela:
“Oh please! Manipulated indeed! 
Luisa is not going to nominate someone as a favour to someone else. Of everyone in there, she is easily the most single-minded and self-sufficent and will have her own nomination plan to suit her own game.
Here's a thought: maybe Sam and Luisa just don't really like Jim that much and that's why they've nominated him? He does have a tendancy to be abrupt and dismissive so it's reasonable to assume they may also have experienced that from him.
He got 5 nominations. Why not just accept that 5 people find him annoying and stop trying to complicate things unnecessarily by manufactuirng 'dangerous' agendas.”
It seems bizarrely hard for some people to accept this very obvious fact. It doesn't fit in with the forum fantasy that Linda is horrible. If people just get on pretty well with her and find her pleasant enough to live with there must be something wrong: she has tricked them or brainwashed them, or some other ridiculous and childish idea.
Originally Posted by Odette Valmont:
“I just find it funny that the people who nominated him were the exact same people gathered around Linda on the bed (apart from Lionel of course).”
Really? You have never seen a group of friendly people before who get on better with each other than with another person? That not only suggests that you have never seen Big Brother before, it suggests you have never seen any kind of group at all.
It is also failing to distinguish between what we saw on the highlights and what life in the house is actually like. You are referring to a scene that lasted - what? - five minutes? They have already spent hundreds of hours together. It is
wildly unlikely that anyone has made any kind of decision based on part of a single conversation, most of which we did not see.
rat 
