Originally Posted by Sweet_Princess:
“Gail will get the sympathey vote and win its so obvious”
Originally Posted by Tiffani:
“Clearly, she was the winner from day 1 anyway with her sob stories and poor me attitude.”
Originally Posted by pugamo:
“Its not her lack of hair that disturbs me, its her lack of a supportive bra.”
Originally Posted by SpiritedAway:
“Dear God, I hope not. But it would be just like the GBP to give that sobbing, moody, miserable mess the win.”
Originally Posted by wildpark:
“Some of the women in that house are enough to turn a man gay.”
Originally Posted by Dave_62:
“Gails bald story is a bit old now. There's not a lot of sympathy votes left in it.”
Originally Posted by boyzie:
“I don't think she will win,I think she's playing the sympathy vote too much,in fact that's all she's doing tbh.”
Originally Posted by Alrightmate:
“After last night many people on the forum were expressing sympathy for Gail, which is fair enough, and then gushing praise for other housemates who were complimenting her.
It was fine to a point, but then it very quickly leapt over into sentimentality and mawkish nonsense, and definitely emotionally affected forum posters on here.
But if we retrace the steps of how this all came about, (a transcript would help), it all started off with Gail being jealous of Jenna.
That's right.
Gail started all this because she was jealous of Jenna. is that really 'brave'? Everyone was enjoying each others company, then James joked that he was jealous of Gail getting a kiss off Jenna Jameson. Which was the point the mood turned.
Gail snapped at James asking him why not her (Gail). James was a bit flummoxed and didn't know what to say.
Then Gail went on to say how she hated that sort of thing because of how it made her feel. She then went on to tell a story revolving around her having no hair.
Everyone was looking at her as though they were scared because they didn't know what to say. Then somebody complimented her, I think it was James out of embarrassment for starting her off, and then they all started piling in with the compliments saying how wonderful Gail is.
Gail at one point said that she "doesn't give a f**k about having no hair".
No? Then why is she always bringing it up as a subject when nobody else is?
Why bring up the story about the truck driver being abusive to her about her baldness if she doesn't give a f**k about having no hair?
Then somebody, might have been Gail herself, mentioned that other things are more important than the superficial stuff.
Sorry, but I think they must have forgotten why they were having this talk in the first place. It was because Gail got jealous of Jenna because James told her that he wished he got kissed by Jenna, and Gail wanted to be seen as attractive to him too. Which in my opinion is superficial.
Gail says she doesn't give a f**k about having no hair. But she is the one who brings up these tales of woe. I'm not heartless, I do empathise to a degree, but she appears to want to milk sympathy from other people and then tell them that she's not bothered, and get credit for being brave.
In the same talk Gail brings up the fact that she has worked for several charities, which appeared to have zero relevance to the situation, and felt like it was slipped in there to fish for more compliments from the others.
I feel as though I'm obliged to treat Gail as a sympathy case. It appears that her fellow housemates do as well.
I shouldn't feel guilty for writing this post, but I sort of do a bit because I know that people will judge me for being too harsh and unfeeling.
The problem is that what should you do and how should you react when Gail names her favourites in there and asks people to not do things just because she doesn't like it?
It feels very very awkward when I watch her in some situations, and no doubt it will for the housemates in there too. I got the sense last night that several of the housemates around her felt awkward and the only way they could react was to shower her with compliments to a ridiculous degree.
The whole situation came about simply because she was jealous of another woman in there, yet nobody around her seemed to try to put things into context for her, instead they felt obliged to make out that she was Joan of Arc, which I fear won't help her in the long term. I really don't think that's what she needs, although to those complimenting her it might offload some of their guilt for not having her problems.
I think out of all of them around her Sherrie was the only housemate who came across as relatively rational and grounded, while the others patronised her like she was a pet.”
If I'd written any of these I'd delete and then ask my mother to slap me.
And no, she's not my favourite, but there's no need to be nasty.”
