Post by Bianca Benigno on Jul 11, 2011 20:07:35 GMT -4
The following is Imogen's nomination ceremony.
Jessica, you are safe.
JJ, you are safe.
Dino, you are safe.
Billi, you are safe.
Lori, I imagine it's no surprise that you have been nominated. The two of us have had quite the tumultuous relationship, but I don't really hate you. I'm just frustrated at your all-over-the-place game play.
You have tried to work everyone this entire game, telling everything to everyone and telling anything to anyone to advance yourself. While I admire your dedication to fight to stay (if we ignore all of last round's "vote me out immediately!" shenanigans), it is your mouth, your actions, and your double dealing that have put you in the position you're in now. It is also those things that have caused you to think that Sophie leaked DR information. She didn't. It's as simple as this: you told too many different people in the game too much and those people, shockingly, actually talked to each other and compared notes. Everyone knows that you are paranoid and full of lies, Lori, which is why people don't trust you. The funny thing is that if you had just stayed calm from the start of the jury phase on, you wouldn't have shot yourself in the foot.
But that's not even why I've nominated you. You are on the block because of the PM you sent me in the few hours since I won HOH. Allow me to explain the ways that you frustrated me with this PM:
After not talking with me all of last round and treating the house like utter crap with your homophobic rants, you immediately PM me this long message as soon as I win HOH about how it's my "call" as to what I do. Yes, I know it is my call. Thank you.
Your first paragraph in the PM included the gem of a statement: "just realize I am part of the jury phase now." NO DUH. You use this line with everyone all the time to try and get them to remember that this game isn't called BBCurve, it's apparently called BBLoriAutomaticallyGetsToWin. Oh, that's not the name of the game? Right, it's still BBCurve. We are ALL part of the jury phase and, yes, our actions do speak volumes now. You should have learned that during your crazy diatribes last round.
The next paragraph states, "You know Me and Makosi are together...and there is one more who I shall remain nameless....that's three out of four votes against a person to lose this game.....Do the right thing and do not put me up." This is actually the primary reason I'm nominating you. MATH SKILLS. 3 out of 7 does not a majority make. We tried to make you realize this last round, but I guess we should have been more basic in our lessons on fractions and percents. 3 pieces of pizza is not more than half of the pizza. The remaining 4 pieces of pizza are more than half of the pizza. If that wasn't bad enough, you go on to say, "I guarantee 110% if you keep me safe you are safe if me or the other person wins HoH." Again, MATH SKILLS. You can not, by definition, have more than 100%.
You spend the rest of the PM telling me how much of a threat Dino is, how I should nominate him, how he'll win if he gets to the end, blah blah. Maybe so, but if I had a choice between you or Dino getting HOH next round, I'd choose Dino ten thousand times over over you because my odds of being safe with him, while maybe not 100%, are significantly better than they'd be with you as HOH. And you say that you'd keep me safe next round, but I know better than to trust the pleas of desperate people. If I let you go this week and you became HOH next week, my ass would be gone with no doubt and I'd look like the fool who believed a beggar's promise.
Ok back to the PM - here's my favorite part: "...if I won hoh i would've put you and Dino up with Dino being the obvious target." So, you're asking me not to nominate you while in the same message saying that you would have nominated me? While I surely appreciate this glimmering moment of actual honesty from you, how am I supposed to feel comfortable thinking that I will be kept safe by you (and the people you somehow still have influence over?) when you also say that you would have nominated me?
Like I said, Lori, I don't really hate you. I actually enjoyed the times earlier in the game when we had similar goals in mind and could just talk without you being paranoid and over anxious all the time. I just can't respect your schizoid approach to the game anymore. You can't pull all the crap that you have, tell all the lies that you have, and then expect everyone to partner up with you and trust you.
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Dan. Dan, the man. I'm so sorry that I've had to nominate you. Hopefully, you can appreciate that Lori is my main target. However, I had to nominate a second person and I've chosen you for two main reasons.
First, out of everyone in the cast, you're probably around the least. As a result, I don't have much of an idea of where your head is at, gamewise, and I feel like you don't participate in the challenges and the game as much as the rest of the cast.
Second, and more importantly, from what I do know of you, you're just a really likeable guy and someone who people will want to keep around. Ultimately, I wanted to put up someone against Lori that was a genuinely nice guy, someone that people would almost certainly not vote out at this stage. Yes, Billi is also not around very much and I almost put him up against Lori, but he's just crass and aloof enough that people might decide to take the opportunity to take him out instead - I can't afford that kind of surprise. Clearly, I think it's only fair to the whole house that Lori go this week after what she put everyone through last week.
Dan, I sincerely hope that you stay this week and I hope we get more opportunities to chat about the game or just life in general. Best of luck.
Jessica, you are safe.
JJ, you are safe.
Dino, you are safe.
Billi, you are safe.
Lori, I imagine it's no surprise that you have been nominated. The two of us have had quite the tumultuous relationship, but I don't really hate you. I'm just frustrated at your all-over-the-place game play.
You have tried to work everyone this entire game, telling everything to everyone and telling anything to anyone to advance yourself. While I admire your dedication to fight to stay (if we ignore all of last round's "vote me out immediately!" shenanigans), it is your mouth, your actions, and your double dealing that have put you in the position you're in now. It is also those things that have caused you to think that Sophie leaked DR information. She didn't. It's as simple as this: you told too many different people in the game too much and those people, shockingly, actually talked to each other and compared notes. Everyone knows that you are paranoid and full of lies, Lori, which is why people don't trust you. The funny thing is that if you had just stayed calm from the start of the jury phase on, you wouldn't have shot yourself in the foot.
But that's not even why I've nominated you. You are on the block because of the PM you sent me in the few hours since I won HOH. Allow me to explain the ways that you frustrated me with this PM:
After not talking with me all of last round and treating the house like utter crap with your homophobic rants, you immediately PM me this long message as soon as I win HOH about how it's my "call" as to what I do. Yes, I know it is my call. Thank you.
Your first paragraph in the PM included the gem of a statement: "just realize I am part of the jury phase now." NO DUH. You use this line with everyone all the time to try and get them to remember that this game isn't called BBCurve, it's apparently called BBLoriAutomaticallyGetsToWin. Oh, that's not the name of the game? Right, it's still BBCurve. We are ALL part of the jury phase and, yes, our actions do speak volumes now. You should have learned that during your crazy diatribes last round.
The next paragraph states, "You know Me and Makosi are together...and there is one more who I shall remain nameless....that's three out of four votes against a person to lose this game.....Do the right thing and do not put me up." This is actually the primary reason I'm nominating you. MATH SKILLS. 3 out of 7 does not a majority make. We tried to make you realize this last round, but I guess we should have been more basic in our lessons on fractions and percents. 3 pieces of pizza is not more than half of the pizza. The remaining 4 pieces of pizza are more than half of the pizza. If that wasn't bad enough, you go on to say, "I guarantee 110% if you keep me safe you are safe if me or the other person wins HoH." Again, MATH SKILLS. You can not, by definition, have more than 100%.
You spend the rest of the PM telling me how much of a threat Dino is, how I should nominate him, how he'll win if he gets to the end, blah blah. Maybe so, but if I had a choice between you or Dino getting HOH next round, I'd choose Dino ten thousand times over over you because my odds of being safe with him, while maybe not 100%, are significantly better than they'd be with you as HOH. And you say that you'd keep me safe next round, but I know better than to trust the pleas of desperate people. If I let you go this week and you became HOH next week, my ass would be gone with no doubt and I'd look like the fool who believed a beggar's promise.
Ok back to the PM - here's my favorite part: "...if I won hoh i would've put you and Dino up with Dino being the obvious target." So, you're asking me not to nominate you while in the same message saying that you would have nominated me? While I surely appreciate this glimmering moment of actual honesty from you, how am I supposed to feel comfortable thinking that I will be kept safe by you (and the people you somehow still have influence over?) when you also say that you would have nominated me?
Like I said, Lori, I don't really hate you. I actually enjoyed the times earlier in the game when we had similar goals in mind and could just talk without you being paranoid and over anxious all the time. I just can't respect your schizoid approach to the game anymore. You can't pull all the crap that you have, tell all the lies that you have, and then expect everyone to partner up with you and trust you.
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Dan. Dan, the man. I'm so sorry that I've had to nominate you. Hopefully, you can appreciate that Lori is my main target. However, I had to nominate a second person and I've chosen you for two main reasons.
First, out of everyone in the cast, you're probably around the least. As a result, I don't have much of an idea of where your head is at, gamewise, and I feel like you don't participate in the challenges and the game as much as the rest of the cast.
Second, and more importantly, from what I do know of you, you're just a really likeable guy and someone who people will want to keep around. Ultimately, I wanted to put up someone against Lori that was a genuinely nice guy, someone that people would almost certainly not vote out at this stage. Yes, Billi is also not around very much and I almost put him up against Lori, but he's just crass and aloof enough that people might decide to take the opportunity to take him out instead - I can't afford that kind of surprise. Clearly, I think it's only fair to the whole house that Lori go this week after what she put everyone through last week.
Dan, I sincerely hope that you stay this week and I hope we get more opportunities to chat about the game or just life in general. Best of luck.
