Big Brother Africa 4: Storm in a beer bottle!

BOYS will be boys will be boyzzzz! But eish people, there’s been more zzzzzzzz than siZZle in the all-male household – up until Saturday night.
Slackerville finally stirred – at least for a couple of hours! And I’m not talking about Jeremy’s endless muscle flexing.

Kenya dude may be buff, but whoever finds themselves in a relationship with him is going to have to live with the fact that there’ll always be three in their relationship: them, Jeremy and his brood of manicured muscles.And I’m not sure I can vouch for who will get the most attention!OK, back to Saturday night. Where to start, where to end.BOTTLE IT!Across the border seems as good a place as any. How is it that whenever there’s a beer bottle involved, Botswana’s in the thick of things?!Yes Justus, we DO remember! Miss you Meryl!!The froth and the wrath of Saturday night’s liquid moment is that Botswana’s Kaone and Phil got hot under the collar over a cold one.And somehow Quin and Phil’s cojones got dragged into the equation. Don’t ask.Seems Leonel asked Phil to pass him a beer that belonged to Yacob.Phil did, but then took one of Itai’s beers. Kaone, also known as K-1, got it into his head to tell Phil that he should have first asked Itai.Wrong move!Phil blew his top (no, not the beer cap), and Kaone held his ground as stubbornly as a goat in a scrap yard, if not his beer. To make matters worse, he ragged Phil about the beer situation Uganda – don’t they get enough there, or what?!!Ouch!That’s about it folks. More of a pond moment than an Okavango swamp deal. Phil then vented in the bedroom, accusing Kaone of being a drama queen. This after Quin accidentally brushed Kaone’s cojones during some ragtag dude game, and, according to Phil, K-1 got all Shakespearean about it.As if one hairy moment was not enough, at some point later, according to Phil, K-1 grabbed his (Phil’s) cojones, also known as nuts, and taunted him. Phil’s parting words were that Kaone should pray that Phil was leaving. Otherwise he, Phil, would make Kaone’s life hell. Sighhhhhhhh.Otherwise, it seems that the house has been in a state of suspended animation ahead of the arrival of the girls last night. Though animation may be pushing it!Don’t know about you, while some of the guys are profiling, none of them are really making waves. POTTED BUT NOT PLANTEDToo many of the guys seem to just fade into the background along with the pot plants.And more potted than planted at that – Teddy ‘one dread’ (the balding one from Kenya), Wayoe ‘where are you’, and Leonel, who seems to have misplaced his Leo for now.Sorry South Africa, I’m not feeling Quinn. As BBA regular Julie-Nam said in one of her messages on the TV text strip: ‘Quinn fans, convince us!’I mean what was with Quinn wearing that omutjira (tiny traditional lappie worn by men) over his jeans during Friday night’s task presentation.It’s enough to give fashion roadkill a bad name! As if that was not enough, Quinn appeared in teletubby-type jammies on Saturday night. In beige, nogal. Which about sums him up for me. So far.Itai seems to have lost some of his shine among the females, but Hannington’s stock is rising!Which brings us to Kaone. Hella, the man from Tawanaland is developing something of a fan club because of his ‘couldn’t give a damn’ attitude. He even has avid fans in the south of Namibia!!Seems one person’s irri-tainment is another person’s entertainment! Have to hand it to K-1, he’s pushing buttons left, right and centre. Bring it on!* Please note: Because of deadlines, the BBA columns are written before the eviction and nomination shows.* Tune in to DStv Channel 198 for 24/7 action, or watch the daily highlights show on M-Net (DStv Channel 101/102) and AfricaMagic (Channel 114) every day at 18h30. Weekly highlights will also be aired on NBC, every Saturday from 21h15 – 22h15.