Reality bites in the BBA house!

WHAT’S up with Big and the no-meat regime? BBA watchers think there has to be some scheming behind the imposed ‘alternative eating style’.

And most of the housemates are tripping over the veggies-only thing. Talk has even turned to “revolution”.Some of the guys have been mouthing off big time, but when it came to the face-off, whoosh …the late-night bravado whimpers away in the diary room.Yes, Code, we’ve decoded you.When Big asked him about the eating set-up it was like “well, you know Big, it’s like OK but I do come from a meat-eating background …”What happened to the late-night revolutionary? Code was all but salivating late Monday as he talked about his fantasies of a barbeque.”Even chicken,” he groaned.”I’m going to have a word with Big.”Cometh the hour, Code hit the road.It’s pimp it or wimp it, bro.Don’t you think it’s kind of weird too that the guys seem to think that the women can cope better without meat? And what’s up with Justice? I’m not discriminating, but the long and the short of it, in this case definitely the short of it, is that you gotta be your own man.Don’t tell me part of his game plan is to appeal to the sympathy vote? How else do you explain him taking on Kwaku at arm wrestling? And how else do you explain the house’s self-proclaimed debater folding as soon as one of the women says “boo” to him …And what’s with all those “poor baby” sympathy messages on the BBA site when he can’t hold his own? Shem! (Thanks Erica Gebhardt for pimping my vocab) Get real Justice, or you might just end up being short-changed outta the house.And, yip, I AM going to pound one of those traditional African drums for our girl despite some of the player haters and dissbelievers in the BBA-watching diaspora.Is our Meryl in peril? Those who find her too out there want us to believe so after Monday’s fake nominations.The names of Meryl, Justice and Nigerian Ofunneka (who hasn’t exactly been a barrel of funneka till now) came up the most.It seems a green-eyed gremlin has set up home on the shoulder of some female housers who regard themselves as the epitome of African female decorum.They grudgingly concede “Meryl spices up the show”, but …But what? Namibia is representing! And, judging by the public response to Meryl (via the BBA SMS strap), I don’t think the public is ready to let our girl leave yet! Sure hope not.Props to our girl! She’s cooking up a storm in the kitchen, marshalling the forces for dishwashing duty, and one of the contestants actually switching on for the viewers.And she’s the baby of the house, nogal.Some of those disapproving sisters could take a leaf out of her book.Magic? No sooner had I got onto Richard’s case yesterday than our Tanzanian morphed into a talker! And, no, we are not linked by a horcrux (à la Harry Potter and Voldemort).But it turns out that the dreadlocked brother is a fan of the JK Rowling books.Step it up!Talk has even turned to “revolution”.Some of the guys have been mouthing off big time, but when it came to the face-off, whoosh …the late-night bravado whimpers away in the diary room.Yes, Code, we’ve decoded you.When Big asked him about the eating set-up it was like “well, you know Big, it’s like OK but I do come from a meat-eating background …”What happened to the late-night revolutionary? Code was all but salivating late Monday as he talked about his fantasies of a barbeque.”Even chicken,” he groaned.”I’m going to have a word with Big.”Cometh the hour, Code hit the road.It’s pimp it or wimp it, bro.Don’t you think it’s kind of weird too that the guys seem to think that the women can cope better without meat? And what’s up with Justice? I’m not discriminating, but the long and the short of it, in this case definitely the short of it, is that you gotta be your own man.Don’t tell me part of his game plan is to appeal to the sympathy vote? How else do you explain him taking on Kwaku at arm wrestling? And how else do you explain the house’s self-proclaimed debater folding as soon as one of the women says “boo” to him …And what’s with all those “poor baby” sympathy messages on the BBA site when he can’t hold his own? Shem! (Thanks Erica Gebhardt for pimping my vocab) Get real Justice, or you might just end up being short-changed outta the house.And, yip, I AM going to pound one of those traditional African drums for our girl despite some of the player haters and dissbelievers in the BBA-watching diaspora.Is our Meryl in peril? Those who find her too out there want us to believe so after Monday’s fake nominations.The names of Meryl, Justice and Nigerian Ofunneka (who hasn’t exactly been a barrel of funneka till now) came up the most.It seems a green-eyed gremlin has set up home on the shoulder of some female housers who regard themselves as the epitome of African female decorum.They grudgingly concede “Meryl spices up the show”, but …But what? Namibia is representing! And, judging by the public response to Meryl (via the BBA SMS strap), I don’t think the public is ready to let our girl leave yet! Sure hope not.Props to our girl! She’s cooking up a storm in the kitchen, marshalling the forces for dishwashing duty, and one of the contestants actually switching on for the viewers.And she’s the baby of the house, nogal.Some of those disapproving sisters could take a leaf out of her book.Magic? No sooner had I got onto Richard’s case yesterday than our Tanzanian morphed into a talker! And, no, we are not linked by a horcrux (à la Harry Potter and Voldemort).But it turns out that the dreadlocked brother is a fan of the JK Rowling books.Step it up!