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Originally Posted by delta
That's where we differ on the opinion of him. Bullies come in all guises, he has his gang with him he plays to that audience feeds off them. True, not all the time he is picking on the weak, but he does attack the vulnerable and hey, I must have a longer, sharper memory than you. He threatened to hit a 70 year old man. He had to be dragged into line about his treatment of Gary at the start of the show and if he hadn't the bullying and mistreatment of a pensioner would have really got out of hand. He clearly had an agenda get rid of all the people he didn't like so he could run and rule the house how he wanted it. Life doesn't work like that. Sorry, he has all the signs of a bully and a coward. The remarks he made about Laurren then didn't have the balls to stand up and be accountable for his words. Then he back tracked after he was called out for it.
A classic bully with severe self esteem issues.
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...hmmm, I agree with some of what you say...I do recall the confrontation at the beginning and it was definitely to me a self esteem issue and a 'peening of feathers' which he's also done with other housemates but not of 'bullying'...and I do agree that bullying comes in different guises but I don't think it applies here at all...I also think we should stop thinking things like 'mistreatment of a pensioner' because age is irrelevant to an intolerance and lack of understanding/ignorance shown with an impairment, which many of the housemates have equally shown...James no more so tbh... Gary and James most definitely got off on the wrong footing and I think BB were brilliant in how they handled it because it put it back on him to try to get the others to see more tolerance because it was all of them...or still a lot of them at that time...I also disagree on James wanting to 'get rid of people to rule the house'...one of the things about James is that to 'feed' his confidence and self esteem he has had to have those 'stronger' housemates in to pit himself against..?...that's been a big and constant thing with him...and although he has shown extreme intolerance to Gary, I think Steph was probably worse for me and always 'feeding the Gary 'hate'....James has also probably more than anyone else, tried to help Gary at times and spent more time with him, it's just that they're such different people and he's ultimately lost his patience again..I don't like James that much, there is so much at fault with him and there (I think) are serious self esteem issues, which yes would go with 'bully' but I don't think that applies here and he's never to me been a 'leader' of a group...there has been a bandwagon which they've all jumped on and he's been an equal part of that, while also equally 'fighting his battles' with other housemates as well as Gary...