[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Zee

It's still being excluded though? He seems to get on just fine with people on a one on one basis, he was even laughing and joking with Linda the other night; Lee came out to see him and speak to him when all the others were bitching about Jim's nomination (why weren't they bitching about Liz's nomination for Sam? Because she was there in the room with them... Sam then waited until she was with Casey, Ollie and Dappy before she ripped into Liz) - they have a group mentality and Jim has been their main target from very early on because Linda has portrayed him as an awful person (which I have no doubt he is) when in the house, Jim hasn't demonstrated or lived up to any of the bad qualities Linda has mentioned; which in my eyes makes Linda the one with the problem, not Jim. Maybe she's absolutely right about him, but he hasn't done anything in the house to deserve the torrent of abuse she's been spouting off about him in my opinion. If you know that a group of people all dislike you, why would you spend time around them? He knows they all nominated him because it was played for them all to see/hear. Why would he sit with them?

..you're not being excluded if you exclude yourself though...yeah, it doesn't show us anyone often going out to him..(although I'm sure they have sometimes done it..?..)...and saying, come on Jim, come and join us... but he can just as easily be with them as not be with them, that's his choice...and it is often the case that if one person consistently does exclude themselves from a group and there are people there with a tendency to 'bitch' then that's the person who will get bitched about...I do agree that there are a few who instigate the bitching, but I don't think that Linda has 'turned' people against him, I don't think that she has that power..and I don't think that it's bullying either....