[Seraphim]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..I think for me, it's not that I didn't think Jim only did it to look good...I think Dappy did it because he's not always the brightest button in terms of logic..(how could he do the task if he didn't eat/had no energy..) but his heart was in the right place and I think he's ruled by his emotions, rather than 'sense'...but for me, all of that didn't really matter because people just make their own minds up about motivations etc and a lot of it's game-playing for most housemates anyway....but it's more what it all caused I that I think that's what really bugged Linda and led to the cherry brandy thing in that she found the thought of Jim ever 'looking good' in anyone's eyes, just unbearable...yeah, Jim wants to 'look good', don't they all..?..but who can blame him, really..well, apart from Linda, that is.....

Exactly. Like you say, it's hard to know what people's motivations are for their behaviour, because we're all multi-layered, so we often don't even know ourselves.

On a lighter note, I found watching Dappy sitting slumped in a beaten heap saying "Thanks Jim" like he'd been through hell was priceless, because they'd been having a ball in a bar with steak and kidney pie, calamari and booze. It was all a big pretence, and they'd all have had a huge laugh about it all afterwards, if Linda hadn't kicked off and ruined the whole thing.