MAFS Australia - Thread 4: “Don’t get your tits in a tangle. Relaaaaaax, enjoy the spaciousness, leave your guitars at home and let’s all be deeeeeece and not give any spoilers”

[browneyes77]

Ready for round 4 peeps! NO SPOILERS

Brace yourselves for more man buns, misogyny and mood swings.

Jayden was thoughtless, not malicious. They have spoken on the couch about the loss of his family.

Experts, producers need to get a grip. All fake, in it for IG followers:
Tori and Jack
Eden and Jayden
Lauren and Jono
Sara and Tim

Sprinkles of affection:
Jade and Ridge
Cassandra and Tristan

No coming back from the ICK:
Andrea and Richard
Michael and Stephen

Friend zone:
Lucinda and Tim

I did feel sorry for Lucinda as she raved about the room in the retreat and Timothy just sat there like a grumpy old man!

i think Eden and Jayden could be legit - or at least they fancy each other and seem suited and no reason why not work in the real world?

(bar the ex revenge part)

He seems okay to date for a few months. Same as young Tim. no huge hardship to give them a whirl.

Jade and Ridge seem solid.

I don't feel sorry for Tori because she has been quite nasty and unpleasant to everyone.

Sara is quite unpleasant. I don't blame Tim for not wanting to get into her arguement with Michael.

Tim can do so much better than the annoying mouthy Sara.

He is so bored with her and her drama!

I think if someone was telling me to shut up, I'd hope my partner and friends wouldn't sit there in silence. Maybe they edited out Sara being goady but what she said didn't seem to warrant Michael's reaction

If Sara is a strong woman, as she says she is, why did she need Tim to stand up for her? I dont blame him for staying quiet.

i think if it was someone like cassandra they'd speak up - though they didn't at the dinner party.

These people are all media keen i suppose - best to not shut down anyone chatting as thats them getting some camera focus/attention, good or bad.

I think Eden has some info on Deeece from the way the camera cut to them in the pool. Hasn't there been a previous teaser about someone messaging an ex or am I getting confused with Jack & showing the pictures?

I reckon Jack has likely given Lauren a misogynistic pat on the bum rather than a grope type of thing. More of a run along now little girl which is still massively out of order.

I thought both the neck kiss and bum tap /grope were Sara, not Lauren?

I thought it was one each?

Just watching now and it is definitely both to Sarah.

The bum tap was en route to the spa and the neck kiss at the dinner party when he apologised

Michael is a big child and Steven deserves much better?
Other way round, no?

I think the problem with the “tap on the bottom” and “neck kiss” is that they are easily denied/explained away. I’ve misjudged a kiss on the cheek before myself and ended up planting it on the ear/neck. (I’m not saying that he’s not a misogynistic creep because I think he is but these examples don’t prove anything).
Tori wasn’t put off by Jack saying her friend’s partner should put a muzzle on her friend in front of her. She wasn’t put off by him saying in front of her and the entire group that she liked him more than he liked her. Any hearsay or accusations that get thrown around that she hasn’t witnessed aren’t going to shift her judgement when things that have happened and been said before her own eyes haven’t.

Sadly I agree & Tori will just go down the route of them being jealous their relationships aren't as good as hers & lob's

Having said that, she could do with knocking down a peg or 2 & realising she's actually been quite nasty to other people in her defence of nothing

Stephen is an absolute hole.

Theatrics my arse.

He is the one sniffing round someone else’s testes, saying he is fighting a losing battle with Michael, then making Michael feel bad for not wanting a friendship/talk it out like grown ups.

It wasn’t his fault you went cherchez la coq mate.

That was all on you. Ye fanny.

True! I temporarily get sucked in and forget it's all very artificial

It's sort of like the events I attended when on graduate assessment centres

You have to encourage everyone to talk /have the floor/ have a chance to shine.

Nor steal their thunder etc

I think Lucinda would give a very comforting hug.

i’m glad Tim was open to it.

He shouldn’t be anywhere near that bloody programme though. They did him a huge disservice allowing him to be a contestant.

I think Michael was (sort of) correct when he said that Stephen is physically repulsed by him. If Stephen thought that he was good-looking, he would see that there was some potential - but he's shut it down as if he's repulsed by him, or has the ick, which is kind of the same thing.

I am kind of on Stephen’s side.
I have a number of male friends that I could conceivably be matched with by the ixperts, but there would be zero sexual attraction there. I couldn’t manufacture a spark just to avoid hurting the other person’s ego.
Surely it is better to say ‘sorry, I like you as a friend but I just don’t fancy you’ rather than stringing someone along like Ben did with Ellie, or Jack and old Tim are still doing?

Then surely it would have been better to just tell Michael instead of getting cosy with a random and then saying something.

As was, he turned it all round on Michael when a kindly worded ‘It’s not you it’s me’ comment might have been better.

I don’t want to see anyone faking it till they make it when their heart isn’t in it but nor do I want to see someone get the blame for not being someone else’s cup of tea.

I agree, he could have broken it in a nicer way, but I still think micheal was being a bit dramatic.

Not sure why they went to the retreat though. If someone told me they didn’t fancy me that would be it, and if I didn’t fancy them then I can’t see the point of carrying on. Maybe they just fancied a nice trip to Byron?!