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Kalekona
Member
06-12-2005
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 8:28 pm
I'm still in favor of a million dollar prize split between them.
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Cillysue2
Member
05-02-2003
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 8:31 pm
Little late here but I say I sure could use a strong drink, or I could use a cold one right now, I say it all the time and I don't even drink so to me he probably ment it but it doesn't mean he is alcoholic, just that the situation was making him fell like he NEEDED one. I can seee Dani making a lot of people feel like that.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 8:37 pm
I would LOVE it if Julie says that because the two enemies made it to the finale, they get to split $1M. And Eric gets his measly $30K! 
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Govols
Member
07-19-2005
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 8:57 pm
Loppes Member 07-12-2002 Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 7:18 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dick doesn't seem to have any problems with his son Vincent,,,so one has to question Daniele's problem and if its Daniele herself that is the problem. Father/Daughter dynamics are very different than Father/Son dynamics. I think it is safe to say the whole Family would benefit from Dr. Phil. I also believe that Dani and Dick are good at heart and wish the very best for them both.
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What555456
Member
06-14-2005
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 9:17 pm
I agree Govolos. Not only are such relationships very different, we also have not seen Dick and Vincent interact; much less in this type of environment. All we have seen is Vincent take a public position supporting his father and blaming his sibling for any problems. With everything I understand about children with dysfunctional parents, the damage caused by the parents is not repaired until well into adulthood, if it is repaired at all. I cannot imagine that Vincent is not also suffereing aignificant problems because of what Dick and his mother did to himm. But I can easily imagine that Vincent plays the "good little boy" so that "Daddy" will finally love him. I can also understand why he places the blame on Dani for the problems -- its a way of making daddy happy with him and unhappy with the one he has to compete with for daddy's love.
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Carrie92
Member
09-15-2003
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 9:19 pm
Evel Dick vs Dr Phil! Ha! See if AG was smart she would have scrapped the recap episode and had Dr. Phil make a housecall!
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Loppes
Member
07-12-2002
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 9:21 pm
govol yes, ITA
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Meggieprice
Member
07-09-2001
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 9:58 pm
Carrie, lol! I have to kinda laugh at the intense thought that goes into armchair analysis of contestants on a reality show! We have no idea what the truth is. None! It is all just speculation yet often spoken here as if the total truth.
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Carrie92
Member
09-15-2003
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 10:10 pm
Meggie, I think that's why we get so addicted to these shows. Gives us TV junkies something to talk about. Where would TVCH be without armchair analysis?
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Lurknomore
Member
07-07-2001
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 10:27 pm
Funny I read Vincent's thread the entire summer and I found him to be very nice, very honest and direct, doesn't take shit from anyone but is generally funny or polite about it. I've seen him explain things in mature, well thought out concepts. Conversely I've seen Dani all summer and have seen someone who is always miserable, who always feels wronged, who wants to be a victim, and not ONCE has taken responsibility for anything negative that I can recall. So based on getting a good sense of them all summer, I would have a hard time NOT taking what Vincent says as holding more truth than Dani. JMHO. BTW unless and until Dani is willing to be wrong I can't see Dr. Phil or anyone making any headway with her. In reading her LiveJournal I saw years of her behaving the same way, feeling the same way, and wanting materical things. I hope for her sake she one day gets it, but I don't think she is even close right now.
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Kalekona
Member
06-12-2005
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 10:31 pm
I've been in chat with Vincent and he is a kid with a great head on his shoulder and good sense of self, something i have not seen in Daniele.
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Meggieprice
Member
07-09-2001
| Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 10:34 pm
Vincent is one of the real people in this situation and a better source of information than anything else we have available to us, especially that speculation and stated as fact analysis I mentioned.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, September 17, 2007 - 12:52 am
a good sense of Self can be obtained by acceptance from a father, while we've seen Dani being constantly harped at as to 'her attitude'. I would suggest that Vincent is not playing the good little boy, but is playing the 'old chip off of the block' routine. I've actually seen that in real life abusive families. It is easier for the kids to go along with it then try to distance themselves from it. Love to know if Vincent has such a great attitude about women (whres slts etc) I read somewhere that Dick and Vincent reconcilled a while back. That makes me think that this is all relatively new. anyways, I'm just glad its almost over and if we are lucky, we wont hear what happend after th show ended. If I was dani I'd never talk to him again after hearing the stuff he had said about me on Feeds.
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Aerojunki
Member
06-30-2004
| Monday, September 17, 2007 - 4:27 am
I just spent the last two hours reading some of Dani's blog & so far, she sounds like she had a good relationship with her dad..but most of her writing sounds like the same Dani I've seen in the house. She said her & her dad got along great, he was her best friend & sounded like they were together a lot. They were planning vacations together, going to the movies, Disneyland, Six Flags or just going to her dads for he can make her dinner & they can bake cookies together. She even said once, "me & dad have a date tonight, how cute"..her words, not mine. Wow, she sounded really abused..IF that's abuse, more kids need to be. Her blog is negative, whiny, self centered & bitchy, just like she is in the house. IMHO
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Kmjm
Member
05-19-2002
| Monday, September 17, 2007 - 5:53 am
For heaven's sake, all we do around here is analyze people's behaviours!! How often do you get to observe people up close and personal for three months straight? I think we have a pretty good basis upon which to make judgements. I would not rely as strongly on a person's posts and chats on a message board. I think What's analysis is bang on. Telling him to ask Vincent makes no sense- we really expect Vincent to have a good insight into his motives in his relationship with his father? How many of us do at that age, even in the best of relationships? And if you did, would you post about it on a message board? I can't stand either Dick or Dani, but Dick is the parent and has some responsibility for how Dani has turned out. As far as I am concerned he is only reaping what he has sowed with her. He's set in his ways for life, but at least she has some chance to grow and mature. I wouldn't judge her as worse than him until I see what she turns out like at 44.
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Milosmom
Member
06-10-2006
| Monday, September 17, 2007 - 5:57 am
I would think Vincent would know his & Danis relationship with his Dad better than a poster on the internet. I have found him to be really impartial with his assessment of his Dad. He agrees he has faults, and takes no offense to some of the nasty stuff posted over there.
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, September 17, 2007 - 6:02 am
some posters say that dick totally abandoned his children and was a neglectful father. vincent has said otherwise. i believe his son, who was THERE. even in dani's journal, she never said anything negative about her father. she called him her best friend.
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Kmjm
Member
05-19-2002
| Monday, September 17, 2007 - 6:02 am
But we aren't just posters on the internet. We've watched Dick and Dani interact live for three months solid- or in my case about 2 months since I've mostly stopped watching, lol.
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