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Nessietessie
Member
02-03-2007
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 5:51 am
Does anyone know any couples who constantly bicker and banter back and forth? In real life or on tv shows, like "Frank and Marie Barone "on "Everybody Loves Raymond." Look at Jens face when Dick is hassling her...She has a little smile like she knows she is getting under his skin...Dick and Jen bicker like an old married couple...with Daniele as their child.
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Tresbien
Member
08-27-2002
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 6:09 am
Disagree. This is not bickering or banter. Dick hates Jen. She smirks because she knows he is so wrong in what he says to her, and the way he says it makes him look so bad.
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Carmil
Member
07-17-2005
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 6:16 am
An old married couple more like Ike and Tina Turner, rather than Frank & Marie Barone. There's too many hateful rants for me to ever equate them with a couple that really deep down inside has love for one another.
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 6:18 am
Honestly IRL I know no couple that fights like Dick and Jen...well Dick does the fighting. I don't think want to spend time with people like that. Life is too short to be miserable and I wouldn't want to be any part of that.
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Jushvnfn
Member
07-29-2006
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 6:37 am
They bicker like they could be the next twist....hmmm
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Spunky
Member
10-08-2001
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 6:59 am
I think Dick should try a different tactic with Jen, since he must have noticed it's hard to break that shield of hers. Instead of pounding her over and over with his verbal abuse, he should try to engage her in a witty or full of humour conversation and see how she respond to this new side of Dick. It's only by using different approaches that one learns to understand the other. Jen should try to approach Dick in a 'nonchalant' manner, without any taunting or smirking which drives him mad, a bit like this: Jen: "Hey Dick, how's it going??" Dick: "God, not you again.." Jen: "No, really, I don't want any fighting, I just want to ask you something just to know you better..." Dick: "I'm not interested in a f'ing idiot like you.." Jen: "Dick, please, let's be serious now, I'm trying to have a civilized conversation with you, let's say I would like to leave the house without this animosity and I'm ready to forget your verbal abuse, I know I may have been the cause of your hatred towards me, but let's put this aside and let's treat each other with some respect, that's all I'm asking you." Would this approach by Jen change Dick? I doubt but at least I'd like to see her try it.
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Carmil
Member
07-17-2005
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 7:22 am
If Jen and Dick had a secret alliance behind the scenes, that would be one of the greatest twists ever on BB. I wish one of them would be smart enough to realize that. Or maybe they already have but we just don't know it. I would love that.
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Onlymytulips
Member
07-17-2005
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 7:38 am
The only twist with Dick, is inside his "twisted" mind. Where is the line between bickering and verbal abuse? I say it is when person is overpowering with the name calling, throwing around profanities, talking about rude sexual encounters, and pounding on the counter with a golf club.
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Jushvnfn
Member
07-29-2006
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 7:49 am
I'm just saying that if BB ever did do something interesting and really surprising, this could be it. I have seen nice actors play vile rolls in movies. Dick claims to be an actor. Could he be that good??? Who knows???
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Tera
Member
08-10-2000
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 8:00 am
Dick does think that the cameras are constantly rolling and that at least 1 is always on him. (I heard him say basically this to Daniele the other day) There have been many other BB contestants that have used the game as a very long audition. You may be on to something, Jush.
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Nessietessie
Member
02-03-2007
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 8:20 am
By no means did I mean to imply that Dicks bickering with Jen was in the same league as "Frank and Marie Barone." I just could not think of anyone else who constantly bickers. In the beginning, I liked Dick, however, as the days go by, he is just so insulting, abusive, and rude to Jen and I admire her for her not letting Dick break her spirit. He just MAY be trying to get into movies.
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Onlymytulips
Member
07-17-2005
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 8:24 am
Great thinking Jush. However, does this mean they threw in Danielle to add to the "mean girlfriend" image?
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 8:31 am
There was a long running radio called The Bickersons with Don Ameche and Frances Langford. The last name was 'Bickerson', but for a reason; they fought constantly. Tapes of the show can now be purchased. I'm wondering if in this day and age we would find it still funny?
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 8:36 am
More like the "Ozzie Osbourne" version of the Honeymooners..."To the moom Alice".."yeh right Ralph"..
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Tera
Member
08-10-2000
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 8:45 am
I suppose it can be entertaining when the bickering is equal. But the words that come out of Dick's mouth are so vile. For example: During the "golf club incident" (video in the Live feeds Video section) Dick: "You are a bleeding, pussing, hemorrhoid on this house" Jen: "I'm a delicate flower." I had to laugh at that one.
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Jushvnfn
Member
07-29-2006
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 8:50 am
Thanks Onlymytulips...I haven't figured out the Dani part yet. I has been suggested that they (D/D)knew each other was going to be in there together. Maybe they had to tell her his role, so she wouldn't be shocked. I could be totally wrong about all of it, but it's fun to speculate!
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Earthmother
Member
07-14-2002
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 8:53 am
Dani is the kid who is smarter than her parents Dick/Jen and finds them both ridiculous but refuses to get into the fray..She just laughs. Dick is the bloviating, big mouth daddy to Jen's Edith Bunker type enabler..This would be one funny sitcom.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 11:45 am
"Dick claims to be an actor." He's a bartender with delusions of grandeur! I checked his name on the imdb.com database and he does have one listing....for BB 8.

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Guinevere
Member
03-15-2001
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 12:06 pm
quote:This would be one funny sitcom.
I guess it's one of those YMMV situations - I don't find one person telling another over and over with as much venom as a voice can manage that she is a piece of shit. Or telling her that he'd like to watch her die a slow, painful death. Or constantly talking about her personal hygiene and the condition of her underwear.
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Tracy
Member
07-16-2007
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 5:50 pm
I don't think that Dick wants to be an actor, I think that he wants to be a celebrity and get the money and fame that an actor who succeeds gets. Acting is VERY hard work, a lot of memory work and a lot of physical work, it's not for those who only want their fifteen minutes. I also think that Dick would have problems taking direction, he seems very combative.
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Topshotta
Member
07-06-2007
| Saturday, August 04, 2007 - 6:19 pm
Nobody from BB has ever gone on to become famous, surely Dick is smart enough not to try to parlay this into anything more
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