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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 8:35 pm
I just read the show recap, and I agree, Tobor; however, I didn't find it humorous - then again, I didn't have the laughtrack. As a middle-aged woman who abused alcohol/drugs for 20+ years, I have what I call "episodes" that are similar to what it sounds like was going on with Amber. I know what word I want, and what it means, but it won't come out. It's very frustrating. Maybe (I can't believe I'm excusing this woman, but here goes) some of her "lapses" are a result of her drug use.
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Marksman
Member
05-04-2007
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 8:35 pm
Amber is clearly not smart. That is the least of her problems though. Her ignorance is so overwhelming that she has painted herself into a box of being a horrible person.
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Jhezzie
Member
07-05-2001
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 8:37 pm
That's not what was happening to Amber, though. She wasn't searching for the 'right word' or a tip-of-the-tongue spell. She was asking, straight out, what simple words meant.
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Tobor7
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 8:41 pm
I give her credit for not being afraid to show her ignorance by asking what the word means. If I ever use a word and someone asks me what it means, I just tell them. Some cruel people decide to say, "What? You don't know what that means?" Now if I use a word and someone says I didn't use it correctly... I go out of my way to show them that I did. It happened just the other day in fact... Google makes it so easy to quickly make a point.
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Nycsoho
Member
08-11-2007
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 8:45 pm
Anything that comes out of one's mouth is ammunition for everyone to use against you. Anyone going into BB should know that; not just Amber but Dick, Eric, Jameka and Dustin as well.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 8:45 pm
I also give her credit for asking. At least she is trying and not just pretending...
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Tobor7
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 8:47 pm
At first I thought she was putting people on by asking. I have seen that in my life. Some people ask what a big word means just to give you shit about using it. After the 3rd or 4th edit I got the fact that she really didn't know! That was when I reacted.
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Tobor7
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 8:49 pm
Another point about asking... usually you can figure out what a word means by the context. You have to think about it a little bit, but you usually can figure it out. She asks very quickly. Like she isn't going to think about it.
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Theowl
Member
09-28-2000
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 8:57 pm
What does "depiction" mean? 
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Momination
Member
07-11-2006
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 9:03 pm
As far as Amber's daughter is concerned...I also have a 10 yr. old daughter & she would think it was hilariously funny to see me shown as Amber was tonight. She would tell all her friends - "See, I told ya'".
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Rubyroo77
Member
08-13-2005
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 9:18 pm
I commend Amber for asking- you can't learn if you don't ask. I have a friend who worked with a bunch of snobby bigwigs..and when they would have social gatherings he would always prepare himself with a word that he made up- it was a "big" word..and he would use it in different sentences with different people- and nobody would ask him what the word meant..they just smiled and would agree. Amber would have had the humility to ask..and I am sure he would have told her!
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What555456
Member
06-14-2005
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 9:20 pm
Sounds like BB has learned something from Dick -- how to be a mean friend.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 9:59 pm
BB is doing what BB does. They also made a lot of fun of Dustin and his robe and his uppity attitude. They play the organ music when Jameka prays. This is just another example of how they run things. At least its accurate. Amber is not very smart. Most of us have seen that since day 2 or 3. Now everyone has seen it.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 10:02 pm
Each of them had to have undergone pre-show psychological testing and counseling. Among the dozens of questions HGs are likely asked to answer, one of them has to be along the lines of: "All houseguests run the risk of being portrayed in a less-than-flattering light either by what they do or say or what the producers feel will make for compelling and/or entertaining storylines. By agreeing to appear on the show, do you understand what this means and are you prepared to accept the consequences of consenting to live under these stipulations?" The risk of being ridiculed is very real and very likely. If Amber didn't understand that before she signed on, she certainly will when she resumes her civilian, non-BB life.
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 10:04 pm
I have 13 and 9 year old step daughters. They would laugh at anything that put me in a bad light. I applaud Amber for asking. I know people that aren't very "book smart" but can fix anything or build anything. I respect those abilities because at 52 I can do neither. There are different kinds of smart. It's kind of like driving--anyone who goes slower than us is a slow poke, crappy driver who is going to get someone hurt. And anyone who drives faster is a menace to society, a raving maniac and is going to hurt someone.
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Webchiq
Member
07-11-2005
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 10:06 pm
I think that the producers are trying to help Amber's public image by showing her lack of knowledge in other areas. They are trying to soften our view of her and the anti-Jewish garbage that she spewed. I believe we are being shown that she is just not very intelligent or educated. The laugh track was priceless and it made more fun of Tameka than Amber.
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Robin42
Member
07-20-2007
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 10:14 pm
Sure, Amber should be commended for asking and not just pretending she knows what people are talking about, I do agree with that. But you have to wonder...why didn't she ask when she was in school or anytime else in the 10 years since she has been out of school? Those words were simple vocabulary words used in school from at least the 7th grade up. BB has just exploited a HG's weak point as they always do, no surprises there. People just take more offense to it when it has to do with intelligence. Because no one wants to be called stupid.
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Mlt
Member
09-18-2002
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 10:37 pm
"All houseguests run the risk of being portrayed in a less-than-flattering light either by what they do or say or what the producers feel will make for compelling and/or entertaining storylines. By agreeing to appear on the show, do you understand what this means and are you prepared to accept the consequences of consenting to live under these stipulations?" Yes, but think about all the words in that paragraph that Amber likely didn't understand (sorry, I just couldn't resist)
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 10:45 pm
And she still doesn't know what backdooring means! LOL
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 11:09 pm
Mean. Amber has given them enough material to cast her in a negative light that BB doesn't have to stoop so low as to making fun of her lack of intelligence or book smarts. Maybe it's past drug use, not having access to a better education, or problems learning and retaining facts/definitions/etc., but with so much else they could have used, making fun of her in this way just seems tacky and mean spirited on BB's part. It left me wondering if it made the BB producers feel better about themselves that they could put together a three minute (or however long it was) montage of "let's show the world how dumb Amber is!"
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Debbieeeee
Member
09-16-2005
| Monday, August 20, 2007 - 12:22 am
I may be off base here but ... Back in the first few weeks, Amber was talking about being in a bad car accident and being in the hospital for awhile - I have been wondering if the accident plus the drug usage have combined to actually handicap her mentally. I know when I look at her face she always seems to be so "out of it" - also, the lack of expression on her face may have to do with plastic surgery needed after the accident - anyone else "see" this?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, August 20, 2007 - 12:50 am
I haven't watched on the regular TV yet, but even on the small feed, typing furiously I was offended by the laugh track. Actrually I'm always offended by laugh tracks. I was also surprised she didn't know backdoored and outed . Tobor, I also want to know definitions. When someone uses a word I can almost always figure out by context what THEY mean, but I'm likely to look it up. All too often it isn't being used correctly and I don't want to perpetuate the mis-use.. I'm sure I mis-use enough words as it is.
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Lainee
Member
07-19-2005
| Monday, August 20, 2007 - 2:50 am
I fell asleep last night before the show was half over last night and must have missed this bit. I certainly wasn't burning up this morning to race to rewind my tape from last night and watch...this makes me want to even less.
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Monday, August 20, 2007 - 2:59 am
Are her racist remarks originating from the same place as her lack of basic vocabulary? Yep....its called ignorance.
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Moonlight
Member
08-04-2007
| Monday, August 20, 2007 - 3:01 am
Debeeeee, you make a good point that hasn't been covered. Between the possibility of Amber's past dug use, her accident (that may have involved head injuries), learning disabilities, and who knows if she ever finished high school... we all need to remember that we know virtually nothing about these people... except for what BB creates for us.
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