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Lazylu
Member
04-09-2010
| Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 8:37 am
This show just may have lost me as a fan with that scripted little season ending stunt. Totally uncalled for, IMO
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Sabbatia
Member
08-15-2005
| Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 8:49 am
Really OG?? I use meclazine...okay, I probably misspelled it, but it's antivert in prescription form. It doesn't make me as sleepy as Dramamine.
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Frogichik
Member
06-11-2002
| Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 8:53 am
Lazylu, ALL and I mean ALL reality shows are somewhat scripted. They need to have story lines. When you see 2 people talking about a subject it's usually to go along with a storyline and believe me if they don't get the right camera angle they will re-shoot the scene. Keep that in mind when watching ANY "reality' show. Just go with it and take it for what it is worth.
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Lazylu
Member
04-09-2010
| Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 9:00 am
I know they are ALL scripted, but that was a little too much and then for him to be thrilled that people were upset and worried, not nice. They did get what they wanted though, publicity.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 10:20 am
Sabbatia, I little research shows your med is exactly the same as Dramamine and Bonine. And over the counter it may cost you less. This is from Wikipedia: Meclizine (proposed INN is meclozine) is an antihistamine considered to be an antiemetic.[1] It is sold under the brand names of Bonine, Bonamine, Antivert, Postafen, Sea Legs, and Dramamine (Less Drowsy Formulation).
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 11:06 am
IF you look at the preview again, when they first come upon Matt, he's on his back and kinda wiggling around. You can see his face. Then the rest of the preview, he's on his face, very still, and they are standing around looking at him and taking a turn or two in shaking him and calling his name. Something tells me the first shot where you see his face is possibly the "real" shot, and the rest (were they don't look all that concerned) might be the staged re-creation (assuming some of it was a staged re-creation). That would make sense as far as them not looking all that alarmed at that point.
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Jgalt
Member
02-17-2009
| Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 6:49 pm
Yes Whoami, I totally agree with you. I think we saw Matt beginning to have the vertigo, then later he fell down when the cameras weren't on, so later they had him re-create the incident. There is no way a family would stand around, as someone hilariously put it, looking like they're looking at a bug on the floor. I expected them to start poking him with the tips of their toes to see if they would get a reaction.
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Frogichik
Member
06-11-2002
| Friday, June 18, 2010 - 5:28 am
I have used Bonine and find it makes you way less drowsy than Dramamine.
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Sabbatia
Member
08-15-2005
| Friday, June 18, 2010 - 10:15 am
Plain old Dramamine is Dimenhydrinate. Dramamine II is Meclizine, I'm assuming that's their less drowsy formula. Usually when I'm taking it, I'm on vacation and wanna be awake LOL. It is cheaper to buy it otc than prescription....at least that's what my Doc said. I know that when I've had vertigo it's been because of ear issues and it's as miserable as motion sickness. If that's his problem, it may not be life threatening, but he don't feel very good.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 7:57 pm
I don't agree that the kids should be paying rent, kicked out of the house. It really depends on the personality of the kids. If they are learning responsibility for things, earning money, paying their own car insurance, etc. I don't see any real benefit to paying rent. I lived at home for years during and after college, saving money and bought my house at age 25. Those years of living rent free at home were a huge benefit to me -- gave me an appreciation for home ownership and a goal for myself. I hope the boys are getting those opportunities to manage their lives and learn that independence. Amy not interfering in the college counseling thing makes me think things are on track there. Also, those kids work the farm, so are earning their keep.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, June 25, 2010 - 5:15 am
Well said, Brenda. Many young people benefit from leaving the 'nest' early...many do not.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Friday, June 25, 2010 - 12:04 pm
Thanks OG. I'm very thankful my parents didn't charge rent because I saw my cousinds having to pay rent to parents when they graduated high school and then lived at home. It did them no favors, gave them no opportunity to save a nest egg and give them a leg up when they did move out. I don't think either Matt or Amy will let them live there rent free and lay around and sleep all day. Amy said to one of the boys that they needed to be taking a full load of college coarses. And I can see them groom Zach to take over the family business if he can't find his own ambition. Nothing wrong with that.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Friday, June 25, 2010 - 2:11 pm
I paid rent to my parents while living with them. I was no longer in school and working fulltime. It was an honor system where I paid a small amount monthly to a bank account ($100/mo from 1974 - 1978). I never missed a payment. I felt that it taught me how to budget my money better knowing that I had to pay something every month. I see my nieces struggling with making payments now, they tend to go back to their mom and dad to 'help' them, which they do. Just an additional part to the story, my parents were always very frugal with their money. It didn't help that my dad kept getting laid off in his later years. No longer living with them, I bought my first brand-new car and took out a loan for it. My mom came to me and said that she didn't want me to pay interest and offered me an interest free loan, which I accepted. Turns out, it was the money that I had paid them every month while living with them.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Friday, June 25, 2010 - 2:51 pm
That's great Kooklie and the rent you paid turned out to be more like a savings account, which is what anyone living rent free should be doing! I think if my parents thought I was living the good life on their dime they would have been singing a different tune. Everyone should know how to budget and pay for things. My mom encouraged me to get a credit card as soon as I could, not to buy things I couldn't afford, but to buy things I could afford, pay them off right away and "build good credit". It's a good habit to get into!
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Sabbatia
Member
08-15-2005
| Friday, June 25, 2010 - 3:55 pm
I know this don't happen much, but I agree with you on not charging rent Brenda. My niece is living with me and paying for her own college. The only bill I make her pay is her cell phone bill. She couldn't afford to go to school any other way. I buy all the groceries and pay all the household bills....in return, she is making better grades than she did in HS while she's working a lot of hours as a waitress. Paying for college certainly has made her appreciate the value of the $$.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Friday, June 25, 2010 - 5:39 pm
Are you saying we don't agree much Sabbatia? So generous of you to let her live there. I think when anyone is trying to improve themselves, get an education, it's great when they get that kind of help and those kind of breaks. It's very hard to pay for schooling yourself and not come out so deep in debt you never get caught up.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, June 25, 2010 - 6:16 pm
Seems like these kids are in school, reluctant or not and like it or not they have jobs being involved in the reality show. If they weren't willing to be filmed and interviewed that would be the loss of a big part of the show and that is bringing in good money, I'm betting. And they are certainly old enough to ask for some of that money unless they have trusts that don't go to them until later ages. I remember the episode where Jon and Kate set stuff up and Kate liked the idea that their kids would get money after they graduated from college or reach age 30, whichever came first. Anything can be set up. ==== In real time Amy and her foundation staff are headed off to Haiti today.. to bring supplies and do work with an organization working with kids there.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, June 28, 2010 - 4:48 pm
Any was in Ft Lauderdale on the way to Haiti and sent some pictures (that wouldn't download).. she and Zach ran into a team of EMTs who stopped to get pics.. looks like one of the EMTs is a Little Person, though taller than Zach and Amy. Then she tweeted FROM Haiti the next day. I assume this will be on the show in due time, few months. Her two board members are there, too, but it seems like Zach went with her.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 11:20 am
Jeremy is with Amy and Zack in Haiti..
quote:We just visited a special needs school in Haiti. They are teaching the mothers to feed their children properly so the children won’t choke during feeding. Zack Roloff, Jeremy Roloff and Amy Roloff along with ARCF visited Port Au Prince Haiti today to help bring awareness back to the devastation that still remains. www.Amyroloffcharityfoundation.org Just left tent school with Angels of light program.
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Southern_grits
Member
10-08-2009
| Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 1:04 pm
I love what Amy is doing with her 'celebrity'.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 10:26 pm
Me, too.. and that the kids are variously getting involved too. Obviously Jeremy and Zack are off school for the summer and Amy wants them to see another view of the world. But Amy supports a number of local and global charities in a great way.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 11:05 am
Thank you to Royal Caribbean “Oasis of the Seas” and passengers for donating to kids in Haiti! www.amyroloffcf.org Posted: 03 Jul 2010 07:34 AM PDT Amy, Zack and Jeremy Roloff along with the ARCF team greeted passengers from 11:30 to 1:00 on Royal Caribbean’s “Oasis of the Seas” Friday July 3rd. The focus was to share the experience of Monday June 28th when Amy, Zack and Jeremy along with the ARCF team visited “Friends of the Orphans” Angels of Light program in Port Au Prince Haiti. Donations were also collected and will be sent back to “Friends of the Orphans”. Look for photos in the future and please donate! These kids need our help! Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile Posted via email from Amy Roloff Charity Foundation
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 - 8:43 pm
Explanation from Matt about his cliffhanger fall. http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/06/29/matt-roloff-talks-little-people-big-world/?icid=main|htmlws-main-n|dl2|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tvsquad.com%2F2010%2F06%2F29%2Fmatt-roloff-talks-little-people-big-world%2F If you watched the finale of 'Little People, Big World,' you might have wondered how Matt Roloff is doing after his shocking collapse. Well, he's alive and well and doing great! Turns out it was a bad case of vertigo -- not a heart attack, as some viewers suspected. TV Squad caught up with Roloff, who talked to us about what life has been like since the finale. So my first question is, how are you doing? I'm doing fine. It caught us by surprise, how much attention this thing got. It's funny, because we don't really watch the episodes [as they air]. We saw a rough cut months ago, but we put it out of our mind and never thought about it. I was off traveling to New York and doing my thing, and I'm getting on the airplane coming home, and people are like, "Oh, man, good to see you." And I'm like, "What? Why?" And they're like, "Everybody is saying you were dead!" But I'm here to tell you that I'm definitely alive and well. So it wasn't a heart attack? No, it was a bad case of vertigo, which makes you dizzy. So I hit the floor. By the time the episode aired, did your extended family know you were fine? Did you get any frantic phone calls? I didn't. People I keep in touch with knew I was fine, but a lot of my Facebook fans were sad or distressed over it. If something like that happens, does the camera crew continue shooting? If there's nobody else in the room, then yeah, they would have dropped the camera in a second and attended to me. In the past, we've had instances where the kids get hurt, and if it's dire, then they do put the cameras down and jump in. But, for the most part, if they feel it's under control, their job is to continue to roll. It must be hard, though. Like the accident with the trebuchet a while back. Do you ever feel like saying, "Stop the cameras. This is too much"? Oh yes, definitely. When the accident happened, they specifically said, "Can we go ahead and shoot it?" And in that few seconds we were rushing down there, I said, "Yes, but give us lots of space." In other words, don't be pushing us out of the way to get your camera shot. So they shot it from more of a distance than they might typically want to. But you develop a relationship with the crew where I can just wave and they know that means -- turn the camera off and go away. But we try not to do that very often because we're trying to share our life, all the good and the bad and the ugly and the dramatic and the not dramatic. Has it gotten easier to deal with over the years -- sharing your life on camera with the rest of the world? Yes, over the years, we've become more accustomed to it. It's easier to let them do their job while we go about the business of our life. Plus, it seems like you've got the support of all of these people who are watching, too. Like when you lost Mike, did it feel like you had an extended family in the millions of viewers? That is absolutely true. I mean, it's humbling, and it just warms your heart to think how many people are so concerned about you out there. I feel bad because I don't intentionally want to give anybody a scare, and the fact that they did the cliff hanger like that, you have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, you want to support the production of the show and what that's all about with the drama. But on the other hand, you don't want people to be scared. I just assumed that because I was on Facebook every day and people knew that the show ran a few months behind, that everybody would know I was fine. And, like you said, you probably didn't think too much about it. You were going on with your lives. Yes, we moved on. I picked myself up off the ground and dusted myself off. I did go to the doctor and get some medication for my vertigo, which has kept it under control. How are you feeling otherwise? Overall, my health is pretty good right now. I'm doing a lot of things to try to keep on top of it, and I'm feeling pretty darn good lately. I know you've had a lot of surgeries and medical issues. Do you ever just get tired of all the medical stuff? Yes, I definitely get tired of the medical stuff. There's no doubt about that. It's just one of those things where you have to deal with things through life. You and your wife Amy seem really down to earth. How do you manage to stay sane among all the publicity and everything? It's totally gone to my head! No, it's hard because it does change your lives in ways that you don't expect it. We've tried to just stay focused on our mission in life. Even when we're shooting, we're on our farm with our family, in our zone. And when we do go off the farm and travel, a lot of people stop us for photos, and it's heartwarming. We love to interact with the public. I know that you and Amy work with a lot of charities. Do you feel like you're the voice for little people out there now? I wouldn't claim that we're the voice, because we always say, "All little people are different, and they all have different needs and desires." And we don't claim to be the voice for any organization or group, but I do have CoDA, which is the Coalition of Dwarf Advocacy. It's an important charity, and we're doing some really cool stuff, like building custom-made bicycles for dwarf kids that can't afford them otherwise, helping with adoptions and educational scholarships. That's a very near-and-dear-to-our-heart effort. Connect with Matt Roloff on Facebook and his web site, and learn more about CoDA at DwarfAdvocates.com.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, July 05, 2010 - 7:13 am
Thanks for the info, SM.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, July 05, 2010 - 11:57 am
I was thinking of you when I posted that, OG! == Amy is in Nashville for the LPA conference.. wonder if she will get involved with the aftermath of the flooding there? Imagine the schedule is pretty heavy already. Last week Haiti, this week “Little People of America” Conference in Nashville, thanks for staying tuned in! Best, Amy Posted: 04 Jul 2010 11:57 AM PDT
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