Dntx4bb3 | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:13 pm     From todays LF: Gerry and Danielle acting about when they get home and they act like they are BB for their kids. G- You have a pool? D- yes. Its a nice complex. I pay about 1270. a month. IT was new when we moved there |
Earthmother | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:14 pm     She should be using any means she can to get the prize short of verbal or physical abuse. I might add last year Krista took a royal beating for using her prize money to send a gift to Booger and not to her daughter. Now you have a woman who wants to do things for her kids and she is being judged badly for it. |
Sheila494 | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:15 pm     this topic could be dangerous..no comment. |
Uhoh | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:16 pm     gidget, you don't mention what expensive real estate area you live in, but i live in the sf bay area. my mortgage is also less than 1200/mo, but i bought my house over 10 years ago and made a 75K downpayment. right now, entry-level houses are in the 400-500K range. 1200/mo would pay for about a 175K mortgage. if they could even find a house for 450K, w/ 10% down (which incurs PMI), they'd need to make over 150K/yr to qualify for the loan. AND, i doubt they have the downpayment, or any liquid assets the lender would be looking for. yeah, they could move out of the bay area - that's another argument entirely. but it is tough to buy a house here. |
Bmh | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:16 pm     yes see it isn't even her own pool..it is used by all the tennants in her complex.. |
Battlestar | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:16 pm     ---but her constant reminder to the other HGs that her choice of what she will use the money for may sway their Jury Votes if she is in the final 2. Do you vote to give a family a house?? or do you vote to help a Gay Man live his dream of fame?--or to Support a man while he writes 'The Great American Novel'? etc etc There is no criteria for voting the best player--so NEED or the illusion of need will play a factor |
Mystery | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:18 pm     Dani's comments about how much she needs the money are part of her strategy. Whether they will help her or hurt her has yet to be seen. |
Battlestar | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:19 pm     Earthmother----I'm not judging her badly for wanting to do well by her family. All of the people except for Marcellas have the potential of also having families in the future and this money would benifit them also. I just think that NEED or what they intend to do with the money should not be a factor in the final vote or impede any of the contestants in nominating her. |
Gidget | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:20 pm     as the house guests are so fond of saying "let the house decide". please gerry just once really run your mouth. i don't care who wins or why they want the money. last year will freely admitted he intended to blow it on fun. what i don't like is playing the poor disadvantaged me card so hard |
Earthmother | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:20 pm     So what Battlestar!! The rest of them could make up a story if they wanted to. She is telling the truth but who would really know..God knows they have made up and told enough lies to sink the Bismark what would another do? |
Sunrise | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:21 pm     She should use everything there is to win that money. I want to add a note to her implants, too. My health insurance covers 50% for any plastic surgery. Maybe she has excellent helath insurance. In NYC, you would be lucky to find a decent studio on Manhattan for $1,200 a month. There are some, but the people living in them moved in pre-80s. For example: Chiara's studio apartment cost a minimum of $85,000. Many people are do not like Danielle, and thisis ok. But, to use this reason to rag on her doesn't make sense to me. Earthmother is expressing my thoguhts much better, so I will step back and listen for her responses. |
Wcv63 | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:22 pm     I think Dani is repeating her personal mantra to allow her to focus on the game and do what needs to be done. It reminds her why she is there and gives her the mental strength she needs to keep her wits about her and remain true to the end goal. |
Woofy | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:23 pm     The bottom line (in MY opinion) is that she is welcome to use ANY MEANS to get votes. The goal is to win the game ... and whatever someone comes up with that helps get votes is fair play. |
Earthmother | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:23 pm     Oh! I see Sunrise, let me do your dirty work...lol |
Silksmoke | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:23 pm     Some people get implants out of necessity ... are you absolutely certain this is not the case here? Perhaps she has a medical history she would just rather not share with everybody in the house or in cyberspace. Or perhaps whatever her reasons are, they are personal. She certainly didn't get them to draw attention to herself the way Tanya seems to have. My sister lives in So. Cal, her home is smaller than ours, and she paid over twice the amount we paid for ours. She has me wishing I could move our Ohio home to her neighborhood, we'd make a killing on it. Dani wants to improve her financial situation for her family, and she's constantly being chastised for it. Her life has been her family, maybe that's why much of her conversation is focused on them. Frankly I find that an admirable trait especially around some of these houseguests who believe the sun revolves around them. |
Battlestar | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:25 pm     ---okay--they are ALL NOBLE!---they ALL have NOBLE intentions!! But Motherhood does not always come out as the NOBLEST Next BB--I'd like to see a house of MOTHERS in there---all wanting a house and then see the fur fly ;) |
Wendo | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:25 pm     Gawd, you people will find anything to critisize this woman. Critisize her strategy, her game playing, etc., but can't you leave the rest alone? What is wrong with you? She's been upfront from the beginning as to why she is in that house, to win for her family. What the he11 is wrong with that? People ask her questions, she tells them. As far as her implants, she stated as to why she got them. She breast fed her two children. You don't know whether or not they were covered by insurance. Many plans will cover it. Dislike her game play, her tactics, what have you. But she's given no indication that she is being dishonest about why she is there. If she said she was going to buy a Ferrari with the money you'd be raking her over the coals too. Everyone would be saying, Oh, she's going to buy a car instead of clothes for her kids? Obviously she can do no right in some people's eyes. |
Theo17 | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:27 pm     wendo I agree. so far she has played the game fair in my eyes in fact too fair. she should have never kept her word to amy |
Zeyna | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:28 pm     I don't think anyone is faulting her for wanting the money for her family. That is not the issue in my eyes. What I dislike is that she uses this point to manipulate (unsuccesfully I might add) other players. All the pro Dani posts are not addressing this issue, but keep pointing out how she's noble for wanting more for her family. If Roddy was using this sob story, the board would be lighting up with posts about how he's brainwashing everyone and that he's the devil. |
Battlestar | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:28 pm     This sounds like a discussion to me-- |
Lombadier | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:30 pm     I believe Dani's use of the sympathy card will be as successful for her as it was for Autumn and Krista. The other HGs will see through it, most already do. |
Gidget | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:30 pm     uhoh- i live in the metropolitan ny/nj area. i grew up in california before that. i have owned my house for 10 years. there is a wide variety of home costs in my area. i won't even talk about what has been happening to home values in the last year and a half. but i live in a lower socio-economic town. both of my cars are over 10 years old. i would love to have lasiks on my eyes but i am waiting for the prices to come down. i don't have a cell phone. i only have basic cable. and i think i have it pretty darn good. roof over my head. 3 squares a day. a paycheck every week. a family who loves me. our values have become very scary. we have more than any people on earth and it's not enough. to quote sheryl crowe "it's wanting what you got" |
Crazydog | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:31 pm     Wendo, I do not criticize her for wanting a better life for her family, that is everyone's right. Everyone in that house is there to compete to make their lives better. The part that I don't like is how she reminds people all the time through her stories of how hard her life is. I agree that it is a strategy for her but I'm not necessarily sure it's the right one. Amy is naive and at least in the beginning seems to have fallen for the "poor me" card. But there are others like Roddy, Lisa and Marc who see through that. Just because she is a mother with two kids doesn't make her any more deserving of the money than others. I didn't understand the big push for her to win America's Choice either. The others shouldn't miss their families any less or deserve to make their lives better any less just because they are single. |
Faerygdds | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:32 pm     How is she manipulating others with it??? They ask her a question about her family... she answers... You people act like she spends every WAKING moment running to each HG and saying... "Please let me win... I need the money so bad so I can buy a house and get out of the SHACK that I live in!" get over it! |
Auntiedotcom | Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:32 pm     that's funny, i heard danni say on the live feeds to someone last night that her "house" was approximately 2300 square feet. there appears to be some confusion about where she actually lives. BTW - private schools are often much less expensive than you think. many of the religiously affiliated schools run as low as $150 per month per student. |