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TV ClubHouse: ARCHIVES: Big Brother USA 2003 General Discussions Part 1: Would you want Dana teaching your kids?: Archive through July 29, 2003

Xarph

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 02:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Dana talks about all the cute little kids she works with at her Karate School.

I would not want my kids anywhere near Dana after what I have seen of her on the live feeds. She takes things so very personally I would hate to think how she would react if some she thought some kid crossed her or did not like her. She talks about wanting to do physical violence on Nate and Ali. It would be my fear that she would use physical violence on my kid.

If that is not bad enough, she has confessed to the whole world that she loves to smoke grass. She says she does it all the time and that it is great that the Karate school does not do drug testing. I sure as heck would not want my kid being instructed by someone with a buzz on.

I am really surprised to see that the Karate school is so proudly advertising Dana on their web site at http://www.tsk.com/

Crossfire

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 02:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'd have to meet her outside the house to make that call. Who knows, she might be a really good teacher.

Carol

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 02:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree with Crossfire, I don't know Dana outside of the house. "Game" Dana I wouldn't want near my kids, or me, but the real Dana might be different. Who knows.

Max

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 02:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't judge her based on what I see in this artificial hamster cage.

But then, I don't live in New York or New Jersey and I don't have kids, so what do I know! :)

Ministryoftruth

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 02:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Not if she has the same foul mouth outside the house.

Squaredsc

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 02:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ditto'g cross.

Bbfanatic

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 02:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
im sure many of the priests that are in trouble now probably ran great church services.
i agree with max. i have a puppy, no kids.

Maris

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 02:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
yes I would. I think she would be a ball to learn Karate with and the kids would have a ball. There isnt a kid in NYC who hasnt heard the F word at least four times in one day. Just stand on a corner and listen to the taxi drivers.

Deniselynne

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 02:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Dana teaching my kids? No, but then my kids are grown. My children who are her age and watch the show despise her.

Novajet

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 03:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No, I wouldn't. I don't consider her a good role model, and I think that a karate teacher can be seen as a role model by a child.

Xarph

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am surprised to see so many people would not mind a drug user teaching their kids. I guess I am behind the times in this modern recreational drug culture. I was a hippy in late 60's. I saw too many fried brains to trust drug users around kids.

Alaris

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
dana's quote on her job webpage:

Karate is not a sport, it is a way of life. The decision to participate in the martial arts is a life altering one. It will change you from the inside out. You may become faster, you may become stronger, but it doesn't compare to who you become on the inside.

Bohawkins

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
xarph - that same statement could apply to non-drug users as well. Too many of them have fried brains too. Maybe about the same proportion.

Crossfire

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, she did say weed right? I can't speak for anyone else, but I really don't see it as being any worse than alcohol.

Xarph

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The question is -

Are we seeing the changed Dana now or
the Dana that is hopefully going to change
due to her participation in Karate?

Scandalousplaya

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think being in that house causes Dana to become something that she's not in the real world. I'm sure in everyday life; she's probably a nice person. How would you react if you felt that all of your original alliance members were talking smack about you (thanks to Justin)? I think the game makes you something that you're not in the everyday world.

Maris

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
a drug user??? We are talking about marijuanna. I am amazed that anyone would fry their brains on marijuanna. Would you let Erika teach your child Pilates??? She smoked pot too. What about Jee, Jun, Justin, Alison. They all smoked pot. That is a bit of a stretch attacking Dana because she smokes a little dope.

Jpgramma

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If one of my grandchildren were enrolled in one of her classes, I'd have already pulled them out. I also would have made sure the owner knew my reasons.

Scandalousplaya

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think a lot of people will be shock if they knew that their doctors, teachers or politicians smoked a little pot? Can we say Mario Berry (big time crackhead)? Don't get me wrong, but isn't alcohol have the same effects and yet sometimes even worst effects then marijuanna. But yet as a society we don't look down on alcohol, because why? It's legal. Don't get me started on the prohibition.

Xarph

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I never did buy that excuse that the game makes people different than they are in real life. I see them as real people reacting to stress.

People have two personalities. The personality that we see every day and under normal circumstances is a very carefully created and maintained personality. When people come under stress that normal personality gets replaced by the "back up" personality. The backup personality is the personality they had when they were about three years old. The personality they had before they learned how to behave in the world.

I spent many years in the mangement of people in high stress Silicon Valley startups. I saw many, many people's backup personality come out under the severe stress.

These are real people acting under real stress. Put them under same stress in real life and this is how they will react.

Notice how Jack does not act like a child in middle of all this stress? Why not?

Jpgramma

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's not just the pot smoking. That's the least of my concerns about this brash woman. It's her mouth and whole attitude. Karate is supposed to foster a positive attitude in children. Dana is NOT the right role model for a positive attitude abour anything.

Maris

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jp, that would be called doing an Erika. Getting someone fired just for the pleasure of it. That is nasty, in fact it is very Big Brotherish.

I am sorry, but I find this hatred towards Dana absolutely hysterical. She is this years Krista and Roddy all rolled into one.

Spygirl

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maris, I am with you. I find the hatred rather amusing as well. Personally, I like her. I haven't said so before, but I'm coming out now :)

Jpgramma

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nope. not for the pleasure of it. I used to be a teacher myself. Role models are very important to young impressionable minds. A higher standard needs to be adhered to when it comes to those who instruct our children.

Scandalousplaya

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 04:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Good point Xarph.
Jack is a retired FBI agent, so I expect him to react to stressful situations differently compared to the other hgs.

Let me ask you this question...do you feel that in order for Dana to play the game does she have to change her characteristics to make herself more comfortable in the game? Almost like a Jekell and Hyde effect.