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Old 07-11-2005, 03:29 PM
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I can honestly say in the history of the series of Real World, I have NEVER liked it. I never even got into it. It always seems like a bunch of whiners too stupid to realize they have everything, & the world at their fingertips.
Not even Vegas or San Francisco?
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Old 07-11-2005, 03:31 PM
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The police were able to locate and arrest the guy who sucker-punched Danny. They used the screen caps from what was filmed, and the guy was booked in June - trial is pending....
Yay! I hope he gets jail time and has gets sued in civil court for damages.
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Old 07-11-2005, 03:34 PM
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I watched the last 1/2 of Surreal Life last nite. Janice is certainly entertaining, but I thought she was being VERY rude while Pepa was telling her story.
Pepa is rude herself, just ask Etta James.
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Yay! I hope he gets jail time and has gets sued in civil court for damages.
I agree! What an ass!
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Not even Vegas or San Francisco?
honestly, I dislike reality TV as a whole.
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Pepa is rude herself, just ask Etta James.
They had to spice up this season. Last season everyone got along for the most part.
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They had to spice up this season. Last season everyone got along for the most part.
I agree no one fought last season but I still liked it a lot. Mini me pissing in the corner was absolutley classic.
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Old 07-11-2005, 09:01 PM
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Yeah, Mini-me peeing in the corner was classic...that was also my favorite Surreal Life cast so far...

Here's the article on Danny:


HOME: JULY 8, 2005: NEWS: TELEVISED ASSAULT, REAL ARREST
Televised Assault, Real Arrest
BY KEVIN BRASS With the help of MTV producers, Austin police arrested a 28-year-old South Austin man for punching Real World cast member Danny Jamieson in a Sixth Street brawl in January. Ryan Getman is facing two felony counts of aggravated assault from the incident, which was videotaped by MTV cameras and broadcast nationally in June. Jamieson waited until March to report the incident, which left him with multiple facial fractures and nerve damage, requiring surgery. According to court documents, MTV producers supplied police with video of the incident and told them they believed the man was named "Brian Getman," and supplied an address. Investigators compared pictures of Getman to the images of the incident, and Getman was arrested and released on bond.

Getman was indicted by a grand jury on June 10. He could not be reached for comment on deadline.

According to court documents, the fight stemmed from a "verbal confrontation" on Sixth Street. On video, Getman is seen shoving Wes, one of Jamieson's roommates, twice from behind, the arrest affidavit says. Jamieson was trying to break up the fight when he was pulled from behind and tripped and fell to the ground. He was on the ground when he was punched. The blow broke Jamieson's cheek and orbital bones, as well as fracturing several smaller bones around the eye socket. Despite surgery and regular visits to an eye doctor, he told the police the vision in his left eye remains blurry.

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And here's another article about how the locals feel about MTV's portrayal of Austin so far on the RW:


HOME: JULY 8, 2005: NEWS: THE REAL AUSTIN?
The Real Austin?
BY KEVIN BRASS

Within two days of arriving in town, The Real World: Austin cast member Danny – aka the hunky one – was lying in the middle of Sixth Street, held down by a man in a black jacket who punched him so hard it shattered his eye socket.

Welcome to Austin!

Local business boosters trumpeted the presence of MTV's most popular reality show as a boon to tourism, a chance to really show the rest of the world that Austin is more than the home of Jenna Bush's favorite margarita bars. The Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau, using economic formulas beloved by tourism associations, calculated the show is worth $20 million in publicity for the city, based on the idea that every half-hour episode is a free ad. But after two episodes, it's clear that it may not be exactly the type of publicity city leaders crave, unless they're eager to market Austin as a great place to vomit in the street.

Even in the realm of MTV, the "seven strangers" gathered for the Austin cast are presented as remarkably shallow and alcoholic, uninterested in any concept beyond the ingredients of a daiquiri and the odds of hooking up before happy hour. (The one thing you'll never, ever see on The Real World – someone reading a book.) "Wes is like a typical frat guy and I love that about him," says Danny, gushing over his new roomie. He was doing far more gushing, however, over roomie Melinda, the blond cutie who is apparently using the show to audition for a career as a porn star. "Should I start humping the bed or what?" Melinda wails in episode two, distraught over a week of celibacy, as she eyes Danny's butt.

Cynthia Maddox, marketing and communications director of the ACVB, acknowledges she was a "little shocked" when she first tuned in the wacky adventures of the bed-hopping, shot-guzzlin' Austin gang. The first episode alone included scenes of several cast members drooling drunk, a physical confrontation between two toasted roommates in a club, a lesbian kiss in a hot tub, and gratuitous discourse on who was going to hook up – and of course the brawl on Sixth Street that sent Danny to the emergency room.

If all this makes Austin look like the cheap party ho of the South, local tourism officials are willing to roll with it. "We're known as the city to go to for a good time," Maddox says. While she may not want her daughter to watch the show, Maddox says it will help the city's image. "For the crowd that watches it," Maddox says, "quite frankly, it looks like they're having fun. It plays right to the crowd that this is intended for."

If nothing else, this target audience of hearty partiers is a far cry from the kids Mayor Will Wynn described as "young, energetic, educated, driven" who display "a passion for the outdoors and live music,'' when he proudly announced the show was coming to Austin. These vaguely educated, extremely energetic kids apparently won't be visiting the local museums any time soon, or swinging over to catch the latest offering of the Austin Ballet, unless the ballet starts a Hooters night. Their sphere of interest apparently doesn't extend far beyond the bathroom at the Dizzy Rooster.

Thanks to our MTV tour guides, viewers contemplating a summer trip to Austin have learned that it's best to show caution when asking youngsters on Sixth Street for directions, you need a taxi to get anywhere, and it's a swell place for drinking heavily if you're underage. Two of the cast members – Wes, the frat boy, and Nehemiah, the "black guy" – are 19, according to MTV, yet they are seen carousing in Sixth Street bars, which could be viewed as, well, "illegal." "I hate that it's being depicted that it's OK for someone 19 to be intoxicated in a bar," said Lt. Robert Saenz, district supervisor for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, who calls the scenes "very disturbing."

For all its quirks, The Real World is something of a cultural barometer, a concept that may send cold shivers through anyone who hasn't bonged a beer in the last 24 hours. Molly Alexander, associate director of the Downtown Austin Alliance, says she has been getting calls from all over the country about renting the party house (sorry, it's already leased). She hopes the show, despite the antics of the cast, will illustrate that it is "still hip and cool to be in the central city," and will entice younger people to live in downtown areas.

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Old 07-11-2005, 11:08 PM
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They had to spice up this season. Last season everyone got along for the most part.
Janice is a ****ing nutbag (and one would think that with all that surgery, she'd fix that chicken neck). I couldn't believe it when she called the guy with down syndrome "Rain Man". If I were Omarosa, I would have slapped the silicone out of her.
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Old 07-11-2005, 11:13 PM
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Janice is a ****ing nutbag (and one would think that with all that surgery, she'd fix that chicken neck). I couldn't believe it when she called the guy with down syndrome "Rain Man". If I were Omarosa, I would have slapped the silicone out of her.

She's sooooooo......
just, Soooooooooooo....
she really doesn't have any of those self editing mechanisms....

sorry, that's not funny, but I'm imagining her saying other blatantly rude things, and it is. She's crazy.
Somehow, she's not as bad as Omorosa, though. I hate that lady.
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Old 07-11-2005, 11:18 PM
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She's sooooooo......
just, Soooooooooooo....
she really doesn't have any of those self editing mechanisms....

sorry, that's not funny, but I'm imagining her saying other blatantly rude things, and it is. She's crazy.
Somehow, she's not as bad as Omorosa, though. I hate that lady.
Janice is awful and a total loony bitch, but I find myself oddly attracted to the train wreck that she is.

Nothing excuses making fun of someone like that, though. She lacks couth.
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Janice is awful and a total loony bitch, but I find myself oddly attracted to the train wreck that she is.

Nothing excuses making fun of someone like that, though. She lacks couth.
Janice lacks couth? The heck you say!!!

Of course that's bad. She is very funny, though - I wish I had cable just to watch that. I still think Omorosa is just a straight up, self absorbed, insufferable biaz though. hate.
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Old 07-11-2005, 11:26 PM
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Janice lacks couth? The heck you say!!!

Of course that's bad. She is very funny, though - I wish I had cable just to watch that. I still think Omorosa is just a straight up, self absorbed, insufferable biaz though. hate.
I think you can watch the entire first episode on VH1.com .

A rundown of the cast:

Carey Hart- Has as much flavor as wet soda crackers. BORING.
Omarosa- Snooty asshole.
Bronson Pinchot- Fat, balding, looks like he smells, and is just plain ass. *holds nose*
Caprice- Seems sweet, but very needy.
Janice- An animal. If I drank, I'd like to get cocked with her in some seedy bar while a certain Jimmy Buffett song played in the background.
Jose Conseco- Gross. Just gross and Janice got it right when she said "A conversation with him has a seven-second delay because all the steroids affected his brain."
Pepa- Not sure. She's likable, though, and seems very down to Earth.
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I think you can watch the entire first episode on VH1.com .

A rundown of the cast:

Carey Hart- Has as much flavor as wet soda crackers. BORING.
Omarosa- Snooty asshole.
Bronson Pinchot- Fat, balding, looks like he smells, and is just plain ass. *holds nose*
Caprice- Seems sweet, but very needy.
Janice- An animal. If I drank, I'd like to get cocked with her in some seedy bar while a certain Jimmy Buffett song played in the background.
Jose Conseco- Gross. Just gross and Janice got it right when she said "A conversation with him has a seven-second delay because all the steroids affected his brain."
Pepa- Not sure. She's likable, though, and seems very down to Earth.
yeah, I know. I would be stoked to see Pep, too, I love Pep. Thanks for the tip on the other seasons. maybe i'll check out the one with Jane Weidlen, or however her name is spelled. I really want to see this one, though.
Wow, that's funny what Janice said about Conseco. Oh, and I'd love to see Pinchot fat, apparently he just acted the like he was the **** of the world when he was on that dumb ass show. I'd go "haha, you're fat and smelly and ugly now!!!" *giggle*
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Yay! I hope he gets jail time and has gets sued in civil court for damages.
I hope so too.

As if Danny doesn't have enough to worry about:

His mom dies in the next episode . . .
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