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		<description><![CDATA[CNN aired “Black In America: Silicon Valley” last night. It was actually more interesting than I thought it would be. I would have done the show differently, but I’m me and CNN’s producers aren’t.

Disclosure: I’ll watch *ANYTHING* with Angela Benton in it! >:P~~~]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2011/11/14/cnn-presents-black-in-america-silicon-valley/"></g:plusone></div><p>CNN aired <a href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/in.america/black.in.america/" rel="nofollow">&#8220;Black In America: Silicon Valley&#8221;</a> last night.  It was actually more interesting than I thought it would be.  I would have done the show differently, but I&#8217;m <a href="http://billcammack.com/">me</a> and CNN&#8217;s producers aren&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Disclosure: I&#8217;ll watch <strong>*ANYTHING*</strong> with <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/abenton" rel="friend met colleague">Angela Benton</a> in it! >:P~~~</p>
<p><a href="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Angela_Benton.jpg"><img src="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Angela_Benton.jpg" width="350" title="Angela Benton"></a></p>
<p>Yum, Yum, Yum, and a <a href="http://scoobyfiles.toonzone.net/casefiles/seasonone/sdaamt.html" rel="nofollow">Liverwurst A La Mode</a>!!! >:D</p>
<p>So I was gonna watch this show regardless of what happened in it.</p>
<p>I had no idea what the <a href="http://www.newmeaccelerator.com/" rel="nofollow">NewME Accelerator</a> was before just now. <span id="more-10574"></span></p>
<p>I knew <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/abenton" rel="friend met colleague">Angela</a> had gone to California for some reason, and that <a href="https://plus.google.com/100894513529515310753/" rel="nofollow">Wayne Sutton</a> was there also, but I didn&#8217;t know what they were doing.</p>
<p>I wasn&#8217;t watching the show tonight, because my DVR was catching it, but I got a text about 15 minutes after the show started, from my aunt, asking me, basically, why *I* wasn&#8217;t in this particular CNN show. :D</p>
<p>oh.. Disclosure #2: I&#8217;m also partial to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/obrien.soledad.html" rel="nofollow">Soledad O&#8217;Brien</a>, because a homeboy of mine said he used to date her when he was at Harvard, but you know how dudes tend to exaggerate their interactions with females, so that&#8217;s an unconfirmed report. ;)</p>
<p>Anyway&#8230; This show was about people that are involved in founding startups.</p>
<h3>Startup Culture</h3>
<p>I&#8217;m &#8220;Internet Famous&#8221; (<a href="http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&#038;hl=en&#038;site=&#038;source=hp&#038;q=Bill&#038;btnK=Google+Search" rel="nofollow">#6 of 154,000,000 Google results for &#8220;Bill&#8221;</a>), (<a href="http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&#038;hl=en&#038;site=&#038;source=hp&#038;q=Bill&#038;btnK=Google+Search#sclient=psy-ab&#038;hl=en&#038;source=hp&#038;q=Cammack&#038;pbx=1&#038;oq=Cammack&#038;aq=f&#038;aqi=g4&#038;aql=&#038;gs_sm=e&#038;gs_upl=57566l58589l0l58799l7l4l0l1l1l0l486l1030l2.3-1.1l5l0&#038;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&#038;fp=66f34a57e82b87bf&#038;biw=1276&#038;bih=866" rel="nofollow">#2 of 1,440,000 Google results for &#8220;Cammack&#8221;</a>), but that&#8217;s not what I do.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a <a href="http://billcammack.com/billcammack/">video editor</a> and a <a href="http://blip.tv/bill-cammack" rel="me">content creator</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://billcammack.com/billcammack/"><img src="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bill_Cammack_Editor.jpg" width="600" title="Bill Cammack - Video Editor"></a></p>
<p>I edit television shows, corporate videos, web and personal content for my clients.</p>
<p>I also <a href="http://youtube.com/reelsolidtv" rel="me">do my own videos</a> and co-star in my friends&#8217; videos:</p>
<p><iframe width="600" height="335" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wTHn5oFPmi8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
YouTube Link => <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHn5oFPmi8" rel="nofollow">youtube.com/watch?v=wTHn5oFPmi8</a></p>
<p>That&#8217;s ENTIRELY DIFFERENT from what startup-people do.</p>
<p>With a startup, you think you have a good idea, you think you can technically implement it and make it into a website or an app, you think you can get people to recognize the value in using it, you think you can build a base of passionate users, and then you think you can get someone to give you money to go farther in your project than you could have on your own, or you think that someone will buy your company from you and roll it into their current set of offerings.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a lot of thinking, hoping, and praying involved with that process, and I&#8217;m not interested. :D</p>
<p>If I had wanted to do a startup, I would have done it already, and it would have been successful.</p>
<p>Friends of mine founded <a href="http://blip.tv/bill-cammack/" rel="me">blip.tv</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/billcammack/492497871/" title="Dina, Bill &amp; Kathleen by Bill Cammack, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/217/492497871_6140df8f6e.jpg" width="500" height="281" alt="Dina, Bill &amp; Kathleen"></a></p>
<p>and <a href="http://www.makerbot.com/" rel="nofollow">Makerbot Industries</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/billcammack/430375909/" title="Rudy, Bill, Bre by Bill Cammack, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/430375909_8f811bab45.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Rudy, Bill, Bre"></a></p>
<p>and <a href="http://billcammack.tumblr.com" rel="me">Tumblr</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/billcammack/2564567555/" title="Dave &amp; Bill by Bill Cammack, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2564567555_f287b763a0.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Dave &amp; Bill"></a></p>
<p>and <a href="http://www.rocketboom.com/" rel="nofollow">Rocketboom</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/billcammack/1557150881/" title="Bill C. @ The Mandarin Oriental Bar by Bill Cammack, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2336/1557150881_66eae03149.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Bill C. @ The Mandarin Oriental Bar"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscodaum/454939568/" title="Bill &#038; Drew by cisc1970, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/454939568_633dc43762.jpg" width="500" height="436" alt="_DSC4036.jpg"></a><br />
Photo Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscodaum/454939568/" rel="friend met colleague">Francisco Daum</a></p>
<p>and I&#8217;m friends with investors like <a href="http://jeffpulver.com/">Jeff Pulver</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/billcammack/2251217298/" title="Jeff, Kathryn, Kfir &amp; Keren by Bill Cammack, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2369/2251217298_5933685383.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Jeff, Kathryn, Kfir &amp; Keren"></a></p>
<p>So, if I had wanted to do that, I could have done it, and I can still do it, but I&#8217;m not interested in it, because I&#8217;ve seen how DEDICATED my friends have had to have been in order to be successful, and how much of their actual lives they&#8217;ve had to sacrifice, and that&#8217;s not my idea of a good time.</p>
<p>I get in, do my work, output my video, invoice my clients, and then CHILLLLLLLL, and that&#8217;s the way I like it. >:D</p>
<p>Working on a startup starts *AFTER* you finish doing whatever else you do to get money, because it&#8217;s a huge gamble&#8230; An incredible gamble that depends on a lot of things working the way you think they will.. Some of which are under your control and many of which are not, such as when an internet bubble bursts or when an economy goes down the drain, or some other team beats you to market with a similar product and soaks up your projected user base that you were going to use to demonstrate demand for your site or app.</p>
<p>On a slightly-related note, that&#8217;s one of the reasons why <a href="http://billcammack.com/2008/04/04/womens-guide-to-nyc-dating/">women have such a hard time dating in Manhattan, NYC</a>.  The guys here are busy.  We have things to do.  We don&#8217;t have time to frivolously throw away, sharing gelato with you at some bistro. :)</p>
<p>Your window of opportunity to spend time with us is severely limited, because we always have more that we want to accomplish, and unless you work in the same field as we do, or you&#8217;re working on the same startup as us, you&#8217;re not going to see us much.</p>
<p>If dudes wanted to live the leisurely, waste-time life, they would have stayed in Kansas instead of moving to NYC to try to grind it out and make it happen.</p>
<h3>Black In America: Silicon Valley</h3>
<p>First of all.. Congratulations and Props to all the founders and participants for heading out to California to take part in <a href="http://www.newmeaccelerator.com/" rel="nofollow">NewME Accelerator</a> and going for what they know! :D</p>
<p><a href="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CNN_Black_In_America_Silicon_Valley_4.jpg" title="CNN - Black In America, Silicon Valley"><img src="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CNN_Black_In_America_Silicon_Valley_4.jpg" width="600"></a></p>
<p>So, The first thing that happens is Angela says &#8220;For whatever reason, African Americans [edit] tend to be consumers of technology and not really creators of technology&#8221;.</p>
<p>IME (In My Experience), this is true.  There&#8217;s a difference between UTILIZING technology and creating something that other people use.</p>
<p>Similarly, there&#8217;s a difference between posting videos on a website and CREATING VIDEOS that you post on a website, like <a href="http://illdoctrine.com/" rel="friend met colleague">Jay Smooth</a> does, for instance:</p>
<p><iframe width="600" height="335" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7_z0TUN_DwQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
YouTube Link => <a href="http://youtu.be/7_z0TUN_DwQ" rel="nofollow">youtu.be/7_z0TUN_DwQ</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/billcammack/1439239396/" title="Bill C. &amp; Jay Smooth by Bill Cammack, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1175/1439239396_f4aa60181b.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Bill C. &amp; Jay Smooth"></a></p>
<p>As a member of the content creation community, this was one of the shortcomings of CNN&#8217;s show.  They never explained what it means or what it requires to think up and attempt to implement a startup, and then attempt to gain traction, get it funded and get it sold.</p>
<p>It was literally impossible to go into the actual intricacies of this field in an hour-long show, which is actually only 44 minutes of show time plus commercials.</p>
<p>Not only that, but CNN didn&#8217;t go into *HOW* they prepared in between their &#8220;pop quiz&#8221; pitch and their actual pitch at the end of the 9 weeks.</p>
<p>They didn&#8217;t show *ANY* of the process that takes you from doing a wack pitch to a good one.  This show needed to be at least two hours long, and probably three, to do it properly.</p>
<p>As someone who knows startup founders and knows the amount of work that they put in, every single day, to make their projects successful, I was entirely set up and then short-changed by the show.</p>
<p>The way they started it, I thought we were going to experience the process. We didn&#8217;t.  There was a lot of good information, and it was entertaining, but it was the equivalent of saying &#8220;Bill is going to mix a record now&#8221;, and then you hear the mixed record.  What happened in between? o_O</p>
<p>On top of that, CNN never showed what a pitch actually is.</p>
<p>Basically, a pitch is a terse explanation of why people would use your product, how they would benefit from it, and, in this case, how you intend to provide ROI (Return On Investment) to your investors.</p>
<p>This is a completely different skill from a) coming up with a product idea, b) being technically able to create an actual application, c) being able to recruit a team to work with you if necessary, and d) networking and publicizing your app.</p>
<p>For instance.. My pitch, which I never use in actual conversation, is &#8220;Bill Cammack helps you create quality video &#038; audio effortlessly. Working with Bill ensures quality control and on-time delivery of your presentation,<br />
freeing you up to do other things with your time.&#8221;</p>
<p>What that means in English is that (amongst other things) I&#8217;m a video editor, and the reason you should give me money to spend MY time on YOUR project is that I&#8217;m better than you, I&#8217;m faster than you, I know what actual quality is in video presentations, so you&#8217;re purchasing quality control, as well as not having to waste your own time that you could have spent getting money doing what YOU do well, in the process of creating an inferior product in a much longer time period.</p>
<p>Of course, things are different for me, because I don&#8217;t pitch to companies.  Companies pitch their projects to me.  My job is to point out my stellar track record and the companies and networks I&#8217;ve worked for that all require top-notch work.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no such thing as 99% of a television show.  You get &#8216;er done, or you fail.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t afford to fail, so I go in loaded for bear and make it happen.</p>
<h3>No Wack Demos</h3>
<p><a href="http://navarrowwright.com/" rel="nofollow">Navarrow Wright</a> told the group &#8220;No Wack Demos on demo day&#8221;, which amounts to &#8220;You&#8217;re going to be ON-POINT by the time you have to give your presentation that counts&#8221;.</p>
<p>I thought this part was important because people don&#8217;t tend to realize that there are people better than them at what they do or what they&#8217;re trying to do, and that they can receive valuable information from those people, including &#8220;Your presentation sucked, and here&#8217;s why&#8221;.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no point in wasting your time reinventing the wheel, when you can just get the goods from someone that knows more than you and then move forward, look good, present well, and be successful.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like with mixing music.  I personally don&#8217;t believe in people being able to do their own &#8220;mastering&#8221;, which is some kind of finishing process that people do.</p>
<p>DIY Mastering doesn&#8217;t make any sense, because it&#8217;s the same person listening to the track on the same amplifier and speakers in the same room, so what&#8217;s different? o_O Nothing.  If you want a track mastered, you send it to A MASTERING ENGINEER that has better equipment than you have, a better room than you have, and better sensibilities than you have when it comes to finalizing records.</p>
<p>I felt like their session(s) with Navarrow did exactly that.  It gave them a window into what they SHOULD have been aiming at, from someone that knows the drill and can accurately inform them how far along they&#8217;ve progressed, or not.</p>
<h3>Arrington, Conway, Kapor &#038; Meritocracy</h3>
<p>They aired a preview of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/in.america/black.in.america/" rel="nofollow">&#8220;Black In America: Silicon Valley&#8221;</a> several days ago, and some people were crying about what Mike Arrington had to say on the program.</p>
<p>I had been looking forward to hearing whatever controversial statements he made, but there weren&#8217;t any.  As far as I can tell, he was accurately recounting his personal experiences in his field and location.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s like if I were to say that 80% to 90% (anywhere from 4 out of 5 to 9 out of 10) of the people that have hired me as a <a href="http://billcammack.com/billcammack/">freelance video editor</a> are white, you don&#8217;t get to cry about that because, not that I care enough to count clients, but that would be my honest guesstimation of historical reality.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not demeaning black businesspeople by saying they make up either 1/5 or 1/10 of the people that have put money in my pocket.  It&#8217;s just, AFAIK, a fact.</p>
<p>I also agree with what Ron Conway said, which is that it&#8217;s not necessarily what you know, but instead, it&#8217;s who you know.</p>
<p>You can have as many <a href="http://facebook.com/BillCammack" rel="me">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/BillCammack" rel="me">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/110649214929620497857/" rel="me">Google+</a> followers as you like, but if none of them are relevant to your professional field, you actually have approximately zero influence when you create a &#8220;call to action&#8221;.</p>
<p>If you have good ideas, but don&#8217;t know anybody that will forward you to someone that can actually help you get to the next level, you&#8217;re either going to be stuck on the ground floor or moving very slowly, as you&#8217;ll only be able to do as much work as you can afford to do around your regular work schedule, instead of being able to devote all your working hours to your startup because you received some funding that will sustain you and possibly a couple other coworkers until you get the product working well enough for a beta test, build your community and go for the big bucks.</p>
<p>Mitch Kapor said &#8220;The part that is meritocratic is great, but there&#8217;s a big part of it that isn&#8217;t&#8221;.  I would agree with that, however, that statement applies to the United States in general.  People hire who they like and want to spend time with and want to see succeed, so long as those people have the base amount of skillz to actually get the job done in the first place.</p>
<p>If nobody wants to look at you, nobody&#8217;s going to hire you.<br />
If nobody wants to tell you &#8220;Good Morning&#8221; when you walk onto their job site (assuming it&#8217;s an on-site gig), nobody&#8217;s going to hire you.<br />
If nobody has any &#8220;checks and balances&#8221; references for you, such as <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/billcammack" rel="me">500+ Linkedin Connections</a>, nobody&#8217;s going to hire you.</p>
<p>Yes.. These things could be a function of some kind of racial or ethnic bias.  They could also be a function of, let&#8217;s call it a &#8220;social bias&#8221;, because regardless of what your heritage is, you don&#8217;t know anybody who investors or potential clients trust to vouch for you or vet you as someone worth doing business with.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, we can&#8217;t change people&#8217;s skin color and get a do-over so we can see how much better or worse their lives and careers would be, so all that&#8217;s left to do is be the best you can be and get what you get from your own hard work and diligence.. Not only in learning to program, but also in authentic networking that results in your being connected to the right people that can and WILL put you in touch with the right people when you need it.</p>
<p>Otherwise Known As &#8220;Having Friends In High Places.&#8221; >:D</p>
<h3>Hire A Front For Your Company</h3>
<p>So, next up, Professor Vivek Wadhwa dropped some REAL SCIENCE on the <a href="http://www.newmeaccelerator.com/" rel="nofollow">NewME Accelerator</a> team, which I can tell from looking at their faces during the reaction shots.</p>
<p>They only aired a couple of his statements, but I can tell he said a whole bunch of stuff that CNN didn&#8217;t have time to air (again, because this should have been a 3-hour show instead of a 1-hour show).</p>
<p>Part of what he said was &#8220;Get a white guy to be your front man&#8221;.  This was advice that had been given to him at the time he was doing HIS thing, and he was informing the NewME team about this technique.</p>
<p>Of course, that&#8217;s not going to work for me because I have my own props.</p>
<p>My name and face are branded all over creation, so I don&#8217;t get to send anyone else out to network for me or get me business under the guise that they&#8217;re the ones doing the video editing, because who the *** are THEY? :D haha I&#8217;ll get LESS WORK instead of MORE if I send anyone but myself as my personal representative.</p>
<p>However.. Like I said above.. Internet startups are mainly ideas and programming.  It&#8217;s recognizing an underserved market and filling that void.  The hands-on part is behind the scenes.  It doesn&#8217;t matter who you send as the representative of the company.  Dude&#8217;s job could merely be figurehead/front-man, and the money you&#8217;re paying him will be worth all the extra opportunities you get to pitch investors and clients if things work out the way you suspect.</p>
<p>In fact, I would advocate this style for anyone that has a WACK PRESENTATION, whether they&#8217;re white, black, Asian, Hispanic, whatever.</p>
<p>If you look busted, or you mumble when you try to speak English, or even though you know how to program, you sound like an idiot when you try to articulate your thoughts, or you have serious issues with public speaking, it&#8217;s really in your best interests to hire someone better looking, more articulate, and more confident in public than you are to be the spokesperson for your company.</p>
<p>Fortunately, I&#8217;m genetically predisposed to being gregarious, which is why I have <a href="http://facebook.com/BillCammack" rel="me">3,000 Facebook Friends</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/BillCammack" rel="me">3,000 Twitter Followers</a> <a href="https://plus.google.com/110649214929620497857/" rel="me">4,000 Google+ Followers</a>, etc, and I do my own networking as well as connecting other people that I determine should know each other for business or personal reasons.</p>
<p>Nobody&#8217;s better at being <a href="http://billcammack.com/">me</a> than I am. >:D</p>
<p><img src="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Flo_Bill_Trish.jpg" width="600" title="Flo, Bill, Trish"></p>
<h3>Relationship Issues</h3>
<p>I was glad to see a dude from my school <a href="http://alum.mit.edu/www/billcammack" rel="me">alum.MIT.edu/www/BillCammack</a> on the show, and I was also glad that he and his girlfriend created a site/app about dating, being that there&#8217;s just about NOTHING I enjoy talking about more than women! >:D</p>
<p>However.. And I realize that CNN may have edited this to look a certain way to craft a storyline, but if you&#8217;re dating a chick, her safety is ON YOU and her transportation is ON YOU! :D</p>
<p>For a few months while I was at school, I had an official girlfriend, like people actually knew we were together.</p>
<p>During that time, if I needed to export her from my dorm room in West Campus, *I* had to walk her ass all the way to Mass Ave so she could get the bus back to her school.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all in the game.  It&#8217;s part of the deal.  If there are 8 people living in a 3-bedroom, small-ass-house, and your girlfriend isn&#8217;t invited to make it 9 people, how you interact with her is ON YOU.</p>
<p>Word to Herb.  That&#8217;s what Skype is for.  iChat.  Do something! :D</p>
<p>On top of that, Angela left 3 daughters back at her crib.  Wayne left one son at his crib.  I saw some other video of at least one other person having a wife and child, so they&#8217;re not likely to be too sympathetic to &#8220;My girlfriend has to take the bus&#8221; when their loved ones don&#8217;t even have that option.</p>
<p>It was cute that CNN brought up the &#8220;white girlfriend&#8221; storyline and then cut up a bunch of sound bites, so we really have NO IDEA, WHATSOEVER what anybody thought about dude&#8217;s girlfriend&#8217;s skin color, but, again, it barely, barely, BARELY skimmed the surface and short-changed us AGAIN as far as something that might have been interesting and relevant about this situation and could have sparked important conversation.</p>
<p>Seriously.. CNN left so much material on the cutting room floor that it&#8217;s just embarrassing.</p>
<p>Hopefully, they won&#8217;t recycle the tapes they used and they&#8217;ll do a WAYYYYY extended version of this program (which I doubt), but my suggestion to <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/abenton" rel="friend met colleague">Angela</a> and friends is to get your hands on the raw footage before they delete it, because there are at least 3 more documentaries y&#8217;all can make from this.</p>
<p>Anyway.. The point is that he&#8217;s the only one that came with a co-founder.  Everyone else in the house was a standalone.  That&#8217;s automatically going to put you at a disadvantage, because half of your team wasn&#8217;t invited to the house.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s going to be on you to figure out how to make that situation work for you.</p>
<p>Everybody there was scrambling to make a good demo in the time they had in the house.  Nobody has extra time to take care of someone else&#8217;s business.</p>
<p>For next season, secure a sponsor like Ford, so there&#8217;s at least one car dedicated to the house, so if someone brings extra team members, he or she can make moves without inconveniencing other NewME members.</p>
<h3>Walking While Black</h3>
<p>So, <a href="https://plus.google.com/100894513529515310753/" rel="nofollow">Wayne</a> was walking down the street between a cafe and the NewME house when he was apparently stopped for WWB.</p>
<p>I would have enjoyed seeing the actual footage, but either CNN decided not to air it or they didn&#8217;t have a camera crew with Wayne when the incident occurred.</p>
<p>Arrington had already said that it&#8217;s a white and Asian world out there.  In situations like that, WWB is going to happen <em>one time</em>, so local cops can put an eye on you, check your ID and check your demeanor.</p>
<p>After that, it should never happen to you again, because the rest of the team should be informed that you&#8217;re in the area and liable to be walking around in the middle of the night.</p>
<p>In fact, this goes back to what I was saying about getting a Ford sponsorship, so NewME members don&#8217;t have to be walking all over creation.</p>
<p>If it happens to you more than once, *THEN* it&#8217;s a potential harassment problem.</p>
<p>I know this sounds dumb, but life isn&#8217;t fair.  Deal with it.</p>
<p>In fact, it&#8217;s not even really a police issue, it&#8217;s a guy thing.</p>
<p>When you&#8217;re used to an environment being a certain way, and then it changes (in this case, going from having essentially ZERO minorities around to having several, who don&#8217;t appear to own cars), you&#8217;re going to want some information about the new person/people.</p>
<p>I went to a bar on Long Island one time with a &#8220;well-tanned&#8221; friend of mine, and we had been hanging out for for a while, when this guy with a fancy Italian nickname walks over and introduces himself to me.</p>
<p>I shook his hand, and eventually, he got around to asking me what we were doing there.</p>
<p>I looked him in the eye and told him we were there to drink some brews and check out some chicks.</p>
<p>He nodded, and then I asked him if that was a problem.  He said it wasn&#8217;t, so the three of us hung out until he walked back over to his 7-8 local homeboys and told them what he had found out.</p>
<p>My friend and I chilled, without incident, until the bar closed down.  Meanwhile, the dudes that had sent their envoy over had proceeded to get in a fight with another crew of 5-6 white dudes, right there on the dance floor of the bar, which was rather entertaining. :D</p>
<p>The point being.. If someone&#8217;s concerned that you&#8217;ve entered &#8220;their space&#8221;, it&#8217;s actually BETTER FOR YOU that they step to you and decide for sure whether they have a beef with you or not, than it is for them NOT to approach you and then if you eventually have to interact with them, they&#8217;re working off of entirely unfounded and incorrect conclusions that they made up about you in their own minds.</p>
<h3>Go For Yours</h3>
<p>Even though CNN devoted all of like 25 seconds to it, I think that <a href="http://twitter.com/anthonyfrasier">Anthony Frasier</a>&#8216;s storyline was the most currently relevant and compelling narrative amongst the NewME members.</p>
<p>The only way out from under the current American economic crisis for a lot of people is going to be reeducation.. PREFERABLY in a field that doesn&#8217;t leave you relying upon local people and companies for job and career opportunities.</p>
<p>If your job is to put doors on cars and they move the plant to another country to maximize profits, you&#8217;re not getting another car-door-putting-on job.  You have to learn a new skill.. ASAP.</p>
<p>I really like <a href="http://twitter.com/anthonyfrasier">Anthony</a>&#8216;s response to &#8220;How can I buy my mother a house?&#8221;, and wish him the best of luck with his startup, <a href="http://playd.it/">playd.it</a>, which is described as &#8220;Foursquare for gamers. See what your friends are playing on everything from Xbox to mobile. Discover new games and rate the ones you already played.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is &#8220;Hustle&#8221; or &#8220;Grind&#8221;, even though currently-popular music would have you believe that both of those words have negative, illegal connotations.</p>
<p>Without this type of work ethic, people waste their time instead of improving themselves, learning a new skill, networking, or publicizing their products.</p>
<p>You have to have a goal.. Something to look forward to.. Something you want, like buying your mother a house, and then you have to use the fuel you receive from that to propel you forward into potential greatness.</p>
<p>Whether you succeed or not, at the end of the day, you know you did all you could to create the future you wanted for yourself, instead of slacking, brooding, lamenting, and dreaming about what might have been if you would have applied yourself.</p>
<h3>It&#8217;s Easy To Talk. It&#8217;s Hard To do.</h3>
<p>Regardless of CNN trying to tell a 3-hour story in 1 hour, I&#8217;m glad they did this installation of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/in.america/black.in.america/" rel="nofollow">&#8220;Black In America&#8221;</a> about a sector of the society that isn&#8217;t typically focused on.</p>
<p>Hopefully, as several of the <a href="http://www.newmeaccelerator.com/" rel="nofollow">NewME</a> members stated in the final block, people who &#8220;look like them&#8221; will get the idea that THEY can do the same things in life if they apply themselves.</p>
<p>Programming isn&#8217;t the point.  Moving to California isn&#8217;t the point.  Being an internet-famous blogger or social media personality isn&#8217;t the point.</p>
<p>The Point is that all of these startups began with an idea and progressed into implementation.. The Point is that you don&#8217;t have to accept the 1-5 ways that society claims you can make money or gain fame or pull chicks or whatever your goal in life is.</p>
<p>Sit down.  Lay down.  Stand around.  Think about what&#8217;s missing for you or for someone else.  Think about whether you can fill that need.  Think about whether it&#8217;s economically feasible for you to attempt to fill that need.  If it isn&#8217;t, sell the idea to someone else, or recruit other people that already have the equipment and skillz you need to pull it off, and offer them some kind of ROI for getting involved with your idea.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t even have to be elaborate.  You might be really good at using clippers to cut hair and shape up lines.  ok, fine.. You look all fresh &#8216;n fly when you go to the club, but how about lining up a few customers at $10 each, then investing $80 in a shiny, new set of clippers &#038; trimmers, making your money back immediately, and then letting all the rest of it be profit? o_O</p>
<p>Maybe you didn&#8217;t even KNOW that there are people that will give you money in return for a percentage of ownership of your company if they believe in your idea.</p>
<p>Maybe you didn&#8217;t even consider attempting to get investors and sponsors and passionate consumers and family members to assist you in realizing your goals and dreams.</p>
<p>So I think the show made some important points, although, like I said, being someone that knows what it takes to do what we do on the internet, even to write a long-ass blog post like this one, I&#8217;m aware that CNN skimmed over A LOT of the technical aspects of what needed to be done over the weeks that the NewME team was in Silicon Valley.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure the production goal was to show social issues and not technical ones, but I think that if you&#8217;re going to attempt to tell a story detailing bias in a community, you have to describe and display the technical merits and prowess of the people that the bias is supposed to be against.</p>
<p>Like, I can&#8217;t just say that someone didn&#8217;t hire me to do a video for them because I&#8217;m not white.. I&#8217;d have to demonstrate that I&#8217;m better than the person they hired, and then demonstrate that the potential client KNEW I was better than the other person and still hired them instead of me.</p>
<p>CNN didn&#8217;t delve far enough into the individual members&#8217; skillsets to potentially make the case of &#8220;This startup should have been funded, but wasn&#8217;t, and it&#8217;s potentially because of a societal bias in this field&#8221;.</p>
<p>Anyway.. I enjoyed the presentation.  It was good to see some social media people on the big screen. :)</p>
<p>Good Luck to them on their startups, and Good Luck to <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/abenton" rel="friend met colleague">Angela</a> on season 02 of the <a href="http://www.newmeaccelerator.com/" rel="nofollow">NewME Accelerator</a>! :D</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221; was complete garbage this week. As I predicted, when I found out that MTV was sending a bunch of non-Itaian-speaking people to Italy for no reason other than their chosen social subculture has been stereotypically attributed to Italian-AMERICANS (having nothing at all to do with Italians in Italy), they can&#8217;t socialize with anyone [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2011/09/16/jersey-shore-italy-walk-like-a-duck/"></g:plusone></div><p>&#8220;<a href="http://billcammack.com/category/datinggenius/jersey-shore/" title="Jersey Shore">Jersey Shore</a>&#8221; was complete garbage this week.</p>
<p>As I predicted, when I found out that MTV was sending a bunch of non-Itaian-speaking people to Italy for no reason other than their chosen social subculture has been stereotypically attributed to Italian-AMERICANS (having nothing at all to do with Italians in Italy), they can&#8217;t socialize with anyone but themselves, so the shows are entirely about the boring, redundant interactions between the housemates. <span id="more-10349"></span></p>
<h3>Storyline</h3>
<p>The entire episode was about the girls hanging out together.. &#8220;The Girls&#8221; being Jenni, Sammi, Deena, Nicole, and Ronnie.</p>
<p>The guys (Vinny, Pauly, and Mike) were complete non-factors this week.  Mike got one kiss from one chick in a club, and seemed to be getting her number, but MTV elected not to tell us anything that happened with that storyline, which is probably nothing, because dude doesn&#8217;t have any skillz.</p>
<p>THE. ENTIRE. REST. OF. THE. SHOW. was about Deena The Ominsexual getting drunk (as usual), falling down (as usual), and making out incessantly with Nicole, who&#8217;s another omnisexual horn-dog who&#8217;s been throwing sex at anybody and anything ever since the first episode of the first season when she climbed in the hot tub with all four of her male housemates that she had just met and kissed all of them.</p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t find that particular clip on YouTube, but this one will do:</p>
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<p>This is a clip from Season 01, where Mike &#038; Nicole are messing around in the hot tub.  She mentions towards the end of the clip &#8220;I did the same thing that I did the first night! :D&#8221;, which alludes to the situation I mentioned above.</p>
<h3>Double Standards</h3>
<p>The value of this week&#8217;s Jersey Shore was that the entire country got to see behavior that I see all the time in the trenches.  There&#8217;s a lot of drinking, a lot of lying, and a lot of revisionist history that takes place on a weekly basis, if not a daily basis, depending on how often you interact with people on the dating scene.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism_(negationism)" rel="nofollow">Historical Revisionism</a> is either the legitimate scholastic re-examination of existing knowledge about a historical event, or <strong>the illegitimate distortion of the historical record such that certain events appear in a more or less favourable light.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Revisionist History generally works in opposite directions with males and females, because of the double-standard.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with the American (and potentially worldwide) double-standard, it&#8217;s basically that women that have sex can be branded <a href="http://billcammack.com/2008/11/18/sluts-whores/">whores, sluts or hoes</a> for doing the exact same sexual acts that make guys &#8220;THE MAN&#8221; and get us accolades and free beers from our fans and peers.</p>
<p>So.. If a guy and gal hook up, what&#8217;s likely to happen if they both have to give a report the next day, the guy&#8217;s going to say that MORE SEX occurred than actually did, and the gal is going to say that LESS SEX occurred than actually did.</p>
<p>This is typical, so you adjust accordingly&#8230; Whatever a guy says he did to a chick, you tone it down a notch or two, and whatever a gal says she did with a guy, you amp it up a notch or two.</p>
<p>Basically, if she says nothing happened, that means she kissed him.  If she says she kissed him, that means he felt her up.  If she says he felt her up, she actually blew him&#8230; you get the picture.</p>
<p>This is what we got a beautiful portrait of, thanks to Nicole &#038; Deena getting drunk together and hooking up for approximately 26% of the entire show.</p>
<p>I mean&#8230; the portrait itself was RAUNCHY, but I&#8217;m saying that it was a beautiful illustration of a raunchy situation. :D</p>
<h3>Omnisexuals</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading along, you know that <a href="http://billcammack.com/">The Kid</a> doesn&#8217;t pay attention to labels, because they don&#8217;t mean anything.</p>
<p>For instance.. If a chick says she has a boyfriend, that doesn&#8217;t mean she&#8217;s not going to hook up with you tonight.  It&#8217;s completely meaningless what she says or how she attempts to classify herself, because she&#8217;s a grown-ass woman with free will, who&#8217;s going to do whatever she feels like doing whenever she feels like doing it, so if she feels like giving you some today and going home to her boyfriend tonight, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going to happen.</p>
<p>Unfortunately.. Most drones.. I mean, people, think that there are several concrete classifications, and EVEN WORSE, think that they can TELL YOU what group they belong to and that that means something to you or even to themselves.</p>
<p>We saw this a couple of episodes ago, when <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/08/30/jersey-shore-italy-double-header/">Deena was blatantly cockblocking Mike and Vinny by grabbing the &#8220;Virgin Twin&#8221;, making out with her at the club and bringing her home to hop in bed with her</a>.</p>
<p>Deena keeps protesting: &#8220;I&#8217;m not a lesbian!&#8221;</p>
<p>ok&#8230; Fine&#8230; You&#8217;re &#8220;not a lesbian&#8221; who likes to dance with girls, make out with girls, and hook up with girls under the covers in your bed while Vinny&#8217;s right there to hear the whole thing and report to Ronnie in the morning that you were moaning all night before you ejected <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/08/30/jersey-shore-italy-double-header/">Virgin Twin</a> to polish Vinny off before he went to sleep that night.</p>
<p>So.. How does that help you to declare yourself &#8220;not a lesbian&#8221;? o_O</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>You walk like a duck, talk like a duck, make out and **** like a duck, but you think that by telling people &#8220;I&#8217;m not a duck&#8221;, it means something.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t mean anything at all.</p>
<p>This is the problem with labels.  Nobody cares which team you claim you&#8217;re playing for.  What matters is what you&#8217;re likely to do in a given situation.. Especially in an often-repeated situation like your being fall-down drunk and feeling like having sex with somebody&#8230; with ANYBODY that you find attractive at that point in time.</p>
<p>Deena is correct that she&#8217;s not a lesbian.  She&#8217;s an omnisexual.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality</a></p>
<p>Pansexuality (also referred to as <strong>omnisexuality</strong> or polysexuality)[1] refers to <strong>the potential for sexual attractions, sexual desire, romantic love, or emotional attraction, towards people of all gender identities and biological sexes.</strong>[2][3] Self-identified pansexuals may refer to themselves as gender-blind—that gender and sex are insignificant or irrelevant in determining whether they will be sexually attracted to others.[4] The Oxford English Dictionary writes that pansexuality &#8220;encompasses all kinds of sexuality; not limited or inhibited in sexual choice with regards to gender or activity.&#8221;[5]</p>
<p>The concept of pansexuality deliberately rejects the gender binary, the idea that there are only two genders,[6] as pansexual people are open to relationships with people who do not identify as strictly men or women. Pansexuality can also mean the attraction to a person&#8217;s personality, rather than their physical appearance or gender.[7]</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with this.  It&#8217;s what makes Deena the wildcard and the interesting character in the house.  You never know if she&#8217;s going to hook up with a dude or a chick, but you know that as soon as she gets drunk enough to start falling down for no reason, she&#8217;s going to try to tongue SOMEONE down, which is probably why Pauly was looking so skeeved out when she wanted to kiss him at the end of the first Italy episode:</p>
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<p>So, ladies&#8230; If you start making out with chicks every time you get drunk, don&#8217;t bother trying to explain that away as not being a core aspect of your personality.  Nobody cares what you call yourself or how you try to classify yourself.  The only thing people are paying attention to is what you&#8217;re liable to do when you&#8217;re feeling horny and there&#8217;s a chick or dude around that you feel like hooking up with.</p>
<p>Labels are over.  Do what you do.  Get in where you fit in.  Enjoy your life, as-is.</p>
<p>Just don&#8217;t bother protesting when your friends and roommates tell you what you did last night right in front of their faces as if you didn&#8217;t actually do that, AND it&#8217;s not an event that&#8217;s been historically repeated by you under the exact same conditions every time.</p>
<p>I used to know people that would call themselves &#8220;non-smokers&#8221;.  Then.. When it&#8217;s 1am at a party, I look and see them smoking a cigarette.</p>
<p>When I approached them and asked them what the **** they were doing, their reply, across the board, was &#8220;oh.. I only smoke when I&#8217;m drunk.&#8221;</p>
<p>That makes you a SMOKER when you&#8217;re drunk, and since you get drunk EVERY WEEKEND, that makes you *NOT* a non-smoker.</p>
<p>Labels are useless.</p>
<h3>It&#8217;s Regular</h3>
<p>It&#8217;s now the year 2011 AD.  Nobody expects chicks not to make out with chicks.  That&#8217;s what they do. \o/</p>
<p>This was the dialogue from the cab ride from the club back to the hotel:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sammi: They&#8217;ve been making out for, like, three hours. (referring to Nicole and Deena)</li>
<li>Jenni: This is not no <strong>ordinary girl makeout session</strong>.  This is like they&#8217;re going to **** each other when they get back to the hotel, and I have to share a room with them.</li>
<li>Sammi: I don&#8217;t even make out this long with Ron.</li>
</ul>
<p>See what I mean? o_O &#8220;ordinary girl makeout session&#8221;.  It&#8217;s regular. Nobody cares.  I don&#8217;t understand what Deena&#8217;s protesting about. \o/ According to the videotaped evidence, when Deena&#8217;s drunk, she&#8217;s likely to dance with chicks, make out with chicks and hop in bed with chicks.  It&#8217;s not like people are making up stuff she doesn&#8217;t actually do, right in front of their faces.</p>
<p>Now, haha As funny as it is when the guys talk about &#8220;Lesbie Friends&#8221; and &#8220;Lesbie Honest, Here&#8221; and &#8220;Lez Go!&#8221; and &#8220;At least the carpets are clean&#8221; and &#8220;You didn&#8217;t eat enough last night?&#8221;, none of that would be happening if Deena just admitted she&#8217;s an omnisexual and rocked with the reality of her life and attractions.</p>
<p>The reason the jokes are so funny is that she keeps protesting and lying and bullshitting instead of just owning up to the facts and being herself.</p>
<p>However.. There&#8217;s another very important issue that came to light this episode&#8230;</p>
<h3>I don&#8217;t remember.. But I definitely didn&#8217;t do THAT!!! :O</h3>
<p>Another ultra-pathetic aspect of <a href="http://billcammack.com/category/datinggenius/">The Game</a> that was highlighted this episode is how people try to play both sides of the memory situation.</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>Pro Tip:</strong> If you don&#8217;t remember what you *DID*, you can&#8217;t possibly remember what you *DIDN&#8217;T DO*.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Long Story Short.. Deena &#038; Nicole get drunk in the afternoon, dance, feel each other up and make out for the rest of the entire day and night, make out all the way home in the cab and then hop under the covers together and wake up the next afternoon talking about &#8220;Do you remember what happened last night? o_O&#8221;</p>
<p>Fortunately, the cameras were rolling the entire time, so it doesn&#8217;t matter what you remember.</p>
<p>The important line is when Deena says to Nicole &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember anything after we left that restaurant&#8221;, then, when Nicole says &#8220;I remember making out with you&#8221;, Deena&#8217;s reply is &#8220;We didn&#8217;t do anything else.&#8221;&#8230;..</p>
<p>um&#8230;. WHAT? :D</p>
<p>When you left the restaurant, you went to the club.  When you left the club, you got in the cab and came home.  You eventually went to sleep.  You eventually woke back up.  You&#8217;re now having a conversation.</p>
<p>*IF* you don&#8217;t remember anything after you left the restaurant, you can not say *WHAT* you did at the club, in the cab, or when you came home and hopped in bed with a chick.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t say anything at all, other than &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember anything after we left that restaurant&#8221;, so you most certainly are not credible when you say things like &#8220;We didn&#8217;t do anything else&#8221;.</p>
<p>A lot of people aren&#8217;t smart enough to realize that they&#8217;re claiming amnesia and lucid recall at the same time.</p>
<p>A lot of people don&#8217;t understand that they make totally different decisions when they&#8217;re drunk, like I mentioned above about smokers.</p>
<p>When you&#8217;re not drunk, you can&#8217;t speak for your drunk-self and say &#8220;I would not have done XYZ&#8221; or &#8220;I didn&#8217;t do XYZ&#8221; when you incapacitated yourself to the point that you can&#8217;t walk straight, you often fall down and you experience memory blackouts in the morning.</p>
<p>I know this because I&#8217;ve been there.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve had enough to drink on some evenings where I&#8217;ve had to ask close and trusted friends what I did the night before.  When they told me, I had to take their word for it, because I had ZERO. RECALL. OF. THAT. EVENING&#8230; Even their telling me didn&#8217;t jar actual memories.  If the information is gone, the information is gone.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s worse is when people get indignant about what you&#8217;re telling them they did.</p>
<p>Due to your incapacitating yourself with alcohol or whatever substance, essentially, I was there, and you were not.  I know what happened, and you do not.</p>
<p>Therefore, in the absence of videotaped evidence, if Jenni says that Deena and Nicole made out all the way home in the cab, there&#8217;s no point in either one of them getting mad or trying to dispute the facts, because THEY. HAVE. NO. MEMORY. and therefore NO. SAY. about how that period of time is written into the history books.</p>
<h3>Caviat Emptor</h3>
<p>This situation is insanely dangerous for guys.</p>
<p>Thanks to the pressures of the double standard, chicks are liable to lie and say they didn&#8217;t do what you know they did.</p>
<p>This could happen because they have no memory but don&#8217;t want to believe they did what they did.  It could also happen because they *DO* remember what they did and now they feel like <a href="http://billcammack.com/2008/11/18/sluts-whores/">hoes</a> and want to relieve themselves of their personal responsibility by blaming something on you that you didn&#8217;t do to them.</p>
<p>For this reason, it&#8217;s *REALLY* in your best interest to NOT hook up with drunk chicks. :)</p>
<p>I know this doesn&#8217;t make any sense, because it&#8217;s easier to screw drunk women than sober ones.  I get that.  I understand&#8230; What I&#8217;m telling you is that there are a lot of guys that had to deal with a lot of legal problems as well as illegal problems (she tells guys she knows that you took advantage of her, when you didn&#8217;t) because they wanted to get laid one night, so think about it before you hook up with the easy lay.. Sometimes, it&#8217;s simply and entirely not worth it.</p>
<p>The other aspect of &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor" rel="nofollow">Buyer Beware</a>&#8221; is what happened after the fact, when Nicole had to call her so-called &#8220;boyfriend&#8221; and tell him about the evening&#8217;s events.</p>
<p>Remember what I said, about chicks downplaying what actually happened? o_O .. She went ahead and told her &#8220;boyfriend&#8221; that she got drunk and made out with Deena and &#8220;That&#8217;s pretty much all that happened&#8221;.</p>
<p>Sorry.  That was a bullshit lie.</p>
<p>This is, again, where Jersey Shore is an anomaly.  That lie would have stood if there wasn&#8217;t videotaped evidence to the contrary.  Anybody that&#8217;s not on a &#8220;reality&#8221; show wouldn&#8217;t have gotten caught in that lie.</p>
<p>This is why it isn&#8217;t worth asking someone you&#8217;re dating what they did last night.  You may or may not get the truth.  There&#8217;s no reason to base the rest of your relationship on what they TOLD YOU happened, when, similar to the person that drank too much to remember, *YOU* have no idea at all what happened last night.</p>
<p>Of course.. This also flies in the face of Nicole&#8217;s lie about not hooking up with Mike&#8230; Remember the same guy she was making out with in that hot tub video I linked from Season 01? o_O .. When he recently snitched on her for blowing him while they were on break before this Italy season, she got mad at him for ratting her out, but didn&#8217;t have anything to say when he offered to tell the details of exactly where and what happened.</p>
<p>So, basically, you get what you get and you have what you have.  There&#8217;s no point in trying to police your <a href="http://billcammack.com/2008/06/01/significant-others/">significant other</a>&#8216;s behavior when you&#8217;re not physically in their presence.  They&#8217;re going to do whatever they want and tell you whatever they want after the fact.. assuming they even REMEMBER what happened, to begin with.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m expecting a bunch more &#8220;nothing&#8221; from the rest of this season, because MTV&#8217;s run out of storylines other than whether Mike&#8217;s going to hook up with Nicole again, which nobody cares about.</p>
<p>According to the edit, Vinny&#8217;s been completely ineffective at pulling chicks in Italy, except for the &#8220;Virgin Twin&#8221; that Deena stole from Mike and handed off to Vinny when she was finished.</p>
<p>Ronnie&#8217;s one of the girls, spending all his time with Sammi, Nicole, Jenni, and Deena = no action.</p>
<p>Pauly hasn&#8217;t done jack-**** since he landed in Italy.</p>
<p>Mike met some American chick that he was steadily screwing until he smashed his own head into a wall and injured his neck = zero Italian action, with the single credit I can give him being that he pulled the two chicks to come back to the house, but <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/08/30/jersey-shore-italy-double-header/">when Pauly let the grenade loose, Mike&#8217;s girl bounced too</a>, so that particular fumble wasn&#8217;t his fault.</p>
<p>Jenni and Sammi have boyfriends = no action.</p>
<p>Deena hooks up with anything that isn&#8217;t too drunk to run away from her.</p>
<p>Nicole has a &#8220;boyfriend&#8221;, gets drunk and hooks up with chicks all night while denying that she blew Mike, whom there&#8217;s videotaped evidence of her messing with in the hot tub.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve already seen all this stuff played out over and over and over and over and YAWWWWWWNNN</p>
<p>Even though my previous prediction didn&#8217;t work out, which is why we&#8217;re suffering through a useless Italy season, my *NEW* prediction is that they do one more Jersey Shore season at the actual Jersey Shore and then retire this concept.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no depth of field in this subculture where they can switch out cast members like The Real World.  They&#8217;re stuck with these 8 (9, if you count Angelina) people, and all their interactions were redundant about a year ago.</p>
<p>However.. As we know.. Television isn&#8217;t about entertainment, but ROI (Return On Investment), and as long as MTV&#8217;s getting more money from Jersey Shore fans than they&#8217;re spending on producing the show, we may very well see &#8220;Jersey Shore: Kentucky&#8221; coming soon to a television near you. :/<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[They aired two episodes of Jersey Shore this week, so there&#8217;s a lot to cover today. If I miss anything or you want to discuss a particular topic, leave a comment below or find the thread on Facebook or Google+. Virgins Are Useful We ended last episode with the Jersey Shore housemates bagging a couple [...]]]></description>
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<p>If I miss anything or you want to discuss a particular topic, leave a comment below or find the thread on <a href="http://facebook.com/BillCammack">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/110649214929620497857/">Google+</a>.</p>
<h3>Virgins Are Useful</h3>
<p>We ended last episode with the Jersey Shore housemates bagging a couple of chicks&#8230; To be specific.. The one chick that Mike&#8217;s been able to pull since he&#8217;s been in Italy, this American chick (of all people to meet in Italy), just so happens to have a twin sister.  Mike had had plans of hooking up with the both of them until Deena pulled the robbery on him and started making out with the extra twin.</p>
<p>Before this happened, the extra twin had announced that she&#8217;s a virgin, which we all know means absolutely nothing, because nobody&#8217;s going to take your word for something like that.  We just go &#8220;yeah, yeah, yeah&#8221; and then see what happens when we get back to the crib. <span id="more-10282"></span></p>
<p>Of course, when they get this so-called virgin to the house, she ends up making out with Deena until Deena has to go to the bathroom and then the &#8220;virgin&#8221; hops in bed with Vinny and is concealed under his covers doing something until Deena comes and retrieves her, for what she, of course, lies and says is nothing, even though Vinny reports later in the episode that Deena had been moaning all night and passed the chick back after she got hers, so the &#8220;virgin&#8221; could spend the rest of the night hooking up with Vinny.</p>
<p>The bottom line being that virgins are useful.  Don&#8217;t be disappointed, fellows, if a chick says she&#8217;s not <a href="http://billcammack.com/2010/09/18/how-to-not-get-a-date-hunters-part-10/#DTF">DTF</a>.  It really doesn&#8217;t matter.  She&#8217;ll figure out some way to get you off.</p>
<h3>Mind Your Own Business</h3>
<p>Next, Mike was kicking his twin out, so she goes to the room where Virgin Twin is still shacked up with Vinny and announces that she&#8217;s leaving, as if anybody asked her.  VT tells her to step, and she leaves&#8230;. Of course, right after that, Mike does the exact same thing, telling her that her sister went home.</p>
<p>Mind your own business, dude.  How do you know Vinny&#8217;s finished with her? o_O  Shut up and go away.  We know Deena&#8217;s finished with her because she only likes to make out with chicks when she&#8217;s drunk.  Let Vinny get his morning SWERVE ON before ejecting the chick.  Stay out of it.</p>
<p>In Mike&#8217;s defense, he wasn&#8217;t aware yet that VT had served both Deena and Vinny the night before, but it still wasn&#8217;t his place to potentially ruin Vinny&#8217;s morning action.</p>
<p>Next, the fellaz go to hang out, where Mike recounts the same situation that Nicole had brought up last episode, except in her version, Mike pressed up on her, she didn&#8217;t go for it and Mike stormed off upset.  In Mike&#8217;s version, Nicole was horny, so she blew him.</p>
<p>This would be a typical he-said, she-said situation where the guy claims he got on and the chick claims he didn&#8217;t, except for the fact that we&#8217;ve seen Nicole get drunk and throw sex at guys the entire time she&#8217;s been on the show, which is, what?.. two full years now?, so there&#8217;s no way she&#8217;s getting the benefit of the doubt on this one.</p>
<p>The funny thing about both of their accounts is that they BOTH put Ryder&#8217;s business in the streets by saying that Mike&#8217;s boy was ******* her at the time.  That&#8217;s the only thing the two of them agree on. :D</p>
<h3>Table Full Of Liars</h3>
<p>Next, the girls all go out to eat together.  Nicole holds the line that she never blew Mike.  After that, Deena cops out to making out with the virginal twin, but swears up and down that nothing else happened.  This is the same thing she said about Dean last season, when Sammi saw her escorting him out of the house in the morning and informed Deena that he has a girlfriend.</p>
<p>Nobody believes this stuff, ladies.  Let me just tell you now.  You&#8217;re not slick.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re especially not slick when you stole a girl from your homeboy that was in the process of doing him, and you &#8220;were hooking up all night and got off and then sent the girl back to his bed&#8221;, according to Vinny&#8217;s eyewitness account.</p>
<p>These &#8220;I didn&#8217;t do anything&#8221; lies only work when nobody else is there.  It doesn&#8217;t work for Deena because Vinny saw and heard the whole thing.  It does work for Nicole because neither of the other two people involved have a voice in the show.. although her credibility is zero, so she loses anyway.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s worse is that in this case, all of this is happening on videotape.  Even if the situation itself wasn&#8217;t recorded, your explanations of the situation are being recorded, and whomever you&#8217;re in a relationship with is going to have a lot to think about when the shows finally air.</p>
<p>After that, Deena happens to be in a room with Pauly, Vinny and Ronnie and Pauly&#8217;s going &#8220;Lesbie Honest&#8221;, or perhaps &#8220;Lesbian-ist&#8221;, and her reply is &#8220;About what?&#8221;, with the joke flying right over her head while Ronnie and Vinny are practically crying laughing.</p>
<p>Next, Nicole calls her boyfriend and informs him that Mike told everybody she gave him some.  He asks her if she has anything to hide, to which she replies &#8220;no&#8221;, as if anybody in that situation ever replies &#8220;yes&#8221;.</p>
<p>At the Sunday Dinner, Mike sets it off by telling Deena that he heard she had been moaning all night (referencing twin virgin).  Deena lies and says &#8220;She didn&#8217;t **** my ******.  She went to, and then I decided I didn&#8217;t want to do that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Too bad for Deena, she had already been videotaped at lunch with the girls agreeing that Vinny got her &#8220;sloppy seconds&#8221;.  The stupidity and hypocrisy is just rampant.  This is why y&#8217;all are never believed.  You know there was an eyewitness about 10 feet away from where you were hooking up with the chick that saw and heard every single second of it because he was still awake when you returned the chick to his bed, which is where you retrieved her from in the first place.  When are you going to give up the ghost? :D</p>
<p>This is how Sammi got caught lying last season, during the <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/04/10/girls-dont-have-friends-that-are-guys/">&#8220;Girls Don&#8217;t Have Friends That Are Guys&#8221;</a> situation.</p>
<p>The more you lie when you&#8217;re already caught, the more you erode your credibility and then nothing you say ever again will hold water against the flimsiest accusation by someone else.  You don&#8217;t get extra points for truth-telling because you&#8217;re in a relationship with someone.  In fact, it works the other way.  If you&#8217;re in a relationship and insist on lying instead of fessing up when you get caught, you&#8217;re going to run out of luck someday&#8230;</p>
<h3>Guilty As Charged</h3>
<p>Anyway.. This conversation jumps off where Deena swears up and down that she didn&#8217;t cockblock Vinny.  This is another &#8220;give up the ghost&#8221; situation.  You did it.  Vinny knows you did it.  Everybody else agrees that you did it.  You were BRAGGING ABOUT IT at lunch, talking **** about &#8220;sloppy seconds&#8221;.  It was all very funny to you until you got labeled a cockblocker due to your ACTION of obvious and unambiguous cockblocking.</p>
<p>And then, your rebuttal is to ask Mike &#8220;Who are you to judge?&#8221;&#8230; um&#8230; DUH!!!&#8230; How about Mike is the guy who pulled the original girl in the first place and screwed her a couple of times, causing her to bring her so-called virgin twin sister into the mix who Mike had every intention of getting what both YOU and VINNY ended up getting from her because YOU cockblocked MIKE and started making out with the extra twin, so what the **** are you talking about, &#8220;who is he to judge?&#8221; o_O</p>
<p>Your honor.. I was in my house, and I saw the defendant unplug a lamp and leave my house with it without my permission.</p>
<p>Cross-examination: &#8220;Who are you to judge?&#8221;</p>
<p>You Lose.</p>
<p>Then, your next statement is &#8220;I&#8217;m not a cockblocker. I gave her back, after.&#8221;</p>
<p>You see how stupid you look?  I didn&#8217;t do it.  I did it.  I didn&#8217;t hook up with her.  He hooked up with her after I did.  I didn&#8217;t steal her because I gave her back when I was finished. WHAT??? o_O</p>
<p>Right after that was a female commiseration segment where they all decided to make Deena feel better, instead of focusing on the facts.  Even Jenni, who&#8217;s the most rational of the chicks on the show, did air-quotes when she said &#8220;cockblocking&#8221;, as if she wasn&#8217;t sure that that&#8217;s what Deena did because that&#8217;s what Deena did.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a tip, ladies&#8230; If a guy&#8217;s about to bag a chick and you cause that not to happen or you cause it to happen more slowly than it otherwise would have, you are GUILTY of cockblocking.  Period.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not in your job description.  If dudes put you down as part of the crew, like *ACTUALLY* part of the crew, as if you were one of the fellaz, your job, like everybody else&#8217;s job is to FACILITATE and EXPEDITE the rest of the guys getting some.  As long as you&#8217;re playing your position, you will continue to receive team perks. If you go the other route, you&#8217;ll be excommunicated, as it will be easier for the guys to get laid if you&#8217;re not there.</p>
<p>Make yourself useful or inconsequential.  Either one works.  Being a hindrance to the action will get you booted from the crew quick fast in a hurry, Flava&#8217;z vision ain&#8217;t blurry.</p>
<h3>Drunk Doesn&#8217;t Count</h3>
<p>Another point I&#8217;d like to make here, which I made three years ago, in 2008, is that <a href="http://billcammack.com/2008/09/05/alcohol-is-no-excuse/">alcohol is no excuse for behavior</a>.</p>
<p>If you do something when you&#8217;re drunk, you will have to carry that burden when you&#8217;re sober.  It&#8217;s not like some other person appears and your liability goes away when you become sober again.</p>
<p>People will TELL YOU that&#8217;s how it works, but they&#8217;re lying.  Everybody remembers what you did when you were drunk.  Everybody expects the exact same thing to happen next time you&#8217;re drunk.  If you drink a lot, people might in fact consider your drunk persona to be the main one and your sober the secondary.</p>
<p>This is especially true if you drink A LOT, or at least if you drink every time you go out to party.  People get used to sober-you and they get used to drunk-you, and regardless of what the Politically Correct people say about not &#8220;judging&#8221; others, it stays on your record.</p>
<p>A typical situation is people that &#8220;only smoke when they drink&#8221;.  That doesn&#8217;t make you &#8220;not a smoker&#8221;, as some people will claim.  That makes you a CONDITIONAL SMOKER = a smoker, not a non-smoker.</p>
<p>People like this are better off surrounding themselves with people that are going to tell them the truth about what they did last night.  People that help you explain your actions away are only setting you up for the big fall when you lie to someone and they tell you to your face that they don&#8217;t believe you, because they saw you do something with their own eyes.</p>
<p>So, while the girls are busy consoling Deena, who now feels bad because the boys have changed their relationship to her for apparently no good reason.. the guys are talking about how a) she thinks she&#8217;s not wrong, and b) she didn&#8217;t even apologize.</p>
<p>Pauly &#038; Vinny decide to play a prank on her and move her bed out of their room.</p>
<p>This makes perfect sense, because by not admitting what she did and not apologizing for it, Deena appeared to be on the offensive against the guys, like &#8220;Yeah, I took your chick, so what?&#8221;</p>
<p>In fact, Deena was just fronting and knew damned well she had done wrong, but didn&#8217;t feel like admitting it for some odd reason, so when she saw her bed out in the living room, she had ANOTHER nervous breakdown.</p>
<p>This could all have been avoided by being realistic instead of circling the wagons of denial after a night of drinking and chick-stealing.</p>
<p>So then.. When Jenni brings Deena&#8217;s bed back into the room, Vinny goes &#8220;You&#8217;re defending the same girl that does something stupid every night and then cries about it the next day&#8221;, to which Jenni replies &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with her being human?&#8221;</p>
<p>In fact, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with her being human.  There&#8217;s SOMETHING wrong with her not admitting what she did and apologizing for it so rational people can move on with their relationships.</p>
<p>Life doesn&#8217;t work like &#8220;I do something stupid, I act like nothing happened, people treat me like nothing happened&#8221;.  No.  It goes &#8220;You do something stupid, you act like nothing happened, people treat you like you think you can get away with **** and hold it against you until they get you back for what you did to them&#8221;.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, Jenni calls a house meeting where Deena incredibly comes in crying and telling the guys they changed.  A slight bit of REASON from Pauly, and all of a sudden, Deena goes &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on.  I&#8217;m not being myself. Like, I would have never done that.  That isn&#8217;t me.  I feel very, like, alone here, and I&#8217;m, like, just drinking and then I do stupid **** like I did last night, and I just.. Instead of, like, fixing it, I just keep drinking&#8221;.</p>
<p>This is what brought on the end of the entire situation.  If she would have come correct from the giddyap, none of this would have happened.</p>
<p>Admit your treacherous cockblockery.  Apologize.  Inform the people you&#8217;ve offended about why you think you did it, AND THEN you can move on.  There&#8217;s no &#8220;moving on&#8221; when someone&#8217;s like &#8220;I stole your girl.  Live with it.  Get another one next time.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is why all that commiseration and enabling backfires on women in the long run (and often in the short run).  You&#8217;re preaching to the choir.  It&#8217;s not the women you need to convince of your innocence.  They want YOU to tell them that THEY&#8217;RE innocent the next time THEY&#8217;RE guilty, so they have to hook you up right now so they have that credit in the bank.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the guys that don&#8217;t believe you and are going to hold it against you even after they tell you it&#8217;s cool or they&#8217;re over it or they didn&#8217;t notice or they didn&#8217;t care.  There is no &#8220;moving on&#8221;, except moving on WHILE adding a negative mark on your record that stays there and makes you look worse and worse the more time goes on where you continue to act like it&#8217;s cool that you did what you did.</p>
<h3>Ronnie &#038; Sammi</h3>
<p>I really don&#8217;t feel like speaking on these two anymore, because this is the longest-running dysfunctional relationship I think I&#8217;ve ever seen broadcast on national television or anywhere else for that matter.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s just say that some people believe that when they&#8217;re in a relationship with someone, they own that person.</p>
<p>So long as the other person pretends to be owned, the relationship works well.  As soon as the other person is perceived to be out of bounds and the &#8220;owner&#8221; starts barking at them, the situation falls apart, because there never was truly any ownership to begin with.</p>
<p>Basically, they both have the same problem.  They&#8217;re addicted to each other, but they don&#8217;t know how to be nice to each other.</p>
<p>I have girls that I&#8217;m addicted to and I&#8217;ll never stop spending time with them, but I recognize them for what they are and I recognize my addiction to them.</p>
<p>I know they&#8217;re not going to change and neither am I, so we have our fun when we have our fun.</p>
<p>Ronnie and Sammi BOTH want to be in a committed relationship.  They both want to be in a committed relationship to each other.  Sammi isn&#8217;t smart enough to stop handing out rules that Ronnie isn&#8217;t going to follow.  Ronnie isn&#8217;t smart enough to tell Sammi he&#8217;s never going to follow her rules.  Vicious Cycle.  Very Annoying.</p>
<p>Anyway.. They get back together, leading to them breaking up again.  Once again, they decide they need to &#8220;discuss things&#8221;, which is when Sammi tells Ronnie that Mike told her that Ronnie was going to invite girls to the house.</p>
<p>The funny thing is that hearing that from Mike is what prompted Sammi to get it in gear and pursue Ronnie hardcore, leading to them getting back together.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s NOT funny is that when Ronnie finds out that Mike snitched on him AGAIN, he flips out and wants to fight Mike&#8230;</p>
<h3>Live Grenade</h3>
<p>Before that conversation happened, Mike and Pauly had scored a couple of chicks from the club.</p>
<p>They had already shown some other gal at the club telling Vinny &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to screw you&#8221;, so Vinny was home solo, snapping on Ronnie for having broken up with Sammi again, practically immediately after they got back together.</p>
<p>So Mike takes his chick to the sex room and Pauly takes his chick to the room he shares with Vinny and Deena, which he currently has all to himself.</p>
<p>Pauly asks his chick &#8220;You coming to bed?&#8221; to which she replies &#8220;I&#8217;m not coming to bed&#8221; and some other nonsense, and then he tells her &#8220;Ciao&#8221;, being that it&#8217;s 4am and the only reason he brought her back to the house was to have sex with her.</p>
<p>This is where Mike&#8217;s ineptitude in Season 01 backfired on him.  At first, Pauly was down to handle <a href="http://billcammack.com/2010/08/24/gff-grenade-free-foundation-america/">grenades</a> for him, meaning loose chicks running aimlessly around the house who invariably end up cockblocking your boy who&#8217;s currently trying to put in work&#8230; Mike messed that up by being selfish and a deliberately pathetic wingman, so, from then on, Pauly was like &#8220;Mike&#8217;s on his own.&#8221;</p>
<p>So, when the chick flaked on Pauly, he let the grenade loose in the house.</p>
<p>She shows up to the sex room, where Mike&#8217;s in the process of undressing his chick and announces that she&#8217;s leaving.  She tells her girl she can stay if she wants, but Mike&#8217;s chick goes &#8220;We&#8217;re a package deal.&#8221;</p>
<p>This was Mike&#8217;s cue to hook up a threesome, but since he doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s doing, he let both chicks get away and ended up calling his usual target (the non-virgin of the twins) and asking her to come see him for an hour or two.</p>
<p>This is convenient at 4am, so Mike goes to chill and wait for the sex to arrive&#8230;</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this is when Sammi informs Ronnie that Mike snitched on him about lining up girls to come to the house.</p>
<p>Ronnie decides to kick Mike&#8217;s ass, finally, and when he goes to confront him, Mike denies snitching, which is on videotape, and he wasn&#8217;t alone with Sammi when he said it.</p>
<p>Ronnie&#8217;s reaction is to start throwing all of Mike&#8217;s belongings out of their room, like Ronnie had done to Sammi last season.  This successfully instigated a fight between the guys, as Mike is irrationally screaming &#8220;I DON&#8217;T GET INVOLVED IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP&#8221;, which is clearly a lie and has been documented on videotape ever since Mike messed with Sammi first and then she bounced and hooked up with Ronnie for the entire time Jersey Shore&#8217;s been on the air.</p>
<h3>Episode 2</h3>
<p>In the second episode, which aired Sunday night before the MTV Video Music Awards, the fight between Ronnie and Mike jumps off.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, while screaming, drooling on the floor and attempting to act like a crazed lunatic, Mike goes to do something against the wall which is unclear to me and ends up knocking himself out by ramming his head into a brick wall.</p>
<p>He wasn&#8217;t out cold, like with his eyes closed, but a Mixed Martial Arts referee would have stopped the fight before Ronnie laid a hand on him.  Mike was clearly dazed, and Ronnie would have been declared the winner by Technical Knockout (TKO).</p>
<p>After some more instigation by Ronnie, Mike gets up off the floor and screams some more and then they go at it for all of 7 seconds before the bouncers run in and try to separate them.  The fight lasted 21 seconds, including the bouncer involvement.</p>
<p>This was actually an impressive amount of time they got to fight, because when Jenni punched Mike in the face with a spinning backfist, security rolled up in exactly 1 second.  As soon as she hit him, they came bursting in the hotel room door.</p>
<p>So, Ronnie kicked Mike and punched him a few times, but neither one of them actually did any damage.  Mike ends up being taken out on a stretcher from what he did to himself, resulting in a neck brace and doctor&#8217;s orders not to go out for a week, or go to the gym, or basically ANYTHING.</p>
<p>This is what I was saying earlier.  There *IS* no &#8220;moving on&#8221; when people don&#8217;t apologize for poor or deliberate behavior and when people who feel like they were wronged don&#8217;t DEMAND apologies and different behaviors from people.  It keeps building up until the wronged party finally goes &#8220;Today&#8217;s the day I&#8217;m going to **** that person up&#8221;.</p>
<p>If Ronnie had told Mike from the giddyap &#8220;Snitches Get Stitches&#8221;, this fight wouldn&#8217;t have occurred.</p>
<p>Because he let him keep acting like the nosey neighbor on the porch that can&#8217;t mind their own business, it got to the point where he couldn&#8217;t take it anymore and this was the result.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Mike&#8217;s going &#8220;You did this for no reason!&#8221; as if he figured (which he probably did) that he&#8217;d be able to snitch on people forever without anything happening to him.</p>
<p>Even if he honestly forgot this particular instance, he knows damned well that he&#8217;s meddled in Ronnie &#038; Sammi&#8217;s relationships LOTS OF TIMES, including when he went and talked to Sammi, resulting in <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/02/11/jersey-shore-s03-e07-part-01/">Sammi punching Ronnie in his face for talking to Jenni</a>.</p>
<p>This is what happens when people pretend that things are cool, when they really aren&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Stop snitching on your so-called friends, and stop enabling snitches by not calling them out for their behavior.</p>
<h3>Back To The Usual</h3>
<p>The rest of the episode was largely uneventful.  Ronnie tells Sammi to **** off and then she goes away and then Ronnie chases her to talk and then Sammi tells him to **** off, then he goes away then she chases him&#8230;..</p>
<p>Ronnie apologizes to Mike, who keeps saying that a fight could break out between the two of them at any time, as if he doesn&#8217;t understand that the reason for that is that he&#8217;s a snitch and that if he ever decided to mind his own business, Ronnie wouldn&#8217;t feel compelled to try to beat him up before he beats himself up with a brick wall again.</p>
<p>Nicole&#8217;s no longer upset with Mike for snitching on her to the entire house and television audience that she blew him (according to Mike, who&#8217;s been proven a snitch, but not a liar).</p>
<p>At least Pauly got to have some fun.  While he was dancing with some Italian chick at a bar, some Italian guy comes up to him and starts speaking Italian in a menacing fashion.  Pauly asks him in English &#8220;What does that mean?&#8221; and the dude just keeps speaking Italian.</p>
<p>It was honestly the strangest thing I&#8217;ve seen in a long time.  How are you going to try to be menacing towards someone in a language that YOU KNOW they don&#8217;t know? :D</p>
<p>Then, when Pauly gets (quite literally) in his face and is screaming at the top of his lungs in the guy&#8217;s ear, he&#8217;s leaning away like he doesn&#8217;t want any beef. hehehe What&#8217;s the matter with people these days? \o/</p>
<p>oh.. The fellaz tried to hook Ronnie up with a chick, but he declined.</p>
<p>In other words, everything went back to normal.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure MTV blew their wad with this one.  There isn&#8217;t much left to the storylines.</p>
<ul>
<li>Jenni&#8217;s boyfriend is going to come to visit.</li>
<li>Nicole&#8217;s boyfriend is going to come to visit.</li>
<li>Sammi&#8217;s going to interact with Ronnie or have no role whatsoever in the show, as has been the case since about the 2nd episode of the 1st season.</li>
<li>Deena&#8217;s going to keep getting drunk, pulling dudes and explaining to them that she&#8217;s not easy.</li>
<li>Vinny still has a chance to make something happen.</li>
<li>Pauly still has a chance to make something happen.</li>
<li>Ronnie&#8217;s going to pretend to be single and keep &#8220;having discussions&#8221; with Sammi about their so-called relationship.</li>
<li>Mike&#8217;s going to keep screwing that one American girl he was able to pull in Italy, which I&#8217;m now starting to wonder if she was a plant, because the twin storyline was just too convenient &#8211; although, I *DO* have to give him credit that he was about to screw that one Italian chick before Pauly let the <a href="http://billcammack.com/2010/08/24/gff-grenade-free-foundation-america/">grenade</a> loose, which promptly and predictably rolled into the sex room, destroying Mike&#8217;s rap.</li>
</ul>
<p>I predicted, INCORRECTLY, that Season 03 was going to be the last season of Jersey Shore.  Season 01 made sense, because they were actually AT the Jersey Shore, where girls are actually interested in their style and behavior.  Season 02, they were in Miami, where nobody&#8217;s checkin&#8217; for them, so it was pretty much about their relationship to each other, *yawn*.  Season 03 was back at Jersey Shore, so I figured they&#8217;d end the series on a high note, but then I found out they were going to send them to Italy for season 04, which doesn&#8217;t make any sense, because several of them aren&#8217;t Italian to begin with and NONE OF THEM SPEAK ITALIAN AT ALL.</p>
<h3>Merch</h3>
<p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fYjYSGhc2_4/TlZHBFICziI/AAAAAAAAOK0/qRp7yCCDyo4/s1600/JerseyShorePens.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img style="float:left" width="300" src="http://billcammack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JSmerch.jpg"></a>At this point, I fully expect a Season 05, &#8220;down The Shore&#8221;.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s about merchandising at this point.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re selling Jersey Shore pens.. Jersey Shore bobbleheads&#8230;.</p>
<p>Business-wise, it makes sense to keep running a series as long as the ROI is proper, right? :D</p>
<p>I suppose Jersey Shore is transforming from a &#8220;reality&#8221; show into a sitcom.</p>
<p>You remember sitcoms, right? &#8220;Situation Comedies&#8221;? Those shows that were 95% about the interactions (situations) between the main cast members every week?</p>
<p>Crank up the laugh tracks and hire some writers! :D</p>
<p>They already have writers for &#8220;reality&#8221; shows, to craft the storylines and character development by selecting which situations to show and which footage to leave on the cutting room floor, but not to actually script punchlines for the cast members.</p>
<p>If it goes past Season 05, I&#8217;ll be amazed, AGAIN.  The reason that &#8220;The Real World&#8221; and other MTV shows have lasted so long is because they switch the cast every 6 months (filming two seasons per year, which is why they can only film every other season of JS at the Jersey Shore, because nobody&#8217;s there in the winter).</p>
<p>Obviously, there&#8217;s no depth of field in the subculture being depicted.  You can&#8217;t get another set of people that will give you the Ronnie, Jenni, Pauly, Angelina, Vinny, Nicole, Mike, Deena, Sammi experience.  When they got rid of Angelina, she was replaced with a friend of Nicole&#8217;s.  The only other recurring characters were family members and people currently screwing cast members during the time of filming.</p>
<p>So, No.. I can&#8217;t imagine a Season 06.. Although I couldn&#8217;t imagine a Season 04 either, and here we are. :D<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from &#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221; Italy: Twinning [Part 01 of 02] Vinny As the sole Italian-speaker in the house, I was expecting more production from Vinny. He&#8217;s been striking out like a pitcher without a pinch-hitter ever since this season began (according to the edit). I have to get ahead of the story to say that [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Vinny</h3>
<p>As the sole Italian-speaker in the house, I was expecting more production from Vinny.  He&#8217;s been striking out like a pitcher without a pinch-hitter ever since this season began (according to the edit).</p>
<p>I have to get ahead of the story to say that his only relevant storylines this week had to do with Deena.</p>
<p>Deena got this Italian guy she had met at a restaurant to come home with her after partying at the club.</p>
<p>Instead of taking him to the designated room where the housemates are supposed to take their guests to have sex with them, she decides to start making out with the dude on her bed, which is in the room she shares with Pauly and Vinny.</p>
<p>Vinny starts rightfully complaining that she should take the dude to the sex room, and instead of doing that, Deena leaves her guest in the bedroom to come argue with Vinny. <span id="more-10277"></span></p>
<p>In another situation, Deena brings this chick home that she had been making out with at the club, and when she leaves the room to get something to eat, the chick climbs in bed with Vinny and starts kissing him or whatever they were doing under the covers.</p>
<p>When Deena returns, not only does she pull the covers off of the chick and Vinny, but she retrieves the chick to get back in bed with her.  This was one of the strangest things I&#8217;ve ever seen on Jersey Shore. :D</p>
<h3>Deena</h3>
<p>As I&#8217;ve been saying since the first episode where they introduced Deena as the new housemate, she&#8217;s the wildcard.  If Deena&#8217;s around, anything&#8217;s possible.  She drinks until she can&#8217;t stand up, walk or dance without bussin&#8217; her ass and falling on her face.  She comes on to anything that appears to be human, or at least moving.  It&#8217;s just really, honestly, anything goes. :D</p>
<p>She pressed up on Pauly, and even though he let her kiss him in the club, he&#8217;s avoided her like the actual plague for the rest of the season, so far.</p>
<p>Last season, she threw it at Mike, and he didn&#8217;t want it.</p>
<p>She bags an Italian waiter from a restaurant, gets him to come to a club with her, makes out with him at the club, and then on the way home in the cab, she asks him what the Italian word for &#8220;easy&#8221; is, so she can tell him that she&#8217;s not an easy girl.  She says this line every time she&#8217;s about to give it up to a guy.  It&#8217;s ridiculous.</p>
<p>This is what I mean about how people pretend to believe what women say, such as &#8220;I&#8217;m not easy&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to have sex with you tonight&#8221;, and then, the next morning, when they say &#8220;I didn&#8217;t have sex with him last night&#8221;.  <a href="http://billcammack.com/2010/12/17/nobody-believes-you/">Nobody believes you</a>.  It&#8217;s just more of a hassle and leads to way longer and unnecessary conversations if we don&#8217;t play along, so we do.</p>
<p>So she gets in the argument with Vinny about messing with the guy in their bedroom instead of the sex room.  She says something like &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to **** him, I&#8217;m just going to kiss him and cuddle with him&#8221; (&#8220;cuddle&#8221; being a typical female excuse to explain what she was doing under the covers with a guy, in order to support the next morning&#8217;s lies), which causes [I believe] Pauly to say &#8220;So stop wasting his time, then!&#8221;</p>
<p>This is one of the problems that you run into when women usually lie to you about what they&#8217;re doing, what they&#8217;re about to do, or what they did in the past.  You get into conversations that don&#8217;t make sense.</p>
<p>If she&#8217;s going to have sex with him, she should take him to the sex room.  If she&#8217;s *NOT* going to have sex with him, she should take him somewhere other than the bedroom she shares with Pauly &#038; Vinny.  Either way, she&#8217;s violating by having this dude in their room.</p>
<p>If Pauly or Vinny go &#8220;oh PLEASE, Deena, we know you&#8217;re going to give him some&#8221;, it&#8217;s gonna be a big argument.  If they pretend to believe that she invited this dude out, made out with him at the club, rubbed her ass all over tha dilznick like she loves to do, and then brought him home in the cab so she could &#8220;cuddle&#8221;, they look stupid, while simultaneously acting as enablers, supporting her lying-ass lifestyle, and encouraging her to continue her normal Modus Operandi.</p>
<p>The next time they hit the club, Mike Snitchuation is about to bag a set of twins when drunk-ass Deena steps to one of the girls, pulls her away from Mike and starts making out with her. \o/ This is the chick that Deena ends up bringing home, leaving in the room with Vinny and then retrieving from under Vinny&#8217;s covers when she returns to the room.</p>
<p>While it&#8217;s clear that Deena is omnisexual, MTV bothered to show confessionals where she claims she&#8217;s not a lesbian.  I find it funny/ridiculous how people in the year 2011 still attempt to define themselves verbally instead of by their actual actions.</p>
<p>Call it whatever you want.. If you&#8217;re a chick that likes to make out with chicks, you&#8217;re a chick that likes to make out with chicks.  It&#8217;s all on videotape.  You can&#8217;t explain and define your way out of it.</p>
<p>Anyway.. Deena ends up giving the chick back to Vinny, eventually.  So weird.  Anyway.. That particular pass-her-around chick was one of the twins that was originally supposed to come home with Mike.</p>
<h3>Mike</h3>
<p>The reason this episode was called &#8220;Twinning&#8221; is that it&#8217;s a combination between Twins and Winning.  You&#8217;re Winning because you pulled a chick for the evening, and you&#8217;re Twinning because you pulled more than one of them that happen to both be related and born at the same time from the same woman.</p>
<p>This is what was supposed to happen for Mike at the beginning of the episode.  He had twins lined up.  To be more accurate, and not hand out more props than he&#8217;s due..  Mike doesn&#8217;t speak Italian.  He&#8217;s been striking out with Italian chicks as much as Vinny, Pauly &#038; Ronnie have, so as soon as this American gal stepped to him in the club, and agreed to go home with him, <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/08/13/jersey-shore-italy-episode-02/">I predicted last week</a> that he&#8217;s going to keep screwing this same chick until the wheels fall off.</p>
<p>She&#8217;s pretty much become Mike&#8217;s Ronnie-Sammi relationship, as far as go-to, guaranteed sex.</p>
<p>It just so happens that, as Mike calls her &#8220;The most <a href="http://billcammack.com/2010/09/18/how-to-not-get-a-date-hunters-part-10/#DTF">DTF</a> girl I&#8217;ve ever met&#8221; has a twin sister! >:D</p>
<p>To sweeten the pot, her twin sister claims to be a virgin, which nobody believes, including Nicole, who ends up later in the episode wanting people to believe that she never hooked up with Mike, when a) Nicole drinks like a fish, to the point of finding herself face down in the sand at the beach and screaming &#8220;GET THE **** OFFA ME! :O&#8221; at the UNIFORMED POLICE that are physically escorting her from the boardwalk to their squad car, b) She&#8217;s normally horny and has thrown sex at Vinny (who took it) and countless dudes that are on par with or below Mike&#8217;s level of ability to pull chicks (who mostly DIDN&#8217;T take it), which indicates that there&#8217;s no particular reason why she WOULDN&#8217;T have sexed Mike, and c) even though Mike&#8217;s a treacherous, gossipy SNITCH, he&#8217;s already had several years to make up lies about tappin&#8217; Nicole, so why would he bother to start lying now? o_O</p>
<p>Anyway.. While they&#8217;re at the club, this so-called virgin twin chick says that she&#8217;s &#8220;watched&#8221; while her sister hooked up with guys.  Sure.  Watched.  So, Mike&#8217;s on his way to bagging both of these chicks and achieving something MTV-worthy for once = Twinning.</p>
<p>So the episode starts out with Mike in the club with is usual American lay and her sister, telling them &#8220;I guarantee that I&#8217;ll bring you and your sister home&#8221;.  Mike explains this as his backup plan.  This is a smart move.  He already has chicks on deck, in case he strikes out with Italian women he can&#8217;t speak to because he doesn&#8217;t know their language.</p>
<p>He ends up inviting a couple of different chicks to leave with him, but somehow loses them between being inside the club and getting to the door of the cab.  This means he needs to use the one telephone they keep giving the Jersey Shore housemates to make his bootie call to the twins.  Nicole happened to be on the phone talking to her father, so when she hangs up, Mike&#8217;s saying stuff like the only reason he&#8217;s calling other girls is because she has a boyfriend now, and he&#8217;d rather be with Nicole, blah blah blah and there&#8217;s no reaction from Nicole like &#8220;What are you talking about?&#8221; or &#8220;Stop being stupid! You know we&#8217;re not going to hook up&#8221;.  She seems to know exactly why he&#8217;s saying that, and she&#8217;s not acting AT ALL like a chick that&#8217;s never hooked up with him.</p>
<p>So, Mike ends up leaving a message, and the girls don&#8217;t get back to him before he goes to sleep.  They call incessantly in the morning, leading to Ronnie and Pauly pranking Mike by pretending to be him and inviting the twins over &#8220;an hour from now&#8221;.  The girls happily come to the house and ring the buzzer until Deena intelligently buzzes the door open without asking a) who it is, or b) who they&#8217;re there to see.  They come on upstairs and go right to Mike&#8217;s bedroom, where he&#8217;s clearly shocked and amazed to see them.  I got quite a few laughs out of his reaction and rewound that part several times. >:D</p>
<p>Vinny sums up what makes that prank so good by saying &#8220;Mike never takes girls out on dates, especially in the daytime&#8221;.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re new to <a href="http://billcammack.com/category/datinggenius/jersey-shore/">Jersey Shore</a>, women&#8217;s functionality only exists between 1am and 6am.. They&#8217;re something to do in between leaving the club and going to sleep that night.</p>
<p>Mike&#8217;s MO is to suggest a cab / car service for the chick-du-jour right after he gets some.  The daytime is for important things, like hanging out with people he knows and likes.</p>
<p>Watching the guys shuttle females in and out of the house in the wee hours of the morning is what gives the female housemates the impetus to brazenly call these chicks <a href="http://billcammack.com/2008/11/18/sluts-whores/">&#8220;whores&#8221;</a>, even though the female housemates serve the exact same purpose for other guys.</p>
<p>So, this is a great prank, because now, Mike has two decisions.  He can either kick them out, like he wants to, and then his go-to-***** won&#8217;t be available to him for the rest of his vacation, or he can spend time with them even though he doesn&#8217;t want to and try to bag the twinning threesome.</p>
<p>This is where Mike&#8217;s glaring lack of game becomes obvious.</p>
<p>Your boys played a trick on you, which culminated in your achieving DTF Twins for free, with no work done by yourself, early in the morning, inside your own house, where you have stockpiled alcoholic beverages&#8230; You literally have ALL. DAY. to **** these chicks, and what do you want to do? o_O .. Take them OUT OF YOUR HOUSE to some public location so y&#8217;all can eat breakfast?&#8230; Suspicious.</p>
<p>No game, whatsoever.</p>
<p>Maybe I missed that chapter in The Player&#8217;s Handbook where it says you can only have sex with chicks in the middle of the night, after the club, and while you&#8217;re still drunk.</p>
<p>The time of day doesn&#8217;t activate or deactivate a female&#8217;s functional usefulness.</p>
<p>I find it similarly interesting that given their druthers, not one of the male Jersey Shore housemates would hang out with females on purpose, unless they&#8217;ve been targeted for sex.</p>
<p>If MTV hadn&#8217;t cast any female housemates, there would be no women on the show at all, except for the scenes where the characters are working at a public establishment, or when they&#8217;re at the club, or when their managers/agents allow MTV to air footage of the guys hooking up with chicks and kicking them out ASAP.</p>
<p>This is one of the reasons why Sammi got busted so easily last season in the <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/04/10/girls-dont-have-friends-that-are-guys/">&#8220;Girls Don&#8217;t Have Friends That Are Guys&#8221;</a> episode&#8230; When dudes know that other dudes only spend time with females they&#8217;re trying to screw, it&#8217;s really tough for her to try to explain their relationship away as being <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/03/11/were-just-friends/">&#8220;Just Friends&#8221;</a>.</p>
<p>According to the edit, Mike doesn&#8217;t hook up with the chicks after breakfast.  Next thing you know, the housemates are at the club, and the guys are dancing in a group of guys, like they enjoy doing for some odd reason.  As usual, there are no chicks around them at all, other than the housemate females&#8230; All of a sudden, the twins arrive, and Mike gets this surprised look on his face, like &#8220;Who let females in this club? :O&#8221;.  When he points the chicks out to Ronnie and Pauly, they have the exact same reaction.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s going on here? o_O How come, in the confessionals, Mike&#8217;s talking all this bullshit about The Snitchuation does this and that with females, and every time they show up, he acts like he wishes he would have never met them?</p>
<p>They proceed to label these chicks stalkers, yet, MIKE is the one that keeps telling them he&#8217;s going to take them home with him.  MIKE is the one that keeps ******* the same sister ad infinitum, because he can&#8217;t pull any girls in Italy, because he couldn&#8217;t pull any girls in Miami either, so why would anyone suspect he can get on overseas?  MIKE is the one agreeing to go to breakfast with twins instead of hooking up with them.  Why in the world should they *NOT* feel like finding him and coming to party?</p>
<p>On top of that, they get to be on television.  On top of that, MTV has a budget for alcohol, so they&#8217;re probably drinking for free.  Sorry.. You can&#8217;t call chicks stalkers that you never told to go the **** away.</p>
<p>So.. Since they arrived at the proper time for female usefulness, the witching hours between being at the club and falling asleep, Mike decides he&#8217;s going to hook up a threesome with this chick he&#8217;s been incessantly screwing and her supposedly-virginal sister.</p>
<p>Too bad for him, horny-ass Deena was there to make sure she got her professional-grade cockblock on.</p>
<p>Basically, Deena walks up while Mike is holding onto BOTH SISTERS, grabs the supposed virgin and pulls her away from Mike, so she can go dance with her, compliment her, and start making out with her.</p>
<p>Virgin-Sister was way more into kissing Deena than Pauly was, so she ended up getting into the cab with Deena, messing with her when they got home, messing with Vinny, getting pulled away from Vinny by Deena, and then finally returned to Vinny to finish up her night&#8230; Rather virginal behavior, actually.</p>
<p>Of course, Mike was upset about losing his threesome, but not upset enough to **** the sister he had left.  Instead, he told her to wait for him in his bed and he went to find Nicole and have a leisurely sit-down chat with her about how he&#8217;s disappointed that Deena selfishly cockblocked his threesome.</p>
<p>Unfortunately.. This was when Ronnie ratted him out to Jenni, who told Nicole, who flipped on Mike&#8230; Of course, this caused Mike to tell Ronnie he was disappointed in him for not keeping a &#8220;secret&#8221; that was going to be found out anyway because Mike said it while being videotaped for the show.</p>
<p>Eventually, Mike retired to the sex room with his regular girl he&#8217;s been hooking up with, while her supposedly-virginal twin was in bed with Vinny, where she had been deposited when Deena was finished with her.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, MTV edited out parts of Deena &#8220;committing the robbery&#8221; on Mike (stealing a girl from him).  I would love to know how in the hell he let that happen.  Take Deena to the side when she tries to CB you and tell her to mind her own business and get her own girl(s) for the night.</p>
<p>I can understand why Vinny let Deena retrieve the chick from under his covers, because he didn&#8217;t put in any work to get her back to the house, so Mike&#8217;s girl&#8217;s sister was basically a free gift, because Deena didn&#8217;t stay on point.</p>
<p>According to the coming attractions, the housemates are going to sit down and discuss Deena&#8217;s reckless drunken cockblocking next episode, so I&#8217;ll be looking forward to that.<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 3 of &#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221;: Italy actually had a lot to discuss. We&#8217;re gonna do this in two parts, this week: Ronnie &#038; Sammi Like I said.. Sammi has no existence on the show other than to be all up under Ronnie. As soon as she found out he was about to start trying to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div name="googleone_share_1" style="position:relative;z-index:5;clear:right; float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;"><g:plusone size="tall" count="1" href="http://billcammack.com/2011/08/20/jersey-shore-italy-twinning-part-01-of-02/"></g:plusone></div><p>Episode 3 of <a href="http://billcammack.com/category/datinggenius/jersey-shore/">&#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221;: Italy</a> actually had a lot to discuss. We&#8217;re gonna do this in two parts, this week:</p>
<h3>Ronnie &#038; Sammi</h3>
<p>Like I said.. Sammi has no existence on the show other than to be all up under Ronnie.  As soon as she found out he was about to start trying to bring girls to the house, she amped up her full-court press, and you could see Ronnie starting to fold last week.</p>
<p>As I predicted would eventually happen, Ronnie sold out *AGAIN*, and he and Sammi are back together as a couple.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m disgusted, but it makes perfect sense.  Ronnie went for the guaranteed lay, every night of his vacation in Italy. <span id="more-10269"></span></p>
<p>The fellaz have been consistently striking out (read: failing to pull any Italian chicks), so it was either &#8220;don&#8217;t get laid at all&#8221; or &#8220;screw Sammi every night&#8221;, so Ronnie maximized his potential for vacation enjoyment.</p>
<p>Good for him.  I&#8217;m still disgusted.  Sold out, yet again.</p>
<h3>Pauly</h3>
<p>Pauly, being a non-Italian-speaker in Italy, struck out again this week (according to the edit).  So far, all he&#8217;s managed to do is get Deena to make out with him, which basically amounts to nothing, considering that apparently, Deena would make out with a brick wall, household pet, or surfboard.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still suspicious that he&#8217;s dating that chick Roccio that he was all lovey-dovey over in Miami, but he claims he&#8217;s trying to get chicks, so we&#8217;ll see what happens.</p>
<h3>Jenni</h3>
<p>Useful, as usual, for the scenes where the girls are half-dressed, getting ready to go to the clubs.</p>
<p>This week, she had an actual value to a storyline, however&#8230;</p>
<p>I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that Mike &#8220;The SNITCHuation&#8221; had told all the fellaz that he had banged Nicole.</p>
<p>How did I know this?.. Because Mike told them while the cameras were rolling, and MTV included that footage in the edit.</p>
<p>The relevance of this is that regardless of whether Nicole found out that he did that while they were filming, she was going to find out when the show finally aired, and so was her boyfriend that Mike claims Nicole cheated on with him = problems for Nicole with her boyfriend.</p>
<p>This was obviously a dickbone move by Mike, and completely unnecessary.  First of all, who cares that he screwed Nicole? \o/ Second of all, nobody asked him if he had hooked up with her.  Third, if he was DYING to tell the fellaz, he should have done that off-camera or before the season started.  He clearly did it on tape in an attempt to eventually break up Nicole&#8217;s relationship.</p>
<p>I mean, think about it.. It&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s some Herculean feat to lay Nicole.  It&#8217;s not something you tell someone and then they go &#8220;OH, WORD??? :O&#8221; and they&#8217;re like all surprised that she gave it up.  Mike wasn&#8217;t going to get any props from anybody for putting Nicole&#8217;s business in the streets.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, he&#8217;s busy telling Nicole that he cares about her and they have something special between them and that he&#8217;s only bringing girls home because he can&#8217;t hook up with her&#8230; The relevance of these events being that he&#8217;s been slickly laying the groundwork for when the situation was finally brought to light.</p>
<p>If Nicole hadn&#8217;t messed with him, she would have, at some point, said &#8220;What are you talking about?&#8221; or &#8220;Why do you think we&#8217;re close?&#8221; or &#8220;What do I care if you bring girls home?&#8221;.. Instead, she asked nothing of the sort and seemed to clearly understand why Mike was saying what he was saying.</p>
<p>To make herself look more guilty, she&#8217;s been trying to cockblock Mike for the entire first three episodes of this season.  If she hadn&#8217;t hooked up with him, she should be minding her own ******* business.</p>
<p>Instead, she calls Mike over when he meets this American chick at the club so she can tell Mike the girl he&#8217;s talking to is ugly.  When that same girl is leaving after Mike hits it, Nicole yells &#8220;Toodles, Whore! :D&#8221;.  It&#8217;s like mind your own business.. Why do you care? o_O</p>
<p>So, everything&#8217;s pointing to Mike telling the truth about having had sex with Nicole while she was with her current boyfriend&#8230; This is where Jenni came in handy.</p>
<p>Of course, when Ronnie got back together with Sammi, NOW, Ronnie wants to sit with the girls and gossip.  He proceeds to tell Sammi and Jenni that Mike said he banged Nicole, which makes Jenni spring into action because she doesn&#8217;t want another Miami situation where she failed to rat on Ronnie to Sammi about him cheating on her, and it turned into a big fiasco.</p>
<p>So Jenni tells Nicole that Ronnie told her that Mike told him that he hit it, and Nicole blows a gasket.</p>
<h3>Nicole</h3>
<p>Nicole&#8217;s value to this episode was finding out that Mike claimed she gave him some.</p>
<p>My favorite part was when Jenni was actually telling her that her business was in the streets, which went like:</p>
<ol>
<li>Jenni: &#8220;Mike told people about what you guys did&#8230; Everyone.&#8221;</li>
<li>Nicole: &#8220;We didn&#8217;t do anything&#8221;</li>
<li>Jenni: &#8220;No. He told everyone.. He gave all your details&#8221;</li>
<li>Nicole: &#8220;What ******* details?&#8221;</li>
<li>Jenni: &#8220;He gave DETAILS!.. But it&#8217;s not details of like &#8216;oh, We hooked up a couple of months ago&#8217;, it&#8217;s details that say &#8216;I ****** Nicole, and she cheated on [boyfriend's name]&#8216;.&#8221;</li>
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<p>What was funny about that was when Nicole said &#8220;We didn&#8217;t do anything&#8221; and Jenni&#8217;s immediate response to her was &#8220;No.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was so funny because a) it&#8217;s a typical occurrence for women to have sex and then lie their asses off and say it didn&#8217;t happen, and b) other women are the ones that will at least PRETEND as if they believe what they&#8217;re being told.  For Jenni not to even appease her by claiming to believe her, it was just hilarious. :D</p>
<p>This situation actually played itself out again a little later, as Nicole was sitting down with Ronnie and Jenni, explaining her side of the story.  She claimed that a long time before she was with her boyfriend, Mike pressed up on her, she didn&#8217;t give him any, and he stormed off, upset, and she never hooked up with him.</p>
<p>Right after that, Ronnie wants to offer Nicole some advice, so he begins by saying &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what happened, but..&#8221; at which point, Nicole cuts him off and goes &#8220;I JUST *TOLD* YOU WHAT HAPPENED! :(&#8221;</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the cat was out of the bag.  You don&#8217;t get to dictate reality when someone equally as credible as you is saying something different.  Nicole had every reason to claim she never hooked up with Mike.  She had no reason to come clean, if she did, in fact, have sex with him.  Also, Mike had details that had already convinced Jenni that he was telling the truth, even hearing them secondhand from Ronnie.  Also, when confronted, Mike asked Nicole if she wanted him to say details out loud about the situation, and she walked away, instead of challenging him to prove what he was saying.  Also, every argument Nicole had was &#8220;Why did you tell people?&#8221;, not &#8220;What the **** are you talking about?&#8221;</p>
<p>If someone says you robbed a bank, the response is &#8220;No, I didn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re a bullshit liar, and let&#8217;s hear your so-called evidence, because it&#8217;s fake, because I didn&#8217;t rob a bank&#8221;.  You don&#8217;t say &#8220;Why are you telling people that I robbed a bank? :O&#8221;</p>
<p>A similar situation happened to Sammi last season, which I discussed in <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/04/10/girls-dont-have-friends-that-are-guys/">&#8220;Girls Don&#8217;t Have Friends That Are Guys&#8221;</a>.  Sammi lied and lied and lied and lied and lied, until she decided that she was busted, and then she told as much truth as she was willing to give up.</p>
<p>So &#8220;We didn&#8217;t do anything&#8221; wasn&#8217;t going to be a good enough defense against Mike&#8217;s detailed description of their hookup, and it was very funny, for once in life, to see people not even bothering to pretend to believe the female&#8217;s side of the story off of general principle.</p>
<p><em>Continued in <a href="http://billcammack.com/2011/08/20/jersey-shore-italy-twinning-part-02-of-02/">&#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221; Italy: Twinning [Part 02 of 02]</a></em><br />
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