lol oh please. You can't seem to see Jade's name mentioned without feeling the need to throw in a stab about her "lack" of intelligence or qualifications. Give yourself more credit, you clearly do have the guts to say it, you have on repeated occasions.
The repeated intelligence knocks at someone with a learning disability doesn't sit right with me and it never has. I grew up and went all through school with a dyslexic best friend and the struggles she went through to even finish school were immense. Learning the type of information they teach you at high school school is challenging for anyone, let alone someone that might be struggling to read the content to begin with. My friend has significant intelligence insecurities, and they're the same ones we saw that Jade was obviously struggling with. I can tell you from my friend's experience that it's hard to take much of an interest in school when you have absolutely no confidence in your abilities because you can't even do the simple things that most people take for granted like reading for writing. The fact that Jade was able to finish school with a learning disability, while at the same time having to work extremely late every night to support her mother leads me to believe that she's probably nowhere near as "dumb" as you feel the need to imply constantly.
And I'd also like to point out that there are other forms of intelligence than the stuff you might acquire from reading a book. She's obviously very articulate and well-spoken, and she was often the first to work out what someone was up to in the house. She made it to the final in Showdown pretty much every week so she could obviously be quite strategic and practical as well. Oh, and she's freaking bilingual and English isn't even her first language. To me she's clearly very bright, even if she isn't in the classic academic way that a lot of people still rate intelligence on. Given my line of work I usually live by Einstein's quote of "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
It's fair to say that Jade's potential deficit in book smarts may make her incompatible with Drew. (To be honest as a Jade fan the idea of her ever being with Drew post like week 3 made me extremely uncomfortable but it had nothing to do with intelligence but I wont go into that now). However the way you make the cracks there always seems to be an underlying malice and I don't think I'm imagining it.
For the record I know that this post will come across as rude, and I know I'm about to get a heap of angry responses but to be perfectly honest I don't care. There's only so many times you can read the same cracks and roll your eyes into the back of your head before you feel the need to respond.
Oh and for the record [MENTION=33321]delcan[/MENTION] I understood what you were trying to get at with your comment. You shouldn't have to explain yourself and delete anything. If people can't see it for the way that it was intended then there's nothing more you can really do.
ok first of all - I think Jade is stunning - I think she is a very caring person ... she isn't the smartest person out there whether you're judging her on intellect or emotions.
She undervalues herself terribly and that is the one thing I've held against her. I have always said I would dearly love to shake the girl and wake her up to herself.
Having a uni degree is not the be all and end all of life! I rate people more on how they are towards other people and she has always shown a caring side ... and although the whole fall in a hole thing did her no credit she DID immediately correct herself and in my view it was Mikkayla who came out worse in that incident ... although Jade didn't really step up with T and give her a decent apology. I think she was like a deer caught in headlights with T & Mikkayla going into battle mode ... confrontation isn't her style
I'd hate to think that you believe that at the mere mention of Jade's name I feel a need to criticise her - that is not the case at all. I think if I'm like that about any of the HM's it would be Ed (because he led her up the garden path and didn't stick to his word thus confusing the poor girl and was quite happy to sleep in the same bed with her but then still continue with his lack of commitment to her), Ben and the SameSameSimilarSickeningScreechySisters ... (who I admit ARE very sweet people but there is just something totally wrong about 2 adults dressing the same, living in one anothers pockets and I hated the screeching/squealing crapola that came with them) ...
I personally wish Jade all the best in her acting endeavours - but again think she aims too low ... if all she goes after is a part in H&A I think she's doing herself an injustice ... I hope she gets real training and great advice, takes it slowly, does it properly and makes the most of every opportunity both here and overseas - whether that be in modelling or acting.
I hope she has come to realise through the BB experience that she is worth more than her (admittedly stunning) looks and lovely figure ... and I hope she finds a partner in life that values her for more than that as well
For the record - no I don't think you came across as rude - I knew I'd draw fire for my comment because I knew it was a harsh thing to say however if you are comparing apples with apples I believe my comment was fair
viva la difference and all that
we're all good with our opinions - that's why we love this place so much
delcan - I hope you really DONT feel like you have to delete things you say just because sometimes people disagree with you ... its only an opinion ... we can't all be right 100% of the time ... we can't all agree 100% of the time ...
in my mind - as long as there is mutual respect being afforded between us all - go for it! express away!
<hopping down off soapbox and getting back to work!!!>
