June 08, 2007

It's hard being rich
posted by Argh 17 years ago
  • Not being a dick and I'm not picking a fight with you Argh, but I am SO SICK of hearing about this non-story. I completely do not care about Paris Hilton or her month and a half in or out of jail and yet I cannot escape it. I'd wish she'd disappear, except the coverage would treble.
  • ^forks
  • I care, only in the sense that this brings to light a problem in our society: namely that money buys a different brand of justice.
  • Yep.
  • the streets are safer with that menace to society safely locked up.
  • *gets up on soapbox* Bread and circuses folks... This talentless young woman, famous for being famous, sucks up all the news media attention while innocent people die in Darfur, young American and British men and women are dieing in an illegal and useless Iraq war and when we see her we suddenly get apoplectic and indulge in a sad little bout of schadenfreude. It would be funny if it weren't so sad. Our national attention deficit disorder keeps us from engaging in anything substantial for more than 20 seconds. All you have to do is wave something shiny or a flash of tits and the public drools and goes infantile. The story here is that we read and repost "stories" about nothing, just serving to distract us from the sorry state of the rest of the world. *steps off soapbox and yells at kids to get off lawn*
  • Hey, you kids get offa my soap!
  • Hey, are you gonna use all that soap? I've got 3 loads of laundry to do...
  • Doing laundry is hot.
  • just finished mine...
  • hey I did laundry today too :D and squidranch I defy you to provide evidence of tits on that sorry girl....
  • *nervous tittering from the crowd* Soap... Laundry... *silence*
  • My streets are certainly safer with this person locked up. The helicopter action above my house (this person apparently lives nearb my hovel) has ceased since she's gone back to jail. I find myself less apt to purchase whatever kind of gun I'd need to get rid of the press since Hilton has surrendered herself.
  • It feels a bit like we're at the end of an era. The last number of years seem to have been an age of stupidity, with cultural icons like Britney, Xtina, Lindsay, Paris and of course Ralph Wiggum in the white house. Could these visits to rehab and jail be the beginning of the end and the start of something new?
  • I would hope that if any good came from this it would be the publics realization that when you are incarcerated, you are treated,and fed, like livestock. Almost inhumane, and, from what I understand, county jail food is 100 times worse than prison food. (I've only done county time) As more laws are passed, and more stringent penalties are enforced, more people who are not real criminals, are going to experience imprisonment. Jail time for traffic offenses?? That would have been unheard of forty years ago. Maybe I'm just too old to understand this "New America"
  • Yeah, but this was more than traffic offenses, retank. My understanding is that she was caught twice driving with a license that had been suspended. I mean, driving-wise, what do you do with someone after you take their license away?
  • Don't paint Xtina with the same brush as Baldy, Firecrotch, and Simpleton! What has she done to deserve your enmity????
  • MonkeyFilter: All you have to do is wave something shiny or a flash of tits See, something good HAS come from her arrest--now THAT'S a tagline! of course Ralph Wiggum in the white house hee hee, Chips!
  • MonkeyFilter: All you have to do is wave something shiny or a flash of tits See, something good HAS come from her arrest--now THAT'S a tagline! of course Ralph Wiggum in the white house hee hee, Chips!
  • MonkeyFilter: All you have to do is wave something shiny or a flash of tits See, something good HAS come from her arrest--now THAT'S a tagline! of course Ralph Wiggum in the white house hee hee, Chips!
  • *slaps thread*
  • HW: all form, no content, that's what.
  • Why must a girl adopt a boy's name before the media will pay attention to her vapid and meaningless life? Damn the patriarchy!
  • *shakes thread till it's neck snaps*
  • Stop that shaking. This is serious. She was driving the sofa at ~82 mph without a license, guys.
  • Not that I really care about Paris Hilton, but I half-expect her early release to have been concocted by the prison administration -- that the girl would have been so disruptive to the prison population that they just told her to go home. Disruptive in the sense that she's just so famous, that everyone there would have been super-excited by it in one way or another. Thus, the story about the 'medical condition'. Only after, the plan was nixed by the higher-ups who didn't actually have to deal with the situation on the ground. But, I'm just ildy guessing...
  • I suspect Paris' condition was too much money, and the cure was to put a teeny fraction of it into the sheriff's wallet. But the larger picture is, money has gravity. Little money, like you and I have, exercises little gravity, like a moon. Water flows at its command. Dogs bark. There is the occasional poem writ. Big money exercises Jupiter gravity. Lots of satellites. An obelisk or two. Big storms. Causes vulcanism in the unlikeliest of places. And then there is black hole money. Out to a certain range, nothing escapes its pull. Beyond that, it bends things toward it like a sink in the sky. Beyond that, it is a fascinating sight, mesmerizing the ignorant and terrifying the wise.
  • The last number of years seem to have been an age of stupidity, with cultural icons like Britney, Xtina, Lindsay, Paris and of course Ralph Wiggum in the white house. Mr Chimp, I couldn't agree more with your thoughtful yet succinct analysis about the vile "cult of celebrity" that has, it seems, stipped the modern mind of all its critical faculties. You're right to link the banality of "entertainment" with the banality of our political leaders - when we have no palate for real meaning in art, it seems we more easily accept meaningless politics. Actually, that being said, I probably could agree with you just a bit more: but the fact is, IF YOU BADMOUTH MY LINDSAY ONE MORE FUCKING TIME I AM SO NOT YOUR FRIEND ANY MORE, YOU ASSHOLE.
  • Why must a girl adopt a boy's name before the media will pay attention to her vapid and meaningless life? *considers, changes name to Franklin*
  • The Underpants Franklin? Doesn't have a good ring, frankly.
  • The Franklin Monster sounds pretty good though.
  • I heard about him - cobbled together from the disparate parts of dead Revolutionary era scientists/womanizers.
  • «Bien que j'apprécie l'inquiétude du shérif pour ma santé et mon bien-être, j'ai l'intention de purger ma peine à la prison de Los Angeles» a déclaré l'actuelle Jeanne d'Arc. D'ailleurs, elle pleure en effet jour et nuit et serait même devenue hystérique, selon plusieurs sources en prison.
  • The Franklin Monster is an agglomeration of many pewter coins stamped with Michael Jackson's picture, and a few plates with Princess Diana's visage painted on.
  • you sick fucks
  • That's quite an image, Tracicle!
  • "Hey, I just got back from Canada, you know, they speak a lotta French up there. The only way to remember Jeanne d'Arc means the light's out in the bathroom!"
  • Money quote for me: "You know what she's thinking? 'How can I further the Kingdom of God in Heaven?'"
  • What's amazing about that clip is how Scarborough keeps taunting her, mocking her for her stand and saying she's "not a journalist anymore." But I guess if the job of a journalist is to report whatever their corporate masters tell them is news, that'd be accurate. Senate subcommittees don't sell Trojans.
  • Scarborough's job is to taunt people.
  • I just don't see how an "I AM IN UR MSM NOT TALKING ABOUT PARIS HILTON!! LULZ!!!" stance is any better. It's just one meta over. And I never meta Hilton I liked.
  • I don't know. Yes, it's a bit holier-than-thou, but good on her for having an opinion and standing up for it -- for trying to be a bit more than a mere talking head.
  • I saw Michael Moore on The Daily Show last night, complaining (justifiably) because his one-hour segment with Larry King on the national healthcare system was bumped in favour of an hour with Paris.
  • Useless Celebrity links: Hasselhoff drunk: Tragic, actually. Joh Stamos drunk: Kind of funny, but a bad sign.
  • I saw that too, 'Bashi. He seemed kinda ticked. And his interview with Jon only lasted the final five minutes of the show. It was a good crack about Paris' freedom vs. universal health care, though.
  • "She's the canary in our coalmine."
  • "She's the wind beneath our wings." *cracks up