Normally I don't bother with the 'high society' crapfest that is their lives, but after this:
http://www.londonnet.co.uk/entertainment/2007/May/5746_20070509.php
I just had to think back to the movie 300, the "THIS! IS! SPARTAAAAA!" part.
Hilton: "This isn't fair" *sob*
Governator: "THIS! IS! CALIFORNIAAAAA!!!"
Governator: *kicks Hilton into pit*
Everybody: "HURRAH!"
Did anyone make this into a .gif yet?
Good to see the spoilt brat getting what she deserves.
Quote from: TFAWhen Judge Michael T. Sauer walked into his parish church on Saturday (05.05.07), the day after sentencing Paris, he was greeted by rapturous applause.
I read that Sauer denied this.
So making sure that drunk drivers are off of public roadways is ``a waste of taxpayers' money?''
More power to Arnie's muscular elbow. Hilton did the crime and deserves to do the time.
:mwaha
The point isn't that she was doing a 'minor' crime (although i doubt how minor having a ballistic heiress in whats undoubtedly a very large vehicle full of flamable liquids careening down public roads) its that not even such a 'celebrity' (if anyone can figure out why she is famous or a celebrity other then being an idiot, please tell me. cause i know of several other super rich spoiled girls even worse then her) can weasel out of it.
ever listen to the lyrics of 'lifestyles of the rich and the famous'? famous people seem to be able to get arrested for possession of a metric assload of drugs and serve a few weeks of prison time, and then can run for high public office even if Mc. Donald's wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. you would think it would be even easer with a movie star as governor, but thankfully that is not the case.
and to think this tired looking drunken skank is essentially paid a fortune to be a tired looking drunken skank, long before she ever inherits the family fortune....a day which i fear greatly... i doubt she can preform grade school math much less be trusted with more money then the state of Wyoming will ever see.
QuoteEver hear of the golden rule boy? Whoever has the gold makes the rules
Quote[Paris Hilton's mother] even implied the judge only decided to jail Paris to become famous.
When the judge sentenced the socialite, Kathy laughed out loud and blurted, "May I have your autograph?"
I'm surprised the judge didn't slap
her down as well; I'd think that would qualify as "contempt of court".
And Paris Hilton, as far as I can tell, is famous mostly for being famous. And being a living blonde joke.
She's only famous because everyone saw the sex tape.
QuoteParis' mother Kathy Hilton is furious her daughter has been given a jail term.
She told USA Today: "This is pathetic and disgusting, a waste of taxpayers' money with all this nonsense. This is a joke."
why, yes, My mom would be pissed off if I got 45 days dail for driving without a license multiple times after losing it to a DUI. She'd be pissed at me, becasue she knows she raised a more responsiblechild than that. And, yes, Paris is wasting taxpayer money. Do us all a favor; It's down the road, not accross the street, Paris.
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Though, you'd think the governor would be more sympathetic, considering he's done the same thing while in office...
If she gets a cellmate, could someone send said cellmate a very large, spiked strapon? Maybe little miss rich will pipe down a little after a few "treatments" from her new "best friend". :mwaha
Quote from: LionHeart on May 12, 2007, 11:07:44 AMAnd Paris Hilton, as far as I can tell, is famous mostly for being famous. And being a living blonde joke.
From what I understand, she's famous because her grandfather was rich and left almost all of his money to charity.
But Paris' father sued and managed to take a large chunk of that money away from the charities.
there are a great many people who are so filthy rich we cannot possibly comprehend how large a stack of cash they have, this number is growing rapidly as evidenced by the phenomenon known as a 'billionaire party' which is essentially a Tupperware party for people who want to buy diamond encrusted cellphones.
there are hundreds of noted philanthropists who gave just as much or more as Hilton senior, but i bet not one of you can tell me the names of the living relatives of J. D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Alfred Nobel, or Karen Phelps Moyer without using Google or the like.
there are at least two hundred other young heirs and heiresses who are about as rich as paris, about as dumb as paris, and about as perpetually drunk as paris, but are nowheres near the public eye.
to be perfectly honest the fame of Paris Hilton is a fluke, we cannot really explain it.
QuoteJohn D. Rockefeller -
- I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
Sure we can. An 'accidentally' leaked sex tape with 'coincidental' intensive media coverage, right before the release of her major tv series. It was designed to happen that way. A very :mowninja move.
she has a TV series?
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California is super-cool to the homeless.
You know, I remember when she got a letter from the state warning her that keeping a kinkajou as a pet was illegal.
This will be entertaining to watch as the Hilton family does more and more serious crimes. I can imagine a bumbling crime family holding up hair salons, demanding to get butt-ugly hairstyles, but getting tripped up when someone dangles some shiny keys in front of them.
...well, until they get to the John du Pont level.
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Yours is STILL in the positive? :erk
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Yours is STILL in the positive? :erk
She's going to jail, ain't she?
anyway, it's a percentage from absolute zero to 100%, it doesn't go past the ends.
I like to think that the effects of fame do society a service. We see the things these celebrities do wrong and mock them, thus finding a use for that idiocy, and comparatively few of them manage to reproduce before being found dead in a drug warehouse or something so we get them the hell out of the gene pool. 'Sall good.
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ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? IS THIS NOT WHY YOU HAVE COME?
i think celebrities should be treated different then normal criminals.
how?
we put 2 or 3 of them in an arena, give them whiffle bats, and tell them the last one conscious gets their prison sentence reduced. the proceeds from televising this will go to pay for their prison term, we don't need to spend thousands of taxpayer dollars so these delinquents can sit in a cell that has cable, a weight room, and quite possibly a health spa. you have no idea how happy i was to hear Paris would have rubber food and only one hour per day for recreational activities.
chances are most of them aren't bright enough to change the way they live anyways- if they get caught for drinking and driving twelve times and spent a collective two years in rehab i just bet you they'll be in another bar within the week.
QuoteWomen prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind.
I heard she's learning karate... and several other Japanese words. :B
Quote from: Brunhidden da Muse on May 15, 2007, 11:32:21 AM
i think celebrities should be treated different then normal criminals.
how?
we put 2 or 3 of them in an arena, give them whiffle bats, and tell them the last one conscious gets their prison sentence reduced.
chances are most of them aren't bright enough to change the way they live anyways- if they get caught for drinking and driving twelve times and spent a collective two years in rehab i just bet you they'll be in another bar within the week.
QuoteWomen prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind.
I propose we instead make them all eat at the same restaurant every day. With RJ as the exceedingly overpaid chef. :3
Quote from: Kenji on May 15, 2007, 11:39:14 AM
I propose we instead make them all eat at the same restaurant every day. With RJ as the exceedingly overpaid chef. :3
I'm all for that! :]
I propose we treat them just like everyone else.
Quote from: Evil Richter on May 15, 2007, 12:43:03 PM
I propose we treat them just like everyone else.
After a bit of fun. Of course, to treat a person of celebrity status as anyone else would destroy the very title of celebrity, and in a sense, ruin the very foundation of the entertainment industry.
....
So muffins it is. :3
Quote from: Evil Richter on May 15, 2007, 12:43:03 PM
I propose we treat them just like everyone else.
:yeahthat
The only reason they're celebrities is because we don't treat them like every one else.
Take away their notoriety, and they're like batman without his money and gadgets and mad ninja skillz.
Even with all the training and skillz of a top-notch actor, I'd work for as little as 200,000 a year. We just need to stop overpaying them.
Then, the atheletes.
Finally, we raise the pay of teachers and cops.
I'm hoping for a celebrity prison reality show.
Quote from: Evil Richter on May 15, 2007, 12:52:01 PM
Then, the atheletes.
I hear that. It used to be that atheletes played the game for the sake of playing. Now they play for the sake of those multimillion dollar contracts.
Quote from: Brunhidden da Muse on May 15, 2007, 11:32:21 AM
we put 2 or 3 of them in an arena, give them whiffle bats, and tell them the last one conscious gets their prison sentence reduced. the proceeds from televising this will go to pay for their prison term.
I love that idea! We can combine it with the second by having RJ be the ref/announcer.(since it's a deathmatch, the Ref doesn't really have much to do besides say "Oh, is everyone else unconscious? We have a winner!")
Now THAT's a Celebrity Deathmatch.
Quote from: Evil Richter on May 15, 2007, 12:52:01 PM
Even with all the training and skillz of a top-notch actor, I'd work for as little as 200,000 a year. We just need to stop overpaying them.
Then, the atheletes.
Finally, we raise the pay of teachers and cops.
I agree wholeheartedly.
really, when a celebrety has five mansions the size of a country club and is also considered to donate a great deal to charities...im thinking the charities are their pocket change.
and as far as the raising the wages of teachers and cops- over half the money collected by taxes is used to fund the tax system. a man named forbez ran for president proposing we have a tax form the size of a postcard, everyone would pay 7% of their earnings unless they were below a certain income. if you check the results of our current stacks of tax forms just about everyone actually pays 7% unless they're below that income level. essentially you can simplify the tax system to slash the number of people needed to run it....i say make them teachers and police officers, or at the very least make them do the paperwork so REAL police officers don't have to sit in an office all day.
and the reason i said give the celebrities whiffle bats is because it'll take them about a half hour to an hour of painful whacking before anyone goes down. this is a form of "ha ha, jokes on you losers. next time itll be a pillow fight to the death"
QuoteThe race is long, and in the end it is only with yourself
Quote from: Evil Richter on May 15, 2007, 12:52:01 PM
Even with all the training and skillz of a top-notch actor, I'd work for as little as 200,000 a year. We just need to stop overpaying them.
Then, the atheletes.
Well, the reason that celebrities and athletes make so much money is, in part, because they bring -in- so much money. The athletes bring in millions upon millions upon millions, so they get paid as such. Same as most celebrities. Teachers and cops don't bring in millions upon millions, they teach at a standard school oriented pay.
It sucks majorly, but it's just how things are. :/
however police and teachers are a major investment in the future. the education our children get directly impacts the economy when they enter the job market- do you think bill gates would have changed the world how he did if he wasn't a complete nerd? imagine if he got half the education. and the police are drastically undervalued, crime disrupts everything. the value of a persons life cannot really be given, and the idea of a cop is more effective then the violence of a cop. we need enough police around that you SEE them, because its the little policeman in your head telling you that your being watched that stops most of the petty crime...and not just speeding, you need them in places they can actually catch people.
yeah, if everyones worried about money they should put it into the teachers and the cops, watch the economy grow as you have educated people who are not afraid to walk the streets at night.
QuoteThe following celebrities are still at large. If you see a celebrity consider them armed and dangerous.
Gates is probably not the best example, since he was a bity of a prodigy, and he went to a private primary school with a tuition 3 times that of Harvard.
I would rather point to academics such as Linus Torvalds, who were regular people with regular education (and completed college)
Anyway, I agree that a quality education is important.
Law enforcement is also very important.
Both teachers and police are becoming more and more scarce. They may begin to see the higher salaries that they deserve, if only due to the increase in demand for good teachers and decrease in supply.
Or, they're becoming more and more scarce here in southern California, anyway. Atleast we havn't started teaching that pi is exactly 3 in our classrooms yet. :B
(PS, sorry for making this like linux vs. windows, Linus was teh first academic that popped into my head.)
I'm just wondering why natural selection hasn't taken over yet.
Quote from: Aridas Soulfire on May 16, 2007, 06:35:42 AM
I'm just wondering why natural selection hasn't taken over yet.
What, you didn't get the memo? It was phased out about a decade or so back.
the alternate theory is that its slowly dividing the human race into several sub races.
supermodels- they have the intelligence of cats, someday soon we shall breed them for home sale, neutering is optional
nerds- our nocturnal rulers, while supplying us with technology they shall also sneak into our homes at night to steal our pizza and women
dwarves- uh, they're short
hillbillies/rednecks- im actually pretty sure this ones already a pretty distinct sub race
actors- while they have lost the ability to acquire food and often bump into walls they are able to aquire an entourage of barristas to provide for them. without this entorage they die, the correct term for this relationship is 'symbiotic' and not 'parasitic'
barristas- the armies of servants who make sure everyone else does not die. they dont all serve coffee, but thats the portion that is most often seen by the wealthy, whom the barristas feed off of for sustenance
there will probably also be a category for people who are really dumb and ugly, distinguishing them from both the supermodels and the nerds who are one or the other but not both, but im not sure if they will be labeled 'goblins' or 'trolls'
QuoteLet no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
Quote from: Brunhidden da Muse on May 16, 2007, 12:18:00 PM
there will probably also be a category for people who are really dumb and ugly, distinguishing them from both the supermodels and the nerds who are one or the other but not both, but im not sure if they will be labeled 'goblins' or 'trolls'
If this post is an example, I'd say "troll" :-]
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on May 16, 2007, 12:22:48 PM
If this post is an example, I'd say "troll" :-]
my stupidity is not in question here, if you want something that easy go find a barrel of fish to shoot.
QuoteEvery day I am surprised I am able to dress myself properly.
Quote from: Brunhidden da Muse on May 16, 2007, 12:36:49 PM
my stupidity is not in question here, if you want something that easy go find a barrel of fish to shoot.
Aww. You're no fun. :-[
(Besides, I thought the whole forum was my private barrel? ;-] )