# Britney Getting Divorced **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476 "2006-11-07T22:06:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/1 "2006-11-07T22:06:10Z")
[Britney Spears files for divorce in LA](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061107/ap_on_en_mu/spears_divorce) Well, colour me shocked. I didn’t see this coming at all. Yeesh. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/2 "2006-11-07T22:15:43Z")
They’ve been married more than 2 years, and have 2 children. Shouldn’t they be moving on from that to new gigs? ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/3 "2006-11-07T22:37:07Z")
I’m glad she finally decided to cut her losses. The guy’s an ass. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/4 "2006-11-07T22:41:28Z")
I am shocked…shocked to find this out. I think I had her in the Celebrity Divorce Pool. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/5 "2006-11-07T22:47:08Z")
First Jessica & Nick, then Whitney and Bobby, now this? It’s like Reality TV _lied_ to me! ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/6 "2006-11-07T22:49:38Z")
[QUOTE=amarinth] It’s like Reality TV _lied_ to me! [/QUOTE] TV can lie?! Next you’ll be telling me that not everything I read on the internet is true! ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/7 "2006-11-07T22:49:41Z")
Will no one protect the institution of marriage from these gays? I mean celebrities? My marriage feels threatened. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/8 "2006-11-07T22:57:12Z")
Well at least Kevin has his hot rap career on track…leaving poor Briney barefoot and with two kids in the trailer-park. Sad. Didn’t see that coming. Kind of shocked, as this was such a prime example of the Republican pillar of American family values - the sanctity of heterosexual marriage. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/9 "2006-11-07T23:09:57Z")
Do celeb reporters realize “irreconcilable differences” means a box has to be checked on the divorce form and the other boxes don’t apply? It’s like “other.” ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/10 "2006-11-07T23:11:01Z")
I got nothin, except this link to [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) list of tags for Federline’s album. > **[Federline, Kevin - Playing With Fire - Amazon.com Music](https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Fire-Kevin-Federline/dp/tags-on-product/B000IU3YLY/ref=tag_dp_ct_sa/002-3394238-1285634)** > > Federline, Kevin - Playing With Fire - Amazon.com Music The customer reviews are a hoot as well [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B000IU3YLY/ref=cm\_cr\_dp\_2\_1/104-3193977-5852764?ie=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort\_by=-SubmissionDate&n=5174](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B000IU3YLY/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/104-3193977-5852764?ie=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=5174) Here’s a good one: > [@Customer Review](#): > > ``` > The neighborhood kids have been using my backyard as a place to do whatever kids today do when no one is watching. I got tired of of them trampling my garden and leaving trash. I took an old pair of wireless speakers from the "future garage sale" pile and put them 15 feet up in a nicely trimmed pine tree (no way to climb it). > > After some advice from my kids in college, I bought this album. Amazing! Nothing, and I mean nothing, makes the kids scatter faster than Kevin Federline! > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/11 "2006-11-07T23:17:53Z")
I could not be more bummed. I lived my life through K-Fed and his fairy-tale marriage. If his world can crash and burn, what hope have I for happiness? Well, I suppose I could just hang with my homeys. Bless their four-legged squirrel chasing yapping and scrapping and ripping and running and snortin’ and cavortin’ pea pickin’ hearts. It’s all good. Peace out. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/12 "2006-11-07T23:22:22Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] I could not be more bummed. I lived my life through K-Fed and his fairy-tale marriage. If his world can crash and burn, what hope have I for happiness? [/QUOTE] Well, there are rumors of a sex-tape that Brit was worried about being made public… maybe KFed will be disgruntled? We can always hope. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/13 "2006-11-07T23:42:09Z")
I’ts all falling into place. Gatopescado’s “To Do List”: 1. Take over vacant seat of power in Bigamist Utah. 2. Marry Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears. 3. Pick up “Take and Bake” Pizza. 4. World Domination! ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/14 "2006-11-08T00:24:43Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] I am shocked…shocked to find this out. I think I had her in the Celebrity Divorce Pool. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but did you pick the closest date. I didn’t, I had it a year and a half back. (All time best People Magazine cover: \*\* Jessica and Nick SPLIT: Her sudden decision, his shocked reaction.\*\* I still think that if he was shocked he was the only person that isn’t having his “news” spoon fed to him by Karl Rove that was.) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/15 "2006-11-08T00:33:51Z")
Cool! At least now we’ll get a break from the Anna Nicole birthing video! ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/16 "2006-11-08T00:58:05Z")
[QUOTE=amarinth] First Jessica & Nick, then Whitney and Bobby, now this? It’s like Reality TV _lied_ to me! [/QUOTE] This all proves my theory that newlyweds who start reality television shows about themselves always end up quickly divorced. See: Jessica & Nick, Carmen & Dave, that guy from Blink 182 & the Playboy bunny. Also, I give it eightteen months before no one remembers who Kevin Federline is. ---
**Author:** ![JacksonRoykirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@JacksonRoykirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacksonRoykirk)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/17 "2006-11-08T01:20:29Z")
Yawn. [K-Fed in Celebrity Deathmatch]Tellyawhat, Baby, you spot me 20 bucks, and I’ll put a ring on that finger.[/CDM] ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/18 "2006-11-08T01:30:03Z")
Please, won’t someone think of the children? What ever shall become of poor little Hambone and Boyardee? ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/19 "2006-11-08T03:18:00Z")
[QUOTE=Jayrot] I got nothin, except this link to [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) list of tags for Federline’s album. > **[Federline, Kevin - Playing With Fire - Amazon.com Music](https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Fire-Kevin-Federline/dp/tags-on-product/B000IU3YLY/ref=tag_dp_ct_sa/002-3394238-1285634)** > > Federline, Kevin - Playing With Fire - Amazon.com Music The customer reviews are a hoot as well [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B000IU3YLY/ref=cm\_cr\_dp\_2\_1/104-3193977-5852764?ie=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort\_by=-SubmissionDate&n=5174](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B000IU3YLY/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/104-3193977-5852764?ie=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=5174) Here’s a good one: [/QUOTE] I wonder how many of those reviewers actually bought the album? And if they did…for Og’s sake, why??? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476/20 "2006-11-08T04:45:35Z")
[QUOTE=Foldup Rabbit] Also, I give it eightteen months before no one remembers who Kevin Federline is. [/QUOTE] He’s got a good start on that - 99.999999999999 recurring % don’t know who he is now. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-getting-divorced/379476.md?page=2)