A new breed of shit called “celebutantes”, spolied brat socialites who are famous.
I hope Paris gets the clap tenfold.
I got Jered’s autograph!
I got Jered’s autograph!
Bubba
He was standing right outside of a Subway store.
Juanita, have I told you lately that I love you?
On a related note, I was just flipping channels and went past Inside Edition, where they were listing the day’s “headlines” they were going to talk about. The last one on the list?
“Ben Affleck shaves his goatee!”
I kid you not.
What a different world it would be if I was a Nielson family.
Paris Hilton gets my nomination in the the-world’s-dumbest name competition.
Dumb name, maybe, but a nice address… While staying with “Paris Hilton” should be punishment for, I don’t know, patricide or finishing the pot of coffee and not making more, staying at (the) Paris Hilton might be nice.
Ah hell, that’s a weak follow-up to a quality rant that I wanted to just chime in to support. Fight the power, man! The worst part is, as much as I agree with you, I’ve still made an ass of myself to meet some of the pop-culture footnotes I consider “celebrities.”
But does she provide room service? 
What disgusts me is that the adulation continues for the likes of O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson. High profile criminals in the political game become ‘elder statesman’, rap singers that promote the killing of cops and the abuse of women are seen as role models, people like Bobbitt and his wife become minor celebrities, and Tanya Harding…well, who the hell can explain that to me?
Oh come on now, isn’t anyone going to make the obvious joke;
“… and she’s accomodated many more foreign pricks than her namesake.”
Mmmm…Hilton sisters. . . .
Damn it, that’s much more funny than what I said. Now this thread is going to haunt me all evening, and the topic will have changed (perhaps even returned to to OP), before I come up with anything that clever. Nuts.
Eve is correct. The human primate is hard-wired to organize itself into hierarchies of status. Those who are deemed important are the subject of vastly increased attention, whether adulatory or venemous, and neither rationally justifiable.
Back when we lived in tribes and you didn’t know more than two hundred people face to face, status reflected actual social organization. In the modern world, by contrast, new technologies ride piggyback on this human instinct and create strange effects; due to the ease of worldwide travel and communication, and the global distribution of homogenized media, we know and recognize thousands of individuals, and our primate instincts cause us to crown people we’ll never meet as alpha chimps, or to attack those same people as threats to our very existence.
If you beamed every single celebrity figure on the planet into the sun, we would have a whole new crop within a week.
You can refuse to participate in the phenomenon, as I attempt to do, but you cannot deny that, as a generalization, for whatever reason, the human animal needs these central cultural figures.
Welcome aboard(s), Montresor! Always nice to see a new addition to the Bay Area contingent.
Fear not, get a few thousand SDMB posts under your belt and you’ll find that sick, twisted and perverted witticisms veritably flow from your pen … er, keyboard.
True, but it’s seemed to reach an apex.
Mebbe so, but it’d be a good start.
Sure, but six and a half billion people later, you and I would be staring at each other over the teleport controls, flipping a coin to see who gets to be the last remaining person on earth.
And then that person would suffer a split personality.
You see, I think the problem is when you actually believe people like Michael Jackson when they say “I love you all!”
Not only that, there’d finally be some reality TV worth watching.
If you hate the worship of the rich, pretty people, you’re really going to want to stay way the hell away from the TV this year:
Yes, another reality show, but that’s not all:
:rolleyes:
Oh, can’t forget this wonderful quote:
Like I said, “More foreign pricks than …”