Fiji Water Girl is my new hero.
Not mine.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the HuffPo article was paid for by Fiji Water. (there I said the name. I guess they win.) Manufactured fake advertising.
Wow, that’s disappointing. I was expecting some sort of humanoid water elemental, or possibly a waterbender, from Fiji, not an ordinary mundane human hawking Fiji brand water. Clever marketing, and I’m sure the model earned her pay that day, but not really all that impressive.
And as a pet peeve of mine, incidentally, she’s not a “girl”, at least judging by the pictures. She looks to be in her 20s or so, and is therefore a woman.
Fiji water girl! Fiji water girl! They’ve given you a bottle, I know they’ve taken away your name.
So are you language proscripitivist on other words, or just this one?
I don’t give a damn what she’s selling. I applaud her for ruining all those photos of movie actors at a doofus event like the GG.
“Waterbender?” Whassat?
You mean, like Fluid Man from The Impossibles?
My boys agree with you.
As in, the characters with powers over the elements from the cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Or more generally, someone waving their arms around and telekinetically controlling water. The red-haired lady in Aquaman did it, too.
Darren Garrison, my objection to calling adult women “girls” is not because it’s in some sense linguistically incorrect, but because it’s sexist. But it certainly doesn’t help that it sometimes impedes meaning.
I was corrected in college for referring in verbal conversation to a particular female student (I think a junior or senior) as a “girl”. Since then, I’ve tried not to do that. Certainly I don’t hear young adult men being referred to as “boys” nearly as frequently, so I think this is a legitimate complaint.
My mother called every male short of around 50 a boy–I cringed with the prospect of her calling an adult black male that with people not understanding the context (and she was utterly oblivious of the reasons doing so might be a problem.)
Spinoff thread here.
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The Impossibles?
My God, but you’re old.
Of course, I immediately got it, which makes me hopelessly old, too.
Coming to Halloween in 2019, sexy Fiji Water Girl costumes.
Well, I was five when it first aired. Of course I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.
“But NOT…the ORIGINAL!”
Breaking news: her name is Kelleth Cuthbert, which only goes to prove that you shouldn’th name stomeone whilth your mouph isth full.
CalMeacham, I’ve taken the liberty of fixing your Wikipedia link. Unfortunately, the automatic URL parser here tends to choke on URLs ending in a parenthesis, which is common for Wikipedia links.
Now I’m wondering, did Fiji specifically ask that their bottle-hander-outers try to photobomb the celebrities, and Ms. Cuthbert just did a very good job of what she was being paid to do, or did she decide on her own that it’d be a positive career move for her? Either way, I’m sure that both she and Fiji are happy about the outcome.
Fiji is thrilled, I’m sure. Learn more about Fiji and the horrible people who own it here:
The Dollop #356: The Resnicks - Water Monsters
(spoiler: billionaires are killing California to sell pistachios. The Resnicks use more water than every home in Los Angeles and San Francisco’s bay area combined.)
Wow, looks like the Golden Globes are taking cues from Nascar’s winners circle and American Idol. The oh-so-carefully placed beverage in the background/foreground shots.