# ITT we express unfashionable sympathy for some otherwise utterly reprehensible celeb. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 20, 2006, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127 "2006-11-20T08:52:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cranston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@cranston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cranston)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/1 "2006-11-20T08:52:59Z")
No. 1 - Kevin Federline This skinny-assed, corpse-skinned, forune-hunting, he-skank aroused my sympathy when I heard that during a promotional gig for his appalling album ‘Playing With Fire’ in a 1,500 stadium in which only 300 people turned up (though the gig was free), one girl wanted to call her friend so she could get a ride home early and Fed-Ex (as I believe he is now known), noticed this from the stage and with nothing better to do, I guess, lent her the battery from his phone because hers was weak. Somehow it all seems very poignant. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/2 "2006-11-20T11:02:43Z")
Russel Crowe has a nice smile and people think he is Australian 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/3 "2006-11-20T11:21:49Z")
[QUOTE=calm kiwi] Russel Crowe has a nice smile and people think he is Australian 😃 [/QUOTE] Russell Crowe is an arsehole, and Australians are more than happy to chuck him back over the ditch from whence he came. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/4 "2006-11-20T11:56:22Z")
I hate to say it, but David Gest (who’s on British TV in “I’m a celebrity get me out of here”) is growing on me. He’s got a wicked sense of humour: last night he was telling a story about his maid, whose name is allegedly Vaginica Semen. ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/5 "2006-11-20T13:03:30Z")
One word: Dancing with the Stars. (The word is stars, there ain’t any) ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/6 "2006-11-20T13:42:48Z")
I \*almost \*feel sorry for him. How embarassing. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/7 "2006-11-20T18:39:27Z")
What does ITT mean? Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![cranston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@cranston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cranston)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/8 "2006-11-20T18:44:47Z")
[QUOTE=Sailboat] What does ITT mean? Sailboat [/QUOTE] I’m sorry, I thought it was common parlance but perhaps it is only amongst me and a few light-hating buddies on another forum. It means ‘In This Thread’. Essenctialy you use it to say ‘In this thread we discuss the proposition that…’ but just use ‘ITT as shorthand’. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/9 "2006-11-20T19:06:52Z")
Heidi Fliess used to be really hot, especially when she first got busted and had that strung-out cokehead sallowness in her face. ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/10 "2006-11-20T20:24:35Z")
I feel bad for Paula Poundstone. I hope she gets her career re-started. ---
**Author:** ![cranston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@cranston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cranston)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/11 "2006-11-20T21:20:22Z")
[QUOTE=vibrotronica] Heidi Fliess used to be really hot, especially when she first got busted and had that strung-out cokehead sallowness in her face. [/QUOTE] By that token you could fancy Giovanni Ribilisi? My goodness, he looks like Gollum. If Gollum had had viral flu for a couple of days. And self-medicated with crumbly, blue Danish chese. ---
**Author:** ![cranston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@cranston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cranston)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/12 "2006-11-20T21:21:34Z")
[QUOTE=Sonia Montdore] I feel bad for Paula Poundstone. I hope she gets her career re-started. [/QUOTE] I googled her and looked at her website. She seems to be a comic. What makes - or made her - irredeemable? ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/13 "2006-11-20T21:32:24Z")
[QUOTE=cranston] I googled her and looked at her website. She seems to be a comic. What makes - or made her - irredeemable? [/QUOTE] [Child molesting.](http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/06/27/poundstone.arrest/) ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/14 "2006-11-21T00:41:58Z")
[QUOTE=cranston] I googled her and looked at her website. She seems to be a comic. What makes - or made her - irredeemable? [/QUOTE] She’s on Wait, wait … don’t tell me on NPR frequently and seems popular with the audience. I still like her as much as I ever did. (That’s not a snarky comment, I _do_ like her.) She sometimes jokes about her past troubles. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/15 "2006-11-21T00:47:54Z")
[QUOTE=Hey you!] [Child molesting.](http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/06/27/poundstone.arrest/) [/QUOTE] She was convicted of child endangerment which she admits to, but the sex related were [dropped.](http://cache-origin.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,8813,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/16 "2006-11-21T00:54:36Z")
[Paris Hilton](http://hollywood.outsidethebeltway.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/paris_hilton_feet2.jpg) has very large and not unattractive feet. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/17 "2006-11-21T03:53:55Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > Russel Crowe has a nice smile and people think he is Australian [QUOTE=kambuckta] Russell Crowe is an arsehole, and Australians are more than happy to chuck him back over the ditch from whence he came. 😃 [/QUOTE] Nobody can say we’re not even-handed. If he wins an Oscar then he’s an Australian actor. If he assaults someone then he’s a New Zealand criminal. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/18 "2006-11-21T04:20:09Z")
[QUOTE=cranston] By that token you could fancy Giovanni Ribilisi? My goodness, he looks like Gollum. If Gollum had had viral flu for a couple of days. And self-medicated with crumbly, blue Danish chese. [/QUOTE] Yeah, the problem with Ribisi? Even when he’s looking very well, he looks like utter shit. I hope he doesn’t do as many drugs as it looks like, 'cause he’s a really fantastic actor and I’d hate to see him dead. I still think Tom Cruise is a really decent actor, and he’s got something besides crazy in his eye. I’d hit that. Mind you, I don’t think he’d hit _me_, being a chick and all. I don’t think he’s straight, but I think Suri is his and conceived more or less naturally. I think he did whatever the male equivalent of “Brace yourself, Bridget!” is, perhaps with the aid of a fine single malt or eleven. He owed one (1) Scientology brat and had to deliver it before the decade was out. But I think he’s a talented closeted gay actor with a wacky religion who should never have hired his sister as his publicist, not a total nutjob hack. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/19 "2006-11-21T04:50:52Z")
Michael Richards is very good at comedic double-takes. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127/20 "2006-11-21T06:57:44Z")
I don’t think Prince Charles will be anywhere near as bad a king as everyone seems to think, I don’t think it’s incomprehensible he preferred Camilla to Diana, and I’ve frequently had to remind people that up until recently adultery was practically a job requirement for royalty. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itt-we-express-unfashionable-sympathy-for-some-otherwise-utterly-reprehensible-celeb/381127.md?page=2)