# Young celebrities behaving badly: is it all PR? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-celebrities-behaving-badly-is-it-all-pr/673442 "2013-11-08T19:16:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-celebrities-behaving-badly-is-it-all-pr/673442/61 "2013-11-12T12:04:16Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > That sounds like a reference to the supposed burial of millions of unsold copies of the Atari _E.T._ video game. > [Atari video game burial - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial) Supposed? Nah, it definitely happened. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-celebrities-behaving-badly-is-it-all-pr/673442/62 "2013-11-12T14:49:40Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Anyone remember when Prince Harry wore a Nazi uniform to a costume party? Hey, at least he had clothes on. On the whole, Harry presents himself as an earnest, intelligent, and dutiful royal. On the whole, there’s a lot more to like than dislike about him. Bieber and Cyrus, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-celebrities-behaving-badly-is-it-all-pr/673442/63 "2013-11-12T16:17:57Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > That’s the way I see it. Plenty of teenagers would act irresponsibly if they had the means and there were no adults in their life to tell them no. Frankly, plenty of teenagers behave badly, if Instagram is to be believed. But they don’t get press when they are seen smoking weed or drinking underage or dancing suggestively. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-celebrities-behaving-badly-is-it-all-pr/673442/64 "2013-11-12T20:21:34Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Hey, at least he had clothes on. On the whole, Harry presents himself as an earnest, intelligent, and dutiful royal. On the whole, there’s a lot more to like than dislike about him. I’m not so sure that wearing a Nazi uniform “for fun” is likeable. Certainly it denotes a set of values that may fall somewhat short of being universal. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-celebrities-behaving-badly-is-it-all-pr/673442/65 "2013-11-13T07:09:51Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > I suspect that in most of these cases, there is/was a lack of someone saying NO! and civilizing the youngster. The British press have a term for their collective futures: “Death by misadventure” we’d call it “the 27 club”. Normally I hate to see kids go astray but Beiber and Cyrus are making that difficult. What a pair of douche bags. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-celebrities-behaving-badly-is-it-all-pr/673442/66 "2013-11-14T05:21:02Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I’m not so sure that wearing a Nazi uniform “for fun” is likeable. Certainly it denotes a set of values that may fall somewhat short of being universal. And I’m not so sure that you should conflate “wearing a Nazi uniform” with “being a Nazi” …especially if it’s a dress up party. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-celebrities-behaving-badly-is-it-all-pr/673442/67 "2013-11-14T16:23:17Z")
Over Halloween there were seemingly dozens of stories about the outrage! over people wearing offensive costumes. Wearing a costume that might offend people is normally not the same thing as being what that costume represents. It can happen, and a costume can be stupid or thoughtless. But the outrage! over Harry was as manufactured nonsense as the outrage! over Miley. ---
**Author:** ![hiebram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5fc32e/32.png) [@hiebram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hiebram)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-celebrities-behaving-badly-is-it-all-pr/673442/68 "2013-11-14T18:58:27Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > FMI - Frontal Lobe Immaturity. [hijack] Apparently you have the same trouble creating acronyms that I have. But I usually keep going with the first word. I would probably have called it FRI. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-celebrities-behaving-badly-is-it-all-pr/673442/69 "2013-11-14T20:13:43Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > …But the outrage! over Harry was as manufactured nonsense as the outrage! over Miley. Particularly as a noted magazine later pointed out that journalists from the outraged newspapers were in the habit of wearing nazi outfits as well as nun’s uniforms at their bashes year after year. Anyway, if I remember correctly that person was wearing Afrika Korps gear, not SS stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-celebrities-behaving-badly-is-it-all-pr/673442.md?page=3)