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(News.com.au)   Grandpa Hilton to Paris: No, you can't have your $60M inheritance. Not yours   (news.com.au) divider line 528
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2007-07-30 05:18:57 PM
Can't believe only one other person has said this...

Hiltowned!

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Happy happy,
Joy, Joy.

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//!!
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2007-07-30 05:29:52 PM
Is Paris burning...yet?
 
2007-07-30 06:39:54 PM
You can stop your Superior Dances...

Paris Not Being Locked Out of Hotel Fortune

http://www.tmz.com/2007/07/30/paris-not-being-locked-out-of-hotel-fortune/

Let's get back to buying our lottery tickets.
 
2007-07-30 07:07:47 PM
paulseta:
Embrace Paris, for you are her and she is you.


Eew, she's getting my soul all icky.
 
2007-07-30 07:14:35 PM
Office Ninja

pharking theater majors.

Finally, someone twigged to what I was sending up...

I cannot believe how many people took that load of nonsensical tripe that I wrote seriously - until I read Sunny Ray's comments, and realised that there are people who will defend that putrid meatsack that we know as Paris.
 
2007-07-30 07:31:22 PM
Sunny Ray
IonBeam2:

Well then maybe you can "hate on" her for driving drunk and putting other people at risk?

I haven't the energy to hate on the hundreds of millions of people that drive after drinking alcohol, the vast majority of them without killing or harming others. I would bet the majority of people do not wish that they or their friends get arrested each time they drink and drive. I know that being realistic doesn't play well on Fark Paris Hilton Threads.



That's cool, I don't "hate" on them for driving after drinking.

I hate them for every potential casualty that could occur as a result of their selfishness or laziness.

Contrary to the belief of most Farkers re: other Farkers, I don't live in my mom's basement. But in the hypothetical situation that I end up in jail because I chose to drive drunk, I'm pretty sure she'd leave my ass in there to teach me a lesson rather than try to bail me out. I can understand your not wanting to hate people needlessly, but selfish acts like that piss me off to no end.


NightOwl2255

Holy Hell Batman! Since I have the lamest user name in the history of Fark, I have been looking for a new one. Troll King. Now that might just be a winner. Damn, that almost makes this thread worthwhile. Thank you sir.

\Hope it's not taken.


Use a space or an underscore and you're good to go!
 
2007-07-30 07:49:19 PM
Also, I was wondering at first why the mods didn't just scrap this thread since it was apparently satire (though I don't know for sure whether or not the mods actually do that)....but I think the comments speak for themselves. :P
 
2007-07-30 07:50:50 PM
Late to the party, but....

Major kudos to the old man for taking drunk driving more seriously than the sex tape. Major kudos. God, we need more people like him in the world.

On the other hand, this is the first time I've ever felt sorry for Paris Hilton. Losing $60 mil has gotta suck. I hope it has a salubrious effect on her, and she goes on makes her own fortune.
 
2007-07-30 07:54:24 PM
Daughter of the Blood

I know what you mean, I agree people should not drive after drinking alcohol. But, I am realistic enough to believe that millions of people do it each and every day, for some reason a bizarre moral stance is taken when it is Paris Hilton that is busted. I doubt Paris Hilton has done any wrong to any of the Farkers that post here and yet they demonize and ridicule her. They should save their anger and barbs for people that can really have a negative effect on their lives like Hillary Clinton and most other Libs.
 
2007-07-30 08:11:48 PM
Sunny Ray
Daughter of the Blood

I know what you mean, I agree people should not drive after drinking alcohol. But, I am realistic enough to believe that millions of people do it each and every day, for some reason a bizarre moral stance is taken when it is Paris Hilton that is busted. I doubt Paris Hilton has done any wrong to any of the Farkers that post here and yet they demonize and ridicule her. They should save their anger and barbs for people that can really have a negative effect on their lives like Hillary Clinton and most other Libs.



Yeah, I'm no expert by any means, but I'm pretty sure there's a difference between driving drunk versus driving "buzzed". I'm such a lightweight and I get buzzed just from one Smirnoff or something (heh), but it doesn't seem to take long for even the buzzed feeling to go away. I guess when people do it, the majority of them are thinking that nothing will happen, and it might not, but I'm not prone to taking chances. (This is why I laid into my SO when he told me he didn't usually wear a seatbelt while riding in cars :p)

I don't really care one way or the other about Paris, but then again, I don't usually pay much attention to Hollywood in general if I can help it. *shrug* It's true that we see just about anything and everything on Fark, though.
 
2007-07-30 08:23:27 PM
FAIL
 
2007-07-30 08:34:36 PM
Oh, my goodness! I'd better pick a god soon!
 
2007-07-30 08:53:55 PM
Good for grandpa, cause Paris sets a bad example for all the little girls reading gossip magazines. He has shown that stupid behavior can yield bad consequences.

That said, I think the mass hatred for Paris in these forums is pretty silly... other than the fact she sets a bad example, she is just your typical rich dumb party chick, one that most dudes here would still hit, given it were really easy.

/wouldn't hit on her
//but would hit it and run to the showers for panicked scrubbing
 
2007-07-30 08:54:21 PM
Sunny Ray

Seriously dude, that's enough of you. You're fighting for the wrong side. "Look at me, I'm defending a total scumbag!" Just....enough. Again, seriously...enough.
 
2007-07-30 09:54:18 PM
yay! yay! yay! that is hi-larious!!
/there is a God!

Sunny Ray

Shut up dude, really now.. what the hell?? She was born spoiled and now she's finally going to get to taste the real world, she can probably live just fine with what she has, so stop kissing her ass for doing absolutely nothing. And......malevolent people? on the internet?? who's ever heard of such a thing?!
 
2007-07-30 10:17:05 PM
Dwayne Hawking and Shinanagans

I am not kissing her ass and I am not defending a total scumbag. I see Paris Hilton like I see all people, as human beings with warts and all. The fact that you celebrate her misfortune speaks much worse of you than it does it about me, one of the lone reasonable people that have posted in this thread.
 
2007-07-30 10:41:02 PM
Aww, man. Stop hating on Sunny Ray.

He's just trying to provide an alterative POV to counter balance all the Paris hate here.

Me? I'm amused by her antics. Other than that, I don't care. I am currently far more amused by Lindsay Lohan's career swirling 'round the bowl.

Oh yeah - Lohan's going to make a porno tape and see to it that it winds up on the Net. That sweet little girl from "The Parent Trap" and "Mean Girls" will be doing rough anal bondage, all for our amusement!

Glory to the Empire!
 
2007-07-30 10:44:06 PM
Sunny Ray

I derive no joy from her misfortune, and none of my posts suggest I do. I am completely unemotional when it comes to Paris Hilton. But as an observer, I find her empty and useless. So much money, such a chance to positively affect the world, and all we've gotten so far is an addle-brained attention whore. For God's sake, she's 27 years old! Are you defending her freedom to milk her unearned fame for all it's worth? O.K. Are you defending a life so wasted? Fine. Are you hypnotized by her one facial expression? What is it? Because your good samaritan vibe could be put to much better use. I actually understand where you're coming from, as cruelty is always unbecoming. I don't hate her.

Doesn't she have a sister? Why isn't she on the cover of every tabloid? Maybe it's because she's maintained some sense of class. And notice, no one calls her names. Smart girl.
 
2007-07-30 10:53:08 PM
When Ms. Hilton went to jail, I asked a number of people I saw what it was about Paris Hilton that people react to. I got various answers. Vapidity. Looks. Entitlement. Class Distinction. Lack of Talent. Those all seem to be part of the equation, but I can't help but think more is involved.

www.msu.edu

I was reminded of a concept I first ran across studying Soren Kierkegaard years ago. In his analysis of existential despair, Kierkegaard stated that despair/angst was a form of "sympathetic antipathy" or "antipathetic sympathy." That we are inevitably drawn towards that which we most wish to avoid. Kierkegaard first used this example in discussing children's fascination with things are mortified by. In adults, this despair has no specific object, but is simply a condition of living in separation from God.

His existential Christianity aside, I think Kierkegaard was on to something--the idea of "sympathetic antipathy" has a lot going for it in the way humans are often mesmerized by that they claim to be repulsed by. But what is there to invoke this quintessential aspect of human existence in Americans--why does it come to the surface here? Salon has one answer:

"At the very least, we were witnessing a coddled child having a severe allergic reaction to the real world. Hilton could certainly be losing her doughnuts in a medically authentic way, since by all appearances, she's never been punished, never been forced to eat anything she doesn't like, never had to sleep anywhere uncomfortable or wear anything unflattering. While the rest of us are more than passingly familiar with deprivations and things not going our way, Hilton could actually blow a fuse from what would look, to an outsider, like a mildly unpleasant experience."

Maybe it is the allergic reaction to being forced into the reality-based community? Perhaps a displaced politics? Perhaps after years and years of watching government officials attempt to create their own hermetically sealed bubbles of war and meaning, unchallenged and unchecked, seeing someone actually having to be accountable for their actions drove many into a pirahnic frenzy?

"And when you consider the fact that she's protected by relatives who talk openly to the press about throwing a party to celebrate their insipid child being released from prison early after having driven drunk? It makes simple sense to assume that not only is she unapologetic for her crime, she's absolutely indignant about her punishment. The Associated Press reported that "as Ms. Hilton was led away to await her trip back to jail, she turned to her parents and said, 'It's not right!'"

As a child, being indignant about my punishment inevitably brought on more punishment--I suppose because refusing responsibility is yet one more mark that one's attitude has not sufficiently been adjusted--a mark of childhood. Maybe its a toilet training issue, or the sense to start/endorse a Myspace petition to be pardoned from Jail by the Governor of your state, comparing yourself with President Richard Nixon.

I think its about someone having the status of an adult, with the privilege and ability of fantastic wealth, but with the appreciation/attention whoring of a child, with a Jesus ("God" + "Martyr") complex to boot. The peculiar combination of all three together ignites the ressentiment of the rest of us lowly plebians. It seems to be a synergistic perfect storm of sleaziness, which may be why so many cliched cultural commentators see her as embodying a larger-than-life metaphor for the decadence of 'our age.' But I'm after something more.

Something that crossing the boundaries of child, adult, and ordinary human ego gives us. Something more akin to Norman Bates's abomination. But not in the merely psychological sense.

Let's pull back a moment. It's poop, of course. Rich elites (and just as often, the genuinely poor and wretched) have never, ever played by bourgeois middle-class standards of morality to begin with. But the constant struggle of Ms. Hilton to stay in the media limelight at any cost while maintaining such an open flaunt comes at a real cultural price.

But ethically and existentially speaking--it is decadence. Not in that grand European Artaud or Beckett tradition. Decadence in the sense that this is not merely another inauthentic life--this is someone who works just hard enough to be inauthentic at every turn--someone who through both form and function enfleshes---nay incarnates the very principle of inauthenticity. It is a repudiation of everything Gethsemane teaches us about human tragedy. This is someone who wishes to be worshipped precisely for her incarnate inauthenticity. This is the subterranean, esoteric meaning of the term "American Idol."

It makes perfect sense that this is someone who has an allergic reaction to inconvenience. Dialectically, I am in turn reminded of the Agony.

In a secular sense, we are drawn, through sympathetic antipathy, towards an existential abomination.

In a religious sense, Paris Whitney Hilton is a secular Antichrist.
 
2007-07-30 11:14:51 PM
We haven't hit 700 comments yet???

C'mon you slackers!!!
 
2007-07-30 11:17:24 PM
That post is made of pure win. A work of art. Thank you.
 
2007-07-30 11:55:43 PM
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Posted Jul 30th 2007 5:23PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Gossip/Rumors, Paris Hilton

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton doesn't need to worry about family patriarch and precious grandad Barron Hilton cutting her out of his will.

A story published in the UK said the ex-con party princess was in jeopardy of losing her mega-inheritance because sullying the family reputation, saying that grandpa was cutting her out of the will. TMZ has confirmed that's baloney.

After the socialite was sprung from the klink, she spent a few days at grandpa Hilton's family compound in Beverly Hills. It's rumored that Paris stands to inherit somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 million.
 
2007-07-31 12:40:34 AM
*laughs*

Sunny Ray, that was pretty entertaining, however; between the drunk driving, drug use, lack of a response on the sex tape... this young woman has enough money, friends, power (what have you) to take a little poop-slinging from petty farkers.

BTW, broad gerneralizations regarding political parties and their leaders isn't nice at all :(
 
2007-07-31 01:12:07 AM
The money will go to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the charity set up in the name of the founder of the family business.

Anyone know how we can donate to this? Seems like we should chip in a couple bucks knowing Paris gets nothing! Brings a smile to my face.
 
2007-07-31 01:18:48 AM
Can I have it?
 
2007-07-31 03:30:25 AM
Sorry people... its looks like Grandpa Hilton is giving Paris an inheritance... way to suck old man...

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2007-07-31 03:39:33 AM
I enjoyed your thoughtful post, Somacandra.
 
2007-07-31 12:24:39 PM
Somacandra

You have clearly been educated far past your intelligence. Or not. Because I agree with about everything you said. Well done.
 
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