i hate you, america

but i'm back, america xoxoxoxo

I can deal with 10 Honey Boo Boo's, but one Beiber makes me want to kick a puppy.

I just want to know how much her disgusting blob of a mom has pissed away.

Feel terrible? I feel nothing.

But I will feel smugly satisfied when I read the headlines that Justin can't quit his coke habit, Taylor gets herpes from Derek Jeter and Honey Boo Bo dies of a massive heart attack at the ripe old age of 11.

Fade2black: gameshowhost: I just want to know how much her disgusting blob of a mom has pissed away.

From what little I gathered, she's splitting it up equally among the kids in college funds.  I hate how these people are considered famous, but maybe she isn't that stupid after all.

Fun fact:
white trash tends to be poorly educated but full of rat bastard cunning

SpikeStrip: i hate you, america

THIS BAH GAWD!

Seriously, I could never... EVVVVVVVVVVVVVERRRRRRR sell out my family like that.  Its why when I detect my Warhol-mandated fifteen minutes trying to force itself upon me, I quickly say out loud that I yield it to somebody more desperate than I.  Unfortunately, we get a Kardashian or Honey Boo Boo forced upon us.

Fade2black: gameshowhost: I just want to know how much her disgusting blob of a mom has pissed away.

From what little I gathered, she's splitting it up equally among the kids in college funds.  I hate how these people are considered famous, but maybe she isn't that stupid after all.

Splitting it up before or after she takes the vig?

germ78: Why should I feel terrible? Either she or her family will blow through those millions by the time she reaches 18. Then those creepy "X days until she's legal" countdowns will essentially be countdowns until she's doing legal porn to make up her missing fortunes.

Do those countdowns still happen? I thought they imploded when the Olsen twins grew up.

hope she beats the odds, gets a good education and has a wonderful life. still won't watch the TV show.

Ed Grubermann: Do those countdowns still happen? I thought they imploded when the Olsen twins grew up.

Recently I remember seeing countdown timers for Emma Watson and, the more obscure, Saaya Irie and Elly Tran Ha, so I'm sure people are still doing them.

farkingismybusiness: that one guy with the face: Could someone explain what a "Honey booboo" is? I have only know of it from fark threads, and from what I understand I don't want to google it.

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Her mom played Kevin on The Office.

Nooooooooooo! Cannot unsee, blast you, farkingismybusiness! That will haunt my fever dreams tonight.

Is it really "Reality TV", when the cast are paid salaries? Seems to me if you're throwing money at someone, suddenly they stop being themselves in front of the camera, and start doing whatever the producers want instead. That isn't reality, it's "Trained Seal TV".

Honey Boo Boo is going to need it.

That child has all the classic facial features of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, which means she's going to be as useless as all git-out when she's too ugly to have a camera pointed at her in a few years. And then she'll need every dime her fat mother hasn't drank away.

Y'all won't be laughing in 2017 when the results of the joint Harvard/Johns Hopkins research project net the Nobel Prize in Medicine for Dr. J. Shannon Thompson when, sans fat suit and makeup, she presents the results of her study "Obesity and Southern American Buffoonery: The Last Guilt-Free Stereotypes" where she and her research team break down the online and on-air reactions of an entire nation to the antics of the actors playing her family on a reality show.

Ok, maybe y'all won't be laughing in 2017 when she has to sell her feet on eBay after the 'beetus got 'em.

MmmmBacon: Is it really "Reality TV", when the cast are paid salaries? Seems to me if you're throwing money at someone, suddenly they stop being themselves in front of the camera, and start doing whatever the producers want instead. That isn't reality, it's "Trained Seal TV".

A camera can change the very thing it's trying to capture simply by being there. The viewer alters reality by viewing it, and science seems to hint that this may even occur at the most fundamental physical levels of reality.

This is nothing new to any cameraman or producer worth his salt. Money doesn't even need to enter into it, but in the case of reality tv, money is certainly another altering element.

Money in this case might actually provide us with a more merciful buffer from what real reality tv could be. To say, it could be keeping the horror of what can happen when real life is exposed and/or altered by a cameras presence and instead provides us with a lighter superficial facsimile of reality.

It's been joked before, but imagine if survivor really was a matter of survival. Or if the children on Jersey Shore weren't putting on a show and really did act like that all the time. We can laugh at them knowing it's part act, could we if we knew it wasn't? If so, how long would it take before it really stopped being funny? (Even with our lighter take on reality, I'm wondering if we are approaching that point now, even with the designed entertainment buffer.)

'An American Family' (and the recent movie/documentary hybrid of it, Cinema Verite) touched on that very real vein and it isn't a pretty place. I'd almost prefer the crap we call reality tv (not that I actually watch any of it)... because when we turn on the tv we (usually) want entertainment, not a humbling rollercoaster of emotion that exposes us in a way that can be so raw and uninvited.

As the producer of 'An American Family' (who later became rather reclusive, running from his creation) sadly and reflectively said in an interview back when they were making 'Cinema Verite' "What have I done? What do I do?" He paused. "I've never resolved it. I didn't know what I had wrought. I still don't."

If regular tv was the tourtorture de force that true examinations of reality can be (plenty of films out there that are just so hard to watch they are so brutally honest and naked) you might find yourself begging for Honey-Boo-Boo.

MurphyMurphy: MmmmBacon: Is it really "Reality TV", when the cast are paid salaries? Seems to me if you're throwing money at someone, suddenly they stop being themselves in front of the camera, and start doing whatever the producers want instead. That isn't reality, it's "Trained Seal TV".

A camera can change the very thing it's trying to capture simply by being there. The viewer alters reality by viewing it, and science seems to hint that this may even occur at the most fundamental physical levels of reality.

This is nothing new to any cameraman or producer worth his salt. Money doesn't even need to enter into it, but in the case of reality tv, money is certainly another altering element.

Money in this case might actually provide us with a more merciful buffer from what real reality tv could be. To say, it could be keeping the horror of what can happen when real life is exposed and/or altered by a cameras presence and instead provides us with a lighter superficial facsimile of reality.

It's been joked before, but imagine if survivor really was a matter of survival. Or if the children on Jersey Shore weren't putting on a show and really did act like that all the time. We can laugh at them knowing it's part act, could we if we knew it wasn't? If so, how long would it take before it really stopped being funny? (Even with our lighter take on reality, I'm wondering if we are approaching that point now, even with the designed entertainment buffer.)

'An American Family' (and the recent movie/documentary hybrid of it, Cinema Verite) touched on that very real vein and it isn't a pretty place. I'd almost prefer the crap we call reality tv (not that I actually watch any of it)... because when we turn on the tv we (usually) want entertainment, not a humbling rollercoaster of emotion that exposes us in a way that can be so raw and uninvited.

As the producer of 'An American Family' (who later became rather reclusive, running from his creation) sadly and reflectively said in an interview ...

Well said.

BumpInTheNight: I'd rather keep my integrity and dignity, thanks.  She may be set for life, but that life ain't worth living in my opinion.

/She's going to *really* hate her mother once she's grown up enough to realize what all that is costing her

Assuming the childhood obesity doesn't cut her life short before she has a chance to grow up.

  Surely to God,they mean Confederate money...

mafiageek1980: Fade2black: gameshowhost: I just want to know how much her disgusting blob of a mom has pissed away.

From what little I gathered, she's splitting it up equally among the kids in college funds.  I hate how these people are considered famous, but maybe she isn't that stupid after all.

True. The way she feeds herself and the kids is nauesating, but putting $$ aside for her kids (not to mention they seem generally happy) and devotion to her family makes her not-so-bad in my book.

At the expense of making us a dumber nation. :-/