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Re: "Celebrities"
« Reply #29 from previous page: March 14, 2007, 08:01:51 PM »
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Re: "Celebrities"
« Reply #30 on: March 14, 2007, 08:04:05 PM »
The problem is that we live in an age where we celebrate idiocy, greed, shallowness and so on. It's not cool to be intelligent or have depth and you don't warrant respect if you don't have cash to squander on meaningless tat.

It wasn't always so.
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Re: "Celebrities"
« Reply #31 on: March 14, 2007, 08:31:34 PM »
Thanks Karlos for bringing us back on topic :-)

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Re: "Celebrities"
« Reply #32 on: March 14, 2007, 09:08:45 PM »
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What is the appeal of "celebrities"?


I've asked myself this many times and I get worked up everytime I do. Personally, I think it has something to do with "fans" living what they deem a boring life, so they attempt to thrive on the "excitment" of someone else's. I guess it's a kind of escape mechanism. Personally, I don't give a hoot about any "celebrity".
 

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Re: "Celebrities"
« Reply #33 on: March 15, 2007, 07:09:56 AM »
I think you've hit the nail on the head Adz. Compared to the lives of "celebrities", those of "normal" people seem mundane. So people concern themselves with the lives of famous people in an attempt to make their own lives more exciting.

It's sad really :roll:

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Re: "Celebrities"
« Reply #34 on: March 15, 2007, 11:11:08 AM »
Personally, I love the life I live, despite the fact that I'm a tad down at the moment, guess thats why I have no interest in celebrities. Its amazing how interesting life can be if you actually go out and live it instead of reading about someone else's in a magazine.
 

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Re: "Celebrities"
« Reply #35 on: March 15, 2007, 12:43:01 PM »
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Karlos wrote:
The problem is that we live in an age where we celebrate idiocy, greed, shallowness and so on. It's not cool to be intelligent or have depth and you don't warrant respect if you don't have cash to squander on meaningless tat.

It wasn't always so.


Amen to that!  It's so true.

That's why we have Now magazine full of Jade Goody, Paris Hilton, Victoria Beckham and other wastes of carbon.  

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Re: "Celebrities"
« Reply #36 on: March 15, 2007, 04:06:13 PM »
@PMC

Quite so.
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Re: "Celebrities"
« Reply #37 on: March 15, 2007, 11:46:55 PM »
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PMC wrote:
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Karlos wrote:
The problem is that we live in an age where we celebrate idiocy, greed, shallowness and so on. It's not cool to be intelligent or have depth and you don't warrant respect if you don't have cash to squander on meaningless tat.

It wasn't always so.


Amen to that!  It's so true.

That's why we have Now magazine full of Jade Goody, Paris Hilton, Victoria Beckham and other wastes of carbon.  




Hmmm now theres an idea... Reducing the "carbon footprint" by killing moron celebrities. Morons who car about such people will watch less TV and less inane magazines will printed.
 

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Re: "Celebrities"
« Reply #38 on: March 16, 2007, 08:42:14 AM »
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Turambar wrote:
Hmmm now theres an idea... Reducing the "carbon footprint" by killing moron celebrities. Morons who car about such people will watch less TV and less inane magazines will printed.

That won't work. The bodies will decompose, their carbon content will be returned to the earth, and eventually harvested and burned as fuel. Far better to keep the carbon surplus contained within those useless bodies :-) They just need to be removed from public view.

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