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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Is there a social impact on celebrity obsession? I don't see celebrity obsession as a bad thing... Necessarily. It's all about who we worship and how. If one chooses to worships or admire Paris Hilton, dress like her and act like her and so on, yes, that is stupid. But one can still admire her of how well she turned disaster into great success. Music album, acting roles and money from every corner of the world. Most would've looked up a cave and hid there for the rest of their lives. No matter what she's achieved I still don't look up to her because there are other people who've ahcieved the same things in more honorable, harder or respectable ways. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Is there a social impact on celebrity obsession? Quote:
![]() ![]() The F1 guys have nothing, absolutely nothing to do with bitches like Britney, Paris, Pamela and other !"#$%& that we listen about their haircut, boyfriends, PMS, clothes, drugs and all other $h!t related to them in every single newspaper, magazines, web sites, etc... Have you ever heard about Alonso's chick and her private life? Or about Kimi's underwear, or about Massa's private life for example? No, you didn't! IE, your knowledge about F1 is appreciated, but dude you're going too far, too far with it! Athletes and F1 drivers are one thing, but spoiled little b*****s and their pathetic and miserable life is a complete different story!!! Sorry for harsh words, but what's too much is too much! ![]() ![]() Last edited by The Emperor; 06-04-2007 at 04:06 PM.. | |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Is there a social impact on celebrity obsession? For some people it's not about the money. It's about being the best. If you're great at something there will be an audience and where there is an audience there is money to be made. When you're a successfull athlete the money automatically comes to you. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Is there a social impact on celebrity obsession? Hamilton's 5 podiums are worth billion times more than the whole pathetic life of those 3-4 ******** i'm talking about, 'cause i'm glad to see him making money for something he's actually doing and fighting for! ![]() |
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![]() | Re: Is there a social impact on celebrity obsession? To be fair to IE, he brought F1 into the thread in response to my assertion that a top UK publicist thinks Hamy can earn £100 million easily. Again, I made that point because I feel it would be considered vulgar and obscene for a successful business executive to make that amount of money per year. If a boss of a stock exchange-listed bank or oil company made £100 million in compensation in one-year, numerous people would picket outside his office and demand he be fired and dumped on his arse for the vulgarity of his pay. However, it is more or less okay if a celebrity earns it and no one seems to mind. That simply is not logical. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Is there a social impact on celebrity obsession? I'm only saying that there's much more attention about those b.... and their life and other crap about them with which all media is filling us with. Hammy as you say is a sensation, you'll agree i hope, he's actually something, gotta give the credit where it's due, and tell me is Paris or any of those any kind of a sensation and that it's worth...? Simple as that... But again, i don't think there's any place for Hammy in this thread. He ain't like them...![]() |
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![]() | Re: Is there a social impact on celebrity obsession? Quote:
The point that I can't seem to get across, perhaps to my discredit, is that tax-exiled celebrities are rarely criticized for earning millions for doing little more than entertaining us. Corporations and their executives employing hundreds of thousands of people are vilified when they produce big profits and especially when they move their company offshore to reduce their tax burden. Corporations are vilified for essentially doing what celebs do, making money and trying to minimize their own taxes. ![]() | |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Is there a social impact on celebrity obsession? I understand you, but it should bother me if i was a millionaire... And since i ain't, couldn't care less.![]() Look, Hamilton is doing something good, giving examples and maybe even motivate some people. He's getting $$$$$$$$ for it? Bravo, i have nothing against, even if we're talking about those hundreds of millions that you talk about, nor i have nothing against the FACT that my boss from Italy, owner of 47 ironworks in the whole world with 36.000 people employed, earns A MONTH probably a half of it.![]() ![]() |
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