August 25, 2005
Prima Donnas meet reality
My new guilty pleasure? Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive. They take a bunch of trust fund babies, who have never had to really work in their lives, and stick them out in the wilderness driving a herd of cattle from point A to point B.
A Heinlein quote sums it up perfectly: “Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
These kids are handicapped. One girl, Courtenay Semel, daughter of one of Yahoo!’s founders, had the audacity on the first day of the show to call her father and beg to be brought home. What, six hours of wilderness is too much for you? Fabian Basabe, the son of some Ecuadorian business tycoon, has taken on the role of rich kid union boss. He’s demanding luxuries like laundered clothes, servants to clean his dishes, etc. Living in tents for three weeks, and he thinks it’s supposed to be the Ritz.
These silly little kids seem to be offended that people should actually have to do these jobs. I think they must think they’ve traveled back in time to the 1800’s, when in reality, they’ve been so coddled and cuddled their entire lives that they think everything should be handed to them. Maybe a quick trip to reality will actually make it through their armor of self-entitlement, but somehow I doubt it. If nothing else, their tantrums are fun to watch.
Most “normal” rich kid? Noah Blake, son of not-guilty actor Robert Blake. Most attractive female on the show? The female ranch hand. Not empirically the hottest, but the cutest and most close to reality.
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I remember the first time I saw Paris Hilton? What a spoiled rotten girl. I really feel sorry for people who have no idea how the real world works.
I cannot believe the disrepect with which this (man) using that loosly spoke to the police and then called them losers…..amazing