Looking for the silver lining ... at least some hard-working caterers, florists and manicurists are going to be able to send their kids to college because of these narcissistic twits and their overindulgent daddies.
I mean, if I were super-rich enough that I wouldn't miss it, I might throw a big-bucks party ... for the kid's college graduation. You gotta do something other than manage to live through the first sixteen years without overdosing on blow. But even if I rented a stadium, hired Coldplay, invited the 82nd Airborne and had an open bar, i don't think I could spend the kind of money these folks do.
I remember a study a couple of years ago that found that people who are incompetent in their jobs are also most likely to give themselves high marks for performance -- apparently, the same skills that allow people to do their jobs well also enable them to recognize competence. There must be a similar connection between acting like a completely self-absorbed twit and being completely unaware of how you come off. I can't imagine any other reason these people would allow cameras to follow them around.Yes, there's selective editing, but that only goes so far.
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Date: 2006-07-27 08:53 pm (UTC)I mean, if I were super-rich enough that I wouldn't miss it, I might throw a big-bucks party ... for the kid's college graduation. You gotta do something other than manage to live through the first sixteen years without overdosing on blow. But even if I rented a stadium, hired Coldplay, invited the 82nd Airborne and had an open bar, i don't think I could spend the kind of money these folks do.
I remember a study a couple of years ago that found that people who are incompetent in their jobs are also most likely to give themselves high marks for performance -- apparently, the same skills that allow people to do their jobs well also enable them to recognize competence. There must be a similar connection between acting like a completely self-absorbed twit and being completely unaware of how you come off. I can't imagine any other reason these people would allow cameras to follow them around.Yes, there's selective editing, but that only goes so far.