I like the "lets pretend we don't have money it'll be so fun!" and the "well, we did it, so poor people don't have it that bad!" aspect of this.
Sure, doing something like this for yourself may be an exploration in apprciating what you have by seeing the other side - just like bringing little Timmy down to the homeless shelter on Christmas eve. and that's good - almost anything that expands your mind/perceptions are.
but the blog aspect of it does seem to change their motivation from self-growth to smugness and attention-wanting. In my opinion at least.
This has neat written all over it. I don't care who the president is, some guy throwing a shoe at the president is wonderfully absurd. One of the great hallmarks of 'sillyness' is an 'upperclass' or stodgy person being assulted in a silly way (like a pie in the face of a Duchess, a prince falling in the mud, and, well, footware projectiles at presidents!)
I absolutely loathe the 'Stuff white people like' web page / book / author. Its racist, and most of the things he satires are a specific group within a specific class, which any race can belong to.
As for 'her' creator, way to play into a steriotype!
Sure, doing something like this for yourself may be an exploration in apprciating what you have by seeing the other side - just like bringing little Timmy down to the homeless shelter on Christmas eve. and that's good - almost anything that expands your mind/perceptions are.
but the blog aspect of it does seem to change their motivation from self-growth to smugness and attention-wanting. In my opinion at least.
This has neat written all over it. I don't care who the president is, some guy throwing a shoe at the president is wonderfully absurd. One of the great hallmarks of 'sillyness' is an 'upperclass' or stodgy person being assulted in a silly way (like a pie in the face of a Duchess, a prince falling in the mud, and, well, footware projectiles at presidents!)