Through her resourceful creativity Daize has manifested a blessed life
I've read enough.
I know!!! Aren't they so manifestly hateable? But then I couldn't deliver.
That's okay heebie I will hate them for you.
I'll just avoid reading any further so that I don't start feeling ambivalent. The prose alone is so so hateworthy.
So what changes from their smug vibe on the front page? I could barely get through the whole thing, and I wanted to like them, since you did.
I deliberately linked the most hateable page. I think I started liking them on their blog, which is mostly pretty pictures.
This post just made me also want to go camping there, and also she seems like a goofball.
I'd envisioned a cosmic comeuppance of some sort: "Mellow om of the tiger yoni".
Those people are going to show up here just like those other people did, you know. I'm hiding behind mcmc.
What ever happened to the girl with the 400IQ who played viola da gamba for the impoverished?
God, I loved them. Her 6 month old baby was trilingual.
There is truly nothing more SWPL than mocking people like this.
Well, glad I ducked that danger.
There's nothing more twee-hipster than turning up your nose at SWPL people being at home with their SWPLness.
There was some auxiliary housewife on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills who had an 18 mos. old child she claimed could speak Thai. The catch was that she herself did not know Thai, or how her son learned Thai, but someone told her the noises he was making were Thai.
okay, I like their bus, and the kid taking a bath in a bucket with a giant rubber duck is pretty cute, so I don't really hate them any more. I kind of want to be them.
Internet Mean Girls, heebie. Not internet Ambivalent But Mostly-Nice Girls.
15: Oh no, oud, Jack baby can talk Thai. Baby talked Thai real well.
Wow, they have some beautiful photos. I want to go to those places.
This may be overly provincial of me, but I'm a bit annoyed at the way they start out by skipping over basically the entire US.
Yes, I think that's overly provincial of you.
I must not envy.
Envy is the peace of mind-killer.
Envy is the little-death that brings total obliteration.*
I will face my envy.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the envy has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
*OK, so not all bad.
23: She said with stately disdain.
, heebie explicated in her transcendentally redundant and overwrought explicitness.
I keep reading the title of the OP as "The Godwin Project" and wondering whose goal in life it is to make sure that Nazis get referenced in every argument they have.
What do you mock? By this are you truly known.
(To be truly known myself: I admit I do wonder how exactly Given has a "gravelly throat" at the age of three. Did they start him on bourbon and cigarettes at the age of one, or something?)
I think their next child should be 'Complete'.
I'm thinking the Unfoggedtariat should collectively adopt a baby girl, name her 'Comity,' and raise her in the UK, New York, Texas, California, Alberta, Quebec and Singapore respectively. Followed at all times by a film crew. What's the worst that could happen?
(Oh, and Boston. And any other Unfoggedtarian destinations I've neglected.)
And any other Unfoggedtarian destinations I've neglected.
Ahem.
37: Of course! I am slapping my forehead! Some non-farmed salmon would do wonders for the lass, we should put it early on the itinerary.
Teo, my version didn't forget you.
* hang head in shame *
And I even forgot Apo.
40: And that was even when I lived in a much less interesting place.
I'm a bit annoyed at the way they start out by skipping over basically the entire US
Kind of like you basically skipping over Canada.
There's actually an on topic path to 42 buried in this thread. It starts with America First.
Kind of like you basically skipping over Canada.
I saw it from the boat.
Woody Guthrie can take it the rest of the way.
My impression from all the Snowbirds is that Canadians don't actually want to live in Canada. They want live as Canadians in Arizona.
42: And Stalin, it's true. But allow me to atone with the gift of Youtube awesomeness.
(50 not of course to Stanley's mother.)
I know Canadians who want live in warmer climates, but don't know any who want to live in Arizona.
My impression from all the Snowbirds
...maybe not the most reliable source.
I once knew a guy who wore a U of Arizona t-shirt featuring a skeleton baking in a lawn chair and the slogan "Yeah, but its a *dry* heat!" Closest I've ever seen.
It's strange. You'd think all immigrants would want to go to the land of sun and opportunity.
Or North Dakota. They had Verdens Grøde.
Let's not get carried away, now.
I know Canadians who want live in warmer climates, but don't know any who want to live in Arizona.
I don't know too many Canadians who have even heard of Arizona, really (Florida? yes; California? yes, of course; but Arizona? is that one of those Mexican cartel border states where they all wear pointy-toed cowboy boots, and the British tourists are shot on sight at highway rest stops [oh, wait, no: that's Florida,...er, isn't it?]). I'm pretty sure some Canadians would want to live in Arizona if they had heard of it, though.
A surprising percentage of the Canadians I know have gone to the Caribbean, and many of them have been to Cuba. This could be a function of me not knowing that many Canadians, but it does seem like they often skip the US when taking vacations in warmer climates.
I think the only times I've heard Canadians mention Arizona or Alabama this year have been in the context of "what's the deal with those crazy anti-immigrant laws?"
60: Pshaw! Canadians know all about Arizona. It's the great state where, uhhh, Kevin Costner raised something or other. Right? Or was it Nicolas Cage? Pretty sure it was a movie about a skyscraper, is what I'm saying.
61: Canada and Cuba have had cordial relations for a long time; Fidel Castro was a pallbearer at Trudeau's funeral, and AFAIK those few Canadians who think about it find it hard to fathom the theory of Cuba as some kind of mortal Communist threat.
Canadians love to holiday in Cuba, just because Americans can't. Yeah, they'll tell you that their motives are pure and high-minded (and they're going to be working at an AIDS hospice, or something like that), but don't be fooled: there is a big element of saying a big "Fuck you!" to Uncle Sam. Not saying Canadians aren't right, btw, but there is that element of righteousness.
Have never known, or known of, a Canuck who set his/her sights on Alabama.
64: True. OTOH, it's partly because Cuba has great beaches and beautiful people and partly because Uncle Sam's stance on Cuba honestly seems deeply irrational. (One doesn't see Canadians flocking to Venezuela or to the North Korean border just to spite Uncle Sam.)
I thought that too, but I've had conversations with Canadians* who've been to Cuba who didn't really seem to be thinking much about the problems Americans have getting to Cuba. It's not that they were ignorant of it, it's just that it came up as more of a "oh yeah, I remember that" when I mention the connection. They've seemed puzzled that we have that restriction, and they're right to be.
*People more or less in the age range of the 20s to early 30s commenters here, with similar educational backgrounds.
and partly because Uncle Sam's stance on Cuba honestly seems deeply irrational.
Yeah, my "conservative" Catholic Canuckistan parents would probably agree with this. They're all like, Communism is bad, is evil; but Fidel thumbing his nose at the Americans? they're all, You go, boyo! we've got your back. Not that we support you and your communistic system, which is contrary to the laws of nature and the divinely-ordained institution of marriage, you goddamn pervert with too much facial hair... but way to stick it to the Yankees! Well done, you f'cking degenerate, we will visit your beaches.
I don't hate them, but I don't understand the film crew. Also, I fail to see what is 'inspiring' about going on holiday. And I always want know where the money comes from.
Nice photos though.
What's the worst that could happen?
She could kill us all before they catch her?
Canadians don't have a significant population of people who did very well out of the previous dictatorship whining full time at their politicians. Isn't it as simple as that?
25 reminded me of David Langford's "Litany against Impending Marriage":
I must have beer.
Beer is the mind-killer.
Beer is the little-death that brings total oblivion.
I will drink my beer.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the beer has gone there will be nothing.
Only "I will" remains.
31: me too!
I don't hate them, but I don't understand the film crew.
Also this. I am always a bit confused when people are doing something supposedly of note and it is being recorded. Wait, why are you getting the attention for this when there are at least 3 other people doing it too, we're just not seeing them?!
Some of the photos are nice, but the puritanical-photographer side of me wants them to stop ramming the saturation and contrast up to 11.
But see they're life goes to 11.
The photos are really gratingly false. But yes they are hateable.
My in-laws are in Calgary, and many of their oil industry pals do indeed vacation in Arizona.
Hmmm, I liked the photos. And the recent set made it look like the crew was having fun, on their own, crossing Australia, shooting natural beauty, goofing off. Looked like a good gig.
It looks like the sweet spot for reality programming - beautiful fantasy locales cast with people you love to hate.
I'm with heebie. I was all ready to hate them, but didn't. Something about their expressions didn't look smug in quite the way I'd expected. And the baby was pleasingly funny-looking.
Southern Florida is filled to the brim with Canadians all winter. Maybe they just tell everyone they're going to Cuba.