Posted on 04/09/2020 7:50:44 PM PDT by DoodleBob
I think it was music and movie producer David Geffen’s Instagram post about self-isolating that really broke me. It was 6:30 a.m on Saturday and my toddler had announced his awakening; I was shuffling into the kitchen to warm up his milk while scrolling through my phone and mentally preparing for a day of working-while-child-wrangling in an 800-square-foot apartment when I saw it.
A picture — taken from what looked like a drone or a helicopter — of a massive, cruise ship-like yacht, floating in the ocean against the backdrop of a spectacular sunset over some mountains with the caption, “Sunset last night... isolated in the Grenadines avoiding the virus. I’m hoping everybody is staying safe.”
Despite being lucky enough to have a roof over my head and a currently healthy family with which to quarantine, I wanted to throw my phone across the combination kitchen-dining area at the temerity of Geffen’s humble-bragging on his yacht during a pandemic. (And, if nothing else, a 454-foot yacht that sails with a crew of 45 people is hardly "isolated.")
Geffen later deleted his Instagram account — so intensely irate was the universal response to his yacht-based salutations. But he's hardly the only celebrity whose efforts to prove that they're "just like us" has fallen flat in the midst of the pandemic.
It’s no longer entertaining to wink at or fawn over celebrity excess or their casual sense of remove. Even innocuous displays of social distancing by celebrities have become disgusting.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Almost like John Lennon singing “Imagine” from his million dollar NYC apartment overlooking Central Park.
These “celebrities” tooling around their yachts the size of WW2 heavy cruisers are also the ones lecturing us about “global warming.” Remember; they don’t plan on giving up their yachts.
Who warms up milk for a toddler?
The doting parents of a toddler who asks for their milk to be warmed up. If they ask in a cute way and aren’t tall enough to learn to do it themselves how could you not?
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I wondered about that...
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Owning 45 slaves is a bit much.
Exactly. The useful celebrity idiots on the left who yammer on about the wonders and benefits of socialism to the rest of us expect to remain in their mansions, yachts, private jets, etc. when The Party comes into power.
They will only while they service their Masters.
Fools.
Peach
“Sunset last night... isolated in the Grenadines avoiding the virus. I’m hoping everybody is staying safe.”
Reminiscent of the “Wishing You Were Here!” post cards that used to be so popular.
What Geffen really needs to do is take steps to avoid getting the AIDS. Don’t go in through the out door, Dave.
Just wait a bit, there will be some great bargains on ocean liners.
David Geffen was known to throw parties with teenage boy toys at his former home.
Put the damn phone down and pay attention to your kid that’s waking up. He/she would rather have your attention than you being torqued about David Geffen and his yacht.
Be a damn shame if his yacht ate a MK 48.
#9/ Geffen et al. sounds more like “Glad you’re not here”.
I noticed that-made me laugh. Wondering at what pint they were going to give the kid his/her milk straight from the fridge. It has to happen eventually.
As the kid gets bigger and more active he will start working up a sweat and will want cold drinks. And he will be big enough to drag a stepping stool in front of the refrigerator to get stuff out.
Or Carrie Fisher’s Postcard From the Edge that portrays all of us like kids with our noses pressed against the glass.
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