I'm just so alternative! :P

[beetiger]

So, some weeks ago, I got email from the Wife Swap folks, because they were looking to humiliate feature furry families. I just got another email from them, this time because they are looking for families who run small occult businesses.

Making fun of people like me is just hot in America right now, I guess. :P

Comments

[cricketshay.livejournal.com]

Those Bastards!

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Hee, no, it's cool. I'm sure someone wants to be humiliated on National TV for $20K. Just not me.

[cowboy-r.livejournal.com]

For $20k?! Dude... that would buy a lot of humiliation for me....

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Just get a wife and some kids ages 6-18 and then do something non-mainstream. :P

[cowboy-r.livejournal.com]

1) It's impossible for someone who can't even get a date to get a wife, so far as I can tell.

2) I'd've had to start this impossible task 7-10 years ago.

[cricketshay.livejournal.com]

You could marry someone who is not mainstream who has kids in that age bracket. :P

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Think of it as the non-mainstream version of marrying for a green card.

"We both want to be on national TV. Well... if we get married, we can accomplish that and walk away with about $7500 each, after taxes."

[cricketshay.livejournal.com]

hehehehhehe that is funny!

[cricketshay.livejournal.com]

Me either. I often wonder why people do it. Maybe they need the money.

I have never really watched the show, but my cousin sent me a Youtube link with the fantatic chrisitian lady freaking out all over the place.

[marrionettegirl.livejournal.com]

i'm a bad person,
i laughed histaricly at her,
for a long time,
and i waited for the commercials to be over,
so i could watch the replays.
(and i still think its funny)

[cricketshay.livejournal.com]

I'm a bad person too. I laughed my ass off. I thought it was very funny she ripped up the check and then later accepted the money.

Figures. :P

[marrionettegirl.livejournal.com]

thats not right!
{insert angry muddering here}

[read-alicia.livejournal.com]

Making fun of people like me is just hot in America right now, I guess. :P

Either that, or mainstream America is getting so burnt out of the old cliches that the producers need to up the ante and find newer, more shocking types of families to ridicule. Soon, they shall tire of you, too!

Or, dare I think it, people are becoming more tolerant in secret.

[barberio.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they worked out that furries were far too ordinary really, and decided to go after 'more interesting weirdos'. :)

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure they got their furries. Didn't hear who bit at the 20K though. The family furries I know of didn't, though.

[runnerwolf.livejournal.com]

Gee other than the fact I have no kids I would be so boring for that. Yes I am poly and I have a shamanic practice. But really, our household is pretty boring.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing if they do polyfolk, they'll do a family that has a male partner with a secondary so the swapped wife can get all worked up about it.

[runnerwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh I am sure. Granted my husband has a "secondary" that in many ways is a co-wife.

[wordslinger.livejournal.com]

Not only "humiliate yourself for $20k", but "out yourself to your family, your work, your neighbors, the city government, etc, etc."

No thank you. Some things are beyond stupid.

Just look at how that weird Christian lady has become a long-term national laughingstock.

[lediva.livejournal.com]

...well, I feel like Marguerite (weird Christian lady) has become a laughingstock for reasons other than her just being Christian. I mean, if she'd gone on the show and not completely lost her shit all over national TV, nobody would know or care who she is.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Roger Ebert once lamented that probably the single greatest influence on American pop culture is Don Rickles. :P