P.Diddy is a Selfish Bastard (1459 hits)
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Submitted by <amaresko.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2003-12-26 23:28:30 EST
A couple of weeks ago, i was surfing through the channels on the tv in my living room, when i unfortunately stumbled upon the antichrist, MTV. For those of you who disagree with me, just watch your beloved station for a couple of hours and tell me how many reruns of the same episode of "Real World" or "Road Rules" or "Real World versus Road Rules Challenge" you see. Still not convinced? then please tell me, oh wise MTV lover, what kind of GREAT channel can take one premise and use it to make the three shitty shows listed above?
Anyway, since 1. i was curious as to what bullshit was airing and 2. i wasn't thinking clearly, i decided to sit and watch MTV. Yes, MTV, the same station that gave a tool like Carson Daly a job. Yes, MTV, the only station so desperate for new show ideas that they follow a couple of offensively ignorant rich brats around and call it a show.(im talking on the new hit, "Rich Girls")
On MTV that day was a special called "Diddy Runs the City." Aww. Thats so cute, it rhymes! A title like that begs the question whether the premise was thought of first and then the title or if somebody said "lets make a show called 'Diddy Runs the City'! See, it rhymes!!" and then the executives scrambled to think of a premise that could fit such a "clever" title. "Diddy Runs the City " is a documentary about P.Diddy training to run a marathon. He is taking pledges for his run and donating benefits to inner city New York schools. Now, im not against philanthropy or anything, but it seems a little odd that somebody like P.Diddy, an owner of a major record label and a well known recording artist, would need to ask for OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY to fund his efforts. He had good intentions, but some of the celebrities who donated to his cause donated more than twice as much as he did. I just dont believe that somebody like P.Diddy wouldnt be able to afford to donate a million dollars to charity. Seriously, there's only so much money that a person can spend and when somebody gets past a certain point, money starts to not matter and a person that rich wouldn't even notice the absence of a few hundred thousand dollars.
Another thing that bothered me about this whole show was the fact that it was, indeed, a show. How self righteous does a person have to be to feel like there needs to be a show made about them every time that they donate a little money? I take old clothes to goodwill and drop change in the Salvation Army buckets at christmas, but there isn't a whole crew of cameras following ME around. The fact is, many people donate thousands and thousands of dollars to charity every year, many of them donate just as much, if not more than what P.Diddy did to these schools. So why did he make a show? Why did he feel like it was such a huge deal that he donated an amount of his money equivalent to a penny of my money to charity? Why did he take so much credit for collecting a bunch of money from other anonymous people? I'll tell you why:
Sean "P.Diddy" Combs is a selfish bastard. Shut up, P.Diddy, nobody cares about the money you collected except for the kids getting it, so stop polluting the tv airwaves with your bullshit.
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Submitted by Medea (user info) at 2004-02-11 16:05:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
The other night I watched a documentary on children who live in poverty. These children were raised in the hood generations upon generations. With barely a future in their horizon. A gentleman was interviewing some kids from this neighbourhood. The kids proceeded to talk about famous people and how alot of them came from the very same neighborhood they were being raised in. Now I realize that celebrities work very hard to get where they are but they also make rediculous amounts of money once they become famous. This made me think of P diddy, don't ask me why but it did. I wondered, does P diddy do anything for charity? So I did a search online and all I could come up with was this website and some garbage about how he ran a marathon for charity. Not only that but I come to find out it wasn't even his money that was being donated. It was other people's money. Now forgive me for saying this but I think that's it is absolutely rediculous that P diddy made somewhere in the amount of half a billion dollars last year. Did P Diddy not come from the hood? Can't he do more for his fellow community? There is more dignity in helping others and more satisfaction in giving back to your community, isn't there? I am saddened that these people of high stature only want to show off what they have. You can only spend so much money on yourself,, Look at Michael Jackson for goodness sakes!! Shame on you!!!!! P Diddy!!!
Submitted by almsd (user info) at 2003-12-28 16:06:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
indian ocean, its great that P.Diddy was successful from good old fashioned hard work, but so are a lot of people. its hard to work your way up to the top in today's world, but this article has nothing to do with that. When i was a kid, my dad had to drive from our house in columbus to indianapolis for work, P.Diddy's not the only one who's ever commuted. the fact is, he's using something like a fund-raising effort to make himself more money. its hard to deny the fact that mtv probably paid him more money to make that show than what he donated to charity. its a sad fact that something as innocent as a money donation can be turned into a publicity or money-making stunt.
Submitted by Zeccs (user info) at 2003-12-28 16:02:45 EST (#)
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Until YOU donate $35,000 to a charity of your choosing, QUIT BITCHING.
Submitted by IndianOcean (user info) at 2003-12-28 15:43:35 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
who isn't you jackass.. you made his money and he deserves every cent he gets.. he worked hard for it.. he use to go to D.C. from ny everday for work and that's he is where he is.. he might be lucky but so be it.. so shut the fuck up asshole.
Submitted by almsd (user info) at 2003-12-28 15:33:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
"Entertainer Sean 'P.Diddy' Combs will run in the New York Marathon. He is not expected to make good time because its hard to run fast for 26 miles with Ashton Kutcher up your ass."
-Jimmy Fallon, Weekend Update
Submitted by Slovin (user info) at 2003-12-28 15:31:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Who the fuck is P. Diddy?
On second though, he doesn't sound like someone I'd like to know about, so don't tell me.
Stupid fucking names.
Submitted by jimbobjoe (user info) at 2003-12-28 15:22:09 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Random Joe at 2003-12-28 15:12:50 EST (#)
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And this is news to you?
Submitted by Aims5005 (user info) at 2003-12-27 01:02:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
P.Diddy IS a selfish bastard...
Submitted by WeAre138 (user info) at 2003-12-27 00:48:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
P. Diddy pretty much became a celebrity by riding Biggy's dead corpse. He's always been a prick.
Anyway, that fucking Rich Girl show pisses me off even more. The most annoying thing about it is that neither one of them even looks remotely good. They're stupid and annoying, that's bad enough, but they aren't even nice to look at.
P.S.
Sharon Osbourne needs to die. So does Jelly - er, Kelly.
Submitted by Otter (user info) at 2003-12-27 00:32:35 EST (#)
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I always thought the guy was a jackass from the get go. P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, and all those other stupid names he had, what the fuck, over? And he dated Jennifer Lopez, look at all the loosers she has dated.
Funny thing about the whole TV show about him thing. I had a neigbor who was very wealthy. She donated a lot of cash over the years to several charity organizations. She even got the local school a whole slew of new faster than lightning computers. She gave a lot of stuff out to needy people. The problem was that she liked to brag about it. When she did the computers for the school, she called the news papers and the TV networks to cover a story for her. Fortunately the TV guys weren't that interested. Poiunt is that every time she donated something, she let everybody know she did.
Now here is the thing...she was helping a lot of folks out this way. The charity organizations really did appreciate what she did, but was she doing it for the good of mankind, or was she doing it so people could say "Oh, that Karen, she is such a good hearted person, donating all that," in other words, for recognition?
Submitted by bargled (user info) at 2003-12-27 00:05:49 EST (#)
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His time was 3:58:22 (3 hours 58 minutes 22 seconds) (9:43/mile pace)
What a weak piece of shit.
Submitted by CDizzle (user info) at 2003-12-27 00:03:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
P. Diddy is a piece of crap, I hope he dies.
Submitted by bargled (user info) at 2003-12-27 00:00:42 EST (#)
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P Diddy ran a marathon? And lived? Holy shit!
Do you know what his time was?