Schlub Like Me
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2024
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My Kevin Bacon number is two. I know a guy who was an extra in tremors. I have no other achievements in life, so this will have to do.
Mine is 3 my brother was in an indi film with an actress who was in a movie with him. I'm pretty sure she was one of the three main characters in The craft I just can't remember her name.
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It bothers me that you never closed your HTML tag
Perhaps is a self-closing html5 tag and they omitted the slash as allowed by the spec
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All of you can't hear the WOOSH of the joke going over your head?
He's taking the piss here. He's fucking around, it's to drum up publicity for his movie.
I am in shock how many people are taking these comments seriously lol
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should I know who this guy is ?
I live in Jackson, Wyoming. We have the highest per capita number of billionaires cosplaying at "normal guy" in the nation. It's a thing. They come up here, switch to their "mountain casual" clothes (bonus points if well worn), get in a ten year old Subaru and go to the bar and have a beer with "the locals". Maybe a trip to the Idaho side and hit Victor, Driggs, or Tetonia.
This is literally the episode of 30 Rock I watched yesterday. Season 3 episode 15 I think?
Season 4 episode 1, as well.
"Hey Tray, how's connecting with the common man going?"
"It's going super great, Dotcom. Meet my new friends, Nobody, and his wife, Susan Walters hyphen Nobody!"
Now I'm planning to only go out in the disguise of Kevin Bacon, so people love me and I get my coffee faster
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I certainly hope that now he, as Kevin Bacon, walks around telling strangers he loves them. Since now he knows how much it sucks to be a nobody.
When he tested the look at outdoor Los Angeles shopping mall The Grove, “Nobody recognized me,” Bacon said. But the tide evidently soon turned. “People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever. I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous.”
Lmao this has to be a joke. Is this really what life is like for these people? No one said "I love you" to a stranger at the mall? He had to wait in lines? Maybe the most eye-opening thing about this is that Kevin seemed to expect to be treated more or less the same way he is as a celebrity, just without the selfies, which says to me that he thought everyone gets treated the same way famous people do. Sometimes it's interesting to get a reminder of how out of touch these people really are.
It's super obviously a joke, probably with a large dose of mareting stunt.
I didn't read that as "he didn't realize those things" but as "he didn't think he'd care as much as he did". Like, it's easy to say "I could go without X" but actually doing it is different. That's a universally true experience that seems more likely than "Kevin Bacon thought average people get to skip lines and have strangers say I love you"
it's amazing what constant praise and unlimited favors will do to your brain.
Only thing worse is blinding cynicism.
I’d say an inability to recognize sarcasm, leading someone to take statements obviously said with tongue firmly in cheek at face value, is also worse.
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It must be, if he doesn’t do it for others normally, or didn’t do it for others while he was disguised, the hell was he expecting?
At least he was curious enough to step out of his bubble for a day and find out what it’s like. That’s better than the rest of them.
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Per [Vanity Fair], he was outfitted with fake teeth, a slightly different nose and glasses. When he tested the look at outdoor Los Angeles shopping mall The Grove, “Nobody recognized me,” Bacon said. But the tide evidently soon turned. “People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever. I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous,” he told VF.
The actor, who has been working steadily since the late 70s and became a megastar with 1984’s Footloose, also told VF, “I honestly feel very grateful for where I happen to be. That I can have two totally different movies coming out within a couple of days of each other, and completely different roles. The fact they would both come my way is the thing that I feel the most gratitude for. I’ve fought really long and hard for it.”
The guy is a complete tool.
If you can't tell it's a joke and marketing for his two movies coming out, you're the tool.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD, BITCH!!!
Except he left the real world again immediately and went back to being treated like he was Homo Superior. Oh well.
