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Rich Kid - Poor Kid

Clubber Lang

Its fairly obvious the interviewer was asking her questions about her childhood/mothers depression etc to get her to give deep/personal answers.

Yea I know, I'm just saying there was some obnoxious behaviour on behalf of both girls.

Reply 341

Clubber Lang

15

rich kid seems to have learnt from her experience which is ok i spose.

she is only 15 i guess, blame it on her parents!

'pure ignorance'

Reply 342

weflycars

8

Bagration

It's fairly obvious that was what was going to happen after you signed up for the program...

Yeah, he really dug in to the rich kids hard life, the whole two muggings, wow, must have been tough for her :rolleyes:

Bagration

The difference is one of them brought an income into the house to support her children and the other was a fat useless slob.

Yet again, stupidity, if the rich kid's mum had depression you'd have all the sympathy in the world. That woman lost her husband then went in to depression, no other income in the family, so to call her a "fat useless slob" is a little harsh..

Interesting how their respect for elders was different too, rich girl calls her mother a bitch, poor one is worried about people judging her mum.. Hmm.. Bags of money but no respect and obviously ignorant views. I blame the mother 100%

Reply 343

cazamatazz

7

Natalie is seventeen, takes care of her younger brother, is overweight, poor, without any real direction in life, and has had to deal with both the death of her father and her mother's depression.

To be honest, I'd be pretty ****** off as well.

I don't think the documentary went far enough at the end- should have explored the girls' attitudes more fully, I feel, and definitely focused more on the parents.

Reply 344

Electric_Dreams

9

andrewjh009

Well i'd say shes's more attractive than you if thats you in your profile pic, not saying you are unattractive though.

It's scarlett johansson from Lost in Translation.

Like I said, everyone to their own... :p:

Reply 345

Jason Sparks

12

Can somebody try to access the free playback of Rich Kid, Poor Kid, on Channel 4.com, as i'm unable to replay it and i'm unsure whether it's my computer or the actual site itself.

Please somebody help!!

Reply 346

balloon_parade

14

Clubber Lang

rich kid seems to have learnt from her experience which is ok i spose.

she is only 15 i guess, blame it on her parents!

'pure ignorance'

Her 'epiphany' at the end was so transparent. She was obiviously more worried about what other people would think than the actual reality of her veiws.

I doubt she has changed at all from the experience.

Reply 347

FireDeuce

14

Typical poor family - no money yet have dogs and smoke.

...and no front teeth (the mother).

Reply 348

Tory Dan

11

All the problems of the poor could be solved if we brought back the workhouse.

Reply 349

Jason Sparks

12

Tory Dan

All the problems of the poor could be solved if we brought back the workhouse.

Another idiotic statement. Why don't you just say that we should bring back slavery. You claim to be a libertarian and yet you have no concept of fundamental human dignity. Everything in your world is based upon markets.

IDIOT.

Reply 350

Bagration

18

The workhouse is not even based on markets, given that they were run by the state...

Reply 351

Tory Dan

11

Jason Sparks

Another idiotic statement. Why don't you just say that we should bring back slavery. You claim to be a libertarian and yet you have no concept of fundamental human dignity. Everything in your world is based upon markets.

IDIOT.

In a libertarian world everything pretty much would be based on markets.

Reply 352

Vintage <3

16

Calumcalum

Does the rich kid go to JAGS?

Yeah

Reply 353

Guy Secretan

18

I just felt sorry for the little boy who'll probably end up in a gang after his ****** childhood sleeping on the floor while te girl will no doubt go to Oxbridge or Durham Bristol etc and have a nice life. The cycle continues.

Reply 354

iamtheeggman

1

I found the poor girl quite endearing at times. Behind her aggressive façade i found she showed herself to be caring and quite cute (for want of a better word) at times.

The rich girl however had no redeamable features at all. I don't think she was as snobby as the film made out, she just seemed a bit too excited to make a good impression on camera and have a lot to say but it back fired on her big time.

As bad as it is, i was quite glad to hear she'd gotten mugged as well! :/

EDIT: And why hasn't rich girl's mum told her to sort her hair out?! She needs to straighten them flicky bits in on her right hand side in a bit. Horrid.

Reply 355

Clubber Lang

15

Tory Dan

In a libertarian world everything pretty much would be based on markets.

markets dont always work and greedy peopel cannot be trsuted, or have you have your head i nthe sand latley

Reply 356

Bagration

18

iamtheeggman

EDIT: And why hasn't rich girl's mum told her to sort her hair out?! She needs to straighten them flicky bits in on her right hand side in a bit. Horrid.

nah, its hot ._.

Clubber Lang

markets dont always work and greedy peopel cannot be trsuted, or have you have your head i nthe sand latley

You're absolutely correct. It's high time we started firing and disbanding central bankers who take huge state cheques to drive our economy into the ground.

Also, if someone's going to neg me, at least leave your name, you *****.

Reply 357

I Have No Imagination

14

Funniest quotes:

Alice: "Oh my god. I hate it when people wear too much eyeliner"
Natalie: "But I do that?" (Natalie scowls at her)

'where's your dad?'
'he was shot on a trip in Egypt'
'Oh, how unfortunate'

Reply 358

popsicle900

Oh man. Everyone knew this documentary was going to turn out this way. I was in a couple of things they filmed for it and had to sign a disclaimer to be shown on it etc etc, as I know Alice - (through school activities). It's not official that's she been expelled but the headmistress tried everything to get the programme pulled from the TV schedule and by Friday morning, they had multitudes of hate mail through their front door. She also didn't come into school on the Friday - if she had any sense, she wouldn't go back, the students are absolutely outraged.

I'm SO happy that my face is actually nowhere on the program. The girl is an embarrassment to herself.