My relentless pursuit of Britney Spears news continues...

[stray]

Hopefully, yes.

Bah. I give up. 

[Llava]

Stray, don't do it! It's just an avatar, not worth ending it all!

[stray]

That's actually Dan Smith. He's just a badass who likes to hold his gun that way.

[Signe]

Are you all going to leave me hanging or what?   

Well, now that you've changed yours....

[HaemishM]

Signe, once again your avatar is frightening.

Britney is just one more of those celebrities who need to get the fuck off my goddamn television. Seriously. If she doesn't want all the attention and paparazzi, move the fuck back to whatever shithole trailer park in Louisiana you first crawled out of, change your phone number, throw away your cell phone and stop making shitty albums. You ASK for the attention then bitch when you get it. JUST GO AWAY.

Her head looks awful lumpy. I bet it's a tumor.

Also, Beyonce needs to get the fuck off my TV too.

[Ironwood]

Indeed.  Fortunately, there is space available for Beyonce on my knob.

[Signe]

Signe, once again your avatar is frightening.

Girls like to do each other's hair!  And I'm sure they're wearing towels or something.

[Kenrick]

Also, Beyonce needs to get the fuck off my TV too.

Are you sure you don't mean Tyra?  Seems like Beyonce is rather benign... and at least she has some talent.

Tyra, on the other hand... dear god... make it stop.

[WayAbvPar]

I am sure you can find a better picture of girls shaving each other on teh INtarwebz. Just put a NSFW banner across the nether bits  :-D

[HaemishM]

Also, Beyonce needs to get the fuck off my TV too.

Are you sure you don't mean Tyra?  Seems like Beyonce is rather benign... and at least she has some talent.

Tyra, on the other hand... dear god... make it stop.

No, I mean Beyonce, but Tyra is welcome to join her in GTFO Land. Beyonce just happens to be one of my pet peeve annoying celebrities. Destiny's Child wasn't that good.

[Ironwood]

You Take That Back !

[Calantus]

Destiny's Child is pretty good for mainstream american music (not taking a dig at american mainstream music, that's just where they fall). They don't make me go holy shit like my favourite outfits do when I hear their songs but their songs are very listenable to me and I enjoy putting them on when I'm in the mood. :P

If you want to call Missy Elliot shit though, I'm so there.

[Ironwood]

That I never understood.  I have no idea why she became popular.

[Yegolev]

You gotta get yo freak on, then you understand.

[Cyrrex]

Fortunately, there is space available for Beyonce on my knob.

Surely, that lines deserves the following:  LOL

The biggest tragedy with this whole Britney thing is that she used to be 10 kinds of hot.  She is just a victim of her own stupid.

[Lantyssa]

The biggest tragedy with this whole Britney thing is that she used to be 10 kinds of hot.  She is just a victim of her own stupid.

When was this?  I think I missed it.

[Furiously]

The biggest tragedy with this whole Britney thing is that she used to be 10 kinds of hot.  She is just a victim of her own stupid.

When was this?  I think I missed it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/BRITNEY-SPEARS-Rolling-Stone-2000-841-13x19-PHOTO_W0QQitemZ290082914947QQihZ019QQcategoryZ280QQcmdZViewItem

[shiznitz]

Umm, more evidence please. That pic is meh.

[Furiously]

I really don't think she gets better then that.

[Miasma]

Checked into rehab, for who knows what, and I'm hoping this story is fake.

[HaemishM]

... and I'm hoping this story is fake.

It's not.

[Evil Elvis]

Checked into rehab, for who knows what, and I'm hoping this story is fake.

I saw one of the owners on TV say there were going to have a "Britney Buzz" special... for $200 dollars.  Yes, two-hundred American dollars.

I hope the people who own that salon get cancer and die from it.

[Signe]

She wore a wig to rehap.  I guess she needed to sell her hair for drugs?

[Morat20]

Not to interject a note of seriousness here (Disclaimer: I don't give a fuck about Britany Spears. Never have, never will. EVER), but that sort of spontenous hair cutting among women is generally done out of a feeling of helplessness. When you feel your life is out of your control, like things are happening too fast and you simply can't get a grip on it, it's not unusual to respond by asserting control over something else.

In short: "I can't control my life, but I can control my body". There's a variety of self-destructive ways this comes out, but shaving your head (especially as a woman whose livilihood and self-esteem are probably closely tied to societal standards of beauty) is near the top.

It's a good thing she's checking into rehab -- I suspect that, among other things, she's probably abusing drugs or alcohol. What she really needs is a therapist. Too many stars have layers of staff designed to seperate and shield them from reality -- she needs someone to set her feet on the ground and make her face her problems, which I suspect is the exact thing her staff works actively to prevent.

While it's hard to feel much sympathy of the personal problems of a woman whose net worth is approximately a zillion times my lifetime earnings, it doesn't stop her from having personal problems. And some shit money can't fix, and if you've spent your life avoiding those problems because you had money, it hits extra hard. I sincerly hope she gets real help, because this sort of thing is difficult enough without it being the number one fucking story on CNN.

Here Endeth my Caring.

[Llava]

I suspect that, among other things, she's probably abusing drugs or alcohol.

I suspect you may be right.

[Lantyssa]

I'd buy the control theory.  Several years ago I had a (truly) soul-crushing week and got mine cut from waist to chin-length in a fit of depression.  I did it again recently, for real and healthy reasons this time, but it was still about exerting some control over my life at that point.

[WayAbvPar]

I have heard the theory that she cut it off to prevent it from being tested to see what sort of substances she was ingesting/using during her pregnancies.

[Nevermore]

If that were the case, you'd think she'd have taken steps to destroy the 'evidence'.

[Morat20]

I have heard the theory that she cut it off to prevent it from being tested to see what sort of substances she was ingesting/using during her pregnancies.

That makes sense for, you know, regular fucking people. But not someone as rich as shit as Brittany Spears, whose job prospects will not suffer a bit from any sort of drug use.

Nor is anyone likely to try some sort of charge against her for some sort of baby-damage during pregnancy, and she could beat that in a heartbeat.

People like me might worry about drug-use showing up in my hair -- because they'll fire my ass for drugs, and if I were ever to get even the wussiest of possesion felonies my ability to hold a good job would be shitcanned.

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Less than a day of rehab this time:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/21/britneyspears.rehab.ap/index.html

This child's in a crazy whirlwind.  I hope it doesn't end up with one or more corpses.

[Mazakiel]

I have heard the theory that she cut it off to prevent it from being tested to see what sort of substances she was ingesting/using during her pregnancies.

That makes sense for, you know, regular fucking people. But not someone as rich as shit as Brittany Spears, whose job prospects will not suffer a bit from any sort of drug use.

Nor is anyone likely to try some sort of charge against her for some sort of baby-damage during pregnancy, and she could beat that in a heartbeat.

People like me might worry about drug-use showing up in my hair -- because they'll fire my ass for drugs, and if I were ever to get even the wussiest of possesion felonies my ability to hold a good job would be shitcanned.

Well, if it's from the perspective of what she was putting in her body during pregnancy or afterwards, it calls into question her fitness as a parent right as child custody and such is going to be determined.  Though her public behavior should more than answer than question.  Job prospects....probably couldn't get any worse than they are now, all things considered. 

[Morat20]

That makes sense for, you know, regular fucking people. But not someone as rich as shit as Brittany Spears, whose job prospects will not suffer a bit from any sort of drug use.

Nor is anyone likely to try some sort of charge against her for some sort of baby-damage during pregnancy, and she could beat that in a heartbeat.

People like me might worry about drug-use showing up in my hair -- because they'll fire my ass for drugs, and if I were ever to get even the wussiest of possesion felonies my ability to hold a good job would be shitcanned.

Well, if it's from the perspective of what she was putting in her body during pregnancy or afterwards, it calls into question her fitness as a parent right as child custody and such is going to be determined.  Though her public behavior should more than answer than question.  Job prospects....probably couldn't get any worse than they are now, all things considered. 

Child custody with Kevin fucking Federline. I'd pick a crack addict -- especially if she had money and a staff -- over fucking Kevin anyday.

This looks for all the world like a real, live, total fucking breakdown -- probably a long time in coming, and precipitated by her divorce.

[Kenrick]

The roots of the breakdown go all the way back to when she broke up with Justin Timberlake, IMHO.

[Mazakiel]

That makes sense for, you know, regular fucking people. But not someone as rich as shit as Brittany Spears, whose job prospects will not suffer a bit from any sort of drug use.

Nor is anyone likely to try some sort of charge against her for some sort of baby-damage during pregnancy, and she could beat that in a heartbeat.

People like me might worry about drug-use showing up in my hair -- because they'll fire my ass for drugs, and if I were ever to get even the wussiest of possesion felonies my ability to hold a good job would be shitcanned.

Well, if it's from the perspective of what she was putting in her body during pregnancy or afterwards, it calls into question her fitness as a parent right as child custody and such is going to be determined.  Though her public behavior should more than answer than question.  Job prospects....probably couldn't get any worse than they are now, all things considered. 

Child custody with Kevin fucking Federline. I'd pick a crack addict -- especially if she had money and a staff -- over fucking Kevin anyday.

This looks for all the world like a real, live, total fucking breakdown -- probably a long time in coming, and precipitated by her divorce.

Oh, I agree.  He's not better, but right now, he seems to be keeping the low profile out of the two.  That might make all the difference.  Or neither gets them and they get sent off to the grandma or something.  When it's all said and done though, I have zero confidence in the court system to make the best decision for the children.  It'll be Federline or Spears, and the kids will grow up fucked up because of it. 

[Llava]

I put some stock in the hair/drug test thing, but apparently the information comes from the hair folicle meaning it wouldn't matter that she shaved her head?

I don't know how accurate that is, some fellow called in to a radio show I was listening to claiming to be a forensic scientist, so I decided to go ahead and believe every word he said.