Couldn't they have bought another kid from a third world country for less than $80k? ;)
P.S. Brad? You're closing in on fifty pretty darn fast, Buddy. Gonna ever marry the mother of your children?
Richard Gere’s gerbils must be so jealous.
Insert Richard Gere joke here
Richard Gere is looking for an invitation.
Now I wish I had Gerbils when I was a kid.
It is good to be in the ruling class!
w...w...Wh...What...WHAT????
I don’t have a problem with it. It’s America. He made the money. Let him spend it however he wants.
He does try to do good things. Yes, I know he is a lib.
But it’s capitalism, baby....
Think of it this way: one gerbil-run seller has been made very happy because Brad Pitt came into his store! How lucky is that guy??
Look, whatever service you have or product you sell, you’d THRILL the morning Brad Pitt came in to buy $80K of it.
I always wanted to make a walk in gerbil room, where the maze of tunnels and stuff would encompass most of the room with a walkway for the people. Over and above the expense the full time cleaning job made me balk, pretty much every day you’d have to clean part of it. Wanted to do the same thing with aquariums too.
One or two poor children could live in that maze.
‘Pores’? He sweats over them?
It’s his money. At least he’s not spending $80,000 on drugs and other women. Or men.
Sounds like a fun project actually. The kids must love it.
But, but, but.... what about all the pooooor chilllun in the Amerika that could have their lives improved instead of building an 80k home for a GERBIL??! Why, I thought BP was a GOOD lib!!
Oh, I forgot... libs want to spend Other People’s Money (taxes)to help the poor. It’s a well known fact that libs don’t donate to charity on par with conservatives.
Loved the analogy with big pharma... at least big pharma saves lives to make all that money... BP and his ilk just (supposedly) entertain to make millions!! Where’s the outcry!
Our gerbils (Shadow and Georgia) in their $20 home would be jealous, if they could read. They have a cat for entertainment, though: she sits on top of the cage looking hungry, while they disport themselves Cutely in safety!
Brad also likes to spend $$$ on avant-garde furniture for himself:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/look/brad-pitts-new-furniture-052645
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24971299/
First rule of Lemmiwinks: You don’t talk about Lemmiwinks.
I’ve had gerbils many times in my life, and I’ve even spent a good bit of money on cages and tubes and the like. I may in the end have spent as much as $500.
Now, my ferrets, I’ve only had for 2 years. But I’ve certainly spent more than $1000 on them, between cages and toys and putting them up in a kennel once.
But i can’t imagine how naybody could build a gerbil cage that cost $82,000.
Beagles are better.
So what? It’s their money.