I remember some "investigative reporting" back in the 00s or 90s or something that pushed the idea that panhandlers were all making 5-6 figures and living in nice houses and shit. And people, being gullible, bought in to this shit. Point is, it's not something people came up with themselves, the idea was actually promulgated by the media at various points.
It's John Stossel . He did the whole "homeless people getting into BMWs" thing ( never mind that old luxury cars can be cheap, because they can break if you look at them funny)
I got that bullshit personally when I used to help out with some toys for tots programs. "Look at these shameful homeless people with their new cars" like a car isn't a requirement to work. And at the time car payments were probably a couple of hundred dollars a month. But no clearly bc they were driving a car that was only a few years old they had stacks of hidden wealth that they were lying about so they could get a barbie and a football for their kids.
I really enjoy king of the hill, but my god, some of the episodes are just so, so bad. Like, the powderpuff football game, which was basically "misogyny: the episode". Or that time Peggy is singlehandedly responsible for gentrifying a neighborhood because she sold some houses to hipsters. Or that time Hank starts working at that food co-op, where apparently no one had ever figured out how to rotate stock before Hank showed them how. Or that time Peggy makes friends with a trans woman? Drag queen? The show is very unclear and much of the conflict of the episode centers around the issue that Peggy is feeling confident and feminine about her feet for the first time, but she's hanging out with "men", so is she really finding femininity?
So yeah, amusing show with some stand out bits, but so much of it is so, so bad. And I really wish Hank (and Peggy) would realize they're being asses before the last minute or so of the episode. They never learn, they just do the same assholeish behavior every episode and then at the end they're always like, oh wait, I'm an ass. And after like 2 seasons of that I was already over it.
I remember some "investigative reporting" back in the 00s or 90s or something that pushed the idea that panhandlers were all making 5-6 figures and living in nice houses and shit. And people, being gullible, bought in to this shit. Point is, it's not something people came up with themselves, the idea was actually promulgated by the media at various points.
It's John Stossel . He did the whole "homeless people getting into BMWs" thing ( never mind that old luxury cars can be cheap, because they can break if you look at them funny)
I got that bullshit personally when I used to help out with some toys for tots programs. "Look at these shameful homeless people with their new cars" like a car isn't a requirement to work. And at the time car payments were probably a couple of hundred dollars a month. But no clearly bc they were driving a car that was only a few years old they had stacks of hidden wealth that they were lying about so they could get a barbie and a football for their kids.
fucking king of the hill has an episode about this
I really enjoy king of the hill, but my god, some of the episodes are just so, so bad. Like, the powderpuff football game, which was basically "misogyny: the episode". Or that time Peggy is singlehandedly responsible for gentrifying a neighborhood because she sold some houses to hipsters. Or that time Hank starts working at that food co-op, where apparently no one had ever figured out how to rotate stock before Hank showed them how. Or that time Peggy makes friends with a trans woman? Drag queen? The show is very unclear and much of the conflict of the episode centers around the issue that Peggy is feeling confident and feminine about her feet for the first time, but she's hanging out with "men", so is she really finding femininity?
So yeah, amusing show with some stand out bits, but so much of it is so, so bad. And I really wish Hank (and Peggy) would realize they're being asses before the last minute or so of the episode. They never learn, they just do the same assholeish behavior every episode and then at the end they're always like, oh wait, I'm an ass. And after like 2 seasons of that I was already over it.