Hehehe I hear you 'mano, this is way too ridiculous for words. Unfortunately I've heard that in Dubai and Qatar there's this trend of literally building fancifully-shaped islands in the sea; you know, dumping boulders and beams into the water, rattling them into settling, pouring footings and foundations, building luxurious resorts on top of it all..."surfacing", yeah. In Hong Kong they keep expanding the island to erect new buildings (cutting off the previous waterfront view!), but at least that's actual urban development on a crowded island, whereas this Dubai thing is pure over-the-top "I'm so goddamn rich I have the power to reshape the Earth just for fun" type of thing. But the idea of Jolie-Pitt buying one in the shape of Ethiopia in order to encourage environmentalism, I dunno, it just sounds too far-fetched to be real, ya know?! Plus I thought that according to my grocery store check-out-stand they're on the fritz! Oh you just hate Angelina Jolie, don't you?!

*puts her pennies into a bank to buy an island shaped like a turtle*

...What?

kai, bro, i won't be happy until she gives me an island. i will, using my own hands, shape it like a giant angelina goddess statue and camp there naked. burn copies of Fight Club upon a giant marble altar daily.

I can't believe you...attacking this poor white couple for making an expenditure so ridiculous that even repeating the story without commentary could be mistaken for vicious sarcasm.

wait, what?

verdad...it's hilarious simply quoted verbatim.

Buying a man-made island to make a statement in favor of environmentalism is just scary ridiculous. I think its kinda like buying a nuclear warhead as a way to make a statment in favor of ending hunger. Why don't you just use the money to buy some fucking food!!

Oh, was going to say something about the resulting environmental impact of building an island...hypocracy, etc. and then just couldn't stop laughing over what NLinStPaul said.

This kinda makes Brad's 'environmental' work in New Orleans a bit insincere

I can't believe you...attacking this poor white couple for making an expenditure so ridiculous that even repeating the story without commentary could be mistaken for vicious sarcasm.

For a second, I thought it was satire - but I read Nezua's post about how Angelina was like a female Kirk yesterday, which may have altered my perceptions slightly.

Also, that picture of the artificial archipelago - that's like, the entire Earth, done as islands?

Also, if I wanted to use my money to showcase environmental issues, I wouldn't buy an expensive resort island. I'd put that money into environmental stuff, like developing cleaner energy and working on ways to minimize existing pollution - results-based, rather than theme park-based.