Alaskan Bush People

[zekko]

Anyone watch this? Yes, I know it's fake, stupid, and will likely lower my IQ. I like mindless, escapist, television. Anyway, it's about a family that supposedly lives off the grid in Alaska. There are five brothers and two daughters, none of which are married or have regular girlfriends or boyfriends. The parents homeschooled them and appear to have left them completely unprepared to have any kind of life on their own independently, and instead seem to keep them around to provide free labor.

The five guys are aged 23-33, and it's interesting to watch them deal with women. This was Noah's advice in a recent episode: "To pick up girls, give a woman a well placed compliment, followed by a mild, thinly veiled insult. For example, compliment her eyes and then inform her that they are actually a mutation". I thought this was funny since he's obviously talking about negs, a technique that used to be a lot more popular here than it is now. I think it's suffered from overexposure.

Matt took his first date to the junkyard. Bear's approach is usually to run up to a group of girls at full speed and ask them if they like to climb trees. Noah is big on chivalry. None of them appear to have much success. Girls will be polite to them, even complimentary, but you can see by the look in their eyes they're thinking wtf?

These guys are at a big disadvantage because they're too tied to their family, and have few marketable real world skills. The only thing that might help them is their minor (very minor) celebrity.

 

[logicallefty]

I watch it from time to time. Noah with the chivalry cracks me up. Magic 8 ball sees no poon in his future. I think living up there like they do would be great but not so far out. Id want to be 30 miles from a decent town or a little closer, with a way to drive to it.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

You may think this is funny hilbilly nonsense, but this is how most people lived up until a couple hundred years ago. People had kids primarily for the labor, and most dudes would go there entire lives and only talk to a couple dozen single girls, if that.

(Except fort the super rich, of course)

Thank your lucky stars you weren't born on a farm in the 1700's. You'd have to bang your sister.

 

[zekko]

You may think this is funny hilbilly nonsense, but this is how most people lived up until a couple hundred years ago. People had kids primarily for the labor, and most dudes would go there entire lives and only talk to a couple dozen single girls, if that.

You're totally right, a lot of people lived that way before the industrial revolution. But that's what makes it so backwards. I have no problem with families living together - it's smart in a way, and we may end up going back to that if things go bad. I just don't like that they don't seem to have given the kids any options - they haven't prepared them for any kind of life for themselves independent of the family.