Paul Allen partying on his "Superyacht" at Olympics

[SlyPokerDog]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...121?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Maybe he'll stumble onto a head coach decision after a few mimosas!

 

[SantaDora]

Maybe he'll stumble onto a head coach decision after a few mimosas!

If we end up with Avram Grant - your wish will be granted.

Oh wait, he is no longer in Westham united, apparently he is in Belgrade. Scratch that.

 

[Haakzilla]

 

[PapaG]

We saw his smaller Yacht on the Columbia right after the NBA Draft as the family was heading to Montana. Odd seeing a yacht that big with a helicopter on it just gliding up the river.

 

[PapaG]

Oh, and if I was worth a bazillion dollars and had a boat like that, I'd be partying at the Olympics as well.

 

[BBert]

He should mount some cannons on that thing. To go along with the sharks with the frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Whatever

Just awesome

 

[THE HCP]

I guess that is how the team is traveling next season. No more charter flights!

 

[Mediocre Man]

I guess that is how the team is traveling next season. No more charter flights!

How fun would it be if there was enough time before the games and after for the team to travel via Octopus to Europe when the league expands there

 

[THE HCP]

What would suck would be getting to Denver and Utah back to back in that thing!

 

[santeesioux]

S2 missed a big contest opportunity tie in with the Blazers, winner gets to party on PA's yacht in London!

 

[MickZagger]

I'd like to know what 'partying' consists of with Paul Allen.

 

[drexlersdad]

bend over and ill show you

 

[MickZagger]

bend over and ill show you

Nawty boy....Teehee

 

[DeanMoriarty]

Paul Allen=Bruce Wayne
Brandon Roy=Batman

This means Paul Allen=Brandon Roy!

This is why we never see them on TV together!

 

[Draco]

Don't know how you can call it a "yacht" the thing is bigger than the Titanic.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Boats n' Hoes.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

Awww that is so sweet, even is boat has a boat, and a Helo, and a Sub and look how fkn small the people look on that thing...and all in Blazer away colors

 

[handiman]

Don't know how you can call it a "yacht" the thing is bigger than the Titanic.

I'm trying to put into perspective a yacht that's bigger than all but the huge college/pro football stadiums...

 

[DaLincolnJones]

I'm trying to put into perspective a yacht that's bigger than all but the huge college/pro football stadiums...

so, where does he land his F16?

 

[PapaG]

Nawty boy....Teehee

<giggles>

Mmmkay

 

[Natebishop3]

It looks like he cut a cruise ship in half.

 

[MARIS61]

Meanwhile, in the real world people are dying from lack of healthcare.

http://www.biblehelp.org/mortality.htm

Party on, Paul.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Meanwhile, in the real world people are dying from lack of healthcare.

http://www.biblehelp.org/mortality.htm

Party on, Paul.

People are also dying from lack of food and clean water.

 

[RW#30]

People are also dying from lack of food and clean water.

or drug use...or bike accidents...or choke on a t-bone.. or from being envy and always worry about what others have.

 

[MARIS61]

People die prematurely from all kinds of causes. Starvation, lack of shelter or water, easily treatable diseases, war, robberies gone wrong, mass murders by mentally ill science majors...In most parts of the world a few bucks a day would save a life. So how many would a few billion save?

Just saying, he has the means to still live life as a multi-multi-multi-millionaire, and be known as "the man who saved millions of lives".

He'd rather be known as "the man who had the most toys".

It's a personal choice he's certainly free to make, and it's clear all the envious posters drooling over him here in this thread would make the same choice given the chance.

I just think there's a very fine line separating his behaviour from that of someone like Hitler. With the stroke of his pen, and no realistic harm to his own health or wellfare, he could easily save the lives of more people than Hitler killed. But he buys more toys instead.

Hitler acted out of fear, hate, avarice and self-absorbtion. He hunted people down and killed them.

I doubt Allen has much fear or hate in him. But avarice and self-absorbtion are clearly what drives him. He simply looks away while people die.

Both ways of thinking/living are incomprehensible to, and both represent severely damaged minds (IMO).

Both result in millions of people needlessly dying.

 

[crandc]

Maris, the problem is not one individual, it is systemic.

Be that as it may ...

Am I the only one tired of shoddy so called "journalism"? The "writer" finds it necessary to repeat the meme about "reclusive" Paul Allen and then goes on to describe the huge party with boatload, literally of guests - hardly the behavior of a recluse! But hey, doesn't "everyone" say he's a recluse so just repeat it, facts be damned. This is a pretty unimportant issue but I see the same shoddy journalism on serious, world class issues. Just repeat what "everyone" says as though it was as immutable as the physical laws of the universe. Regardless of evidence.

 

[SantaDora]

Just saying, he has the means to still live life as a multi-multi-multi-millionaire, and be known as "the man who saved millions of lives".

http://mynorthwest.com/11/624253/Paul-Allen-was-most-charitable-living-American-in-2011

Paul Allen has no obligation to give any of his money, imho - but he is giving a pretty penny for charity on an on-going basis. I am not a big fan of Paul Allen - but this post was pretty much fact-free. Congratulations.

 

[Natebishop3]

Socialism and Communism work soooooooooooooo well.