Wasn’t he supposed to be a neurosurgeon?
You assume they were his children. I mean he might have just been doing an Epstein.
From what I remember, only a few of the kids on the trip were his, the rest were cousins. His wealthy(er) brother was the one flying them to Paris at his expense. Also he was the one sitting on a ridiculously 3 story brownstone in Manhattan. I don’t believe we meet the brother in the films. Kevin’s mom was supposed to have been the substantial breadwinner in the house as a fashion designer.
Was born at the right time
Kevin’s mom is a fashion designer, hence all the mannequins.
And the trip was paid for by Kevin’s uncle living in Paris because his work transferred him there.
Yup. Every time this post comes up I’m reminded that people don’t know the plot very well and are still unaware of their gender bias.
The fascists going to ban this movie to keep the rabble for dreaming about anything more than a hole in the ground.
The question is not what you do, but when.
If you did the same job you do today 50 years ago, you’d get massively better pay for it. Real (inflation-adjusted) wages have declined in the last decades, especially if you compare with cost-of-living inflation.
It just means that the demand for human labor is diminishing.
It’s funny that people view the middle class lifestyle as luxurious now but while living the lower class life style they call themselves middle class
Definitely Health Insurance CEO.
Child trafficking, let’s be clear 9 children are not that many to count.
They counted the neighbor kid instead of Kevin while getting into the vans. Kevin’s airplane ticket got thrown out the night before, so it didn’t come up at the airport.
It’s the Chicago suburbs, it’s not that surprising
They were all foster kids and the government gave them like $1,000 a month per kid. He was making 6 figures before even counting his job money.
I really wish this stupid meme would die.
They say it and refer to it multiple times during the opening: THE UNCLE THEY ARE VISITING IS THE ONE PAYING FOR THE VACATION.
What does / did the uncle do, then?
Sell cocaine in Paris, probably
Stole Kardashian jewelry.
That doesn’t explain the house and so many children though.
Most of the kids were family members visiting. Do we even know which kids were just part of the main family that lived in the house other than Buzz and Kevin? I can’t even remember if Buzz or any of the other kids from the first movie appear in the second one. 🤔
I mean, that’s fine. But also it implies significant generational family wealth.
The point is that Kevin’s family is loaded. Dad’s likely an investment banker, mid-level corporate executive, white shoe lawyer, or other high income profession. And he comes from a family with similar wealth and status, such that they can afford to shell out five figures on an extended vacation abroad.
I think this is alluded to in the class character of Kevin himself, who seems fairly comfortable playing the spoiled rich kid, but is initially terrified and disoriented when presented with people living in poverty.
I wouldn’t say loaded. They’re upper middle class. They put the kids in coach while the parents flew first class. If they were loaded they’d all be flying in a private jet.
They put the kids in coach while the parents flew first class.
I mean, when you’re 8 years old, coach might as well be first class.
Weapons contractor
It’s hard to fit a camera crew in a realistically sized house
Real answer: insurance salesman in the 90’s.
This was a slightly exagerated, but rather typical upper-upper-middle class house.
A friend of a friend’s dad had the same job, and a similar sized house. Guy had his own pinball room.
He also had a daughter that was in a secret relationship with my girlfriend (that they thought I didn’t know about.)
Scissor-box it out with your “friend” all you want, free pinball is free pinball.
Pinball is life. Forrest Gump got it wrong. Life is not like a box of chocolates. It is like a pinball game. You’re bouncing around like crazy and then suddenly it all ends when you go down the drain…
Know what else is like pinball?
Kidney stones. Definitely feels like you’re getting your balls thrown into a lot of shit.
That sounds incredibly painful.
Good. That’s what I was aiming for.
It is painful.
What was worse for me? I began suffering from a kidney stone when I was parked at a New Jersey turnpike rest area/service area.
In a semi truck.
Almost 1000 miles from home or anyone I know
With my dog in the truck.
Obligatory pic. Gina, the dog in the story, is no longer with us, but she is the golden/husky mix, while Zeus, the bigger black and white mutt still is.
https://tinypic.host/image/Snapchat-1486115008.3dlaJ4
A dog that had horrible separation anxiety and would chew her way out of said truck if I left her in it with the climate controls on, for more than a few minutes.
I wound up calling 911, since obviously I’m not getting a semi truck into a hospital parking lot, and explaining the situation to the dispatcher. By the time the ambulance got to me, I was doubled over, dry heaving in the parking lot, with my dog freaking out thinking I’m about to die.
In her defense, by then, so did I. I still didn’t know it was a kidney stone, and my mind was going immediately to “burst appendix”, and me dying a thousand miles from home, in the middle of the night, leaving a wife and a daughter behind…
Ambulance crew loaded up me AND my dog, and one of the EMTs called the hospital, and got that handled.
The hospital security team babysat her, while the nurses and doctors fussed over me.
When it was time to get back to the truck, I tried to call a cab. None would take me back because of the dog. She wasn’t a big dog, but not a lapdog either.
Needless to say when the head ER nurse found out, she flipped her shit in perfect, foul-mouthed, Jersey attitude, and this southern boy loved her for it.
She said “I’ll take you myself if this guy doesn’t, and if he doesn’t, his fuckin whole company will be banned from this whole muthafuckin hospital!”
As an aside, that’s when it clicked that New Englanders ain’t rude or unfriendly. They just express love differently. 😂
Damn. I rambled like hell, but. It all needed to be said anyway
Dude… fuck me that was something else. And yeah, sometimes we need to let loose and tell what the hell happened in as much detail as possible to get closure.
Used to work in a life insurance company and the president bragged about how the top sellers got more money that him.
Heard he was great friends with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
And whoever said all those children were actually his kids.
TBH that would explain the Trump Cameo. It’s all about who you know.
