sock puppet wrote:Contrived was the one word description that came to my mind.
And badly so. They are SO bad at appearing natural while attempting to relate to regular people. It is amazing to me that they are still talking about tough times roughing it at BYU while living in a basement apartment, funding living expenses by selling off stock. It's like the rich hipster kids at a state college who parade around in crappy cars and thrift-store clothing and feel very righteous about looking as ratty (in a fashionable way), non-Ivy League, and déclassé as possible. You still know they are rich hipster kids because while they have some superficial ideas about what "not on dad's dime" looks like, they haven't had enough real experience away from it to understand all the ways that the things they talk about betray a very different set of privileged life experiences and advantages.