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Some times the eye for an eye idea is just to good to be ignored. I think this is one of those cases for those who attacked this kid. Please do not try the argument it just perpetuates the violence, I am not fully convinced that a kinder gentler society has served us so well.
how do you blame a show when it clearly airs after 9pm in almost every area. it's an adult time slot and any parent allowing there kid to watch should know how it is going to affect there little one and make it clear to there child right from wrong. I grew up with lawn darts, bb guns, and always had a pocket knife on me. Watched lots of Benny Hill and, Saturday Night Live, and Monty python, but I had a father who explained things and took time to teach me to understand the things I was seeing. oh and don't give me the argument that parents have less time now my father work 14-18hour day including his commute to the factory.
@basecamp001: I know it's hard for parents to accept this but sometimes your loins produces the son of Satan. Parents have to realize that certain percentage of the population, which could be their offspring, are psychopathic and beyond rehabilitation. That means that even if you took the time and the most care in guiding your devil child that he/she will still turn into wack jobs. That’s life. Accept it.
@Curves: Ginger, eh? You know, I would not have guessed on my own, but you know what? Yes...yes this totally fits. Also from now on, you get totally non-offensive red-head jokes. Thusly *ahem*:
Careful, guys! Don't screw with Curves! Clearly she has a hot temper, you see, because the color of the hair that she has on her head is a shade of red, which is also kind of like fire!
@OCEntertainment: Actually, I have a pretty long fuse; it takes a lot to get me mad*, BUT, once I get there, pull up a chair and get comfortable and enjoy the fireworks.
*Cruelty to any innocent person (children, old people, et al) negates this statement, and I will go from Nice to Medieval Mean on your ass in .01 seconds.
I watched South Park at their age and I turned out fine. Anyone who takes South Park seriously at any age is retarded. Do we blame Jodi Foster for John Hinckley trying to kill Regan?
@Yerzriknot: Yeah! Saying to any woman just once "Get back in the kitchen and make me some pie!" will definitely teach you not imitate the behavior on that show.
You say that Facebook and Southpark are two favorite punching bags for people unwilling to blame the attackers.
I agree to an extent.
But should we, as a society, not give even an ounce of thought towards what kinds of messages are being displayed in the media?
Should we not analyse and think about the books, movies, music, cartoons and news that we consume on a daily basis and how it affects us and those around us?
I am not saying we should all become scholars, but it would benefit us greatly, to step back from time to time and think about not only the packaging and instant gratification, but also the content, messages and values we are surrounded by.
We should always make an effort to be active, thinking human beings and not mere passive consumers who don't have an opinion or anything to say.
@Coolmodo: I just wrote a paper on this general subject. The problem is not knowing when to stop. That is, once we decide that some types of messages are to be censored, why not others?
"Censorship leads to more censorship, or as Floyd Abrams, a prominent First Amendment lawyer, said, 'once you're in the business of suppressing speech, the quest for more speech to suppress is endless" (NYT article).'
Unless we as a society are willing to allow much more censorship than we intend, blocking things is bad.
On the other hand, I give you that these things can be problematic. The solution is either to not allow kids to access facebook and other sites, not allow them to watch South Park, or not be stupid enough to take either seriously.
Perhaps "having opinions" is needed - but one should express those opinions only by boundaries set for their kids.
Give the kid minced tiger whiskers to put in the bullies' food. The intense excruciating pain they feel afterward will be sweet sweet revenge. Oh, who couldn't love the Chinese?
@semi-renaissance man: SO! T'all you fine dandies so proud, so cock-sure, prancin' aboot with yer heads full o' eyeballs...Come and get me, I say! I'll be waitin' on ya with a whiff of the ol' brimstone. I'm a GRIM, BLOODY FABLE....with an UNHAPPY, BLOODY END!!
There is also the carrying of aromatics out of the beverage through the carbonation, as per the recent articles on champagne bubbles. (e.g. [www.guardian.co.uk]). This only refers to bubbly, but I would be rather surprised if the same principle was not at work in other carbonated beverages. After all, beer and cola are full of aromatics as well. #gizmodoremainders
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de hat izlesek es pofonok:D
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Hell, better yet, I'm starting a "Give Dry-Roasted-Peanuts $5 Day".
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cool?
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Careful, guys! Don't screw with Curves! Clearly she has a hot temper, you see, because the color of the hair that she has on her head is a shade of red, which is also kind of like fire!
(......Err...I'll practice.)
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*Cruelty to any innocent person (children, old people, et al) negates this statement, and I will go from Nice to Medieval Mean on your ass in .01 seconds.
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Scotland or Ireland - which one has the most gingers?
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I agree to an extent.
But should we, as a society, not give even an ounce of thought towards what kinds of messages are being displayed in the media?
Should we not analyse and think about the books, movies, music, cartoons and news that we consume on a daily basis and how it affects us and those around us?
I am not saying we should all become scholars, but it would benefit us greatly, to step back from time to time and think about not only the packaging and instant gratification, but also the content, messages and values we are surrounded by.
We should always make an effort to be active, thinking human beings and not mere passive consumers who don't have an opinion or anything to say.
11/24/09
"Censorship leads to more censorship, or as Floyd Abrams, a prominent First Amendment lawyer, said, 'once you're in the business of suppressing speech, the quest for more speech to suppress is endless" (NYT article).'
Unless we as a society are willing to allow much more censorship than we intend, blocking things is bad.
On the other hand, I give you that these things can be problematic. The solution is either to not allow kids to access facebook and other sites, not allow them to watch South Park, or not be stupid enough to take either seriously.
Perhaps "having opinions" is needed - but one should express those opinions only by boundaries set for their kids.
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You're right.
Fox "News" should be taken off the air immediately.
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The bullies should be tased by a large Scottish man.
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and babies #gizmodoremainders
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