What the fuck is wrong with people (thread)
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Brutal :(
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The most logical explanation given his history with the victims. The charges bear that out - Two first degree charges because the crown believes he went there with the intention to kill the grandparents. A second degree charge for the child, who was simply on a sleepover on the wrong night.
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The most logical explanation given his history with the victims. The charges bear that out - Two first degree charges because the crown believes he went there with the intention to kill the grandparents. A second degree charge for the child, who was simply on a sleepover on the wrong night.
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I can't believe someone thought this was a good idea.
Seriously. How disturbed do you have to be to think this would sell? And how even more disturbed do you have to be to buy it?
Seriously. How disturbed do you have to be to think this would sell? And how even more disturbed do you have to be to buy it?
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Sabo wrote:I can't believe someone thought this was a good idea.
Seriously. How disturbed do you have to be to think this would sell? And how even more disturbed do you have to be to buy it?
Well, they sold it. For $130 dollars. They even included my favorite apology statement: "again, we deeply regret that this item was perceived negatively." That isn't an apology, and shows you don't acknowledge doing something wrong or in poor taste. All that says is we are upset that this might hurt our bottom line.
For those who didn't click, they are selling a "vintage" Kent State shirt complete with fake blood spatterings and bullet holes. This is rich: "it was never our intention to allude to the tragic events that took place at Kent State in 1970 and we are extremely saddened that this item was perceived as such. The one-of-a-kind item was purchased as part of our sun-faded vintage collection. There is no blood on this shirt nor has this item been altered in any way. The red stains are discoloration from the original shade of the shirt and the holes are from natural wear and fray."
Right. It is unimaginable that anyone could perceive that as fake blood.
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Typical bullshit explanation (from them, not you Syb).
What I don't get is---I'm older than their target demographic and Kent State happened almost a decade before I was born. Who is even going to get the joke, let alone think it is topical enough to be edgy?
What I don't get is---I'm older than their target demographic and Kent State happened almost a decade before I was born. Who is even going to get the joke, let alone think it is topical enough to be edgy?
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And people call me cynical:
Expert not surprised by Jessica Padgett video allegation (above linked story)
Expert not surprised by Jessica Padgett video allegation (above linked story)
Who knows? Maybe, you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away and held for ransom.
Those days are gone forever
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howard wrote:And people call me cynical:
Expert not surprised by Jessica Padgett video allegation (above linked story)
A foot fetish I can almost understand, necrophilia? I feel a ton of empathy for the officers and prosecutors who had to watch that video. That is some disturbing shit.
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A late entry in the Shittiest Parents of the Year contest.
http://www.wralsportsfan.com/ten-year-o ... /14265445/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.wralsportsfan.com/ten-year-o ... /14265445/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Totally Kafkaesque
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C'mon man! G-d told him he was supposed to go out and play football. Can't you read?Shirley wrote:A late entry in the Shittiest Parents of the Year contest.
http://www.wralsportsfan.com/ten-year-o ... /14265445/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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That's what happens when a parent still idolizes athletes like a kid rather than growing the fuck up.
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One of the headlines that I've seen today is about a man in Tampa Bay throwing his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge. Whenever I checked the headlines on Google News, I would see this story, accompanied by the man's mug shot. Mentally unstable. Unlikeable face. Awful story, but easy enough to brush it off when you're skimming headlines. Just checked Google News again, and they have a photo of the girl. Wearing some sort of princess costume, with a tiara. I didn't want to see this girl. This is crushing. Why does this happen? This kind of story just destroys me.
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Bapo, the lesson here, as always, is that people are shit.
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Unfortunately, this happens a lot in the Autism community. I had to call the police the other day because a parent who called us said "my kids would be better off dead". I'm sure she didn't mean it, I get the frustration, but I wasn't taking that chance.bapo! wrote:One of the headlines that I've seen today is about a man in Tampa Bay throwing his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge. Whenever I checked the headlines on Google News, I would see this story, accompanied by the man's mug shot. Mentally unstable. Unlikeable face. Awful story, but easy enough to brush it off when you're skimming headlines. Just checked Google News again, and they have a photo of the girl. Wearing some sort of princess costume, with a tiara. I didn't want to see this girl. This is crushing. Why does this happen? This kind of story just destroys me.
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You definitely can't take the chance. Maybe one in a thousand who says it is a serious risk. You might have been talking to that one. But every single one of us has had that thought about both our kids and our selves. Some no doubt every single day.
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Killed me all day long.bapo! wrote:One of the headlines that I've seen today is about a man in Tampa Bay throwing his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge. Whenever I checked the headlines on Google News, I would see this story, accompanied by the man's mug shot. Mentally unstable. Unlikeable face. Awful story, but easy enough to brush it off when you're skimming headlines. Just checked Google News again, and they have a photo of the girl. Wearing some sort of princess costume, with a tiara. I didn't want to see this girl. This is crushing. Why does this happen? This kind of story just destroys me.
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It's huge news down here. I can't really bear to pay too much attention to it. Mental illness is a real mother fucker. It seems like both parents had it, coupled with drug issues. Reading the Tampa Bay Times article this morning, it seems like it's a wonder this girl made it to 5.
Just a gutting story.
Just a gutting story.
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Yeah, she probably had an awful short little life.govmentchedda wrote:It's huge news down here. I can't really bear to pay too much attention to it. Mental illness is a real mother fucker. It seems like both parents had it, coupled with drug issues. Reading the Tampa Bay Times article this morning, it seems like it's a wonder this girl made it to 5.
Just a gutting story.
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It turns out that people don't always suck.
Totally Kafkaesque
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2,000 killed in one Nigerian village by Boko Haram.
People suck.
http://www.news.com.au/world/africa/isl ... 7180726580
People suck.
http://www.news.com.au/world/africa/isl ... 7180726580
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Yep. That, suicide bombings in Yemen and Iraq, ongoing shelling of civilians in eastern Ukraine (Novorossyia). Amidst the hoopla of the dead folks in Paris. Lot of death being dealt.
Who knows? Maybe, you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away and held for ransom.
Those days are gone forever
Over a long time ago
Oh yeah…
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Yup. Although I'm still not sure anything will ever top the one posted a year or so ago that I won't even reference. That one still affects me.
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Jesus Fucking Christ.
I get postpartum depression and all, but that? Was that the best way?
Totally Kafkaesque
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Comments are extra toxic on that article, too.
Because of her name and skin color, she is clearly (A) an immigrant, (B) in the country illegally and (C) her actions are to be expected of someone who falls into the category of (A) and (B). And (D) thanks Obama.
Because of her name and skin color, she is clearly (A) an immigrant, (B) in the country illegally and (C) her actions are to be expected of someone who falls into the category of (A) and (B). And (D) thanks Obama.
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A year from now they should post the same event but with a pretty college educated blonde and see how many fuckheads contradict themselves.
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And when they do, they will blame Liberals for making it about race.mister d wrote:A year from now they should post the same event but with a pretty college educated blonde and see how many fuckheads contradict themselves.
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This is the shitty and sadly predictable coda to a story that was a big deal up here last year.
An 11 year old girl with leukemia that was being successfully treated in hospital was pulled out to undergo a regimen of quackery, and because she is a member of a First Nation, the government kind of backed off and let her mother and members of her tribe grandstand and ultimately take her out of the hospital.
They announced several months ago that she was cancer free.
Sadly, they were lying.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/19 ... -has-died/
It wouldn't accomplish anything, but I'd love to see those who killed this girl stand trial. Never going to happen.
An 11 year old girl with leukemia that was being successfully treated in hospital was pulled out to undergo a regimen of quackery, and because she is a member of a First Nation, the government kind of backed off and let her mother and members of her tribe grandstand and ultimately take her out of the hospital.
They announced several months ago that she was cancer free.
Sadly, they were lying.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/19 ... -has-died/
It wouldn't accomplish anything, but I'd love to see those who killed this girl stand trial. Never going to happen.
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CBC's been trying to put pressure on the story and the clinic for months. Maybe with this result they can resume the pressure.Pruitt wrote:This is the shitty and sadly predictable coda to a story that was a big deal up here last year.
An 11 year old girl with leukemia that was being successfully treated in hospital was pulled out to undergo a regimen of quackery, and because she is a member of a First Nation, the government kind of backed off and let her mother and members of her tribe grandstand and ultimately take her out of the hospital.
They announced several months ago that she was cancer free.
Sadly, they were lying.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/19 ... -has-died/
It wouldn't accomplish anything, but I'd love to see those who killed this girl stand trial. Never going to happen.
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And the people who run this place should be charged, but to me the most angering part of this story is that the government let this happen. I understand the desire to give our First Nations a certain amount of autonomy, but the day this kid was pulled out of the hospital was the day her life was over. Society has a responsibility to protect children from the actions of adults.degenerasian wrote:
CBC's been trying to put pressure on the story and the clinic for months. Maybe with this result they can resume the pressure.
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http://www.nj.com/cape-may-county/index ... _says.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;The Sybian wrote:And when they do, they will blame Liberals for making it about race.mister d wrote:A year from now they should post the same event but with a pretty college educated blonde and see how many fuckheads contradict themselves.
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Pruitt wrote:And the people who run this place should be charged, but to me the most angering part of this story is that the government let this happen. I understand the desire to give our First Nations a certain amount of autonomy, but the day this kid was pulled out of the hospital was the day her life was over. Society has a responsibility to protect children from the actions of adults.degenerasian wrote:
CBC's been trying to put pressure on the story and the clinic for months. Maybe with this result they can resume the pressure.
This is actually quite common in cases of a child dying from medical neglect over religious quackery. The parents are almost always free of remorse.Makayla, who suffered from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, stopped chemotherapy in May because of the side effects of the drug. She had told her parents, Ken and Sonya Sault, who are pastors, that Christ had appeared in her hospital room to tell her she was healed.
. . . Mr. LaForme said her parents are holding up well considering their loss and do not regret taking Makayla off chemotherapy.
“From Day One they have never regretted the decision,” he said. “As a matter of fact, they wish that they had never even gone through the chemo in the first place.”
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At least this one has a happy ending. And the hero trucker works for a subsidiary of the company I work for, so that makes me happy. The company is recognizing him and making a big deal of it. Which is great. (video at the link)
NEW KENT COUNTY, Va. — Trucker Kevin Kimmel is a father and grandfather. He says several things about a RV parked in the Pilot Truck lot in New Kent caught his attention. The biggest red flag was catching a glimpse of a distraught looking girl who abruptly disappeared behind a black curtain, that’s when he quickly called police.
“I only learned the gruesome details through the news,” Kimmel said.
Kimmel was inside his rig, parked behind the Pilot station. A couple of doors down he notices suspicious activity in the RV.
“Saw what looked like a young girl looking out the window, the black drapes didn’t make it look like a families’ RV, you know,” Kimmel said. “I saw a guy come up and knock on the door then go inside the Pilot–then quickly came back and knocked again, all of the sudden the thing was rocking and rolling.”
Kimmel, a veteran trucker, said it was a no brainer what was going on, so he dialed deputies.
“When I saw the young girl’s face, I said that’s not going to happen, I’ve got daughters and granddaughters.”
Inside the RV, investigators found a couple from Iowa and a young woman who looks disheveled and malnourished.
Aldair Hodza and Laura Sorenson were arrested and are now charged with a federal crime of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion.
According to an affidavit, the victim’s feet had puncture wounds on top consistent with nails hammered into her flesh and numerous burns on her abdomen, groin and back consistent with being struck and stamped with a hot metal key.
“I’m just happy I helped her,” Kimmel said.
They travel highways, sometimes hundreds of miles per day, and Kimmel said he has a habit of being vigilant; that January day his gut instinct was a life saver
“He saved that girls life and that’s awesome,” said a fellow trucker. “I have two kids at home man and if somebody messed with them I’d want someone to call the cops and tell me.”
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Seriously. What the fuck is wrong with people?
Stories like that one make me feel that I am not cynical enough.
Stories like that one make me feel that I am not cynical enough.
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Maybe this isn't the right thread, but the title aligns with my reaction...
So apparently Monica Lewinsky is now someone deemed worthy of teaching life lessons to an audience? This is a woman who is notable solely for blowing the president--not a person of middling celebrity who happened to blow the president, but someone who would be thoroughly inconsequential, indistinguishable from every other 40-year old, Merlot-and-Vicodin-infused rich housewife, if she had not happened to rub her knees on the Oval Office carpet 20 years ago--and now she's doing TED talks and being considered as a network TV host?
Seriously, what the fuck, America?
So apparently Monica Lewinsky is now someone deemed worthy of teaching life lessons to an audience? This is a woman who is notable solely for blowing the president--not a person of middling celebrity who happened to blow the president, but someone who would be thoroughly inconsequential, indistinguishable from every other 40-year old, Merlot-and-Vicodin-infused rich housewife, if she had not happened to rub her knees on the Oval Office carpet 20 years ago--and now she's doing TED talks and being considered as a network TV host?
Seriously, what the fuck, America?
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It's about how her reputation was ruined by an incident that -- if her boss had not been president -- would have been rather trivial, mundane, common. It's about bullying. She's had the high-level experience. No idea if her insights are of value. But I wouldn't dismiss her just because of the public image.
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Fair enough point. But if I wanted insight into bullying, I think someone who had been physically beaten up or underwent serious emotional abuse might be better than someone who sucked a married man's dick at work and then thought people were being mean for thinking she was kind of slutty.DC47 wrote:It's about how her reputation was ruined by an incident that -- if her boss had not been president -- would have been rather trivial, mundane, common. It's about bullying. She's had the high-level experience. No idea if her insights are of value. But I wouldn't dismiss her just because of the public image.
e: In case my previous reply came across as too curt--I agree that it was hypocritical that what happened between her and Bill was a two-way street, yet he escaped with the excuse of a momentary lapse in judgment, while she was dismissed as an unredeemable slut. She still doesn't deserve an audience of millions because of it.
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No less than Kim Kardashian.
You are correct that this is not about her; this is about our society/culture. What the fuck America indeed.
You are correct that this is not about her; this is about our society/culture. What the fuck America indeed.
Who knows? Maybe, you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away and held for ransom.
Those days are gone forever
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But did a young woman who did something trivial that millions of young women have done with no great side-effects deserve to become the butt of a joke and stereotyped as an empty-headed bimbo by most of the people she would meet for the rest of her life? This is a personal tragedy. And it's something of an ideal case, taken to a very high level, of what so many young people have to deal with today -- magnified by the internet -- when they do something that doesn't fit with the narrow mores of their social group.Johnny Carwash wrote:Fair enough point. But if I wanted insight into bullying, I think someone who had been physically beaten up or underwent serious emotional abuse might be better than someone who sucked a married man's dick at work and then thought people were being mean for thinking she was kind of slutty.DC47 wrote:It's about how her reputation was ruined by an incident that -- if her boss had not been president -- would have been rather trivial, mundane, common. It's about bullying. She's had the high-level experience. No idea if her insights are of value. But I wouldn't dismiss her just because of the public image.
e: In case my previous reply came across as too curt--I agree that it was hypocritical that what happened between her and Bill was a two-way street, yet he escaped with the excuse of a momentary lapse in judgment, while she was dismissed as an unredeemable slut. She still doesn't deserve an audience of millions because of it.