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This Anti-Abuse Ad Has a Hidden Message Only Children Can See

May 7, 2013 at 2:57pm

In reply to Somerandomguy.

@Simpletruths

I can see where SRG’s coming from. There does come a point where shock advertising, even for a good cause, is over the line.

Case in point. If you watch the Stanley Cup Playoffs on NBC–not the regional feeds, the national ones–there’s this one shock PSA they run that shows a smoker who’s lost her voice. They seem to run that thing two or three times per period. Now, I’m all for helping smokers quit. What I don’t like is having shock PSA’s shoved down my throat on every other TV time-out. It’s enough to make me consider turning off NBC and just following the live scoreboard on NHL.com. It’s that bad.

Maybe I’m wrong: maybe there is a place for shock billboards with hidden messages for kids. But I would respectfully submit that there may be more subtle ways of getting this ad’s point across, than showing a beaten-up kid.

When everything is designed to shock, then sooner or later, nothing will shock. That way ultimately leads to societal, cultural, and sooner or later, national ruin.
‘Jeopardy! College Tournament’ Dedicates Entire Category to a Marxist Revolutionary

May 7, 2013 at 2:39pm

In reply to jackact.

It’s being made in Communist China, because American labor is no longer affordable thanks to ObeyMeCare.
World-Famous Daredevil Dies During Ponytail Zip-Line Stunt Attempt — But He Didn’t Fall

May 1, 2013 at 1:56pm

Worst way to die? This guy probably locks that title up.

Can we say he met a split end?
PepsiCo Apologizes & Pulls This Mountain Dew Ad — ‘The Most Racist Commercial in History’?

May 1, 2013 at 1:41pm

In reply to Southernsoul.

@Warmunger

“Rap artist” is as much an oxymoron as “graffiti artist.”

Though I have to say: judging by the stories I’ve heard, that commercial looks like just another day at the office in Central Booking in Baltimore.
Here’s What’s Included in Maryland’s Controversial ‘Rain Tax’ (It’s Exactly What It Sounds Like)

April 12, 2013 at 1:26pm

If the GOP ever gets 2/3 majorities in both houses, and a president to match, they need to start voting to expel states like this. The only reason Maryland gets to be Maryland is because Wyoming is Wyoming.

Expel these would-be socialist utopias, let them collapse, let their people riot themselves to death, and then get real Americans to move in and restore liberty.
Multicopter Takes You on an Eerie Flight Through Abandoned ‘Battleship Island’ (a.k.a. ‘Skyfall’ Villain’s HQ)

April 4, 2013 at 3:38pm

I’m kind of partial on this one, but for such a hellish place, I’d go with “Descent” by VNV Nation (FTR, this is one of the darkest songs they’ve ever done. They also do some uplifting stuff, too, and at that, there’s no one better. Listen to “Nova” and thank me later.)

“All God’s children would have cause to think the Devil now walks this realm. A place dispossessed of any sanity–edification of a scene from hell…Does the need for the belief in a Devil, serve to palliate, serve to forgive us our sins, in the abandonment of reason, and our delivery into hell?”

Again, that’s probably the darkest song in their entire catalog, but I think it fits those visuals to a T.
‘Almost Like the Wild West’: School Bus Fight Between Students Ends in Deadly Shooting Between Mothers

April 1, 2013 at 3:10pm

I saw the headline and would have lost $20 betting this was a story out of Baltimore.

As is, it’s from West Virginia. Which kind of got me wondering…what if it turns out these two ladies were related? In West Virginia, practically EVERYONE is related.
Conspiracy Theorists Actually Claim This Video Shows Obama Secret Service Agent Is an ‘Alien Shape-Shifter’

March 21, 2013 at 7:04pm

In her novel “Angelology”–and yes, I know “novel” means “fiction”–Danielle Trussoni writes of a world where fallen angels walk among us. How? One of the nephilim disguised himself as Japheth, and was kept alive on Noah’s Ark. This nephilim then became the father of a whole bunch of fallen angels that walk among us to this day.

Again, that’s fiction, and I’m not presenting it any other way. But if you google “descendants of Japheth,” you’re going to get a whole lot of “Huh?” results that are going to make you reach for the Excedrin. The idea of an impostor Japheth predates Trussoni; and some seem to take the idea seriously, judging by the search results I’ve seen. So, to those, perhaps the agent in question may in fact be a nephilim.

For the record, my money is on “photographic peculiarity.”

Also, for those who haven’t read “Angelology,” give it a look: it’s a pretty good yarn. If you’ve never read it, count yourself lucky: the sequel comes out this Tuesday, so you won’t have waited three years for it (unlike those of us who got the first edition.)
Hockey Player Paralyzed After This Massive Hit and Now Opponent Could Face Criminal Charges

March 8, 2013 at 4:06pm

In reply to termyt.

There is precedent for legal action, though, even in the NHL. Just ask Todd Bertuzzi or Marty McSorley.

A hard check is one thing. Paralyzing someone for life–and I’ve got NHL season tickets, FTR–is quite another. Look, I’m a hockey fan, and I don’t think a hard hit like this is reason to pansify the game I love, as simultaneously beautiful and rough-and-tumble as it is.

That said, “it happened on the field” is no excuse to let someone face no legal sanction for violently ending someone’s career, and changing his life for the worse, forever.

THAT said, players understand the risks; further, freak plays like this are definitely not the norm for the sport. This hit is news BECAUSE it’s such a freak occurrence.

Hockey is played at many levels, in many countries. They now have pro ice hockey in Australia and Japan: the game is truly starting to go global. And yet, we still don’t see many players going straight from the rink to the ICU. Stuff like that is far, far from the norm.

And it is BECAUSE it is so far from the norm, that plays like the one shown here DO merit prosecution. “It’s just sports” is NOT a Get Out of Jail Free card.
Bloomberg’s Newest Public Health Initiative: Earbud Headphones?

March 6, 2013 at 2:58pm

I can sort of see the argument here. If I can clearly hear every single F-bomb that’s coming out of your iPhone–and in a subway tunnel, no less–then you’d better use that iPhone to call an audiologist.

On the other hand, if, after being partially deafened by too much high-volume rap–the initial invisible “c” is silent–some ghetto gang-banger doesn’t hear New York’s Finest telling them to stop or they’ll shoot, the resulting misunderstanding might actually be good for society.

It’s a free country, Mr. Bloomingidiotberg. Cut the rap and let New Yorkers live in peace.