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Melanie Kipp
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I suppose we shouldn't allow our kids to view the National Geographic channel ... too many shows where the people in other cultures are enlarging their lips with disks of wood, doing crazy things to their ear lobes, placing metal rings around their necks in ever increasing numbers in order to lengthen their necks, tattooing there faces... the list goes on and on.Cute response, but that might encourage the kid to want the sameEasy. "Because they think it's pretty."
thing and they might try to do it to themselves. Oh, and is a metal
ring through a tongue really pretty?
I think they do it because to them it IS attractive or helps them achieve a social status. And I have and will let my 2 children watch these shows. And answer their questions honestly. 99.9999% of the time they say, "OK, but I wouldn't do that!"
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Gary Jean
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...looks faked.
Now...if he cut off a nipple I'd give him props.
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Phileas Fogg
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They claim that we shared a common ancestor.
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But National Geographic features indigenous cultures with long traditions of doing stuff to do their bodies. It's different when an American boy scout comes home with his tongue stapled to his cheek (tongue in cheek?).
If your school mates are doing it, you'd at least consider doing it yourself. That's why it's done. Where's the "yuck" factor when it's the 'in' thing to do?
If your school mates are doing it, you'd at least consider doing it yourself. That's why it's done. Where's the "yuck" factor when it's the 'in' thing to do?
and maybe with jelly, just so your tongue doesn't stick to the roof of your mouth and you can't talk.
If you didn't get the picture, I'm not much of a cook. Which is unfortunate, because I love to eat well-prepared food. I want to hear about your next gumbo feast.
Petteri Sulonen
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I don't have any plans for the next gumbo feast; we tend to cook stuff on impulse. If you happen to swing by Finland drop me a line though. Might be there's one.
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Phil Flash
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...and Iggy Pop did it before Sid.
This poor deluded performer is just a copycat. Sad that perfectly healthy people have to resort to this sort of thing for attention.
Even Gene Simmons spat fake blood.
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This poor deluded performer is just a copycat. Sad that perfectly healthy people have to resort to this sort of thing for attention.
Even Gene Simmons spat fake blood.
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Petteri Sulonen
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Phil Flash wrote:
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Is that better, or worse?
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ePan
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then there must be 999 more ways to say STUPID!
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Rob Ashton
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Good photojournalistic photos BTW.
But if anyone pays good money to see something like this or lets their kids watch this filth then I am once again proved right in my view of the world today. Where did we go wrong? What has led us to this type of behavior? There is enough needless bloodshed out there as it is. If the only way this guy can differentiate his act from others to acchieve fame and fortune is by mutilating himself on stage for the crowds appreciation there is something fundamentally bad with our society.
This is not art or music, this is just desparation for adulation.
SICK
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But if anyone pays good money to see something like this or lets their kids watch this filth then I am once again proved right in my view of the world today. Where did we go wrong? What has led us to this type of behavior? There is enough needless bloodshed out there as it is. If the only way this guy can differentiate his act from others to acchieve fame and fortune is by mutilating himself on stage for the crowds appreciation there is something fundamentally bad with our society.
This is not art or music, this is just desparation for adulation.
SICK
Rob
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Out of Africa too long
Human nature. Same old story. Good and bad. Runs the gamut.
Splatter films are mainstream.
Were you never taken to a circus as a kid?
What fun is a lion tamer, unless there's a chance he'll be eaten? How much cop was the sword swallower who didn't actually swallow his sword? Or the juggler who played with fire and put it in his mouth? If trapeze artists performed six inches above the ground and out of danger would you have been just as gripped? Is it just as exciting to watch a magician put his hands round a woman's waist as to run a saw through it?
Today, Cirque du Soleil is breathtakingly beautiful, but some of the thrill comes from the danger.
Tod Browning's "Freaks" in the 1930s thrilled partly because it had real freaks. Houdini's thrill always lay in the fact he MIGHT drown or suffocate.
Thousands were horrified when colour TV first came in to see the boxers actually bled red blood during fights.
Why would it be okay for a boxer to let someone else make him bleed, and a performer of another kind not to make himself bleed?
Do you ever hunt? Fish? Personally those exercises sicken me rather more than seeing someone voluntarily test his body to the limits. At least he gets the choice.
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What fun is a lion tamer, unless there's a chance he'll be eaten? How much cop was the sword swallower who didn't actually swallow his sword? Or the juggler who played with fire and put it in his mouth? If trapeze artists performed six inches above the ground and out of danger would you have been just as gripped? Is it just as exciting to watch a magician put his hands round a woman's waist as to run a saw through it?
Today, Cirque du Soleil is breathtakingly beautiful, but some of the thrill comes from the danger.
Tod Browning's "Freaks" in the 1930s thrilled partly because it had real freaks. Houdini's thrill always lay in the fact he MIGHT drown or suffocate.
Thousands were horrified when colour TV first came in to see the boxers actually bled red blood during fights.
Why would it be okay for a boxer to let someone else make him bleed, and a performer of another kind not to make himself bleed?
Do you ever hunt? Fish? Personally those exercises sicken me rather more than seeing someone voluntarily test his body to the limits. At least he gets the choice.
Gary
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Steve Mitchell
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If you want to see how this band fit in context with the other bands on the tour...here you are:
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Nah, "fæk" sounds better to my ear.
As in: I don't give a fæk if you agree with me or not.
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As in: I don't give a fæk if you agree with me or not.
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Petteri Sulonen
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There's always Sigil cant. "Pike off, berk, 'fore I pen you in the dead-book."
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Good one P.
Archaic language works well, and does add a certain colourful flourish to converse, but it falls down in some respects in that some of the most useful vocab' for expressive communication is actually centuries old.
However, I actually find this reassuring. Certainly, it makes a mockery of claims that society is becominb more foul-mouthed and is going down the proverbial toilet pan (with some anxious onlookers still waiting to see if it will be lost around the U-bend forever). Taking the analogy further, if "society" is going down the pan, then I would suggest that the groups setting themselves appart and taking the moral high ground must be "floaters".
Anyway, I also note that scientific terminology can also be used as an alternative to swearing amongst friends who are conversant with phrases in use. e.g: candida halitosis, yonic face, etc. etc.
It also very childish, so should only be used after a few drinks IMHO.
I have recently taken to swearing in another language. Lots of fun, but a bit more difficult to link several phrases into a particularly colourful and graphic expression. So in the end, there's still nothing quite as cathartic as using the "real" words is there?
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Archaic language works well, and does add a certain colourful flourish to converse, but it falls down in some respects in that some of the most useful vocab' for expressive communication is actually centuries old.
However, I actually find this reassuring. Certainly, it makes a mockery of claims that society is becominb more foul-mouthed and is going down the proverbial toilet pan (with some anxious onlookers still waiting to see if it will be lost around the U-bend forever). Taking the analogy further, if "society" is going down the pan, then I would suggest that the groups setting themselves appart and taking the moral high ground must be "floaters".
Anyway, I also note that scientific terminology can also be used as an alternative to swearing amongst friends who are conversant with phrases in use. e.g: candida halitosis, yonic face, etc. etc.
It also very childish, so should only be used after a few drinks IMHO.
I have recently taken to swearing in another language. Lots of fun, but a bit more difficult to link several phrases into a particularly colourful and graphic expression. So in the end, there's still nothing quite as cathartic as using the "real" words is there?
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