Someone needs to explain to those kids that they could have killed their parents with incorrect dosing and that's why everyone's so damn mad at them.
Nobody needs a personal computer in this day and age. If they really need one, they can go to the library, or their school computer lab. If they don't have a phone with internet access already.
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The fuck do you mean "nobody needs a personal computer these days"?! Nobody needed a personal computer twenty years ago, now everyone needs them! And don't get me started on tablets and phones, those things are still shit when it comes to computer work, hell, have you ever tried doing such a basic and trivial thing as using Facebook on a phone? The Facebook app is written by complete and utter fucktards who I won't even compare to monkeys, as that would be an insult to monkeys. Using the mobile site via browser is hardly any better. Plus, opening any links in a new tab is a massive pain in the ass.
That, and what good is a sleepover if you can't watch cat videos and anime clips on Youtube until 2AM? Where's the fucking fun in that? Those girls did it creatively. And nobody got hurt. Last time I read in the press about idiot parents overreacting after they fucked up their job, mommy dearest ate a bullet and daddy caught one too, but survived. Lesson: never take a M-rated videogame from your son who can legally play it because he's 17 and has nothing better to do since he's stuck at home with a fucking broken leg, and never hide that videogame in your fucking gun safe.
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Nobody needs a personal computer because there are public access computers everywhere. In libraries, and schools. Like I said in my original, unedited post. If they want to do personal stuff they can borrow a friend's computer.
The way you said it, you're basically valuing an object owned by two ignorant children higher than the people who could have died. There are plenty of ways for someone to die from sleeping pills. It's not a surefire way, but it still could have seriously messed them up.
Objects are not worth more than people.
"Just as planned."
In some areas though, libraries don't exist and schools won't let you use their computers much, if at all.
It does depend on where you are.
(Not to defend the kids, of course.)
"Did you expect somebody else?"
Yes, of course there are a billion possibilities and so on. But I'm dropping this topic before I get too angry.
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Bullshit. Personal computer is a personal computer. Anything "public access" is shit, if it's even available, a lesson I have learned fifteen years ago. And you seriously have to stop with the anywhere/everywhere bullshit.
I value creative solutions to problems created by stupid people. Especially when the stupid people are stupid enough to drink milkshakes served for no reason by people who don't usually serve them milkshakes.
edited 16th Nov '13 4:28:54 PM by NotSoBadassLongcoat
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It's probably less than what their psychiatrist (will) prescribe the kids daily.
Uniocular
@Not so Badass: Wait.
Are you seriously arguing that the parents should have been suspicious of their kids wanting to do something nice for them? And that they deserved to be drugged for daring to set the rules in their own house? And that some other kid was right to shoot his fucking parents because they took a god damn video game from him?
What the everlasting fuck is wrong with you?
edited 16th Nov '13 7:57:02 PM by Mukora
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
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Still just awesome like that
I was gonna respond to Longcoat, but Mukora said it far better than I could ever say it. All I have to add is this: Y'all best be trollin', boy.
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Ridiculous. Entertainment, especially when you're with friends, does not have to be a collection of 0s, 1s and Wi-Fi, but apparently kids this generation have forgotten it completely.
I'm more worried about the girl who apparently provided the pills while she's a guest in somebody else's house. The audacity is ludicrous.
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When I was a kid, I just waiting until my parents went to sleep.
Sometimes I remained awake, sometimes I didn't.
It was amusing.
Uniocular
That I can understand, that, in my opinion, is just kids being kids.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
This is why I don't generalise with statements like "You can use the computer for homework/important stuff in the library". Because there are many people who uses rather specific software that are not installed everywhere for work (especially when you are doing something like a Ph D like me).
I also however do not think that even homework/important stuff needed done online warrants possible physical harm to a person, let alone people as closely blood related as parents.
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What are you talking about? >.>
edited 17th Nov '13 7:00:01 PM by IraTheSquire
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I just think it's clear that they're brain-dead bitches who ought to be seriously punished somehow, in a way that will make it hurt.
Also, my sleepovers always involved either movies or DS games (with a board game occasionally thrown in). You Tube is not the paragon of amusement.
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Still just awesome like that
(Seriously, though, I can't parse that at all. Sorry.)
My sleepovers involve my friend falling asleep halfway through watching a movie.
edited 17th Nov '13 4:35:24 PM by Odd1
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I wasnt even allowed to have a sleepovers as a kid
I can't even remember if I ever did any sleepovers. When my buddies are around, we usually just stay up all night, watch movies and get wrecked.
Fear the cinnamon sugar swirl. By the Gods, fear it, Laurence.
Still just awesome like that
I never had any as a kid—the only sleepovers I've technically ever had were two that I went to (both of which were when I was in 8th grade and I believe 9th grade) and then just my friend sleeping over from time to time in the past couple years, so not really a "sleepover" per se there.
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Uniocular
I was never allowed to have sleepovers because my parents thought people would steal things.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
Still just awesome like that
Apparently, from what I'd asked about later on in life, the only reason I never had any sleepovers is because I never asked.
Granted, I didn't ever actually have any friends to ask to sleep over, but that's beside the point, I suppose.
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Maybe my definition of "sleepover" is skewed because I had mostly crazy all-night parties or all-night nerd gatherings involving Tabletop Games, and I'm bombarded with cliche "justgirlythings" so I can't really imagine what there is to do at an all-girl sleepover that doesn't devolve into Night Trap or the crazy shit teenage girls I know do (Do. Not. Ask.).
Anyways, a fifth of JD says the drugs weren't guest's idea. The alternative means that kids these days are fucked up even worse than I expected, and I usually expect the worst. Also, maintaining the curfew in this case was a bad call on the parents' part for reasons mentioned above (because normally, "no internet" or even "no computer after 10PM" I can understand, I know I can end up doing the oddest shit on PC until morning, be it playing a good or new game or just ruining my life with TV Tropes), to say nothing of completely missing the point and not making the curfew enforce itself with properly configured home network (as you're not going to tell me that an American family in this day and age has only one PC in the house, when two dudes in Middle-Eastern Europe have three in a small apartment).
"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von Lewis
I just think that there's more to this than just taking away Internet access. That serves our punishment, sure, but it doesn't resolve bad blood within the family. The parents need to convey to their children that after a period of probation, they want to have another chat with them later about responsible usage and trust.
A permanent punishment leaves no room for that and that's why I don't agree with it. And "no more computer until you move out" sounds like you don't want to reconcile with the daughters, because you're forcing the kids to abandon the parent's house in order to do something you still don't approve of doing.
edited 16th Nov '13 11:19:53 AM by Trivialis