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If Oscar Wilde had lived in our time, he would be a /b/tard.

Actually, scratch that. He does, and goes by Jethro Q Walrustitty.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:26 AM

MilosStefanovic Decemberist from White City, Ruritania Since: Oct, 2010
Decemberist
#108226: Oct 19th 2011 at 6:44:30 PM

There are also some situations where corporal punishment is necessary.

I'll give an example - I was three years old, very bright for my age, but still only three years old. You can't expect to rationally reason with such a small kid. So, the inquisitive sort that I was, I once took a fork and tried to stick it in the socket. Luckily, my mom had noticed it before I managed to do it, and beat the living crap out of me. I never thought of doing it again. Now, if I hadn't got punished, I'd have probably attempted to redo it.

edited 19th Oct '11 6:45:51 PM by MilosStefanovic

The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#108227: Oct 19th 2011 at 6:48:06 PM

I'd argue that nothing is ever necessary for everyone.

For me at the very least, being yelled at would have been enough.

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
Merlo *hrrrrrk* from the masochist chamber Since: Oct, 2009
*hrrrrrk*
#108228: Oct 19th 2011 at 6:48:16 PM

Really? I never got deterred from anything, I just figured not to do it in front of other people.

Of course, I never got hurt as a kid. The only serious self-inflicted thing I ever did was get a chair to the crotch, the bruise lasted for ages. Long story.

Sorta realizing that I spent most of my childhood afraid of my dad... I only started sympathizing with him as a fellow commiserator when I realized how much psychological mindscrew my mom could do... This is depressing.

edited 19th Oct '11 6:49:58 PM by Merlo

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...
BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#108229: Oct 19th 2011 at 6:51:00 PM

I never really knew my father. I know he has a handlebar mustache, is extremely tall, and works for NASCAR in some capacity. That's about it. Oh, and his name is Keith.

My mother is....well, I used to like her a lot when she was more of a centrist. She's become a hardline Tea Partier lately, but though we don't get along politically, I still like my mother for the most part.

I wish she still watched Sailor Moon though, I never know what to get her for Christmas anymore.

edited 19th Oct '11 6:51:29 PM by BlixtySlycat

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
#108230: Oct 19th 2011 at 6:52:50 PM

There are several problems with that link. First, they describe an angry, jealous man who hurts people to get his way, then act like that is the only possible context in which someone could use corporal punishment. Second, a person is not responsible for molding their spouse's character in the same way as their children's. Third, it makes the claim that what happens to children of the angry, self-centered parents it describes is that same as what happens to any children who are spanked.

Incidentally, I would argue that yelling at a kid is more harmful than spanking them, if the spanking is not done in anger. Being yelled at makes a kid feel unloved, but if a parent says "I love you but I have to spank you because I want you to learn to be a good person", spanks the kid, and moves on, the kids learns both that his parent cares about him as well as that they must be obeyed.

edited 19th Oct '11 6:53:27 PM by EdwardsGrizzly

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BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#108231: Oct 19th 2011 at 6:55:26 PM

I really don't think that's true for everyone.

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
Merlo *hrrrrrk* from the masochist chamber Since: Oct, 2009
*hrrrrrk*
#108232: Oct 19th 2011 at 6:55:40 PM

Maybe it's just me, but "I love you but I'm hitting you" sounds less comforting than "I love you but I'm yelling at you".

I have been both spanked and yelled at, and from what I remember I did not feel loved in either of those instances. If I was scared or in pain, I couldn't appreciate the nuances of the situation. I dunno, was I an unusually simple child?

edited 19th Oct '11 6:58:58 PM by Merlo

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...
BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#108233: Oct 19th 2011 at 6:57:10 PM

Agreed.

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
#108234: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:01:57 PM

I have been spanked, and yelled at on a very few occasions. Those few occasions all made me feel terrible for a long time, while I don't even remember most of the times I got a quick spanking and the issue was over.

But parents like mine are somewhat unusual these days, so I'm probably not representative of the population in general.

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BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#108235: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:04:14 PM

I was only ever yelled at very rarely, and it was never (sans one instance) "you're a bad child", it was "don't DO that!"

I dunno, was I an unusually simple child?

I wouldn't say so.

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#108236: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:05:29 PM

My parents are South Asian and they don't spank me. I get yelled at a lot though.

I tune out the yelling, and I have done for the past 16 years.

But yeah, spanking isn't really a good thing. My mother did it for a year, realised she wasn't getting anywhere.

BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#108238: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:06:24 PM

Actually, you know what, no, I was hit once, by my grandmother. It was at the local minimall.

I ran away from her and hid in a coat rack.

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
LiberatedLiberater 奇跡の魔女 from [DATA EXPUNGED] Since: Jun, 2011
奇跡の魔女
#108239: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:16:26 PM

Spanking's part of our country's culture. Not gonna go away anytime soon.

MAL || vndb || Blog
BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#108240: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:17:13 PM

That's kind of a silly argument, isn't it? Lots of things that were once part of our culture are now gone.

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
Pyroninja42 Forum Villain from the War Room Since: Jan, 2011
Forum Villain
#108241: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:18:24 PM

Like lynching.

It will be missed.

"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."
BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#108242: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:20:04 PM

Does anyone else feel that "entitled" has become the new "pretentious"?

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#108243: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:20:35 PM

Has it ever not been that?

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
RocketDude Since: May, 2009
#108244: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:20:47 PM

@AU: And that hasn't been laughed out of every coding community how?

(Assuming any coding communities have laughed it out.)

LiberatedLiberater 奇跡の魔女 from [DATA EXPUNGED] Since: Jun, 2011
奇跡の魔女
#108245: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:21:24 PM

@Blixty: I suppose that's right, too.

I wake up this morning to find troll posts everywhere. What a surreal morning :/

MAL || vndb || Blog
BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#108246: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:21:50 PM

Has it ever not been that?

Back when "pretentious" was the new "intellectual".

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
AnonymousUser Since: Jan, 2001
#108247: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:21:57 PM

The version HH uses seems to have just started doing that today, too.

...there are so many weird things about Vanilla that ugh.

Pyroninja42 Forum Villain from the War Room Since: Jan, 2011
Forum Villain
#108248: Oct 19th 2011 at 7:23:06 PM

I misread "vanilla" as "vagina".

It made an interesting sentence.

"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."
annebeeche watching down on us from by the long tidal river Since: Nov, 2010
watching down on us
#108249: Oct 19th 2011 at 8:23:36 PM

Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones, and unnecessary words like expedite, ameliorate, predict, extraneous, deracinated, clandestine, subaqueous, and hundreds of others constantly gain ground from their Anglo-Saxon numbers.
— George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

I love George Orwell even more than I already do.

edited 19th Oct '11 8:27:59 PM by annebeeche

Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.
vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#108250: Oct 19th 2011 at 8:39:41 PM

They are greater, bitch.tongue


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