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JohnOAS
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Australia
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 Posted - 03/20/2006 : 22:55:28
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If you fancy your hand-eye co-ordination, or you're an avid gamer with ultra-accurate mouse, give this a try.
Make sure you've got your sound on before finishing levels 3 and 4. You might not want to do this one at work. It's not for the faint hearted.
  
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 23:02:50 [Permalink]
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And when you're finished, be sure to check out what one mean and horrible father did to his son.
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 23:06:11 [Permalink]
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Humbert wrote: quote:
And when you're finished, be sure to check out what one mean and horrible father did to his son.
Oh I hate that clip! My husband showed it to me thinking it was funny as hell, but I just got mad. "Mean and horrible" is right. I mean, I like sick and twisted humor as much as the next guy, but making a child cry for fun? |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 23:23:50 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by marfknox
I hate that clip! My husband showed it to me thinking it was funny as hell, but I just got mad. "Mean and horrible" is right. I mean, I like sick and twisted humor as much as the next guy, but making a child cry for fun?
No, scaring a child for fun, which is harmless enough. The crying part is just a side effect and something I'm sure he'll grow out of. In fact, once the boy calmed down a bit, I'm sure they had a belly laugh together over the whole episode.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 13:57:34 [Permalink]
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I knew that's what this was going to be. It's a old joke. They even had a version on Jay Leno. As for the kid, it's hard to say. I read that men were rougher on their kids than women so I may not be objective. And I haven't read much about whether it's good, bad or neutral that guys are rougher with their kids.
But my opinion, for what it's worth, is that kid was a tad too young for the joke. Teenage would be the more appropriate age for it. |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 18:59:17 [Permalink]
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Humbert wrote: quote:
No, scaring a child for fun, which is harmless enough.
Not all scaring is harmless. Some types of torture involve frightening a prisoner with the threat of death. Whether it is cruel or good clean fun depends on the intensity of scare and the sensitivity of the person being frightened. quote:
The crying part is just a side effect and something I'm sure he'll grow out of.
Of course he will. But it is totally normal for a child that age to cry and to be severely frightened by something like that.
And for the record, I am NOT trying to say that scaring that kid was child abuse or even heinous. Only that it was potentially cruel, depending on some unknown circumstances - like how sensitive that particular kid is and what his relationship with his dad is like.
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In fact, once the boy calmed down a bit, I'm sure they had a belly laugh together over the whole episode.
I don't know why you would make that speculation. I could just as easy speculate that the kid had nightmares for a week (as many kids do after watching horror flicks). The truth is that we don't know the aftermath. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 19:32:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by marfknox
I don't know why you would make that speculation. I could just as easy speculate that the kid had nightmares for a week (as many kids do after watching horror flicks). The truth is that we don't know the aftermath.
I thought it would be clear that I was being sarcastic.
And just for the record, I think it was a mean thing to do to a kid, but I also think it was funny. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 19:35:32 [Permalink]
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I'm sure the kid will come back and thank him sometime. It'll be in the middle of night when his dad is in bed -- he probably won't feel a thing.
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 20:11:37 [Permalink]
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Humbert wrote: quote:
I thought it would be clear that I was being sarcastic.
Ah. The perils of written communication. quote:
And just for the record, I think it was a mean thing to do to a kid, but I also think it was funny. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.
I agree completely. |
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