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Submitted by Wallstreet (View user info) at 2006-08-24 22:55:47 EDT
Am I the only one who thinks that Gnarls Barkley song "Crazy" is just okay? It's not a bad song but definitely not the "Song of the Summer" it has been dubbed with. The baseline is cool but beyond that it doesn't do much for me.
That story about the 14 year-old girl who loaned her iPod to another girl, who subsequently left it on a desk to be a stolen and who is now suing is everywhere. My take on that story is the parents of the girl who "lost" the other girls iPod should step up and give the other girl's family the money to buy a new one. Their daughter did a shitty job of keeping track of the iPod she asked to borrow and thus she needs to learn that there are consequences associated with that.
But no one in America accepts responsibility for their actions any more, two examples:
1) These 8 Puerto Ricans moved in down the street from us (in a 3 bedroom ranch house) and "coincidentally" there has been all kinds of petty vandalism on weekend nights. We got our porch lights smashed out, someone else got their back window smashed out, others got their satellite dishes broken, etc. About a month ago I physically saw two of the kids break the porch lights of our neighbors and called the police.
When the police came the father was there and the policeman was talking to him. He kept saying "no, no these kids weren't even home tonight, you got the wrong kids".
I said, "I saw them smash out the windows, I went outside to stop them and they ran down the street and right into your house. They did it, they know they did it and you know they did it. The right thing to do here is teach them a lesson and have they pay the consequences for what they did. They'll be better kids in the end for it."
The father looked at me and said, "take us to court then, they didn't do it."
The police offer told him, "Sir, you're missing an opportunity here to do the right thing and teach your kids a lesson. By lying for them and weaseling out of it, you're teaching them to lie and never be accountable for their actions. Today it's porch lights and car windows, what about a few years down the road when it a carjacking or felony theft?"
The father rolled his eyes and said, "they didn't do shit and you got nothing on them."
Now if this had been ME back when I was 13 years old and the cops came to the door after I had vandalized neighbors property, the cops would have needed to be there to pry my dad off me as he'd had have been beating the hell out of me and physically dragging me to each neighbors house to apologize and make a plan to pay them for the damage.
This father let them get away with it and the kids will learn nothing.
2) Any athlete who gets caught for steroids in this country develops permanent amnesia and suddenly has no accountability for their actions and issues statements like:
"I never KNOWINGLY took any type of performance enhancing drug", or
"We're looking into how this could have happened", or
"My trainer, masseuse, garbageman, ANYONE ELSE, may have unwittingly injected me with the banned substance"
Barry Bonds, Floyd Landis and that black sprinter guy should all be ashamed for not being man enough to admit it once caught. Jason Giambi is the only major athlete to ever admit he took steroids, be a man, accept his punishment and move on. And he's playing great juice-free today.
So the iPod girls' family should teach their daughter a lesson about responsibility
The Puerto Ricans dad should teach his sons a lesson about community, respect and accountability
And the juiced athletes should accept responsibility for their own actions and drop the charade
That's all I got today.
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-08-25 17:39:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I'll give this a positive rating on the condition that you firebomb the spics house, perferable while they're in it.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-08-25 14:25:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
That fucking Gnarls Barkely song is worse than this post. Hate the fucking thing.
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-08-25 11:48:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
This was pretty ghey by any measure.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2006-08-25 04:46:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
I like the song. Really I do. I'd buy the album if it was on vinyl, because I've decided to regress technologicaly.
here's a link to real, mostly stolen from myself with the help of othere, randomness.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/92092
Submitted by whysenheimer (user info) at 2006-08-25 03:31:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
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Submitted by Creepy_guy (user info) at 2006-08-25 01:59:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I fucking hate that Gnarles Barkley song...
Submitted by Antioxident (user info) at 2006-08-24 23:34:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
No
Submitted by Sockster (user info) at 2006-08-24 23:10:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
That wasn't very random.