[culturehandy]

I refuse to watch movies like hostel, saw etc. Disgusting.

EJ thanks for bringing the website up! This issue of "drug addicted prostitues" these were women they were someone's daughter, mother, sister, aunt. But what does the media refer to them as? Drug addicted prostitutes. Niiiiiiiiiiiice.

[erinjane]

Freckle, I felt that way when I saw the movie "Wolf Creek". Some guy took me to it on a date and I can't believe I didn't just walk out. I felt so angry after we left the theatre I couldn't sleep. It was the most disgusting, misogynistic movie I've ever seen.

But on another note, (I put this in both "this just in" and "i'm canadian" because there were recent discussions pertaining to this in both)

I came across this website today and thought it was a really neat and a good way to bring attention to these missing women.

http://www.masik.ca/features/theforgotten/index.html

[freckleface2727]

I find hunting vile. I heard there was a place in Texas where hunters could hunt big game, like lions and tigers. what is with the fucking wet dream of killing an animal, that just lives? What kind of peanut dick/penis extender issues do you have that you need to hunt something?

*scurries off to virtual fight club thread*

the tarentino movie Hostel.
.. I didn't know........the trailer woudln't load on my computer when we were looking for a movie to see...
I sat thru the whole thing (the mr woudln't let us leave as a point of "this is why you are never allowed to pick the movie") w/ 1 hand covering my eyes and the other cupping my ears making a helipcopter sound to muffle the, uh, sounds.
just seeing the dvd rental cover at the video store is enough to give me flashbacks.

as if there isn't enough violence in the world already?

[culturehandy]

I find hunting vile. I heard there was a place in Texas where hunters could hunt big game, like lions and tigers. what is with the fucking wet dream of killing an animal, that just lives? What kind of peanut dick/penis extender issues do you have that you need to hunt something?

*scurries off to virtual fight club thread*

[freckleface2727]

nick, that is awful.
what the hell is Wrong w/ people today?
honest to gosh but it's screwed up.


I realise now what a tremendous bullet I dodged when I married my mr, that he doesn't hunt.
it honestly never crossed my mind that he might, he never came across as "the type" but I have sinse learned that most male members of his family & extended family does so, and apparently, quite proudly.

that is grounds for legal termination to me, way beyond irreconcilable differences.

[culturehandy]

Freckle, I think that people who hunt should be placed in a fenced area and be hunted themselves. Of course, there will be traps with big spikey teeth that they can't see, and other such evils. Yup.

NickClick, WTF? Some people, that is some sick shit going on.

[nickclick]

man gets beat up for wearing pink pants

[freckleface2727]

this is just sick and makes me CRAZI ANGRY!!!!!!!

I can't even think of appropriate profanity for how this makes me feel....but I certainly think that the same thing ought to be done to Him as he did to the poor bear.
and to think that he was one of the few country singers that didn't nauseat me.
.. the article says he lives in tennesee, no doubt in the nashville area... and so do both sets of our 'rents.
I really think I may be up for some peta action in response, next time we are there.

http://news.aol.com/entertainment/music/ar...9990001?cid=918

[freckleface2727]

ok, this is not even remotely interesting or newsworthy, but this happened in the town I graduated high school in, probably one of the most exciting events there, Ever.

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/in...228172409990017

[culturehandy]

I totally agree with ya erinjane.

News is just spin.

[erinjane]

Regarding the obese kid, I'm torn on the issue. A few weeks ago in my Women's Studies: Mothering course I read an article about a woman who was charged when her 13 year old daughter who weighed over 600 pounds died. It discussed the media circus around the mother and how she was a "bad mother" and how her daughter was anti-social and mean.

The author of the article, however, found that the mother had brought the daughter to the doctor over 50 times by the time she was 2, and the doctors found that dieting made her gain faster. She was taken out of school because she was harrassed and died when her mother went out grocery shopping and left her home alone for 30 minutes. The papers however, ignored all the facts and speculated how the daughter had been found surrounded by fast food cartons but all that was untrue.

Anyways, makes you think about how much of the story you're really getting.

[culturehandy]

The boy doesn't always go to school b/c he can't walk that far and needs help. CBC also said that he had difficulties washing and dressing himself.

Robert Pickton is suspected of murdering somewhere in the range of 50 women. He is currently on trial for the murder of 6 of these women, he is set to go on trial for another 20 soon.

The women worked in the sex trade in Vancouver's Lower east side, which is a low income neighbourhood, and many of the residents had addictions issues. Many of the women Pickton is accused of murdering had addictions issues.

He owned a pig farm, they are often only using DNA because foresnsics teams couldn't find the remains. They had to get physical anthropologits and archaeologists, students of the disciplines and forensics specialists in to help because the scope of the search was so large.

www.theglobeandmail.com has daily coverage on the trial.

[mornington]

this kid has a lot of health problems, though, and she's been told again and again that he needs to loose weight. Apparently he has trouble dressing himself, and simply attending school. He's grossly, morbidly, obsese, and something really has to be done to help his mother see that. I never honestly thought they would take him into care though.

is the picketen case the one where he murdered all these women and no-one noticed for years? I think I heard it on the news when the case started, but nothing else since.

[ginger_kitty]

culturehandy, I had to google the Robert Picketen murder trial, b/c I wasn't sure what you were refering to. I was shocked when I read the details of the case. But I don't think it's really getting any publicity here in the states, your mentioning it was the first I'd heard of it.

Back to the child in England though, I am not sure how I feel about either. With rising obesity rates across the world, it seems like something must be done. But I am not sure taking a child away for neglect is the right way to handle it. I think I read recently that 30% percent of child in the US are obese, so I am thinking some kinds of measures need to be taken, but it's such a difficult subject. I wanted to smack the crap out of that particular mom, for letting admitting that she lets him snack all the time and saying 'what can I do?' But I am curious how do you convince/educate kids to live/eat in a more healthy manner, when thier parents are doing little to in terms of setting limits and boundries?

polly, I'm not surprised about the Notre Dame thing they are notoriously strict even amoung Catholic colleges. Yay, for the students on finding an off campus venue and going ahead with the production anyway.

[culturehandy]

Avi, I was thinking about a Canadian equivalent to Uncle Sam, and I've never heard of anything. I did a google search and all I could find was how the current Canadian government was cozying up to Uncle Sam.

I always equated British and England as the same thing. UK, not so much.

[mornington]

only the english will ever actually call themselves british, too (unless you're talking about passports). one of the more significant things is that england, ireland, wales and scotland all have thier own languages (although there are/were gaelic languages in parts of england too) - although i think it's only in wales that welsh is actually taught in schools and used on road signs.

the equivalent to uncle sam on the pointy "we want you for the navy" or whatever poster is Lord Kitchener, he was a general back in WWII (might be WWI). Other than him, I don't think we really have a similar figure, unless you count the bulldoggy blokey thing whose name I can't remember.


back to the child... i heard her on the radio the other day saying he refuses to eat vegetables and she "can't starve him". I wanted to shout at her. He has all sorts of health problems, she should have grown a backbone and not given him any option.

[bunnyb]

There is a difference: America is one country/continent and that Brit underestimated its vastness and discounted all of the beautiful states between and around NY and LA; Britian consists of four different countries, each with their own heritage and nationalism: England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It pisses off most people living in those other three distinct countries (under the big umbrella of Britain) to be called England.

eta: personally, I don't care much for saying Great Britain and prefer UK (although there is no nationality equivalent so it's back to British).

[pollystyrene]

This was in the paper yesterday:
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`Monologues' is moving off Notre Dame campus
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Associated Press

February 26, 2007

SOUTH BEND -- "The Vagina Monologues," which avoided being banned from the
University of Notre Dame last year, won't be performed on campus this year
because student planners couldn't get an academic sponsor.

"We asked several departments. Some declined, and some didn't respond at all,"
said Notre Dame junior Lisa Rauh, one of the organizers of this year's
production.

Instead, about 25 students from Notre Dame and sister school St. Mary's College
will perform the play at an off-campus venue, First Unitarian Church. All
proceeds will benefit the YMCA of St. Joseph County.

Rev. John Jenkins, Notre Dame's president, last spring declined to ban the
performance and other events that may go against Roman Catholic teachings on
campus on the grounds that universities should be places where debate is
promoted. The school's trustees later passed a resolution expressing confidence
in Jenkins.

Copyright © 2007, Chicago Tribune

[aviatrix]

wow. you guys sure know how to make someone feel like a dumb american for asking a facetious question. so is there an equivalent to uncle sam in canada, britain? i suppose that's what i get for being a wise ass. :/ and since i've already made an ass out of myself i might as well go the whole route: whats the difference between britain and england? who knew there was one? i suppose it's no worse than a friend who had some brits come visit him for 2 days in colorado and them asking, "where should we drive to first, la or nyc?"

[bunnyb]

Mother England would be England, not Britain.

Anyway, it's been a huge story here; I don't know what to make of it either. The mother said she wasn't neglecting her son because if she was he would not be fat; it struck me as an incredibly asinine thing to say.