Pokemon has a bird-flu cock snot problem
Faint hope: A Pokemon after being forced to fight until it passes out and possibly dies of bird flu.
IT’S no secret that Pokemon is the most vile, sadistic and insidious animal-fighting game ever inflicted on an entire generation of impressionable children. Even now, it could be breeding a whole new legion of Michael Vickses who think that it’s perfectly fine to force dogs to fight to the death just because they grew up watching that sort of sicko action on low-quality Japanese cartoons.
But could Pokemon bear an even greater guilt? Could it already have a human death toll? A death toll that could quickly balloon into tens or hundreds of millions?
Quite possibly. Pokemon could be helping to spread deadly H5N1 bird flu across Asia and into unsuspecting Western countries.
At this very moment, in an American Airlines airliner high above the Pacific, there could be a sweating, sneezing, American tourist headed home to Los Angeles, New York, Denver, Dallas, or even Athens County, Ohio, unwittingly passing on a viral time bomb to everyone he sees.
Within weeks, millions of Americans could be dead.
Bye bye birdy: In Pokemon’s sicko version of reality, filthy, lice-ridden pigeons never die. In real life they can kill you with the deadly H5N1 virus.
All because of Pokemon.
Pokemon glamourises cockfighting, and cockfighting spreads bird flu. In Asian cockfights, the cock owners expose themselves to cock diseases when they suck the cock snot out of their cock nostrils to make them breathe better. In Thailand alone, at least eight human deaths have been linked to cockfights.
If the deplorable, desensitising violence of Pokemon games and cartoons is enticing Asian children into the high-risk world of Asian cockfighting, the very least that Nintendo could do is try to incorporate a public health warning into its silly products.
A sample bit of dialogue could go as follows:
ASH: Crikey! That bulbasaur sure beat the living tripe out of my old pikachu! I think I’d better give his nostrils a bit of a suck!
MISTY: No, Ash! Wait! Don’t you know that you can get the avian influenza by sucking the blood and mucus out of injured animals?
That’s two lines that could quite possibly save millions of lives. But will Nintendo do it? Of course not.
The hypocrisy is staggering. And it could kill us all.
***UPDATE*** In the comments section below, a certain pokephile who is usually very reasonable but who has some very strange ideas about Pokemon is claiming that Pokemon bears no resemblance to cockfighting.
Exposed: This cockfighting Pokemon chicken grows up to be a great big cock with cockfighting spurs on its legs.
This is demonstrably untrue. Just look at the little chicken thing call Torchic, which grows into a great big cock thing called Blaziken, which actually has cockfighting spurs on its legs.
Checkmate, Pokefans. Or, should I say, Pokabusers.
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10:00 am
CHARMANDER I CHOOSE YOU!!!
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10:36 am
Arthur… You know I’m usually cool with you… But honestly… This article is Farfetch’d…
Pokemon pun aside (Had to)… This is such a stretch…
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8:14 pm
It only takes one sick cock, OA. Just one.
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8:37 pm
In my opnion, this would of been a fine story if Pokemon hasn’t even been mentioned…
I agree with you that kids shouldn’t be anywhere near cockfighting let alone partake in it… But Pokemon doesn’t make a kid get into cock fighting just as Assassin’s Creed doesn’t drive a kid into organized murder or Mario doesn’t drive kids to stomp on turtles… I could stretch this metaphor for miles… But I’d rather not throw a mile of text up…
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8:40 pm
Even if that was true, it still wouldn’t cost them anything to incorporate bird-flu education into their cockfighting cartoons.
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8:51 pm
For now, I’m not gonna to address the “cock fighting” comment… But I could talk your ear off…
But it isn’t there business to incorporate bird flu awareness… Since, despite what’s in your article, there isn’t any correlation between bird flu and Pokemon…
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9:03 pm
Of course it’s cockfighting.
The whole concept of Pokemon is to catch wild animals and make them fight each other until they fall unconscious.
If you want to tell yourself that the animals actually enjoy being being caged in tiny little balls and only being let out to fight, that’s just your way of rationalising it.
“But it isn’t there business to incorporate bird flu awareness”
Well then it’s not MTV’s business to tell you not to copy the stunts on Jackass.
” there isn’t any correlation between bird flu and Pokemon”
That has yet to be seen. Nobody has done a proper study yet. In any case, it doesn’t require a pattern of correlation; it requires just one incident.
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9:25 pm
“Even if that was true,”
And you’re an idiot for thinking it isn’t.
“it still wouldn’t cost them anything to incorporate bird-flu education into their cockfighting cartoons.”
So do you judge every single cartoon or piece of media based on whether or not it’s teaching children something?
“Of course it’s cockfighting.”
No, it’s not. Aside from it not being the literal definition, it’s not even animal fighting; the creatures are entirely made up. If a kid sics his dog on someone else’s dog, then clearly that child has problems. You’re an idiot for thinking that video games cause violence.
“If you want to tell yourself that the animals actually enjoy being being caged in tiny little balls and only being let out to fight, that’s just your way of rationalising it.”
You’re basically asking for the specifics of how someone can contain something the size of a building into a tiny little ball.
“That has yet to be seen. Nobody has done a proper study yet. In any case, it doesn’t require a pattern of correlation; it requires just one incident.”
So you’re stirring up a fuss over something you just admitted hasn’t happened yet, and odds are never will. Going by your own insane logic here, living in Australia could lead you to have sex with koalas. It remains to be seen, but it could happen, and it only requires just one incident.
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9:25 pm
One of the problems with your argument is that you’re applying real world logic to a heavily fictitious world… It leaves holes…
In Interviews with Game Freak developers, they’ve said that Pokeballs are little self contained environments… So it isn’t being “caged in little balls”
Pokemon have adapted to battle… Set a dog on fire (Which is horrible, I’m not advocating this) the dog will he terribly scarred and injured beyond belief if they live… You can set a Pokemon on fire, and they come out of it without a scratch… Hell, even the Grass type Pokemon survive when set on fire… Couple that with the Pokemon world’s insta-heal technology… They are prepared for all that (in their world)
Splitting this into two comments
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9:27 pm
Don’t you have a memorial page to vandalise? Grieving families to torment?
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9:27 pm
One of the BIGGEST themes throughout all of the games is friendship and bonding with your Pokemon… They aren’t just pawns for battle… They are your most trusted frends willin to fight for you just as you are ready to care for them…
Jacka** purposely does stupid sh*t so the warning is understandable… Pokemon doesn’t advocate anything dangerous thus no warning is needed and is pointless
Good luck even finding one incident… I imagine it’ll be a massive wild goose chase
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9:28 pm
Hi OA, my comment above was for LN.
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9:28 pm
I apologize for the split comment… The site would not let me post the whole thing…
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9:30 pm
All good… I knew that was directed at LN…
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9:32 pm
“Don’t you have a memorial page to vandalise? Grieving families to torment?”
Don’t you have some points to try to invalidate (and fail miserably), or are you going to run away?
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9:35 pm
“They are your most trusted frends willin to fight for you just as you are ready to care for them…”
Not to defend you, just to entertain you.
At least in Free Willy they only caught him and made him do tricks. They didn’t force him to fight other dolphins.
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9:38 pm
They fight to defend you as well… Wild Pokemon attack you… If you didn’t have a Pokemon, you’d be screwed… Like being mauled by a bear… A bear that could inflict horrible pain on you with elements…
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9:41 pm
” bear that could inflict horrible pain on you”
But which can’t inflict this “horrible pain” on the animals you make fight it for your own entertainment?
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9:45 pm
Like I said above… Pokemon have ADAPTED to all this… The can shrug off a freaking lightning bolt… Humans haven’t adapted to that… Even in the Pokemon world… Like I said real world logic falls terribly apart when applied to Pokemon…
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9:50 pm
To sum up SJP’s entire whining, he’s basically going ‘WHY WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE IMAGINARY CREATURES?!’
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9:52 pm
” real world logic falls terribly apart when applied to Pokemon”
That’s because your defence of Pokemon is built on a logical fallacy, to wit: special pleading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading
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9:54 pm
LN, shouldn’t you be off somewhere telling a stressed-out child that the world would be a better place if he killed himself?
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9:59 pm
Whoa whoa whoa… How is it a fallacy?
You are applying REAL WORLD LOGIC to a FICTIONAL UNIVERSE… That itself doesn’t make any sense… If I seemed annoyed at this point, it’s because I actual am… By claiming I’m using a logical fallacy, you’ve pretty much just dismissed my entire argument for the sake of keeping face…
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10:06 pm
“That’s because your defence of Pokemon is built on a logical fallacy, to wit: special pleading.”
Your entire argument is based on the idea that creatures that don’t even exist feel pain and you have the nerve to call OA’s defense a LOGICAL fallacy?
“LN, shouldn’t you be off somewhere telling a stressed-out child that the world would be a better place if he killed himself?”
Are you going to get back on track or can we chalk this up as you being rock-stupid and be done with it?
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10:11 pm
But it *is* special pleading.
OK, let’s say that there’s a new Xbox game called Grand Theft Chicken.
You play a young cockfighting trainer who has to buy razor blades to attach to the legs of a cock and force it to fight other cocks.
As you keep forcing your cock to fight and it kills more and more other animals, and blood splashes all over the screen, you start getting loads of money and respect and women fall all over you.
And then you can move on to forcing a dog to fight other dogs and then the more dogs you kill the more money and respect and female attention you get.
Would you say that that game would send a bad message to children?
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10:13 pm
LN, my last comment was for OA, not for you. Take your hatred somewhere else.
OA, I added an update to the end of the main post for your benefit.
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10:23 pm
Yes, that would be a bad influence… But that hypothetical game is still based on realism… Pokemon, however, isn’t realistic at all; electric mice, fire dragons, psychic ducks… There’s no realism
In short;
Realistic Cock Fighting game, being based on realism runs on completely different logic to a game such as Pokemon, which has its own canon, fantasy set of rules separate from that of our world
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10:28 pm
Well, at least we understand each other’s position. I am glad that you agree that my hypothetical game would be a bad influence on children.
But I still contend that you are wrong about Pokemon because Pokemon and my hypothetical game are essentially the same.
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10:29 pm
“But it *is* special pleading.”
How is it special pleading when it’s not real?
“Would you say that that game would send a bad message to children?”
Considering such a game seems set in reality where the animals are limited to their real-world counterparts, then yes. Go ahead and show me a horse that’s on fire that doesn’t burn people when someone sits on it, or show me how a giant whale and a house cat are able to mate, or how plants are able to walk around and make sounds and communicate on a level that’s akin to that of an infant, though, and I might believe your claims that Pokemon is making kids get into animal fighting (even though you yourself mentioned it hasn’t happened yet)
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10:32 pm
“But I still contend that you are wrong about Pokemon because Pokemon and my hypothetical game are essentially the same”
So you’re saying you believe that genetically modified animals with powerful psychic abilities that has the DNA of a cat-like animal that has the DNA of every single other non-human creature and was created by a giant horse with a golden ring around it’s torso exists? Big difference between a chicken in a game that acts very much like a chicken in real life, and a chicken in a game that breathes fire and grows arms and knows kung-fu.
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10:36 pm
So no work of fantasy art, be it film, television, novel or video game, can ever convey a message about the real world.
Wow.
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10:45 pm
And that was uttered where? You’re trying to equate creatures that don’t exist in reality, that are nothing more than a bunch of 1′s and 0′s at their fundamental cores, with various bits of coding that says that they look like something when presented on a screen, that are only made in the real world as pieces of plastic or cloth constructed in a factory, to real world animals. You’re throwing a fit that an electric rat that’s marketed all over the world is being ‘abused’ in a fictional world. You somehow think that in this fantasy world, the creatures are being forced to fight against their will. Nevermind that it’s never the case in the media, you just think it to be true. You apparently haven’t even seen it, since if you did, you’d realize that the creatures are capable of communicating with human beings.
Let me ask you something: do you think things like boxing, wrestling, or anything of the sort are terrible, horrible things?
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10:51 pm
“And that was uttered where? ”
Well, that’s what your last two comments are essentially saying.
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11:08 pm
“Pokemon and my hypothetical game are essentially the same.”
Nnnngh… I’d rather not ruin this peaceful impasse were currently at… But there not the same… At all…
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11:38 pm
“Well, that’s what your last two comments are essentially saying.”
You can essentially say anything, doesn’t mean you interpreted correctly. You’ve also yet to actually answer just why you seem to care so much for literal lines of code that’s presented in a game or drawings that move at a rapid pace as if they were real life objects with real life consequences.
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11:58 am
Okay…
1. Yes, to a large degree games affect a child/gamers outlook on the world.
2.Blaming disaese on games is like blaming KoRn for high school violence. Let’s not use pokemon as a scapegoat for a real problem. That is not a solution.
3. Seriously? A.D., you are a good thinker…Most of the time…I mean, why this?
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9:21 pm
MCF, doesn’t your point #1 at least partly contradict your point #2?
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10:05 pm
Correlation is not causation. If a child becomes violent after playing a video game, there’s a very good chance that the child was inherently violent and has something wrong with him or her. Getting rid of the symptoms doesn’t treat the disease. Assholes like you, SJP, who have this idea that ‘oh, this media I don’t like seems to have a negative affect on people, BAN IT NOW!’ aren’t realizing just how deep the rabbit hole goes. You’re too reactionary, and the worst part is, you really don’t care. You have your little bubble and once something you don’t know about enters it, rather than learn about it, you’d rather just ban it entirely.
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10:26 pm
“Correlation is not causation.”
To be more precise, correlation does not necessarily equal causation.
There is a correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, after all.
“Getting rid of the symptoms doesn’t treat the disease.”
What do you imagine the symptoms and the disease to be in this instance? You’re not making yourself clear, probably because you’re not thinking clearly.
“oh, this media I don’t like seems to have a negative affect on people”
What do you mean by “media” in this instance? Are you aware that “media” is a plural? You should have said “this medium I don’t like”.
Sloppy use of language is often indicative of sloppy thinking.
“aren’t realizing just how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
LOLWUT?
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12:26 am
““Correlation is not causation.”
To be more precise, correlation does not necessarily equal causation.”
Point is you think they’re one and the same in this case. You think that a piece of media has a negative impact on society, and rather than expound upon it with facts and data, you say that it’s a guess and even admit that ‘it has yet to be seen’. For all you know, it could grant kids superpowers because why not.
“What do you imagine the symptoms and the disease to be in this instance? You’re not making yourself clear, probably because you’re not thinking clearly.”
No, you’re just hellbent on being an incredibly and asinine person, probably because you’re pissed off that I’m glad that a soulless, heartless bastard is dead and you can’t just accept that.
As far as the ‘symptoms’ go, it can be any number of things. In this case, it’s children committing violent acts after witnessing them participate in violent media.
“What do you mean by “media” in this instance? Are you aware that “media” is a plural? You should have said “this medium I don’t like”.”
Seriously, how stupid are you?
“Sloppy use of language is often indicative of sloppy thinking.”
Sloppy understanding of language is often indicitative of being stupid. You’re not even being technical, I meant it to be plural, and you know exactly what I’m talking about.
“LOLWUT?”
Are you aware that “LOLWUT?” isn’t a proper sentence?
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1:00 am
“Point is you think they’re one and the same in this case.”
Not true. But just for sh*ts and giggles, what correlation do you think I have established?
“you say that it’s a guess and even admit that ‘it has yet to be seen’.”
Of course it has yet to be seen. The research hasn’t been done.
“it could grant kids superpowers because why not.”
Because that would break the laws of physics.
“I’m glad that a soulless, heartless bastard is dead”
You are the heartless one. You are everything that you claim to hate.
“As far as the ‘symptoms’ go, it can be any number of things. In this case, it’s children committing violent acts after witnessing them participate in violent media.”
In that case, Pokemon would be the disease, and the spread of bird flu via cockfighting would be the symptom.
You really do suck at analogies.
“I meant it to be plural”
You wrote: “this media I don’t like seems to have a negative affect”
If you intended to use media as a plural you should have written “THESE media I don’t like SEEM to have…”
And you meant “effect”, not “affect”.
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12:49 am
“Not true. But just for sh*ts and giggles, what correlation do you think I have established?”
You think playing Pokemon causes people to go out and get into cockfighting. Do you really need a reminder of what you basically said?
“Of course it has yet to be seen. The research hasn’t been done.”
And the point of doing this research is pointless when you consider your entire angle. You don’t care what else got people into cockfighting, you care if a damn video game led to it. Wouldn’t it be more important to find out the cause of an evil on a more general scale and THEN fix the specific problems instead of randomly targeting something that’s completely different. When giant, dream-eating tapirs and turtles with twin water-blasting barrels protruding from their shells exist, then you might have something.
““it could grant kids superpowers because why not.”
Because that would break the laws of physics.”
And it’d be stupid, much like your idea.
““I’m glad that a soulless, heartless bastard is dead”
You are the heartless one. You are everything that you claim to hate.”
I’ve said several times that I’m a Christian, surely you realize I was being sarcastic.
““As far as the ‘symptoms’ go, it can be any number of things. In this case, it’s children committing violent acts after witnessing them participate in violent media.”
In that case, Pokemon would be the disease, and the spread of bird flu via cockfighting would be the symptom.”
And how do you know that Pokemon would be the disease? The research hasn’t been done yet, you’re making a baseless claim. I could claim that being Australian will cause you to be completely f.ucking stupid for the exact same reasons you’re making your claims. Australia is the disease and stupid people are the symptom.
“You really do suck at analogies.”
No, you’re just horrible at doing some serious thinking.
““I meant it to be plural”
You wrote: “this media I don’t like seems to have a negative affect”
If you intended to use media as a plural you should have written “THESE media I don’t like SEEM to have…”
And you meant “effect”, not “affect”.”"
Didn’t we drop the whole grammatical thing, considering how you keep going back to that since you have no other means of attack? It’s the exact same thing Adam did to bail out of every single argument he’s been in; find an error, point it out, and run the f.uck away in the hopes that it somehow makes you seem like the victor.
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8:22 am
“And how do you know that Pokemon would be the disease?”
Because that’s the way that that analogy is structured. You should know, since it’s your stupid analogy.
“Australia is the disease and stupid people are the symptom.”
Yes, that is correct in terms of your analogy. In the same way that Pokemon is the disease and the spread of bird flu the symptom.
If you’re going to go around constantly making analogies it helps to know how they work.
Re correlation, do you even read these comments? You said that I think correlation equals causation in the case of Pokemon and cockfighting.
I was pointing out that that no correlation between the two has been established, which makes your statement patent nonsense.
“I’ve said several times that I’m a Christian, surely you realize I was being sarcastic.”
I don’t know what that incoherent sentence means. Whatever you are you’re not a very good advertisement for it.
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10:36 pm
“Because that’s the way that that analogy is structured. You should know, since it’s your stupid analogy.”
How is it my analogy? You’re the one that’s been making the statements in the first place, I’m just translating them since you’re being superfluous.
““Australia is the disease and stupid people are the symptom.”
Yes, that is correct in terms of your analogy.”
So you admit that being Australian makes you stupid?
“In the same way that Pokemon is the disease and the spread of bird flu the symptom.
If you’re going to go around constantly making analogies it helps to know how they work.”
You’re the one who’s constantly changing around minute details because you can’t keep your story straight.
“Re correlation, do you even read these comments? You said that I think correlation equals causation in the case of Pokemon and cockfighting.
I was pointing out that that no correlation between the two has been established, which makes your statement patent nonsense.”
Except you’re still saying that Pokemon causes people to go to cockfighting. You’re saying that because Pokemon has creatures fighting in it and animal fighting is almost the same thing in the real world, that Pokemon causes people to go into cockfighting. You point out similarities, and then decide that, because they’re similar, they must be related. You can say what you want, but in the end, you’re a hypocrite and a liar.
““I’ve said several times that I’m a Christian, surely you realize I was being sarcastic.”
I don’t know what that incoherent sentence means.” ”
I’m certain you don’t know what anything means at this point.
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12:52 am
Why is it your analogy?
Because you said: “Getting rid of the symptoms doesn’t treat the disease. ”
You made the stupid analogy in the first place.
The way you made the analogy implied that Pokemon was a symptom of the disease of cockfighting. Even you must agree that that is ridiculous.
“You point out similarities, and then decide that, because they’re similar, they must be related.”
Do you think that the word “correlation” in the term “correlation does not necessarily imply causation” means “similarity”?
You’re not going to get anywhere if you can’t even define terms properly.
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1:55 pm
SJP, you’re basically saying you aren’t punching old ladies, while you’re punching an old lady. Please tell me even your pathetic mind can understand THAT much. You’re saying one thing, and then everything else you’re saying is the exact opposite. You’re no better than the Cultwire Crew!
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8:16 pm
“you’re basically saying you aren’t punching old ladies, while you’re punching an old lady. ”
I’m loving these analogies, LN. Keep ‘em coming!
“You’re saying one thing, and then everything else you’re saying is the exact opposite.”
That’s not true.
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11:23 pm
OMG. Lol. Get a life you pathetic imbeciles. Pokemon… Really. You religious nutbags need to stfu. Religion is what is wrong with this world. Except for maybe Budhist who keep to themselves, dont start wars, and kill millions of people like Christians have done. The Holy Wars, crusades, religious zealots, etc. I can respect them, Im an atheist and dont believe in any religion but at least they are decent. Unlike you hypocritical, arrogant, self-righteous, condescending, delusional, narcissistic…. and so on and so on. Do you even know what Jesus’s message was. Atheist’s are way more compassionate than you people on this site. “Do you realize that Jesus was a peaceful, radical, nonviolent revolutionary who hung around with lepers, hookers and criminals, who never spoke english, not an american citizen. who was highly against capitalism. He was anti-wealth, anti public prayer (Mathew 6:5), Anti death penalty, never once mentioned anything about being anti-gay, never mentioned abortion, never mentioned anything about premarital sex. a man who never justified torture, never called the poor lazy, never asked a leper for a copay, never asked for tax cuts for the wealthiest nazarenes who was also a long haired brown skinned homeless middle eastern jew.” All of that is true, that is if you actually read whats in the bible.- John Fugelsang
But we know most of you dont. Stop trying to spin the fables of the bible into your sick perverted twisted psychotic fabrications of what you think he said or how he felt. I personally dont believe in god but i do respect what the story is trying to relay. You are horrible people just realize that. I wish there was an imaginary place for you morons to suffer forever.
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11:50 pm
Ken, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
1) What about the Sri Lankan Buddhists who burn Churches, attack Christians and commit atrocities against the Tamils?
2) There is no evidence outside of Christian scripture that the Jesus figure of the gospels ever existed.
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11:55 pm
“2) There is no evidence outside of Christian scripture that the Jesus figure of the gospels ever existed.”
And when the shoe is on the other foot, you’ll try to argue that Jesus DID exist.
I’ll ask you this: do you think Jesus existed?
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12:06 am
More transparent lies from LN.
I have never argued that Jesus existed. Unless new evidence comes to light I never will. I do not claim to know that Jesus didn’t exist. And I never will.
I believe that arguments should be based on facts, and that they should acknowledge any relevant absence of facts.
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12:22 am
So then, I take it you don’t believe Jesus was real?
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8:11 pm
Another pokemon story what a shocker never saw that coming from last week.
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8:15 pm
It’s not a “Pokemon story”. It’s an important public health story.
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3:44 am
So you only waited 20 year’s to tell everyone (all 10 people on this site) about it now because?
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3:53 am
20 years? What the hell are you talking about?
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9:13 pm
Pokemon’s been around for some time and apparently now you decided that these abused imaginary creatures are causing children to participate in animal fighting, even though you admit it hasn’t happened yet.
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9:18 pm
I where did I “admit” that it hasn’t happened yet?
Learn to read.
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9:22 pm
Based off the Japanese release date, Pokemon came out in 1996
American release was 1998…
So about 15 years old (American)… I was five when they came out/started playing
The more you know…
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9:56 pm
“I where did I “admit” that it hasn’t happened yet?
Learn to read.”
You can shove words into people’s mouths and yet no one else can, even though directly the world ‘admit’ wasn’t said and instead it was “probably”? Do you think you can just make up the rules and decide ‘f.uck you to anyone to points out my hypocrisy’?
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10:01 pm
LN, what the hell are you talking about?
I have not used the word “probably” in this thread.
Until you actually identify what it is that you want to argue about I can’t really help you.
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10:10 pm
Fine, your exact words were “That has yet to be seen.” which means you don’t have any evidence that what you’re saying is true. Your entire rant about anything Pokemon has done, according to you, has yet to be seen, and if no one has seen it, then how the hell could anything you have said be true? You’re essentially using one, giant Pascal’s Wager of sorts by saying that Pokemon COULD be doing these things without proof that what you’re saying is true.
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10:34 pm
“your exact words were “That has yet to be seen.”
Correct.
“which means you don’t have any evidence that what you’re saying is true.”
Correct.
“if no one has seen it, then how the hell could anything you have said be true?”
What an incredibly stupid thing to say.
“one, giant Pascal’s Wager of sorts”
Are you trying to set a record for the most inapt analogies posted in a single day?
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12:27 am
““if no one has seen it, then how the hell could anything you have said be true?”
What an incredibly stupid thing to say.”
How?
“Are you trying to set a record for the most inapt analogies posted in a single day?”
What an incredibly stupid thing to say.
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12:48 am
““if no one has seen it, then how the hell could anything you have said be true?”
How is that an incredibly stupid thing to say?
Because things don’t have to be seen to be true.
Bacteria existed long before the microscope was invented.
Australia existed long before the first human laid eyes on it.
Smoking was causing lung cancer long before it occurred to anybody that it might have been.
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1:14 am
“Because things don’t have to be seen to be true.
Bacteria existed long before the microscope was invented.”
It existed, but no one could prove that it did, mainly because they didn’t know about it in the first place. Same with your hell-hole of a country.
“Smoking was causing lung cancer long before it occurred to anybody that it might have been.”
Except there’s actual proof of that happening that can be easily seen with tests. Do you know how long people have been trying to ban games because of violent content? Years. Why? The claim that it caused people, children in particular, to become extremely violent. Why have NONE of them succeeded in America? Because tests have shown that at most there’s a correlation. This isn’t a physical thing that can be witnessed easily or with a microscope; we’re dealing with the psychological aspects of the human being, and yet with test after test, no one has been able to actually prove that violent games cause people to be violent. So, yeah, it CAN’T be proven because people have tried so many times before and they failed. Your idea that Pokemon causes cockfighting holds about as much water as me saying that it gives people superpowers.
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2:01 am
“Your idea that Pokemon causes cockfighting holds about as much water as me saying that it gives people superpowers.”
Not true. Giving people superpowers would require breaking the laws of physics.
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11:41 am
Let’s just say this: There is not yet any clear correlation between Pokemon and the spread of the H1N1 virus.
The issue suffers dearly of the lack of any solid evidence.
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12:02 pm
“There is not yet any clear correlation between Pokemon and the spread of the H1N1 virus.”
I was talking about H5N1, not H1N1, but sure — in 1918 H1N1 killed 50 million to 100 million people.
The exact kind of flu doesn’t matter. We already know that cockfighting spreads flu of any kind that comes out of birds.
What we need to find out is whether children who watch Pokemon cartoons or play Pokemon games are more likely to become involved in cockfighting.
And cockfighting is very common in most parts of the world. Even in California. In fact, it’s more common in California and the American South and South-West than anywhere else in the Western world.
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1:32 pm
I now see why scientists…or anybody hasn’t investigated this…They’re trying to not waste their time…
You need to find a REAL issue, man…
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6:59 pm
“What we need to find out is whether children who watch Pokemon cartoons or play Pokemon games are more likely to become involved in cockfighting.”
Shouldn’t the question be WHY people get into cockfighting in the first place? You’re looking at the problem from one angle and thinking that’s the way to go about things.
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8:15 pm
Or do you think children should just go around sucking on cock snot?
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8:26 pm
You think that Pokemon is causing an animal fighting epidemic, clearly intelligence is not in your favor.
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8:38 pm
LN, I never said that it is causing an “animal fighting epidemic”.
Have you finished leaving your hate messages on people’s memorial pages for the day?
That thing you left on Marcos’s page was cruel and vile. He was the kind of person you profess to care for, a young man who survived bullying at school and came out of it with a sense of humour (something you clearly lack).
And then you go and leave a spiteful comment like that on his memorial page. Like a sociopathic 4chan troll. You really show your true colours sometimes.
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8:54 pm
“He was the kind of person you profess to care for, a young man who survived bullying at school and came out of it with a sense of humour ”
He was a cruel asshole who got off on insulting others and made derogatory comments. He’s exactly the kind of asshole that’d laugh at a rape victim for getting raped.
“LN, I never said that it is causing an “animal fighting epidemic”.”
So then why bother to comment whatsoever on Pokemon and cock fighting? Pokemon doesn’t cause kids to go out and have their animals fight one another, and yet you insist on pinning the blame on it.
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8:56 pm
You need to have a think about the way you behave.
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9:18 pm
Oh how dare I not remorse the death of a human being that had only a negative impact on everyone else!
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9:24 pm
If I were you I’d email Pastor Jack and ask him politely if he would remove your comment from Marcos’s page.
It only makes you look cruel and hateful.
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9:25 pm
“had only a negative impact on everyone else”
Thousands of people loved his Skrillex article. What have you ever done that thousands of people have loved?
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9:30 pm
Nope, I don’t care. I hate the bastard, and I’m glad he’s gone. I don’t care if he’s actually dead or not, I’m happy he’s no longer going to be writing any more horrendous pieces. It’s also quite funny how you’re so concerned with me appearing to be hateful and cruel, and yet the very person who’s grave I’m spitting on believed that gay people should be tortured for eternity, a belief that you apparently have a gigantic issue with.
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9:39 pm
LN, do you understand that Marcos was a real person and that Mark E. Figs was not? Are really that f*cking stupid?
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9:58 pm
“Thousands of people loved his Skrillex article.”
And I’m sure lots of people loved Mussolini for making trains run on time, does that make him a good person?
“What have you ever done that thousands of people have loved?”
Ripped Cultwire to shreds with sanity and intelligence on a number of occasions, but I’m guessing you’re looking for something that you can’t say ‘except that’ to, right?
“LN, do you understand that Marcos was a real person and that Mark E. Figs was not? Are really that f*cking stupid?”
And Mark E. Figs isn’t a nick name to you?
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10:05 pm
“And Mark E. Figs isn’t a nick name to you?”
Oh wow.
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10:11 pm
Why I think someone is dumbstruck and learned something! Then again, Pony Lover is also debating real-world physics and morals in a fantasy realm which is filled with creatures of (quite literally) unreal power and of vastly higher intelligence than real animals.
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10:15 pm
Next you’ll be telling us that Indiana Jones is a “nickname” for Harrison Ford.
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10:21 pm
Why is Sir Anthony “Hannibal Lecter” Hopkins allowed to walk around a free man after he killed all those people and ate their livers with fava beans and a nice chianti?
Criminy, you are stupid.
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10:21 pm
His first name? Marcos. Another name that sounds similar? Mark, and a nickname for that? Marky. From that, you get Mark E. His last name? Figueroa. Take the first three letters and add and s and what do you get? Figs. I’m sorry I had to explain to you that such a concept could be used to make a nick name for someone, particularly if he was already called Marky. I didn’t realize you were THAT stupid.
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10:22 pm
And now you’re confusing actors with the characters they portray in films? Come on, Pony Boy! I thought you were smarter than that!
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10:22 pm
Hey, genius, scroll up to the top of the page and look at the photograph of Mark E. Figs. Does that look anything like Marcos Figueroa?
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10:23 pm
“And now you’re confusing actors with the characters they portray”
No, you are. That’s my point.
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10:24 pm
Am I to believe that I’m now conversing with a wombat, or should I go back to your previous image of a kangaroo drinking alcohol?
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10:26 pm
““And now you’re confusing actors with the characters they portray”
No, you are. That’s my point.”
What character am I mixing the asshole up with? Apparently in your mind, actors are their characters, pictures of people online are instantly them, and you don’t believe that taking someone’s name and changing it ever so slightly is a new identity for them.
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10:31 pm
Figs was a character, not a nickname. Are you seriously stupid enough to think that Marcos Figueroa believed that Skrillex used satanic and homosexual influence to win a Grammy?
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10:34 pm
Actually, I think you should just leave the site for good.
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10:38 pm
I’m sure you do.
Answer the question: Do you think that Marcos Figueroa believed that Skrillex used satanic and homosexual influence to win a Grammy?
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10:40 pm
Ya know, it sounds like you’re trying to say something, and I’m sure whatever it is you want to say is very interesting, but you -might- just want to ask yourself this: do you recall another individual on this site who had something very interesting to say? Do you remember what happened with him?
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10:48 pm
It’s a simple question, LN: Do you think that Marcos Figueroa believed that Skrillex used satanic and homosexual influence to win a Grammy?
If yes, you are an idiot.
If no, you are also an idiot for leaving a cruel, hateful and entirely unnecessary message on a memorial page for a real person because you object to things that were said by a fictional character.
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11:50 pm
What, are you telling me that it was a computer program that happened to have the same name as someone who worked on the site, who also sent in stories? Like I said, you might want to stop talking and drop the subject entirely. I’m trying to do you a favor here.
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12:15 am
So your answer to the question is “Yes”?
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12:25 am
Why, dear Social Justice Pony, if Marcos is not who he claimed to be, then by all means do tell us just who he was?
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3:07 pm
Let me tell you a story…
…There is a comedian…He finds a website where he can write about basically whatever he wants…He is a comedian…What will he write? Something funny.
Mark E. Figs was the author title that he used.
L.N., you don’t need to get so adamant over everything. He wrote it as a JOKE, man. Not everybody thinks like you do about this stuff. He knew that nobody but an idiot would take his article seriously. Lighten up.
AD, am I right about this? (Just making sure that I didn’t make any grave errors, or say something that wasn’t even true)
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8:12 pm
MCF, you are correct. Unfortunately, LN cannot comprehend this because he doesn’t have a sense of humour.
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8:49 pm
Oh for f.uck’s sake, you both ruined it.
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8:53 pm
LN, are you saying that you’ve only been acting stupid?
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8:59 pm
A magician never tells his secrets.
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9:08 pm
It’s a secret to everybody.
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12:40 pm
Holy Jesus Rape! why are Pistachios so goddamned addicting!?
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11:37 am
…But what about dried pineapple?
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2:46 am
why would you dry the most delicious of fruits?
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1:32 pm
Because they’re even better dried…
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12:00 am
Hi, I perfectly okay with people expressing there opinion but now I’m here to tell you mine. Pokemon has never promoted or included Cockfighting in any of their products. Torchic may look like a cock but he’s not, he’s Torchic. A lot of Pokemons look like real life animals, next are you going to accuse them of promoting Giraffe fighting? There is NEVER anything mentioned about sucking blood and mucus from any pokemons nostrils. There would still be the same amount of cockfighting in Asia without pokemon. Pokemon does not cause Birdflu, its a game, so stop trying to find things wrong with it and embrace it. I encourage you to go Catch ‘em all.
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2:05 am
Hi Kelly,
Thanks for your comment, but I think you are being very naive.
“There is NEVER anything mentioned about sucking blood and mucus from any pokemons nostrils.”
But there should be. Pokemon should be warning kids that that’s how you get bird flu.
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4:07 am
But Pokemon is not an educational game. Nintendo don’t have the responibility to ensure that children know about birdflu because pokemon doesn’t promote cockfighting.
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7:28 am
“Pokemon is not an educational game.”
You’re absolutely right about that!
Laughing out loud!
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12:17 am
So part of the reason why you’re bashing a video game is because it’s meant to entertain and not teach, which means you’re probably the kind of person that would rather let television, games, and anything else teach children, except parents or teachers.
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8:25 am
How about you debate the topic instead of making straw men to hate-fap over?
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10:25 pm
Considering you’re the one who changed the subject entirely here…
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12:43 am
No I didn’t.
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2:47 am
SO I recently learned that the people of Skyrim don’t like it when you try to pick rare gems into their pockets.
apparently it’s grounds to become hostile towards the pickpocket.
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6:11 am
Durry does have somewhat of a point. Pokemon should possibly have a ‘Pokemon Service Announcement’ in an exchange like this:
*Pikachu is sick*
Ash: Oh no! What am I going to do! My best buddy is really sick!
Ash’s Male Friend: Calm down. Pikachu’s nose is clogged and it’s hard for it to breathe.
Ash: Then I’ll suck the mucus out!
Ash’s Female Friend: No, Ash! If you let Pikachu’s mucus get in your mouth, it could cause a life-threatening infection!
Ash: Okay, then we’ll just have to find the cure!
This is for L.N.: Pokemon teaches kids valuable lessons about friendship, perseverance, and more. Even though it certainly doesn’t cause cockfighting, a health lesson would be nice too. Because if the kids’ friends start snorting cock snot to get high, he or she will, hopefully, have the wisdom to get away from that crowd.
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6:48 am
Great comment Sssgth! Racing games like Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport always have safety warnings against dangerous driving.
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2:02 pm
You’re incredibly stupid, you know that, right?
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8:18 pm
Well then the people who make Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport are incredibly stupid because nobody in real life would try to drive a car like they do in a video game. Am I right?
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8:46 pm
Considering what you said right there is true for the most part, why would they bother to put up warnings in the first place? Why should anyone who creates a game or movie or whatever else be held accountable for the actions of the individuals who decide to emulate the actions of what they saw?
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8:52 pm
So after 120 comments it all boils down to the fact that you think that people who make video games and TV shows should have no sense of social responsibility. Great.
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8:58 pm
Considering that you want to put the blame on someone else other than the perpetrator, that’s exactly how you feel.
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1:41 pm
“Because if the kids’ friends start snorting cock snot to get high, he or she will,”
And right there you’ve shown you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
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7:13 am
Coc.k sn.ot yep this is a a gay man in straight lonely man’s clothing go tell your dad all that discipline didn’t work
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8:28 am
Why does your mind go immediately to the gutter when you hear the words “cock snot”?
Are you a sex maniac?
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10:22 pm
There you go again, L.N. You mangled my words and left off part of the sentence. What I meant is that if kids are taught from a young age that certain activities are dangerous (i.e. smoking or swallowing bird mucus) they won’t do it. So telling kids that mucus can cause deadly disease might help.
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10:30 pm
Logic is not LN’s strong suit.
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11:00 pm
And why should a video game be telling that to children?
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11:06 pm
Why shouldn’t it?
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11:11 pm
Because it’s not their job nor their responsibility to. Why SHOULD they? Try answering that.
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8:19 pm
Because it might actually be in their best interest. You see, there are kids out there who will copy most everything they see. If they play Pokémon and then force their pets to battle to the death, then that event would likely (about a 9/10 chance) be picked up by the news. Pokémon would be boycotted in the US and likely elsewhere. The Pokémon Company International would lose most of its business. Cue bankruptcy. If, when the new Pokémon X and Y games come out, the better and more commonly used Pokémon resemble household pets, kids may actually make their pets fight. Cue the above happening. It would be quite easy to program in a message saying something like “The Pokémon Company International does not condone animal violence in any way, shape, or form.”
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8:47 pm
Arthur {insert random name here) sure if turning into a furry I mean nothing but pokemon talk using a panda as the pic cause stealing someone else is getting to hard it seems.
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9:06 pm
Not a furry. And it’s not a panda.
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11:34 pm
I love to suck cock snot out of cock nostrils, it gets the airflow going.
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