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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Locke on 27 Feb 2007, 16:45

Title: The music that KILLS!
Post by: Locke on 27 Feb 2007, 16:45

This is the absolute greatest local news report in history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri6ySOHoDfk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri6ySOHoDfk)

Its all about Emo, and backs up its fearmongering with lyrics from the "I Must Be Emo" parody song, and several websites that I guarantee aren't legitimate.  It's a thing of true beauty.

Title: Re: The music that KILLS!
Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 27 Feb 2007, 17:08

That is the absolute worst in shoddy news reporting that I've ever seen.  Whoever put together that report should honestly be fired.

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Post by: Kai on 27 Feb 2007, 17:14

My favorite part is near the end, when the female newscaster is sitting near the computer, with pictures printed out in black and white ink from google images, talking about cutting boards that you can order online showing you where to cut your wrists.

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Post by: ampersandwitch on 27 Feb 2007, 17:58

"I know that some. . .cut themselves. . ."
Oh dear.

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Post by: ScrambledGregs on 27 Feb 2007, 18:16

The funny thing is that all these hysterical news reports about things that supposedly influence kids--be it music, video games, movies, TV, etc.--fail to ask what the kids' home life is like. Also, some people are just born fucked up and there's no rhyme or reason to it.

I'm just glad I played so much Quake all those years ago, because it sure helped me learn how to use firearms. Anyone who's ever fired a real gun knows that it's just as simple as moving a mouse around and press Control, right??

Title: Re: The music that KILLS!
Post by: Inlander on 27 Feb 2007, 18:46

Hehe, "Emos, or emotional people . . ." EMOTIONS ARE KILLING OUR KIDS! WE NEED TO DOSE UP THE WHOLE DAMN GENERATION SO THEY DON'T FEEL ANYTHING ANYMORE!

Oh, wait, we're already doing that . . .

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Post by: greenMonkey on 27 Feb 2007, 18:50

ALL PRAISE THE AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA!

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Post by: Liz on 27 Feb 2007, 19:39

That causes me to lose faith in many things. The media. This country. It is sad.

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Post by: ALoveSupreme on 27 Feb 2007, 20:27

Emo Points!!! Incredible.  You could have put this news story on about 6 years ago and it would have been about goth kids, and the emo kids at the time would have been at an Anniversary show.  Awesome.

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Post by: Hat on 27 Feb 2007, 22:13

I have aquired three thousand emo points, and would like to trade them in for a bucket full of bouncy balls, please.

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Post by: Gridgm on 27 Feb 2007, 22:42

i got points for cutting my wrists

i didn't tell them that i t was on the wrong side of my wrists and that i t was an accident

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Post by: Tyler on 27 Feb 2007, 23:00

What the fuck is seriously wrong with all of you?

There are kids dying out there. Dying.

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Post by: BrittanyMarie on 27 Feb 2007, 23:21

What's awesome is that that's how all WDAY/WDAZ reports are. Also: It is the best source of local news of the four main stations. The same station had another fear-mongering piece on piercings and brandings and when it goes TOO FAR. Their definition of TOO FAR was one girl with a bar through the back of her neck, which I don't really think is all that radical.

Title: Re: The music that KILLS!
Post by: qtownstegy on 27 Feb 2007, 23:27

MUST FORCE OUR VIEWS OF NORMALITY ON ALL THE AREA WHILE SCARING PARENTS INTO BELIEVING THEIR KIDS ARE ALL ABOUT TO KILL THEMSELVES!!! IT IS WHAT WE MUST DO FOR THE COMMUNITY!!! WE ARE DO GOODERS!!! KIDS ARE BAD!!!

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Post by: KharBevNor on 28 Feb 2007, 05:23

Has everyone read the Daily Mail article on emo? It is much in line with this.

I'm just dissapointed at how petty the scaremongering has got. Back in the 80's kids were all listening to SATANIC DEATH METAL MUSIC which made them do drugs and kill people. Now they listen to sad songs and scratch hearts in to their arms.

Hysteric fictions of kids these days...

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Post by: Cartilage Head on 28 Feb 2007, 11:28

 Sooooooo stuuupiiiiiiddd make it stoooooop.

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Post by: Ernest on 28 Feb 2007, 12:12

It just shows that the media don't fact check and they don't research.  Blatant misinformation is what it is.  This trend should be called "corporationspreyingonuntelligentasshatsviaclothingstyleandpoppydepressingmusicthatmakeskidsthinkitscooltocutthemselves," not "emo."  For god's sake.

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Post by: asyluman on 28 Feb 2007, 12:29

I know the guy who did that emu drawing.

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Post by: BrittanyMarie on 28 Feb 2007, 15:27

Actually, Flaming Ostrich, that station isn't a corporation. It's owned by Forum Communications, which is owned by the Marcil family. WDAY/WDAZ (the first is Fargo, the second Grand Forks. I live in Fargo and I get both on two different channels) has a radio station as well, which is also family-run (and recently got a lot of attention because the guy who runs it -Scott Hennen-was the fella who got Cheney to admit that waterboarding was a tactic used on Iraqis)

This whole thing is a small town tv station made a story that is hilarious just because most people in their audience has no idea what they're talking about.

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Post by: Ernest on 28 Feb 2007, 18:58

No, I wasn't calling the station corporate, I was calling the whole modern concept of "emo" corporate.

Title: Re: The music that KILLS!
Post by: BrittanyMarie on 28 Feb 2007, 19:16

Woops I misread your post. Sorry!

Title: Re: The music that KILLS!
Post by: Ernest on 28 Feb 2007, 20:22

Don't sweat it. ;-)

Yeah, I use that phrase.  What of it?