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I was at a party one time and a guy was really grating on me. Just being a loudmouth douchebag all night long. Some M&Ms were being passed around and he declined the offer, saying they were made with milk chocolate and that he was a vegan. Since he was annoying me and I felt like ribbing him, I pointed out that going… Read more

I’d say it’s vegetarian, ethically. But so is shit, and I wouldn’t eat that, either.
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Eh this is the internet so it won’t be popular to say but losing 10lbs of fat and gaining 5lbs of muscle generally makes people (myself included) hotter Read more

That’s definitely Allison. I don’t blame Tyra for not including Rita (make her put in a couple dozen seasons first to prove herself) but I think it’s very weird that she seemingly includes ONLY Allison instead of a number of contestants. Read more

theres something inherently masturbatory about manipulating parts of your body with someone else in mind. Read more

You know, the next time he says that he’s sad because you hit him, I think it would be perfectly okay for you to remind him of his behavior that precipitated the spanking. It would probably be good if he realizes that he was part of the problem that day. Learning that behaviors beget behaviors is a valuable lesson. Read more

I think it more like a grown man trying to marry the money that has some teenager attached to it Read more

I’m not prepared to call it child abuse. I think spanking, in and of itself, is often specifically designed to hit a child in a manner and in a location on their body where the pain will be temporary and not lasting. I still think it’s a terrible idea, and that a parent who spanks their child has run out of ideas,… Read more

I think you have a very point. As a child who was spanked, I don’t hate my parents for their method of punishment. Do I wish they tried different methods, yes. But I think its very important to delineate the difference between spanking and abuse. Spanking that is hard, continuous, and physically and psychologically… Read more

I think a theme of the books, both outertexual and textual is that kids can handle more interestering and dark literature than people often think they can.
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I feel like you title to this review sums up the material about as well as you could. If you’re doing the source material any justice at all the story almost has to be depressing and disturbing as hell. Read more

I think that’s the exact problem. There are things where something bad could happen so fast that you wouldn’t be able to stop it, and if you’ve warned your child and reasoned with them, but they’re repeating the behavior, well... if spanking stops it and keeps them alive... Read more

It seems like a lot of people don’t differentiate between “a whooping” and “a swat”. Read more

I can count on Two fingers the times I was spanked. The first was barely a smack and it was more the shock that my parent carried through the threat that was upsetting. The second wasn’t hard either, in reality. I remember very clearly how much I escalated my behavior. I wasn’t that way all the time, but there were a… Read more

I was an expecting a movie about a happy little elf.
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I get you. Read more

Same. I was spanked as a child when I was a horrible little bitch to my parents. And guess what? It worked and I stopped being a little shit. Read more

Spanking, in and of itself, is not “abuse.” It’s not necessarily RIGHT or GOOD, but it’s not abuse. Read more

For what it was, it was fine. The biggest flaw was that Jim Carrey was a little too unhinged as Count Olaf, imho. Read more

I think Jim Carey was the perfect Count Olaf. It’s a shame the rest of the movie wasn’t very good, IMO. Read more