[The Jewish Cunthead]

Seriously... this is so fucked up.

[Byrntrigan]

Yeah, I saw that. The parents are bastards in my opinion.

[Eric O'Mac]

Yeah, seriously. Not only do they go through all of the trouble to try to fool him, they seriously can't understand why he'd be upset. Then they go and post it on youtube for the world to see.

Fuck 'em.

[Byrntrigan]

This will seriously be a turning point in this kids life. I'm not gonna say he'll turn into a pimp or crack dealer because of this, but way to fuck with your kid's innocence and his trust in you, his parents, ya fucking fuckwads.


I swear to God, you'd think you'd need to have a license or something to drive a car, but any idiot can have kids.

It's shit like this that makes me want to smack parents around, and ask them what they were thinking. It's not a 16 year old, who would probably laugh after a bit, but a 9 year old.

[Lucky]

Isn't this last year's outrage?

I still contend that any kid who cries over an X Box is a spoiled brat and deserves to be pranked. And that there's a strong chance that kid got over it quick or that the XBox was waiting in the closet. But even still. Mean prank, family should feel bad they made their son feel bad. WAAAAAAY overreacted to on the net considering we routinely post articles about parents having sex with their children or racists or whatever and just make jokes about it. But fuck with a kid's video games and the internet freaks the fuck out.


EDIT:

See? Like that. Byrne, if this is the worst thing that happens to that kid in his childhood this kid is going to be really lucky. I can't imagine how anyone sees it different. Your parents played a bad joke on you. At least they didn't rape, beat, or starve you. At least they're not junkies or criminals. At least you have clothes, food, and a warm home.

I'd love to meet the 25 year old who blames his personal problems or poor life decisions on the fact that his parents pretended to give him an N64 when he was a kid. I'd laugh in that fucker's face and call him the loser he is.

[Byrntrigan]

I thought "last years outrage" was a white kid. Either way, around Christmas time everyone remembers when they were kids and how excited they were, and to fuck with that is cold.

MTA:

I stand corrected.

[Lucky]

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[Byrntrigan]

Dec 24, 2008 17:45:35 GMT -5 Lucky said:

Isn't this last year's outrage?

I still contend that any kid who cries over an X Box is a spoiled brat and deserves to be pranked. And that there's a strong chance that kid got over it quick or that the XBox was waiting in the closet. But even still. Mean prank, family should feel bad they made their son feel bad. WAAAAAAY overreacted to on the net considering we routinely post articles about parents having sex with their children or racists or whatever and just make jokes about it. But fuck with a kid's video games and the internet freaks the fuck out.


EDIT:

See? Like that. Byrne, if this is the worst thing that happens to that kid in his childhood this kid is going to be really lucky. I can't imagine how anyone sees it different. Your parents played a bad joke on you. At least they didn't rape, beat, or starve you. At least they're not junkies or criminals. At least you have clothes, food, and a warm home.

I'd love to meet the 25 year old who blames his personal problems or poor life decisions on the fact that his parents pretended to give him an N64 when he was a kid. I'd laugh in that fucker's face and call him the loser he is.

Lucky, I'm not disagreeing with you, but wouldn't you think the kid's gonna have trust issues with his parents?

Maybe I'm overreacting because I have a kid, but that's atleast pretty mean.

I mean, Draven has been talking for like 2 months about a Nintendo DS, and if I gave him a box, and then it didn't have it in there, he'd be upset. Maybe I'm just overreacting because I have a kid, and Christmas is usually the one time a year most people act human, and these people decide to pull shit like that...

[Lucky]

I never wanted to suggest that it wasn't basically mean. It is mean. I think some people can take mean. Some can't. Kids probably can't. I'm a non-parent who despite being a teacher has never really related well with children. Its a mean thing. It totally is.

Its also a think I think I had my childhood. But people have different upbringings. My godfather made it his goal in life to "tough love" me and my cousins. He bullied us and picked on us and pulled pranks. And I loved it and did it when I "came of age." My sisters hated it and just grew to cast judging eyes on us as we did it to the next wave of kids. I totally get that a kid may react bad and I don't mean to dismiss that the family fucked up.

If that kid's tears were sincere than the family should feel bad. It was a mistake. I just don't like judging them on a 3 minute clip that THEY posted. And taken at its absolute worst it still doesn't strike me as that horrible. Does a child being tricked and thats it seem like a horrible Christmas? Hell yeah. But maybe I'm naive but I assume that kid got comforted or given the gift or something.

Point is... it was a mean trick and the family fucked up. But it can be easy to get over. It just struck me as insane how people reacted to it as severe. Parents fuck up. Sometimes parents fuck up big. That seems fairly innocent of a fuckup. If the parents are any good they comforted the kid and everything was good. If they were didn't get that the kid was upset that the kid had bigger problems.

You wouldn't pull the prank on Draven because you believe it wouldn't be cool. And that makes sense. The parents clearly fucked up. But I've seen and worked with enough parents who made bigger mistakes that I can't bring myself to give these folks the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they're scum fucks but I don't think the video showed that and I prefer to believe one more family is functional.

But I've pulled Christmas pranks on friends and family. Thankfully they've all worked out well. But my sister freaked out on me 3 days ago because I called her "stupid" for some random thing. Knowing your audience is key. I don't want to condemn someone for doing it. We have no idea how it played out and how people dealt with it.

EDIT: I think being from a VERY large family might skew my opinion. I have a HUGE family and in a family that size I think mean spirited stuff is inevitable. And like I said, I have a beloved uncle who made it his role to tough love us. And I love that about my upbringing and carried it on. But I still get that this kid probably wasn't up to handling it.

I just think playing a bad prank on your kid is SOOOO far from the truly worst things you can do.

[Byrntrigan]

Well said Lucky.

I think that it's a 3 minute window into that family, that skews almost everyone's opinion. They could be awesome parents who misjudged their kid that day.

We'll never know, because they didn't post that part on YouTube.

I also got roughed up by a loved uncle and cousin. And had stuff like that played on me. But I agree, if that's the worst thing that the kid deals with in his upbringing in todays day and age, then he's doing pretty good.

If you want Lucky, share some of those stories of what happened to you, and I'll share some of mine.

I think that be fun to see the mischief and tough love we all got...

[Andy]

From what I remember they did end up giving the kid the X-Box, they just tricked him first for the youtube video. I can't remember where I saw that, but I remember this video floating around last year.

I can't actually back that up or anything, but I do remember seeing that somewhere.

[Fire-Babe]

I hope they gave it to him eventually.

If not, at least the video is saved to be used as evidence in his favor, for when he becomes homicidal and mows them all down.

FWIW, My family (especially my maternal grandfathers' side) could be incredibly mean and cruel teasing each other. Until it would make one of the kids cry. That would usually bring everything to a screeching halt.

[creepy]

I think that finally settles it. Black people make bad parents.

[Andy]

Come on though, how can they know anything about good parenting when they're only in 9th grade?

[creepy]

Good point, although that also brings up the fact that they're too cheap to buy condoms.