School Shut Down Due To "Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air" Ringtone.

[Mollocephalus]

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only a few days ago some 7-year-old kid was suspended from school for eating a pop-tart into a shape some teacher thought looked vaguely like a gun.

how can this even be possible. the teacher should be suspended for being a tragic fuck???? i really don't understand america.

[Arntonach]

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Better safe than sorry, I guess. School faculty members have always done this since they really can't take any bets when it comes to the safety of children; it's how I learned about marijuana. :/

[Mollocephalus]

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"the safety of children"

Don't give me that bullshit, USA is a country where every dumb piece of shit can get as many weapons as they please, and then someone gets haywire OVER A RINGTONE. There's nothing else to blame other than the stupidity of who is so quick to scream at the disaster and, on top of all, on the way america likes to deal with weapons.

[qqwref]

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Better safe than sorry, I guess. School faculty members have always done this since they really can't take any bets when it comes to the safety of children; it's how I learned about marijuana. :/

Haha what? This isn't safety, this is being ridiculous. No child is going to be in physical danger because another child had a rap song on their phone, or ate a pop-tart in an unconventional order, or any of a hundred other similar things.

The sad thing here is that this isn't some preteen kids not being able to deal with perceived threats in a reasonable way. If it was, I could understand. This is grown adults, people who are supposed to be well-adjusted enough to spend their working life around children, practically going crazy with fear over the mere hint of something dangerous. Maybe instead of trying to stop the handful of annual fatal shootings over the entire country, we should deal with the thousands of people with apparently severe mental illness who have a direct influence on how the next generation ends up.

[Aldentron]

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Can you blame the companies? People will only read/watch what they want to read/watch and if it doesn't sound appealing, they'll pass on it. if they have no one reading/watching their reports, they'll lose advertising and go out of business. So they'll show weird and gimmicky reports in a desperate grab for ratings. They'r ejust doing what they can to stay relevant and in business.

You answer your own question in yr post. The companies are certainly to blame. It's their business strategy. Some people get paid $20 million/year to play baseball. Companies throw their money into an investment and then pay off the media to make it seem like their product is actually important, and ignorant americans EAT THAT SHIT UP! I see more people get excited about watching super bowl advertisements than the actual fucking game these days. Those athletes are getting paid exorbitantly so that the consumer has a reason to be subjected to advertisements.

sry this post doesn't have anything to do with the topic but the topic didn't give me much to work with anyways so

[UserNameGoesHere]

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Shame on america, but first of all, shame on the small people who think they can easily profit out of population's stupidity, feeding it and making it worse.

It works, and that's why they do it. Further, there is rarely penalty and frequently profits.

Americans (and anyone really for that matter), what are your thoughts on
this video? How did you react when you heard this? Does it bother you
how morons are highlighted in news and media to the point where those outside
of America may/have/will build negative generalized opinions on based on the actions of small groups or individuals?
Or an easier question, just what are your thoughts on North American media in general?

I would say that idiots are not "small groups". I would in fact say they comprise very large groups and very large numbers. So in fact, if a foreigner to the US were to draw a conclusion based on US media that a good amount of US citizens are stupid, and if the mainstream media is assumed to cater to averages (I assume that it does, for example), then indeed it reflects on the average. I would not say it is an inaccurate conclusion to draw. On average, I would say, Americans just aren't very smart.

My thoughts on mainstream North American media is that it's generally garbage, with the exceptions of NPR, PBS, and other public broadcasting services which vary from state to state.

Also, tempted to post the Team America theme song.

[Mourningfall]

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[qqwref]

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It should read "God Suspended for 5 days" Very funny, though.