The camera isn't racist. The homeowner might be a racist (we would not know unless he/she uploads every instance of such attempts to give a cold-hard-fact account that's free of manipulation -- even though that's STILL not factoring in the socio-econo-racial problem of the neighborhood -- if you choose to see things with a racial lens). But the comment absolutely is racist.

Years ago, living in my suburb home, my bike was stolen by 2 kids (garage door was open as I was mowing the lawn, but I went inside for the loo for 2 mins), I was lucky and spotted them about 5~6 streets down (took 2 lucky correct turns). They were 2 kids about 8~10 y.o. One White one Asian. Guess which one was the older, pack leader (hold my adult-size bike) and absolutely showing no remorse after getting caught?

Regardless, the kids parents might have a hard life working on weekends at low paying jobs so couldn't spend time with these kids. Who knows? I'm not so quick to judgement without knowing the root causes.

Thing is, I blame society-at-large and not see it as a racial thing. Kids are kids, easy to succumb to such temptation without good parental/peer/mentor guidance. Especially nowadays, they see adults making a CAREER/LIVING as Porch Pirates, what examples are adults giving them to imitate? You have like 40% of the adult population celebrate con mans and elect them Senators, Governors & President!

*related to http://videosift.com/video/Evidence-of-A-Long-Hard-Life-for-Judith-the-Horned-Dinosaur

He talked about his hard life, but he sang about the criminal injustice system we got here which criminalizes race and locks up a 1/4 of all black men

So many factory workers in Asia, South America, and even parts of the US that make consumer products are subject to these conditions. This focus on Apple obscures that fact that most products people buy were made under conditions some would consider harsh.

As bad as the folks in Foxconn have it-and that is a hard life- if they stayed home in western China, they would have a much worse life on the countryside. There are literally lines of people waiting to take their jobs and benefits.

No no no, it's gonna end up with her marrying the tall dark prince, who has lots of money and is heir to the throne, but secretly dresses up as a Butcher's Boy to escape the hard life of a prince...
>> ^hpqp:

A strong female character, with a celtic accent and a redhead to boot? I think I'm going to love this.

_{unless they go Disney on the ending of course...}

>> ^Phreezdryd:

The issue should be why are children having their own children before even finishing high school? How does a child working toward being a responsible adult have time to also be a full time parent? They have to lean heavily on relatives, friends, and probably government programs to get by. Children maybe end up getting treated like baggage instead of a loved, planned for part of life. Is any of this good or fair?
Rinse and repeat for generations. I think society as a whole pays for this, and not just with tax dollars. Kids need real education about real life, instead of the nonsense from the squeamish and the holier than thou.


the assumption that any two parents can raise a family completely alone without having to rely heavily on relatives, friends, and sometimes even government programs to get by is ridiculous. human beings are HERD animals. it takes an entire HERD to raise a family. furthermore, children from any type of home are equally at risk to be born to parents who often, sometimes, occasionally or all the time treat them like baggage instead of a loved and planned for part of life. dysfunction isn't specifically an attribute assigned to the young, the single, the female, or the working class.

AND sex fucking happens. human bodies reach sexual maturity in the teen years because humans didn't evolve to live past the age of 35 without serious technology, nutritional, medical and dental intervention. lackadaisical teenage fuck-off-ery is a relatively new luxury. biology didn't stop dead in its tracks to accommodate.

i was a too young single mother, it wasn't at all easy. it was hard as fuck sometimes and i worked/continue to work my ass off. there were times when there was no joy left in my house. i used to think that was only because i was a single parent. as my friends have now grown into married adults, i see that there are plenty of 2 parent families with no joy left in their houses. anyone can have a really hard life. i don't recommend teenage parenthood to anyone,ever. however, it's not the end of the world. the end of your life. or some horrific societal tragedy. the thing that i have learned is not to vilify stupid kid accidents, but rather to be completely unpuritanical about the idea that one day, my kids will be teenagers with sex drives and educate and prepare them properly, with all the tools in the belts to make reasonable decisions. hopefully, it'll stick. if it doesn't, it's still not the most horrible thing ever and they will supported rather than treated like stupid irresponsible pieces of trash. which is the kind of shit i;ve had to put up with for the last 9 years.

>> ^Phreezdryd:

And as for the absent fathers they love to hate on, are they just completely evil for also being kids, and running away when the fun sex turns into the lifelong responsibility? Who knows, maybe the girl even lied about birth control to try and force him to stick around. Kids do stupid things.


are you trolling? or do you watch too many daytime talk shows??? sure, sometimes girls do asshole things like lie about being on the pill. it's not at all the norm. don't try and make it sound like a reasonable assumption.
and don't make excuses for absent fathers. abandoning your family is sort of evil. i know there are exceptions. in my baby daddy case, he was too mentally ill to be around us anymore. he made our lives better when he went away and never came back. however, most people are not profoundly mentally ill. and even he gave being a dad a decent shot. and he did and does love his kids. his absence is a tragedy in his life more than it is in ours. i saw him recently after 6 years and its very much a wound that eats him alive daily. he is sick and bony and gray. the only solace for him is to know that he went away so he couldn't continue to damage us all and that we are all happy and healthy and functional. that's the saddest thing in the world.

i find it hard to believe that a decent moral human being can completely abandon their kids with no assurance of their well-being (this statement excludes parents who leave their kids with adoptive families with the hope and trust that they will be cared for properly) and remain whole. it's a narcissistic thing to do, it is a sociopathic thing to do. in the absence of drug addiction or some obscenely destructive mental illness, there is no excuse for it. you don't have to get married, or live together, in many cases it's better if you don't. but there is no reason for a relatively sane, relatively function person to walk away entirely from another human they created. pregnancy is risk everyone who engages in vaginal intercourse takes every single day. most of them are completely aware of it. you don't get to make it sound reasonable for a person, no matter their age, to completely run away forever and not look back. you don't get to make it sound reasonable that society place 100% of the responsibility for raising functional adults entirely on women.

What a retard. Her husband also.

A hard life is working in a coal mine in China for 12 hours a day for 50 cents an hour.

I don't get the idea of Moshing around / pushing people around when listening to music , I don't see why been pushed around and acidently punched in the face is enjoyable.

If this or any sort of music makes you want to be violent and fight that's fine but then I would want to do it properly and actually be beating the shit out of people not some half arsed prancing around that is not satisfying but yet still has potential for you to accidently hurt yourself or sum one.


as for the music not my cup of tea at all , the singing comes across as pining for attention and how hard life is and what have you which is strange when its coming from what look to be failry well of middel class kids. not that that's any different from much of the gangsta rap and other things.
at least they were singing in tune and playing instruments to a reasonable standerd.

Humanity is fully capable of grasping reality. You've just got a group of people who just don't any better..and don't WANT to know any better because that means accepting that life isn't as simple as they want it to be.

Life is hard, life is complex, life just really fucking sucks sometimes. I can't really fault someone for saying they've had enough and are willing to put blinders on for the sake of feeling comforted by things that simply aren't true.

The problem is, the rest of the world wants to move forward and not be held back by fear and ignorance, but there will always be people who are afraid. That's just being human.

>> ^spaceman:

What is the point of it all?!!


For fun?

>> ^blankfist:

Haha. @4:39 the cop touches the fat man's obviously slimy shoulder, gets grossed out and wipes his hand off.


Also my favorite part. I laughed at this when I first saw it.

Fat, stupid, and loud is a hard life to live.

Yes, it is a hard life.

Intro to his official biography:

Our Congressman, Alan Grayson, grew up in the tenements in the Bronx. It was a hard life. He had to be a fighter to survive.

His parents were teachers. They made great sacrifices, to make sure that Alan received the best education.

Alan was a sick child. His mother took him to the hospital four times a week, for treatment. Without health coverage, he would not be alive today. He remembers that.

Alan rode the subway to school each day, and he worked hard. He was the valedictorian of his junior high school. By passing a test, he was admitted to an exclusive public high school. In high school, he achieved the highest test score among almost 50,000 students who took the test. Harvard College saw something in him, and admitted him.

For Alan, life at Harvard wasn’t easy. Alan cleaned toilets, and worked as a night watchman. Yet he earned a bachelor’s degree in only three years, with high honors, and he was Phi Beta Kappa. Alan graduated from Harvard in the top two percent of his class.

1) No offense, but you are absolutely terrible at analogies.

I create perfect analogies that biased people reject. Mr. Prop 8 horned into a meeting set aside for worship with a political diatribe. Wilson interrupted a national address with his political opinion. Neither was done in the right time or place. The only difference that exists is the bias in the mind of the observer. I have no party affiliation, so I have no problem calling out both for being rude and out of line. Others perhaps are tainted with political bias, and are therefore put in a position where they have to be an apologist for one side or the other. I imagine it's a hard life to be a shill.

The Mormon Church is famous for encouraging members to cut off communication with family members who have either left the church, been excommunicated or are of different religious beliefs.

I lived in Utah for years and had a number of LDS friends, neighbors and acquaintances. One story... An older couple on my street was in a house that was a total dump. The family didn't lift a finger. The guy was a vet, and sick all the time. LDS people frequently worked on the house make thier situation better. The bishop donated a window from his own house so they could knock a hole in the wall, install an insulated window, and another guy gave them a window AC unit so they didn't have to keep using a leaky swamp cooler which aggravated the guy's lungs (he got flu all the time). Their back yard was a literal jungle, and a bunch of LDS guys and their kids came in and hauled off two whole dump-trucks full of trees & junk one weekend. That's one story, and I personally witnessed many more. When people were in need, these folks came and helped out and never asked for a dime or expected jack in return either in the form of church attendance or recompense. It was service in its purest form.

Now - as I said - I'm sure there are exceptions. There are always a few bad apples in the bunch. But I know for a fact that the official CHURCH position is that it bad to alienate family or friends. I've seen their manuals, and thier documents. Family is everything to them. They don't as a matter of policy 'cut off' anyone. Anyone 'cutting off' someone is not following the LDS church's official positions, doctrines, or Christ's example. It sounds to me more like you're fixating on a few people that are breaking step with church doctrine.

So - not to put too fine a point on it - but your claim that it is official church position to cut off communication with family members is complete and utter shash. I suggest you supply some sort of documentation for your claim, or your argument has to be relegated into the "unsupported rumors" pile where most crap arguments belong.

Ahh it's a hard life being a fella, i'd just have a couple of drinks and it would make my performance better