Then Obama is going to take away my guns and force everyone into mandatory government re-education camps!

Dunno about you, but I can't get through the day without my 3 minutes of Euro Unicorn Porn...

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FFS, always me that has to go digging for it...

Canada! http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/clip165137#clip165137

('cos it's *blocked)

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Why is Michelle Bachman in every video I watch?

wish they would uncensor the online version

Just what the US needs: A constitutional amendment to secure parents the opportunity to hit their kids.

No coincidence that years ago when parental discipline was more severe, there were less problems with people growing up to be rude, impolite, aggressive, disrespectful and unlawful. If you ask me, we see such a rabid society nowadays because parents have been getting more and more leniant and soft with their children, allowing them to take the piss left right and centre.

I was hit very gently and at appropriate times when i was a child, and i grew up to be pretty much the best you could hope for. I've found that parents who are soft on their kids and allow them to misbehave, or make excuses for misbehaviour, either end up with kids who don't give a shit about anyone or they grow up to be parents of kids who don't give a shit about anyone, begetting exactly the type of society we have today - a pretty damn awful one.

Over-aggressive or inappropriate hitting of children is completely unrelated to the type of smack i got as a child and is an entirely different problem, one that i would argue has little relation to the law anyway, and can be clamped down without hindering a parent's ability to raise a good member of society.

Sorry but i couldn't stop myself biting at this one. We come from the animal kingdom where if you're a naughty little monkey, you get a bit of a smack. Do we expect children to be born with respect for society and empathy towards others so that we can REQUEST them to stop misbehaving? You can see the failure of that method happening every day in a supermarket when a kid is taking the piss out of his parents.

Raise a child correctly and you'd rarely if ever have to smack them, but the need may arrise in order to do right by them (and therefore others) for the future. I have no respect for a person who says "parents should never smack a child" - they simply don't understand how people work well enough. Be a bleeding heart all you like, but the fact is people in the recent past knew how to raise children better than we are doing, and we can learn from their methods in all aspects of a child's upbringing, whilst introducing quality restrictions that protect a child from anything untoward - because we can all see the failure of that too, and it's a terrible thing.

I really didn't want to bite and go off on a tangent too damn it! But raise your hand if you've ever:
- Nearly got in an accident because a kid opened a car door/ran into the road/stepped in front of you and the parent shouted at YOU!
- Complained to a parent because you're being in some way victimised by a kid and the parent shouted at YOU!
- Not complained to a parent because you thought they'd be just as bad!
- etc.

I can't count the number of times that's happened to me. I get a warm fuzzy feeling when i see a nice polite kid being kind, because it's such a rare sight.

lol, you don't need an amendment banning the federal government from doing something. The constitution is a privilege system. It implicitly denies whatever isn't explicitly granted. Now, if only it were enforced by the courts that way without garbage interpretations that destroy that entire model by allowing anything under the "general welfare" clause and such...

>> ^thinker247:
Why is Michelle Bachman in every video I watch?


Because she really.. REALLY wants to retire in a few years when she comes up for re-election.