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@siftbot but it's number 8 on the frontpage of the site. How can it not be published?

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>> ^raverman:

@siftbot but it's number 8 on the frontpage of the site. How can it not be published?


Because it hasn't reached 10 votes yet.

And also, it's not 'viral', or 'news' or worldaffairs or philosophy or wtf... man read the guidelines for channel placement!
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Wa.. MCD is in the ground ?

Must read.

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fuckit, the time stamp is the same

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I laughed and cried at the same time.

And then they killed his entire family.

At what point does hitting your child with a frying pan go from child abuse to funny anecdote? After 22.3 years?

>> ^Quboid:

At what point does hitting your child with a frying pan go from child abuse to funny anecdote? After 22.3 years?


I'm guessing you don't have kids in a dangerous, ghetto neighborhood. That frying pan to the head is infinitely more valuable to a kid in that situation than ignoring it and burying him with a bullet in his head.

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>> ^Quboid:
At what point does hitting your child with a frying pan go from child abuse to funny anecdote? After 22.3 years?

I'm guessing you don't have kids in a dangerous, ghetto neighborhood. That frying pan to the head is infinitely more valuable to a kid in that situation than ignoring it and burying him with a bullet in his head.


That's not my point. Regardless of whether or not she was right to do this (and there are other ways to get a point across), it strikes me - no pun intended - that we now laugh at what was a really horrible situation that they were in. As it was MCD who originally told the story, evidently he was OK with it being told and no doubt grew to understand why it happened but it's still odd that a funny anecdote can be made out of a child being beaten up by a gang twice and hit by his own mother.

If someone was caught doing today what his mother did then, they'd be charged with child abuse and I very much doubt the reasons given would get them off the hook. I didn't mean to say she was necessarily wrong to do this (although I did rather imply this), just that this wouldn't be acceptable today - were we wrong then, or are we wrong now?

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>> ^Hive13:
>> ^Quboid:
At what point does hitting your child with a frying pan go from child abuse to funny anecdote? After 22.3 years?

I'm guessing you don't have kids in a dangerous, ghetto neighborhood. That frying pan to the head is infinitely more valuable to a kid in that situation than ignoring it and burying him with a bullet in his head.

That's not my point. Regardless of whether or not she was right to do this (and there are other ways to get a point across), it strikes me - no pun intended - that we now laugh at what was a really horrible situation that they were in. As it was MCD who originally told the story, evidently he was OK with it being told and no doubt grew to understand why it happened but it's still odd that a funny anecdote can be made out of a child being beaten up by a gang twice and hit by his own mother.
If someone was caught doing today what his mother did then, they'd be charged with child abuse and I very much doubt the reasons given would get them off the hook. I didn't mean to say she was necessarily wrong to do this (although I did rather imply this), just that this wouldn't be acceptable today - were we wrong then, or are we wrong now?


I think your last paragraph is what makes laughing at the shit we used to get from our parents back in the good old days so funny. Anyone over the age of 30 can relate to getting a serious butt whooping. I don't think it is wrong at all, personally, now or then. All parents have their own way of discipline and their own breaking point. I would never hit one of my kids with a frying pan, but then again I have never been confronted with one of them joining a gang either.

Fair point @Hive13. I got a good smacking once or twice and it didn't do me any harm (assuming my occasional murder sprees aren't a symptom of that). There's a general point which is that in an ideal world, you would never have cause to strike a child - but this is not an ideal world.

I'm a little uneasy at hearing about someone hitting their child with a frying pan but I'm not going to condemn the woman from my middle class suburban haven - especially as this is a second hand account about 40 years after the fact!

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At the point where it was probably largely exaggerated or embellished by Tom Hanks

>> ^Quboid:

At what point does hitting your child with a frying pan go from child abuse to funny anecdote? After 22.3 years?