At my After Grad party, there was a hypnotist, and . . .

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The hypnotist sent the people back to when they were five years old, and sent them to Disney land. He made various audience members different Disney Characters.

One of the Characters was Mickey. Apparently, Mickey gave the finger to one of the hypnotised people, and made her cry: “I hate Mickey, he gave me the finger”. The hypnotist spent 15 minutes trying to make her not hate Mickey, once he had her not hating Mickey, he got Mickey to come out of the crowd, and told him, A) don’t give her the finger, and B) to let her hug him.

I don’t think it worked though, because after the show was over, I asked the girl that was flipped the bird how she felt about Mickey, and she said that she hates Mickey.

Another highlight: The hypnotist made all the volunteers the cutest puppy dogs in the world, and after the expected tummy rubbing etc, he said: “It’s mating season puppies, but do not go through with the act, just pick up the sent”. I nearly fell out of my seat right there.

A word of caution though, hypnotists can make people puke: The hypnotist put them on the titanic, and had them jump off after the iceberg hit. Then he had them all swim back to the ship. He put a dummy on the floor, and had them rescue it, and perform CPR/Mouth to Mouth. Then he said that it died, and told them to throw it over board. A couple of the girls were crying about this, and he told them: “That man wasn’t from out ship, in fact, he’s been floating around the ocean for three years, and you just gave mouth to mouth to a rotting corpse”. At this one of the girls puked.

There were also belly dancers, etc, but those were the highlights of the show.

I would have thought it was fake, but he made them all kids in a haunted house, then he told them about the scary green ghost, and then put a green puppet in the middle of the line of people. The whole line jumped away from the puppet without hesitation, there was no time for them to have been thinking/just playing along with the show.

Hypnotists are very funny, you should all go to one of their shows; I had a great time

BTW the after grad was fun too, thanks for asking.

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Sounds like the hypnotist from hell. Crying and puking? Doesn’t sound particularly fun to me, but that’s not what matters. You got to laugh at people’s pain!

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Oh, I completely forgot about the petting zoo (I’ve been up since six yesterday morning). They were all 5 years old again, and they went to the petting zoo, they petted bunnies etc, waddled like a pinguin (a guy that was wearing a suit), then the hypnotist showed them the camel, he said “Look here is a Camel, Camel’s have two humps, but do not touch the humps, only pet on the head. When you are older, you will appreciate Camel’s a lot more”. In case you couldn’t guess, the camel was a girl. I almost fell off my chair here too.

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I love stage hypnosis shows. I attend them whenever the opportunity arises and I have volunteered a few times (it’s a lot of fun). I can also perform hypnosis to a limited degree of ability.

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Okay, I’m in Mom mode here…puking, crying, disposing of corpses, simulating sex acts and groping…all wonderful things we really want to encourage our teens to do. I realize that this whole generation of kids has grown up exposed to a lot of things we really shouldn’t have exposed them to, but we could at least pretend that we are interested in only the best for them. The guy didn’t have to be squeaky clean, but if even Pentax was a little surprised by some of the situations, perhaps the show a bit too… tacky? I think they audience would have enjoyed it just as much if those elements had been missing. But hey, if trashy and tacky is what our children want, why should we ever say no to them. Kids know what’s best, after all.

Sigh.

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The theory I didn’t think I needed to point out was the age of a grad. Everyone was at least 18, we’re not a bunch of children that need to be protected from things pg-13+.

For crying out loud, next year most of us are moving out, to work or to university, none of us are children.

I suppose this is a case of old enough to die for your country, not old enough to see a show with questionable material.

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I’m fully aware of the age of high school grads…I am Mom to a 19 and a 22 year old. I’m just so tired of everything HAVING to be “questionable” material. Can’t anything just be good? Does it always have to be edgy? Do we always have to go for the lowest common denominator? I enjoy dark humor, blue humor, raunchy humor, but I also enjoy stuff of a higher quality. Not everything has to be “American Pie” and slasher films, does it?

We baby-boomers have done you kids a great disservice by treating you so crudely (and please don’t remind me that legally you are adults…the law is one thing and reality is another). I guess I’m just tired of seeing PornStar on clothing designed for young girls. I’m tired of listening to Howard Stern (yes, I listen most mornings) drool over some girl because she’s a stripper, and rejecting another because she’s not “hot”. I’m tired of listening to teenage boys proposition girls crudely while I’m standing right there.

We took away all the mystery, joy and innocence of childhood and replaced it with harsh reality way too soon. How did we get to the point where teenagers are expected to perform sex acts on casual aquaintances? Where 12-year-old boys are made fun of if they aren’t somebody’s baby’s daddy? Maybe it was the college students I saw posing for snapshots in front of a downtown landmark the other day…instead of line up and smile for the camera, the boys stood there, heads thrown back, eyes closed, with their hands on the heads of the the girls who knelt down in front of them, pretending to give them blow-jobs. And this was in front of adults, families with kids…they really had no filters on their actions in a public place.

I feel sad that we’ve taken all the amazing excitement and joy of a sexual relationship and turned it into a porno flick. We’ve taken the horror of violence and turned it into entertainment. I’m really sorry. We’ve hurt you terribly, and you don’t even know it yet.

So how was prom?

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Sounds like great fun. Your next step now is to go to Vegas and see: http://www.hotandlive.com/shows/drnaughty.html.

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kittenblue,
Thank you for your wonderful post. I couldn’t agree more. You rock, in my book!

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Well, thank you, I think.

I should apologize to poor Pentax again who must be wondering what in the world set me off, but that’s how I feel.

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kittenblue: I’m 22 years old. I don’t like Howard Stern. I didn’t see American Pie, and only saw the first sequel because some friends insisted. I hated it. My sense of humor is worlds away from that, and so are a great number of people my age.

Even so, I think you urgently need to relax. The world is not coming to an end here.

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Ok, this is a slight hijack, but here we go.

{b}kittenblue**, I’m 24, and I have to say, that’s ridiculous. It’s better than it was in the 60’s and 70’s, but that’s not the point.

What’s wrong with a little vomiting and crying at the show? That’s what really sells it after all. When did rejecting ugly girls become a modern trend? What’s wrong with simulating fellatio in public to take pictures? You have to ask yourself if it’s really wrong, or just different from what you were used to. I don’t know where you grew up, but when my mom was younger, they were walking around with flowers painted on instead of shirts, having casual sex with lots of people, doing drugs that most high schoolers today can’t even imagine, they could all drink legally, they didn’t wear seat belts, and they could even be seen performing oral sex in the park.

Rejecting ugly chicks in favor of the hot ones isn’t modern. It’s actually pretty natural, that’s why they call the hot chicks “hot”. They simply possess qualities which are sexually attractive to a great degree.

The law is a much more serious issue than you’d think, being able to legally engage in sexual intercourse as you please, being able to sign legal contracts, being responsible to the law for criminal actions which may require time in prison, being directly responsible for debts, and being able to vote in elections to select our leaders. It would be wrong to assign that much responsibility and power to someone, and then ridicule their judgement.

And the PornStar t-shirts? I kinda like 'em :wink:

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I’ve seen a few hypnotists, but the most I’ve ever seen any of them do was make a guy think he was a stripper so he’d take off his shirt and swing it around his head while dancing like an idiot. That was funny.

Where can I find this guy? I’d love to go to a hypnotist for an end of h.s. bash and volunteer to go under knowing that I’d probably end up thinking I was the world’s best weightlifter or some crap like that only to find out later that the cute girl that I had a crush on for years and wanted to ask to one of the grad parties will remember me for puking on the stage. Sounds like a blast.

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Make that I’ve seen a few hypnotist shows…

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there probably was some alcohol involved. There was no alcohol served at the event, but a lot of people power drank right before the event, I would have expected that most people would have sobered up by four in the morning, but there were a few people who were still very drunk at that time, I don’t know if this person was drunk though; just a thing to consider.

The Hypnotist said that he only had one other person ever puke in one of his shows.

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Gosh, where to start? Where did your mom grow up? I grew up in Northeastern Ohio, and went to college at Kent State. It’s generally not warm enough to walk around wearing only paint except for two months out of the year, so we didn’t get a lot of that here. And while we were wild and crazy in college and sex was everywhere, it wasn’t as out there and expected as it seems to be now. Yeah, we had sex, but if you did it with some guy you’d just met at a party, you were still considered a tramp, and you didn’t do it in front of other people. Oh, at the big outdoor concerts there were people going at it under blankets, but that was on campus, under blankets, and nobody was pressuring you to do it. The whole atmosphere was different. We were all basically boring with a few wild and crazies. But if you were dating someone (in college, now, not high school) the assumption was you were probably sleeping together. In high school it was different: some had sex, some said they had sex, some acted like they had sex, but the pressure wasn’t as intense. It was perfectly accepted to not “give it up” to whomever you were dating. Some people might make fun of you, or pressure you, but despite the 60’s, most of us pretty much behaved. And tell me, do you really enjoy thinking about your mom giving some guy head in a public park? There are things about my early sex life I will never be sharing with my children, because not only is it not appropriate for them to think about my sex life, but I want them to respect me, and telling them about my bad behavior is very counter-productive. That’s why they have this new anti-drug campaign running now, assuring parents that even if they were stupid and did drugs, they can still tell their children that it’s a bad idea.

What’s wrong with simulating fellatio in public? Most people like to keep their sex lives private, and would prefer it if others would do the same. Most of us want to raise our children to be well-behaved and to understand that there are private things and public things. We don’t want to have our children seeing behaviors that they are not ready to deal with. This is why we get upset when our children get molested. Add to that the idea that you have the right to develop your own sexual relationship at your own pace. There were four couples in the group taking pictures. Perhaps one of those couples weren’t at the sexual stage yet. Maybe their sexual life doesn’t include blow-jobs. Maybe they are shy, modest people. Why should they feel pressured by their friends to act out behaviors they don’t feel comfortable with? Why should a hypnotist at a school-sponsored event expect teens to sniff each other like dogs? Why can’t you take pictures of a group outing that you’d let your grandma see?

As to rejecting sexually unattractive people…that isn’t what Howard Stern does. He rejects women based on numbers…bra size and weight. Let some poor woman call in and admit that she weighs more than Howard thinks she should (it’s a caller, remember, he can’t see her) and he will tell her she’s a fat pig and hang up on her. And they never weigh that much; he has a number in his head and you don’t exceed that, no matter what. And some guys begin to think this is the way to act. And some girls think they have to be rail thin with enormous boobs to be valued. And some people don’t know it’s an act.

Despite the affection a lot of people have for pornography, most of us don’t want our daughters (or sons) to view it as a worthy career choice. We would rather it wasn’t as socially acceptable as it is now. And we certainly don’t want pictures of our child wearing that shirt to surface during their presidential campaign.

And to address your point about being an adult: not everyone matures at the same rate. Not every 18-year-old is ready to make major decisions. Seen the studies about the teen brain lately? One of the worst things about being a teen is that you really think you are right about everything. Years later, you will realize that was wrong, and you will kick yourself for some of the opinions you had, and the actions you took, and the tatoos you got, and you will look at your own 18-year-old child and say, “the law may say you are an adult, but you’re certainly not acting like one.”

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Nature also involves things like gang rape (dolphins have been spotted doing it), defecating in public, and eating one’s young under stress (bunnies do it sometimes). That hardly makes it acceptable behavior for human beings.

Obviously, people are more than entitled to decide to whom they are and are not physically attracted. The objection lies in the increasing willingness to publicly humiliate those to whom you are not attracted. There is a lot more value in a human being – “even” a girl – than the size of her breasts and butt.

Before anyone points out that no one forces girls to subject themselves to Howard Stern by participating in his shows, I am well aware of it. The problem is in the attitude it causes. Do you think you would consider it all good fun if you were blessed with a homely daughter and had to listen to her pain at being picked on by people who considered it their right to judge her?

Sorry to go off on this one, but I got plenty of abuse as a kid and teenager from guys who regarded themselves the arbiters of my right to exist. Again – attraction is natural. Lack of attraction is natural. Verbal abuse is unacceptable in any kind of a decent society.

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I know that Tenar. I’m not trying to say that Howard Stern is right. What I’m saying is that there is no state of existance in the world called “should be”. There’s the way the world is, and the way you think it should be. In this case the “you” refers to everyone. You can’t take your viewpoint of how you think the world ought to be, and then apply it to everyone. Every person deserves the right to decide what they feel is acceptable, and act on that within the boundaries of the law. There are people out there who think that Howard Stern is right to do what he does, and someone’s opinion of how the world should be doesn’t outway that in any way.

And since we’re about to pull a warning, I’m not going to post on this again, unless we go to GD :wink:

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Fair enough - but that statement doesn’t quite align with this:

or this:

(my bolding)

So, are you a mature adult who can cope with a bit of risque humour, or a teen who is still capable of being shocked (by something not particularly shocking in m opinion)?

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I took his “I almost fell off my seat” remarks as meaning “I almost fell out of my seat laughing”, not because he was particularly shocked