Heh. Playboy of the month, Deuce Bigalow, and “Tiger Blood”.
He was great in Jaws, though.
…and all that jazz.
Those who can, act; those who can’t, take up a wacko cause.
Schneider is not just unfunny, he’s anti funny. He’s like kryptonite to humor. How he ever gets roles is a mystery. That 509 First Dates movie the OP mentioned was a surprisingly sweet little movie. Or, I should say, could have been. He took the movie down more notches than I even thought possible. Though the director deserves some disdain here, as well. I mean, not only was his character ant-funny, the type of humor didn’t even fit with the movie. All I can say is that I hope Schneider stays away from all vaccinations possible. And then travels the globe from the jungles of Africa to the Amazon.
A carrot? Why no love for rutabagas?
I was rooting for a turnip, myself.
Fuck no, that’s the sort of bullshit that makes anti-vaxxers so dangerous. We don’t want assholes like him taking his plagues on a world tour. If he’s going to die of a communicable disease, he should do so in one place, far away from other people, until it’s time to incinerate his worthless carcass.
There are many horrible things that Humanity does to itself on a regular basis.
And, in the long term view of things, this isn’t as significant as other atrocities are.
But this one, this one, my fellow dopers, is something we can counter by our genuine outrage at people who would allow communicable diseases to infect our children by their willful ignorance.
I would ask Ms. McCarthy and Mr. Schneider to speak with the still-living victims of polio and tell those poor folks about the dangers of vaccines. I would ask them to speak with the people who attend Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, Texas and explain to them why it was acceptable for some of their congregation’s children to contract measles when vaccines were readily available to them. I would also ask them to actually read the real medical literature to determine whether what they have been told about the evils of vaccines is, in fact, consistent with consensual reality.
Of course, I would also like a pony.
This is actually a serious issue. Not because people like Ms. McCarthy and Mr. Schneider are trumpeting this misbegotten idea, but because there are actual health professionals who have bought into this nonsense. I expect things to get much worse epidemiologically before they eventually get better, because unless some serious remediative actions are taken soon, we are going to have deaths from preventable diseases on a regular basis, first in isolated areas and then in rapidly expanding populations. Hundreds of thousands of people in North America depend upon herd immunity; those who are too young or old to be vaccinated and those whose immune systems are compromised. Each infected person becomes a vector and as we have seen all too often, ignorance will lead to preventable death.
This is a worthwhile cause that can be promoted on a personal basis. Seriously, this isn’t like a religious or even a political kind of debate, it is one where the genuine threat is death to innocent people who don’t even have the opportunity to be vaccinated. What ethical person could oppose vaccinations when such readily verifiable information is presented to them? I don’t propose to convince Ms. McCarthy or Mr. Schneider, but I think we all know some parent of a young child who is wondering if vaccines are ‘really safe’. It is in the best interests of everyone to explain that vaccines are relatively safe in comparison to the alternative.
Vaccines aren’t some governmental conspiracy backed by the gigantic pharmaceutical corporations to enslave us. The pharmaceutical companies don’t even make much money off of vaccines. The government has to support them with massive purchases just to ensure that the supply will continue to be available.
This shouldn’t even be a debatable topic. But, because this is the 21st Century, anyone who is ‘famous’ can blithely make statements beyond their ken and be believed by hundreds of thousands of people who will change the fates of their progeny to match the witless maunderings of some celebrities that they like.
That’s what I was thinking. I mean, honestly, does anyone really give a shit what Rob Schneider has to say about medical science?
Not to mention people like me and my husband and millions of other North Americans who got all of our vaccinations in school decades ago, and may be more susceptible than we realize if the diseases become common again.
I was vaguely aware of such a possibility. That makes sense. I do know that our immune systems change as we age … ummm I mean, mature. One well-known example is that over time the varicella that caused your childhood chickenpox could later in life attack your nervous system as the dreaded malady, shingles. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to imagine that vaccines may lose their efficacy over time.
Cat Whisperer, do you have a cite I could read on this so that I might know more?
He did get a bit typecast after The Dukes of Hazzard, though.
Sure - I just went and looked it up before I posted, because I wanted to make sure I was correct in my suspicions. Here you go.
A couple of points on that:
Even if you have had Chicken Pox, you should still get the varizella voster vaccine to prevent shingles. However, The CDC doesn’t really recommend it till about 60 years of age.
Also, DTaP (diptheria, tetanus, and pertusis) vaccinations only last about ten years,so adults should get them regularly. Pertusis is making a comeback, and although under vaccination hasn’t really been the cause of the outbreaks in the past few years, herd immunity will keep them from getting worse.
Adding 459 more dates to it would not have helped!
If it were me, Drew would wake up every morning and start screaming like she did when she first saw E.T.
:smack:
Well, unless on one of those dates Rob Schneider was thrown into a woodchipper.
He never really recovered after Last Tango in Paris, I felt.
Many years ago I used to work for a bookie (they are legal in Australia) and if he made a decision that cost him a lot of money he would often chastise himself by saying, “Gee, a man ought to be fucked with a pineapple!” I had never heard it before, or since, but I guess he was born at the turn of the twentieth century.