When asked why I watched daytime TV I replied, “IT HELPS ME ESCAPE MY LIFE AND I FORGET ABOUT IT ALL”
Why for the motherfucking love of OG, WHY?
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ESCAPE??? ALGEBRA? THE FACT THAT JOEY DUMPED PACEY ON DAWSONS FUCKING CREEK??? THE BRITNEY SPEAR JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SCANDAL???
I WAS THE SAME PERSON AT HER AGE MINUS ONE BIG POINT,
I WASNT A DAYTIME TV JUNKIE AND LIFE RULED.
Am I being close-minded hear, or do these kids need a sharp kick up the arse to get off the couch and the batteries removed from the remote?
Get away from the telly and get a life Flowerchild.
Gee, you’re right. These kids are little devils. Just because there was no Maury Povich or Jerry Springer to exploit bad kids a generation ago, doesn’t meant they didn’t exist then, nor does it mean there are fewer good kids now.
Is anyone else reminded of the Simpsons episode where Homer and Marge tell Grandpa Simpson that they don’t spank their kids? Grandpa responds with, “And that’s why your no-good kids are running wild!” Cut to Lisa sitting quietly on a chair reading a book…
Now wait just a minute. Hold the phone. You’re telling me that teenagers are drinking before reaching the Magical Age of Perfect Judgment? Smoking the Wicked Weed from Satan? Even engaging in the foul act of coitus? :eek:
Don’t watch Dr. Phil. PLEASE don’t watch Dr. Phil. Especially if it’s just going to piss you off like this, which is what it does to me, which is why I don’t watch it.
Gary Kumquat, what’s mushy tea? Am I missing something? Where do I get some?
You know, when a teenager shoots up his school, it’s a sign of widespread moral depravity amongst our youth. When an adult shoots up a post office, it’s a sign that he’s a nut.
On the rare occasions when I have been subjected to daytime “talk” television, I have witnessed adults considerably more twisted than the girl Flowerchild describes. Fucking adults these days!
This thread is not about what I thought it was about… I guess it was too close to the “clergy” thread… but I was ready to say something about who was fucking these kids… and why… maybe I’m sharing too much…
Smoking pot, fucking boys… yeah, I can get behind that!
Man, I was gonna say, outside of the whole being 13 years old part, girl sounds like she’s having fun!
Honestly, Dr. Phil is a total wack job. I can’t even watch “talk” tv anymore because it just depresses me. They exploit the hell out these kids and 90% of the time you can tell it’s fake as hell.
Actually, maybe she’s just upset that Do not read if you missed the last episode of Dawson’s Creek!
Joey dumped Dawson on Dawson’sCreek
Were I thirteen, I woulda been upset, too.
Or maybe she’s trying to escape a rich, surburbanite, rich, well-treated, spoiled rich bitch mother who drags her onto a TV show to be chided in front of the entire nation. shrug
Lemme tell you, back when I was a young, suburbanite, rich, well treated, spoiled rich bastard trying to escape from the latest tragedies on 90210, we didn’t have any “mushy tea”. We had to eat mushrooms whole. They tasted like styrofoam wood chips, but we were grateful just to have five or six hours’ freedom from the stress of homework, pogs, and afternoon television!
Although I stuck to alcohol when I was in high school, thinking that pot was bad. I really was misguided in my youth…
In all seriousness though, when you’re a teenager everything is magnified. Maybe it’s the hormones. Your world though, small as it is, is your entire world. Friends not speaking to you? Catastrophy. Get dumped? Find the nearest bridge.
Basically, you don’t really have any experiences to put your problems into perspective with. Therefore, they seem huge. I was definately more heart broken when I was dumped in high school than I was later in life because later in life, I had more perspective and could realize that being dumped isn’t the worse thing in the world and I’d live. In high school, I didn’t have that.
My point is, for a teenager, there probably is a great need to “escape” every once in awhile, as silly as it may seem to us adults.
Wish I could find 'shrooms that tasted like styrofoam wood chips. That’d be a goddamned blessing compared to the sweaty jock-strap flavor of most 'shrooms I’ve ever eaten.
I remember when I was thirteen, it was just one big tearfest right on up until I reached fifteen.
Thirteen is one of the worst ages. I had just gotten my period, it was my last year at a Catholic parochial school and thus, one year away from the Big Scary High School. I was starting to DEVELOP, and I all of a sudden had hips and boobs and a butt. I had zits and I cried all the time.
Thirteen fucking SUCKED! I didn’t have pot, either.
Pot is fun. I admit this. I choose not to partake in usage of it, but I have, and it’s fun.
Yes, ‘kids these days’ may seem spoiled or what have you. We also do deal with more than you did when you were young.
Yes, 13 sucks. I was very very depressed when I was 13 (which happened to coincide with the only time I’ve drank and used pot.)
No, it wasn’t ‘depressed’ because ‘Joey dumped Pacey.’ It was more depressed because of a chemical imbalance in my brain.
Smoking pot is a release. That’s good. It’s a better release than harder drugs (I knew someone who was a PCP addict.) It’s better than cutting yourself. It’s (usually) better than running away and living on the streets. It’s better than killing yourself.
She was probably making things up. Talk shows disgust me.
