I just saw video of the completely sick and silly iphone “baby shaker” app.
I cracked up.
So I guess I’m going to hell.
But I’m ok with that, and I think people really need to loosen the fuck up already.
I don’t think it’s particularly funny, but I don’t get the outrage either.
Maybe someone can find you some actual video of a baby being shaken to death. Bet that’s a riot too.
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS.
I don’t understand why anyone would pay 99 cents for it.
Actually, people are too “loosened up” and accepting about way too much in this world, from stupid iPhone applications to actual, real violence.
I guess I’m going there with you. I thought the idea was funny. I wouldn’t pay for it either, but eh. Is it really that big a deal?
Funny until you actually have a real baby. Then not remotely funny at all.
Funny, that.
I’m amazed that Apple actually approved that application. (At least initially. After two days, they changed their minds and pulled it.)
I’m not sure I would have found it all that before we had a baby – mainly because the execution is lame. Red X’s over sketches? Meh.
On the other hand, being a father doesn’t help me to feel an iota of outrage over this.
I would have thought Apple would have demurred on the grounds of copyright infringement, if not poor taste. That is the Gerber baby used in the app, isn’t it? That’s the first place my brain went.
Don’t find it remotely funny or amusing but am not full of outrage. More like annoyed that someone would find this entertaining or worthy of the time (albeit probably not much considering what it does) spent to create it.
Shaking a sketch of a baby to give it red xx’s is fun and entertaining? Primitively simulating shaken baby syndrome is a form of amusement?
Not in my opinion, although I’m not seething over it.
(For the record, if it makes a difference, am a mom of 3 and nana of 1.)
Do you still like burning Sim characters to death and walling them into rooms and making them swim themselves to death? 'Cause if I can’t enjoy that, I’m never having kids!
I got a real baby. 2 weeks old. I think the concept behind the app is hilarious.
I wouldn’t shake my baby, but there are times you’d sure like to switch him off.
No actual babies were harmed in the making of this app. Only black and white baby facsimiles. You should realize that not everyone shares your sense of humor. If no one was hurt, lighten up.
Obviously, I found it hilarious.
The lame execution red xx is exactly the thing that made me laugh. It was so damn silly. It it had been more realistically rendered, then I would probably have found it, not an outrage, but simply creepy.
'zackly. I have never found myself more likely to be exceptionally sensitive about something the closer I am to it. I’m pretty immune to getting riled up over bad taste across the board, especially if something about it I find genuinely funny.
I think this is easy to dismiss, and kind of ridiculous to get upset over, because, while babies are shaken to death and to severe damage all the time, I’ve never gotten the impression that anyone is for it. It happens because people lose control of themselves in frustration.
On the other hand, making light of things that people sometimes do want to do or justify, like miscellaneous mayhen on women, for instance, I can maybe understand people being upset about, because it’s not necessarily helpful to give any mentally challenged butthead the idea that it’s ok.
But like I said, I don’t think anyone goes around suppressing their innate desire to shake a baby to death and now will feel just a little less likely to suppress it.
SO how many times did it crack you up? At least once, maybe twice by the third replay its old. So 99cent for two chuckles and then what happens to the app? cyber litter, useless junk passed on…
WIll this lead to shaken ipod syndrome? but oh noes they’ll just sell you an isnug, bulletproofs,and carbonfiber helmuts, so shake away? Really why are they holding back when we know they want to ipiss ishake imasturbate? I got one, trip the ipod wearer?
:rolleyes:
They need to make one with a ragdoll model that bounces around the screen and off the sides.
You know it’s not very funny when real coyotes fall off cliffs or get hit by falling pianos or anvils, either.
I remember the infant days. I rolled my eyes when I had to sign off on the “don’t shake your baby” paperwork. A few weeks (days? They all blur together) later at 4:00 a.m. when the baby just would. not. sleep. I remember commenting that I still wouldn’t dare shake my baby, but I could see how it happens.
I think the app is silly. and I wouldn’t have known about it if our local news didn’t feel the need to share every pointless bit of trivia with us in the guise of “news”.