I do remember reading that Jane Goodall also had to make sure to keep her son, as a baby, away from the chimps because they’d go after infants and eat them. And she clearly did a pretty good job of that because he grew to adulthood. Still, must be creepy being around things that want to eat you…
I’d like to toss a couple of guys whose work for music in Spain has been similar to Ross’ work for painting in the US. They have the same contagious enthusiasm too.
And Fofó, because he brought so much joy to so much people. The whole Aragón clan is dedicated to that, but in his case it seemed to go way above and beyond a profession.
And Vicente Ferrer.
Why is it that people who are afraid of pedophiles always assume their kids are even what the (potential) pedo is into? It reminds me of homophobes who assume they’re super attractive to the scary gays.
Dr. Georges Bwelle was interviewed on The Story yesterday. He works at a hospital in Cameroon, and does private “moonlighting” surgeries as well, to make enough money to fund his work traveling to villages and doing free surgeries for the poor on the weekends.
I was thinking as I listened that this is the most Christ-like* person I’ve heard of.
*focusing on the radical love and selflessness, less on cursing fig trees and innocent pigs and condemning adulterers.
“Don’t worry, Billy… you’re too ugly to be molested!”
Ew! WTF?
“Why you think YOUR kids are so great? Huh? They ugly! U-G-L-Y they ain’t got no alibi, they ugly! Yeah, pedos don’t even wanna rape them! Now MY kids-- they get raped CONSTANTLY! They so good-looking that pedos be linin’ up outside our door to rape the fuck out of them. I had to start chargin’ admission! Your kids, though? Girlfriend, you’ll be lucky if you can even find a pedo to touch them inappropriately, much less have sex with them. Damn ugly kids.”
If you have kids, you have to assume that they are potential targets for pedophiles. It would be irresponsible not to. I don’t think gay men deserve to be compared to pedophiles, by the way.
He’s already been pointed out but Bob Ross.
I’m terrified that I’ll one day learn that he was actually a douchebag in real life but for now I’ll just pretend he was as awesome in person as he was on his show.
“Happy little clouds…”
“This is where my tree lives. Where does yours live?”
And as far as I’ve heard he genuinely wanted to teach people to paint so that they could be happy and didn’t particularly care about the money. Dude’s Jesus as far as I’m concerned.
I was being facetious, but in this case, I just felt like pointing out that we don’t even know that the guy in question was a pedophile. I just read, “Ew, that guy’s got a weird vibe, I’d never leave MY kids with him” and couldn’t help responding in kind. If I were Mr. Rogers, my response would probably be something like, “Get over yourself, lady, your kid’s got nothing on Prince Tuesday.”