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Today Tonight: Breaking report on the evils of 'emo'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUGYe3Ly0jE

I lolled so hard. I'm not even gonna try explain what's so funny about it, just watch.

Sorry if repost etc.

I don't know about you, but I don't particularly find double suicides all that funny.

Oh yay, the very credible Today Tonight. Just like A Current Affair. They are both crap and are widely known to often make up stories and fake certain scenarios.

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I don't know about you, but I don't particularly find double suicides all that funny.

Your sense of humour sucks then.

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Oh yay, the very credible Today Tonight. Just like A Current Affair. They are both crap and are widely known to often make up stories and fake certain scenarios.

That's what's so damn funny, watching them play off all the millions of fun stereotypes about emo kids and actually air it like it's a credible piece of reporting.

I didn't even bother watching much of it. The show is shit. What's more funny is how bad it is.

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Originally posted by Taranis Your sense of humour sucks then.

On the contrary, my sense of humour is highly developed.

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Originally posted by Fledz Oh yay, the very credible Today Tonight. Just like A Current Affair. They are both crap and are widely known to often make up stories and fake certain scenarios.

If this is the one I'm thinking of, its all over the newspapers mate (not gonna watch the video, can't be bothered).
The two left their messages on myspace, identified themselves as emo, and then committed suicide together.


Not funny at all

LOL @ RJT

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Originally posted by RJT On the contrary, my sense of humour is highly developed.

Then you need more time on the internet. You haven't been exposed to sufficient de-sensetisation.

It's not like I was making fun of the girls or anything, just watch how stupid and funny the rest of the report is and tell me it didn't make you want to laugh at least once or twice.

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Originally posted by Taranis Then you need more time on the internet.

...says the 17-year-old.

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Originally posted by Taranis Then you need more time on the internet. You haven't been exposed to sufficient de-sensetisation. It's not like I was making fun of the girls or anything, just watch how stupid and funny the rest of the report is and tell me it didn't make you want to laugh at least once or twice.

See, if would have been funny if it had simply been a report on "The Dangers of Emo," but the fact that it began with such tragedy really took the wind out of it's sails.

Did you actually click on my profile and look up my age just so you could make that comment? For the record my desensetisation comment wasn't necessarily serious either.

Jesus, it's not like I'm trying to mock the dead girls, I'm just making fun of such obviously shitty reporting treating joking stereotypes like serious fact. It's like they came on the internet, found a bunch of people making fun of emo's and used that as the basis of their segment.

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See, if would have been funny if it had simply been a report on "The Dangers of Emo," but the fact that it began with such tragedy really took the wind out of it's sails.

Fine w/e, maybe I'm just a sick disgusting individual to find humour in a report that also contained a tragic event that doesn't effect me at all emotionally because I'm not involved in any way what so ever.

Well I'll tell you this much, anything that requires this much explanation as to why it is funny is probably, in fact, not funny.

Sad Tr00f.

I found it funny, the person I was talking to at the time found it funny. Figured the humour would be generally appreciable despite the content of the first minute or so. Guess not.

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Originally posted by Trance Nutter If this is the one I'm thinking of, its all over the newspapers mate (not gonna watch the video, can't be bothered). The two left their messages on myspace, identified themselves as emo, and then committed suicide together. Not funny at all

Yes I know that. I was just making a point that the show is crap

yeh dude that wasnt funny at all + i would guess that something corcerning people cutting them selves and being suicidal should be something more serious than a lame movement.

THE GIRLS... WERE EMOS!


lol!

also, those myspace pages were gothic... not emo.
emo would have cutsie love pictures and broken hearts... not skulls and white makeup lol!

emos barely wear makeup besides eyeliners

Isn't sky like the british fox equivalent?

I'm emo. Leave us alone.

*slice*

Emos are annoying. Suicides and death however are not funny.


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Originally posted by Allied Nations Isn't sky like the british fox equivalent?

The broadcast was Australian. At least the girls were Australian and the broadcasters sounded Australian, and the weather forecast "ticker" was showing cities in Australia and New Zealand. I think this is the network:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_News_Australia

It's connected to the British Sky, though.

I guess this is what happens when young people have questions about the world and the only answers that adults can come up with is 'God'?

Not to credit 'emo' (or whatfuckingever) as being a secular movement, but take what the last "psychologist" woman said in the interview: "they need to look at the clothes they're wearing....they need to look at who they associate with...are they associating with the kids who are enjoying life and doing the nice things that young people do? or are they associating with the young people who say life is bad and I can't handle it?" If this doesn't scream good ol' Xtian values, I am not sure what does.

I think that we've been seeing this phenomenon ever since...hmmm....1950s pop culture? Not that teens were not confused/rebellious/whatever *before* 1950, but the 50s heralded a very strange time in modern America, at least. Suburbs were arising, racial tensions were brewing, and post-industrialization and war, children were no longer being drafted to work on farms and be mere utility around the home. Kids were being educated more than ever and with pretty much only education to occupy their teenage years, they did what they could to express their confusion. Lots of youthful "movements" have arisen since, but in essence, each of them has succeeded in doing what it has at least in some way or another, intended to do - scare adults. To be set apart from the crowd is a pretty big component to individualism - something which most educated minds would like to achieve - but to be apart, yet belong to something else entirely is like getting the best of both worlds. So we see bandwagoning and style subscription and imitation, we see people acting and dressing 'punk' and 'emo' and 'stoner' and 'goth' and 'grunge' and 'rebel' and 'rocker' and 'rapper' and whatever other stupid fucking term you want to come up with to slap a label on what's pretty much just confused people all doing the same thing with the same goals in mind living in the same world and often in the same community just all with different influences.

Where this shit breaks down, I think, is not when kids turn to phony movements just to get the answers they want, but because of the very fact that the alternative is just so fucking stupid more often than not. Adults give shrugs and point to archaic scribblings, demanding that they adhere to what is primarily illogical conduct, and teens see what's on the news and they see what's right outside their window and their now educated and grossly underestimated minds (callow as they may be) start to understand that the truth they seek probably doesn't lie in Jesus and in eating their Wheaties everyday and in joining 'the squad'. I guess it's a frightening thing to older generations and it pretty much always has been - to lose control over people who are deemed inferior - and that is exactly why these little subcultures succeed and proliferate like they do: not because they instill fear, but because older people are fearful and afraid anyways.

Not the slightest bit funny. Especially if it's a story to do with suicide/death.

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Originally posted by Taranis Did you actually click on my profile and look up my age just so you could make that comment?

Pedobear told me. He already knew

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I guess this is what happens when young people have questions about the world and the only answers that adults can come up with is 'God'? Not to credit 'emo' (or whatfuckingever) as being a secular movement, but take what the last "psychologist" woman said in the interview: "they need to look at the clothes they're wearing....they need to look at who they associate with...are they associating with the kids who are enjoying life and doing the nice things that young people do? or are they associating with the young people who say life is bad and I can't handle it?" If this doesn't scream good ol' Xtian values, I am not sure what does. I think that we've been seeing this phenomenon ever since...hmmm....1950s pop culture? Not that teens were not confused/rebellious/whatever *before* 1950, but the 50s heralded a very strange time in modern America, at least. Suburbs were arising, racial tensions were brewing, and post-industrialization and war, children were no longer being drafted to work on farms and be mere utility around the home. Kids were being educated more than ever and with pretty much only education to occupy their teenage years, they did what they could to express their confusion. Lots of youthful "movements" have arisen since, but in essence, each of them has succeeded in doing what it has at least in some way or another, intended to do - scare adults. To be set apart from the crowd is a pretty big component to individualism - something which most educated minds would like to achieve - but to be apart, yet belong to something else entirely is like getting the best of both worlds. So we see bandwagoning and style subscription and imitation, we see people acting and dressing 'punk' and 'emo' and 'stoner' and 'goth' and 'grunge' and 'rebel' and 'rocker' and 'rapper' and whatever other stupid fucking term you want to come up with to slap a label on what's pretty much just confused people all doing the same thing with the same goals in mind living in the same world and often in the same community just all with different influences. Where this shit breaks down, I think, is not when kids turn to phony movements just to get the answers they want, but because of the very fact that the alternative is just so fucking stupid more often than not. Adults give shrugs and point to archaic scribblings, demanding that they adhere to what is primarily illogical conduct, and teens see what's on the news and they see what's right outside their window and their now educated and grossly underestimated minds (callow as they may be) start to understand that the truth they seek probably doesn't lie in Jesus and in eating their Wheaties everyday and in joining 'the squad'. I guess it's a frightening thing to older generations and it pretty much always has been - to lose control over people who are deemed inferior - and that is exactly why these little subcultures succeed and proliferate like they do: not because they instill fear, but because older people are fearful and afraid anyways.

Word-o-tronic.

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