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Are kids just getting more and more stupid these days?

Fire! Fire! Fire!

"Jackass" sure does explain those idiots. :;


<i>Three teenagers face assault charges after allegedly dousing a Midland youth with lighter fluid and setting him on fire in a videotaped stunt that the victim appeared to take part in voluntarily, officials said.

Midland County Sheriff Gary Painter said the videotape appeared to make reference to the MTV program "Jackass," a show featuring a series of strange and dangerous stunts.</i>

Well it's easy to blame a TV show but that's a cop out - same as blaming video games for teenage violence in my opinion.

I happen to like Jackass, although I think Steve-O has some SERIOUS masochistic tendancies he needs to talk to a shrink about.

Jackass is essentially no differnet than any show despicting dangerous stunts. They more than adequately flash "Do not try this at home" warnings, and CLEARLY indicate that they will NOT accept videos mailed to them.

Any fool who voluntarily has his friends douse him in lighter fluid and set him on fire already has some serious mental issues in my opinion.

someone has made it cool to be stupid, we need to fix that

I believe that those kids were just morons. I used to watch every episode of Jackass and never had an urge to do any of the other stunts performed on the show. Now if EVERY person who watched the show tried these stunts at home then I would agree with the people saying it is a cause of violence. The vast majority of us never try these things nor want to, we just find it entertaining. Jackass is no more violent as watching news specials on wars and action movies in my opinon. It was a success because nobody had every done these stunts before and they were down right funny. So, parents stop using movies, TV and video games as a scape goat for raising morons.

Hey...if it cleans out the pee in the gene pool, I'm all for it

The Sovereign said "Someone made it cool to be stupid, we need to fix that."


Well ... then I guess I'm NEVER gonna be cool.

This sucks.

Sometimes I wish being stupid was good for something.