World news report with Neasden Postlethwaite.

[hirez]

It's a big planet out there, filled with a range of odd things.

Via the magic of the internets, I am pointed at a news report from Oklahoma City, OK (I think it's one of the flat, square ones in the middle. Maybe near the one with the pointy mountain that was in Close Encounters), in which some poor kid doesn't get her ticket out of 'high school' (I think that's something to do with Buffy or John Hughes. I don't bloody know. Apparently we all troll around going 'SIX-A-BONG') for saying 'hell'.

A quick look at the other headlines to the right of that article reveals the following:

Mother accused of allowing uncle to impregnate her daughter.
Weather.
GRAPHIC - Elderly man arrested violating pig at school barn.
Daughter fights to keep father on sex offender registry.

I don't think I'm too far off base in thinking that they appear to have slightly bigger problems than alleged naughty words.

Comments

[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

I hope she had a proper Tourettic, Life of Brian style shouty fit when informed of this bullshit decision.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I think it was more along the lines of 'I have a full scholarship to the college of my choice. Bye, losers!'

[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

Better.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Yeah, OKC, we don't even, either.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I mean, I visit bits of the midwest semi-regularly and if tiresome things happen they're not the fault of the locals, but...

[sammason.livejournal.com]

You've got me laughing and for this time of the morning (4.50) that's not easily done. Temptation to make xenophobic remarks but it's probably more to do with your choice of news source.

[zotz]

The mountain shaped like the pile of mashed potato is over near the squirty thing. For US values of "near", anyway - about 300 miles.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Yet apparently politicians can go around saying that you can't get pregnant from 'legitimate rape' (whatever the fuck that is - as opposed to 'just-kidding rape'?), because women's bodies can magically identify and eliminate 'rapey sperm', with impunity.

Hypocrisy makes me rage.
(Also, the poor quality of that sentence construction is embarrassing but I can't be feshed to fix it... )

[hirez.livejournal.com]

The Onion article on same is good value.

But yes. Men, right? Mind yer own fucking business, there's loves.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Get back in the shed where you belong!

[pir.livejournal.com]

they appear to have slightly bigger problems than alleged naughty words

Didn't you know? Naughty words and people having fun cause all the rest of the problems!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Ah, that would be it!