Internet Violence
Stuff from rotten.com et al.

I once, years ago, watched a video of some poor Russian soldier getting his head cut off with a spade.

Had nightmares for weeks. Since then I've never sought stuff like that again and, if I accidentally come across stuff like that, I look away and close the page before I see anything.

Fictional or reproduced violence I can watch all day long and not turn a hair. But knowing that what I'm watching is real and that some poor bastard is gasping his last (and in incredible pain) is just something I can't tolerate. I empathise too much.

So there's a lot of famous stuff on the Net that I've not seen (Ken Bigley's execution springs to mind) and, too be honest, I can't understand people who *do* watch that stuff. I mean, what kick do you get out watching someone's suffering?

Meh. I'm too soft.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 13:58, 10 replies)

Not soft
human
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 10 Apr 2008, 14:00, closed)

Nay, not soft at all
Lots of other words begininining with "S" though...

Heh-heh-heh
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 14:20, closed)

*nods*
Indeedy - Definitely not a bad thing.

Incidently, I read that name as Ben Kingsley and was trying work out why I hadn't heard about his untimely death.
( e.m.m.y. foxtrot uniform charlie kilo india tango, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 14:21, closed)

This morning on Radio 4 there was a report
about some poor african woman who had been forced to hang her own baby. I was holding my son at the time and had to turn off the radio to stop the horrible images in my head.

About 40 minutes later, I turned it again whilst doing my teeth. To an interview with the same woman. Describing having to hang her own baby.

My radio scares me.
( chthonic, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 14:22, closed)

I'm totally with you on that one.
Completely 100% agree. It takes a lot to offend me, but gore videos and pictures upset me a lot.

It's not a phobia - it's a perfectly reasonable opinion.
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 14:24, closed)

@chthonic
When I eventually wed Mrs Legless(*), and start having kids, I fear that I'm going to turn into Mr Over-Protective Dad. Certainly if we have daughters. I'll be terrified that they'll meet someone like me when I was younger. I plan to get a shotgun license and a shotgun and, first time a new boy comes round the house to pick up daughter I'll be sitting there, polishing my shotgun , and will look at them with my best Paddington Bear stare and say:

"Bring her back by 11. Intact."

She's going to hate me...

Cheers

*And, as I met Mrs Legless via B3ta, our wedding will be be webcast. I don't know if we're the first B3tans to marry but I'll bet it'll be the first B3tan webcast marriage.
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 14:33, closed)

Agreed.
I hate seeing suffering. I'm glad that I am sensitive to it, sod it, I would hate to be immune to it...
And Legless, do you enjoy sex ? (No, that's not an invite). If so, once your daughter OR for that matter son is of the right age to be sexually active, whenever that is, why stop them ? As long as they don't start too young, and know all that needs to be known, trying to pretend that one's offspring don't have the same hormones and desires that we all do is frankly a bit pointless isn't it ?
Parenthood is about letting them go, when you need to let them go. If you don't / can't, it doesn't turn out well for the kid.
Anyway, wishing you joy in the making of them !
( I_Was_Mordred, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 14:56, closed)

@Mordred
I know, I know. You're absolutely right. Intellectually, of course kids should be free to make their own mistakes.

But, emotionally, it's a different story.

And I've just deleted around 1000 words trying to explain why.

In short, watching my kids go through some of the same pain as I did is going to be a special kind of hell.

But I'm also wise enough to know that, a lot of the time, you just have to let them make the same old mistakes that every kid's made since the dawn of time.

But it's still going to hurt me.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 15:20, closed)

babies
its only really the stuff involving babies / children that bothers me, whilst i dont go looking for stuff it rarely bothers me if it finds me, i fear the internet hes desensetized me somewhat.
(pogo_it, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:00, closed)

HERE HERE!!!
I'm with you on this one!
( DUMBLONDE is a rubber lover girl, Fri 11 Apr 2008, 13:07, closed)