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Well, you can blame Japan this time. This is one of their gameshows, apparently imported and remade for the US. Although I guess the blame could still be settled on MTV since they're the ones who saw the same Youtube clips I did when I was a Japan major, and instead of thinking "Oh Japan, you're so weird." they thought "BRILLIANT! MUST HAVE AT ONCE!"

I'm not watching it. You can't make me.

Oh my god. Are... are they gonna tea bag that old man? Is that what they really mean by "balls out"?

For some reason that header picture didn't look real to me. I was kinda like "whoa, what the hell is Pixar up to now?" until I clicked on the article and read the not nearly as amusing or intriguing truth.

And I'm not gonna watch that video. No particular reason why, just not gonna do it.

Marra's dead on about bringing back Singled Out. You have to think about the ramifications of such things! Won't SOMEBODY think of the children??

LALALALALA. Not listening! LALALALALA.

OK, R2D1, so I didn't watch. Next.

I agree with you Genny. People should not stop vaccinating. It is part of the culture of fear we seem to revel in. She and others have fostered a hysteria, though if you actually hear her she doesn't seem crazy and isn't calling for kids not to be vaccinated but for more study and transparency. Part of the problem being that most people don't even look into the information for themselves, they just follow the talking head on the TV.
I was more annoyed by the personal attack, I prefer valid reasoned attacks. That's why I love this site so much, of course.

Marra and Genny, the vaccination issue is more than a punchline. The U.S. government currently requires/recommends that we vaccinate kids for 3X as many illnesses as we were vaccinated against as kids. Most of the vaccinations occur before the child is 2 years old. Modern medicine is great--but we can't blindly submit to what we're told is best for us--particularly when there are alarming trends of autism, increased allergies and asthma--all of which concern the immune system which some argue is compromised by over vaccination. I don't know that vaccinations cause those issues. It scares me to death though. I chose to follow a longer vaccination schedule. My kids will have all their vaccinations but not 6 or 8 vaccinations per visit (each shot has 1 to 3 vaccinations). My point is really only that it's not a stupid concern that should be mocked. Of course, if your point was that we shouldn't blindly follow Jenny McCarthy, point taken.

For some reason that header picture didn't look real to me. I was kinda like "whoa, what the hell is Pixar up to now?" until I clicked on the article and read the not nearly as amusing or intriguing truth.
- Genny

Same herre! It really looks computer generated. O_o

I miss Daria. And Aeon Flux. And this is what you have to offer me? Fuck you, MTV.

I'm always confused about the whole 'shouldn't expose our children to too many vaccinations' thing. Because one thing that is about a hundred times stronger in a child than an adult is the amount of immature T-cells they have available to them.
I intend to vaccinate the holy heck out of my crotch-fruit before they hit puberty, when the massive increase in sex hormones cause the thymus to shrivel up. That tsunami of t-cells eager to be converted into antibody-producing machines becomes a trickle, and all that's left are the cells that have already been converted. So my kid's getting the ultimate lymphocyte artillery before that happens.

There's a big difference between causation and correlation. This supposed link between autism and vaccination could be no more than a coincidence - we vaccinate our children around the same time that the symptoms of autism become apparent. And frankly, you'd be hard pressed to find ANYTHING that hasn't been linked to the increase in allergies and asthma (and if not those, cancer). I recently read an interesting article that showed how soap could be partly to blame.