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Title: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Sahib on April 19, 2010, 11:59:54 AM
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80967503/ (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80967503/)

WTF  :huh:
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Syt on April 19, 2010, 12:15:07 PM
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dangerousminds.net%2Fimages%2Fuploads%2Fpedobear.jpg&hash=6a02f6c94dbef3788eeea3e5ca876956060df0bf)
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Palisadoes on April 19, 2010, 12:19:08 PM
WTF!? :wacko: Is this real? If so, how wasn't he investigated? Or was he?
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 19, 2010, 12:25:45 PM
 :lmfao:
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Josquius on April 19, 2010, 12:38:47 PM
Ebaums world still exists huh...

Takes a year to load so youtubed it and eventually found one.
What a weirdo. I need to know more.
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Martinus on April 19, 2010, 12:52:58 PM
OMG what a creep.  :yuk:

Also: those hairdos.  :yuk: :yuk:
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: jimmy olsen on April 19, 2010, 09:00:25 PM
Quote from: Tyr on April 19, 2010, 12:38:47 PM
Ebaums world still exists huh...

Why wouldn't they still exist?
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Neil on April 19, 2010, 09:05:05 PM
What's the video about?  I'm not about to unblock ebaum.
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Camerus on April 19, 2010, 09:55:51 PM
I couldn't watch that for more than 10 seconds.  It's just too awkward and disgusting.
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Jaron on April 19, 2010, 10:24:04 PM
Nothing really shocking or disturbing. Just a grown man who enjoys giving little girls kisses on TV.
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: HisMajestyBOB on April 19, 2010, 11:18:17 PM
I kept expecting him to ask "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"
But I guess that's only backstage.
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: DGuller on April 19, 2010, 11:19:28 PM
Quote from: Pitiful Pathos on April 19, 2010, 09:55:51 PM
I couldn't watch that for more than 10 seconds.  It's just too awkward and disgusting.
Same here. 
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Josquius on April 20, 2010, 08:05:15 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 19, 2010, 09:00:25 PM
Quote from: Tyr on April 19, 2010, 12:38:47 PM
Ebaums world still exists huh...

Why wouldn't they still exist?
Its a site from childhood days, not seen it for ages.
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Grallon on April 20, 2010, 08:31:28 AM
Viper had a thread about this...  Even I was disturbed by how blatant it was. 

But then again I presume this show wasn't shut down after this episode?  In which case there was no widespread ruckus about this 'incident'.  So were the people in those days stupid?  Or simply naive?  Perhaps it's because they were less hyper sensitive about presumed pedophilia than we are these days...




G.
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: jimmy olsen on April 20, 2010, 10:23:57 AM
Creepy as hell.

http://www.parentdish.com/2010/04/19/latest-viral-video-creepy-canadian-game-show-host-fergie-olver/
QuoteAs Olver himself puts it, "The mothers are always so easy to kiss ... it's the kids!"
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Malthus on April 20, 2010, 11:25:28 AM
Heh, would not fly these days obviously. I think people were just less aware of the "creepy" factor back then - though it is obvious that the guy is making the kids uncomfortable. People probably thought it was just funny (ha-ha funny  ;) ).

Reminds me of reading old children's books these days that I read when I was a kid, they are just filled with shit that would not fly these days.  Like the original Babar, which had Babar acting as a gigilo (well, it was a French kiddie book); or the original Curious George, which had lots of stuff people would find objectionable - in one episode, George is walking down the road and two strange men drive up in a truck and say "hop in, we'll take you to see the circus"- and he does. (The men take George to see a circus and he has lots of fun, teaching tikes everywhere that getting into a truck with strange men is, in fact, a good idea -  These days, most parents would immediately think of poor George sodomized, murdered, and left lying in a ditch). 
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: PDH on April 20, 2010, 11:30:59 AM
Some books don't lose their moral lesson though, like Struwwelpeter.
Title: Re: These were gentler, more innocent times
Post by: Malthus on April 20, 2010, 11:39:40 AM
Quote from: PDH on April 20, 2010, 11:30:59 AM
Some books don't lose their moral lesson though, like Struwwelpeter.

One of my favorites!

Though alas, not actually read in childhood.

I have caught myself quoting from "Augustus who would not eat his soup" to Carl though.  :D