Explaining Cannibalism to Children

[RecoveringKinkoid]

For you or for them? You know you'd never get it back.

At least I wouldn't have restring the sumbitch.

[firecat88]

One day I'll have to catch up on my children's programming. What's popular now a days?

Depends on the age group and the channel. The 6-12 set have...pretty much all the stuff that they run on Disney (mostly live-action sitcom-y stuff like Hannah Montana and some other show about the Jonas Brothers, but also a few halfway decent things where the cast *isn't* saying once every episode that something 'sucks' or that it's 'crap'. I swear, if I said either of those when I was 8, my mom would've spanked me a good one. And then, y'know, Disney's got all of those made-for-tv movies).

By the way, they still actually show Ren & Stimpy on Nicktoons Network, but only if you're willing to stay up until 1 AM to see it. Actually, a lot of the stuff on Nicktoons Network is much better than what's being put out by Disney, or even by regular Nickelodeon lately. But that's just me. I like cartoons. ^_^ Even the few live-action things that are leaking onto Nicktoons aren't *so* bad. One of them is a show that reminds me of good ol' Double Dare (anyone remember that show?)

[flutes_and_fabric]

Depends on the age group and the channel. The 6-12 set have...pretty much all the stuff that they run on Disney (mostly live-action sitcom-y stuff like Hannah Montana and some other show about the Jonas Brothers, but also a few halfway decent things where the cast *isn't* saying once every episode that something 'sucks' or that it's 'crap'. I swear, if I said either of those when I was 8, my mom would've spanked me a good one. And then, y'know, Disney's got all of those made-for-tv movies).

By the way, they still actually show Ren & Stimpy on Nicktoons Network, but only if you're willing to stay up until 1 AM to see it. Actually, a lot of the stuff on Nicktoons Network is much better than what's being put out by Disney, or even by regular Nickelodeon lately. But that's just me. I like cartoons. ^_^ Even the few live-action things that are leaking onto Nicktoons aren't *so* bad. One of them is a show that reminds me of good ol' Double Dare (anyone remember that show?)

I think my favorite cartoons as a kid were on fox45 and nickelodeon. I loved nicktoons! Still tune in once and a while to watch courage the cowardly dog once in a while. Loved ed edd and eddy too. I vaguely remember Doug too, but I think that was when I was really really young. Might have the movie downstairs somewhere...should check that out. Oh, and the Wild Thornberries and Rugrats. Those were during my late elementary years. Before that it was the aw real monsters and ren and stimpy. I think I recently watched the comedy central episodes which are hilarious, totally not kid friendly. Anyone remember All That? I mean the first few seasons, before the cast completely switched over. Up to the Amanda Bynes years were pretty good.

[Flying Grype]

Hell, the cleverest kids' show I've seen recently is Word Girl on PBS. I have no kids, I was up early one morning before work and browsing channels, and I hit PBS and could not look away. But PBS stuff has always been good at having in-jokes for grownups so that they can be entertained while watching with their kids.

I don't know if the standard fare is cleaned-up more than it used to be. I know there's more Japanese stuff being imported, and there's less hackjob editing being done to it to get rid of violence etc. In my experience it seems like kids' cartoons from Japan have a little more serious or scary content than ours do.

[Seshat]

$16,000 for a flute? As a non-music player I have to ask, does one insure something like this? I bet that girl's head spun with how fast you got that away from her. Wow.

A friend of mine is the senior security officer for a professional orchestra. There are instruments - single instruments - in that building worth more than my house and my parents' house combined.

Yes, he worries.


On the cartoons/fairy tales topic: I grew up watching Tom & Jerry, Road Runner, Wacky Racers and the like. And yes, reading the violent editions of the fairy tales.

[EricKei]

Case in point: There is an old Polish tale of an evil king who was devoured by mice! I hate to think what Disney would do to that!

Why, a delightful morality tale with the mice in fancy ballroom dress for the rousing finale, of course! If the king is the bad guy, he'll just disappear off screen at some point before then.

And yes, reading the violent editions of the fairy tales.

I'll get the horrible joke out of the way now: "There's a reason they call those things 'Grim' "... I much prefer the original versions, too.

[SuperRTL]

I LOVE TUBA CHRISTMAS! (even though I'm Jewish) I started playing tuba because I did two degrees at two universities at the same time (conservatory for performance, teaching school for education) and I couldn't stand being in the flute section of the marching band (15 piccolos, and most were not good) so I joined the sousa section. The piccolo and sousaphone aren't that different, right?

I, too, love TubaChristmas. I started playing Tuba in high school because I walked in the first day for band and there were 45 other flute players. We didn't have anything lower than a tenor sax in the band. When the director asked if anybody was willing to pick up a new instrument, I raised my hand so fast, you could hear it. I called my dad that afternoon to get a ride home. He asked why I didn't take the school bus. Um, yeah, about that, dad, my instrument won't fit on the school bus. You play the flute. Yeah, about that . . . **giggle, hang up phone** My mother was appalled and my dad just broke out all his old books and his baritone and helped me learn how to play.

[flutes_and_fabric]

I don't know if the standard fare is cleaned-up more than it used to be. I know there's more Japanese stuff being imported, and there's less hackjob editing being done to it to get rid of violence etc. In my experience it seems like kids' cartoons from Japan have a little more serious or scary content than ours do.

I happen to be a crazy anime fan or otaku as it were. I don't really consider anime to be children's shows, at least not most of them, and that's probably why they seem more serious than our cartoons, because they're not really scued to the younger typical cartoon audience.

[Kristev]

And they're not deliberately dumbed down for fear of offending parents.

[Geek King]

Case in point: There is an old Polish tale of an evil king who was devoured by mice! I hate to think what Disney would do to that!

"Haheh! Gee, I hope Minnie remembered to bring ketchup!"

[SongsOfDragons]

A friend of mine is the senior security officer for a professional orchestra. There are instruments - single instruments - in that building worth more than my house and my parents' house combined.

Yes, he worries.

http://www.contrabass.com/

I found this site when I was on a research binge. A lot of the instruments here probably match that cost description...and sound funny too!! Plus the site's minorly hilarious.

[depechemodefan]

Best way to explain cannibalism is pop in Silence of the Lambs. Though I heard there was a musical about the Donner Party.

[ExRetailDrone]

Best way to explain cannibalism is pop in Silence of the Lambs. Though I heard there was a musical about the Donner Party.

Cannibal: The Musical. It's pretty epically hilarious

[bhskittykatt]

I was just talking about this to Hubs, and he came up with an idea.

He says rewrite the script to have Sweeney become enchanted by a wizard while he's in exile. When he gets back, he gets revenge by turning people into pies using magic. They don't even need to be meat pies. They can be cherry pies, or strawberry rhubarb pies.

Yeah. A wizard did it. Oldest excuse in the book. But hey, it gets around the cannibalism factor nicely.

[Chromatix]

If someone stuffed my guitar full of crap, I would make them takeall the strings off, empty the shit out of the soundhole, and then restring it. It would need to be in perfect tune when they were done.

I play a twelve string. This would be apt punishment.

But would you trust them to do it?

I have an extended set of recorders (sopranino, descant, treble, tenor and great-bass, needless to say the latter is unusual and probably worth something), a rather worn-out accordion, and a relatively good electric piano. And yes, I can play them, but I would never go professional.

The school piano gradually got rather thoroughly smashed up during my time there. After about 3-4 years it was already unplayable, so any keyboard practice had to be done with cheap electronic keyboards. As any pianist will know, these have a totally different feel to a real piano, and as a result, I actually have some difficulty playing a real, mechanical piano. My electric has weighted keys, but it will still respond to much lighter strokes than a mechanical one.