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Uncut response to the infamous video

Posted by Billy Mallard at 04/11/2001 12:24 AM EST


Student on team #254, the Cheesy Poofs, from Bellarmine College Prep and NASA.


In Reply to: Disapointed in ending.
Posted by nick237 on 04/10/2001 10:23 PM EST:



I'm fairly certain i'm not the only one who feels this way. But people don't like to be so controversial. Well i don't mind. So here it is. I'll come right out and say it without apologizing every few lines.

I'm sick of all the talk about this video.

: " shame on you Dean "

Yeah, i'm sure dean was thinking, "Hmm. What could i possibly play at the very end of the closing ceremonies to offend people?" Maybe you didn't notice the apology at the end? Planning a national competition with 362 teams is probably not easy, and i think it was executed very well.

Besides, i don't know if you noticed, but Dean hasn't exactly been paying attention to pop culture in the last few decades (as was demonstrated in his interview with 60 minutes, if you recall). So Dean isn't the one to blame anyway.

You sure are pointing out something rather small from the whole thing. You're saying that you're disappointed with a massive three day event because of a 15 second video clip? Come on. It's not like the media and pop culture are any better. Do your two children (or any of their friends, for that matter) listen to Britney Spears or any other pop singer who dresses in skimpy outfits and makes a profit by teaching young girls to be apathetic sex objects? Get off it.

I was somewhat taken off guard when the confetti machine -- parked about 18 inches to my left at the closing show -- malfunctioned and started raining down solid state CO2 on everone nearby for a good 60 seconds. But i didn't let it ruin the whole $@#$@#$@#$@# competition for me.

Give Dean and everyone who worked so hard on this competition a break. You couldn't do any better.

Now, i would also like to point out an observation i have made over my life. The harder you repress someone throughout their life, the harder they snap back. If you shelter a kid when they're young, they're gonna go wild when they get older. Having attended religious schools all my life, i've seen this over and over again. I won't get into details, but i feel i have a pretty solid basis for this theory. Besides, sheltering someone makes them unable to deal with such problems when they encounter them later in life.

In closing, I contend that pop culture is the most cancerous form of "immorality" in this country today. Also, one must realize that there is no set morality; it is open to personal interpretation. If you don't think so, then you haven't studied societal trends of morality very much. There are certain things that tend to alter this perception, such as religion and the media. But you must realize that your ideas are not infallible.

If you really feel that strongly, try to limit your contact with all media since its so $@#$@#$@#$@# immoral. In fact, you'd better sever all contact with the rest of the world, just to be safe.

Feel free to disagree. I really could care less.

Open your mind.

--> Billy


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