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2013-05-26 10:37 3793877 Anonymous (eagle-on-flag-wallpapers_12095_1600x1200[1].jpg 1600x1200 294kB)
>An illustrated edition of "Little Red Riding Hood" was banned in two California school districts in 1989. Following the Little Red-Cap story from Grimm's Fairy Tales, the book shows the heroine taking food and wine to her grandmother. The school districts cited concerns about the use of alcohol in the story. >MURRIKA

4 min later 3793890 Anonymous
first I was like, oh it's because the wolf eats her, whatever, but then I was like, what

6 min later 3793900 Anonymous
Oh i thought they banned it because the wolf is a transvestite

7 min later 3793902 Anonymous (Lips-that-touch-liquor.jpg 460x448 85kB)
America has a long history of people vilifying alcohol. It always falls through, though. Good thing they just don't give a shit about (and nobody seems to have a problem with) alcohol.

9 min later 3793906 Anonymous
>>3793902 Now we just need to work on our Weed problems

18 min later 3793952 Anonymous
>>3793902 I like to tell this to people. So I moved to Germany and visited my father a few years later. I was 18 at the time. Legal drinking age is 16 in Germany. So I go into this resturaunt and the lady behind the counter asks us if we already know what we want to drink while we wait. I smile and say a beer. She looks at my father, confused and he jabs his thumb at me and says "anon lives in Germany" The woman goes into hysterics. "Oh god, oh, I'm so sorry, that must be so terrible! Oh, that's just cruel!" My dad bought me a case later anyway, but I wasn't even allowed to carry it out of the store. Fuck. But yeah. That's kind of the trend. With weed, everybody is perfectly aware that everybody else has a joint now and again and nobody gives a shit. It's just the official bullshit in the way.

24 min later 3793968 Anonymous
>>3793952 >>3793906 420 blaze it Seriously weed kills brain cells

25 min later 3793970 Anonymous
>>3793968 Maybe if you hit yourself over the head with a big enough bag of it.

28 min later 3793982 Anonymous
>>3793968 Not everybody who smokes pot keeps a kilo under their bed, asshat.

32 min later 3793994 Anonymous
>>3793982 Tell that to the weed addicts i read about in Infinite Jest

1 hours later 3794062 Anonymous
>>3793994 >weed addicts Ahahaha. Leave it to DFW to treat something so white-people-problemy with seriousn--oh, excuse me, with sincerity.

1 hours later 3794105 Anonymous
Yes. Also Robin Hood was banned from certain schools during the second Red Scare because Robin Hood was a dirty communist, and sauerkraut was renamed to freedom cabbage during World War 1 because fuck the Germans.

1 hours later 3794106 Anonymous
>>3794062 People can get addicted to the most pathetic of things though. Not usually biologically, but certainly psychologically. A contemporary example would be the internet or video games.

1 hours later 3794112 Anonymous
>>3794106 So-called "addiction" to the internet really just means you have nothing better to do, most of the time. Same goes for vidya. It is absolutely ridiculous to lend these "problems" the credence of a legitimate wrapper with a word like "addiction." The same goes for pot. You're not addicted to pot, it's just that your life is boring and the pot is there. You're not addicted to vidya, you just don't have a girlfriend. You're not addicted to the internet, your friends are just boring.

1 hours later 3794116 Anonymous
>>3794112 That's not true at all, and if you'd done any research on the subject you'd know that.

1 hours later 3794120 Anonymous (Drug War Myth 2 Marijuana Caffeine 909 WEB.jpg 500x400 100kB)
>>3794116 Oh, really. Tell me more.

1 hours later 3794123 Anonymous
>>3794105 and people of German descent in Britain dropped the von from their names (Gustav Holst) during WWI. So what.

1 hours later 3794126 Anonymous
>>3794123 What do you mean by 'so what'? It's just an amusing fact, it's not supposed to have any deep phylosophical resonance. Also, German was the second most spoken language in the United States before WW1 for the same reason as Von was dropped from many names. A lot of people stopped drinking beer too, because many of the major beer manufactures were of German origin.

1 hours later 3794130 Anonymous
>>3794126 I'm trying to make the point that it didn't happen only in America.

1 hours later 3794131 Anonymous
>>3794062 >white-people-problemy Fuck off back to reddit with that shit.

1 hours later 3794135 Anonymous
>>3794120 Caffeine addiction is probably the most widespread addiction out of all of those.

1 hours later 3794139 Anonymous
>>3794130 I don't think anyone was saying that it did only happen in America. However, this thread started with a post about America, so it would be a bit of a non sequitur to start going on about things that happened in the UK, wouldn't it? But that certainly didn't stop you.

2 hours later 3794160 Anonymous
>>3794131 >stop suggesting my problems aren't serious!!! Fuck off yourself, loser.

2 hours later 3794162 Anonymous
>>3794160 What's a 'serious' problem then?

2 hours later 3794165 Anonymous
>>3794160 >B-But muh starving Africans ;_; Preach your guilt elsewhere.

2 hours later 3794173 Anonymous
>>3794162 A tornado destroying your house and killing your child. >>3794165 >my caffeine addiction is more important than niggers dying!!! Go be a nasty smear of shit elsewhere.

2 hours later 3794177 Anonymous
>>3794173 >G-Guys, y-you all accept me now, r-right? ;_; You're so pathetic :]

2 hours later 3794184 Anonymous (john-rambo.jpg 300x420 24kB)
Truth is, Murrika is a scary place.

2 hours later 3794186 Anonymous
>>3794173 Nobody is saying that you retard. Some things are bad, and other things are terrible. But the fact that X thing is worse in some way than Y thing doesn't in anyway detract from the fact that Y thing is still bad. If we followed that to its natural conclusion then nobody would be able to talk about problems at all, and certainly they wouldn't be able to attempt to prevent them from occurring again. If your son was killed by a tornado, and someone else had his entire city destroyed by a nuclear weapon, they wouldn't tell you to suck it up. Because some things are bad, and other things are worse, but the bottom line is that they're all bad and you're a fucking retard.

2 hours later 3794190 Anonymous
>>>/pol/

2 hours later 3794193 Anonymous
>>3794186 Being "addicted" to something that is barely addictive isn't "bad". It just means you're a faggot with no restraint. Again, not a serious problem.

2 hours later 3794194 Anonymous
>>3794193 Wow, I wasn't even in this argument but you're a bit of an idiot.

2 hours later 3794195 Anonymous
>>3794193 Fuck off with your bullshit edgy, teenage, tumblr social justice warrior, shallow fucking social commentary. You're a retard, and you should grow the fuck up.

2 hours later 3794208 Anonymous
>>3794194 >I wasn't even in this argument Sure, guy. >>3794195 How is it "bullshit edgy, teenage" to acknowledge that most people on 4chan are living pampered, problem-free lives of boredom? If anything, your comments are the "edgy, teenage" garbage that says pot addiction, or addiction to vidya, or addiction to caffeine, is a serious problem. Get better concerns.

2 hours later 3794223 Anonymous
>>3794208 What you're saying is stupid because you lack the ability to empathize with people. No one is suggesting that addiction to a widely-available substance is on par with being the victim of a natural disaster, but it is still a problem, no matter how you look at it. The fact that you're not willing to accept that these things are still issues is extremely narrow-minded. To say that only 'serious' problems are worth noting shows that you have a shallow world view and only care about a select number of people. Please stop being ignorant.

2 hours later 3794229 Anonymous
>>3794208 >How is it "bullshit edgy, teenage" to acknowledge that most people on 4chan are living pampered, problem-free lives of boredom? I was kidnapped as a child, I have three personality disorders and a tick in my eye that makes me legally half blind, and I'm in further education in a country who's language I didn't even speak 5 years ago, despite having been tormented to the extent that I developed clinical social anxiety, which I have now successfully fought. YOUR MOVE, FUCKFACE

2 hours later 3794238 Anonymous
>>3794229 Pity party for fake scenarios? I'll play. Might be fun: Listen up, fuckface. I was born with any goddamn arms. I've got fucking NUBS and always have had these NUBS since I fell out of my mother's crotch. All right? I don't even know who my mother is. She abandoned me at the hospital when she saw these little penguin flippers I have. I grew up in a goddamn orphanage, where I was ridiculed mercilessly by all the other kids. When I was 13, a rottweiler grabbed a hold of my head with its teeth and shook me like a Polaroid. The dog managed to scrape half my face off, which they replaced with skin grafts from my ass. Everyone at the orphanage knew this and called me "buttface" the rest of my time there, which was until I was 18. WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, FUCKFACE?!

2 hours later 3794242 Anonymous
>>3794238 HOW ARE YOU ON 4CHAN!?

2 hours later 3794246 Anonymous
So how about them books?

2 hours later 3794247 Anonymous
>>3794242 Voice recognition software. Duh. I forgot to mention how I'm a virgin at age 34 and the only reason I haven't killed myself yet is because I can't make a noose with these nubs without someone else's help.

2 hours later 3794259 Anonymous
>>3794247 DUDE THAT'S FUCKING INTENSE! I actually wasn't making anything up, though. Just saying. Just because they have an internet connection doesn't people don't have shit to deal with.

3 hours later 3794319 Anonymous
>>3794184 yus yus it is

3 hours later 3794323 Anonymous
>>3794190 I thought we'd have a nice debate about censorship, but, well, >>3794223 &c.

3 hours later 3794327 Anonymous
The "murrika" joke has to be the most unfunny, forced, and cheap jokes to have ever happened.

3 hours later 3794333 Anonymous
>>3793877 >concerned about wine >fine with heroin lele yanks

3 hours later 3794339 Anonymous
>>3793952 >can drive a truck at high speeds when 16 >shoot guns at 18 >glass of wine with dinner at 21 I never understood this.

3 hours later 3794345 Anonymous
>>3794339 No one does mang. Also I'm p sure the legal age for shooting a gun is 12, military service is legal at 18.

4 hours later 3794408 Anonymous
>>3794345 You can shoot a gun at age w/e if you are with a FOID card owning parent at a range, or other suitable relative at suitable location. But if you are flying solo, than it is 18. And depending on state, you may be able to only shoot certain types of weapons until 21.

5 hours later 3794590 Anonymous
>>3794333 top sides

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